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I'm sure the people who made this decision at github will lay their heads on their luxury goose down pillows tonight thinking they've done their part to make the world just a little bit better. In reality, they didn't actually help anyone, they've set the stage for coding/machine related headaches for years to come, and they've made themselves look like idiots.

On the other hand, fascinating to see the power of a modern angry mob in action.
Going simply by the conntation of the term, master doesn't imply some kind of ownership or control over anyone. In the source control world, the branches are more in control of development than master.

But if we want to talk about words used in workplaces that do imply control and ownership, can we discuss "subordinate"? Because that word is the most analogous word to "slave" that is used in everyday business.
Because the vast majority do not understand what they are getting into.
These are download copies, not streaming. What happens vis a via copyright after Springer stops offering these downloads?
I also noticed that when I place text in the box, as I type the text expands out to the left and out of the box due to centering. My expectation was that the text would start from where my cursor is, and go to the right. (like in powerpoint or slides)
Moderator - why was this post flagged? I used the article headline and it is an interesting move that will affect a lot of us (we will need to consider this during naming strategies for instance).
The crazy thing is that people are still doing that with Tethers (USDT). They've admitted in legal filings that they only have 74% backing for them[1] and yet they continue to trade within 1 cent of par with the US dollar. Sometimes they even trade above par! It's madness.

[1] https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-04-30/tether-sa...
Love excalidraw! This might seem like a plug but someone asked for a collaborative embed. We actually integrated theirs in our pair programming solution for system design interviews: https://www.hackerrank.com/products/codepair
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I meant how is knowledge extraction done by a language model different from knowledge extraction done by a human scientist?
Windows 2000, like many 'server' Windows OS, took FOREVER AND EVER to boot up. It could have been more popular on desktop-class machines if it wasn't due to that.
insider trading is about theft, not about social contracts or whatever. It means that someone stole information that I could trade on. Since it's stolen from me, they can't trade on it. That's what makes it illegal. It's similar to intellectual property, in a way
I thought the supremacy clause applies only when federal and state law are in conflict?
Unfortunately you can't make everyone have respect for one another. If you force them via laws, that would probably just make them more resentful.
>If there were a big-bang, and we were at the edge, different parts would accelerate away from us at different speeds

You're operating on a very outdated understanding of what the big bang was - for half a century now we've understood that there was no single point at which the big bang occurred, so there's no center to the universe everything is spreading out from. The big bang happened everywhere at once, and space has continued expanding everywhere at once ever since.

https://physics.stackexchange.com/questions/136860/did-the-b... is a well written explanation, so I won't try to poorly rephrase it here.
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The compiler to generate SWF files is open source I believe.

Not the player. I imagine it's burdened with licensed software and patents of all kind. Or they just don't want to do anything with it anymore, which is equally valid.
Thank you, since i'll be one of two consultants in my country for the said startup, I will need to take up a wide-ranging role.

I have a huge learning curve ahead of me and want to prepare beforehand, so I don't get too overwhelmed.
Yeah, people said this in 2014. And then when Trump threatened to pull out of NATO Western Europe lost its collective shit. Which is it?
> XP introduced a "new" control panel arrangement by default, but you could easily revert to a simple folder view.

It's been 15+ years? since I regularly used Windows so maybe I'm mis-remembering this, but I definitely remember there being quite a few WTF moments working with the Windows XP Control Panel. Lots of changes for no apparent reason, and many weird/ jarring things. Its definitely not a Windows 10 thing because I've spent roughly 15 minutes using Windows 10.
>Postgres was Stonebraker’s second system.

What was his first system?
The USA is the #1 perpetrator of criminal atrocity and acts of war against other sovereign states today. By sheer statistics, it is the most important issue for citizens of the free world to address.

>Why is your country (assuming it's not the US) special?

Because actually, the USA has roped most of the Western states into complicity in its war crimes. It isn't Australia, clamouring for its bomb stocks to be replenished so that a core elite establishment can profit from Lockheed Martin or Boeing or Northrop Grumman or Raytheon stock boosts .. much as Australians might wish they could be invited to that party .. These are distinctly American companies and their grip on the war reigns MUST be wrestled from them. The fate of the world depends on it.
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If that were the case, they'd have to be also seeing fewer applicants, or opening up more spots for students. (Since I'm not familiar with what GP is referring to, I can't say if that's the case, but they would be much better indicators.)
I mean, any non-dividend paying stock is essentially worthless since it can only be redeemed in the case of a sale or liquidation
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> In slavery, the only correct thing for a master to do is to abdicate power, and it is not wrong for a slave to reject that power relationship.

Once that happens, they are no longer master and slave, of course.
Not terribly surprising, f2fs and similar filesystems are log-based systems. Rather than overwrite the old data they almost always try to write to the next new area. This ends up working really well for flash technology because writing to existing areas is expensive. You have to read in a 1-4MB area depending on the block size, make your changes to that, erase that area entirely, and then write the changed version. [Those sizes might be a little off but it's what I remember]. Some of that may be hidden by the disk's controller but it has to happen on every write to an area with existing data. SMR is similar in this respect because you have to read, change, and write large blocks together because of the way the tech works. So I'd expect anything that's directly optimized for low level flash memory to work similarly ok performance wise for it.

The real problem comes when you can't work like that, in particular this happens when you're low on free space or if you're in a situation where relocating data isn't possible or known that it needs to happen. RAID setups are typically the worst case for this, since they'll effectively treat the entire disk as used and can't relocate data on it. ZFS is a bit more complicated with this but effectively ends up the same.
> No I'm referring to the German law enforcement agency that eventually ran the death camps.

You placed your question in the 1920’s. The SS was founded as a bodyguard unit for NSDAP leaders in 1925 and remained purely an organ of the party until 1933 when Hitler became chancellor and the Reichstag passed the Enabling Acts. Up to that point, most of the political violence was carried out by the SA, which was likewise an organ of the NSDAP rather than the government. After the Enabling Acts, the Nazi government deliberately blurred the lines between the German government and the NSDAP, but that is well outside the timeframe you suggested.

To answer your question, I would probably not do business with any part of NSDAP starting in the 1920’s on account of their history of street violence and their platform of abolishing democracy. I would similarly refrain from doing business with the German government as soon as the Reichstag abolished democracy and outlawed every political party other than NSDAP. This would extend to the SS although the SS itself was not especially involved in any of these events.

As you can see, this isn’t a particularly relevant analogy.
You literally said the only thought process that went towards the order to fire was that they were military age males. As I pointed out this was not the case and is still not the case irrespective of if he peeked the corner.

I'm genuinely sorry Namir died and it shouldn't have happened but he knew that he was putting his life at risk let's be honest. On the other hand the passers by in the van who tried to take the wounded to the hospital who also were obliterated were just good Samaritans and I really think you should at least acknowledge them when talking about what happened to Namir as a war crime.
Slack implementing a Slack-themed, Slack-UI-consistent document product would totally make sense to me. It’s nice to have fewer platforms — it can be annoying to have specs hosted here, have technical docs hosted there, communicate here for email, communicate this other place for quick messages.. fragmentation is annoying.
It is harder to use the "A: I am offended.B:So what?" today. The more vocal proponents are not above going after you personally if you exhibit wrongthink.

That said, the robot example may end up being interesting. How far can this particular language purication can be taken?
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> The word master been a word longer than it has been associated with slavery.

Hah, what? Slavery is as old as language, so I find this an interesting suggestion.

Edit: good points about the origin of language below. Another interesting question: if there had been more black computer scientists in early day MIT, Stanford, etc, would these terms have been adapted to the new technologies?
The article is about something that happened in the US, so the situation in US law is relevant.
My personal take on this bit is that it's not something that customers care about directly, but impedes overall quality, which they do care about. We'll just see how it all goes, of course!
There are TONS of cheaper robotics kits. None of them are as durable/reliable as LEGO.
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Ingres. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ingres_(database)

However, if you look at the projects he’s worked on, he has a track record of writing database engines that end up in delivered database systems.
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I get the tongue in cheek nature of this, but it is held up by fundamentally unsound assumptions from unsophisticated investors. bonds are much less boring than retail investors think they are.

Nobody is buying government bonds to beat inflation, nobody cares about the coupon payments. They are trading them on 10x leverage, its the price of the bonds that matter.

You can get 10x leverage on straight up 30 year bonds, and you can do way more in the bond futures market.

All you are doing is frontrunning the central bank. or going short. or trading options on bond futures.

and that's just US treasuries. other country's government bonds are interesting, and then the rest of the yield curve is full of fun quirks too.

The credit markets are actually pretty wild.
I found it totally inaccessible. I knew how to programm in C, C++98 with QT, Python, but I couldnt figure out just how to get started with flash. Somehow i must have missed the easy part of it.
you've just proven his point, he was expressing a good point that currently there's a lot of data points showing that when you express a not "100% agree" opinion with these kind of movements, extremists of said movement will harass you online, saying that things in "if you're not with us, the good guys, then you're with the bad guys". Like you did by saying that for you it means is in total opposition.

Why can't he just be "I don't have an opinion" and just expressing his view on simply just "renaming vs quitting"?
Scrolling through the Twitter threads that spawned this debate, I’m presented with nothing but the faces of (almost exclusively) white liberal men.

It seems to me that, unless it comes from the mouth of a black person, opinions as to the offensiveness of “master” are worse than worthless.
AFAIK, Alito and Gorsuch also dissented.
No connection with Landmarks Digital. Simply found on Hacker News and found interesting.
They would never use `trunk`, it resembles SVN too much. :)
Mmmm, if we polled the leadership of the Democratic Party or Democratic elected officials, I think you'd find that nearly 100% of them support qualified immunity or, if they express lack of support, are nevertheless unwilling to act against it.

Same with the Republican Party. So I have no idea which party you are referring to that has "caught up with reality". Certainly there's a segment of mostly-Democratic voters who oppose QI, but... they aren't represented among leadership at all.
Ingres. The "post" in Postgres refers to the fact that it was the follow-up to Ingres.
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When saying a project "you'd not talk about" and then talking about it - it's kind of taking the point out of it :-)
But I guess I understand what you mean.
I have created https://yabs.io just for me and let other people use it for free for now. It is a copy of del.icio.us for saving bookmarks with tags and then searching them easily.
I have also created https://www.gematrix.org for calculating Gematria values of words and phrases.
You don't need error correction, you can win on the stock market with something that's very poorly correlated.
The best way to think of today's AI capability is: automation.

You train it with a lots of examples of "given this input, this is the output i want", and hopefully it learns to get the "correct" (similar input => similar output) output for new inputs that you feed it. i.e. you've now automated the process of figuring the correct output for a given input.

There is also the "reinforcement learning" AI paradigm where the trained AI is choosing actions (from a given repertoire) in order to maximize an action outcome score based on some scoring function you provided. This is appropriate in a situation where you want the "AI" to do something more than just select the correct output, but again no magic - you're having to anticipate and score the potential outcomes.
It was terribly insecure throughout its life. I can only imagine how many more security vulnerabilities would be exposed once it goes open source.
Thanks! After drafting & reading S-1s for years, my superpower is skimming through quickly :)

On your first point, Lemonade's loss ratios are currently higher than industry average. This is likely tail weighted & driven by a few outlier claims, as their premiums underwritten are minuscule versus their large competitors. Lemonade has every incentive to continue pricing risk better, and ML is the perfect tool for this. Having spoken to CIOs (chief insurance officers) in the industry, the amount of data insurance companies generate is tremendous, and very quickly ML can spot correlations between price, claims payouts, frequency, etc. Harnessing the data as the largest insurcos are surprisingly manual & paper based, and asking the right questions to the machine is the hard part, but Lemonade has the advantage of being more nimble & not encumbered by the legacy tech stack.

Lemonade's original philosophy of taking a flat fee & donating the unpaid claims, was driven by disincentivzing fraud. They hired behavioral scientists, and this was big marketing push for their 1.0/1.5 platform. Insurance companies only have so many value levers to pull, and I think while not explicitly stated in the S-1, reading through publicly available posts & data show Lemonade is very much focused on pricing risk correctly and lower LR.

Regarding point 2, GAAP revenue (rarely use this term) is on the income statement throughout the S-1 (pg 18 is the first instance). Ceded premium to reinsurers is excluded from GAAP revenue (pg 103 has a table breakdown).

My thought is Lemonade is marketing GWP front and center on page 2, but shifting their biz to be heavily ceded to insurers, which lowers revenue. Yes, Lemonade is receiving a fee in exchange, and maybe lowering liabilities on their balance sheet. But, its not a great trade because 1) expensive CAC to cede it away, 2) they essentially become a broker, and brokers don't generate the multiples investors want, and 3) they don't take advantage of insurance float.
how about auto focus, with a laser that measures distance to trigger a motor that adjusts the focal point
> Brazil was really playing like garbage the whole tournament and only made it that far because the referees had seriously helped them

I disagree, Brazil played great until Neymar got his back injured, he was by far their best player. Also the fact that their best defender and captain Thiago Silva was suspended for the game against Germany didn't help. These two were the best players on that squad. Remember - they beat Chile and Columbia who played really good in that world cup, while Germany barely beat Algeria and France.
Instead, they'll sterilize you, give your kids autism, and alter the DNA of entire populations.
I love Julia and have used it for years, but this is really my only complaint with my language. I used to do HPC work and ended up spending a lot of time tracking down where tiny bits of memory were being allocated in for loops. A lot of my routines ended up having “blocks” of memory to pass in as arguments, which as you mention, moves the language a bit closer to C or Fortran IMO.
The RAM and internal storage seem to be too less otherwise I might have bought it.
Yes, they will often file a civil suit against the city after qualified immunity blocks prosecution. In those cases, taxpayers have to pay, the officer and department often face no repercussions of any kind, officers around the country are once again encouraged to do anything they want without worrying about any kind of accountability, and departments around the country are reminded that they don't need to bother spending money or time on training or hiring standards if they don't feel like it.
I use the Kendryte K215 which is a dual-core, RV64GC inside of the Sipeed Maixduino (Arduino form factor):

https://www.seeedstudio.com/sipeed
I agree that bitkeeper should change from master/slave if they so desire. I'm not aware of anyone using master/slave in terms of git or any other mainstream vcs. And github's specific use of master does not use slave. By changing it, they do seem to imply that they meant it in terms of master/slave though. Branches are not slaves to a master. In standard usage, a branch overwrites the master.
they are not versatile and universal (i.e. a kit to build one particular hexapod or line-follower, not a kit for do it anything). Are all universal kit systems (meccano, lego) patented?
I've long been a fan of PreSonus's Notion (and I say that as someone who has a lot of experience with Sibelius, Finale, and Dorico). It's one of the few products out there that pays attention to the "parts of a DAW that let you make sheet music sound good," and I (personally) find the UI easier to use than most. I won't say it's the best thing out there if you need beautifully engraved parts for a large orchestral work and you need super high levels of organization, but I love it for composing.

I do agree, though, that no scoring program really let's you have the level of control over the way sheet music is rendered at the level that Spitfire or VSL allow. There's always some kind of disconnect, and I always end up tinkering with things in a full-fledge DAW in the end.
Tesla leak shows Model 3 with 100 kWh battery would have over 400-mile range
I'm designing a minimalist language and I'm not sure if I "need" to implement it while looking at it from a minimalist perspective. But I mostly won't until I find a good enough argument.
OK, let me make it more clear.

Let's assume two cases:

1. A programmer, his work involves programming (obvious), going to meetings, printing some reports/codes etc.

The biggest problem he can do is introduce bugs in code by mistake (yes, lives can be lost that way), would you expect his peers to tell on him that he was the guy that introduced a bug that killed 300 people in a plane crash?

2. A cop, his job involves preventing crimes, event violent ones, so he sometimes need to use his gun to prevent some of it, and sometimes he has to shoot a criminal.

His mistakes might be killing innocent person. Same thing can happen to his colleagues, so they protect him (just like any sane community would, like your family) - at least unless he turns out to be some sick sociopath.

Do you see relevance now? If you play with code you can just break code, if you play with guns you can break lives.

A side from that I don't get it why there are so many people that trash cops, but don't say a bad word about looters.

Cops protect us from crimes, small and big. They provide order, there are always black sheep, but there are less of those than you think - good guys also make mistakes.

Without a force that provides protection from crimes we would turn into vendetta like justice - have you been to countries that just went out of war? e.g. after the fall of Yugoslavia, there was no police there only tribe and vendetta justice.

Each utopia turns into dystopia sooner or later (CHAZ).
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The (ilegitimate) China government should under no account be permitted to buy anything high tech from the US so long as they are the oppressive regime that they are.

However that is a dicussion that is, at most, tangential to this one.
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Unpopular opinion: Remembering with great fondness Quarterdeck's DESQview/X, the open systems, off-the-shelf windowing environment that could have won the windowing war. How life would have been different if it had...
huh? Germany barely beat Algeria and struggled a lot against France. And they looked very vulnerable against Argentina in the final had Palacio or Higuain scored their good chances.
Who in Western Europe lost their shit? It was quite clear at the time that Europeans welcomed a shift away from NATO, because Europeans are not - generally - as ignorant about the war crimes the US and its allies have committed, as most Americans are. In Europe, they see the refugees and long lines of war orphans walking across European borders to escape American bombs. Germany is even prepared to go it alone, if need be.

It is the old guard in the West (USA, UK, et al.) that wants NATO's iron grip to remain firm, even tighter. Europeans generally are very sick and tired of American atrocities.
You can install an SD card.
Robots are kind of slaves if you think about it
> I always thought that some sorts of meccano based kit with an MCU board & unified sensor/motor fixtures (preferrably even 3d-printable!) would be a total massive success.

I would tend to agree with you on this, but the closest thing to that (mBot) is Chinese and frankly a total mess. You need quality hardware element and kit design, you need a holistic ecosystem approach, you need a solid, continous software investment/strategy, you need great product management, you need great documentation etc. None of that is present there.

In a way I guess it's similar to our software platform wars (i.e. Mac OS vs Windows, IOS vs Android etc).
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Their shares irrationally have value on the market, issuing equity allows them to pay off more of their debts. Why shouldn’t they issue, it’s the company’s job to release accurate information, not to force the buyers to make wise decisions.

If someone offers you millions of dollars for your totaled car you’d be a fool not to take it, this is no different. Hertz management must be loving this.