skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There is no perfect solution here, but at least they had to publicly acknowledge their error. This is much better than with the sources most people use.

I often see people say 'hey look at this terrible thing WaPo or NYT did' as an excuse for reading whatever garbage source is saying exactly what they want to hear.

It's not all of nothing.
The Apple reputation was absolutely justified back in the OS9 era, and the early iPhone as well. However both OS X and iOS7 and beyond were huge steps backwards in usability.

At this point I think Apple still deserves their reputation for superior UX, however that's a result of how epically bad Google, MS, and Facebook are at UX, not Apple doing a great job like they used to.
The Washington Post are the ones the published the retraction.
Has Github stated a reason?

I read the announcement from Oct. 1 [1] and it doesn't have any explanation outside of a link to a Software Freedom Conservancy [2] (the folks now maintaining Git)

A lot of people here are assuming virtue signaling, but it could just as easily be "a majority number of our staff was behind this change". Unless GitHub has stated the why somewhere (I spent ~5m googling to no avail) we simply don't know.

[1]: https://github.blog/changelog/2020-10-01-the-default-branch-...
[2]: https://sfconservancy.org/news/2020/jun/23/gitbranchname/
Hah, this is so true. Am building a little hobby project to try out WebRTC for game development. On my ISP provided router a Mac and Windows computer can’t see each other over WiFi due to some mDNS issue likely the router support for multicast. Using Chrome flags to turn off mDNS and they can connect fine but obviously expose internal IPs. Wire one of the machines and mDNS works. TURN is essentially a necessity but then why not use a server (particularly for a chat app).
The word slave comes from the enslavement of Slavic people. I don't care for GitHub's / SV culturally insensitive history revisionism one bit.
> What happened then? Maybe in response, he said "no, I didn't internalize any racism, and here's a list of reasons why that logically isn't racist at all", and they said "Oh, never mind then".

Shouldn't the black engineer's white colleagues "do their own work" instead of forcing him to do it for them?
One thing that's kind of important to me is that Dendron does not (as far as I can tell) have much in the way of outliner functionality. Other tools in this space do - for instance, org-mode for Emacs users. That would be a nice addition, given how powerful outlines can be.
Might want to check your facts. Especially since you're citing this person: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J._Philippe_Rushton
Part of the joy of that show is seeing how the characters evolve personally throughout the seasons. It’s often not predictable - but I would say it is believable.
I think for the sake of conversation we would have to draw a dividing line between the operating system Apple makes and the apps Apple makes, even when that line can be very, very blurry. (Pre-installed apps, the App Store itself, etc.)

I'm having a hard time with the App Store, both as an example of an app that shows ads and should therefore not be allowed to use the device ID without prompting, but also being the app that manages the apps you run on a device, and therefore might require a device ID to function correctly?

But perhaps the answer is simpler than that, and Apple only needs to keyword-match to show ads in the App Store, no tracking ID required?

Personally, I would solve this dilemma by eliminating App Store ads. Users want the app they searched for, not the app a competitor is paying Apple to promote...
Or a bit of the ego of the writer is getting in and becoming the story.
Thanks for sharing those insights. Indeed Debezium is based on logical replication. I'll definitely keep an eye on Litestream, perhaps there may be some potential for collaboration at some point? SQLite hasn't come up really in our community so far, but personally I find it very interesting.
With extremely unusual exceptions, no games used HAM, because it took several frames to completely redraw the screen. 32-color was the standard.
For smaller scripts, this is trivially resolved. For larger scripts, this is a bug, and the script should be updated with a more flexible solution that doesn't rely on hardcoded branch names.
While I agree with some of the points made, this article is mostly a rant filled with generalizations and untruths.

>They forgot to talk to people who are actually members of the black community.

>Regardless, did anyone try to reach out to black software engineers or developers

>Yet at these same companies the majority of each grad scheme cohort tend to be from basically the same five colleges/universities.

>I guess mummy and daddy paying $20 mil for a new library to get me a seat at an ‘elite’ school is still meritocracy eh?

How does the author know any of this? From the original discussions around this topic ~9 months ago I remember several instances of companies asking their employees.

>We’re going to change the branch name to be more inclusive of minorities but we’re going to carry on selling software to ICE. Get the fuck outta here.

If this is referring to Microsoft, since they own Github, they explicitly banned law enforcement from using their facial recognition technology.

>It signals to other privileged white boys, “hey, come work for us, we pretend to care more than all our competitors xoxo”. This shit aint for us, it never was.

This is a good point.

>I’m pissed off because they pretended to be doing good and wanted me to congratulate them for it.

I don't think Github asked for any pats on the back for their change, but I can see how it's implied. Also, master/slave can be offensive to a lot of communities, not just the black community.

I do totally agree that major tech companies need to sponsor way more outreach within black communities. It's way too easy to blame diversity problems on the "pipeline" and then do nothing to improve why the pipeline is like that in the first place.
> Maybe the HN crowd has different problems in this area than the world-at-large, but "an unrealistic expectation of success in business" is not common among grown-ups.

Have you never met someone who opened a restaurant? Peter Thiel actually uses this as a talking point. The surest way to lose money is to open a restaurant, and yet there are always people lining up to do so.
It's not just a term it's also a book!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Just_So_Stories
Conservatives believe that liberals are just as spiteful as they are themselves.
Weird to see my favourite Newfoundland newspaper on Hacker News.

Unrelated fact -- my first job many decades ago was delivering the physical version of this newspaper.

I'm happy to see they are still in business, even if this is a Reuters wire story.
You can! All machines within a single account are inside a private VLAN, which means they all talk to each other (out of the box, no setup required), but nobody else on gpu.land sees them.

See the "Are instances within my account connected?" item in the FAQ - https://gpu.land/faq

If you're going to need 64 GPUs I'll have to increase your account limit (currently 16 GPUs per account). Email me at hi@gpu.land
">" prompts aren't that uncommon outside of DOS, though

$ telnet
telnet>

$ irb
irb(main):001:0>

$ echo look at me i'm an unterminated string
>

I guess python's ">>>" prompt is more robust against accidentally being interpreted as a redirection, at least.
This is awesome for sparklines and lighter weight visualizations. The animated donuts had me hoping there would be a pie / donut chart too! Would love to see that.
> This is implicit on the meaning of that word.

I was still in pre-school, watching a documentary about uranium. I asked my mother what uranium was, she replied "a silver metal used for electricity generation". That answer felt deeply unsatisfying, but that's the best answer a todler could get from a village housewife in the year the internet was invented. But I learned that "understanding" doesn't have an objective benchmark; we understand a concept when we subjectively feel confident about our knowledge regarding that concept, no matter how ill deserved the confidence.
This looked familiar and indeed the post is from 2017
The link is super relevant when I'm trying to sell the NFT.

Without it, you need some communication channel / hosting _outside_ of the blockchain to communicate what I'm trying to sell, it complicates things for a NFT market smart contract.

I don't buy that a broken link on an NFT would make it worth more. In a year 99% of these NFT projects will be gone, broken links won't be anything special..
Love seeing startups tackle opaque, non-consumer spaces with hairy efficiency (and perhaps even structural) problems.

I can't even begin to imagine the universe of problems like this that haven't been surfaced yet, and that's extremely exciting. Good luck guys!
FINRA recordkeeping and retention requirements, as well as SEC statute around records and reporting requirements (finance industry specific).
This is interesting.

I really wish this super small library named Chartist was more actively developed. It's only 10kb in size and generates SVG charts.

The huge benefit of SVG is that it's natively responsive and also prints extremely well. Wheres CSS doesn't

https://gionkunz.github.io/chartist-js/
Is this level 1 or level 3? If it's level 3 you'd only get 720p on netflix.
Like goatinaboat said above, some companies are legendary enough to attract top talent through the sheer force of their reputation. Netflix seems to be one of those places. So they can get away with it. They also pay engineers extremly well.

Netflix also has an intense culture that the industry recognizes.

While they may not have 'ladders' they certainly compensate well. When a Netflix engineer considers leaving, I imagine they look at roles that have a total compensation similar to or above their current compensation.

Ladders can sometimes just be a proxy for compensation as a means of organizing (or rating) individuals relative to one another.

Netflix is one of the exceptions in my book.
The crux of the situation I don't understand is (a) where does the claim that hedge funds would have to buy all the available shares on the market comes from? and (b) what exactly happens if [a] is true, but I'm not selling my 1 share that they need to return to you the share they borrowed? In this case, do they pay a penalty, does they go out of business and you don't get your share back, or does the whole system collapse on itself?
Polynesians have the most average CCs of brain. There's no correlation between this and smart.
I honestly have no idea, hope they do. My point is aws is not the only alternative (and not even the best one) for setting this up.
1.5k comments so far. I think this was a great move and opened up a lot of discussion.
> Users want the app they searched for, not the app a competitor is paying Apple to promote...

But wait, you can apply this line of reasoning to any product that is promoted through ads.
I've thought of this before. I think a Studs Terkel style oral history from some otherwise successful Silicon Valley entrepreneurs where they recount times they failed horribly would actually be pretty amusing, if not cathartic if done correctly.

I did a startup of my own in the 2000s... I decided to change the domain/company name to something shorter. I assumed I'd just redirect requests and all would be fine. I totally didn't think about the effect that the change would have on my Google SEO. Things were fine, then suddenly the traffic dropped to almost nothing. The new domain wasn't being indexed and the old domain disappeared because of whatever stupid HTTP header I put on it. Cut from this event to three months later having my car repossessed and it's a "fun" story.

I would definitely enjoy a book of fuckups like this from others.
Sounds like something straight out of three body problem.
This is definitely a helpful perspective, and I'll try to adopt your suggested practice myself.

I don't know that I'd call the change "brilliant", though – for anyone not already seeking to actively reflect on their own subconscious biases, this change will probably feel less like a welcome gentle reminder and more like someone trying to control how they think (which nobody likes).
Yes, I don't take the studies seriously because I've worked on Mechanical Turk. The people primed to pay attention are maximizing their workflow, because taskmasters set unreasonable time limits, incomprehensible instructions, and every action is necessarily out of context. Attention there is totally divorced from anyone browsing a news feed.
Uber says UK won’t impact its profitability goals,investors aren’t buying it
Truth isn't a popularity contest.
I'd be interested in discussions on the Silos, the CYA , the NIMBY and the NIH archetypes. Silos is generally indicate a bigger org problem. CYA blames everyone else, the NIMBY refuses change, and NIH reinvent everything.

Nothing more frustrating when working with soldiers who say they were just following orders and miss the forest surrounding the tree. In the end multiple levels of missed opportunity to provide feedback which points to a process problem.

Also don't let your QA team get too powerful...
It’s pretty cancellable to say because many people fail to agree moral questions are in-part grounded in technological capabilities of the current era, but in a world of artificial wombs and low-risk transfer from mother into them then it seems likely that those living in that society will illegalize the choice to kill vs transfer. Seems likely to be the case in ~100 years since
there is a medical need to develop and perfect such technologies to save lives in situations where a child will die in the womb if not rescued.
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Thats not hard to believe once you understand how unprobable life seems to be and especially in the very long term. The universe is a very violent place and cosmic events act as great filters all the time.
:-) I know, it was the proverbial "why"
I'm confused by this question, aren't you essentially asking, "how can a problem exist if some people are presently taking actions that try to mitigate that problem?"
Oh it's worse than just pats on the back. It's ACTUAL racism. They think they have the right to tell minorities how to think and feel. They think they know what's best and you can't have them thinking for themselves.

I witnessed a white woman exclaim she was revoking someone's Mexican card the other day because he voted for Trump. Supposedly the Mexican is the racist according to this ideology....
that Americans also need
I'm not sure I understand how SVG is more natively responsive than CSS? I also haven't had problems printing with CSS - I maintain my resume as a styled HTML document - though I haven't done a ton of web printing so there could be problem cases I haven't faced
Typical BSD user cult-member response.
I mean, you can always segment it into several smaller prints and then stitch them together (carefully!), but I'd rather the author get some cut of it than me doing it myself at Walgreen's or Staples.
This is absolutely incredible. Thank you.

I would love to see the mosaic extended below Cassiopeia to include the Andromeda Galaxy.
Steve Martin's biography "Born Standing Up" is all about his life before he became a sensation. It's not engineering, but it details a lot of failures.
> sysctl hw.acpi.lid_switch_state=S3

Hmm. This makes it seem like it just blindly sleeps on lid events. I prefer sleep on lid close to wait a bit then check to see if any displays are connected and on. That works a lot better for docked setups. On Linux, some part of systemd handles this. Is there an alternative in FreeBSD?
But what does this have to do with using the concept of master / slave as an apt technical analogy? How does changing technical terminology help close racial gaps in opportunity or change outdated attitudes on race? It seems to me (a white guy) that this accomplishes nothing compared to other uses of the time, energy, and $ that this wastes.

If I were at the head of the org I would take the time & $ that would be wasted on this effort and invest it into underserved black schools. (of which there are many in the US)
Great point - it’s hard to appreciate just how different debt financing is vs equity until you’re in it yourself. Unlike VC's, debt investors are optimizing for 0% of their investments to fail. This makes its way into the contract's negotiation process and final structure/requirements.

Our vision is to power the end-to-end debt financing process. We’re focused today on post-close monitoring/reporting, but our next module will be exactly what you’re asking: the negotiation + close of that contract. We’re well aware of this pain-point: growing startups can’t afford the 6-9 months it takes to get their money (after already agreeing to partner with their debt investor!).

Fortunately there’s strong incentive alignment at this point to put that money to work. We also think our current reporting/monitoring work will be leveraged to streamline that process (a lot of reporting requirements come up during due diligence / negotiation). Finally, it’s a natural product extension since we’ll help you close your facility then can automate your reporting immediately upon close.
There's one planned, it's just still under construction: https://chartscss.org/charts/pie/
Well, at this rate, U.S. goes through 10M doses in about 5 days.

https://covidvaxcount.live/

> tens of millions of doses of the AstraZeneca vaccine, which cannot be used in the United States yet.

Yet. By the time it is shipped to another country it could have been approved already.

It is no like we have more doses than unvaccinated population.
Scale builds up on the heating elements because it precipitates out when the water turns briefly to gas. Once present, the scale will negatively impact the coefficient of heat transfer between the element and the water. A microwave system wouldn't have any heating elements, and any precipitates would fall harmlessly to the bottom, not hurting efficiency.
No, that doesn't follow: entropy can decrease provided that it is exothermic enough. For a spontaneous reaction to occur, the relevant quantity isn't the entropy, but the Gibbs free energy. So reactions that reduce entropy (because "things crystalize out") can take place if the enthalpy increases enough to compensate.
Not everyone wants to maintain a fork though so there are incentives to giving back.
This change only affects newly created repos, how does it create tech debt? I suppose some tooling may need to be updated, but if your tools are to brittle to support a different branch name.. sheesh

I would posit to your quotee that they're being phenomenally self-centered.

Github has been mum about the why behind this change, but I'd bet my hat it wasn't because they wanted to actively slow down't their users.
I was hoping there'd be a new issue :(
> he's a self-centrist

Those are the very same thing. A fascist does not care about anything other than personal power. All philosophies and ideology are superfluous. Fascists run on the very basic political premise of "you like me, elect me and let me run things because you like me and you'll like what I want to do." That's the core message, anything else is pointless to understanding. That's what fascism is. I'm not misunderstanding Trumpism, I'm giving it the same name everybody else who understands political history and theory gives it.

Everything people like about Trump, are the same things that cause people to put fascists in power. Have a look at this explainer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1M6CXhUS-x8

Fascism isn't some long slow slide down to Nazi Germany that Americans seem to think of when they consider the term. The Nazis are the most visible and publicly know version of fascism, but countless others throughout history, in Europe, Latin America, Africa, have managed to subvert the mechanisms of their republics using the tactics of populism to put themselves in power, unaccountable to any sort of checks.
What qualities do you think that would incentivize in a moderation system? I'm not feeling that tendency to share less misinformation is one of them, and I'd fear that richer people would have more power to control the narrative in such a system by effectively bribing moderators.

Apologies if there is something about "nano-payment-funded distributed and syndicated moderation" that I'm not getting.
Aren't APK files simply java .jar packaged together? It's trivial to fully decompile java binary (bytecode) directly to source code.
Is Oumuamua a chunk of nitrogen ice, broken away from a distant planet?
What is the advantage of using CSS over SVG?
The difference is that the value of GME isn't in any way connected to its fundamentals here. It is only valuable because of the (supposed) overshorting. Basically, the way I understand it is that everyone is playing poker with tin poker chips. By themselves the poker chips are nearly worthless (tin is cheap), but because suddenly someone owes someone else a whole lot of these chips and there are real green dollars attached to that IOW, the tin chips suddenly are worth a lot. Once that debt is repaid, they become worth only what the tin is worth.

In other words, when the guy that started it all (Roaring Kitty/DFV) testified before congress that the only reason he was buying GME was because he fundamentally thought they were going to be a profitable corporation, that was bullshit. He talks a whole lot about short squeezing the stock elsewhere, so his denial that that's why he did it seems to me to be a lie. On a personal level, he seems shady as hell and the whole thing seems like a setup for others to be left holding the bag.
Not a person, a company.

We force companies with dominant market power to do all kinds of things that normal people and even normal companies aren't forced to do.

And it's not "you must host this" but "if you want to keep the overwhelming level of power you have then you must host this"
I am curious what form of energy you think the other 4% turns into?

Both systems are 100% efficient at turning electricity into heat. Neither system is 100% efficient at turning electricity into useful hot water. There are always losses. They're just being honest with their accounting.
It might not be systematically biased toward religion as such, but I know of few other developed countries where creationism is taken seriously and taught as an "alternative" in school [0].

Or where books are stricken from reading lists or curriculums for fear they make kids question authority [1] – where or Harry Potter's inclusion in school libraries is challenged for their focus on magic (often based on claims that the novels contain occult or Satanic subtexts) [2].

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

[1]: https://www.theguardian.com/books/2014/jun/10/cory-doctorow-...

[2]: https://web.archive.org/web/20071230201312/http://www.ala.or...
Wow, thanks for the link! One of the interesting bits:

“Salmon is an example and you are restricted on the basis of the nitrogen output of those fish. If seaweed, asparagopsis in this case, is planted downstream, one of the foods it likes to eat is nitrogen."
I wonder what caused dolphins to evolve their intelligence. I don't think they hunted underwater mammoths :)
Apple has been asking for permission for privacy-sensitive features for quite a while now, with dialogs that are more intimidation than these.
On a camera in manual mode if you increase the exposure time, you must compensate the increased amount of light coming to the sensor by decreasing the aperture or the ISO. Can anybody please explain, how is it possible to have such a long exposure without overexposing the image?