skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
For simple organic reactions, the shape of benzene [0] matters. Benzene has its quirky ring shape thanks to pi bonds [1], which only make sense in a 3D orbital model. The planetary model already has trouble with benzene formation and reactions. Another good example is water, whose hydrogen atoms are physically positioned almost entirely within the oxygen atom, according to the planetary model. Water's actual orbitals [2] have massive "echo" interactions on the hydrogen sides, which "push" the electrons onto one side of the molecule. Doing this with orbital mechanics alone would be, at a minimum, a headache.

The essential main problem with the planetary model is in the word "planetes" or "wanderer"; electrons are not exactly point charges whizzing about the nucleus at high speed (although they kind of are, because of gold's color and other properties) but more like smeared-out across an orbital. Think of soft electron-butter being spread by a galactic butter knife.

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

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

[2] http://www1.lsbu.ac.uk/water/h2o_orbitals.html
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MASTERCARD - enslaves millions of people.
When will its name change?
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This seems like public grandstanding and virtue signaling to me, but not too surprising coming from tone deaf Silicon Valley elites.
Almost like placebo effect.
For better or worse, killing doesn't have such bad associations. Many of us regularly play video games where you kill people, and if you turn on the TV you'll see a lot more depictions of killing than depictions of slavery.
Uh. Excuse me. <foreigner raises hand>. How is 95% of the globe population supposed to discuss black people in America? Are we just simply not allowed to?

And to take the reductio ad absurdum even further - do we move towards a society where you need a token black person to be able to discuss certain subjects? Because, statistically, there's going to be quite a lot of rooms without one.

Like I said in another comment, this is a hell of an Isolated Demand for Rigor. We don't use this kind of strict standard for absolutely anything else. People cook without being chefs, raise children without diplomas in parenting, and make travel plans without a travel rep by their shoulder. But apparently certain subjects can't even be discussed without a representative?

> It's not like this is a new or mind-blowing idea - representation is a key tenet of democracy, and should cover all the ways of segmenting society that are clearly differentiating.

Actually, this is a very new and mind blowing idea. In two ways. First, "all the ways of segmenting a society" part is new, and I can't help but notice that the people doing the gerrymandering... sorry, I meant deciding which segments are clearly differentiating are having a hell of an advantage. Speaking of, I'm going to say that being an introvert is a pretty big thing, and I really don't feel my needs are properly represented in politics. And second, the idea that we need to take the kind of rules made for governing and apply them to citizen's everyday life. This is not a normal extension - it's a reversal. Rules made for governing have the very important purpose of curtailing the power of those in power, so that we, the citizens, have more freedom.
Something that is not touched on in the post but the book The Color of Law touches on in depth is how single family zoning has strong racist motivations. There are many Suburban areas that had the exclusion of black people as a requirement for Federal financial support. These include areas such as Stanford/Palo Alto and Long Island in NY but the list is numerous.
I can get onboard with master/slave when used in conjunction.

But the etymology of "blacklist" so far as I know and can Google is not to do with race and it's use and understood meaning is not to do with race. How then can it be racist?

I have heard others argue that it's the implication that black is bad - but it's not as simple as that. "Whiteknighting" can be used negatively. "Bad" can literally mean "good". Come on.

This especially goes for "grandfathered" - what on earth is wrong with this?
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I spent some time today looking at the apps that have been reported to read clipboard data. Details here[0] and here[1].

0: https://twitter.com/K0nserv/status/1279041484688424960

1: https://twitter.com/K0nserv/status/1279015057939148801
Do we really need a new keyboard app?
Eh. If I was managing a network with a ton of machines I needed to be able to turn off and on together (not that farfetched from what I'm currently doing), I'd probably label the scripts 'resurrection' and 'genocide'. Apt and descriptive.

I think the difference is you chose words more emotionally charged, which isn't the point here.
This is just what I was looking for! I developed a very simple (and slightly similar) TUI library, but I need to at some point move to a GUI, and this is perfect for it. Thank you!
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From my experience, only white dudes are affected by "master" and "slave" terminology. When asked to create a PR fixing it, they refuse, and urge you to fix it instead. It's almost as they see you as their slave (ahem).
Open enrollment related stuff.
I'd be indifferent since I care very little about my ancestry. I've never bothered to actually look up how my ancestors lived. I assume they were peasants that got by by eating tree bark.
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arxiv.org lets you submit revisions to a paper you have previously submitted and putd the label v2, v3, etc. A lot of preprints will go up for physics and computer science papers, while medrxiv.org fills the same role for health sciences.
If a bunch of people are applying a really crummy approach to setting policy, that's bad for policy. If a bunch of people are applying a really crummy approach to having a discussion about policy, then that's a low-quality discussion.

Whatever goal you set for yourself, you end up with something that is deeply sub-optimal at achieving that goal. Why not pay attention to the critique and build something that achieves its goals well?
I do not agree with the premise that these words in context are problematic, many others do not agree with it either.
Serious question, how does subsidizing work in these cases. Will the government subsidize the land price in single family zones? How does it work
> The terms are gross and by no means necessary

No they are not. Slavery is gross, a master git repo is not gross - because it has nothing to do with actual slavery.
What do you mean? If I approach KORD in my Cessna 172 (as I've done), and ATC instructs me to go around, I would. Of course the pilot is the ultimate authority and can deviate from any instruction in an emergency, but ATC can, in my understanding, instruct an aircraft to go around for any number of reasons that the pilot of the aircraft is not privy to.

In this case, according to the preliminary report, `“Karachi Approach” advised repeatedly (twice to discontinue the approach`. Had the cowboy pilots followed that instruction, the unnecessary deaths might have been avoided.
I'd say genocide is a bit... Strong, something like terminate might be just as apt, and less likely to get you fired!
I used to think stuff like this was ridiculous. It's just a database, who even cares?

However, now I'm all for it.

What has changed? Over working in tech for a while, I noticed some patterns in my coworkers' behavior. I noticed that the same people who didn't switch over to saying "primary" and "replica" back in 2015-ish, and when it started becoming more common, and in fact, actively ridiculed it (just like I did) were the same people who would casually say things like “Oh those Indians screwed it up” while talking about problems with an overseas helpdesk. They didn't even consider that I, as someone of Indian descent who was apparently "all right" in their view would be offended by this (Note: when the screwup was, say, due to people from our TX helpdesk, they would never say “Oh, those Texans screwed it up”). Oh, and I never heard this kind of stuff from the few women or PoC in our office.

Now I can easily see how at least one black coworker would be offended by these people animatedly discussing how the "slave" is not correctly following the "master", and how it might affect their work day, week, or month in a really bad way.

In general I have seen that people who think more about the language they use and how it might affect others seem to make better, nicer coworkers. That's really the primary reason I support these changes now.
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So we're only trying to avoid negative emotions here? That seems...transient.
By progress you mean population growth?
Masters degree ... Master copy, master key, heck we can go all day. People who support this are not thinking clearly.
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Yet we kill “child” processes all the time, especially those pesky orphaned ones.

No one has a problem with the phrasing above when the context is understood.
Great resource, awesome to see things that help get kids into development via things they love.

Why the ".ml" domain though? If you're not from Mali it's a bit confusing because I thought it was to do with machine-learning? ".tech", ".land", ".in/minecraft" make a lot more sense?

https://domains.google.com/m/registrar/search?searchTerm=the...
Thanks to the Windows kernel memory isolation and sandboxing they are literally locking the child processes in cages. Of course I’d expect nothing less of Microsoft, an evil company that works with ICE.

Though instead of a parent process “killing” a child we should just say “aborting.” That’s much less problematic.
> it’s blatantly obvious why such terms are problematic

To me it's not even clear what "problematic" means. I understand problems, I understand solutions, I can understand explanations of how one relates to another, but problematic... Not obvious at all.
This is not correct and I'm curious what you're basing it on. The most powerful bomb we ever detonated (Tsar Bomba at 50 Mt) got something on the order of 96-97% of its energy from fusion with its 2-stage test design (tamper replaced with lead). It's true the full power 100 Mt 3-stage with a U-238 tamper would have gotten vastly more from fission (at the cost of terrifying levels of fallout), but it didn't need it. Castle Bravo, the biggest US bomb ever tested, was also heavily fusion (and big thanks to the unexpected lithium 7 tritium bonus), though I think you're right that a lot of ultimate yield was from fission of the natural uranium tamper. It did directly lead to the Mk-21 though, tested in Redwing Navajo at 4.5 Mt and 95% fusion I think?

It's true that placing a fusion bomb in a uranium case can massively boost the yield of any single explosive, and in a full fission-fusion-fission design a good half the energy can come from fission. It's not required to work though, a transparent casing can be chosen too, that's the whole concept behind neutron bombs and "low-yield" weapons after all. I'm no expert for sure, this is just my understanding from reading some of the archives and such, so I'd be curious to read any other sources you have.
I never saw the reference until people started pointing it out, so it says nothing about me. But if others do, then I'm not so attached to the terminology that I'd put up a fight to defend it.

What I don't really understand is why people are so outraged by renaming a bunch of stuff. It's a trivial change, who cares?
The word "really" offends me, please, stop using it.
Here are my observations as an actual epidemiologist:

1) Quarantine / non-pharmaceutical interventions effects start to be visible after about 2 weeks from their introduction, and are fully effective after 1.5 months.

2) Daily new deaths growth lags from daily new cases growth about a month (which is somewhat obvious, but needs to be reiterated).

So, unless some new mitigation measures are going to be introduced _right now_, this record-breaking growth will continue for quite more than a few weeks, followed by the corresponding growth of deaths a month later. We are far away from the saturation point and any resemblance of "population immunity".
CanaryTrap: Detecting data misuse by third-party apps on online social networks
Is privacy really an issue?
Thank you for all of your hard work! I consistently hold up Bandcamp as a shining pillar of how to do media distribution right. Keep being excellent!
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These terms are actually quite precise describing a relationship between two technical systems.

I have yet to hear other words having the same precision.

Btw.: Imho no ethnic group has a sole claim to the victimhood role as historical slavery. To name a few examples of that:

* My (white, European) ancestors were slaves of the Romans.
* My (white, European) ancestors were slaves of the same (white, European) (here noble) ancestors.
* My (white, European) ancestors were holders of (Jewish) slaves.

So should I ask for the removal of this word from regular, technical use? I do not feel that way.
Just, no. There is NO possible excuse for accessing my private clipboard buffer without my involvement - as a result of a direct action I have overtly initiated.
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I bet someone, right now, is creating a pitch for a brand change to LEADERCARD.

Someone, somewhere, is drafting this, prototyping a new logo desing.

Just waiting to happen.
Email is trivally archived by everyone, and people say stupid things that can be data mined later to demonstrate intent.

Look at social media brigading when the mob decides someone is "bad". Some evidence that <target> hates kittens will be found in an email from 2005. That happens in the office too, except it's done by attorneys instead of internet randos.
People are concerned, correctly, that it's not such a small change and won't be limited to only terms as offensive as "master/slave". Twitter announced that it's also avoiding the phrases "guys", "sanity check", and "dummy value".
domain bias much?
Should you be able to trade your right to construct whatever you want in exchange for a legally enforced expectation that your neighbors will be similarly restricted in what they can build? Plenty of people would like to voluntarily enter that arrangement. Same with short term rentals - many people would like to trade their right to run a hotel out of their residence in exchange for a legally enforced expectation that they won't end up living next to a hotel.
I played around with Boa Constructor and WxWidgets back in the day, in fact it was the first cross platform GUI library I seriously looked at for Python, but in the end settled on PyQt. It's a lot more complete and capable, with excellent documentation.

I have always preferred to code my UIs though, rather than use a GUI designer. I just find the back-and-forth between graphical designer and code an annoying extra context switch every time. Also in code I can position elements exactly, or use sizers very fluidly where GUI designers are fiddly and imprecise. They can be useful to do an initial mockup, but not much more so than pencil and paper. YMMV, we all have different visual and mental cognitive models for these things.
For not too elaborate GUIs in Python, I think TraitsUI is a really neat library:
https://github.com/enthought/traitsui
To be fair, BDSM is typically so reviled in the public consciousness I would expect it to be cancelled long before anyone bothered to get around to examining any of its jargon.
In the UK, Brian Cox for physics/astronomy and David Attenborough in the natural sciences are likely responsible for enough recruitment that will probably lead to significant knowledge gains.
There's never been an easier time to write your own language (2016)
This is the "slippery slope" logical fallacy.
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I am indifferent. My ancestors were slaves. Other ancestors were slavers. Most people only need to go back far enough to find both in their line of ancestry.
Isn’t this just an illustration of the Church-Turing Thesis?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Church%E2%80%93Turing_thesis
Nope. Just read the source code. All the references I have seen online are outdated or aggravatingly incomplete.

Seriously. The nicest part about the source is that it doesn't lie.

It's rarely as scary as your anxiety tells you it's going to be. Even for larger projects. You got it, may as well use is.
In what way is taxation slavery?
I’m curious what you would do if a new hire/junior programmer joined your team and asked you to change the name of the script because their parents were killed in a genocide and they would prefer not to be reminded every time they had to run the script?

Would you be empathetic and spend three seconds renaming it or fight them tooth and nail on principle?

Why would people so strongly resist practicing some pre-emptive effortless empathy toward people who have gone through similar things related to a small handful of specific words?
Don't write posts like this - it has nothing to do with the article. You know what they meant, you chose to reword it and then complain about the rewording. Now instead of discussing the article or the humanitarian crisis behind it, people (like me) have to read and respond to you.

Please respond to the strongest plausible interpretation of what someone says, not a weaker one that's easier to criticize. Assume good faith.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
I mention oil because it's a genuine part of the political window today (Bernie Sanders, Elizabeth Warren, and Tom Steyer all supported banning oil exports, but I'm having trouble finding primary sources; Biden also may limit oil exports). What people discuss today, they may do tomorrow.

I understand what you're reading into, but the main reasons to limit oil exports and imports are simpler than that. First, as you say, the USA is a massive oil producer. We compete directly with OPEC. We are also one of the largest oil consumers. Unsurprisingly, politicians like Bernie therefore have reasoned that it would be a sane protectionist and mercantile move to limit oil exports, keeping USA oil in the USA and thus limiting the need for oil imports. It's just cheaper that way; while not all oil is alike, crude oil is fungible enough to make this feasible.

Also like you say, spiting Russia is important, although OPEC may fall apart before too long. There's a lot of handwaving here and anything could happen.
Oh fuck, apparently the bicycle malfunctioned and couldn't brake. If only the rider had had the presence of mind to just steer sideways as hard as posible and take a roll instead...

Edit: I'm not trying to but any blame on her. It's easy to think in hindsight of what could have been done, another thing entirely to do it in seconds while panicking.
To add, personal experience can be useful, but is not the end-all in decision making. It's useful in the ways anecdotes are useful, that is to say, good as an illustrative example but may not be statistically representative.

In general, you do not need to have personally experienced X to have a useful or "valid" opinion on X. As a reductio ad absurdum, nobody would be allowed to have an valid opinion on murder.
Genocide = kill them all, which is exactly what the script would be doing.
You gave three examples where master means expertise on the field, not ownership over someone.
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> The word robot means 'slave worker'.

Do you have the source for this? I'd be very surprised if this was the meaning of the word at the time Karel Capek used it. The world robot comes from slavic word robota which means work or hard work.
> But don't do it at the expense of people who are willing to pay high premiums to have a small piece of land to avoid the noise, smell, polution, and crowding of apartments.

I think you may misunderstand what zoning does. Ending single family zoning doesn’t end single family houses, it just allows other housing types to be built as well. Many or most housing units would still be single family houses, with or without zoning.

This would remove the incentive to over-supply, not the incentive to supply.
I'm a pretty big fan of high density housing, and in theory I like the idea of "if you own the land do what you want with it" but I saw the extreme end of this in a neighborhood where I lived. See for yourself (Google Street View below, do a 360 around the block)

Some thoughts:
- 12story building next to 1story bungalow

- no mandate on 12story building to create parking per unit, so the entire block is flooded with cars trying to find places to park (also, this is the city, so many homes have no garage, you rely on street parking)

- tons of circling cars looking for parking all the time

- school not planned for the neighborhood. Sure, you built a 12story x 4unit = 48unit apartment, but there are no places in the school for the ~50 additional kids who suddenly appear. Yes you are guaranteed a seat in a school, but that could be 8 schools away and your kids can be in different schools depending on grade overflow levels

- giant garbage trucks (building-sized) coming and going into your otherwise quiet neighborhod

- giant A/C units pumping air for the whole building next to a 1story home

https://www.google.com/maps/@40.5783519,-73.9617788,3a,75y,3...
The subsidies mentioned are federal transportation (highway) spending. Without that (or even better with it redirected into mass transit) the prospect of commuting into the city by car becomes a lot less economical.
Yes, but the law should enforce your agreement with your neighbors, not obligate you to form an agreement as it does today.

I think the biggest issue in zoning is the lack of a path to unzone something. If I convince all my immediate neighbors to let me build up (perhaps by giving them some equity in the new building) I should be allowed by the law to build. Today, even if my whole block wants to build up, we cannot.
It is briefly mentioned at the end of the article as a way to find common cause with the left on this issue.
Maybe https://ferd.ca/the-zen-of-erlang.html

Or this kind of fun video https://youtu.be/JvBT4XBdoUE
> People are living and dying without appearing on any database

Oh, the horror! We must hunt them down and tag them immediately.
These are not racist terms and this is akin to removing the Golden Girls mudmask episode.

This isn't how you support BLM, end racism or stop the police from abusing power and killing minorities. This is how you dull the message and look like a tone deaf moron who has no command over the English language.
> When it comes to housing policy, we conservatives run the risk of becoming a caricature of ourselves, long on reactionary impulse but short on principle.

There are two principles dear to conservatives that form an antagonistic relationship in this case: 1. minimal government intervention, and 2. emergent common law/standards. When left alone, homeowner associations (HOAs) tend to form single-family zoning policies. I'm not sure how to square this circle.
Respectfully I disagree.

You can blame gun culture all you want, but I am certain that many gun owners are also pet owners who would not ever think of shooting a pet.

Police training is more to blame, or maybe it's just police culture.
That’s not how ATC works - atc ALREADY went beyond what you normally see w their suggestions for a go around. ATC is focused on traffic (keeping it separated), pilots are in charge of flying their planes. In fact communicating with ATC is low on list of things to do when their are problems. Priority is aviate, navigate then communicate. And these controllers went above and beyond w their warnings already