skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Actually the 'o' is a modifier for politeness. It seems there's a version of the word without an 'o'.

https://jisho.org/search/shiri
Master also means principal. Controlling speech due to political correctness is extremely post modern but I’m not sure that language creates reality in the way these people seem to think. Words are not inherently racist it’s how people use them, therefore I’m against changes like these where clearly there’s no racism at all in having a master branch.
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On indicators of employee happiness: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20571219
Does it support linking to another file in the same directory ?
A lot of systems I use have renamed master/slave to leader/follower.

It set me back a moment the first time I saw it, and took me about 30 seconds to mentally internalise the change. After that first time, no issues as a reader of the code/config.
Yes I am into both languages. Thank you, I will check it out when vacation time is around :)
The etymology of "master" according to Wiktionary:

From Middle English maister, mayster, meister, from Old English mǣster, mæġster, mæġester, mæġister, magister (“master”), from Latin magister (“chief, teacher, leader”), from Old Latin magester, from Proto-Indo-European *méǵh₂s, (as in magnus (“great”)) + -ester/-ister
> You are of course aware that Apple is soon selling computers with their own processors, I hope.

Which has 0 relevance. GGP was asserting that Apple Is an existential threat to AMD. Given AMD is not an Apple supplier (of CPU anyway) and Apple will not sell their chips to the outside world, that makes sense on no axis.
So what are good things you can achieve? I for one would like to automate my plant watering, but I am not sure that is a compelling enough use case?
I feel like we tried to fix "master" and "slave" in replication terminology (which we should) and it leaked into areas where the semantics were entirely different.

"Whitelist" and "blacklist" are also terms that deserve attention, more so than "master branch".

The "master" branch is the "master" record. The official copy. The entertainment industry "remasters" their source recordings. The original Star Wars gets remastered frequently.

I don't think that the recording and entertainment industries are going to change these terms, because I don't think they're racially charged in the context in which they're defined and used. There's literally no parallel. In our industry, we have other suspect things called master, which is why it stands out.

In any case, I think it's impossible to rethink this decision now. Walking it back feels icky and political, and we should always err on the side of inclusion anyway.
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This project is definitely security-first. That being said, we're defining "hackability" as "empowerment to hack". For example, this is one of the few platforms where you can hack the CPU itself by adding new instructions to it.
Changing it is making something out of it. Are people actually offended by the current usage?
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I once worked with an exec who had an interesting solution to this: he accepted meetings of 30minutes max. Hard limit (which is a good idea regardless of length ofc).

He was quite senior, so most people wanted to meet him rather than vice versa, so he could 'afford it', which someone in a more junior position probably couldn't pull off.

These meeting were the most effective I've ever experienced. No smalltalk no beating around bushes, there's no time! Regularly I need to discuss 4 to 6 issues with him, which meant my prep needed to be perfect and laser focused. He would read your preparatory docs fortunately, I can't work without unprepared meetings either.
Why do their scripts need to be change?
It's not retroactively modifying repos.
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"Inclusivity includes idiocy."

If you've ever wondered why software quality has taken a nosedive in recent years...

"At least we're diverse!"

Thanks for all the downvotes. The bias in here is really obvious. ;-)
Couldn't you have used an already existing format for storage, e.g. Apache ORC?
Unless you use some cloud offering they have, there is no need for “managed services”.

Buy router, plug it in, change password and rarely any setting required for average user.

Not worth the monthly fees and data collection on users (name, email, location, credit card,...)
You can continue to pretend otherwise, but this is an ideological infiltration into a supposedly rational field. Downvotes or not I'm not going to pretend otherwise.
No. This silliness is being done, allegedly, for my sake as a minority, and I will not countenance it.

If you're a minority and are tired of these word games instead of real change, make yourself heard. Let people know what you think of this pointless "diversity theater".
Is there any movement on the Git side?

I'm assuming this doesn't actually apply if you follow the more "classic" method of creating a Github repo: creating a local git repo and just adding Github as a remote.

Edit: I figured that Git itself probably wouldn't change the default branch name (at least not easily), but thought that just making it configurable would be a "neutral" way to make it easier for people to do this if they wanted to.

I guess they, in fact, already did that: https://superuser.com/a/1572156
What’s an example of a real issue, if changing terminology to make underrepresented engineers feel less uncomfortable isn’t one?
Congress is at odds with itself: It has not passed any sort of blanket ban, the ban pertains to use on government devices. It has recognized a problem and provided a partial solution.

Not only that, it's a solution that deals with one single high-profile offender only, it did not create a set of statutes that could be readily applied to other such issues.

I don't understand your assumption that Congress would need to negotiate with other countries' legislatures. We don't need to negotiate with China to make our own laws regarding use of user data. Should that in some way cause friction with other countries, we do have a branch of government already tasked with performing individual nation-level negotiations: It's diplomacy, and we have 13,000 Foreign Service officers stationed around the world to perform the function, with many thousands more in the State Department working to support those efforts.
IIRC git got "master" from BitKeeper.
We've got a curve25519 accelerator for the reference hardware: https://ci.betrusted.io/betrusted-soc/doc/engine.html
As a black developer... this all just makes me a little sad.

Terms like master/slave or whitelist/blacklist are common parlance and this attempt to remove these phrases for less well understood phrases just seems like an attempt to whitewash history for little to no gain.

I'm a firm believer that language is dynamic and the meaning of words is the meanings we currently associate to them.
"Natural language is for communicating, not describing. "

But that communication can very well be clearly describing something precisely.

Or ordering someone else to do something in clear, well defined terms. Do this. Do that. Do known method y, x times.
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He held out for a limited time in history, he end his empire is gone. Western civilization rules much of the world today, though not all.
It is my experience that people that call themselves rational are some of the least rational people.
I think water treatment is pretty great.
Thank you for the library, but I wish you paid more attention to the backwards compatibility and didn't break it that often. The unannounced changes recently broke mkchromecast twice in different ways.
Sources I find say that AMD’s chiplets are about 75mm2, while the A13 was about 100mm2.

An other commenter theorised that Apple had simply outbid AMD for the production capacity.
Maybe they're:

1. trapped in their Whole Foods NYC filter bubble?

2. they've seen too much in their densely-packed, urbanite existence where there is little community or reputation management?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D2C5rnVC8QE&list=PLmiHNp6eb6...

3. American and so presume they have it "good so everyone must be good too," when the society is actually more unequal than ever like a Brazil or a Russia?
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By the way, even the pychromecast examples broke with those updates. Very frustrating to see as a 1) user of mkchromecast, 2) user of pychromecast, 3) maintainer of both in Debian
But are not emoticons smilies?
I disagree. Renaming "pull requests" to "merge requests" isn't politically motivated, whereas this is a top-down change from political activists. I'm worried that society might go down a path where people can't push back out of fear of one's career or safety.
I didn't try to make a slippery slope argument. I just want to know if someone considers that title unpleasant, and if so what the alternative could be (not Main of Science obviously).
Also ARM is not a significant fraction of the UK’s gdp.
I don't think that is correct. What sort of registration are you thinking of?
When I was 38 I completely broke my left radius bone into multiple pieces at the wrist end while snowboarding at Squaw Valley. On the x-rays it looked like it was crushed into tiny pieces at the wrist. The doctor said I was lucky it had been reset so well, and that I probably would not get full range of motion again, but I was young so maybe I would. I said I was almost 40; he said yeah that's young.

I could still type, mostly, and was back at work (at EA) within a few days. The cast came off at 6 weeks, but it took years before I could do pushups without pain. I finally got the full range of motion back after several years.

Hope your injury heals fully.
The naming is not accurate though. Many projects branch off from “development” and periodically merge into master. Calling it main more aptly describes the role it has.
An etymology of the phrases predating this specific use of 'master' (such as 'master recording') might be helpful, but the word 'master' by itself really isn't.
I'll try to read the book because maybe it answers this, but I struggle to see how they determine causal relationship in the direction of "prohibiting cousin marriage" to "more individualism and less kinship and less nepotism". Seems more likely that it could have been the other way around (or, more directly, cultures with strong kinship were just less likely to prohibit things that strengthen those bonds, like allowing cousins to marry).
Perhaps you mean "attempt to blackwash history"...
The fact that degrees are either a Bachelor's or Master's isn't inclusive language to women.

Isn't that obvious?
It's always possible that they had just bad luck / timing, but why didn't anyone try/succeed with it since?
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http://atomicdelights.com/blog/why-your-next-iphone-wont-be-...:

“Apple is the world's largest owner of CNC milling machines and swiss style lathes. Rumors are that the number is around 40,000 with about half dedicated to iPhone production. I've seen pictures of one shop with acres of Fanuc Robodrills making iPhones, and that was only one of about a dozen such facilities. Apple is such a huge buyer of a particular kind of mill (BT30 spindle drill-tap centers) that Fanuc, Brother and DMG Mori each have factories dedicated to building machines exclusively for Apple.”
Inheriting money doesn't change things so much: the people I've met who've inherited a lot of money generally felt a bit lost.

I'm not quite old yet (everyone would say that, right? I'm 35), and I don't regret my younger self at all: during the past 12 years I worked cumulatively 9 years and had 3 years off inbetween jobs. I managed to save up some money, as well as travel and have time for myself.
That is not why it’s called that: https://mail.gnome.org/archives/desktop-devel-list/2019-May/...
That says nothing. Lockheed Martin is also a public company. Do you think the Chinese could just buy it? Same with Boeing.
I take a year or so sabbatical every four to five years. It has destroyed my ability to build a retirement nest egg, but I still love programming after 20 years in the industry.
I would say they do have scaling problems in the form of rampant corruption. You need to destroy local power to form a bigger nation. Nobility has always resisted kings and kings emperors.
Its true that I've always thought bachelor to be a strange title.
That works sometimes, but only if it makes sense for one side of the meeting spending the necessary time to make such a presentation. If the meeting takes 2x as long unprepared, but it took you longer to make materials it can be more of a toss up. I wouldn't look at such prep as the hallmark of a good meeting, but more as an adaptation to a particular constraint.

Of course, difficult to communicate ideas (such as in science) require preparation or they are unintelligible and the meetings are a waste of time.
List of most-favorited HN comments:

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This past summer I helped teach a bunch of students to code, students who were from under-represented populations here in the U.S. They were horrified to learn where the 'master' term came from.

Switching from master to main is a good change.

The 'master-slave' terminology has been used in tech for a while (for example, IDE [0]). Yes, it's not intended to be a direct reference to slavery, but that's where the term originated and it's clearly used to mean "one thing is in charge, the other thing follows orders". Yes, there's no explicit 'slave' term in git, even though BitKeeper did (apparently - I've never used BitKeeper).

It's not effortless, but it's not hard to change from master to main ( [1] ).

Plus, it's a great excuse to learn (or sharpen) your grep/awk/sed/etc skills :)

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[0]: https://computer.howstuffworks.com/ide.htm#pt4

[1]: https://www.hanselman.com/blog/EasilyRenameYourGitDefaultBra...
I think I did not see any menton of home automation in the answers so far.

Home Assistant (a software to manage home automation) + some sensors, a wifi power strip, a wall switch and then AppDaemon to do the automations in Python is a great wayvto immediately see in practice what you do in software.

One must be careful with woring on mains (with some elements, this can be aviodable for quite some time) but beside that it is a lot of fun.

If they live in a house there are plenty of things in the gzrden to automate as well.
You should be able to take your personal webpage off archive.org if you don't want it there. I think the mechanism is via the current robots.txt file.
I’m 32 and can absolutely relate to this, especially with COVID. I work for a FAANG, and the pressure to perform has increased significantly while working from home. It feels relentless, and the lack of in-person social contact with colleagues makes it worse. I know remote working is all the rage right now, but the lack of all in-person engagement has had a hugely negative impact on me and led to feelings of burn out.

Layered on top of that is an inability to escape with now. My family all live overseas, where it isn’t practical to visit them, and holidays are a complex nightmare right now.

I’m incredibly fortunate to have a job during a pandemic-induced recession, but man am I feeling exhausted.
Brother and Fanuc CNC machines.
It's a change of territory in what amounts to cultural trench warfare. Partisans are constantly antfucking over what is and isn't appropriate terminology, or what constitutes a thinly veiled existential threat.

The change's symbolic significance vastly outweighs its immediate consequence, and naturally people will respond to it within the context it's been made.
It’s not racism to point out differences between cultures.

Is it racist to observe that homosexuality is severely punished in Islamic societies?
And why variables (methods etc) are given names with human-language words.
Very related article: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16454645
Very inspiring!
And it's all very us centric too.

In my native language, we have something called "black notebook" which is essentially a blacklist. It has nothing to do with skin color, never been. It's more reference to bright and dark - it's a list of people you wouldn't do business with. It's very natural for people to use words from of their sensors. We call greenfield)brownfield in a similar manner.
I did very much like "The Righteous Mind" by Jonathan Haidt, which mentions this WEIRDness on several occasions to make a distinction so he is able to speak about a certain cluster of political and social environments today.

The book actually tries to draw more evidence-based claims to explain some of our core political differences as rooted in psychological differences that are rarely salient to us, let alone mutable. It also makes a very compelling case for trying to understand and empathize with core values that people on different sides of the political spectrum fight for, which is especially convincing if we accept that these values are not always the result of a conscious decision. They rarely are the result of something egocentric like selfishness but rather the result of how we prioritize different parts of society, and some balance is probably desirable between opposing views here.
This could be an awesomely fun sub-thread.

Here's my ideas to get things started:

How about 'Science Wizard'?
'<Your name here> The Science <Guy/Gal/Person>'
'Expert of Science'

What have the rest of you got? :)
My personal favourite hypothesis is that they lived in hot springs.
This one struck me for its tongue-in-cheek levity, credit to haroldgibbons:

My "aha" moment was realizing most of my ideas and most apps out there are complete garbage. Not needed. Damaging, even. 99.9% of all of it.

For example, most "cutting edge" web apps are better off as PHP monoliths. Facebook was a PHP file for a long time. But most apps in general should never make it past being shell scripts, which are better off staying as spreadsheets or better - text files which are better off as pieces of paper whenever possible. And all paper is better off left as thoughts whenever possible, and most thoughts should be forsaken.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24397272
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I've "slept enough" for a couple of years and developed a severe case of insomnia. I couldn't fall asleep till 2-3am, then slept till 10am to make up for it. Repeat. Bad idea.

Waking up at a regular time and restricting my sleep below what's comfortable has helped very quickly. I'm considering sleeping more, but feeling slightly groggy after sleeping 6.5 hours is way better than spending 10 hours in bed, 3 of them suffering.

Good point wrt unjust randomness, I'm terrible at embracing it. Any tips?
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Is a roadmap available in some flat list? The roadmap feature at Github gives no good overview "at one look".
Ah great point! Since the east coast is mostly north-south, it was possible to check distance relative to the destination easily. Thanks!
That gets to what might be the real issue here. This is a change of something that has no relevance to the master/slave debate. It seems possible that it is being driven by someone who is (a) not that clever and (b) making ego driven decisions. I think that might be what is annoying people.

The whitelist/blacklist thing is a bit of a no-brainer, that one should change. Master/slave is debatable, because it isn't actually discriminatory. But whatever, one for the debate. Master git branches are back in no-brainer territory as something that didn't need to change.
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And if you need to run expensive migrations, use a template database.

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Facebook recently acquired RaD so I wonder if that is impacting their tech choices. I know FB does use SOME rust but still.
Some comments that I will always remember -

On Catering to the privacy crowd- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24123463

Users of peanut butter shouldn't have to think about whether it contains glass and razors - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20634128

On Telegram seven years ago - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6949814

Indian Govt blocks a PHP project for terrorism and anti national content - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8820378

On Show HN:Dropbox - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9224

Did you win the putnam? - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35079
Political activists aren’t in positions of power at GitHub, so it’s not a top-down change.

I also disagree that it’s especially political. It’s a small name change to be more considerate. The only reason this is “political” — and “merge requests” wouldn’t be — is that for some reason a small group of people are very loudly offended by it.
I'm having trouble understanding why this was flagged. It covers a major change to tool many (most?) developers use including time and reasoning. It's straight to the point, doesn't seem to seem to have much fluff, and isn't really trained with author's option / ideology. Surely much worse and off topic political articles reach the front page without being mass flagged.

On a random note, I've had vouch for flagged articles / comments before but it seems to very irregular. What decides if the "vouch" option is available to a user?
I remember that Oracle database one!
Can multiple separate clients access the same single-file database at the same time?
I was talking about intra-company transfers, which are different from H1B. E.g., you get a job at Google and Google wants to transfer you to the US. That's a different visa, it's much less competitive and there's no lottery.

> The one time I went to the US I nearly had a panic attack

I guess if you have psychological issues that make travel difficult or feel like "dragging yourself through hell", as you put it, then maybe just stay at home.

Another option is to work remote. You'll get paid less for being in an Asian time-zone, but you might still earn more than a local company would pay you.

A third option, which is the one I'm currently pursuing (from east Asia), is taking your skills directly to the market as an entrepreneur.
Wow, the animated gif of the Defrag running sent me way back.

I used to run that like it was religion, watching the blocks all move together and change color, and knowing the machine would run just a bit faster after it was all done was a bit of magic.
There is worse out there, last year I had a customer ask about installing my software on a Windows 2000 server.