skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As I've said when this was discussed a while ago, the problem is not with the word "master", it would be with the word "slave". "Master" has many uses that have nothing to do with slavery, as evidenced in words like "master's degree", "master" vs. "apprentice", "mastery", etc.

Once "master" is used in combination with "slave", it refers back to slavery and leans on it, there is no doubt about it. That's the case for MIDI, for example. But in the Github case it is not related to that at all, and the change is wholly unnecessary. That doesn't make it wrong, as a sign, to change your master branch to "main" branch, of course. There is a lot of arguing in bad faith in this area. As if showing a bit of good will and following a simple name change guideline would seriously harm any of those complainers. But I agree that this change can is not really justified linguistically.

My 2 cents, for what it's worth.
OSM Foundation treasurer here. Hi!

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In fact, a lot of that woke stuff actually comes from the CIA.

It's a tactic they first used in the 70s in Europe, when "real" left parties (i.e. the old-school socialist/communist parties, affiliated with the soviet union) started gaining ground.
All of a sudden they started funding a lot of stuff like that, because it weakened/marginalized those parties. Why fight for workers rights when you can fight for LGBT, immigrant, women rights, etc. I.e. the right of fifteen distinct groups that have no power.

Much more recently that tactic was used to destroy the Occupy Wall Street movement.
Yes that's correct. However, in that case, while your total number of black drug crimes will be high, your "drug crimes per interaction" rate will still tell the true story.

(Assuming no straight up fraud/planting drugs on the part of the police, which is also very possible.)
I worked on this [1] Linux tablet 20 years ago, and we had working versions, but it doesn't really count as they weren't put into mass production. I don't know how many were built in the end (I left to co-found a webmail service). Sometimes it's depressing how long it takes for something to actually come to fruition. The screenshots in [1] are our custom UI based on NanoX [2], and an Opera port for the web browser screenshot (it worked). I wanted a production version for years after I left...

[1] https://linuxdevices.org/freepad-norways-alternative-to-swed...

[2] https://github.com/ghaerr/microwindows
This is too much of an extrapolation even by the standards of envisioning things like Dyson Swarms. You are assuming that:

* It is possible to export or even host consciousness onto a digital medium - we still have no evidence for this

* All or most civilisations ultimately will want to transition entirely into a digital existence - the "entirely" part is important. If even 1% of a K-2 civilisation decided to stay organic, that would still lead to a Dyson swarm with a population approaching trillions.

* Civilisations of this tech level would do a cost benefit analysis and decide that the several orders of magnitude more resources on a star is outweighed by the inconvenience of a gravity well - I don't think orbital rings are that mass or energy intensive to build and run for this to make any sense

* There will be no future use of waste heat or method of disposal that goes beyond simple dispersal - the jury is still out on that, it may be possible to dispose of waste heat directly onto a black hole. If this turns out to be correct, the energy of a star is more than enough to power a sufficiently powerful laser array to create many in the gigatonne range.
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Even for personal searches, I find myself using the g! operator in DDG about 50% of the time to find what I'm looking for.

Critical operators like "site:" are not available in DDG.
Until true modern style democracy yes, but in modern democracies the people get to decide how the country and the economy are run. Yes, really. The fact that the consensus view happens not to align with what some people (perhaps yourself included) seem to think it should doesn't make that not true.

Sometimes that leads to really unfortunate outcomes (in my view) like Trump and Brexit, but those things were the result of genuine democratic processes and driven by the choices of individual voters. That's true generally in the democratic world too.

It may be convenient to blame the state of the world on shadowy anti-democratic forces running things from the shadows, because that can be used to de-legitimise the current state of the democratic world, but I'm afraid that's self-delusion. This is the world we have chosen through a process of consensus and compromise.
The ACA isn't single-payer healthcare (and didn't really bring down the cost of healthcare much if at all[0]), so I think by the standards of the left in other countries, it is window dressing.

0: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Affordable_Care_Act#Insurance_...
go fk urself
Nope. Most medicines are totally nonlinear. Almost any function is affine if you look close enough, but that's different from linear. If you half the dosage of ibuprofen, your odds of complications rarely fall by 50%.

Chest x-ray is pretty linear within reasonable dosage ranges, for much the same reason I'd expect mRNA damage to be.
I bought an x86 box from China with 6x Intel i210 GbE NICs onboard a few weeks back and reviewed it here: https://johannes.truschnigg.info/reviews/2021-01_fwbox/

It's my favorite OpenWrt router so far, and I've owned quite a few since I started using it on a WRT54G :)
A worthy self-hostable Git Server too if you'd like to give it a try:

https://www.scm-manager.org/
That's the real kicker. This NFT fad isn't about ownership of the underyling asset, it seems more accurate to call it a fiction that has value as a novelty collectible, analogous to baseball cards.

Buying an NFT for a tweet doesn't buy you the copyrights, neither does it buy you the ability to delete the tweet. [0] The true owner of the tweet isn't even obligated not to delete it. [0]

[0] https://www.wired.com/story/nft-art-market-tweets/
I vaguely recall reading somewhere several years ago about some cameras which signed the photos they produced, so one could prove they came directly from the camera and weren't edited. IIRC, it was in an article about these signatures being broken, though I don't recall the details (perhaps it was by dumping the signing key from the camera firmware?).
Also Facebook

https://mobile.twitter.com/FFarquet/status/13657007170513141...
Intel Ordered to Pay $2.2B for Patent Infringement by a Texas Jury
I've always wondered what it is about Android that makes users reluctant to pay for apps. I'm guilty of it too. I have both iOS and Android devices and I spend far more money buying apps on my iOS device.
I'm actually impressed that there are any rights stated.

But without proof that the NFT seller actually had those rights to sell, it still doesn't mean anything.
electric boilers at 100% efficiency are also drop in replacements for gas boilers... They are just much more expensive to run then gas or a heat pump.
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I'm sorry, having extensive experience writing enterprise apps I have to refute this. Almost all complexity I've ever seen was rooted in infrastructure, not the inherent complexities of said enterprise.

I would even go so far as to say that the enterprise logic was so straight-forward that most programmers spent their time inventing problems, which is how look at the enterprise market. They's a lot of "inner platforms", meta-problem solving and needlessly complex deployment environments.

Contrast this with my current industry, gaming. Here the problems are real, tangible and hard. Suddenly overcomplication is much less of a problem, because the extra cognitive load becomes too much when your core problem is already hard.
Having done a bachelor/master in CS and taught a coding bootcamp, I only believe this to be partially true. It depends on what work you want to do as a programmer. For example, if you want to become a web dev at an average organization, then compiler construction knowledge isn't the most optimized way to spend your time. Yes, it'll add to your general programming knowledge, but it's better to spend the time to directly learn JavaScript, how to setup a project structure, devops tools like Docker and so on.

People that claim that such things aren't timeless are missing the fact that once you've seen enough tools that your underlying knowledge becomes deeper (and therefore timeless) as well.

What will happen though is that when you're doing your job is that you'll begin to notice that you miss certain fundamentals. At such point you know what you're missing, and you can immediately do targeted learning without doing a whole bachelor for it.

This whole story does pressupose that you know aprior what kind of developer you want to be, which is not an easy feat since it's a bit a chicken/egg problem (i.e. you need to know programming and have seen different flavors in order to better know what you want to become).
It's actually getting better. New versions of Android are getting adopted faster: https://www.gsmarena.com/report_android_11_has_the_fastest_a...

It's not yet at iOS levels, but Google is actually getting there, I'm impressed. It's much easier to pull this off when you're a huge company making the hardware and the software and you can just boss OEMs and telecom companies around, it's much harder when you have a Microsoft Windows-like arrangement.

They're still at least 5 years from getting near iOS, but still... progress! :-)
Caria app helps debunk the myths of menopause
That qualifier was applied to "green parties" (and global can be outside of Europe AND the US), can't say exactly everything the Dems has said but i doubt they'd called themselves the green party as far as I know while there was another registered by that name.

I was clearly referring to the likes of the actual US Green party I linked previously for whose the US presidential election candidate was Howie Hawkins that has an explicit policy document stating that Nuclear power should be abolished (no idea what the democratic "green new deal" includes but it's hopefully less nutters).

Harrisburg was quite important global factor in most of these parties history worldwide in the sense that the accident was the spark that bought early technohostile environmentalists into action to create these parties in the years following the accident.

You can find a list of the parties since they seem to have global cooperation organisation (the map on the page also shows where they are in parliament)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_Greens
Implementing Inclusive Policies Across a Global Organization
Spam filtering is the reason I use Gmail and set it up for my family.

I hate filtering spam, but it's outright dangerous to not have an effective spam/malware filter for my parents and children.
Clearly this had to happen, in due course, but these publicly-announced efforts only serve to teach deepfake makers to produce better (i.e. more believable) content.

The interesting place this could take us to is one within which video evidence of a crime is no longer sufficient evidence to convict, making charges like police brutality and domestic abuse even harder to consistently prove than they are now.
Bitcoin’s Greatest Feature Is Also Its Existential Threat
...2 minutes, if you're a woman...

This is too accurate. Our medical system treats women as a minority or nonstandard patient. This is crazy when women are actually a slight majority over men. Usually around 51% of the population.
> how to really solve problems with code.

For me, it took me a long time to really understand where to begin. It wasn't that I couldn't solve a specific problem, like on leetcode. I didn't know how to go from scratch to building some kind of tool or application.

The solution for me ended up being just watching a ton of random tutorials to get something started, then taking the tutorial a totally different direction. That gave me some examples of what the entry point to the process was, and from there it was just an additive process until I got the desired behavior.
> Sebastian double-checked the verification logo next to Elon Musk's name, and then tried to decide whether to send five or 10 Bitcoin.

This is a vulnerability in Twitter's verification policy that Twitter refuses to fix. Originally, verification was supposed to mean "this person is who they say they are". But once an account is verified, you can change the name/profile picture to someone else. So hackers get access to minor verified accounts, change the profile to match Elon, and then they have a "verified" Elon Musk account to scam with.

Twitter could fix this tomorrow by requiring that verification be tied to the name you got verified with, and if you do need to change your name you go through an (expedited) re-verification process. That doesn't seem like a lot to ask considering what "verification" is supposed to mean, and what (as evidenced by this article) users of the site take it to mean.
The big question: How can you start event tracking?
He's trying to explain that the reason you end up with so much technical debt in the first place (after explaining to a layperson what that is) is /because/ of organizational cultural failures.
The article seems to be demanding a much more radical change than GitHub is making so I don't think the author's issue is he wants more moderation.
1 Watt continuous is $1 per year, as a typical USA rule of thumb (at $0.12 per kWh). Places like California are a lot more expensive.

So yeah, it's pretty expensive on an ongoing basis to convert an old desktop to a router.

I must confess, I run an OpenBSD firewall on an old Dell server. Fortunately the Intel CPU doesn't need to do much. So I'm only drawing about 70 W continuous. I keep meaning to replace it with something more power efficient but haven't.
The DSA is a mix. It has grown in leaps and bounds, but before it did that it was this kind of small social democratic organization with a kind of unique politics that came from Michael Harrington, and was more interested in being a bit of a left wing lobby inside the Democrats.

With the rise of Bernie Sanders and a new generation of people getting into socialist and left wing politics, it became quite a bit broader and larger and vibrant. And my impression is it became of a centre of gravity for other left tendencies in the US to coalesce.

There's quite a few different groupings in there these days. I don't think you can make a broad generalization like you did here.
I second this request. Thanks!
I agree with you.

But I think there might be a way out:

Spend as little as possible and use all your extra cash to buy stocks. Not meme stocks of course but either an index fund or if you really trust your skill go ahead and pick stocks.
If there is a wealth transfer you will be at least partially on the receiving end.
It’s funny how the elites use this ploy to stamp out any differences from the dominant narrative - from the alleged left or right. Freedom of speech is a danger to elites when you have freedom of reach (distribution).

Opposition American politician, Eugene Debs, with over a million votes (alleged extremist) imprisoned by autocratic President Woodrow Wilson for passing out pamphlets against the war entitled “ Anti-War Proclamation and Program”.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Debs_v._United_States

In the ultimate twist of fate the advocates for censorship get censored by Facebook:

https://twitter.com/jimmy_dore/status/1354572535799504901?

An academic conference on censorship gets censored by Youtube:

https://www.mintpressnews.com/media-censorship-conference-ce...
If he thinks he feels bad today he's gonna hate how he feels later.
If the data stayed local, I would agree with you. ...but the issue is that they upload it and merge it into a profile of you that they keep, sell to 3rd parties, and is available to governments to inspect.
I've heard this multiple times, but never with a citation.
Can you point us at anything? Trying to prove a negative with searches hasn't worked for me so far, and this vaccine is not a good option for me so I haven't trying looking up and parsing its spike protein nucleotide or amino acid sequence.

However all these vaccines you listed coerce a small number of your cells to make spike proteins of whatever sort, which results in bits of them being put on the surface of the cells. I don't know how much of the spike protein gets outside cells, either through direct escape or creation of new viruses, have not looked up the exact details of what J&J and Oxford mean by their viral vectors being replication deficient. That is, they don't produce new viruses that can attack other cells.
Thank you. Let me try repeating your advice in my own words:

* Collect all assumptions (regarding data and actions).

* Attack each assumption by throwing known/common/trivial edge cases at it.

* Explore each assumption's necessary conditions: what they are ; how they could possibly be false/broken/absent.
Thank you Epic Games.
I think this is one of the great unsolved problems of our time. Apple, Google and Amazon (ok and Azure too I guess) are effectively gatekeepers in terms of what products are allowed to exist online. And during the pandemic this is especially relevant, because for a great many people online life is public life for all intents and purposes.

I think almost everyone would agree that a handful of unaccountable corporations should not hold this discretionary power, but we don't have a legal framework or social contract to dictate how this should be handled.
And also because you're wrong.
> Sure, the left talks about rhetoric, but it also fights for higher wages, civil liberties, healthcare, affirmative action, investment in education, workers' rights, and voting rights.

And the right pursues many of these things as well, albeit in very different and sometimes polarizing ways. But we should not pretend that leftist policies are not just as polarizing.
It makes perfect sense to pay that much if you are running a business selling links to a JPEG files.
Add frozen string literal comment into generated files in rails
I don’t understand how you can be tech savvy enough to send and (not?) receive Bitcoin but stupid enough to fall for this...

EDIT: Thinking about it, it's technically difficult see the difference between Bitcoin (which will continue to be worth more) and other get rich quick schemes that may not have the same chance of success and directly being conned for money by people.
Hyperscript is a new experimental scripting language for front end work. The async-transparency feature is an interesting aspect of the language, and there are lots of other interesting features, including an integrated debugger:

https://hyperscript.org/docs/#debugging

Edit: someone posted the VanillaJS/jQuery/hyperscript comparison earlier:

https://hyperscript.org/comparison/
> "even without children." ... "but it doesn't seem any different to learning any skill after a certain age"

This couldn't be farther from the truth. There is a vast difference between being shot from work and sitting down for a long stretch of time by yourself to self-study and being shot from work and sitting down for a long stretch of time while also being constantly interrupted by the responsibilities you have to care physically and emotionally for another set of human beings.
Agreed. Setting up Springs OAuth Client was so complicated and getting the configuration right was taking so much time. I replaced it with a simple Filter that just did the query itself. It easy to go to that filter and add whatever security logic you want (at least for me it is).

There is a balance here that might be hard to get right. Spring and other frameworks make things easier until they dont. At some point it might be easier to just write code instead of configuring your way through these frameworks. Many times I rather write code then go configuration hunting.

What I do like about Spring is that they offer a lot of hooks and interception points to overwrite with your own logic.
Poor Apple:

> In 2020, customers spent an estimated 72.3 billion U.S. dollars on on in-app purchases, subscriptions, and premium apps in the Apple App Store.

The App Store is a money printer for Apple, that's how low their operating expenses are. It's rent-seeking at its best, abusive landlords would be proud of them :-)
We're not talking about the left in other countries, we're talking about the left in the United States. Within that context, the ACA is a progressive piece of legislation. You can just agree to the point rather than move the goalposts.
I agree that digital literacy and critical thinking are lacking. But having a generator vs detector arms race would benefit the fields involved.
Why not use Twitter or GitHub instead?
More people need to play Old School RuneScape and fall for money doubling scams so they know to avoid them in real life.
Does OpenWRT still run everything as root?
That's not good security practice.
I've done a lot of improv with different TTRPGs. As long as the rules are simple and the focus is on the narrative rather than wargaming it's a perfect way to explore improv. My last group focused a lot on exploring relations between characters and NPCs and dug into the personalities of the characters. It's doable with most systems. Give the characters goals, beliefs, fears and motivations and dig into that. You get a totally different game. Really want to recommend Tales from the loop and running that with a lot of improv.

I'm in the process of building a virtual tabletop, www.fictionboard.com, that focuses on narrative driven games. I find other VTTs get more in the way and just doing games on Zoom or Discord doesn't provide enough tools for immersion.
This is a problem across all social media. The number of Instagram/Twitter scams you come across every day is astounding. The only explanation that makes any sense is that the social media companies want the increased user engagement metrics from the bots.
The majority of plastics aren't even accepted by my town's recycling program.
I am also interested in data-oriented programming, but think we should have a data model where existence dependencies are a core concept and not derived. I have been thinking about this for a long time and have come up with some ideas in a small language, which I called DataLang (a name that already has been used for some other formalisms) and can be found at https://github.com/FransFaase/DataLang
Back in the day, I had a drive of Windows 98 that had been through two or three very different motherboards. It was a good day if it bluescreened only once, because it usually did more often.
Lack of IC progression is a real problem.

I used to manage teams and missed engineering too much, so I quit to be a freelance engineering consultant. It felt like the best way to progress as an IC for me.

Bigger tech companies do a better job of IC career paths than others, but it still feels like your influence is muted compared to managers.
The right was also extremely critical of BLM (calling them terrorists) and de-fund. But not all black people defend those anyway. The wealth argument seems much more plausible to me.