skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Because that is not "inflation". There is another economic term for that phenomenon, and conflating the two only creates confusion:

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economic_bubble

Inflation/CPI is (roughly) about the cost of living determined via a basket of goods and services that one needs on daily/weekly/monthly basis. Financial assets are not needed to live: the bottom-half of US wage earners have no/little financial assets and yet are effected by inflation when they go shopping.

And while shelter is, it is taken into account via rent or rent-equivalent (mortgage carrying costs):

* https://www.bls.gov/cpi/factsheets/owners-equivalent-rent-an...

I'm not sure where and when the idea of financial assets being included into the concept of inflation started, but it's a first world 'problem' of the wealthy.
Yes, conscientious people already call main degree/bedroom/bathrooms etc.
UK Covid-19 variant has significantly higher death rate, study finds
what part of a data stack / pipeline would you see this replacing?
It depends what you're looking for. If you don't know, read https://wiki.osdev.org/What_order_should_I_make_things_in and find what sounds interesting to you. Then either start or join a project to do said stuff you find interesting. If you're looking for publications, most academical operating system projects have a bunch of papers (https://wiki.minix3.org/doku.php?id=publications, http://www.helenos.org/wiki/Documentation).

Personally I'm having fun hacking on SerenityOS. So far I've done a NE2000 network card driver, net booting, fixes to boot on an old Athlon XP computer, fixes to the ext2 filesystem, printing lines numbers in the JavaScript interpreter backtraces, some keyboard accessibility stuff (https://github.com/SerenityOS/serenity/commits?author=boricj)... Basically any random thing that I find fun to work on.
According to the article it does.
There are indeed. I didn't understand where the "nope" went to?
See, that would be making yourself a victim of "hysteria". If you just raised an eyebrow and moved on then your claim that it's "hysteria" might have more weight but you'd have less opportunity to grandstand about it. This is also an amusing choice of terminology because of the origin of the word hysteria but I'm going to guess you didn't do that on purpose.
Slightly heavier than goroutines: according to the efficiency guide[0] a process is 338 words (2704 bytes), when spawned.

This includes a 233 words (1864 bytes) private heap.

This likely wouldn't work for TFA (as it uses "active" threads) but it should go lower if you immediately hibernate the processes:

> The heap is then shrunken to the exact same size as the live data that it holds (even if that size is less than the minimum heap size for the process).

While I've not tested it, I assume a just-started process has nothing on the heap, so it'd go down to just the "overhead" 105 words (840 bytes).

Though that's at the cost of immediately allocating a new min-sized heap when the process wakes up.

[0] http://erlang.org/doc/efficiency_guide/advanced.html
It does, but somehow I get the idea that your comment doesn't really capture the crux of this debate :)
I fell too that this master-slave thing is a overstretch and a little hysteria. That being said, I do think 'main' is a better name for what this branch is supposed to be and it might be better for beginners to understand. Of course, 'master' is the term we are all used to and that will cause a lot of confusion and broken pipelines too.
Uh, missions are designed to last max five years, so you're not gonna find any savings there. Maybe if you cut the high reliability requirements to five months you can skimp on some stuff, but I'm not sure that actually relaxes demands so much as that's still a lot of thermal cycles to maintain instrument alignment over.
>Overcoming Gravity 1st Edition was pirated around August or September of 2012

>Book sales immediately dropped 40% over 3 months. The sales over time went from 60% and kept declining to 25% by 2015-2016

Spurious correlation. Those sales would have declined irrespective of the book being pirated, there have already been enough research debunking the myth that literature sales drop with piracy [0]

I understand watching their content getting pirated must be frustrating for smaller creators, but you have to take into account accessibility among people. As Gaben said, Piracy is almost always a service problem.

I am one of those who has always condoned piracy. I have consumed countless pirated copies of books, media and software across my childhood, not because I didn't care for ethics, but because I lived in an environment where it was simply impossible for a kid to buy those things the right way - they were either not launched in my country's market at all or if they were, they were priced too high for our family income. Windows 10, for instance, still retails at ₹14799 - the price of an entire (cheap) desktop/laptop computer. Needless to say almost no one actually buys a Windows license here unless it comes preinstalled in a vendor's machine. A kindle copy of Computer Systems: A Programmer's Perspective costs ₹10135 - almost twice the price of the Kindle itself.

[0] https://op.europa.eu/en/publication-detail/-/publication/59e...
We made this change for our repos internally a year or two ago. Making it the default is a great step and I hope others follow suit.
Agreed. Git has a very painful history of keeping master code where slave code in branches did all the work.
Some would argue, of course, that inflation well above 2% has been with us for at least a decade if you don't measure by the biased CPI. I don't see how it helps the argument to bring politics into this by saying such people are "right-wing [...] inflation fetishists". Didn't read beyond that.
I have some strong memories of paging death on Windows XP, on spinning rust. I recall taking some minutes to recover: Ctrl-Alt-Del and wait for secure authentication screen; hit shortcut for Task Manager and wait for it to start and come to the foreground; navigate to offending process and kill it, with blind keystrokes.

The mouse cursor did move smoothly throughout, though, as I recall.
>I for one think it's great that people are willing to make things a little more accessible for more people.

How does this make anything more accessible for anyone?
Either

(1) Default name doesn't have inherent value; therefore, changing the default isn't a big deal (low downside), even if the upside is low

(2) "master" is for some reason a better name than "main"

I never see the people complaining about this stuff spelling out a reason why it's a bad idea to change (2), and am forced to conclude that we are in scenario (1).

It seems to me that opinion is much more divided on the amount of upside in changing the name. But if the downside is virtually non-existent, who cares? If this is important to some people, shouldn't we just listen to them, and move on?
Does Duck Duck Go not still run smear campaigns against Google? Their sites in my opinion are exaggerated to the point of being close to misinformation. At least misleading to the lay person. Yet Duck Duck Go is beloved far more than Microsoft.

Note: I am not anti Duck Duck Go.
The most unfortunate part of all this churn is that git didn’t provide a way to ask it what a repository’s main branch is named.
Upon reading that it seemed to me that this practise of Amazon's is arguably as anti-artist as piracy.
A Shooter in the Hills
Do we really have to examine the origin of every word we use rather than according its modern common usage and use in context?
By remarkable coincidence, there is a well known video streaming company without an engineering ladder.

https://www.quora.com/What-are-the-levels-titles-at-Netflix-...
The statement needs to be quantified: not a threat ONLY IN THE SHORT RUN.

Yes you don't see it on your graphs right now.

But IIRC 20% more money was printed by the fed for covid.

Unless you can refute modern economic theory, we still have PV=MQ, and the only thing saving us from inflation at the moment is the low velocity of money: in lockdown or with most high velocity businesses closed or operating at a fraction of what they did before (ex: bar, restaurants), the velocity will remain low.

We won't see anything on the graphs as long as V remains low.

However, as soon as they reopen and operate closer to their normal capacity, velocity WILL rise. When that happen, inflation WILL rise.

There's no magical way to wish inflation away. We will eventually get 20% inflation. The only question is how soon.

Yes, central banks may plan to have 2% per year for 9 years (19.5% inflation) if somehow they think business will not be able to catch up immediately (a closed restaurant will not get as many clients when it reopens) which is plausible.

However, I don't buy that, because 1) we are talking about 9 years, while the closed restaurant example will take more like 1 to 2 years max to work at normal capacity again 2) it would require TREMENDOUS discipline: no QE whatsoever for 9 years - which is politically impossible if unemployment rises for whatever reason (say the aftermath of a bubble, or a crisis due to malinvestment fueled by the low rates) 3) it fully ignores the rebound effect: deprived of social contact for too long, more people than usual will want to go to bars and restaurant - at least at first

I personally envision 5 to 7% inflation when things return to normal in the US (so schoolyear 2021-2022)
That was GitHub
If you're THAT good, why do you need an incubator? If you're that good, why does an author need a publisher? Or why does an actor need an agent? Etc...
That’s a given. Who is open sourcing their profit centers after the fact?
Whether it's called "master" or "main" affects me very little.

Whether it's called "master" or "main" affects some people very much.

I'm enough of a team player that I'm willing to make the switch to make others more comfortable.
Do you use ibus input methods only?

In my case, I wanted to keep my configured xkb keyboard layouts + I wanted to be able to use ibus in parallel for CJK.

Ok, there must be a problem with *my* KDE setup: when I try to disable KDE keyboard layouts, KDE does not persist changes to the next session: when I log in next time, KDE keyboard layouts are enabled again and interfere with ibus.
Honestly, the drop in sales he describes sounds like every indie release ever. I don’t think it was caused by piracy, that’s just how sales work in niche markets.
In all of the previous discussions of this topic, I have never seen this simple fact pointed out. To me, this is a definitive argument for changing the name. If the facts had been different, I might have seen the matter differently, but if these are the facts then the name change makes sense.
The number of people that _genuinely_ have a problem with the word "master" (excluding all the weird (white) twitter people) is close to zero.
This change does no good, it serves only to allow people to virtue signal.
Inflation hits hardest the poorer who doesn't have diversified savings or their wealth in properties, stocks, or anything else that is likely to at least hold value.

Inflation basically steals wealth from everyone – especially the poorest that makes the mistake of saving cash – and gives the money to the richest friendly with state powers. It's unethical and a crime against humanity, even more so considering that the fiat currency people are forced to use is legal tender, and you cannot exchange your earnings in other more stable currencies legally in most jurisdiction with this doutrine (almost all).

https://wtfhappenedin1971.com/
That's both true and wrong at the same time.

Sure all the big companies that relied on dhcpcd will rewrite it. But still the loss of one opensource project has a major impact on the economy. You mention the part of time saved by the company. Sure, but that goes longer than that.

For instance, in Android, since Android 6, they stopped using dhcpcd and decided to use their own DHCP client. 5 releases later, Android's DHCP client still don't support storing leases (or any feature that has less than 20% usage really). Sure that's just one packet, but the most user-deployed OS in the world has an additional RTT when connecting to WiFi, because of using internal DHCP client rather than a FLOSS-driven one.

Let's do back of the napkin computation: This adds like 0.5s when connecting. I'd say that personnally I'm connecting manually to WiFi (and thus wait for WiFi to connect) maybe once a week. K, worldwide I'd say once a month. There are 3B active Android devices. I'd say mean salary in those 3B is 1USD/h. If my computation is correct ( ((3*1000*1000*1000)*0.5*12)/3600 ), that makes a society cost of Android NOT using dhcpcd of 5M$ per year.

Now, let's go to the mirror successful part of dhcpcd, still at Google. Chromebooks are using dhcpcd as their DHCP client. Considering what happened on Android, I'll assume that if Chromebooks weren't using dhcpcd, they wouldn't use leases either. There are maybe 100M Chromebooks worldwide, but they are mostly centered in the US where salary is higher, but Chromebooks are mostly for students, so let's make it 5USD/h. But on a Chromebook you connect "manually" to WiFi every day (every time you open your laptop pretty much). That means that the existence of dhcpcd is a gain for society of 25M$ per year ( ( ((100*1000*1000)*0.5*365)/3600)*5 ).

So, yes, if nobody picks up dhcpcd maintenance, companies will have no problem carrying on. It doesn't mean that we, as a society wouldn't have lost a lot.

PS: I'm definitely not trying to put a price on Roy Marple's life. But if someone would try, it would be incredibly high.
My family is good friends with a vegetarian that has had health problems. She’s been a vegetarian for the past fifteen years after a previous 25+ years as a vegetarian since she made the choice as a child. She used to buy fast food cheese sandwiches (hamburger with no burger, pickles, onions, or ketchup) for her child because that’s all her child would eat and could eat when they were busy, as she enforced vegetarianism on her also.

I sympathize with vegans and vegetarians like her, and I don’t like thinking of the machines some fast food chains use in their supply chain to slaughter massive numbers of animals, as humanely as you could do such a thing, with an automated spike that goes through their heads after they squeeze their hips to stimulate comfort.

I know caged hens may get excessively fat and maybe aren’t as happy, because I’m not happy when I’m fat. Cage-free egg can mean that chickens are packed into an ever more stressful pen, which is similar to the chick pens, where dead chicks have to be plucked up regularly from the moving masses. Free-range chickens may not have a temperature-controlled environment.

I like to eat chicken, and I’m told it’s healthy. But I spent time with a chicken yesterday that seemed like it wanted to talk with us and ask for food or other help, and it seemed to be patient with us, but eventually raised it’s voice when we weren’t understanding it.

Before I eat, I pray by quickly thinking of the sacrifices made for us and our comfort- the chicken that provided her egg, those that harvested the vegetables, and anything else I think of. I don’t want to cause harm, but until I understand how I can eat in a healthy way with the least negative impact, I eat meat.

I understand from others we may be eating unsustainably, and food may not be shared to all of those who need it. Some of those considered in poverty level in richer countries eat too much of poor nutrients that lead to obesity and health problems, and education alone is not the answer, as it’s the only food that’s affordable; being richer and fatter than others globally with much less food and money, they may be the least healthy.

Where do we go from here? I’m told fish, eggs, chicken, and beef are good for me, but I should eat more vegetables.

Greenpeace can tell us how to choose tuna: https://www.greenpeace.org/usa/eat-tuna-know-fish/

So long and thanks for all the fish.
> Are there are free tools for becoming a mechanic? No, they got to be paid, either new or used in some form.

But if there were widely available free tools for mechanics, the people making paid ones would have a lot of difficulty getting mechanics to pay for them.
Doesn't it feel righteous to say "fuck you" to someone who's been fucking you over for years though?
A whole host of industries have well documented anti-consumer practices which make it so people who pay are noticeably worse off than people who don't. From disappearing digital goods, to ads shoved in your face in paid products, to anti-piracy measures that are glorified malware, to harvesting and selling your data, I could go on...
The quantity of transactions here is irrelevant, so is the power cost per transaction.
> That study has to do with blockbuster movies

It is not limited to them: "the study’s conclusion: With the exception of recently released blockbusters.."
> You sound more hysterical than they do. How badly does this affect you and your life, really?

So much this.

Naming things is an arbitrary process, and adopting a default naming suggestion to accommodate someone's sensibilities is something that does not have any negative impact on anyone. At all.

To those who are whining about a default naming suggestion: grow up.
Anyone who believes that "master" is some kind of slur and takes the opportunity to take offense over it is not someone you want causing problems in your organization.
It evokes slavery and makes some people feel unwelcome. Many other projects have made similar changes to their own repos (eg Go made the same switch) and there has been quite a lot written on the topic if you google around.
How do you magically spawn a network when starting out freelance from a random corporate job? Using a platform sounds like one option to get to the point of having a network.
No, it doesn't affect anyone. It's a perfectly legitimate use of the word.
Bitkeeper must be punished for these transgressions.
Considering you created an account just to post in this thread, and your comments imply a very clear bias, it's rather obvious you're not asking this question in good faith.
This is the best argument for this change.
There is one emulator currently that does do that, the "XQEMU" emulator for the original Xbox https://xqemu.com/

It's in its infant stages at the moment according to the "Emulation General" wiki and focuses heavily on "accuracy" over performance

Other emulators such as CXBX-Reloaded have made larger strides, currently emulating roughly 10% of the software library

It's also worth stating, while the Xbox seems like an "easy" target, being based on an ia-32 (Pentium III) PC with an Nvidia GeForce chip (somewhere between a Geforce 2 and 3 at the time) it is an absolutely monstrous beast with minimal documentation about its hardware and numerous "gotchas"

It also has a very small library of 'exclusive' content which detracts from gaining many developers
The reason it is so expensive is, as I said in my other comments - the instruments. These are one-off, heavily tested prototypes.
There are plenty of people in our society that actually have a negative relationship to these terms that we commonly use in our profession. Psychologically, it can be harder to be part of a group of people or a profession when you have to use these terms, therefor lowering accessibility. This can be because of stigma enforcing terminology (such is the case of master/slave for some people).

These are usually not effects experienced by the majority that's fine with those terms however, which makes it hard to empathize with people that do struggle. Unfortunately, people seem to think that rationality without empathy is always the road to a good conclusion. When you do it in these contexts, however, you're actively excluding those who you fail to empathize with.
Do you mean excel, or has Microsoft come out with an airtable clone?

Excel is a really poor substitute for airtable.
That OS is Android, Linux is just a kernel.

Android can be running on top of Zircon or any BSD tomorrow, besides OEMs and device rooters, no one else would notice.

Doesn't matter how one tries to sell it, it isn't GNU/Linux and doesn't count as such.
How many people have a problem with the word 'main'?
I wonder if I can use my MainCard [tm] for credit card payments at GitLab.

Do they exclude people with main degrees? Chess grand mains? Main painters?

And don't get me started on the racist audio recording studios ...
Works perfectly on Wayfire and I assume Sway.

I briefly tried out Gnome and KDE, with the former "meh" (no fractional scaling, scaling glitches when dragging between displays) and the latter garbage (couldn't find scaling settings at all, so nothing is readable on the laptop display).

Widows is between "okay" and "nice" (somewhat fractional scaling, glitches between displays, some wrong scalings, but it's rare).

I haven't tried macOS yet, but expect it to be flawless, like or slightly better than the experience on Wayfire.
Agreed. I was interested to read in the article that the master name does indeed originate from master/slave, because that doesn’t map to my mental model of git branching at all.

If “main” is a better description and offends fewer people, why not switch? Just seems like opposing a very minor change for the sake of it.
This is obviously political. Elon has been too much vocal in the last year. This is not good for business
Everyone is like that all the time. Look at how things have been recently. People forget things all the time in politics. Then the same BS continues.
I would like to point out that it's perfectly OK to have master/slave relations between computers, hard disks and git branches. The only place where it's problematic is between humans. Perhaps we would do well to remember that words can have different meanings in different contexts. It's nice to try to be considerate of people who are sensitive to certain issues, but at the same time they would do well to limit their sensitivity to where it's appropriate.
That seems a lot of fun. Would love browsing through that code
NFTs are HIGHLY inflated right now - paying $2mil for a tweet is NOT real demand. It's marketing by people with a stake in the industry. Justin Sun who bid $2mil for Jack Dorsey's tweet runs a blockchain network called Tron. I think NFTs will stabilize at some point but it isn't going to go away that's for sure.
by that logic, would the linux command "kill" also be offensive enough to the relatives of murder victims that it warrants a rename?
I'd also add on that Coinbase is in a position to build payment features (e.g. chargebacks) a la Paypal for transactions within their platform, that a DEX cannot provide.
I just think that making babies vegan and forbidding then of drinking their mother's milk might not be the best approach.
As another commenter said, they are designed to work for 5ish years. That we have had Hubble so long is essentially a miracle. Same thing for the Mars rovers that limped on for years despite only being designed to last months.

Also your claim about the instruments on Hubble is incorrect.

See: https://www.nasa.gov/content/goddard/hubble-space-telescope-....
The poor don't have savings in cash. Inflation loss on a nonexistent savings account is virtually zero.

If you are concerned about this, would you be okay with a direct payment to populations without enough money to save in equities? That'd fix the problem.
If N is small enough, it makes little sense for the platform to advertise with it. That doesn't mean the N people are lying.
We're not examining every word. This article is about examining a specific word, with a specific history, within a specific context.
I feel that way about people who lack empathy
The way to deal with evasive bullshittery is nail down expectations. Tell your manager you want to get promoted and need to know what they need to see by the next cycle to get you there. If they're still evasive, well, you have your answer on whether you should stick around or jump ship.
The person on the 10,000 JPY bill is Yukichi Fukuzawa.