skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A problem with this line of reasoning is that there is a potentially infinite number of issues, all of which could affect you or someone vulnerable. However, people have issues that are more immediate to them and which they have a more direct responsibility over. For example, If I don't personally champion solutions to police brutality, someone else might, but if I don't do my job and earn a living, there isn't really anyone else who really can or should be expected to pick up the slack.What's more, peple need the mental space to think about the issues that they are going to take a stand on which means that it takes time and energy to address different issues and they need to prioritize. This is one reason why it's reasonable to restrict political discourcse to certain spheres, because doing so is necessary if we are to take into account basic human limitations.
How does GitHub use "master"?

In particular, how is it different from what is called "mainline" in other VCS systems?
I think it's a bit short sighted to say that the high risk high reward model is superior to this model. While that may be true in a theoretical sense, you have to take into account market conditions and competition.

As an analogy, you can have an investment thesis that vending machines with bottled sugary water have extremely high ROI... but you are missing the elephant in the room which is you'd have to compete against Coke and Pepsi's infrastructure and brand.

Similarly, if you are raising a fund and want to play the high risk, high reward game, you need to consider what the market conditions are.

First, it's definitely not an even playing field. Connections and brand mean a whole lot. The leading VCs have all the best deals coming to them and have a bunch of management consultants in the backroom trained to spot large market opportunities. The volume of deals and strong connections allows them to pick and choose the best opportunities, and everyone else is left with scraping the bottom of the barrel.

Second, there's only around 15-30 billion dollar companies created per year in the US, and there's probably 30-100x the amount of incubators or venture firms. It's just a limited market overall.

That's the game. In a theoretical sense, yes high risk, high reward opportunities have better ROI, but only if you are at the top of the game. So I'd hesitate to say that this is an objectively inferior model because for some investor's positions, this strategy would probably yield a much higher return.

Its probably better to compare the two models like Residential and Commercial asset types (a quick google search to show the comparisons: https://www.fortunebuilders.com/commercial-vs-residential-re...)
How many large corporations really have a spotless record? (At least from the point of view of activists). You could also not sell to microsoft because of antitrust, or Google and Facebook for privacy issues, or boeing because of how executives made bad decisions around safety, or McDonalds over pay, or.... pretty much every company does something people wont like. I just think it's a slippery slope and not every company or person needs to be an activist around everything. We all have to pick and choose our battles.
Yeah I wondered about that. And their initial target application sounds pretty sketchy too. You have a brand new power source, you sell it to NASA first, not to Motorola, right?

From a little poking around it sounds like cosmic rays have a more useful power flux.
You forgot

2) they were in an group of armed men on a battlefield and were pointing the long barrel of a telephoto lens at American Humvees from behind cover.
I've heard that this is because the color sensor can be used in place of a touch sensor in most cases, though I haven't tried that myself. Also nice that the hub has a 6 axis gyro/accelerometer.
My claim is it didn't. You don't think black people were discriminated against in private locations well past the 1960s? What absolutely worked in the 1960s, was the banning of government REQUIRING segregation in private entities by law (which by the way, many companies absolutely chafed at, because quite frankly segregating your business is a cost-sinking pain in the ass to arrange and enforce). Nobody is disputing that CRA I and CRA II were much needed reforms.
https://medium.com/@danhedl/pow-is-efficient-aa3d442754d3
This isn't about losing the copies of the art itself. Imagine if all chisels in the world stopped working. That would not be okay.

But I think you can use the standalone flash player?
There is talk on the originating GitHub issue to make a list of repos/authors that still have master as a branch name as a way to shame them into compliance.
It really depends on what you are developing. If you are using cutting edge browser features. Things like WASM or new JS APIs, sure you'll likely run into incompatibilities. However, if you are building a pretty standard content website, not a single page app, from my experience, pretty much everything just works between browsers. This was definitely not the case 10 years ago. Especially when including IE in the mix.
I tried to find an official response from the company to no success through their CS so I asked the community-driven forums. After receiving some pedantic let-me-copy-paste-a-sentence-from-article-you-just-posted, I found the closest thing that I could get to an official response: https://community.ebay.com/t5/Announcements/A-message-from-J...
This but unironically. I can get C code from the 70s to compile in GCC but I can't get Windows programs released twenty or so years ago to run in Win10. Open software will always be easier to support and always be more stable than proprietary software, because one invites a free community of maintainers and the other one tells them that they aren't welcome. In the short-term, writing for proprietary systems is fine, but if you want your application to be use-able after you die you should probably open-source your stuff and make it compatible with free platforms.
I don't want to throw a tire on the fire but I'm going to emit my $0.02 at this time:

If it's not a big deal, change it.

If it is a big deal, change it.
Added your suggestion since it was easy to do - thank you for the idea.
Naming the default branch "master" is only a convention, not a requirement. Therefore, docs should not make any assumption about the name but give it as an example or <variable>. The deficiency here is clearly in the docs.
The result here is stronger, in the sense that typical NN universality results are statements with respect to just capacity (and not how you optimise them). Here, the result holds with respect to both capacity + a choice of suitable no regret online convex optimisation algorithm (e.g. online gradient descent). Of course, this is just one desirable property of a general purpose learning algorithm.
What about SPI and I2C protocols? In any case I always refer to those devices as nodes...Master and nodes.
Docs are less likely to be broken if GitHub implements some automated, global way to rename the main branch: when this isn't done in an ad-hoc, per-repo way, they can implement logic to redirect URLs.

(Or, for a quick and dirty fix, always redirect master to the main branch)
> If Github/Microsoft won’t serve ICE, someone else will

I'm sorry but that's an incredibly spineless take. If people stopped having this kind of attitude, then there would be no "someone else".
Cops shouldn't be afraid to do their jobs, and citizens shouldn't be afraid of the cops.
No I'm referring to the German law enforcement agency that eventually ran the death camps. At what point in their journey toward the gas chambers do you say enough is enough. I would suggest that separating families and putting children in cages is far enough.

Trump repeatedly asked his followers to rough up protestors 4 years ago.
Does anyone know how this compares to plantuml?
I found a detailed article, published a few days ago:

https://www.hispabrickmagazine.com/content/2020/06/12/the-ne...

For people invested in the Mindstorms EV3 platform this iteration is probably a bit of a disappointment. For targetting parents desperate to get their kids into STEM so that they won't be poor (I jest), this is probably good positioning/design/branding by the Lego Group.
If you don't use a huge toolkit, a modern browser is massively faster – I last did benchmarks like 8 years ago and even then it was usually an integer multiple more memory or CPU for something done in Flash versus the browser and that was before accounting for the browser having better quality text rendering, color management, alpha effects, antialiasing, etc. Had Adobe not just stopped investing after they hit 90% marketshare that might have been different but they were sitting still for too long.

The problem is that having made things like JS, the DOM, CSS, etc. so efficient just increased the threshold before performance forces developers to notice inefficiencies but that's a pretty portable problem, too — we had to force Flash developers to test on older systems with slower connections the same way.
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In 2006 or so I did the same, building a projector out of a laptop LCD (without the laptop, just a plain LCD module and a controller), some lenses, a fresnel lens (cut in half, one part before and one after the LCD) and a 400 watts mercury vapor lamp usually intended to be used to light up factory halls. I constructed a housing for it from wood, a cooling system using lots of PC fans to vent that 400 watts of heat, and even a microcontroller-based control system for the entire thing, with a small LCD display, which managed stuff like tracking bulb used time, monitoring internal temperature via a temp sensor IC and letting the cooling system run for some time after turning off the lamp to get the heat out.

That thing was heavy and loud as hell, and it wasn't very bright considering it used 400 watts of light power, but it was about half the price of an equivalent projector back then, which effectively allowed my poor student self back then to enter the home cinema scene, which I couldn't have afforded otherwise.

There even was an entire little scene back then of DIY projector enthusiasts (at least in Germany) with bulletin boards and even some niche online shops specialized in selling suitable lenses and LCDs and matching controller boards. It was great fun and a great learning experience, especially since you could get help from like-minded people and ideas from other people's projector projects.

A few years later it all quickly went down the drain when the first Full-HD projectors with acceptable quality dropped into price ranges that were affordable for the general public. It simply wasn't possible to compete with that anymore, neither in terms of quality nor in terms of price. I myself replaced my hunk of a self-made projector after about 4 years of use or so, with one of these entry-level full HD home cinema projectors (which I'm even still using today, so that was a really good investment in my book). But that self-made device was worth every cent and every hour of work, and I still have fond memories of building it and tweaking it for maximum quality and then watching movies with it, all the while thinking "man, I built that thing basically from scratch".
> No force sensor?

> Dan: Yep that's correct. We had it early on in our product exploration, we found we used it very little in the play. It was something we were weighing up; should we have an extra motor or should we have a fourth sensor? And very very quickly we said we'd much rather have four motors in the set, than a fourth sensor, because we could use the tap of the hub or the buttons on the hub. We often use the color sensor as a button as well, because it's very good at detecting a finger and a touch.

There's an interesting interview with the product designers over at New Elementary: http://www.newelementary.com/2020/06/lego-mindstorms-51515-r...
It used to cost $500 or something, but that isn't stopping people from framing Flash as a champion of adolescent creativity.
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Yes you should look at that numbers:
https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2020/05/zfs-versus-raid-eigh...
master/slave can definitely go - plenty of alternative terms and worth replacing the dated jargon. primary/leader/writer - or something more specific to your domain - all work.

One piece I don't quite get - what does the branch name have to do with that? I always assumed "master" was from audio recording - i.e. a master record. Does that term also have dubious roots?
Trunk is offensive because it reminds me of people who hunt elephants for their trunks
I suspect the Flash runtime has a bunch of patent-encumbered, licensed software and codecs and the effort to secure those licenses for open-source release is too much effort/money.
I hope GitHub abandons the term "git", because dumb people might not be comfortable with it.
I doubt open sourcing the player would hurt that revenue stream.
Hadoop?
Having read the opinion and dissents, I heartily disagree that Kavanaugh made solid points. Nor Alito, for that matter.

> "Sex" is not the same as "sexual orientation".

This is the crucial point. Alito and Kavanaugh imagine a world where you can discriminate against sexual orientation while somehow not considering a person's sex. I don't see how that is possible.

If you know that someone is gay, or lesbian - and then discriminate against "sexual orientation," you can't say that sex didn't play a part: sexual orientation is inextricably linked to sex and gender. It's kinda the whole point. And in this case you know that a man, or woman, is attracted to men, or women (or both, really). Sex isn't something to wave away at that point, it's a known fact and the discrimination seems obvious.

But even in the extreme hypothetical of "discriminating against homosexuality while somehow not knowing the sex or gender of the people involved" still commits sex discrimination: it then shifts to the "stereotypes" interpretation, which has been held to be discriminatory under quite a lot of case law at this point. In this world, you've discriminated because you know that a homosexual person has attraction towards someone of the same sex/gender. You don't know what sex, but you know it's about sex. And that's why it falls under sex discrimination.
> If, for example, the punishment for certain crimes is so high by default that the criminal would rather die than get a sentence that would equal death, then you have taken any and all motivation from that criminal to look for a more reasonable way out, instead preferring to "go out in a blaze of glory" on their own terms.

Yep. That is what happens in most cases. Which is why I reject the idea that most cops which shoot black people are racist. Sometimes, as is the case of George Floyd, the individual officer is at fault (even if that does not _necessarily_ mean he is racist), however, in the vast majority of police shootings, the victim is trying to reach for the cop's gun, assaulting the officer, or in some other way is putting the officer's life in danger. So you can not blame the individual shooter in such cases.

You can, however, blame the systems which cause the erratic behavior, that's true. However, we need to have an honest conversation about what the causes actually are.

The gang culture in prisons is indeed a problem, but making prisons less tough would not solve this problem - it would only exacerbated, as gangs would have increased influence over the prison.
Of course, in reality many gangs are in cahoots with the prison staff, which is a corruption problem which needs to be solved.

Another problem the article correctly points is non-violent offenders becoming violent as a result of their time in the prisons.

That said, the gang culture in prisons is only an extension of the gang culture outside of prisons. And you can not blame that on tough sentencing, as the gang culture exists in many other places around the world - in the UK grooming gangs, in Sweden's no-go zones, in Romania's gypsy gangs and so on, all countries without harsh sentencing.
Frankly I doubt it. While I saw a number of supporters of this change (albeit small compared to those who are outraged), those who have personal reasons to be offended seem to be a tiny minority if any at all. Those who advocate for the change seem to be all justifying it as beneficial to someone else- who though, it's not clear.
Your opinion that the murder of innocent civilians and an attack on their children is a 'regrettable, mistake' is utterly abhorrent to anyone who has watched that video and can clearly see, for themselves, that these people were absolutely NO threat to US forces in the area - who shouldn't have been there in the first damn place.

Lied into a criminal war against Iraq, the American people are now complicit in the war crimes committed in their names. What is understandable, though indeed very regrettable, is the American public's general desire to not be held accountable for these crimes against humanity...
The new OpenNebula 5.12 “Firework” has been released
Or more significantly not yet. This is still in development and they've only sent out invites
See also https://hnarayanan.github.io/springer-books/ which has a categorised list of all the books

The link was posted as
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23520545
The only git-specific aspect is that every clone of a repository gets a "master branch" (more precisely a branch named the same as the cloned repository's HEAD, but that is 99.9% of the time "master") and that is the only branch that is automatically created in the clone, just like a "master disk" is used to make copies of the disk.

This is actually a git concept not specific to GitHub.
This is true for life in general, but I'm not sure it works for technical interviews.

I've seen many candidates derail themselves by trying to tell interesting stories without realizing that the interviewer doesn't care. Many companies treat technical interviews as a test and have strict rubrics that are specific to the question.

If I ask a candidate:

"Okay, but how would you replace that XMLHttpRequest with fetch?"

all I want is a straightforward answer that shows you know the answer to the question, or an explanation of why you don't, ex:

"Oh, I would Google that. I exclusively used Axios in my prior job but I could learn fetch in an hour or two"

I know you want to feel heard and I will listen if you want to tell me how you fought your boss and won in a quest to replace all of your homegrown internal tooling with jQuery, but pay attention to your interviewer's body language and responses.

In general, my advice for an interview is never talk more than 1-2 minutes without getting active encouragement from your interviewer to continue on the current thread of conversation.
CUB does not wrap at left margin, but BS sometimes does.

* https://unix.stackexchange.com/a/198445/5132
I set it up on my laptop as an experiment, and am greatly enjoying using it: it's nice to work on a modern, well thought-out distribution in its early stages, with lots of opportunities to contribute.

The ease by which you can manage and roll-out new configurations means that it's slowly spreading to other systems I manage.

It's also interesting to work on a distribution that takes the GNU project seriously: the developers default to using GNU software where possible, and are clearly striving to make a coherent operating system out of its parts. This is less an ideological position than it sounds -- there's a lot of gold buried in nearly half a century of GNU work, and I've enjoyed learning about it all, and seeing how the Guix team go about improving and modernising it.
> By that logic, judicial review would also have to be struck down, as the Constitution did not make any provisions for it, would it not?

Indeed, you are correct. Judicial review is also unconstitutional.

This does indeed beg the question of resolving disputes of constitutionality. I don't believe the congress has the authority to compel the executive to do anything, other than their existing abilities to pass laws. The executive is free to enforce, or not enforce, whatever laws as they see fit, however they see fit. The court's role is to decide if the executive is appropriately applying the law in a particular case, as written by the congress.

There is no explicit or implicit need for judicial review. Why?

What is the purpose of the Constitution? To give limited, specific powers to the federal government. Who's giving these powers? The states.

It's the states' job to limit unconsitutional power grabs by the federal government. How do they do that? Well, both houses of congress are elected by people of each state, not nationally. We can also dive down the rabbit hole of the 17th amendment.

Crucially, the executive is elected by a body appointed by each state. In it's current form, the states have adopted a system where the electors are appointed based on a state's popular vote. This needn't be the case.

Finally, there's the question of enforcement. For much of the early history of the US, states were tasked with enforcing federal laws. A very prominent example of this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fugitive_Slave_Act_of_1850#Nul...

This brings us to the final line of defense against unconstitutional acts: nullification. The entire reason the US has a trial by jury system is to judge the law, not the facts. There's no room for a judge to interpret whether a law is fair, or constitutional. Only for them to preside over the trial and adjudicate whether or not the state is applying law, not adjudicating the law themselves.

Is this a perfect system? No, but it's the one we used to have, and unsurprisingly, it's better than the one we have now.
And the vast majority of policemen are not beating people up.
> I picked the names "master" (and "origin") in the early Git tooling back in 2005.

> (this probably means you shouldn't give much weight to my name preferences :) )

> I have wished many times I would have named them "main" (and "upstream") instead.

> Glad it's happenning @natfriedman

https://twitter.com/xpasky/status/1271477451756056577?s=21
> Now it no longer makes sense to say the ones who got fired were fired because of their sex, because a person of the same sex was not fired in each case.

They were each fired for something someone of the opposite sex would not have been fired for, so, in both cases, they were fired on the basis of sex since their sex was a sine qua non of the firing.

It's possible for a firm to have two closely related discriminatory policies, one of which discriminates against each sex. They don't net out to nondiscrimination, but instead provide causes of action for discrimination for those harmed by each policy.
Thanks for the pointers. You've convinced me to try to give it another try. Any idea whether there's a way to hide retweets from specific people while allowing retweets from others? Like for people who tweet content on topics I care about and retweet content on topics I want to stay away from? Like, instead of muting someone, just muting their retweets.
That is completely false.

Apple didn’t standardize anything on the web, nor followed standards.

What Apple wanted (and achieved) was to push their App Store to control everything and get that 30% of sales on top.

Even to this day Safari does not support standards that other browsers do. And, of course, they don’t allow other browsers to run on iOS.
Caveat: I'm fine with this decision from GH, just clarifying.

I believe it's the same usage as used in music recording, e.g.

> an original movie, recording, or document from which copies can be made.