skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Outside of the USA, it wouldn't be a degree, just a diploma. And there would be a distinction between a college that awards diplomas and a degree-granting universtity (which, to make matters more complicated than necessary, usually has member colleges which are not the same as the non-university colleges that award skills/technical diplomas).
I was hesitant to submit this article because it seems extremely insignificant in the broader context of current societal changes.

But then it made me ponder the wide extent to which current events are causing people of all walks of life to question and reevaluate even the smallest details of everything around us. Do I think that the proposed changes would make a noticeable difference to society? Probably not. Ultimately do I care if this specific effort succeeds or fails? Nope, don't really care either way.

However, I do think the broader discussion about questioning how we use language, and where certain colloquialisms originated, is important. But I do see opinions at both extreme ends of this topic which are not trying to have good faith discussions, and instead are focused on the absolute worst case scenarios. Maybe the reactions to this story are even more significant than the story itself.
Sounds like you could really use something like https://calendly.com/.
This is really creepy and I have an intense dislike for the people behind it. Nobody alive today was a slave and choosing to become ass hurt at industry standard terms, which aren't even racial in nature (every race has been enslaved), isn't acceptable.

I never used Github as my primary host for projects, merely as a social network to show off my projects. But I'll be moving away from them now because I simply don't want to see crazy lefties redefining my language to suit their whims. And there's no discussion at all, it's all unilateral or you're a Nazi.

OK then.
Master is a word. Slave is a word. Being words, they have a meaning.

In the context that are being used, it describes the abstraction very well.

Is slavery absolutely wrong? Of course! That doesn't mean we will have to ban the words..
So the new org should have all new personnel, new goals that do not overlap with those of the police ("serve and protect", from what I understand), yet focused on public safety.

I am now genuinely curious to know how this is to be achieved, and what safeguards/guarantees are to be encoded so the new org does not devolve into the existing police.
My issue with this approach is this: it drags attention and headlines away from real issues.

We need serious reform in our policing and prisons in the US. Every time serious reform is demanded in any real way, the distractions get brought up and the real issues are minimized. I don't believe for a moment that this is accidental.

As someone who has black siblings who are now having children of their own, I am infinitely more offended that the real issues get strategically minimized. Look at the reactions to these threads for an example. Look at how many people (black and white) are saying it's an [0]"obvious distraction" or a non-issue.

[0] https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/h8w36t/github_...
to your point: go check any post on Cockroach DB on HN to find a ton of "rename your software" comments, on the ground that they find it disgusting but try to remove the use of a term referring to something actually disgusting and "noooo, why would you do that, it's not like its referring to slavery! Hiding words is not going to change anything!"
Ha, that’s so true.

After growing up with Amiga and then MacOS, I only really encountered Windows XP when I started my first proper job.

Couldn’t believe that that was the default OS for professionals and businesses. With all the chunky graphics and bright colours it looked so childish - like it was designed for preschoolers, not 98% of the world’s computing.

There was even a puppy animation when doing a search.
If you want to be pedantic - a few Youtube videos as a business as evidence of a thriving market is about like showing a record store selling vinyl as evidence of a resurgence.
Interesting! Particularly the discovery of the sparing use of green in Akira. I haven't seen either of those films in quite a few years and it really brought back to me how staggeringly beautiful they are.

When I was in Sydney in 2018 I was fortunate enough to stumble upon the 'Anime Architecture' exhibition[1] at the Japan Foundation, which included various pencil drawings and hand-drawn cells from Ghost in the Shell. It's a traveling exhibition so if it ends up near you and you're a Ghost in the Shell fan I highly recommend checking it out.

[1] https://anime-architecture.org
Next, we should stop using male/female for connectors.
If a joke is stupid, it's not worth being made.
How about texts? My wife and I couldn't send or receive texts for a while earlier today.
Toshiba is the only one without a tarnished reputation.
It's worth whatever the market will pay. You can totally be "that guy" who drops 10 mil on a 2 dollar acre of land. You'd probably get in the local paper.
Yes, both "master" and "slave" have been used as a pair for a long time in a number of different technical fields to describe relationships between devices. Instead of computer networking, the linked article is on a site that focuses on music technology (https://cdm.link). If you search (for example) [midi "slave"] you'll come up with a lot of hits using "slave" in a technical sense for electronic music. Here's a nice example page from that search, that goes farther to distinguish (technically and without irony) two different types of masters and slaves: https://steinberg.help/cubase_pro_artist/v10/en/cubase_nuend....
I'm impressed there seems to be quite a wide range of bloody pig masks to chose from.

There are whole other worlds out there.

https://www.google.com/search?tbm=isch&q=bloody+pig+mask

(Also interesting the police have chosen an angle to take the photo of the bloody pig mask and the uncanny valley effect (which is photos are scarier than IRL) to make it look it's worst)
actually, if one was to hack a client and everyone goes after "rare" pieces you can sort-of backup a lot of it without anyone getting a real copy.

Then we simply wait for 100 PB drives?
I'd argue at that point that "the major telecom company" isn't so major and the "third party" is the more "major" company. :P
If your initial response to this is negative, and you aren't a member of a demographic that doesn't have recent, painful memories of slavery with horrible, tragic effects that persist to this day, then you really need to check yourself.

For some people who've been through this trauma, the words "master" and "slave" evoke one painful meaning first, before the alternative meaning is understood. If you've never personally experienced something like this, I've read it described as being punched in the stomach. And it's wholely unnecessary, so why not change it?

Words matter. Maybe they don't to you, but trust that people aren't lying when they say it does to them.

I'm super disappointed by the callous response to this: when people talk about gatekeeping in tech, or the myriad failures of tech to be accessible to marginalized people, this is what they mean. This is the culture that enables that.
If potential harm matters that much, you should get rid of all the knives in your house and start eating without it, then come back and tell about it.
There is potential harm anywhere, the solution is to change the universe?
> For most Americans and, I’d guess most citizens of most countries, enforcing immigration laws isn’t a big debate

What America do you live in?
When you put it like that, it explains the security guy for hooli on silicon valley, played by Chris Williams, "Hoover". He's exactly that stereotype. And even on Devs the security guy was in that category.
this already exists in some forms [1] on top of the fact that amateur radio in general is quite capable of moving data whether by packet radio [2] (including packet radio BBS [3], things like hinternet [4], bbs over amateur radio, or plain old teletype (RTTY) as a means to operate access a console on a remote machine. there's a ton of interesting creative work being done in the space even though it isn't particularly mainstream-popular.

[1] http://www.broadband-hamnet.org/
[2] http://www.choisser.com/packet/
[3] https://www.scc-ares-races.org/data/packet/index.html
[4] https://www.kqed.org/quest/8440/ham-radio-helping-to-build-a...
This is timely!

I have a QNAP TS-251 (two drive bay model) that has been collecting dust for roughly two and a half years. Somebody was able to install a ransomware program on it, I suspect using the QSnatch[1] vulnerability. I triple pass zeroed the system storage and mothballed it.

Two months ago decided I wanted to do something with this machine again, so I bought two new Seagate IronWolf drives and installed FreeNAS (it can boot to and run from the USB 3.0 port on the back).

Is it the perfect hardware for FreeNAS? Nope - barely meets the minimum 8GB RAM requirements. But it's running as a media backup and Plex server, and doing a fantastic job at it. When I outgrow this hardware I'll certainly replace it with something I can also install FreeNAS on - consider me a happy convert.

[1] https://www.reddit.com/r/qnap/comments/dvh7n2/qsnatch_malwar...
Is this similar to the approach Moderna is doing?
Study predicts at least 36 civilizations within our Galaxy
Disclaimer: I'm not and English native speaker and there's no equivalent in my language, in fact they usually are not translated and used in English. (I mean, there is an equivalent, but it's never used in this context)

My position about this issue is ambivalent.

From a purely human standpoint I understand it, truly.

When we use those terms referring to tools, I don't see much sense.

When men used bulls to pull the plough it really was a master-slave relationship

The bull could not be the master, even if it wanted too, a human is not strong enough to pull the plough effectively

It's a symbiotic relation between two elements where one is in charge of the "intellectual" part and the other of the physical one.

We can use controller and agent, but controlling is problematic too

We can use manager and worker, but it still implies that there's a disparity between the two

Frontend/backend doesn't fully capture what's going on

We use master/slave because one side is taking all the decisions, the other is just obeying

It's bad, I recognize it, and maybe it's time to change, but no amount of re-wording will change the fact that it's mainly used nowadays for tools that work that way, not for people.

Maybe leader/follower looks like a better choice, but really isn't, follower sounds more dumb to me, at least slaves rebelled throughout history, followers don't. And a leader can be as bad as a master who owns slaves.

Main/secondary is somewhat the best of them all, but it only works for systems were any secondary node can be promoted to replace the main in case of failures, which is not always the case.

Bull/man is not main/secondary for example.
CEO of Dolt here.

You are indeed correct, we are quite young. We are also focused at this stage on the data distribution use case (ie. use Dolt instead of putting a CSV or JSON file on GitHub). So, we haven't spent much time on query performance or scale. The current model is that the database and all of its history have to fit on the user's hard drive. The format is easily distributed (ie. put content addressed chunks on different servers, optimize for fewer network hops) but that's not how it works today.

That being said, we think architecturally we can eventually get pretty close to parity with other RDBMS on the read path. We will be slower on the write path given the need to build the Merkle DAG on writes.

Long ways to go though, we only launched open source last August. On a suite of MySQL ~6M correctness benchmarks, we currently execute 3-4X more slowly. These aren't large sets either so we suspect we'll run into some non-linearities in performance. This is just normal SQL. We haven't really tested the limits of how many branches we can handle or how long branch creation or merge takes at scale. Not because we don't want to but because it's not the use case we're focused on.

If you are willing to take the journey with us, we'll work with you to get Dolt where it needs to be (if it can, reads should be fine, writes will be more expensive). But we're just at the beginning so there will be bumps along the road. If that's not for you, we completely understand.
No, OSX supports Vulkan.

https://www.lunarg.com/benefits-of-the-vulkan-macos-sdk/

https://vulkan.lunarg.com/
I know some details. (It is plutonium, not uranium). Any yield, even fizzle yield, is impossible by simply igniting the explosives around the core. Again, it is not in pre-critical configuration yet at this point. Arming the device, i.e. assembling the initial configuration, is an incredibly complicated and precise process. It is so beautiful from the engineering point of view.
This is a little late, but this link is relevant: http://datasheets.chipdb.org/Transmeta/pdfs/Transmeta_Effice...

I had forgotten just how short the pipe was (~ 7 stages!). Going OOO would have added at least one stage.
Easy: someone fat-fingered SS7 the same way someone fat-fingered BGP.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Signalling_System_No._7
https://blog.cloudflare.com/how-verizon-and-a-bgp-optimizer-...
That’s why companies are required to return the land to the way they found it.

Unless there is some sort of a spill there, the land is most certainly not “fundamentally and permanently” altered.
It's not taking a zig-zag path like you imply. That would be scattering and it would end up in a random direction.
Odd, I explicitly remember using an official version of Adobe Flash in Linux.

I can't seem to figure out when Linux support started, but the archived version of Flash Player 7 on Adobe's site[1] appear to include builds for Linux (as well as Solaris!). The earliest Linux installer in the download has a file timestamp of May 20, 2004.

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1: https://helpx.adobe.com/flash-player/kb/archived-flash-playe...
The DDOS on the Anonymous twitter might be relevant given timing. All happened around an hour ago.

https://twitter.com/YourAnonCentral/status/12726345485771653...

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23533311
Master and slave cylinders also exist for break cylinders and guess what computer hardrives were largely historically before flash? Rotating cylinders of some sort even if the memory was tape. That are literally "driven" by the master. Having no motive of their own only driven by the master. It is a tasteless pun metaphor at worst.
As I said, "It's the classic groundwork for an argument of scientific sexism". Yes, it's reading between the lines, but the implication is there and clearly intended to be there. Not only is he implying it, he is implying it using the exact same arguments that have been used in neuro circles for years. There is an explicitly sexist context for these arguments that is not present in the memo but which nobody making those arguments could have been completely unaware of.
>Like how do you even talk to a single other person and have them not say something about how this seems like a bad idea.

Sounds like you're not a team player who wants to be promoted to better support your family. /s
I got sidetracked reading about Oliver Heaviside, and noticed that it is claimed his theories allowed a 10x increase in transatlantic telegraph bandwidth...from 0.1 characters per minute to 1 character per minute.

I wonder how much more feasible it is to send information via neutrinos if 0.000000013 Mbps were considered reasonable speed.
> I don't have a concise term for the (common) source of that dissatisfaction

Declarativeness + fragility. That's how I refer to similar experience with PlantUML. Everything is fine, but then if you as much as look at it the wrong way, the diagram gets twisted inside out. It's manageable once you get some experience with it, but I really miss the ability to inject some additional hard constraints into the diagram, like "I don't care what your layout engine thinks, these five nodes are to be in top-left corner and should line up perfectly; arrange everything else around it". I'd happily take 5-10x longer image generation if that's what it takes to have a proper constraint solver involved.

Regardless, it still beats the hell out of arranging diagrams with a mouse. With PlantUML in particular, once you learn how to use the preprocessor to define macros, building larger diagrams becomes super-fast.
I think this comment is reasonable if they're simply saying that it's plausibly true that not everyone who is gay is born gay - some choose to live their life that way, others are born that way.

I think this is a fair read on sexuality especially given the "spectrum" understanding of sexual preferences. If you're born 50% interested in men and 50% interested in women, you can very well choose to live your life (and identify) as a straight person or a gay person (or a bisexual person!).

That doesn't mean that others aren't born with a 0/100 ratio (one way or the other), though.
If the words were to dissapear from the dictionay (which is not happening btw) then we’d invent others, don’t worry.

I find this change somewhat futile as it will not make people less
racist, but if it offends black people we could go with a diferent term, why not?

I always found master/slave a bit too idiomatic. I imagined a hardrive whipping the other form time to time. This picture is painful to some, lets update it and show we’re willing to do good.

Im worried though that the change will amount to these types of changes, removing statues, adding disclaimets in history books, old movies etc and then no real change (as in needed change) will emerge. Hope im wrong though
At 99, Al Jaffee Says Goodbye to Mad Magazine
Change the default branch name to main for new projects on Gitlab
It's not clear why they are aiming at exploding the nuclear bombs instead of simply degrading them. If you induce enough plutonium nuclei to split, the core won't reach criticality when the implosion happens, so no mushroom cloud.

To do that, you can point a lower intensity neutrino beam for years at a nuke or a group of nukes. The adversary won't even know the nukes are compromised.
“an internet mob could separate them from their code at any time.”

The employees of Github are not an “internet mob”. Your use of that phrase implies a lot about the way you are trying to frame this situation.
The one where they lost 2-0?
Yeah, but then there's the other thread where all the cell services went flaky an hour ago. Think if you DDOS the right points you can catch bottlenecks.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23531987
Well, most of the ones I've tried have worked. There was one swf that had to be put in a folder with the name of the domain it came from.
Look into unattended installs, the WIM format. I use NTLite, which is not free, but worth the money. There are other, free, tools which you can also use.
Atnt is down
They _were_ textbook examples. But now, because of this decision, they are protected! [1]

[1] Okay, not really, because judges are not automata and everyone will recognize that this decision should not be taken as a precedent in terms of its arguments. Chances are everyone will just take the precautionary approach and say that any offensive speech, even directed by an in-group member at another in-group member (e.g. one Jewish person saying to another something that would be considered offensive were a non-Jew to say it, or take your other religion/ethnicity as you like it) is ground for termination in order to avoid having to make the distinction.
To move forward, you must be willing to make changes. If something is causing controversy, you cannot ignore it for long before it drags you and everyone else down. If you do not identify with the controversy, you should step away from it and let the others who can lead the change. You can focus your energy on things that matter to you.
But this is right question. It should be easy to replace part of the binary, it should be easy to run several programs at the same time, it should be easy to type on keyboard so computer executes commands.

These are insanely hard problems yet they are solved because someone asked and someone tried.
Note how the discussion was censored with a CoC reference though there have been no real issues.

Typical corporate behavior.
Drilling for oil and gas doesn’t actually change the surface much. It doesn’t change the contour of the land or result in much subsidence. Mining is a different story.
This is a really important point and you are right that the level of gun violence is abysmally higher in the US.

Nevertheless, a large percentage of situations can be de-escalated by police forces. What is even less acceptable, is that in many cases the escalation is originating from police officers. Which is why, to me, de-escalation and conflict management training is lacking among these officers.

Going back to your point, it is a really complex issue and I am not going to claim a deep understanding of US society.

There is a huge percentage of GDP spent on welfare in most EU countries, the welfare and safety nets put in place are (mostly) accepted in the EU because of a sense of solidarity and dignity and a mutual understanding that _anyone_ can be caught in a situation where they are facing social/family/health/finacial issues. Being misfortunate should not be punished with falling through the cracks of society. I get the impression that in the US this type of belief would be an outlier.

However, putting aside the humanitarian values, there is a very practical and utilitarian aspect to EU welfare and social benefits programs, they actually detract people from marginal behaviour because it stops them from being pushed into a corner.

There is a lot of evidence that social welfare safety nets reduce crime. Equally, there is evidence that insufficient welfare correlates with crime rise. [0]

And this I think, is a huge cultural shift. The outrage in the US would be huge if we tried to rationalize that we have to take tax money from everyone, to give free-money to people on the fringes of society, in order to reduce gun violence. However, all the EU policies for the past 40 years confirm this reasoning.

[0] Social determinants of health in relation to firearm-related homicides in the United States: A nationwide multilevel cross-sectional study, D. Kim, 2019
https://journals.plos.org/plosmedicine/article?id=10.1371/jo...
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I live in a country where slavery is something we read about from books, the master/slave terms have no race conotations.

Changing established technical terms just because less than 5% of the world population has some sensitivity to history before their grand-grand parents is excessive.

Don't make me remember what Italian's ancestors did to my ancestors, or else I will have to ask current Italians for reparations. Well, this sounds extremely stupid, is it?