skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm 28 and singular-they was taught to me in school; year 2 of English as I said. This is in France which doesn't even have a great track record in producing anglophones.

In French, there is a gender-neutral He and I can assure you you it is nothing like the English one. We quite literally have two very distinct and incompatible "il" ("he") words; the neutral one better translates to "it". (Il pleut => He is raining [sic] => It is raining).

In unknowns, French genders to masculine by default, though some people may choose to disambiguate if targeting a group of people (Same as saying 'He or she' in English).

French has plurals for both "he" and "she" ('hes' and 'shes' => "ils", "elles"). In English, you'd translate both to "they", because you simply do not have plural gender pronouns to work with. "Ils et elles" => "They".

Translating back to french without the disambiguation, we use "Ils". But again, not the masculine one, the distinctly-neutral-albeit-grammatically-masculine-because-french-has-no-neutral-gender one. Which is simply the plural of "it". However, because it's dehumanizing/objectifying to refer to a person as "it", English uses "they".

So there you go:

- Je / Tu / Il / Elle / (Il|Il) => I / You / He / She / (It|They)
- Nous / Vous / Ils / Elles / Ils => We / You / They / They / They.

In English, this is all honestly very instinctive. There are only seven distinct pronouns! But that doesn't mean anglophones don't get to think about how to use them in all different circumstances… "they" is a multi-use tool, just like "you".
Google argues the Huawei ban would hurt its Android monopoly
The email address isn't the user identifier. If you don't want email, don't ask for email. When you make the request, you can ask for email and/or full name, or ask for neither if all you want is the opaque token that identifies the user (and the one bit that says whether Apple thinks it's a real person).
Right, there’s nothing the developers can do to avoid this. Because it’s the users making the choice. They choose to give Apple this power, or not. You are essentially arguing that they will choose incorrectly, and that developers should be able to force them to choose correctly because users won’t think it through. By a strange coincidence, the “correct” choice is also the one that allows developers to track and spam users.

Here’s a crazy idea: if you don’t want your users giving you a private forwarding address, give them some reason to trust you with their real one, instead of saying they’re idiots who don’t know what’s best for themselves.
Hack things apply crypto locker and unlock after the user does a a free cyber security training course.
For someone who grew up in the middle of nowhere Florida, being able to walk somewhere that had not just a book or 2 on any technical topic imaginable but 2 SHELVES full was amazing.
I like to look at it from a different perspective:

Programming has mostly looked the same since we moved away from punchcards, and it seems worthwhile exploring different approaches (eg visual programming) and augmentations to the existing system. Now that we have UTF-8, it's trivial to represent all sorts of characters and use them for coding, and it's only natural that some people try.

Now, while I personally haven't seen a convincing application of using non-ascii beyond comments, that doesn't mean they don't exist. And if people come up with such a way, and a large number of people decide it's a good idea, then tooling in whatever form will follow and make using this new style of coding easy.

I feel like arguing that this should never be done because people don't know where to find the symbols is a bit like arguing we shouldn't build electric vehicles because we don't have a charger network on highways yet..
That "formula" allows the service to identify you the user because it's your domain (or group you into a subset of users if you share the domain with other people). Apple's relay service right now gives the application zero new information about you.
Faith is not belief in something without evidence, it’s belief in something without proof. The mere existence of evidence does not constitute proof.
The leaked game source code:

https://github.com/philosophofee/SBSPSS/blob/5c41694e561de9c...

The Linux kernel code:

https://github.com/zavg/linux-0.01/blob/5839d67d5825265fc665...
Can you point to anyone who was tricked? I signed up for that program myself. It was very clear what I had signed up for. I wasn't tricked into it any more than a Nielsen family is tricked into getting paid to use a Nielsen box.
Almost every nation has fallen under the yoke of tyranny – the metric system
Time for strong anti-trust enforcement or at least some competition among land line ISPs
“Oh, You’re a Data Something?”: The Misunderstood Role of a Data Engineer
From the little development I have done in Rust, I have to agree.

On the other hand, I’ve been working with react-Native and typescript recently, and it’s a constant mess. Every invocation of yarn leaves at least a couple of warning messages about things that are out of my control. Installing packages is slow and at least every few days I have to wipe out node_modules and nuke any iOS build folders in order to get it working again. That said, RN is promising technology and hopefully my frustrations are due to more inexperience than the tools or language and ecosystem. I just wish all of the JavaScript stuff were faster. I’m on a gigabit connection and fast hardware but still it seems sometimes yarn has to download or unpack 6500 files or something
We are desperately screwing up this planet, but, man, that is not science. That is a bunch of pretty pics from an expedition.

The ice breaks up every year. They're observing weather, not climate.

All the superlatives come from anecdotal observation and that is not science--there's no control group. We have zero idea if we're looking at long period fluctuations.

Meanwhile, we're looking at an arthropod apocalypse, a bug barbecue, a mass extinction. We have evidence for that one, because we can observe populations separated far enough apart to be isolated from local variations.

We have evidence of plastic in the ocean. Of drug-resistant organisms. Of the loss of biodiversity. We can see what we're doing to this planet out every window. Where are the monarchs? Where are the frogs?

In short, we have overwhelming evidence for every environmental atrocity taking place right now... except for climate change.

Focusing on climate change is just a convenient way of temporizing while we debate the evidence.

Doing nothing about a future problem while staring out the window at a mass extinction is just peak stupidity.
Captain Hector isn't the issue. You never got the 4th wall break?
Radio Shack should buy Maker Faire.
Assets do sometimes just go nowhere.
>A page with other prototypes and builds from this company may be seen here:

That is an insane amount of data! Very impressive.
> cognitive segfault

That’s a nice simile.
Taiwan, EU establish high-level dialogue on digital economy
What company/service are you using in Boston?
I didn't say it was a free lunch. ~99% of a free lunch, which is what proper spreading codes buy you, is good enough.

Point being, the obstacles are regulatory, not technical.
The article makes a point that the books length is largely due to establishing extensive proof that IMB's direct involvement and management over Dehomag throughout the war means they would have known exactly what the various uses of their systems were...

If an American company was making and selling trains to Germany during the war specifically tailored for transporting people in large quantities knowing what they were using it for, then I imagine most people would see multiple issues with that.

I admit I've only read the article, not the book but it seems hard to match your statements and "I think i've read the book" with the articles description of it.
That’s great—as long as that token can’t be trivially re-randomized and huge bonus points if that “real person bit” is a thing.

I haven’t investigated Facebook or Google SSO in depth (I always considered it a bit distasteful to participate in making these behemoths more indispensable) but if they offer some useful metadata that allows me to exclude G/FB accounts which are inauthentic or freshly created, I might look into it too.
Does "Sbd" stand for something, or is that your username?
It doesn't help in convincing them to release things, but the cracks and other things that the pirates develop help the archival purposes. Because a number of the DRM and other anti-piracy stuff that's bundled, once a company goes out of business it's nearly impossible to run some of these games if they had to call home to verify the copy of the game. People removing these checks helps preserve the game for future use once the company is no more.

For a great example of this, take a look at City Of Heroes, and MMORPG that's had a relatively recent revival after someone, somehow getting a hold of the data/code for the server and managing to get it running again. https://www.pcgamer.com/a-fully-functioning-city-of-heroes-p...

The company itself went out of business back in 2012, and otherwise the game itself was just gone.
What I Witnessed in 1989 in Beijing
Walk softly on the Earth.
That fine is roughly $20.44 per violation. Its less than 5% of the damages sought by the AG; does anyone know why it's so low relative to what the AG wanted? I'm curious if the judge felt the fine was excessive, or if the judge didn't find them culpable on many of the things the AG charged them with.
You can use private mode which requires logging in.

For public instances, you can contact the server about setting up / using WebIRC to handle multiple connections from the same box.
Toyota speeds up electric vehicle schedule as demand heats up
Maker Media Ceases Operations
Make and the reprints will forever be one of those things that's inspiring to read. In reality, outside of Chinese factories there aren't communities of mechanically inclined tech savvy people interested in spending their time putting together other people's EE projects. Anyone capable of completing a Make project is unlikely to want to follow along and retrace someone else's project unless there's a real incentive to do so, such as saving money or building something that's impossible to buy.
The only thing I've ever wanted from Explorer is... being able to see how big a directory is in the file size column.
Google's and Microsoft's sign in PMs should be ashamed they hadn't implemented this already. Giving a stable email to all services leaks valuable information that would be more lucrative for them to keep to themselves.
This is an amazing design exercise, but the thing about Win10 that really pushes my buttons is the Control Panel/Settings conundrum. Each version it seems another feature gets added into the real settings app but still needing to open an old-themed dialog to change mouse settings of all things seems odd.
It's not like mouse settings are an obscure feature. I'm not sure why a higher emphasis on cohesiveness isn't noted.
The low-contrast sidebar and flat colors sure look like they belong in Windows 10. But what about the features? The README doesn't mention any features. If anything, a flat-looking screenshot these days makes me instantly suspect that the product might be lacking in features.
High end real estate in greater NYC area is deflating.
> if they were wise and not trying to be authoritarian or controlling

Well, that IF is how you end your own argument.

In China, most of us don't give a deep thought on privacy and personal .* (personal freedom, personal rights etc). Because of this, I don't believe people here would build an OS to protect people's privacy and many other rights. You just don't have the base and market to do that here.

I think even if HongmengOS is not just a smoke, the best they could do is probably just a "better" Android "knock off". So I personally don't give that OS any high hope.

But I do have a little hope of course. As a Chinese myself, my hope is that their OS can be fully open sourced, so tech communities can learn how to build a OS from them, and maybe later fork it to fit people's own needs (for example: add privacy focused features).

My another hope is, maybe in the future, more and more (small) phone manufacturers will start to build phones that could run multiple OSs, like what Purism is trying to do. That way user will have more freedom in terms of choice.

Don't know which of my hope is likely to come true, we'll see. (I guess Purism is a better bet because they are making progress as we speak)
Maybe it also shows the terrorists are very weak, as usual. Seems like 3 guys on motorbikes could have burned out half of California last summer.
Why the heck would Google itself need this kind of SEO junk?

Why not just let people search by app (and book) description text (does it really not work this way already?)?
PinePhone $149 Linux Smartphone Could Support Ubuntu, Sailfish, Maemo, LuneOS
It isn't 191 characters?!?! https://github.com/rails/rails/issues/9855#issuecomment-2887... https://github.com/rails/rails/issues/30305

Kidding. I have used 191 as a length because of that though. :)
I bought my graduate physics textbooks there
I disliked him by the second paragraph. What a monument he built there, to whom he thinks is a most awesome and impressive person. Sadly he thinks it's himself.
Your job made you take time out of your regular workday? How many hours are you working, weekly?
You can go direct via cruise ship out of Houston.
Actual idea: Treat your local bookstore like a library. They don't care if you read their books as long as you stay in store and are respectful. Plus they have actual up to date selection with no waiting list for new releases. And spending money at the cafe is probably higher margin for them anyway.
It had the feel of a non-profit. It's too bad they can't rework Make magazine into something PBS would be into.
Tokyo Station’s new guidance robot is extremely terrifying, pretty helpful
“Although this image serves as an illustration of the impact of reflections from satellite constellations, please note that the density of these satellites is significantly higher in the days after launch (as seen here) and also that the satellites will diminish in brightness as they reach their final orbital altitude.”
What Does Uber's IPO Mean for Didi? The War for Global Mobility Dominance
Small nitpick, the Mac Pro and iMac Pro are 2 different products.
This is important context in which to examine Salesforce and Amazon's complicity in the gross injustices perpetrated by ICE/CBP.
I once went to Dussmann in Berlin (https://www.kulturkaufhaus.de). IMO, this is what a modern bookstore should be like.
Breaks my heart. I've been a subscriber since the beginning and I've got issue 1 sitting on the shelf just to my left.

I've got a list of things I want to make as a result of reading Make Magazine that would last me 5 lifetimes. If this is, indeed, the end, huge thanks to the entire crew at Maker Media (and the hundreds that contributed to Make Magazine over the years). You did what you did as well as it can be done.
Show HN: Uplink – Build useful, structured Web API clients with sync or async IO
> How come no Russian cosmonauts have reported this?

May have reported but is kept as a state secret? Also, it could be in russian which we can't understand.
The missing up button is a bad sign.
You can build a lot of PC for $800.
I create unique email addresses per service. The pain is in autocompleting email inputs in signup forms. It will suggest a bunch of email addresses that I used on other services and not a new one to use for this service.
That used to be more of a thing in the 1990s. The big chains used to have lots of seating, even sofas, and as a fast reader who can read a typical 300 page book in a couple of hours, I used to spend most of my weekends reading books for free in big bookstores. They've wised up. There isn't a lot of seating these days.
popcnt is all over the place once you start doing any interesting bitwise stuff at all.
I feel like nuclear is the only (realistic) option we really have that'll help us navigate the gap between our current, and a more sustainable, less pollutant form of energy use.

It's a shame there's such a fear of it. I really think that most if not all energy efforts should be invested into nuclear immediately. That'll help buy us the time we need to get to sustainable renewables, or push us to master nuclear to the point that energy traded off against safety is no longer a concern.
So not on AWS, then? Hence "on the cloud", I never said it was impossible in your garage.
It is. For example, it uses LSTM, which is obsolete now.
This quote can be interpreted in an intelligence-positive way, to encourage you to learn by writing the cleverest possible code.

I would claim that any clever final result can be accomplished without any need for intermediate cleverness. Things that look clever to other people but are intuitive to you might be OK. Things that look clever to you should be avoided when possible.
That's not how asset sales work. The new copyright owner wouldn't be liable for the previous copyright owner's actions. And if the new copyright owner isn't distributing binaries that include the GPL code they haven't violated the GPL.
Racket has by far the best I have ever used.

Here is everything you need to know about it in a 7 minute read.

https://docs.racket-lang.org/pkg/getting-started.html
Me either. Of course, now the last four Python packaging systems are obsolete. ("What about eggs? easy install? .egg-info directories? Forget them. They are legacy.")

The consistent problem with all these systems is that when (not if) an install fails, figuring out what to do is very difficult.
They started as a ridiculous way to stand out, transitioned on to basically self-parody, then once the novelty wore off everyone just went "huh, why not use a sentence as a title?"

Once it stopped being weird it turned out that shoving a short description of your story into the title is a good way to grab readers.
As a reader, I find it slow and cluttered. It may have advantages for publishers, but I only open Medium links when strictly necessary.
For all of those common OSes, either Python 2 is no longer installed by default or a plan to do that in the near future has been announced. Many of those are preparing no longer to offer Python 2 at all, though few have already dropped it. I don't think RHEL 9, Debian 11, Ubuntu 20.04 LTS, Windows's new Python stub after the EOL date passes, or 1-2 major versions of macOS in the future will offer it.

Yes, OS vendors will temporarily offer some transition past EOL for the versions they ship. But only temporarily, and only in limited form.
At Last (Etta James Cover Live)
Whoa! That seems like a MUCH larger story!
Firefox disabled WebP in version 66
Only if both get acquired by a Yahoo/Barnes and Noble merger
I think bidding tends to just be about what the advertiser cares most about. If they are a "brand" advertiser (Coca-Cola is the canonical example) they might bid per impression since they're not really looking for clicks, and they have some idea of how much an impression is worth to them. Compared to say some app where they want installs and so might bid per conversion.

As for the network, it's also not as clear what's profitable. Bidding per click or conversion probably gives them more opportunity to do well with good targeting. But high per-impression bids are also useful for the users the network knows very little about.
Check out the Arduino Leonardo for your son. It can emulate a USB HID input device (keyboard, mouse, joystick, etc). So your son can create custom controllers for his games. Just map GPIO to keys & analog pins to xyz scrolling & you’re off & running :-)
I thought for a moment Microsoft had uploaded some new Windows Explorer source code and got excited... I guess that tells you how different an era we live in. It wouldn’t be a huge leap.

The screenshots look nice, though. I can’t say I am really a huge fan of UWP UIs on desktop... but this looks alright.
Nope. Absolutely not. Cargo makes the simple things easy but is less thought out than Rust itself.
5K is a price outlier. LG Display are the only panel manufacturer, and they appeared in very few retail products. It just didn't become an industry standard size (8K has a better chance).

You can buy a 4K screen with the same pixel density for under 300USD, from a well-known brand.

You can buy four of those for less than that single 5K display. So I would suggest dual 4K.
$9.1M fine, while Comcast makes profits upward of $35B/year. This is like getting a speeding ticket for them.
The co-ops seem to do OK. Dallas, Houston, and Austin all have large and thriving hackerspaces.
Where are Maker spaces in the bay?
Only one I remotely know of that still exists is Hackerdojo.
I’ve had a minor bone with make media over their ownership of the term “makerfaire”. To me, a makerfaire is a generic term that has absolutely nothing to do with the magazine.

Our local hackerspace tried to organize a makerfaire, and when we found out how much we had to pay to make media to use that name (I don’t remember the specifics, but it was enough to make us all reel back a bit) we ended up just changing the name to maker “fest” instead.

It’s very sad that the magazine is also dying :(, but I have always been a bit salty of make media’s attempt to own the term “maker”. Perhaps this saltiness was more common in the community. It honestly soured me against any of their products.

I still think that what they did was amazing, but there was just always that little sourness in the back of my mind when I’d recommend their publication to anybody. I think there is a lesson in there about branding. To my mind, allowing thousands of volunteers all over the world to throw “maker faires” is like a dream come true for a magazine like that. It’s a huge amount of advertising and brand association for them. If it was me, I would have put together an open set of graphics and styles for people to use at all of the maker faires, to make sure that every single one of those events was associated with my magazine.
"Tounge" really grinds my gears, I don't know why.
What's the rush? The instructions can be emulated in the meantime at a passable speed.
Not really a completely fair comparison. With FB / Google, most people at least have the hope of migrating away using setting the email / phone (Google provides this, FB doesn't) as username.

If Apple tells you to take a hike, and then subsequently disables the email redirect -- you're completely SOL. You'd have no way to reach out to the user anymore, unless you took other identifying bits of info. And if you did that anyway, that defeats the purpose of AppleID to begin with.

Most users will probably not even be tracking what autogenerated email they're using, hence you no longer have a way to reliably reconcile what user had which account.

Regarding the GMail specific case though, I fully agree. Being banned by GMail is a company ending thing.
ESports Token EBoost to Be Listed on Binance DEX
The randomly generated email is a user choice, they can also provide their real email. The randomly generated one would not work for things like slack sso etc.
The article could have simply said, "Mozilla intends to comply with the European General Data Protection Regulation".