skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I fully agree that this specific change is insignificant, but the biggest deep learning conference has been renamed, after something like 20 years, because of this kind of pressure.

Word policing has a bit of a 1984 feel to it. Some desire to control you and how you think by controlling which words you use, with new arbitrary words being banned all the time. Instead of actual change, we're focusing on the superficial.
Buried lede:

> My daughter doesn’t return home from school until 6:30 pm and still has to eat, bathe, and get ready for bed.

Perhaps it is not just the iPhone, but school taking up 100% of her time, energy, and attention that is preventing her from pursuing creative interests? As a homeschooling parent whose kids have been in school at times, I see this first hand. School is exhausting. Between rising unnaturally early (which leaves kids tired), rushing and bustling kids on their daily commute, most of the daylight hours blocked for school then homework when you get home not to mention whatever homework the teachers decide to assign to parents, and did I mention the kids are exhausted by the end of the day due to early wake-up?

Compulsory daily full-time school for children may be good for some things but it would take a lot to convince me that it increases their creativity. When my kids home school they will spend a lot of time playing roblox or whatever, but then they'll spend hours playing outdoors, decide to do a cooking project that takes all morning–currently one of mine is getting into "bushcraft" and he'll watch hours of videos about making fires, carving etc. before putting the tips it into practice (safely) during times outdoors, where he spends hours and hours. Then he'll come back, play roblox for an hour, then help clean up and put the younger kids to bed.

I am concerned about over-use/addictive nature of computers & phones, but I think it's myopic to see your otherwise creative child tired and craving mental distraction and say "aha the phone is the problem." Step back and look at the whole picture.

Edit: I must admit I commented after reading only half the article (shame on me). It does in fact seem like her daughter has a phone-use problem. What I say above remains true, however.
Very very true... in this case, think of “having kids” as possession.
I wholeheartedly agree with the sentiment of this article. In addition to this kind of policy being elitist I also think it is racist. Those attending higher education tend to be from more well off backgrounds and white. This is where the whole affirmative action thing started, under representation of minorities in higher education. It is a snub to those who could not attend college due to their socioeconomic background. There are many struggling people who never attended college and don't have student loans, what about them?

EDIT: I would directly benefit from this as I have student loans, but if I could make the decision to forgive student loans like this I would say no.
I tried both ways, but decided that one didn’t quite trip off the tongue as well :)
I get emails from LE when my certs are about to expire. I'm honestly not sure how they do it (based on the email address, I'm guessing that they pulled the email they are using from WHOIS), but it's not something I went out of the way to set up.

I really like it, because it lets me know when I need to go in and kick certbot.
My kid's first "social" app is Roblox and part of my justification for is that it's easier to talk about some of the issues of social media while they are young and will listen to me.

We talk a lot about addiction and the tricks games play to make you want to come back every day. We talk a lot about safety and what predictors are looking for and what they say to try to sound like a friend. I hope these are good discussions and I hope they stay with my kids as they grow.

If I'd started at 14? They've already learned to tune me out by then.
Lambda Fellows
I think it depends on where you are relative to the standard. You may be under the mistaken impression that the ability to understand and explain everything from the application to the silicon is baseline for a working software engineer, and because you can’t you’re a pretender. But it doesn’t make sense to think of yourself as an imposter when most everyone you would think of as “real” meets the same criteria.
lulz @ "...not even in a hand-wavy rhetorical sense..."
> they had to apply to college knowing what it would cost, chose to take on debt and then the government should "fix" that bad decision for them?

Compare and contrast the length of time it takes a convicted felon to repay their debt to society, even in a country like the US where criminal sentences are quite extreme, with the length of time it takes a well-intentioned kid who made a "bad decision" (that they were almost certainly encouraged to make by the authority figures in their young lives) to pay back a large student loan debt that does not pay off with a high-paying job.

> The current situation notwithstanding, why should the government forgive student loans?

This is a weird question because the answer is so obvious. For all the same reasons we got rid of debtors' prisons, we allow normal loans to be discharged through bankruptcy, etc.
I think we’re not talking about the same definition of margin. If Widget A goes through 10 intermediaries and each skims 5%, that’s still 5% margin for every link of the chain. I seriously doubt any intermediary or food distributor in Italy enjoys a 600% margin - if you know of one let me know and I’ll go buy shares in it tomorrow, the dividends must be succulent. You can argue that the chain is too long or this or that link is squeezed, but that is another matter.
How is temporarily removing the signature requirement from the secrecy envelope, and removing the requirement for the election office to compare that signature to a previous signature making it “easier to vote” vs weakening the election integrity?

What about Covid changes your ability to abide by the election laws the legislature in the states had determined?
Or, you know, you could just not use any other app store on iPhone and continue to use Apple's and it'll still work fine.

And let others use the Epic app store for Fortnight.
It is indefensible that alcohol is available, or it is indefensible that marijuana possession leads to prison?
Speaking purely from personal experience, I have a problem with the expanding sphere of knowledge. There was a time where there was 4 or 5 languages (basic, Pascal, C, Fortran, etc...it was a small number) and it was possible to learn a significant amount of knowledge to operate in one or more of them.

Now I look at the cloud computing space where there's hundreds of components, overlapping functionality, and nothing that easily helps me to determine what things are important to know, flash-in-the-pan fads, or long term career building skills.

But it's the same in other domains as well. There's too much Entertainment to hope to discover everything you might be interested in, there's expansion in social communication...and my monkey brain is hyperventilating over it as the things that made me feel valued (that I could take pictures, edit video, write software) have been commoditized so that my skillset isn't necessarily as spiffy as it used to be.
I came up with it on the fly, but it was inspired by FAANG & similar terms. Surprised it’s that unique tbh!
Thanks for clarifying. I was curious, not critical.
The change doesn't make my life worse in the slightest, and may improve someone else's mental health. No reason for me to be against it at all.
It would be better for society if $50k was sent to almost any other imaginable group, such as those in poverty.
I think you make a genuine argument with respect to "falling on deaf ears".
Some local libraries have Safari available for free to patrons.
> Also there may be better news aggregators when it comes to Linux or LLVM or Postgres or famous IT/Math people

I would be grateful if someone can list some of them. (Maybe https://lobste.rs/ but I always forgot to look at it and I don't know anyone to invite me)
To answer your question - yes.

And use of the acronymn RAID should be phased out as it is insensitive towards nordic people, the ancestors of whom spent centuries raiding European coastal towns. A bloody history they would rather move on from.
IMO, it does exactly the opposite.
I’ve tried that and they wouldn’t budge. I got rock bottom and I offered to do financing if they would go lower but the incentive structure of the individual sales person didn’t match that of the dealership so no go
> absolutely terrible for normal everyday flying

You're right. So I raise my bid: Instead of just putting him and his family on one flight, let's put them on one flight per day for a month.
I bought one after the big stability update and it was causing random hard reboots while sitting on the desktop (so not a power issue). May have been a hardware issue with the card. This was on a Windows system which previously had an Nvidia card which anecdotally seemed to cause issues, though I did run Display Driver Uninstaller in safe mode, etc. That being said it's hard to tell how many people actually had issues given how vocal people are when they do. I'd expect the vast majority of people had no issues.

Also the previous generation RX 580 cards were very stable.
Awesome-Lisp-companies: A list of companies using Lisp in production
Faking an address would work until you are expected to meet up with your team in person. If it turns out that you actually live in Bend, the gig will be up pretty quickly.
As a reader of that site and a student in tech, my friends and I have already received value from it.
Not even the reason that I'm playing a long game and want to play a tiny part in steering society at large away from such hiring practices? If enough people decline offers, giving this reason, it's bound to make an impact eventually.
> they're buying in to the whole group of customers that said App Store brings with them.

Isn't that what a duopoly is, by definition?
Git is Free software so nothing is stopping people from forking it and excluding these patches if they feel that strongly about it.
I've long felt that "trunk" is a much better name than "master" or "main".
They never added mouse+keyboard support for Edge on Xbox One. Too early to say for the Series consoles but I suspect they'll disappoint again.
Can explain where your feeling comes from?
Please don't fund money on any training/book/online. This doesn't work in most cases and might influence incorrectly. Look for ways where you would get more interaction/engagement with skilled and diverse set of people. The lessons should touch your mind and must be hard earned. That's when they will stay with you. Rest of trainings/book take aways are someone else's experiences and effects are very ephemeral and might be incorrect sometimes. The key is to look for deeper experiences.
It seems to me like the people actually forcing these superficial changes through shaming and bullying are actually, for the most part, privileged upper middle class white people. That was definitely the case with the NIPS => NeurIPS conference renaming. That whole thing got started by some white dude on twitter.
Makes sense. There's a lot of innovation needed in this space.
is it apparent from the teardown if there is a limitation which prevents 10g ethernet from being included in this model? pcie lanes or something similar?
The portability category has some non-intuitive results. By that I mean that I think they're wrong, but it's a matter of how you measure "portability".

The criterion the author uses is:

> If you write some software in a particular language, can you copy the compiled program to another computer and expect it to work?

I coalesced the two columns the author used because it was "No" for both in the four examples below:

> Java No Complex and fragile bundling of a separate runtime (with licensing issues)

> C#/F#/.NET No Complex and fragile bundling of a separate runtime (with licensing issues)

> Python No Complex and fragile bundling of a separate runtime

> Ruby No Complex and fragile bundling of a separate runtime

I don't think that's how we generally think about portability. We usually consider installing the runtime as the platform dependent tax you pay to get your compile-once artifacts. Compiled JARs are generally considered portable. .NET Core binaries are generally considered portable. Python and Ruby scripts are generally considered portable.

Requiring that the application be portable by only copying the files across (without installing the runtime or platform abstraction layer) isn't representative of how users or even dev ops teams that handle mixed-platform carry programs across platforms in the first place.
I always assumed running air conditioning with windows open was incredibly wasteful. Is this because Japan's summers are more temperate than where I'm used to (Northeast US)?

I do find myself sometimes running the AC with windows open when it's cooler outside than indoors. For some reason it can be 65 degrees outside but 75 degrees indoors.
This will save so many slaves.
Agreed that these can be bad (my kids have some socials but I keep an eye on them and have lots of talks about pitfalls to avoid), but for the sake of argument I can't help pointing out that what you're describing is a normal process of individuation that teens all go through.

Social attention focused inward toward family --> Social attention turning outward towards others + establishing an identity apart from that of the family. This is totally normal.
They are bad parents for not sticking to boundaries on occasions. They are good parents for caring enough to try to have boundaries,, thinking about the positive and negative impact the phone and apps may have on her. Sure, nothing can be true and false _in the same respect and same time_ (Law of Non-Contradiction), but I routinely feel I'm both a good and bad parent.
What happens when I plug an iPad and 3 other TB devices into the Mac Mini? Is the power still 37w?
You likely gave certbot the email address when you set it up first, and it registers it with LE.
This is a javascript tool that gives insight in what modulation does on the I/Q constellation: https://pa3fwm.nl/tools/modulation.html
Some companies argue paying better salaries for remote are detrimental because it distorts the local markets. How to interpret that distortion is probably up to personal taste.
What exactly is the rationale behind changing the default branch name? It seems like significant effort is being devoted to this (code changes, fixing broken CI, etc.) but I don't understand why any of it is necessary.
My school has something called devgarden[0] although it is more of a curation of student built project repo than a detailed site like tinyprojects.

[0] https://devgarden.macalester.edu
If you want to dabble; use the cloud.

Colab is free. Colab Pro is $10/mo. GPU instances give you access to better hardware and don't lock up your machine for hours/days at a time.
> Do you have evidence that they make things more secure?

If that’s your question, where is the evidence that Krebs used?

I gave you examples that under the pretext of Covid, governors removed verification requirements that state legislatures had pre-determined. I can’t help that your hand waving away decades old requirements.

But if you’re gonna ask me for proof, where is yours? show me one way this election was made MORE secure, please.
I agree, but it depends on where you live. Here in California it’s legal recreationally. Psilocybin mushrooms are next.

It is a great hypocrisy that some substances are so vilified and criminalized while others are sold openly to great profit. I have a feeling it simply has to do with _who_ stood to benefit the most when those substances first became known.

It will take a lot of work to correct but with good education and open minds we’ll get there.
Funny how nobody ever advocated "equal pay for equal work" for their India-based colleagues in the past.
So people will abandon the censoring social media apps. They are now part of the conspiracy. Reddit, Facebook, Twitter. But who will take over?

Parlor? Really? Cambridge Analytics is more trustworthy?

When viewed from a historical point of view, Asia had a huge censorship problem for a much longer time. Both China and Japan. Both solved this by lobster-like invite-only groups. And strict anonymity.
Will there be a warning if you try to use 'master' as a refname if it doesn't exist but 'main' does? I assume beginners using educational resources that aren't up to date with this change will be really confused.
Sometimes its just about the mindshare. The HR person chatting with the VP: "You know that new girl, what's her name, yeah Julie, she setup a nice onboarding guide, yeah I liked it, very useful..."; casual stuff like that adds the layers of impressions that construct how everyone sees you. And I have observed those impressions to be more lasting and impactful than your last code review.
Political issues aside, it seems that 'master' was hardcoded in several places on the code

I'd have imagined that it was more of a config issue than code, but apparently not.
You are right for now, but Julia already has an experimental ROCm stack. Rolling out full featured ROCm support could be a huge win for Julia user growth (and AMD).

https://juliagpu.org/
Are sulfites thought of as generally being bad for you? I was under the impression they were pretty neutral unless one happens to be in the very small group of people who are particularly sensitive to them.
is this why I am immune to COVID?
Perhaps you're just more likely to drink if you're already anxious for some reason.
It’s sad to see so many in the tech community waste electrons by complaining over and over again about how something is such a non-issue for them that they can’t stop talking about it.
I think in that context "slave/master" is much worse than just "master node", as it's explicitly that relationship. In the ATA spec for example, the master/slave terminology no longer appears:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parallel_ATA#Master_and_slave_...

Similarly, Jenkins started moving from "slave" to "agent" in 2016, and is now working on other terms such as master, whitelist/blacklist, etc:

https://www.jenkins.io/blog/2020/06/18/terminology-update/
In RAID, unlike in git, the word "slave" is also used in conjunction with "master".

That seems to inherently raise some negative associations... and it's not like "primary / secondary" aren't easily available substitutes.
You're then forced to maintain a fork because of someone else's immaturity. That's not a solution to the problem.
Looking forward to all the bugs and problems this will cause. At least some over-sensitive ppl (or trolls?) will be happy.
One more to add to https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_name_changes_due_to_...
> Both Google and, especially, Apple have spent millions of dollars, hours, and effort to create their respective App Stores and the people and tools needed to run them

Both Google and especially Apple have also spent millions of resources and money, making sure they are the only app store in use (by default).

They could have spent some of those millions creating a set of rules for independent app marketplaces to be able to distribute content on their platform instead of locking everyone in to theirs'.
What is the principle that's at stake here?
> Use the “hamburger method”

If you are a manager or someone in a position of "power" no, please don't. This has to be one of the most overrated and misused feedback methods.

The problem with giving sandwich/hamburguer whatever feedback, is that you are undervaluing positive feedback. After you do this a lot of times, every time you want to give positive feedback to the person, she will be expecting the negative part, she will grow weary of your feedback and wont value the positive feedback.

Better learn how to give effective feedback ( https://www.manager-tools.com/2005/07/giving-effective-feedb... highly recommended) whether it is positive or negative. And teach your collaborators to receive the feedback as what it is: just feedback.
GM to Sell Car Insurance, Using Data on Your Driving to Set Prices
The word “privacy” does not appear once in the WSJ article.
Except remote/female is not interchangeable.

Remote = lower costs. Female ≠ lower costs.

I’m not arguing against equal pay for equal work. I’m arguing that it’s a bad analogy to compare being remote with being female.
> This would allow for useful ports be added to the body, and then fill the remaining space with battery.

More ports would be nice (I'm hoping but doubting that we can get some more ports on the pros once the cooling system can be smaller) but the 16" is already pretty maxed out on the battery front so don't expect any changes there.
Yup. Now that I'm measuring how much CO2 I have indoors and can watch what happens when I open a window and it equilibrates, it's really hard to resist 2021+ plans to retool the HVAC to put in a fresh air ventilator.

There were also a few days this summer where it was 50°F and low-humidity outside, but 78°F inside, my preferred temperature was closer to 72°F, and I wished I had some better way than "open a window and stick in a Lasko box fan" to cycle in cool outdoor air.
Unpopular opinion, I've never liked Poirot. Christie's detectives get on my nerves and I like her stand-alones better.

Anyone who likes golden-age mysteries should check out John Dickson Carr/Carter Dickson. Wonderful plots with twist and turns and much more entertaining detectives. Try "The Three Coffins" and see what you think.
>> I would rather see projects and people stand their ground instead of caving to pressure anytime a twitter mob comes along.

You didn't respond to this in any way.
When this came up initially I asked some of our PoC employees for their thoughts on it down the pub. One didn't care, and the other thought it was stupid.

We did change to exclusion/inclusion lists though, as that terminology is used when communicating with customers.
Estimating Cost of Delay
This is a vaccine against a communicable disease. The NNT is almost certainly much lower, since preventing the 154 cases among vaccinated patients would almost certainly prevent cases among their contacts.
The title misses a Our
Love the headphones but the ear pads wear out every 3-6 months
It would nice if you could find those links when you get back to the mainland^W a proper computer.
I second NVC by Rosenberg. The only problem with reading it is you then realize how violently everyone communicates
Enduring a breaking change for something that will have absolutely 0 impact on the diversity, size or empathy of the software dev community.
Back when GTD started to become the hot new thing, it was often compared to Steven Covey's 7 habits.

IIRC, the main differentiation was that Covey's was a "big picture first" approach whereas Allen was more of a "take care of the details and the big things take care of themselves".

The clearest example was that Covey used the metaphor of the rocks/gravel/sand in the jar. If you put the sand in first (aka the little things) there is no room for the rocks (aka big things).

My take away from the above is that neither way is right, wrong or "The Way" but that there are different methods for each person, team, profession, company etc. Simple example: infosec and IP rules may not even let you have one digital application that you can access at all times for both corporate and personal tasks. YOU might not even want your personal tasks co-mingled with work tasks for privacy reasons.
Show HN: End-to-end encryption for Telegraf and InfluxDB, demo from InfluxDays
> A child who used to read in the bath won’t pick up a book unless threatened with the loss of her phone.

SCHOOL! SCHOOL! A thousand times: school!

Of course a child who likes reading for leisure is going to do it less readily when they are told what books to read and forced to read them on someone else's schedule and analyze rather than enjoy them. I have no idea why people are blaming the phone and not school here.