skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I doubt there are very many people seriously offended by "master", "whitelist", and so on. However, I think we should probably stop using them anyways. The reason is that many people who are introduced to these terms for the first time are likely to have a negative reaction of some sort. Like "is it okay to say that?" or "eww" or "that's not aging well" or whatever. Maybe I reacted that way, or maybe not. The point is, it was long enough ago for me to forget and my tendency is to use them without thinking about their possible connotations to someone (often children) who encounter them for the first time. Until recently when people pointed out that maybe we should use other terms.

This is a small change, but a good one. There are bigger things that need to be changed as well, and we shouldn't use this one thing to pat ourselves on the back for being especially enlightened.

(Regarding those other things: at my employer, some guidance came down to transition away from these terms in our code and documentation, and there was the kind of debate you'd expect in any tech company. I made a comment something along the lines of: "not using master/slave in our technical documents isn't silencing speech. It doesn't mean we can't use the word 'slave' when talking about the real issues of forced labor, it just means we should stop using it in a case where that language is unhelpful and confusing." Fast forward a month or two and we had an opportunity to share questions we had for our CEO during his quarterly business update. I submitted a question about our manufacturing facilities in China and whether we should continue doing business there given the bad things the government is doing to Uighurs. This was removed by a moderator and I got a sternly-worded email about not trolling and complying with (internal) social media guidelines and so on. So, I guess it turns out you can't talk about slavery after all. I don't think there's any correlation between avoiding master/slave in technical communication and corporate hesitancy to allow internal communication about doing business in a country that's causing a major humanitarian crisis. But still, it seems like even companies that are in some ways committed to doing the right thing still behave erratically when it comes to some moral questions.)
Maybe. But the protocol should not set a size limit on the error response.
Paint.net has a plugin that can read LBM, though I haven't tried the extension myself. https://forums.getpaint.net/topic/30238-interchange-file-for...
Avoid Consumer Routers
The lawyers were right!
>Regular people don't start companies

They do, they're called small businesses instead of startups most often times though. I worked at businesses throughout my adolescence which were created and run by "regular people" - people of color, without generational wealth, who were raising children, and were primary caretakers for elderly family at the time of the company's creation.

In the same vein, I've met a lot of "regular people" in the same situation who've kicked off startups. Do you really think only those with the privilege of being sufficiently disconnected from impoverished communities end up having the opportunity to create a startup, or is there some reinterpretation/disconnect of the previous paragraphs going on?
You can still do that on android if you want.
I still like to have an option of walled garden platform where everything is vetted so flashlight app wont dump every single thing that I have on the phone just because it can.

That would be a problem if we would have no choice, but that is not the case.
Slavery which didn't happen in America doesn't count.
Editor engagement concerns are mostly around english wikipedia. English is just a small part of the wikimedia world.

Besides people have been complaining about editor engagement on en for more than a decade now, its not like much has been changing on that front.

[Disclaimer: used to work for WMF. Dont anymore]
It is the only right association because it's the same word coming from "magister" in Latin and which traveled to become maestro in Italian, meister in German, maestre and then maitre in French and finally master in English.
They rather use the proper C counterpart, the CTL, written by a game dev. Nobody should ever use set and unordered_map, and many despise string. btree and the various open hashtables are 10x better than the STL parts, (fuck pointer and iter stability), string only recently got improved via string_view.
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It's a nonprofit: https://codepath.org/about
Related discussion "Introducing the Wikimedia Enterprise API": https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26484080
A useful adjunct would be being able to supply part numbers from scrap. I have a dead thinkpad x30, I can't boot it to submit to bsd telemetry. If I could log the parts...
It's not like a chunk of plutonium just gives you 1.21GW in electricity you can plug into the grid. The fuel in nuclear is extremely cheap for the power it gives you. It's the rest of the system needed to safely extract that power and turn it into usable electricity that's expensive (whereas converting wind and solar to electricity is fairly cheap).
I'm in no way a native speaker - but even I recognize that in English 'master' has - and always had - many different meanings. One of them completely equal to the German 'Meister'.

It is all about context. Question is, why certain groups emphasize - or better: impose deceivingly by altering him - the wrong context to a crystal-clear situation.
So what? There are lots of people of "color" in this world, and most of us don't need our time wasted because some emotionally challenged persons have nothing more productive to do than obsess over how some APIs can conform better to their desires.

The funny thing is that this whole tradeoff of breaking an API to make it better is nothing new; The woke is just bullying everyone by asking the tradeoff to be ignored completely in their favor.
I got used to using main quickly and have to say, its much shorter than master and writes nicer.

Was the time and effort worth it?

Honestly, i have an opinion but i don't want to take a stance; My company paid me for changing it so who am i to complain?
Why Clubhouse is going to fail
I appreciate the empathy, I hope that my thoughts can help people direct energy in more productive ways.
No. I'm saying I don't feel the need to protect any side [+] from being called names. I'm saying people who live in glass houses shouldn't throw stones. That kind of stuff.

[+] note how you just assumed "the other side", and the existence of exactly 2 sides.
More relevant discussion is here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26484080
The robots will be making better AAA games than humans before they're able to clean a house as well as a human.
The 1997 version of the IAT (the test you're talking about) actually used names associated with Black and White American people.

Interestingly enough, there was one paper that concluded that some of the responses to the test was driven by the prior associations between the colours themselves, rather than the racial part.
Wikipedia is already in 300+ different languages...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:SiteMatrix
I'm curious what support you think 1440p needs specially or where you think Linux falls down? I've got a 1440p primary monitor for my desktop and the only device to have issues with it is my PS4 pro which only supports 1080p or 4k video out even though 4k mode if often upscaled 1440p
> The 2 piece cases greatly reduced the cost of the product, though their design was rather drab and unappealing compared to the more stylish, yet more expensive XL case designs. The keyboards were another shortcoming of the design. They were mushy and lacked solid tactile rebound to them and this was a major complaint for many users.

Don't really agree with this. I had an 800XL and I thought the grey XE series was much more stylish and modern in design. The brown/beige was very old-fashioned. In fact I think the ST series was one of the best looking computers of its time. Definitely much better than the Amiga 500 (which I did own)

The keyboards had better feedback on the 800XL but the keys were much heavier there. The XE was more like a modern keyboard.
On the other hand, “family” comes from Latin “familia” (household servants) from “famulus” (servant).
How fintech is driving financial inclusion
What's the difference between 'anecdotal evidence' and a 'lived experience'?
Told you how useless this branch change was to bring this 'inclusivity' in. Nothing but woke virtue-signalling as a whole. They want real change not solidarity stunts like this. GitHub and everyone else might as well have done nothing instead of bringing this attention to themselves.

This fallacious logic of 'If you are silent, you are against us' or 'Your silence is violence' means that when we are still waiting for Mastercard to change their name, at the same time they are also virtue signalling for 'inclusivity' as well. One can just say: 'Why haven't you changed your offensive name yet?' 'Since they are still silent about this demand, they are probably still against us and what we believe in.'.

It is better to ignore them in the first place rather than give in to their ridiculous demands and copy their virtue signalling stunts which achieve absolutely nothing.
Probably a dumb question, everything in my sphere is active directory - why would you have more than one identity provider?
Pfizer I think it's like $20 a shot (need 2), Moderna $30 or so, at least at this stage when they can't make them fast enough
Though I share your sentiments, that pattern worked very well at infecting machines with malware for 20 years because the average user is a bad judge of which sites to trust to install software on their device.

Then again, app stores haven't solved the malware problem, and neither have solutions like trusted publishers / signing executables / etc. I look forward to seeing a solution that isn't worst-of-both-worlds.
And yet that's far from the majority of where energy for bitcoin mining comes from. It's still mostly fossil fuel sources (miners don't shut down their miners just because their cheapest energy goes away).
It's funny how the word "traditional" is thrown around. A traditional marriage in the biblical or medieval sense treated women as property, which is probably much closer to what Andy Rubin was up to than a consensual BDSM relationship!

Really the only point I want to make is that we shouldn't lump consensual "non-mainstream" relationships with abusive ones and call it "those freaks over there".
These individuals generally share something in common. Whilst I think that "woke mob" may be a bit harsh, arguing that this isn't a group of people (regardless of they themselves think they are a group) is counterproductive. Having a name just makes it easier to talk about this. This isn't about pigeonholing, not any more than labeling people as "far right" or "antifa" is pigeonholing.
https://github.com/nicbou/timeline

Something that displays your personal history on a timeline: photos, geolocation, social media, searches, browsing history, transactions, chats etc.

My goal was to have a repository of my personal data that isn't controlled by a third party. I can use it as a much more contextual diary, and as a way to locate things in time (e.g. purchases, motorcycle maintenance). It's both interesting and useful.

It's inspired by my travel diaries, Google History, my photo stream, and the notebook that sits on my desk.

It's live since a while, but I'm still working on adding new sources of data.

Theres also https://github.com/nicbou/homeserver, my personal streaming service. It's in production since a few years. Recently, I added a watch party mode (WebSockets!) and updated the reencoding logic to waste less disk space.
Ok I get it.... any recommendations for acceptable routers?
The idiotic culture war is media led: https://www.tabletmag.com/sections/news/articles/media-great...

> In 2011, just 35% of white liberals thought racism in the United States was “a big problem,” according to national polling. By 2015, this figure had ballooned to 61% and further still to 77% in 2017.
Insta Hard Insta Hard
Insta Hard

Though it can be obtained without a prescription, InstaHard uses many clinical strength ingredients that are typically found in pharmacies; the fact that this can currently be obtained online so easily is really quite a head-scratcher. However, I can’t complain as I’d much rather just go through a normal checkout process rather than go through a doctor.

https://www.bignewsnetwork.com/news/268128923/insta-hard---does-it-really-work-read-shocking-reviews-price-to-buy
they lost negotiating power when they left EU so now they make up for it with nukes. so the strength of the EU is about 40% extra nukes.

"but won't other countries also increase their nukes/other weapons". yes, yes they will.
I agree that the intense focus on changing names and appearances in general is at best a waste of time. It's a very US/UK-centric discussion.

"Master/slave" has no relevance at all in many countries like Sweden where serfdom (träldom) was forbidden or else ended in the 13th century and never involved foreign peoples.

"Whitelisting" and "blacklisting" have never been associated with skin pigmentation. This seems like a paranoid interpretation.

Meanwhile, the real problems still remain. I will say that I think even the author makes a serious mistake in framing the discussion around skin color.

These ideas about race that prevail in the discussion are not helpful and stem from poor scientific work in the 18th to 20th century.

The genetic diversity of Africa is more diverse than the rest of the world (https://www.geneticsandsociety.org/article/study-africans-mo...).

To refer to all as "black" (or worse, "Black" with a capital B) is a simplification that has no relevance today.
Am I? I personally haven't met a single left-leaning adult who doesn't think Twitter's "cancel culture" has gotten out of hand. However, I've never lived in the bay area, where I understand things may be different.

Can you say anything to demonstrate to me that it really is more than just a vocal minority of people?

Perhaps we have different definitions of "cancel culture"? I don't consider the fall of e.g. Louis C.K. to be an example of cancel culture, but rather a clear-cut case of someone in a position of authority abusing their power, and rightfully losing public support for it. I do think the master vs main issue is silly, though. I'm not sure where you draw draw the line between "cancel culture" and "social consequences for toxic / abusive behavior in public".
We already claimed it during the sub prime lending fiasco.
> The attack vector only works for Landlines, VOIP, Toll-free.

I'm confused, didn't the article say "A few minutes after they entered my T-Mobile number into Sakari, Lucky225 started receiving text messages that were meant for me"? T-Mobile is a normal cellular carrier here isn't it? What part of it required a VOIP line?

P.S. You can edit your old comments instead of leaving 4 different ones in the same thread.

EDIT: Looking at this 5-day-old user's history, I think it's safe to say we shouldn't take the comments at face value:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26455000

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26472770

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26464287
That goes for literally any group of people though. SJW, Proud Boys, Antifa, Islamic State, Nazis, the CIA, Drug Cartels. They're all made up of individuals, yet I doubt you want to reserve judgement on individual's membership unless you know what exactly they were doing and do believe for most of those.
Also, the program written in COBOL often comes with an ecosystem that can be harder to port than the code itself. Record vs stream oriented filesystems, batch job subsystems, file transfers, block mode terminals, and so on.
The problem lies not in that you are wrong in concluding that these people are adherents of leftists ideologies (most are), but that you are falling for the pars pro toto fallacy: people who think that 'master' is an offensive word to use in a source code repository are 'left/liberal', thus all or most of 'the left/liberals' are such people.

You are saying 'this group thinks' as if all people who would identify as adhering to leftist ideologies (from the extremes to common social democracy) act like this. You are trying to stuff people into boxes: you are either team A or team B. That is polarization; something we can sorely do without.
You mean spend more time screaming at the other side on twitter, egged on by GPT-13?
And yet you've ignored the person you're responding to in their claim that turkish immigrants don't send their children to the same schools.

I'm all for give and take but I wouldn't want the "give" to result in backwards steps for woman's rights being imported from the countries of origin
I think op is pricing correctly (installed capacity rather than energy generated).

A typical domestic solar installation in the UK costs around £6000 for a 4kW system, which works out at around £1500 per kW installed capacity. This makes the Apple's schemes seem pretty expensive in comparision, especially as one would expect large schemes to benefit from economies of scale.

But, as mentioned, we don't know how much of the fund has directly gone into building renewable energy schemes so it's not a fair comparison.
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I mean, an interesting question that gets underreported is: what is the rate at which searches of black people find evidence, vs white people, per search? Police just want crimes (ironically); if one visually identifiable population group gives them more crimes, they'll preferentially search that one. Hell, it's even worse - if you see a crowd, and you know that, for instance, to pull numbers out of my ass, black people are 10% more likely to be carrying drugs than white people, it's in your rational (if racist) interest as a police officer to always preferentially search black people over white people - just like how if a coin comes up heads 60% of the time, you guess heads every time, not 60%.

The solution is drug law reform and changing the incentives of the police away from maximizing case count.
Not middle class. That include plumbers, mechanics, and other skilled technicians that really do have to work hard for their living.

SV is stuffed full of upper-middle-class, a category that is more different than the name would imply. These folks (including me) had the luxury of “not knowing what I want to do in college” (or even attending college in the first place) and getting to bounce around until we find something that sticks. Or go to medical/law/graduate school and take on hundreds of thousands of dollars of debt then work a free internship or residency before being able to command a salary that pays off that debt.

It’s a different world from the middle class.
Same here, I had an XL and I did find the XE much better looking. Computers were a future thing, a futuristic design was a much better fit than the brown/beige that harked back at the wooden panels of the first-gen home computers.
There's no reason why a web app can't work in offline mode.

Think of a web browser as the ultimate App Store -- you navigate to any "app" by using your search engine of choice or by passing around links to the "apps" via email / messaging. Then, you bookmark your "app" so that it's available with one click.

Offline storage, offline compute, notifications, etc. are all things that we can do via web APIs just as easily as proprietary vendor code.

Sure, some things might need native experiences, but those are definitely the exception, not the rule. Even games and navigation and real-time video can be accomplished via web-only APIs.
Please change your password policy. Correctly used long dictionary word-based passwords[1] are no worse than mumbo jumbo alphanumeric 3 symbol and 5 non repeating emojis requirement.

[1]https://diceware.dmuth.org/ also https://xkcd.com/936/
Surely that can't be right, Steve Ballmer once did a long dance number to convince me I was important to Microsoft.
Create a JDBC driver over rest APIs
Why CDMA will die (2006)
> and you get a SMS as you expected during the login process

They could also ask you to enter the code from your hardware token, and accept whatever code you type. Phishing is a different story, not really related to SMS.

> Also, in most countries with any sort of number portability a minimum wage employee at a phone store is authorised to override this

I don't know about other countries, but here in Israel when you port to a different network a code gets sent to the number you're porting, which you need to provide to the new network.

Where there might be an issue is if you claim to have lost your SIM card. This happened to my wife recently - they did give her a new one in the store, but I instantly got an email telling me about it, so it's not so easy to do that undetected.
Same in Swedish: Mästare. Magister is also a word used in Sweden for teachers at schools.
It is a politically correct term, yes. For now.
One of the worst production issues I have ever had
I stopped meditating when I wasn't able to laugh any more. I was at a friend's house, sitting comfortably on a couch. I passed my phone and showed my friend and his girlfriend a funny video. They were laughing out loud and so was I, until I became conscious that I was laughing. Similar as to how meditation requires you to be conscious of your breathing. I immediately stopped laughing, and became super serious. Fortunately they didn't look at me and were glued to the screen. It felt remarkably uncomfortable. I tried to laugh again but couldn't, hoping they wouldn't notice. Fortunately I could remain composure and go along but I was desperate to get out of there. At that moment I decided to stop meditating and replace it with going for a walk in nature.
> 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

Are you talking about the PC? Because that sounds a lot like the PC to me :)
My and your progressive peers would say "Don't let perfect be the enemy of good".

How would you argue against that?
That sounds like curation/highlighting, not modification.

Seems like "manipulated" is EMA code-speak for "published the parts that make us look bad".
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Fossils in an ice core rewrite Greenland’s icy past
we find new more specialized jobs, but fewer than we automate, we also create more 'jobs' to replace the jobs that are gone with some completely redundant human activity and pretend its a job
Very good read. Thanks a lot for sharing.
He's saying Lucky225 lied to market his service https://okeymonitor.com/ in the article.
Some of the nicest people I know work for drug cartels, you really should stop bundling them in with the CIA.
Technically, we probably could, but would often need workarounds for code which changes the initial condition such as,

i = 0
if i <= 0:
i += 1
else:
i -= 1

You could of course solve this in various ways, for example something like:

condition = i <= 0
if condition:
i += 1
if not condition:
i -= 1

But i don't find that to read as well as an else block. Also restating longer conditions which we don't change in the then-block to mimic an else with an if seems like a waste of spacetime.
I actually knew my comment was following essentially the same game-theory as the woke, like almost every single complaint on the internet. The difference in targets' deservability is apparent to me.

Edited: removed snark