skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There is a strong legal argument to be made here. If one can simply identify as trans but the law doesn't provide a definition under which this would work, you're opening up ambiguity as to what the law even is and how it's to be used to protect someone claiming such an identification. This is a great case where a dissenting opinion is done for the protection of those seeking title as a protected class from those who will shoot the ambiguity loophole to deny the protection this decision purports to offer.
This is indeed the right thing to do.

But I can easily imagine that out of 8 million people living in New York City, a certain number does not want to live at home and actually prefer staying outside.
I am on board with a lot of changes, even symbolic, to assuage issues of discrimination in culture.

This feels like "Okay, we know this isn't a big deal, but 60 Minutes is going to run a segment on "Master/Slave" hard drives and Twitter is going to blow up if we don't fix this".

Like spoken elsewhere, the "master" branch is not the opposite of a "slave" branch. Those who are triggered would be showing their ignorance at the etymology, and it seems Github is just getting ahead of an outrage storm.
I give that role to C and the security exploits it allows.
Trump is not anti-gay:

https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2016/nov/2/donald-trump...

https://www.advocate.com/2016/10/31/donald-trump-waves-lgbt-...

The media didn't publicize the historic event at the time because they hate Trump and want the voters to be misinformed.
Companies with any significant amount of employees use email as the back end of calendar synchronization. Think managers with 40 meetings a week.
On the other hand, the entire idea of transgenderism is based on sex. Without sex, transgenderism doesn't exist. So by discriminating on the basis of if a person is transgender, you are by extension discriminating based on their sex.
Like how "fluke" as in parasite and "fluke" as in tail lobe are the same word?
What I expect them to do is leave automation & api as they are, and only change what happens when you use github web ui. But you never know I guess.
Thank you! Will take a look at Kurento.
I believe the plan behind the Chinese characters in Unicode was always that different hanzi-using languages had different renderings of certain characters, and that rendering it properly would be up to the font.
> "insurance equivalent of insider trading"

Do you have a citation for that law?

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Yes, weather matters, and people can benefit by predicting it.
Is there a third term for something like "flood insurance", where there will definitely be a flood at some point—you're building on a floodplain—but not necessarily one within the lifetime of the policy, such that in theory profit can be made off of e.g. business that open, get insured, operate for years, and then close, without the flooding ever happening.

...but where there is a legal requirement for everyone in the area to "get insured" so that they don't have to lean on FEMA, and therefore in practice there's the opposite effect to the distribution of risk under public healthcare: rather than forcing healthy people who will get negligible benefit from their policies to get insured, such a requirement forces the insurance company to not be playing the lottery by offering only short-term policies that can maybe avoid a flood, but instead fixes them into always ending up covering a resulting flood (and therefore almost always defaulting in such cases and needing reinsurance coverage.)
That isn't a logical conclusion to draw.

Are there instances where doctors negligently kill their patients? Absolutely.

That does not mean we need to "radically" change doctor culture, if not the entire concept of doctors performing surgeries with sharp objects.

The RATE is abuse is more important than the mere existence of abuse.

These emotional comments have lost touch with logical thinking. The media is driving people crazy.
It's surprisingly hard to find practical in-depth pandas code examples like this.
Can we also stop using master/slave:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Master/slave_(technology)
What?

Insurance is about spreading loss around to make costs more predictable. Your house burns down, but since we're all paying into our insurance we all cover your costs so you can rebuild and not have your life irrevocably destroyed.

It's the opposite of gambling. It's about reducing randomness, insecurity, and financial shocks.
This looks VERY good. Over 30 years, I have used/hosted/paid for all sorts of email systems. For myself and clients

POP/IMAP/Exchange/etc.

Mutt/Eudora/Outlook/Mail.app/ThunderBird/etc/etc/etc

ISP/own servers/managed servers/Fastmail/GMail/etc

Currently, I use FastMail for my personal and my own businesses, and Gmail with my Employer. I very much Like FastMail, but very much dislike Gmail.

Hey.com really looks like it is solving many issues with using and email interface and workflow. Many of these issues are not solvable with standard email servers. So I get why they are not running a plain IMAP server.

Still for myself, I would need to wait for Domain support, and at least some sort of live sync to a IMAP server for backup.

Alternatively, maybe FastMail could layer some of these ideas on top of their IMAP based systems. (I hold little hope of gmail improving)
Read; read. Bail; bail. Ride; ride. Cap; cap. Tap; tap. The list goes on. English is full of words with totally different meanings but the same spelling.
I think the majority opinion is more interesting than that. They argue that firing someone for being LGBT is firing them for behavior that you would not have fired them for had they been a different sex. Ergo, it inherently is firing them on the basis of sex.
Power Test
If the majority disagree with you, you lie and say you're neutral to fit in or not get too downvoted, while anonymously downvoting things you disagree with.
Using your own domain has the same problem. If you ever stop paying for that domain, or lose it for some other reason, someone else could purchase it and start impersonating your email.
We haven't even mined the moon yet. Plenty of gains to be made.
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It looks like it generates a classless CSS file based off settings you give it? Someone can correct me.
> Similarly, "ss" and "sz" (very rare) should match "ß" and vice versa, so "Strasse" is the same as "Strasze" and "Straße".

This is unworkable, since "Busse" (several autobuses) should not match "Buße" (repentance). But "Busse" (incorrect spelling of "Buße" due to character set limitations/Swiss German spelling I believe) should match "Buße" by your argument.

Anyway, modern Firefox lets you choose whether to match "Apfel" against "Äpfel".
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Doesn't it come from Bitkeeper?

See https://github.com/bitkeeper-scm/bitkeeper/blob/master/doc/H... for master/slave terminology.
Flagged - this is a link to someone asking Github to change their policy, and Nat Friedman's response saying they will (https://twitter.com/natfriedman/status/1271253144442253312) is non-trivial to find in the resulting thread because Twitter has made their site nearly unusable.

Could we get some mod action to change the link? Either to Friedman's response (which would show the original question above, since it's a reply) or to something like https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-53050955 ?

Edit: Or if it's a dupe submission of something that's been beaten to death on HN several already, maybe it's not worth fixing.
It uses attributes to target elements (ie: data-type="secondary"), which is not that different from a css-framework using classes.
Heh, I actually did a junior version of this, myself. I play Dance Dance Revolution (video game were you press the buttons with your feet), and buy foam pads to play with. Stores loved to sell you their extended warranty, which everyone tells you is a bad deal.

Well, I noticed that this particular brand/model (Red Octane 2.0 I think) failed pretty quickly[1]. So I always paid the $3, which entitled me to a quick, easily replacement (normally $50) when they inevitably broke down.

[1] Like after a few months -- not soon enough to be annoying, but sooner than they're supposed to last.
It seems to be a CSS reset with customizable CSS-variabels? Interesting!
>They are as trustworthy as any other.

This is incorrect. Their "reporting" on certain events like Russia's downing of MH17 give this away. Is there any specific points of reporting on MH17 done by RT or associate agencies like Sputnik you view as trustworthy?

I'd love to hear you out fully.
Say what you will about the motivations for changing the name, but why-oh-why did they choose "main"? "trunk" continues the tree analogy ("branch") much better...
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> because a master copy is normally static

That depends on the time scale you are considering.
> not the proper province of the Supreme Court to decide the extent of Title VII, which, IANAL but that seems like a weak dodge. The whole point of the Supreme Court is to finally decide among competing interpretations of extant legislation.

Yeah that seems very strange. That's what the SCOTUS ... a great deal of the time.
Its amazing how many policemen are actively contributing to this conversation. Good to know we have all these active police academy members with first-hand knowledge of the situation.
And, no, that's not saying these videos are fake, hyperbolic or twisted to support a specific narrative (they are), but it is to say that hearing only one side of a story is pointless.
Yes police are brutal in the US. Wanna know where they are worse?
In South Africa a criminal can be arrested over, and over, and over.
Because our prisons are full, somebody that is guilty of over $5800 usd of property damage, will walk free by Monday, if they get arrested on Friday.
They won't have a hearing or a trial. They will spend the weeked in a cell, and be on their way.

Want to know what that feels like? Knowing that everywhere you go, at all times you are at risk of hijacking (in which they will get into your vehicle and drive you, often at gunpoint) to atm after atm, to empty your bank accounts, in case you have limits imposed on your accounts.
How about the horrifying rape and sexual abuse statistics we have?
How is it possible that your country can be so blind? Everyone fighting over skin colour while the wool is shifted over your eyes and your rights are stripped away.

Going through this thread I have come to realise that a very large number of highly talented individuals are mentally handicapped, by something worse than religion.
I hope you all figure out how to escape from this, its going to destroy your country.
I am a basic Nix user so I can't speak to much, but my understanding is that one of the major difference is Guix uses Scheme (or a Scheme-like language) for config so it's more familiar. Nix uses their own language, also called Nix.

On the other hand I believe the package repo for Nix is much more comprehensive and kept more up to date.
Huh, seems pretty obvious to me.
I would be surprised if apple transitions all of their macs to ARM at once. Consumer-level macs (macbook air, mac mini, iMac) would go ARM now, while keeping the macbook pros, imac pro, and mac pro x86 for at least a few years. This could happen tacitly with the latter computers being sold in their current form (maybe with minor spec bumps). This allows Apple to make the transition without abandoning their creative pro users, and the makers of pro apps will be incentivized over time to port their software to access the growing ARM-only mac user base. That, or apple has already been working with (and probably paying) Adobe, Avid, Autodesk and other makers of marquee pro apps to port their code to ARM so that Apple can claim that their ARM macs will be pro ready from day one.
No, I am speaking about modular programming as abstract CS concept, with those nice math diagrams to describe language semantics.
Why not just download the appimage?
If you listen to a MIDI video game track and use your ear to write a violin-and-piano arrangement, do you own the copyright to your arrangement, or does the original composer?
Nit: Thomas joined Kavanaugh's opinion, not Alito's.
Yeah, the explanation is that “sex” means “sex” and it doesn’t mean “sexual orientation” or “transgender status”. This seems pretty obvious. Why did 6 vote for seems more questionable, the Supreme Court is a judicial branch, not a legislative one.
Good suggestion, I will have to try that out!
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You see it as bowing down. I see it as standing tall and making a principled choice -- not because it's going to save the world, but because the change has essentially zero cost and sends a positive message; despite the outcry of people who are offended by such things.
what's next? will master degrees become something else?
these changes are utterly stupid and don't help anything
Bad link. This is just some random person on Twitter asking about it. No relation to Github.

Nat does have a reply buried in the responses; that should have been linked.
Ha! I imagine the point was to spend a month writing the program mainly, while also doing a little driving during breaks.

(BTW it appears that Milwaukee to Pasadena is about 2000 miles now, which works out to even less: ~70 miles a day. Or given that the interstate highway system was less developed in 1960, maybe it really was about 3000 miles then.)
Words can mean totally different things. Contextually, they are unrelated.
Earlier submission with more comments:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23528071
>trustworthy as any other

>are basically average

These two claims you made are incorrect. Honestly this is a bit bizarre.
This is as useful as a picture of water to a person stranded in a desert.
My prediction of Apple’s moves here are far less dire. These are just predictions mind you, but the point is Apple could do this without ruining the platform for enthusiasts.

1. They’re going to have some kind of breakthrough with x86 emulation where the Apple ARM CPU has a translator, or an accelerator, or a co-processor, or something that will make x86 run at decent speeds.

2. Apple will move to a long term two-CPU strategy with ARM on economy and low power SKUs, and Intel chips for the “Pro” SKUs.

3. As an alternative to 1 and 2, the direction might just be a killer next-gen iPad Pro and new iPadOS which substantially raises the bar for multitasking, trackpad, etc on that platform. I wouldn’t even dismiss the possibility of an “iPadBook” for want of a better name.
Yes, but the case presented focused solely on the definition of "sex" in title VII so that's what the court ruled on. As programmers its easy for us to take it up to a more abstract level, but in the legal world I guess that's difficult to do.
Pretty interesting read! I can also recommend the author's medium account[1] full of similar articles (even though in a bit less hands-on format)

[1] https://medium.com/football-crunching
A lot of the features advertised by HEY have been sorely missing from Gmail for a long time. I wouldn't exactly call them innovative. Gmail will have an easy time implementing these features, now that someone is kicking them out of their decade-long slumber.

Plenty of people will be happy to pay for a quality and not-Google email service. Glad to see they have the resources and willpower to do this!
Look at what they did for the last 20 years for Basecamp and other product. It doesn't seem very likely that they randomly raise prices for existing customers.
I sure hope that custom domains will be included in that price. If so, I'll gladly pay the premium amount for the extra features.
I think I know what Rilke was trying to say, because of "Understanding Comics" by Scott McCloud. McCloud has a series of components of craft, from the superficial aspects of a comic to the abstract storytelling behind it. He says that people often begin by paying attention to the superficial ("I want to draw ${character} just like the artist does") but end up paying attention to the abstract ("wow, this Homer dude had a knack for characterisation and pacing, several thousand years ago").

So I think Rilke was saying he won't attempt criticism (won't talk about technical details such as rhythm or structure or vocabulary) because none of that matters until the poet has something to communicate (has found their voice, a style of their own) in their poetry.

For an athlete, it might be that it's not useful attempting criticism of the finer points of their checking technique ("keep your elbow further in during a shoulder check") if they haven't yet figured to skate to where the puck is going ("skating to where the puck has been" being equivalent to paying too much attention to what outsiders are saying).

Returning to the comics metaphor, imagine if Rilke were trying to nicely say "these model sheets you've sent are technically slick, but they all look like Marvel characters ... what do your characters look like?"

(at which point I guess Rule 63 might be the equivalent of the poetry exercise in the sibling thread: it constrains a lot of decisions as to style, tone, etc. yet the gender swap forces one to make decisions of one's own)
Is that actually the point of the form factor? Seems like laptops (designed to be easily portable) should be as small and portable as possible with optional add-ons for specific use cases. Desktops can have as much as they want because they’re not designed to be moved very often.
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Should I interpret the fact that the majority opinion opposes the trump administration and was written by trump’s appointee as the supreme court’s way of putting trump in his place?
Wasn't the problem here that the insurance company didn't know these facts as opposed to she knowing them?

While it sounds like insider trading, the situation here is quite a bit different. With insider trading, the company has very real and legitimate interest to keep some information private. Private from the general public, including their competition.

In this case, however, the airlines wouldn't have to share this info, apparently known inside the organization, with the general public, but with a single (set of) well defined actor(s). Also, I'm not 100% sure if publishing all the available information on possible delays and cancellations wouldn't benefit their business. (Though, if cancellations happen because of say not enough tickets sold for a flight, it may, because maybe that would induce a self-reinforcing process. Who would want to buy a ticket that is likely to be cancelled?)
You're doing them a grave disservice, then. If you're a woman who managed to build up savings beforehand, or was trusting enough to be the main earner while your husband was going through school, you can end up the worse off financially for making a poor marriage decision.

And don't forget to mention all the women who accept diminished lifetime earnings because they were the primary caregivers for the couple's children, and then find themselves struggling to support those kids and themselves if their husbands leave, no matter what child support was awarded on paper. Even if the father does come through on the court-ordered payments, she's never going to get that decade of her career back, or the retirement savings she missed out on.
> 2. Apple will move to a long term two-CPU strategy with ARM on economy and low power SKUs, and Intel chips for the “Pro” SKUs.

How is this going to work for developers or Apple? For how many years will everyone need to test and ship universal binaries?
Just because I don't see it mentioned anywhere in the post - this can be done locally using cargo-audit [1] [2]. Cargo-audit also has a recommended setup for Travis CI [3]

[1] https://github.com/rustsec/cargo-audit
[2] https://crates.io/crates/cargo-audit
[3] https://github.com/RustSec/cargo-audit#using-cargo-audit-on-...
"take private notes directly attached to the email"

what does this mean?
> It’s really not as complicated as you’re making it out to be.

Of course it's not complicated, it's as simple as I showed.

> If I’m making a function that has potentially confusing parameters, I make it accept an object.

It doesn't really matter what you, a single developer, do, does it?

If I have to work with a third-party library that has "confusing parameters", please enlighten me how I can make its functions "accept an object to force named parameters"?

> there’s no dedicated syntax to allow people to name parameters that weren’t intended to be named. So what?

I've clearly shown what in at least three messages.
oook... yes, this is arguably a not-so-good name.
I suggest they go protest chess tournaments. There they have not just masters but also grandmasters. And while we're at it, let's ban the might and magic series on the same grounds.
"What the writers had in mind" is one way of interpreting laws in the present day, but by no means the only way. You will probably find a ton of laws in effect today that are applied to things, or interpreted in ways, that no one could have anticipated when they were written.
Good point and that's an oversight - I had made an earlier version and wanted to update it with the latest mission photos. She very much enjoyed playing with the original but had trouble making it do what she wanted and had some suggestions. Over the last couple of weekends we made a new design (mostly her) and wrote some code (mostly me) but we talked about things like lat/lng and how they can be used to position a point on earth, the math code (at a high level) needed to convert them so they appear on the screen - that sort of thing. She's such an interested, engaged little thing that she appeared to love every minute of it - warmed my heart.
Grifter mindset, you mean.
The Atom-based Surfaces with the Atom x7-8700 - that's the same processor I have in my GPD-Win. It's more than usable for light users. Heck, its built-in GPU outperforms the one in my Surface Pro.

While x86 Surface (not-pro) might have been "meant" to compete on price with iPads, I don't think that's how it worked out. I tend to think most of the people who will buy a low end x86 Surface want/need Windows in the first place. It's not a substitute for an iPad.
There are people (me included) who would like to have a reasoned, substantive discussion on the points you're raising, but HN probably isn't a viable forum.
Here us how I understood this and Steve's post was actually more helpful in this than previous announcements.

Big cloud and infra companies (Microsoft, Google, Amazon, Facebook) have the resources to build computers, customized for the work in the cloud on the cheap. As a company that is not one of them, you can either buy their cloud offering (paying hefty premium) or choose to build your infra yourself, using run-of-the-mill Dell servers or the like, but then all these customizations will not be available to you or will not be available for the reasonable price.

Oxide is the company that wants to offer servers customized for cloud work to everyone. Whether they will actually ship it to you for you to install in your DC or they will have their own DC - remains to be seen.