skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Master is used in dozen of other contexts to mean "primary", "source", "original". I found the name to be perfectly apt for the purpose.

Are people changing the name for master records too?
Should we change the term mastering?

Context is everything in language. I find this case (and many others, to be honest) borderline stupid.
I always thought "master" was an odd name for the primary branch anyway. Hopefully most of us can agree on that, even if we don't agree on the motivation for the change.
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It's not the only database like that. It's meant to be exclusively accessed in situations like a person being admitted to the ER when unconscious. There is similarly an HIV database for the same reason.

Fluid transmissions happen easily in hospitals. Accidents happen. They aim to be as aware as possible so the incidental nurse tapping a vein doesn't also have to live (or die) with HIV, or in this case, catch and spread COVID-19 because of a lack of situational awareness that can't possible be gleaned by looking or sometimes even speaking to someone.

The problem here was there was little to no governance around the database and clearly there needed to be more. There need to be an avenue for justice for an abuse as well.

And more personally, I'd appreciate it being more even-handed. I don't believe nurses have to disclose if they have HIV presently to their workplace or patients which is troubling to me because I've had a personal scare in a situation involving something related.
For additional additional ammo look at Star Trek (TOS). A lot of the campy bright colors weren't used to make it look campy but to show up equally well on black and white and color TVs. By using brightly colored uniforms it was obvious even on a B&W TV that Kirk, Spock, and ensign C. Fodder were different and one wasn't coming back from the away mission.
I think you just need a glass of “Get the f... over yourself”. You’ll be okay
What is your background to this comment, if you don’t mind me asking?

(I‘m “old”. I have a masters in CS, was a SWE for 15 years, took early retirement, then came out of retirement to teach.)
A "master copy" is final — it is not mutable. The argument that the "master" in repository branches comes from the same terminology requires a sufficiently flexible definition of "master" that I find the claim suspect.

On the other hand, consider the fact that in most VCS workflows the alternate branches essentially report to the master branch by periodically merging with it. This is similar to the master/slave terminology in use with disk drive configurations.

Edit: A source for support here: https://mail.gnome.org/archives/desktop-devel-list/2019-May/...
It's clear by all the negativity that people here care a lot about this, but I really don't understand why. What's so important about keeping the name of the branch "master"?
This is a python module that is meant to be used with something like selenium (although it has a simple "ABI") and additional backend (browser) modules can be written to provide the information it needs to evaluate the status and invoke the correct handler for each page / status.

This is a WIP and there are some rough edges as it was a private project that I decided to open up today.

In the near future I'll add test cases and better examples but for the moment there is a very simple example that navigates wikipedia given a starting search term (does not ensure that the browser stays in the site!).

Any questions or suggestions are more than welcome.
This a very personal opinion based on some popular classic book lists like those found on 4chan /lit/ etc.
(Note: All books are new and I calculated the price from Book Depository [0], you might be able to purchase more from Better World Books [1]):

- The Holy Bible
- Moby Dick by Melville
- The Brothers Karamazov by Dostoevsky
- The Master And Margarita by Bulgakov
- Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes
- The Iliad by Homer
- The Odyssey by Homer
- Meditations by Marcus Aurelius
- The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandra Dumas
- The Decline of the West by Oswald Spengler
- The Qur'an
- The Prince by Machiavelli
- The Art of War by Sun Tzu
- Crime and Punishment by Dostoevsky
- The Confessions by Saint Augustine
- Les Miserables by Victor Hugo
- We by Yevgeny Zamyatin
- The Book Of Five Rings by Miyamoto Musashi
- The Bridge on the Drina by Ivo Andric
- Bosnian Chronicle by Ivo Andric
- Growth of the Soil by Knut Hamsun
- Storm of Steel by Ernst Junger
- All Quiet on the Western Front by Remarque
- The Divine Comedy by Dante

--- This list totals out at 311.14EUR and has 23 books.
[0] - https://www.bookdepository.com/
[1] - https://www.betterworldbooks.com/
Oh no, a name changed! all our code is worthless now!
BTW where are USB-C hubs? It's 2020 and we cannot buy real USB-C hubs. Very seldom there is one... but they are hard to find (and often not good).
>Would the only valid crimes be related to computer hacking?

Or willingly install Windows Server facing the internet directly, that would be the other one ;)
Glad to hear it was helpful :D
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On this subject, I was blown away by this a week ago: https://mkorostoff.github.io/incarceration-in-real-numbers/
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Is this strawman helpful? No one is claiming this will single handedly solve racism. There's effectively no downside, so any upside means it's an easy decision.
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I used this justification to buy a really good router. I would love to have a drill press and a spindle sander; there's some things you just need one to accomplish well.
Use handles that can be traced back to you everywhere reasonable
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Incarceration in Real Numbers
I wonder if the huge, scaled violations (when web sites violate the privacy of millions of visitors through "consent" dialogs that require dozens of clicks or by claiming legitimate interest where it has already been decided that's not OK) will receive penalties scaled accordingly to their scale of the violation, and it's just taking time, or if the DPAs are just continuing their pattern of bringing the hammer down on randomly picked small-scale violations while ignoring the stuff that actually affects all of us.
Tough in this case it might be not enough to make authorities from other countries to cooperate. The website is still running and withdrawals are working. For some reason the domain isnt seized.
But if people create a branch locally, no change it’ll still default to master in git right? Who starts writing code or a repo by creating it on GitHub first?
I have the same visceral reaction - if I was seated next to a murderer at work I'd probably be wary. But visceral reactions tend not to make good social policy, and that's really my concern. We have some number of people who commit violent crimes. We either have to imprison them forever or let them out sometime. If we let them out we either need to support them or allow them to work. If we allow them to work do we relegate them to some low class of work, or allow them into white collar/privileged professions?

We should be concerned about creating the best society for everyone. That means sometimes we need to suppress our immediate/unconscious reactions.
The U.S. is just so awful.
In summary? It offends some people.

That group might be small but some other people (who some will say are overreacting and draw parallels with 1984 Newspeak) decided to not offend people for nothing.

I guess the main argument is a slippery slope type of thing.

What I've found, though, is that people in aggregate are reasonable. Slippery slopes almost never happen, not in the "landslide" sense. Things shift a bit, quite slowly, and at some point the shift slows down or even stops. And yes, I know about exceptions (Germany WW2, etc.). There's a reason we call them exceptions.
USB-C is awesome. Quite cheap (40€) 20000 mAh Xiaomi power bank can output 20V/45W so I can use it to charge my T480s.
Also bought cheap usb-c Power Delivery modules (can output 5/9/12/15/20V) which I used to provide power for my TS100 soldering iron. Combined with the power bank it's now a portable soldering iron. TS80 has usb-c even built in, no module needed.
We shouldn't hate on Mozilla, but we should definitely provide accurate and constructive criticism, even when it is biting. Mozilla has not been doing well lately, and they need to right the ship. I'm really rooting for them to succeed, but these criticisms need to be made.
I hope I'm not the only one that finds this completely ridiculous. What right does the U.S. Federal Government have to prosecute people who aren't even operating within their jurisdiction? This is nothing but imperialism and a captured government trying to shut down competitors to U.S.-based regulated exchanges from more crypto-friendly countries.
I'll be impressed when people start lining up to burn their passports in protest of war crimes committed by their countries.

But this is free and easy.
Not the OP, but it is interesting that the US criminal law is so state dependent. Out of curiosity: do you have reason to believe that the sentencing disparity is better when considering states?
I guess I don't understand why it would be offensive then. Can anyone link a good explanation of why it is?
It seemed natural to me, but I came from a place where "master recording" was the reference record.

But it does make zero difference what the name is, as long as it's descriptive.
Git was meant to replace BitKeeper, which explicitly used master/slave terminology: https://mail.gnome.org/archives/desktop-devel-list/2019-May/...
Should engineers from new grads to senior levels apply under Principal Engineer listing?
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> this is being political correctness taking way to far

Is this really all that far? Changing the default branch name? What do you feel would be taking political correctness just the right distance?
The parent is pointing out is that what was once an oblique reference to human slavery is now being changed in explicit reference to human slavery
Their public tech specs for switch claim it is USB-C.
https://www.nintendo.com/switch/tech-specs/

Seems to me like that claim is false advertising at the minimum, and specifically exempting other charges on top of that is very consumer unfriendly.
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And pedantically the verb would be 'defuck'. Unfucked is an adjective.
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File a small-claims court suit, they probably won't even bother showing up and will just pay it.
I don't see why not. Main bedroom seems to be more clear and without pesky historical roots.
>>> And how exactly does one know they have received a "high end" cable or charger?

Get the cable in a brick and mortar shop, rather than buying on Amazon.

Preferably a normal shop, not the cheapest wallmart or dollar store.
I think my comment was unclear, so let me try and clarify.

> And I'm ashamed that you're describing a number of hysterectomies that at most, using laughably high estimates, could number in the thousands, as genocide

Two things here:

1. the number of hysterectomies that a single doctor could perform over, say, 4 years is ~10,000 (at 10/day). That's an extreme case, and relies on almost everything being geared towards rate of surgeries, and so works as an upper bound for what was alleged. (That there was a doctor purposefully sterilizing ICE detainees)

2. 10k sterilizations is not genocide. It would be monstrous, but it's at least 100x too few to count as that IMO given the ~10m illegal immigrants already residing within the US.

> (Which would be horrible! But also leave enough evidence that it would clearly not be one or two cases)

"Which would be horrible!" should require no explanation. The second point here is that if a doctor was somehow able to perform thousands of hysterectomies every year, there would be mountains of evidence for that, and conservatively tens of victims willing to speak up and go to the press, even if only 1% were willing and able.

> If someone's actually attempting genocide and all they can manage is a few thousand sterilizations, they should be fired for incompetence, too! (Plus, you know, genocide)

If this was being orchestrated by someone at ICE somehow, I would expect there to be more "effective" and less likely to be exposed methods of sterilization available to a determined administrator. Thus, two reasons to fire them - one is that they're an utter piece of shit for attempting genocide, and the second is that they're fucking incompetent. A sort of "awful taste AND awful execution" scenario.

> Further, is there any evidence that you would be willing to accept that genocide is not happening here? Any source that you'd be willing to commit to accepting?

This should also be self explanatory. Is there a news source that you would trust if it said that there was no evidence of genocide here? If MSNBC or the NY Times said that this was all a hoax, would you accept that? Or the governments of Guatemala, Honduras, etc? I ask this because you've rejected denials from ICE, the hospital, and the Mexican government - what other sources do you expect to be reliable?

If your belief isn't falsifiable, then I know not to expect any engagement from you.

> Please, I implore you, read your comment again. It is so callous as to be near-sociopathic. Yours is very much not a healthy view into morality.

I've clarified everything there that I think might have been unclear. Is it less sociopathic to you now?
Both books are a treasure trove of information and history. They are both well written and even for non religious folk can serve as guidance on how to best organize their daily life or at the very least you would want to read them to be more knowledgeable about what the majority of people around you believes in.
Is it really ao blatant though? Is the word master ever been used to refer to a slave owner?
HN: "delete Facebook"

Also HN: "love microsoft", "love apple" ...

It's almost like there paid PR campaigns sweeping across social media.

It's almost like there is a switch that gets flipped and all of a sudden you get "google is evil" spam. Then that gets turned off and another switch gets turned on and you get "facebook is evil". It's almost like much of news, traditional media and now social media are just platforms of PR campaigns.

Hey, how great is Go, Rust, VSCode, etc? I wonder how much of the enthusiasm is organic and how much of it is manufactured.

And remember guys, centralization is evil, but lets all move our code to github now that it is in microsoft's safe hands.
A lot of Americans don't feel like "bad" people are deserving of freedoms. Definitions for "bad" vary from person to person, which is why this kind of thing is so pervasive.

Also some people can be forgiven while other's can't. A group of people will scream that rapists should get the death penalty, but then go on to elect an admitted rapist to represent them.

In short, we Americans are really good at being hypocritical when it suits us, and we hold other groups to a much higher standard than we hold ourselves.
Brings back the question: What problem does it solve? Content? Because it's really lacking. It seems great for a company search, but we have crunchbase for that. I could get a far more detailed explanation on any technical topic from Wikipedia.
I left academia not long after our satellite got de-funded (it's still in orbit, operating and sending telemetry, just the Navy's side of the satellite that is.)

Recessions will also hit even harder - when the next grant cycle hits in the winter/fall, a lot of good teams are going to get screwed. I really hate the inconsistency and the waxing and waning - fwiw, there were times my team just grabbed grant money and spun wheels on old research, so it's not just that the money dries up easily, I don't think there's good accountability when the money is flowing either.