skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Consider this thought experiment: if you were a P.O.C., say black for example -- how would you feel growing up seeing that all things bad or ill are associated with the term that your people have been called.

Blacklist, blackball, black magic, blackmail, and the list goes on. You might have never thought of these things, simply because it may not a part of your daily life.

If we can fix this in even a small way: then why not?
Slavery is at all time highs and those in Western democracies who supposedly rail against such things benefit immensely from it.

Removing a word from a codebase does absolutely nothing to help this. Most of the people claiming they are against slavery indirectly support it daily. Most coffee on Earth is made by unpaid forced child labour. Most chocolate production relies on the same.

I'll put forward that the vast majority of people who claim to care about the usage of the word slave don't think in the slightest about the prevalent modern existence of actual slaves or will do anything to change it at their own expense. Words are cheap, slacktivism is cheap, taking personal responsibility and actively avoiding slave products is not.

> Estimates of the number of slaves today range from around 21 million to 46 million[0]

> Approximately 2.1 million children in West Africa "still do the dangerous and physically taxing work of harvesting cocoa". The report suggested that it would be an uphill battle to improve the situation. [1]

> An undercover probe has discovered child labour at farms linked to coffee giant Nespresso.[2]

> Uighurs and other minorities aren’t just being subjected to forced re-education — they’re being used as slave labor after completing their terms of “study.”

> The ASPI estimates that up to 80,000 Uighurs have been forced into labor camps this way, some of them directly after finishing their indoctrination at Chinese re-education centers. The report includes three case studies focused on factories producing goods for Nike, Adidas/Fila, and Apple. A total of 83 companies have been identified as benefiting from these practices [5]

Hopefully one day those enjoying a chocolate latte at Starbucks wearing designer clothes made by indentured workers while posting about slavery on their iPhone will see the irony. [3][4][5]

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slavery_in_the_21st_century

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Child_labour_in_cocoa_producti...

[2] https://metro.co.uk/2020/02/26/nespresso-exposed-using-child...

[3] https://labs.theguardian.com/unicef-child-labour/

[4] https://www.fastcompany.com/90279693/did-a-slave-make-your-s...

[5] https://www.extremetech.com/extreme/306909-report-china-sell...
I think the reality is that most people who originally got into design did so not because they were passionate about user experience, but because they had some artistic sensibility, and design was a field that would let them utilise that sensitivity for aesthetics while also paying them a salary.

Over the past five years or so, the landscape has changed considerably, and many designers have been forced to make a decision to either head down a more UX-oriented path or do something else entirely. The result of this is that we now have a lot of UX designers who never really wanted to do UX, but were forced to adapt and take on a new role due to a changing industry.
I hope I would have the clarity of mind to realize that just because I have taken offense doesn't mean anyone has given offense.
I have had moderate success speaking with political representatives at local, state, and federal levels on these issues. Beyond that, campaign contributions to those who support these efforts (maxing out FEC contribution limits). Public policy changes are operating at scale (for example, over a million felons who have served their time in Florida have had their right to vote restored, which matters quite a bit).

Advocacy is work, and costly.
I got one of these: https://www.tekton.com/everybit-tech-rescue-kit-28301

It has everything you need to open essentially any computer and iPhones as well, and it's very compact.
Stop strawmanning.

1. I'm calling out people who are making disingenuous arguments for the sake of argument ("The term SSL is a deep insult to my culture.") Are you actually upset by "SSL" referring to an Arizona street gang? If so, I'm sorry to hear that, but:

2. I, personally, put my bar at "is it a common understanding that this term widely means bad shit?" If you brought this to me, I would say: sorry, I understand, but I don't think this is widely understood to mean "South Side Locos". If this makes me terrible in your eyes, then so be it. But I don't think that's what you're angling for with this line of argument.
If you really want to nitpick, it's ECMAScript
In their defense, the metal crash beam on 11’8” bridge is visually very discreet that I wasn’t sure if there is one from YouTube videos.
I just put 8 GB of RAM and an SSD in a mid-2010 Macbook Pro for a friend. The parts were free, but could be purchased for $100. Perfectly usable machine for web browsing and entertainment. It won't run Catalina, but who cares?
I don’t think I’ve seen very many people that are purely black.

Most of them look like they are shades of brown to me.
If you really need ppl to do the work make them here. Lots of ppl are available currently.
I took a lesson in a Cessna, it was enjoyable enough, landing was a little scary. A few years later, I got to ride in an L-39. It's hard to go back to a Cessna.
I made this exact jump. The answer, for me, was a four year bachelor's degree.

I was a self-taught software engineer, not a self-taught computer scientist. I was writing production code for fairly normal stuff, not proving theorems or implementing research prototypes of new ideas. So YMMV.

If you can make it through TAPL or PFPL on your own, then you probably know enough to be useful to some random grad student somewhere. Latch onto an implementation effort, get authorship on a popl/splash/pldi paper or two, and that's probably enough to convince some faculty somewhere to take a chance on you.

But most good graduate programs still require a regionally accredited degree. Getting an exception to that rule will likely require a publication record. (Getting into good graduate programs often requires a publication record in any case. I recommend against attending not-good graduate programs.)
Can you point to any links to details of what you mean?
Isn’t that galaxy also rotating? So if you wanted to hit the far right corner of that galaxy, then don’t you have to calculate where it actually is now, since it took so many light years from that part of the galaxy to reach us.

Then, you’d have to calculate where that part of the galaxy will be, by the time you reach it. Then, you aim yourself at those coordinates, and hope you don’t have any mechanical issues that will prevent you from gravitationally locking on to your destination star system.
Graphile Worker: Node.js/PostgreSQL job queue
And it's as expensive as your budget allows.
Can I tell you what you didn't say? You didn't say the local item was cheaper. That's an important bit of your argument.
It's a bit out of date as far as some regulations go, but I am a big fan of Rod Machado's Private Pilot Handbook. Really simple but rich explanations of most of the concepts in a digestible way.
I’m not surprised by the convergent evolution—it’s the obvious API for creating elements. (My earliest versions of $E had arguments (tag, kids, fn) and would call fn(elem) so it could perform arbitrary modifications on the node, but I eventually realized that all I ever did was set properties and it was silly to have an entire lambda just for that.)
Does it have to be something parent specifically said? If not look around the news?
You still end up re-implementing half of jQuery. Because element creation is just as much passion as it was in 1999. Because useful functions are limited or stunted compared to jQuery counterparts (querySelectorAll returns a weird object instead of an array and throws exceptions if you as as much as as look at it funny, etc.).
You have fallen victim to the Genetic fallacy
And china didnt lock down hubei province? Sigh..

And they're doing what in beijing now...
I am making a serious argument. How come we care less about the feelings of people when it's just some people in the state of Arizona? We will make changes to all kinds of stuff for the sake of black people, but ah, I don't care too much about these other people tho, they just have to live with it. Shouldn't we take into account everyone's feelings? The people of Arizona who live in that region know who the SSL are. Most aren't software developers.

Like I said, if you are going to stand up for one group and not for another, I find it hard to believe that you actually stand for anything. Could it be it's just the group of the day for you and it's something you can feel good about because it's the appropriate thing in the current cultural climate?
Please explain what the “prison-industrial complex” is
Really? I've definitely experienced this later than 1992. What gives?
> most private pilots simply don't have sufficient hours to have the muscle memory and awareness to react appropriately in an instant

An ex fighter pilot told me he wish more commercial (and private pilots) would have more time in planes that fly upside down. The JFK Jr. death/spacial distortion thing is real, and having experience in odd orientations really helps with that.
Plaintext and text are two different things. Plaintext generally means unformatted
Dialogue Tags: An empirical study
I run Windows 10 on a Dell Latitude E6400 from 2008 with a 1st gen Core 2 Duo & 4GB RAM and it runs fine.

Memory hungry apps like Chrome slow down pretty quick, but the OS itself is snappy.
I write tutorials - they're mainly CG related but they get a bit mathsy at times. I'd love to use this library to create interactive figures. It would be overkill for my use case, but if my writing was just a little bit more math focused I'd be all over this.
How else can that very statement be parsed?

* A "loophole" is easily searchable on the internet, and that I'll find "some"

* You don't believe that is "obvious"

<scratches head> You ok, my dude?
Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23563358
Thinking about a few terms that we use and then deciding "this term has no effect" or "this term reinforces prejudices" is not a great Sisyphean task. Not all terms that have to do with color are inherently prejudiced or exclusionary. Common sense can still reign while being honest about the etymology of our words.

This is assuming you are asking in good faith, and not to trivialize and silence people who disagree with you.
Enter Godwin’s Law...
Here's the image from the Google Cloud link:https://mega.nz/file/0ZVzmACS#Ve-io92zJoXX1DMHO_-2hIr125OQuj...

It's high quality, but it seems satured if compared to other photos. Maybe someone with the skills can fix that?
I ask you in earnest: What do you think of the depiction of black clothes (eg. The Matrix) as badass and the depiction of white robes (eg. religious garment, angels) as signs of purity?
When I was younger, I got sick and threw up in the parking lot and immediately went to the work like a mad man. Looking back I realized I worked myself to sickness for nothing. I can’t provide for my family if I work myself to death.
In the US, they could be referring to getting signed off to solo by an instructor. It is very restrictive and not something you should plan on long term.
Of course it benefits FB, but I'm not convinced it's about cost. FB is almost constantly hiring, implying there are more open positions than available qualified candidates. That coupled with what seems like on par compensation for H1B employees + the added cost of sponsoring a H1B worker to me means it's about hiring enough qualified candidates rather than saving money.

You can argue FB (and other FAANG companies) can just pay more. But 1) the FAANG compensation is already plenty high and 2) the talent pool is finite, and if FB pulls more from the local pool there is just less left for other companies. As it is less well known tech companies were (pre covid anyways) already having a hard time hiring because they can't afford to pay FAANG comp. Theoretically if you get rid of H1B workers and force up top end compensation, then we'll just have less workers available for the lower tier companies.
Most HP's and Dell's I've worked on were similarly simple to repair. Thinkpads are particularly good however :)
It's not "normal" English, it's specifically American English - a lot of Europeans have learned from (or at least been heavily influenced by) American movies etc., so they speak an American style.
I meant: "I think someone from a collectivist..." Can't edit my posts any longer.
Just started watching. The presenter is fantastic!
I’m going to go off the rails more. You can’t reform the education system in a vacuum without dealing with larger societal problems that affect the US.

The war on drugs - have unfairly targeted minorities breaking up families and when they get out of jail, its harder to get a job because of their criminal record. No matter how good the education system is, if the students home life is unstable, education suffers.

Government funding through court ordered fines and tickets that also cause people to enter the criminal justice system when they can’t afford to pay. They end up in jail and lose their jobs. Again an unstable home life.

Lack of affordable higher education. Also, colleges love to give spots to non US citizens because they pay the full tuition costs.

Education funding is based on local property taxes. The rich get richer and the poor get poorer.
Makes complete sense. Thanks for an awesome explanation.
Trip to Donegal: Have a Great Experience for Me
How strong are you?

The St. Louis Chess Club has a great collection of Chess lectures at various levels: https://www.youtube.com/user/STLChessClub

I also like Agadmator's YouTube channel - he analyzes famous games as well as games from current tournaments and such: https://www.youtube.com/user/AGADMATOR

I also like chesstempo for puzzles: https://chesstempo.com/

I'm not very strong, though, so take what I say with a grain of salt.
The silly thing is, if these aliens are so advanced, then why are they even bothering to use radio communications.

Maybe they communicate optically by laser transmission?

Or maybe they perfected a point-to-point neutrino communication system. Highly efficient. Passes mostly through all matter.

Or maybe they know that other aliens are not so nice. So they’d prefer to stay silent, in order to avoid attracting attention to themselves.

They don’t want another genocidal maniac like Christopher Columbus landing on their Plymouth Rock again. Heaven knows that the Native Americans regret the day he landed on their shores.
The App Store Debate: A Story of Ecosystems
I don't really like the term "white space" either, because the background is not necessarily white. But, that is the word we use. At least, making it into a compound like "whitespace" might be better, in case in some contexts you need to avoid to confuse with "white space" in pictures where much of it is left white, and also "whitespace" might be better for dictionary stuff.

A variant of PNG called PNG-16 uses the term "black magic", and it is appropriate there, because it is indeed black!
I don't know, it would make for a clean break with no confusion and middle ground. That might actually be easier to adopt than minor spelling shifts that could easily be seen as mistakes.
and if apple is handling the payments, they could handle the payback offer too. there is no reason that apple could not support different kinds of payment models if they wanted to
It’s something like sh: /ˈmɛnʃ(ə)n/ in Italian it would be pronounced as a soft “z” since it’s the way “ti” was pronounced in Latin.
We shouldn’t focus on diversity for the sake of diversity. The purpose of H1-B is to attract talent but when you say a certain percentage need to be from a specific country, or of a specific sex or race then it’s not about talent (and is actually racist, “you’re not indian so you can’t have this job”). Why do we even tolerate ideas like this?
The huge success of Nigerian-Americans is proof that "systemic racism" no longer exists.
I got an interview that involved part 2 (substring search), which I solved using KMP.
Digging around on the same page i stumbled into this which i think is a fun/interesting look at the history..though sounds like the ratio was in use even before its referenced here. Anyone know more about it?

"letter, written in 1786-10-25 by the physics professor Georg Christoph Lichtenberg (University of Göttingen, Germany, 1742–1799) to Johann Beckmann, seems to be the oldest preserved written reference to the idea of using the square-root of two as an aspect ratio for paper formats"

Excerpt of the English Translation -

"I once gave an exercise to a young Englishman, whom I taught in algebra, to find a sheet of paper for which all formats forma patens, folio, 4to, 8, 16, are similar to each other. Having found that ratio, I wanted to apply it to an available sheet of ordinary writing paper with scissors, but found with pleasure, that it already had it. It is the paper on which I write this letter, but to which, because since by cutting some of its original form may have been lost, I also add an uncut original. The short side of the rectangle must relate to the large one like 1 : √2, or like the side of a square to its diagonal.
This form has something pleasant and distinguished before the ordinary [form]. Are these rules given to the paper makers or has this form spread through tradition? Where does this form come from, which appears not to have emerged by accident?
Honoured wellborn forgive me this freedom."

https://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/lichtenberg-letter.html
Nix(OS) Thoughts
You need to define what unified means, without that your comments are unclear. In many big cities there is one school district, but the school you go to is basically defined by the area you live in, you go to a school near your house.
Thus you end up with segregated schools if you have segregation by race or income (ie rich people live in expensive housing that is grouped, and that school has better educated parents and they can give more support to it). You need to add integrated to that equation. I went to a school that was historically racist with clear separation in schools that reflected neighborhood separation. At some point there was court ordered integration - and that was a really good thing. Over time, after I left the area, richer and whiter people either moved out of the city to the county schools and/or sent their kids to private schools, so the old segregation was re-introduced.
Isn't resharper using this for the diagrams?
I would bet you can get a third class medical. Go to an AME, they’ll ask you to get letters from your other doctors.
IBM should have open-sourced POWER.
While you are right and certainly most if not all prominent infosec people would be highly sceptical of any online voting I really don't think that's a reason to dissuade people from trying.

It's utterly absurd to say everyone should just give up and we will only use paper for the next 500 years. People should be attempting secure online voting and kneejerk pessimism or shutting down discussion on it is counter-productive.
Look on YouTube for folks flying something like a Kit Fox (start with Trent Palmer). You'll find some fun videos of some cool spots they land. Also, STOL drags are cool to watch.
Some other problematic words in this repo:

Parent: to orphans and those who have been in the foster care system

Child: to those who cannot have offspring

Sibling: to only children

Dead: to those who’ve known someone who passed

Disabled: to anyone with a handicap

Fire: to burn victims

Smart: to those with low IQ

Small: to the vertically challenged

I’m very glad to not see the word Zombie because that is very triggering to French Haitians.

I’d also like to remind people that we need new words for male/female plugs because those terms are transphobic.
Using tagged template literals the way lit-html does is the nicest JSX-substitute I’ve seen: https://github.com/Polymer/lit-html
If you look at long-term trends transistor density has kept pace (slowed down consistently but not dramatically along the years), the big difference is that it no longer gives you as much as a performance boost as it used to.
I would not recommend to clean the fan with a vacuum cleaner because the rotation will generate a low voltage
You honestly think the users should load their own css?
> general aviation crashes are often fatal

For the record something like 85% of GA crashes have no fatalities. A Cessna 172 will fly down to 40 knots, which is significantly slower than a car crash on the highway.
The problem with saying change something if it offends someone is that is open to abuse. Are you going to remove something that speaks out about a government killing its own citizens because that government finds it offensive? That would be stupid.

In the case of master and slave i don't mind the defaults for new projects being changed but this new trend of going around and demanding everyone update their projects right now is just silly. You are asking people to put in a huge ammount of effort and possibly break lots of external things for the sake of making a few white guys feel like they did something.
I ruined the top of a rental truck. It wasn't bridge it was a tree overhanging the street. Partly because the tree was not directly overhead like a bridge I didn't notice it was too low and all I was trying to do is park the truck so I was going slow but yea, smashed the top of the truck. Truck Rental company says it happens at least one a month.

https://photos.app.goo.gl/Q6QS9Uy3HNijYXEt7
Another thing is that a large portion of the "metric" world isn't fully metric, using old-fashioned units like miles and pyeong and tsubo. Really, the whole metric vs non-metric debate comes down to how much non-metric people see in their daily lives, not any binary distinction between "always use metric" and "never use metric" or anything of the sort.
Ever notice how the default theme in software is typically a light/white theme?

This. clap Has. clap Got. clap To. clap Go!
that what i also though. at least 10000 years ago if not more
Graphic novel on the Tiananmen Massacre shows medium's power to capture history
I can prove the existence of X with zero-knowledge proofs without exposing X. Obviously there's more from there for elections but the cryptographic groundwork certainly exists.
What about the increased cost associated with an American not taking the same position? We have to pay their unemployment
> You need to define what unified means

Yea I realized after posting that the wording is probably not quite correct. What I meant is there is a single school that serves the entire district. Technically, there are several buildings, but they are broken up by grade elementary / middle / high schools.
They are literally called "The Slow Mo Guys" and not "The Slo Mo Guys"

Post title and 9to5mac article has their name wrong.
who would want to read anything on 4.2" display?

I've had bigger (4.5") display in smartphone 8 years ago and I would not call even that suitable for reading books

why is nobody discussing this and why they don't show the device in hand to show how ridiculously small it is?

> Main features:
> 4.2" inch e-paper display with partial refresh, driven over a dedicated SPI bus.

https://github.com/joeycastillo/The-Open-Book
All you need to know is one unique property to slip in a backdoor that nobody else may suspect for a long time.

The NSA has given us good reason to question everything they release.
From Web Development to UI/UX Design – The Fundamentals a Developer Should Know
I don't think I have. I think that the vagaries of SEO and the goal of promoting the author's brand/book is definitely the reason this article is several screens instead of a 3 word aphorism that we all just shrug at and move along.