skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Take a look at CIA's "The Simple Sabotage Field Manual" from 1944 (declassified 2008). Under the section "General Interference with Organizations and Production" it recommends among other things:

- "Bring up irrelevant issues as frequently as possible"

- "Haggle over precise wordings of communications, minutes, resolutions."
> avoid being a target of a woke mob

What are they going to do? Stop using GitHub? Good f ing riddance
This whole change seem like rather Anglo-centric. Why don't we start utlizing other languages and scripts to be truly inclusive. Some Chinese, Korean, Japanese, Russian, Arabic, Hebrew or Sanskrit would do wonders. Or maybe even smaller language like Finnish, pää would be entirely fine and neutral alternative to main or even master...
> My theory is that both Christianity and Islam exists because of the fact that deep prolonged mediation causes hallucinations and psychotic experiences. Why? Because God talked to both Jesus and Muhammed while they where meditating in the desert.

This has occurred to me as well. But then, this is good news! It means that at least theoretically it might be possible to understand these important historical figures by inducing these hallucinations and psychotic experiences in ourselves in a deliberate and controlled way. This might be the key to understanding religions thoroughly.

I'd even say that a great deal of human progress depends on carrying out this project.
From the article:

"So if this change did not really even attempt to involve the black developer community..."
So you think Github should try and solve those issues, I agree.
Well, it's what we got, and it's how we plan to get out of this (apparently). Also, what's wrong with a vaccine that stops people dying?
We use terms like demon, basically a personification of evil.
Leetcode and similar sites are a poor proxy for programming ability for most programming jobs. People can be good at the kinds of sites and not be very good programmers in a professional setting. I've also seen capable engineers do poorly on these kinds of tests. A couple years ago, a client asked two of my engineers to take a test on a popular coding challenge site as a precondition for adding them to our team. Both of them were accomplished engineers, working successfully with global brands, and both of them scored poorly on the test.

Personally, I avoid clients that use these tests in their hiring process. I've generally found it to be indicative of companies that don't have an engineering-centric culture. Take-home coding tasks that resemble the daily work for the position are generally a much better sign.

I hope you reconsider quitting programming. Your effort to solve these challenges shows dedication, persistence, and ability to think abstractly and solve problems. Those are all very good attributes for programmers. If you put the same time and effort into a bootcamp, online classes, or building your own projects, and made it a point to avoid companies that use these tools, I think you could be successful in this field.
As so often is the case, people are conflating mentions of the crimes with the crimes themselves. Bickering about terminology takes away from getting at the actual offences.
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Agreed, fuck this virtue signaling. If somebody chooses to be offended, then so be it; they can go be offended somewhere else.

I don't follow social trends anyway, so it's pretty easy to ignore these things.

If people just followed the doctrine of "Be awesome to one another" more often, the world would be different. Unfortunately, people aren't born nice.
Here's github leadership
https://github.com/about/leadership
thats all you need to know about how deeply they care
Agent Orange is somewhat harmless.

These deformities are due to the 1% (people reading these articles and visiting the region) not acknowledging how good they have it in 'The Capitol'

Although there is some philosophy that in the rich world many of these people would have been aborted. Many also would have been prevented/helped with prenatal/postnatal care.

The original title is somewhat better - "A Secret War. Decades of Suffering. Will the U.S. Ever Make Good in Laos?"

The poverty that causes these issues is tied to lost commerce due to unexploded ordnances in the region.

But then the communist government is horrific https://thediplomat.com/2020/01/no-new-thinking-in-laos/
Yes and no. Git took the terminology from BitKeeper, which did have master and slave repositories. So while there are no slave anythings in git, git uses the term because of the master-slave meaning.
Yes, I was just quoting the article :)
Yes but still 7-fold increase over normal, therefore it is likely that the vaccine is the issue.

The question to answer is what exactly causes this, so we can learn. It's almost unthinkable that a vaccine which has vastly greater benefits than risks will be banned over this.

I disagree with halting the vaccination, as timing is vital now. It's prime time for mutations with these infection rates since evolutionary pressure is really high right now (mixture of high spread and increasing immunity).

Third waves are rolling over Europe at this moment and we need to stop spread as much as possible to lower the chance of further mutations.
> But they enforce the unconscious belief that "black == bad" and "white == good".

No, they don't. What your sources did was bring to light the current stereotypes in people's head, not how they were created. What you want to do is change those stereotypes, not mingling with the words that only communicate the stereotypes. It's about the concepts in the heads, not the words.

If you want to change the stereotypes (which you can't remove, just change), you have to provide different pictures: Showcase black business men/women, talk about the performance of Obama, have high achievers with diverse background do talks in schools, or sports stars do shows with kids, do shows with female arab DJs and so on. In short: Give the brains of people input that forces them to adapt their stereotypes.

This differentiation of signified and signifier often is hard to get right if your own moral system already conforms to the social goal, because in that case the word seems to be equal to the concept/meaning. So we just have to transport to word to transport the meaning, right? But this isn't how language works. Words can only trigger the frame they belong to if the other person already has the concept in her mind.
> Project Loom and Project Valhalla are coming over the horizon

A: They say it's coming over the horizon. What's the horizon, B?

B: That's the imaginary line where the land and the sky meet that you cannot reach however fast you go.
https://github.com/DavidBuchanan314/tweetable-polyglot-png
One have to be careful to not generalize their power, since I hear this a lot. It is strictly restricted to the "cultural sphere", just like a lot of politics itself. It is all about managing affections, not actions. Woke is performative radicalism.

Or to put it this way, if the "woke mob" decided to protest capitalism or even higher/stricter taxes, do you think that anything would change? Probably not, because production for profit it still at the core of every corp while at the same time the woke crowd has a limited understanding of capitalism to begin with (as can be seen by the claims that capitalism is by necessity based on racism). It is the worst of both worlds.
Because it doesn't matter. Slavery isn't an just an old concept.
You price per KWH, not per KW. This facility is going to stay up and running for a few decades. That's a lot of KWH.

8760 hours per year basically works out to about 45 cents per KWH in the first year. 22.5 cents for for two years. And so on. Of course, it's solar so you need to average it out across night day and cloudy days. But it probably works out to 1-3 cents per KWH over the life time of the facility; just like other recent solar bids.
No, I'm pretty sure eg SS7 attacks work for most (all?) countries.

This particular issue might be US-specific, but the fundamental security problems of SMS are not US-exclusive
Even though a webapp is much safer in that regards than appstore, you still don't have 100% control, because of things like safebrowsing etc.
Yes but they made the point that by time it is we could already be rolling out a booster
sympathetic, but also, feel that:

> I don’t want this post to be about The Solutions™...

is lazy.

yep, thats right, doing something meaningful is hard, and figuring out what to do is too.

...but like, raging for 3 pages and giving 3 lines to consider what solutions might look like is just a rant.

I get it, maybe if more people were focused on finding solutions, we’d get better solutions... but come on, lead by example.

“Im angry” doesn’t fix things.

“what youre doing doesnt help” doesnt fix things.

Someone has to actually do the hard work of coming up with solutions that are compatible with the HR and budget demands of large companies, otherwise, you get lame ass outcomes like this from the people who (perhaps misguidedly) tried.

Companies will go for minimal effort, minimal cost, minimal disruption unless you give them a compelling alternative narrative; its just daydreaming to expect anything else.
> We could be living in a world where no open web ever existed, where everything would be filtered through app stores and closed environments like Facebook (AOL).

We could be living in a world where the App Store never existed, where everyone could install the software of their choice on the devices they own. Using the web instead of real apps is not the solution.
Microsoft did the same with Edge. They forked Chrome but they did a big search/replace of certain configuration keys... Everything called Whitelist is now called Allowlist.

This tripped me up in work, as the configuration variables I pushed for Kerberos authentication no longer worked. AuthNegotiateDelegateWhitelist became AuthNegotiateDelegateAllowlist and AuthServerWhitelist became AuthServerAllowlist. Sure, I understand why this is better. What I have a problem with is the way this is done. It wasn't very well documented or announced, they just did a big search replace, on internal configuration variables that no end user will ever see.

I don't even mind the work, but at least make it known. This was not handled very well and had all the hallmarks of an emergency PR-fueled scramble. It feels more like window dressing than an actual desire to change things.
I'm curious how you plan to run a community without formalizing the rules that are expected to be followed somewhere. Restaurants generally have a sign outlining dress and language expectations, why is it so controversial to document community behavior expectations?

There are a number of internet communities which essentially have this in the opposite form - as in "getting insulted is expected, no we are not going to do anything about it".

This was the de facto Linux mailing list way for a bit, and was somewhat documented in a lot of "how to interact and what to expect on LKML" guides.
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Correct me if I am wrong, but my understanding is that such people have been duped by channels like Fox News into doubling-down on a way of life that is simply not possible anymore.

What I'm saying is that if Fox and CNN (for instance) devoted the same air time to good-faith debate about the causes for, impact of, and solutions to wealth inequality and our changing socioeconomic landscape as they do reading Twitter comments live on air, we might be in a better position than we are today.
Don't use "it's likely" if you don't know what you're talking about, please. I appreciate you're qualifying your statement in the second paragraph, but please don't get in the habit of it regardless.

Side effects from the vaccines have a different cause and mechanism to most of COVID's symptoms. When people say they're out of it due to a vaccine, it's usually because of the fever that comes from the immune system kicking into gear. While COVID usually does cause a fever, its more dangerous aspects are from other reactions to the virus itself.
See my other comment, the author says the change didn't involve the black developer community. I have no knowledge either way, just emphasizing their point.
Hyperparameters play a significant role in bias when you're dealing with imbalanced classes, or long tail samples.

But this ties back to the original data problem, right? If you don't have enough training samples for (known or unknown) unknowns, your model is likely to be biased against them.
We are already dependent on "Big Tech", we just haven't realised it yet.
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Complexity. A policeman taking a literal print of your body is far simpler and more direct than "big data" and so on.

Remember that most computer users are hazy at best about whether `natwest.my-account.co.uk` is a phishing scam. There isn't the necessary baseline of informed opinion to have a reasonable discussion about this kind of snooping.
Yeah, I started out on Red Hat (maybe 3 or 4.x) and spent years fighting with RPM dependencies. At one point I installed one of those source only distros on a spare machine for fun ("Source Mage", before Gentoo took over that space). For all the misery involved in having to compile everything from scratch on slow hardware, I was absolutely blown away that mplayer with proprietary codecs just worked out of the box. It always took me hours to get the right combination of packages on Red Hat to make that work and would frequently break whenever I updated anything.
> At no point does anyone think to ask people in the said minority if they think this is actually a good idea and what they want.

This literally happened.
Having met some white people in Asia, it's not like immigrant (ex-pat) community all make that much effort to integrate.
I actually had a curious experience with this personally.
About 2 or 3 years ago I started using DuckDuckGo on all my devices as the default search engine. And DDG has this feature where if your results aren't very good, you can add "g!" at the end of the query to be redirected to Google.

So initially, 2 or 3 years ago, I'd regularly use this feature and get better results. But over the years I came to realize that often then Google results were no better and even sometimes worse than the DDG results.

Still, for some things like longer quotes (error msgs) out of obscure forum pages or queries that are questions, Google does better, but almost everything else, DDG is at least just as good.
This feels like a strawman - the issue isn't people deciding they don't care about bias because of this change, but rather that if tech companies are bending over so much as to make such an insignificant change to avoid seeming biased against minorities then how could bias in the tech industry exist at all?
Gigawatt-hours is energy, not power. Multiply power by number of hours the plant is running to get energy; but then you’d probably be interested in how many petawatt-hours it made.

Fun fact: the lifetime electrical energy output of the Neckarwestheim plant is approximately 30 kg by relativistic equivalence.
fantastic idea! Graph database inside postgres.
idk what's going on, it's lack of war or something

that makes SF computer people want to "save the world"

or some shit with those ridiculous things like this main branch?
There is a difference between "necessary" and "sufficient".

I am (mildly) happy with the name change, but as the author of the piece makes clear, it it not enough in itself, not even close.

Maybe you view it as a distraction from real change? However, I'm sure that many of the people publicly dunking on this change have even less interest in more substantial change.

GitHub has issues hiring and retaining minorities ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26480024 ) perhaps they should look at those next.
>Do you know a lot of "woke" people who aren't otherwise on the left?

Yes. The majority of them are performative liberals.

>Do you know a lot of "left" people who actively speak against the "woke" crowd?

Yes. There is infighting to an extent but it's really not hard to find leftist critiques of what you call woke culture.

>If "the left" doesn't want to be equated with the woke culture, they should publicly and consistently disown it.

I highly doubt bad faith actors would care about what people on the left are doing. Sure hasn't stopped you from mischaracterizing them all this while.

>You know, in the same manner as they demand that conservatives disown Trump and his crowd.

You seem to have a fundamental misunderstanding as to who "the left" are. The majority of actual (not what passes for American left) leftists will agree that disowning "Trump and his crowd" is the same kind of performative wokeness that you accuse liberals of. Disowning and denouncing for appearances does nothing because it doesn't tackle the root cause that allowed a movement like Trump's or the larger right to come to power.
Of course we couldn't, we're practically apes here
30% may be bullshit but the mental health issues are clearly a problem in Germany.

[German] https://www.zdf.de/nachrichten/panorama/corona-kinder-psychi...
Sorry, yes - the context was that they were encouraging uptake of the AstraZeneca vaccine in the here and now.

Prof. Sarah Gilbert (who developed it) did the rounds on TV explaining that they're tweaking it for new strains and booster shots will be ready by autumn if needed.
Oh yeah, in 1986 Reagan administration introduced tariffs for 64K DRAMs from Japan. I remember having a bunch of trouble tracking the chips down so I could upgrade a 128K Macintosh to a 512K "Fat Mac" (which was easy to do, if you had one of the oddball new Torx bits -- also hard to find -- and a soldering iron stalwart enough to defeat the massive and heatsink-like ground plane on the Mac motherboard).

512K for about $240, IIRC. My first major purchase at Fry's, which had recently bifurcated a supermarket into a "chips" side (with dip) and a "chips" side (with sockets).
Except for Tesla autopilots all of those existed at one time as a non-neural network.
Funny you should say that https://www.epi.org/productivity-pay-gap/

While there is certainly the naive view that we just take the money and spend it, the more serious view is that extreme wealth concentration is indicative of inefficiencies and rent seeking.

Wealth beyond some level becomes irrelevant with regard to lifestyle but not with regard to political power. It's mine and others contention that the outsized power billionaires wield results in a poorly organized society that overvalues their interests and neglects the needs and potential of the masses.

For example https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rudy_Kurniawan

If the average person buys an old used car and it blows up - tough shit, buyer beware. However, if you and your billionaire friends spend outlandishly on wine and both you and the auction house fail to take steps to verify that the wines are genuine - we'll literally make a federal case out of it.

Personally, I'm annoyed that a Koch brother can call up the FBI about the rich person version of being sold oregano instead of weed and not get howling laughter as a response.
Literally? No, but the U.S. Supreme Court has interpreted the constitution otherwise, at least over the last century. It would take a well-worded amendment to explicitly state that certain organizations of persons are different from persons in general.
No, because it wasn't retroactive.
Yeah and just think, then we could also tell those people about how a wrongly accused man in not their country was released after charitable efforts to clear his name, in the process overturning a negligent evidence handling process which will make things much better going forwards!

And...it still wouldn't matter to those people at all because it wouldn't change their specific situation!

This is a pretty insipid argument.
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"All the bears have been completely wrong, except for short periods of time."

Unfortunately, those short periods of time are enough to bankrupt people. I don't think anybody is claiming fiat currencies will go away forever.
But it is good awarness? The major awarness people get from this cases is not about actual problems, but about very questionable wording-problems and behaviour of certain people. Not sure whether this at the end not creates more hate&blind eyes than important awarness.
You seem really, really incessantly upset about the idea that not everyone practices patriotism in the same way as you.

So I think these long rambling replies do more to confirm the message you are replying to than you realise.
That makes sense on paper, but in a world of instant search, search completion and search suggestion, doesn't it become a bit murky?
Interpreting that as a personal attack, and leaping straight to a retaliation would sorta be evidence for their statement, no?
Perhaps, in the spirit of sharing useful insight within these kinds of discussions, as a black American you could educate me about something?

For context, I am neither black nor American, I have little time for woke virtue-signalling and fake outrage, but I do want to be properly respectful of others whose background and sensitivities aren't necessarily like my own. With that in mind, I often find socially acceptable terminology around race confusing.

For example, take the word "color". I can understand why an umbrella term such as "colored people" could be problematic. However, if that is the case, I don't understand why "people of color" should be any more socially acceptable, nor why one of the most prominent advocacy groups still uses the former term in its name. There is so much unconstructive commentary about this particular example that it's hard to figure out what the relevant history and genuine sensitivities are here. Can you enlighten me?
My suggestion is to replace master/slave with burgeois/proletariat, if the goal is to keep up with the times. (/s)
Are you sure of what you're talking? A lot of football (not handegg) fans were literally talking a lot about the lackluster Premier League performance of a lot of stars who caught Covid.
Google and co will essentially pay for the SLA, free access will be available through Wikimedia Cloud Services and I'm sure that the team is investigating how to make the API available to the wider public.
Personally, I think the underlying issue is polarisation of opinion.

Polarisation produces frustration, fear, and anger. This in turn produces responses like GitHub's, intended to anticipate criticism, since the criticism trends inevitably towards fury. This is true on right and left and everywhere else. It's always been the case, just look at polemics aimed at Darwinians, suffragettes, Catholics, anti-slavers, whatever. The difference today is the sheer volume, the ease with which anyone can instantly reach a global audience. And of course the cash produced from all those comments and views and clicks.

It's still all bread and circuses, it's just been made ruthlessly efficient.

As has been pointed out by other comments, consensus is lacking. Who's asking the people who are actually affected? And who's doing that in a calm, productive, collaborative way? I'm sure it's happening somewhere but that content is hardly going to drive traffic.

Perhaps there could be a concerted, deliberate effort at helping all of us disengage from polarising media, and instead engage in meaningful conversation.
> Btw, we're not "walking away from the Left", as is indicated in the recent election results. You might be confusing your own people for Hispanics.

What do you mean? It looks like Trump got a higher percentage of black votes in 2020 than 2016. The change is larger than Hispanic votes even:

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-54972389
As SW developer, the 10x improvement for me is having the callstack on a crash, like in Java, Python or C with Valgrind. In combination with memory safety, so many bugs can simply be fixed with only the callstack.

10x is quite much so please excuse if I am a bit conservative.