skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Weird. Are you sure the tweets talk about the same study?

The study in the article didn’t look at antibody response, but at the clinical outcome - just like the original Phase III studies did, just with a smaller group of people.

As for the claim that we don’t know how the vaccine protects from hospitalisations - if there is literally no difference in mild cases, why would there be any difference in severe?

Is there a single vaccine for any disease that offers no protection against mild cases, but a high protection from severe?
> The minute they try to impose those controls on crypto is the ultimate Streisand Effect moment that will confirm to everyone that they definitely need this asset.

I'm not convinced. Your scenario relies on people having some deep conviction about the value and usefulness of cryptocurrencies. I think that this is true only for a very small vocal minority of users/buyers. Most people just want to make easy money with it - that's why I think heavy regulation/bans will simply crash the prices instead of leading to a Streisand effect.
And this is how Wikimedia continues metastasizing. Wikipedia is now creating an enterprise version that will "compete" with free Wikipedia (articles words) to cater to enterprise clients.

My donations and writings were intended to sustain a free, robust encyclopedia, not to create an internal division that explicitly caters to big tech. This title is misleading. The entire project is misleading.

If Wikipedia Enterprise aims to succeed it will need to bow to its customer. Big tech is going to pay up, and it's going to expect exactly what it's paying for.
This money would be going to foundation, their ever increasing staff, and the different random projects that they support.
>cost the animal extra energy

short version: yes
The rest of the world is not forced to do business with an American company following American cultural standards.
We've got a far right party that gets around 13% in national elections, in some states around 25%.

We've got a minister of interior that does not want to start a study on racism in the police forces.

That's two of the big issues, that's not even every-day racism where it's hard to get an apartment or a job with a "foreign name", underrepresentation in leading positions or that in some parts you'll get at least hassled for walking with brown skin.

Germany is and always has been extremely conservative and integration/racism is an issue precisely because the largest party always saw imported skilled labor as people that should be forced back "home" again, even with a second and third generation growing up in Germany.
If the vaccine doesn’t protect from mild symptoms, there is no reason to think it would protect from severe.
Lack of civilian aviation development is a result of misguided regulation. "OMG stuff is dangerous, lets require expensive certification for even the most trivial things ... except for the dangerous stuff that is already in use right now" and then we end up with brand new 2021 Helicopters shipping with 70 year old Lycoming engines.
Just like any other immigrants, westeners in Asia integrate do different degrees. Some only hang out with people from their own country and refuse to go to anything but restaurants that serve their own food. While others practically become locals.

Some nationalities integrate more than others. This goes for different European countries even, so it has very little to do with "race".
> This is not a GitHub issue - Git itself now asks you if you would like to use the more inclusive `main`.

When does git asks this? From what I've seen, they just introduced a new config to change the name of the default branch, which is quite nice in itself (as of Git 2.28, released 27th July 2020).

$ git config --global init.defaultBranch <NAME_OF_YOUR_DEFAULT_BRANCH>
> I just don’t appreciate the idea that we as software engineers can now sit back and believe we’ve made some kind of positive change, coz we haven’t.

I might have missed the GitHub communication there, but thats not at all what I think when thinking about changing the default branch name for new repos to a name thats, in my perception, at least as good as the old one, maybe better.

If there is window dressing involved around this change, then thats bs and need to be called out, but I nonetheless think that this change itself is not bad. Like many of these terminology changes discussed and implemented in the past, I actually think `main` is a better term for the (default) main branch. Personally I would opt for a branch name that better fits the projects needs, like 'stable' or 'production' or 'less-broken' or whatever you want. But we are talkin about a default here.

> I’m not pissed off because I expected tech companies to do more, no, I didn’t expect them to do anything. I’m
pissed off because they pretended to be doing good and wanted me to congratulate them for it.

Yes, I agree with this.

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Its funnier when you know that banks are actually planning on sharing data via something similar to Oauth. Its called Open Banking PSD2.
If you believe, as I do, that racism is a systemic problem, then there is no individual action that can fix racism.

Should we therefore take no individual actions? I think this doesn't logically follow.
As a bonus it's even shorter than "main" and probably whatever the new terminology is for subservient processes.
Google is hardly a monopoly in the mobile OS market. They have around 50% market in the US. How would you say that it is a monopoly?
This reminds me what Assad said about Trump.

>I tell you, he’s the best American president. Why? Not because his policies are good, but because he’s the most transparent president[1]

The quote being about how Trump didn't pretend to have a humanitarian foreign policy in contrast to past presidents.

It's about two different situations but they are similar. People pretending to care about a cause and through that making it worse than not caring at all. While Assad and Mooseyanon both want people to drop the act to make everything easier

[1] https://www.politico.com/news/2019/11/01/syria-assad-trump-b...
No, but if GitHub is mentioned in a very angry Twitter thread, and is being targeted by a woke and bored journalist which would write an angry and misdirected article putting the words "racism" and "GitHub" together, is most likely a good enough motivation to avoid a PR disaster
That would be much more fitting, but does that apply to bonds? My understanding was that the whole point of bonds is that they're more or less immune to market forces, and run on their own schedule?
And MasterCard. Everyone must switch to Visa now.
>Yet another sad attempt to impose your narrow focused view of the world on it.

>The author seems to have forgotten: There are people outside of the US who work in tech.

>As shocking as it might be to him, they don't wake up in the morning thinking "O gosh, I'm white, I need to repent". They actually read and write things like "master-slave" and not for a second think about what went wrong 150 yrs ago in some far away land. An no: Not thinking that isn't racism.

>Yet we all have to endure your petty fights and identity politics.

Clearly you didn't finishing reading the article.
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Relax, this is just a marketing move. It doesn't matter the tone of the the news buzz, negative or positive. What matters is someone have written a post with "github" in the title and it's on the top of HN. Kudos to Github marketing team, exellent provocative move, everyone is talking about it.
Something about gender equality to keep in mind:

It's about choice ... there are women (also in Germany) that gladly _chose_ to stay at home, _chose_ to prepare meals for their husband and _chose_ to care for the kids.

On the other hand there are women that _chose_ to give their children into daycare weeks after birth to go back to work.

It's not about condemning any lifestyle as wrong, it's about given everybody (males included) the ability to life their live as they want.

Sadly this is far from the reality with median wages being barely high enough to sustain one person, forcing women (and men) to work and robbing them of their agency.
I'm using git-shell to serve my repo. Can those extensions run over git-shell? Or do I need to set up a new server?
Devils advocate: Google clearly already has a working pipeline to import and format Wikipedia data for its needs. Why would they stop using it and start paying Wikipedia? Will Wikipedia be able to build an enterprise API thats faster/cheaper/more reliable/more scalable than the internal one build by one of the world’s top engineering companies?

No doubt the enterprise API will add attractive value for smaller companies without the resources to process the raw dumps but I’m skeptical that this will convert Google et al into well-paying customers. Unless they start restricting the free dumps...
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mRNA don’t need ultra cold fridges any more.

Also, even if, you don’t need fridges, you need boxes with dry ice, that is relatively cheap.

As for the price - you’re sure it’s $60 not $30? Regardless, you’re right that it’s an issue.
Why didn't i know that
The only way to win this game is not to play. Which is why the game is being set up this way!

Had GitHub not done anything it would have looked bad. Now that GitHub did do something, it's not enough.

I disagree that GitHub needs a minority consortium to ask them about every little detail and the impact it has on their culture/etc.

I really wish we could set up a "Culture Firewall" around the US for the next decade lest the whole world gets infected with these mind viruses.
You know it's all for show when the employees actively celebrate ICE contracts for $56k, and when minorities use the word "nazi" to describe far right protesters they are fired as a kneejerk reaction.
Bear in mind the actual content will still be free, the thing these enterprises will be paying for is a customised feed and support infrastructure servicing their particular requirements. Would you be ok with your donations being used to pay for a feed service and support dedicated to, say, the particular needs of Google search results, or Apple's Siri?

It also depends if you consider it's core mission is just English Wikipedia. Expanding into additional languages and keeping the content consistent between languages is a huge undertaking that won't work on a purely volunteer basis. If this dependable revenue stream can help with some of these other very capital intensive but worthy initiatives I'm for it.
The point I'm attempting to make is that stating blanket negative over-generalizations about any group of people isn't productive, and in this case it's seemingly ironic to me. If you think I'm a hateful person because of pointing that out, then by your definition I am hateful and I'm okay with you thinking that. I obviously disagree, though, and I'm happy to attempt to civilly discuss that with you if you'd like.
In my experience, telling them that hiring the wrong person for the job must have been their incompetence and walking out makes them reconsider their strategies quickly.

Rehiring talent costs - on average - an annual salary. If more of us grew a spine, we wouldn't see the management/IT-ops staging a recreation of the stereotypical high-school jocks/nerds conflict.
It might make it sound like they are an inactive bunch. But they take action precisely because they don't want it to fail.
Well yes, but sometimes I ponder whether the funds are well spent. I checked out their research projects (supported by data from analytics stack they maintain), yet many were non-conclusive or half-finished.

Hope they don't go the route of Mozilla.
> Can anyone please confirm that [...] using SMS for MFA is, in fact, secure?

Nope.

Nobody's going to be able to give you this reassurance, or least they shouldn't, because it isn't true.

It may not even be better than nothing. For example you get email that says your bank has detected large withdrawals from your account and to fill out a web form if you want them to block these withdrawals. The site linked from the email looks reassuringly authentic, and you get a SMS as you expected during the login process. Genuine right? Nope, you've just been phished and you've helped your attackers by giving your real SMS code to their phishing site.

Maybe if there hadn't been the seemingly genuine SMS message you'd have slowed down and realised that the bank's name isn't spelled "Furst Springfield Bonk" or that it wasn't previously hosted on a $1 per month bulk hosting site under a directory named "/wordpress/cgi-bin/cgi-bin/cgi-bin". Maybe not. Either way the SMS didn't help you.

Also, in most countries with any sort of number portability a minimum wage employee at a phone store is authorised to override this (after all they just checked your photo ID right? Or at least they clicked a box labelled "Check photo ID") and issue sims with your number activated to... well, they're authorised to give them to you, but they can give them to the hot guy who paid for shots for them and all their friends last night. It's only a part-time job, worst case if the boss finds out they get fired. So don't tell the boss.

There are plenty of problems. You should not be relying on SMS for multi-factor authentication in 2021. If you still are, make your way calmly towards the exits, find a solution that actually works.
reminds me a passage in the opening chapters of the three-body problem: instead of maxwell equations, they called it electro-magnetic equations. (and so on.)

identity politics is basically infighting and it's not very productive as pointed out by some other comments.
Since a lot of platforms had an app version besides the website, people now expect it. Maybe app stores have a better reputation than the www does, with all the spam and phising that has been going on. So basically having an app is a way to reach people, and a signal that you keep up with the times.
Seems there's been daily ragebait articles on this issue. And what an incredibly minor issue it is too.
I'm in the UK and disappointed in all this 'awareness' bullshit. It is a complete cop out for making real change.
> Plug a capacitor into a socket for a day and you're talking a 1.4KW draw.

Capacitors are reactive components and don't consume power.
Actually, we do call it a "purge". That's not a word without connotations.

We also kill child processes. No-one's had a problem with that till now. Sometimes a metaphor is just a metaphor.
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FYI - the landing page tells me nothing about what it is you're selling, and "Why PlanFlow" leads to "Access Denied". I don't want to give away my email if I've no idea what it is I'm signing up for.

Plus some bugs you might want to be aware of - the "Coming Soon" floating labels are pretty off-centre on the links, and the hamburger menu when the browser is in portrait is nearly unusable and splits the "Sign Up - Free" button in half. This is on Safari on a Mac.
I wonder how many friends that attitude will win you.
There is such a heuristics site, but for trackers specifically: https://reports.exodus-privacy.eu.org/en/
This applies to Canada as-well
I thought I understood the Enterprise product to just be a faster API to the same content. Are you saying the content itself will diverge?
> They forgot to talk to people who are actually members of the black community.

everyone should be consulted. however today’s black people in this case should not have the final word. they adapted to a system that opresses them so they might not have the vision of what the ideal system is. i. other words, even if today’s black people are not offended by this word it doesn’t mean it’s ok. same with the n word. black people use it but I think it is not ok. their grandchildren might do better in a world where black people don’t use this word. same with women. today’s women might not have the vision of what equality is. people with vision are needed and they might be black, women or even white men
Interesting.
I also left my country but mostly because there wasn’t really anything left for me there and I met my girlfriend and she was from somewhere else... So I moved to her country.

Her country is clearly superior in almost everything except for weather and food. I like living here and I've made good friends and enjoy my life here.

Now the curious part comes...
I have zero attachment to both countries, their culture and their national identities.
I couldn’t care less about their language or customs. I just see myself has some kind of post-nationalistic person that would much rather speak English with everyone, hang out on the internet and live wherever.

As far as I'm concerned national identities and culture are useless and holding us down as a species. I really wish people could outgrow this nonsense.
The attack also works with Canadian carriers.
When I entered engineering in the early 2010s, I quickly started earning more than my parents and their parents did combined at their peak incomes. Hearing my background, most of my peers who weren't immigrants from south/near asia, africa, or latin america seemed surprised that life in the USA could be so "third world" in their words.

I always get a chuckle reading things by these VC types who grew up in upper middle class homes very far from impoverished people and their views on both the problems communities they've never interacted with will face and/or how to solve those problems, as recent as yesterday's post by sama on how innovation will end poverty.

Based on my experiences with people's depth on the subject, I think you have a half decent litmus test.
There’re two aspects to the “master” vs “main” debate: (A) the negative connotation that “master” acquired during slavery in parts of the English-speaking world; and (B) the fact that “main” is objectively clearer, benefitting newcomers and effectively reducing the barrier to entry.

I’m not entirely on board with (A).

The downside to fighting words is that the negative connotation in the word is actually strengthened when a major organization decides to censor it on such grounds.

Consider Winnie the Pooh and CCP: used to be a cute children’s cartoon character, was compared to China’s dictator and got banned—now any display of Winnie is effectively a statement. Previously you were free to take it at face value clear of any political agenda, but now the meaning is decided for you by a central authority.

Furthermore, in the case of “master”, it was replaced with another word—and words continuously acquire connotations. If some white supremacist community now adopts “main” as a slang for “white”, what do we do? Keep on renaming branches? Doesn’t strike me as a sustainable approach.

I dream of a world where every single person is secure and no one takes terms personally, but I guess that can’t happen in foreseeable future.

However, I have to support (B). If we were starting with a blank slate, there’s really no argument to be made for “master” as somehow better than “main” at denoting the, well, main branch. (It could be a tough choice between “default” and “main” though.)

It’s hard to say for sure, but I suspect a lot of the pushback is subconsciously of the “we had to learn obscure terminology, so why should newcomers be spared?” variety.
> We’re going to change the branch name to be more inclusive of minorities

It struck me that GitHub's suggested alternative, "main", could be taken to mean "mainstream", as in not inclusive of minorities. In which case OP's suggested "fuck-github" is by far the more preferable branch name.
Actually, my first association - as a German - with master is the craftsman title "Meister".
U r doing a lot of double-counting here.

The strike price is high, and it is an implicit subsidy. But the construction cost is covered by the constructor. So u cant complain about both of them.

The 1.2GW of renewable runs at ~30% capacity. Nuclear is generally at 90%. So your 3.2GW nuclear is equivalent to 9.6GW renewable !!

Nuclear is too expensive, true, but you are paying for dispatch-ability. Do you want a 50% discount on electricity which only runs 70%/80%/90% of the time?

The 24/mwh was just a presentation slide. Yes, the UK got a shitty deal. But when negotiation started 10 years ago off-shore wind as 500% more expensive. And on-shore wind was banned by politicians.

I love the green stuff. It is cheaper. More scalable. It will win. But we need every nuclear reactor we can get.

/end runt

EDIT: The UK is also x10 more densely populated than the US. Metros such as London or Tokyo are an extra challenge for low-density renewables.
Which is still an empty gesture, that is still leading to wasted time.

FYI github's repo creation tool now defaults to main. A lot of orgs use this tool because they will also use repo templates. I know git, the program, is still defaulting to master.
> Do you know a lot of "left" people who actively speak against the "woke" crowd?

I know of quite a few prominient anti-woke left-leaning people in the UK: Helen Pluckrose, Andrew Doyle, Nick Cohen, Kathleen Stock, and so on.
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In sociology, the term "majority" doesn't refer to proportions of a population, rather it refers to classes of people (economic, racial, religious, among others) that hold power in a community. Likewise a minority isn't the smallest demographic in the population, but anyone who doesn't belong to the social majority under discussion. In sociology, these terms have nothing whatsoever to do with the size of the respective populations (which is super annoying and confusing, to be sure). A social minority can actually make up most of the population, while a social majority can be only a few individuals.

For example, Bahrain is 75% Shia Muslim, but the royal family which controls the government and military are Sunni Muslims. Despite making up the majority of the population, Shia Muslims are religious minorities there since they are regularly subject to various forms of discrimination and repression on the basis of their religious beliefs.

https://www.britannica.com/topic/minority
> git itself changing the default branch name to main was a sufficiently good reason for me to go for main as the default branch name for my projects as well. It's a central project and their decision carries weight, regardless of their motivation.

Git hasn’t changed the default. It’s still master. It’s GitHub that changed their default. The only thing Git has done is make it configurable.
This just feels the wrong, trying to push the new concept of open source that SV created in the past decade to the general public. Most wikipedians are still in early 00s idealism , and will push back against this "dual model" crap, and they will be right.
It's just symbolic, and still part of a consensus forming continuum based on advances in communication across large landmasses.

Black people in America are from many different cultures and are simply people that noticed that they had a shared experience of being excluded from institutions and even entire states.

The terminology simply comes from individuals taking initiative in the moment and saying "they treat everyone that looks like us all the same and we need umbrella terms to acknowledge our shared circumstance so that its easy to refer to ourselves". Other non-black people already had terms for us and these terms were typically also used in the pejorative. Many people consider "black" to be an affliction even today. So what you have is that some black people reject those older terms, some people try to repurpose and "take back" those older terms, some people create new terms, most terms are still in use.

These aren't scientific terms, but they do permeate into academia to convey a shared concept. So there isn't much to read into it except learning what the consensus is, and the history of why it is. But trying to merge it into the lexicon based on pattern recognition with other words will only confuse you.