skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Really surprised to see a comment pool that is completely negative.

Wouldn’t primary/replica and allowlist/denylist be more explicit anyway?

Society doesn’t have to just do one thing. And because whatever momentum is causing this to happen now, doesn’t negate other reasons why it should happen regardless, and shouldn’t be a reason for it not to either.
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Great, can someone explain Americans their society is not the world, these projects are international and everyone's tired of American politics leaking in anyway. When will it end?
Writing the application logic in Rust isn't different from doing it in any other Algol-like procedural language. You even get nice functional abstractions.

The learning cliff is in the memory management. Rust combines no GC with no memory leaks by forcing you to prove to it that your algorithm doesn't leak anything. And you have to do this every time you want your code to compile.

There's no way in Rust to write your business logic first and plug the memory leaks later. And it's not just the compiler issue, the whole ecosystem expects you to think about the right abstraction for managing memory from step zero.

This means that when you're writing Rust as a novice or a journeyman you have to simultaneously think about the correctness of your algorithm and about its memory safety.
Depends if it actually does. And if that person can code.
Test mentioning 'pafwall' ;)
I like this quote because it helps me to cope with difficult problems. "Don’t wish it was easier, wish you were better. Don’t wish for less problems, wish for more skills. Don’t wish for less challenge, wish for more wisdom." from Jim Rohn
but it IS a master/slave relationship.
Giving something the correct name doesn't mean you're actually promoting it !

I don't understand how linus tolerate crippling code for the sake of politically correct. It doesn't look like him
Let's not get started about white vs colored noise in digital signal processing. Why is white noise white?
Well, we do know that more people have died to white supremacy since 9/11 than died on 9/11. Not to mention people forget Oklahoma City rather quickly....
It definitely wasn’t great - and I know a few people who benefited from your work so thanks!

I think this time would be different because things like compilers wouldn’t be asked to add support for an otherwise unused architecture. Getting anyone to support PPC was hard given the limited market share and got much harder once it was deprecated. There’s definitely some Mac-specific code but a lot of the most expensive code is going to be shared with Windows and Linux support which isn’t going anywhere.
If this is what the Linux kernel developers have to do to inflate their ego and self worth who are we to stop them!
master in the git sense is not master/slave.
Actually, I almost like it. I would gladly use overlord/minion as a replacement.
I believe the people those terms affect that they hurt them and subtly reinforce bias. That doesn't feel unimportant to me. What's unimportant is using antiquated, hurtful terms when it would be easy to simply not do that.
We use it for 6-10 people one night each week, quality is good for those of us with good webcams and wifi bandwidth. I've found it as good as Teams.
primary/replica is the terminology I've seen for the database case, which does describe the situation better than master/slave in my opinion. Master/Slave is kind of overloaded terminology, and the replacements in other areas will certainly be different.
> A farmer could buy a brand new truck and call it a business investment.

That is a business expense. 500k is after all the business (Non-personal) expenses, depreciation and deductions .
This is something that drives me banana. The answer you'll get is always "Well, cities are noisy, deal with it or live in the suburb.

But the thing is they don't have to be. Sure, you have to expect people talking, cars going through, people mowing the grass, the occasional honking. But even in the middle of Manhattan, the only noise that will wake you up in the morning are people being assholes or breaking rules. Special construction permits that have no business being issued (eg: jackhammers in the middle of the night), people screaming (why?), harleys motorcycles (why is that legal?), neighbors blasting music (you can hear it just fine, can you lower it a bit?), musicians in apartments (can't you use an electronic drum to practice?).

Everything's avoidable. People are just inconsiderate, and/or the problem isn't taken seriously. But no, it's not inherent to living in a dense area, unless you're talking about "being surrounded by assholes" being inherent to cities. Then yeah.

suburbs aren't really a solution because people can be assholes everywhere. But even if they weren't, current pushes to get rid of restrictive zoning means you won't be safe in a suburb for much longer anyway. We need solutions for noise in densely populated areas because we're not going to be able to avoid it long terms. The solutions all exist, they just need to be implemented and enforced.
But I like the ironic sound of "Robot Overlords"!

Robot: 1920s: from Czech, from robota ‘forced labour’. The term was coined in K. Čapek's play R.U.R. ‘Rossum's Universal Robots’ (1920).
Linux isn't a US-specific OS, though.

Obviously the history of slavery isn't exactly a happy topic regardless of nationality, but it may not necessarily have the racial tinge to it in other cultures.
> The noise cancelling tech is a key element in this story

The author has my sympathy. I’ve learned to ignore noise, but I understand not everyone can do that.
Barely connected, but i only recently learned that there were raids by Ottoman slavers on Iceland:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turkish_Abductions

https://jddavies.com/2017/02/20/the-barbary-corsair-raid-on-...
"people are just probably don't want to risk their jobs over something so unimportant"

It's important to some people. If the alternatives are unimportant to you, then what possible opposition would you have? Just to be an asshole? Just to show how edgy you are?
The difference is that it's seen as an inherent right of the community, not a title that can be freely transferred to the highest bidder.
If there are truly superior alternatives then it would make sense to put the focus on those and their positive features.

In contrast it seems possible that most alternatives simply cloak the same issues in a context that is ultimately the same. Take service and client for example. Is the client truly free or do they become bound by their interface access pass and consistent usage. Is there any real escape from patterns of dependence? Could much of this simply be wasting energy on unresolved mommy issues?
Well, since we don't run on logic, I'll just go ahead and disregard this argument regardless.
How Shazam works has always fascinated me.
CTemplar – Encrypted email that respects your privacy
Offtopic: Why is TikTok growing faster than IG or Youtube? What features make it more compelling for users? I don't use TikTok and don't plan to, but I'm curious about the TikTok phenomenon.
>I'm going to go ahead and extend the offer GP can't make. soup.io maintainers, if you're reading this, are indeed spending 10k+ EUR on infra, and do want to keep your service alive and running, please reach out, I'll work pro bono.

If you do this, and you manage to make significant process, I'd love to read a writeup of it.

If you're doing the work pro bono, then the least they could do would be to allow you to generate some content for yourself to use for self-promo.
Is there a net benefit of coddling unreasonable people to such a degree that we're no longer allowing words to have different meanings, and holding integrity through requiring critical thinking to understand language properly? Organizations playing into this are either pandering to the mob and/or aren't grounded in reason. Let's be strong for our brothers and sisters, even if discomfort increases temporarily due to a mob.
India is definitely a beautifully and diverse country. But living in urban centers where these technology jobs are located is becoming tougher day by day. Crazy traffic, high real estate prices, air pollution, etc affects quality of life negatively.
ASMR is the only thing that has helped me.
I would hazard the guess that enforcing a different naming policy doesn't hurt either.
Same reason that white light is white: its has a mix of all the light frequencies in about the same proportion, rather than being weighted to one particular color.
> but nobody goes around telling people they need to make their own cell phone or t shirt at least once in a while

Maybe we should.
Sure they could. They'd get people to buy insurance before the trip and offload the costs and complexity that way.
The best framing I’ve heard for this is that it’s missing the forest for the trees.

Better said in someone else’s words than my own:

https://mobile.twitter.com/btanderson72/status/1279507428128...
Interesting because we made this change in the Netscape Directory Server in 1996. Ever since I've been a little surprised to see the usage appear here and there. It felt like a memo had failed to get delivered.
Re: antibiotics, https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=xZbcwi7SfZE argues that we’ve lost respect for the effectiveness of antibiotics. That ties in with the original argument that we’ve become less efficient, or at least effective, if it’s true.
You're still missing the point. A mother whose son went to get candy and ended up never coming home after being gunned down by the police doesn't give a fuck about white tech elite hand-wringing and trying to rewrite history and does't give a fuck about hand-wringing over salaries.

She wants it to have never happened, she wants justice, her community wants to be able to call the police in an emergency and be sure one of their own won't get murdered and they want equality in mind, not just on paper. What good is more money right now when walking in a 'good' neighbourhood you just bought into, or driving a nice car you just bought with your salary can still get you murdered by the police just for being black.

White people have lost their damn minds. It's not about you and how awful you feel your ancestors behaved.

They murder men, women and children alike with impunity.
In practice, “internal competition” isn’t competing in the way the free market does. The most politically connected product tends to win, not the one that has the best odds of success.

And if you let these all go to market, you risk eroding user trust (think Google and messaging products). Confusing your users is not a good thing.
Reading that article really puts the fear of Polio during this period into perspective, and honestly makes the coronavirus look like child’s play.
In these cases (or, in most cases) I think it's fair to consider previous related experiences.

In this case: iPhone development or even MacOs development.

(Of course it's hard for recruiters to see this, that's why I usually just say I have it, but yeah, ridiculous requirements gets ridiculous answers)
Ask HN: Founders are hurting the startup where I work, what do I do?
Hi HN,

TL;DR: I work as a developer at a medium-sized startup here in Norway totalling about 50-60 people in different roles. I've been here for about 4 years. The problem is that the founders are behaving in a way that's driving talented people away, and have done so for years. What do I do?

The founders both have leading positions within the company, which I guess is pretty normal. The problem though, as I see it, is that the founders often micro manage both product teams and individuals to a pretty high degree. This leads to people in primarily these different roles leaving:

* Product Designers leave because of they are pretty much completely micro managed by the founders.

* Product Owners leave because they often times just end up communicating back and forth between the founders and their team, and are expected to take responsibility for what the team is doing but don't get much mandate to decide anything.

* Software Developers leave because founders reach out directly to individuals with projects that they want developers to work on. Except for this being an annoyance for individuals, it also leads to frustration within the product teams as the product owner's authority over the backlog gets undermined as developers are asked to work on other things.

I have seen many talented people leave because of frustrations related to the behavior of the founders. We have a very high staff turnover in the product and designer roles, and it is truly hurting the company, badly. I feel like the founders probably don't understand that they often times are the reason people decide to leave, and from what I've heard, they tend to think that people who leave "aren't a good fit" or "don't have the right attitude".

Should I do something about this? Can I? Any feedback, tips, thoughts or stories of similar experiences is greatly appreciated.
And they'd have landed a few hits by now if their internal incentive structure didn't prohibit follow-through. Have they fixed that yet?
Scarcity is a real issue. What’s the point of redistributing wealth when some will be more productive and then live within their means, while others won’t and will reproduce until they can’t provide for their children. It may not be the same people afterwards, but it’d be the same result. So how would that be any more fair or facilitate prosperity any more than what we’re doing now?
I wonder how male/female connectors made it this far into the inclusive-language wave, haven't seen a single mention of them.
ATA master/slave is an example where both devices have the same capabilities.
> Asset managers at pension funds need to make some target returns on their part of the portfolio (say 5% on high-yield corporate bonds). They're just mundane desk jobs, buying and selling contracts on computer screens.

This may be precisely the problem. Pension funds have an oversized influence on our whole economy. They deserve much more care and scrutiny than this.

> risking the clients taking their money to other asset managers promising higher returns.

Not sure I agree with this. Pensions aren't operating in a competitive market, they're typically associated with a particular employer, acting on behalf of the employees.
In all honesty, it doesn't matter how you feel about it. I do feel strongly about it, and I'm Native Mexican, and I have very strong feelings about my ancestors being enslaved. I was taught these words in the context of colonialism and slavery.

I'm assuming you weren't.

Edit: Glad to see the true nature of your culture. I probably won't come back.
Because the origins.of the term isn't racially based. You're seeing race and color where there isn't any.

> The state papers of Charles II say "If any innocent soul be found in this black list, let him not be offended at me, but consider whether some mistaken principle or interest may not have misled him to vote".

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blacklisting
It’s silly and pointless. It’s this:

https://www.everydaynodaysoff.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/10...
> rust doesn't look like it has a steep learning curve

> I'll have to strongly disagree.

You're not alone... It's the first time I hear anyone saying Rust does NOT have a steep learning curve. It's widely considered as one of the most difficult languages out there (the fact it's also one of the most loved seems to not be a coincidence: only if you actually like it do you manage to get past the initial difficulty).

Even very experienced programmers find it difficult because you just can't write code the way you're used to when not having the borrow check limitations.
What is the point of this? What, is using a "yellow" color for "warning" going to be removed next? What about "red" for stop or "remove"?

I can go on , but basically this is getting ridiculous.
Bikeshedding. ️
I used to disagree with this before realizing that I cared more about them being changed than I cared about the words in the first place. I don't care what the words are. This is a smaller change than learning a new JS framework, and I already care very little about that.
"Michael Jordan is the Richard Feynman of late 20th century sports." (Sorry, couldn't resist.. :)
Which would make landings rather difficult.
> Really surprised to see a comment pool that is completely negative

I think people may (hopefully) be getting fed up with being politically correct to the point of finding something everywhere they look that they are offended by and needs to be changed.
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You seem unconcerned about the people who might feel marginalized and harmed by the rampant use of offensive language, and really concerned about people who could simply substitute another word with no impact.

It's a really, really false equivalence.

If you're offended by being asked to behave civilly you really have a bigger problem to deal with.
That discomfort has to do with your own narrow associations with the word, unable to separate the contexts and therefore triggering the human slavery version of master/slave in your mind and the associated emotions.

Master and slave in this context has nothing to do with human slavery.
It’s not clear that this is true: if were around when Git started, it was influenced heavily by BitKeeper and that did use master/slave:

https://mail.gnome.org/archives/desktop-devel-list/2019-May/...
ADAT was pretty similar to this right, but later?
How about we just call them "the M word" and "the S word" as we're already accustomed to that. /s

I find this type of virtue signaling very annoying and a slippery slope on the free speech/rage culture front.
“man” in unix is short for “manual” and has no relationship to gender! This is like car vs carpet argument.
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>1. Not having anything other than your job is bad. Full stop. Maybe a handful of persons can work in that situation, but having such a messed up work-life balance is bad for your health, there are plenty of studies on this.

It's not for you to decide where anyone derives their meaning and happiness in life or how many hours they should work. You can only decide this for yourself.

>2. Have you asked why this happens? Maybe it's not just people who like that, but people who have no other options due to companies "forcing" those hours.

There are always options. It's up to you to find the niche that works for you.

>3. Is this beneficial? How much productivity can someone get out of the last 2 hours of a 12-hour work day? How much is that extra work worth?

Depends on the individual.

>4. Are you and your friends ready to take on those workloads for your whole life? Because it's hard to get out of that dynamic.

Their decision.

>5. Burnout is a serious issue. Burnout can lead to depression, can lead to losing your job, to having serious health problems... It's not a joke. It's a serious risk.

It's each individual's risk to take. If someone wants to work 12 hours a day, it is their decision. "Full stop"
It's virtue signaling. It does nothing, and 99% of the people aren't going to see these terms and racially charged.
The distinction is just wording:

> If we find that much of the overrepresentation of blacks in the criminal justice system is because black people are often poor and poor people often get sucked into the system, should we describe this as “the problem isn’t racism in the criminal justice system, it’s poverty” or as “the problem is racism in the criminal justice system, as manifested through poverty”?

– Scott Alexander https://web.archive.org/web/20200523051001/https://slatestar...
That is a powerful quote.

Apparently the author (Marianne Williamson, not Mandela) was flabbergasted and honored that her words were being attributed to Mandela. [0]

0 https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/our-deepest-fear/
So interesting! I’d always wondered about the history behind this. After your hint, there’s more info here:
https://www.cardinalpeak.com/why-do-cds-use-a-sampling-rate-...
Naming matters. (As a northern European,) My impression is that since we won't use that word to describe things here it's easier to look away. What's corruption in Greece and Italy is called a budget overrun or government support in the Netherlands and Germany, and you won't convince many Dutch/Germans to see it any other way. After all, we don't do corruption 'round these here parts.
It’s Sunday, nobody in the corporate HR world is at work.
They shouldn't have to compensate if they kept better track of luggage.

Right now they have no incentive to improve themselves or prevent theft by underpaid, overworked baggage handlers.

Every suitcase is labeled with a name and a flight. They know exactly who the baggage belongs to, they just can't be bothered to call people who forgot a suitcase or send people their luggage back. I don't see why we should accept anything other than either return of the baggage or full compensation.
> The Polish hacker told Motherboard that technicians will take a manufacturer’s repair class in the United States, get the required software, then share it widely through Europe. “It’s officially prohibited to share the software,” they said, speaking of the PB840 software. “But if you know someone, you can just copy it and they cannot track it.”

How is it that the software can’t be tracked? Is it because the 20+ year old hardware doesn’t connect to the internet and so it can’t “phone home”?
I left a tablet computer behind once on a plane. Easily done - slide down in the magazine holder etc.

I phoned the airline. They had found it. Getting it back was impossible. It was apparently sent to Helsinki, then back to Heathrow in London. The airline just say "we had it sent to London - ask there. We're done."

Fine, but if you go to LHR and ask where the lost property office is, you are met by blank looks. No one knows. There are 5 4?) terminals, all are huge. Someone says there might be something air side in T3, someone else says there might be something near the car park in T5. Others appear to find the very concept of lost property novel and confusing.

I found one place, but they only did lost property for select airlines, and even then it is not open to the public. WTF?

It pushes me off to know that my tablet was sold off to someone despite spending ages schlepping around LHR trying to get it, having been in contact with the original airline and having it sent to London.
> it doesn't matter how you feel about it. I do feel strongly about it

I think that's pretty much the gist of everything these days.
> If you disagree with the kernel naming guidelines you are free to create your own fork. Good luck.

You do realise that cuts both ways. Why did some people raise this issue in the first place - according to your logic, they should have just forked it.

Silly arguments like this don't contribute to the discussion in any meaningful way.
I find the Orwellian nature of these changes uncomfortable.

You really ought to look into a bit more history than what you got taught in school as slavery has gone on since as far as civilization and is in no way unique to the US. Slavery still goes on today and changing the terminology has done nothing to help that in any way.

(Is your skin colour relevant to your answer in any way? I have no idea why you included that)
I have one of each of Apple’s categories. But let’s be honest, Microsoft and Google have done more to bring technology to the masses than Apple has. Most of the world’s population either can’t or won’t pay Apple’s prices.

Apple is never going to make a $25 smart phone like you can get in India.
> mysqldump does not read historical rows from versioned tables, and so historical data will not be backed up. Also, a restore of the timestamps would not be possible as they cannot be defined by an insert/a user.

Given this caveat, this seems unusable for production systems.
How about parent and child?