skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
First of all I don’t think telling someone that they should be more like the opposite gender has ever been well received. I dispute your point that telling a woman to be more like a man is less of an insult than the opposite statement.

I also think you’re downplaying the importance of mothers not just in the family unit but in society as a whole. Mother’s Day has always been a bigger deal than Father’s Day. Aside from optics the personal influence that a mother has traditionally had over children of both genders is second to none. That’s very powerful. Having a career isn’t very powerful for most people. You have multiple layers of people above you (your “superiors”) that have a very large amount of control over your life in exchange for a potentially livable wage. You can be fired at any time, for almost any reason. I don’t think divorce happens as easily.
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Every time you avoid gender pronouns in conversation your peers think less of you and will avoid you.
I completely sympathize with that line of thought, but if I take that position to its logical ends then I find myself nihilistic.
I don't get it. "their" in this sentence clearly refers to "everybody", which is plural.
The part that throws me is verbs. "They want to go for a walk." If we're referring to just one person then it seems it should be "they wants to go for a walk." It sounds horribly wrong but do we really want plural verb forms to also be singular sometimes?

Historically, I guess that's how we've always done it. But now, for people who prefer non-gender-specific pronouns, does it make sense to use plural verb forms when describing their actions, and singular verb forms for everybody else? Won't that get confusing sometimes?

Maybe we should bite the bullet and start treating singular "they" as singular.
The serious answer is that in normal colloquial English, they was typically only used as a singular pronoun when talking about an unknown person; for example:

A: Somebody called asking for you.

B: Oh, what did they want?

This has always sounded perfectly natural in colloquial English (at least in the US; I can't speak for other countries). Contrast with the following:

A: Joe called asking for you.

B: Oh, what did they want?

This construction is slowly becoming more widespread, but would have sounded absolutely bizarre and ungrammatical to most native speakers (regardless of literacy/education) before the movement for gender-identity inclusiveness became mainstream, because people didn't really conceive of the possibility of knowing a specific person but not being able refer to them as "he" or "she".

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In response to sibling comments: I think this explanation is a lot more convincing than any variant of "singular they is (or was) wrong". There are two very different kinds of singular they, which elicit very different grammaticality responses from native English speakers.
The software has also degraded significantly. It’s an all around lowering of quality.
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it will never be more popular than fb because they don't have the user base. And this only applies for new signups, generally there is no option to switch from fb sign in -> apple sign in.
The problem is that as a lazy person, waiting a day or two for something to be delivered straight to my doorstep is less effort than having to go to a store to pick something up.
> There isn’t much of a difference between Flutter controls and native controls

Except they're not actually native controls. They're reimplementations of them. It is a very important distinction.
It is like a child that believes no one can see him because he has covered his eyes.
'Everybody' is singular, and 'their' is (generally) plural. One way to resolve that conflict would be to rewrite the second clause to say "...as one ought to do when one falls into deep water in one's clothes". Using 'one' isn't very common in North America in my experience.
I think it's somewhat unreasonable to believe that, in the sense that Apple is pretty explicitly using their clout to make it much harder for companies to do this.

When a company blocks Mailinator, they're giving up a pretty small number of users -- those who know about Mailinator, use it, and refuse to sign up for a service that blocks it. Since Sign In with Apple is required for any iOS app that supports 3rd-party login, any company (with an app, which is mostly what this is all about anyway) that decides to block this new type of authentication will be forced to either give up all 3rd-party login options (costing them existing users who sign in this way and increasing the cost to acquire new ones), or give up their iOS app -- in either case, this probably means giving up a large number of users.
They is overwhelmingly used for plural. See how the wikipedia article starts:

> They is the third-person plural personal pronoun (subjective case) in Modern English.

And only after that:

> Although still controversial,[citation needed] and not officially accepted in formal context,[citation needed] it is also used with singular meaning, sometimes to avoid specifying the gender of the person referred to: see gender neutrality in language.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/They
Yeah, that seems crazy. There are ~125 million U.S. households. We buy a ton of stuff from Amazon (not toilet paper, to be sure) and that's ~100 orders (so even fewer packages) per year. The average household is going to get an Amazon / Walmart / Costco package every single day?
The gender neutral singular pronoun in German "es" is the same as the english "it". And it would be weird to apply it to a person in both languages.
Using DSSS as a crutch in lieu of careful frequency planning is really short-sighted.
What's confusing? Shipping a book from a warehouse is cheaper and maintaining a website is cheaper than setting up and selling from a physical store. If I order a book online, I don't want to subsidize the walk in customers.
You do know that most hourly jobs have you clock in and out either at a kiosk or computer? This is just using facial recognition instead of a password to clock in and out.
The take away here is to never do anything nice for Twitter because they won't reciprocate and won't even return your emails.
The incentive is that the vendor will not be allowed to publish new app updates if they fail to participate.
Thanks, I'll dig in! Is this limited to floating point? That doesn't surprise me nearly as much.
Ever met an angry old white man?
Maybe you ended up ordering on Amazon on principle, but FWIW you can order from B&N online and do in-store pickup
Wait, how do they build dc? Is there a B compiler for 64-bit systems?
> You should not be relying on system installed interpreters, because you end up with an ancient, unmaintained version.

On the other hand, if you can bundle dependencies with your code, you are sure that a certain version of the language will be present and to some degree, you can just rely on that.
Try unfollowing the bots, influencers, and propaganda pushers.
Depends little bit, what you want. I don't like irssi too much, but for something over gnu screen or tmux this is pretty usable for longer sessions, collecting channel conversations (so, poor man bouncer + client setup).
HexChat is decent Linux or Windows client. When I used Windows, I liked mIRC, this was (and probably is) very versatile. I have seen customisations where you don't even feel that mIRC is used.
Conceivably they could theoretically even spy on your emails with the companies you 've signed up with, including apple's competitors. It could even lead to potential legal issues for apple. At least plain email is considered distributed and does not rely on gatekeepers.
the value of the book doesn't change depending on its distribution channel
Data sticks around for a lot longer than “a long time”.
I think part of it is they were trying to draw attention to how ubiquitous gender is, and how much impact it has in apparently neutral language. I've read a whole bunch of sci-fi with hirs and so on, and it definitely does something.
Does anyone know when there'll be updated Coursera (or other sites) courses with TF 2.0?
It's deceptive, if you're going to advertise a price make it clear that the price is online only.
Can you expand on what the implication of your comment is?

Book value on the balance sheet is ~$474 million, but that doesn't seem particularly meaningful in a valuation context for the business (especially considering the ~$1,123 million they are carrying for treasury stock).

As for inventory, they have that carried on their books for ~$1,000 million, which also means very little without a broader context on the state of the business.
FT doesn't generally play as loose with the rules as media for general consumption tends to. They've got a lot of credibility.
> On July 27 of last year, while firefighters were spread across the state battling fires in the north and south, a Potter Valley rancher working on a hot day in a bed of waist-high cured grassland drove a stake into the ground and created a spark that grew into the 410,000-acre Ranch fire.

Thanks to climate change you can expect more of this...

We need to start holding corporations lobbying against climate change resolution accountable for their actions.

I say we make them pay for this damage.
I would question the self sustaining part depending on the company and the timescale. For the infinite timescale I doubt any currently existing companies, or groups of, can self sustain indefinitely.
The post goes into some detail about this. "Everybody" is semantically plural, but its verbs are conjugated as singular:

Everybody is, everybody has, everybody does, etc.
No; singular "they" and singular "you" are both grammatically plural. However, if you are using it as singular it is still "yourself" rather than "yourselves", so, it should also be "themself" rather than "themselves" if it is being used as singular.
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> all your data on apple's services are encrypted such that apple can't access them

This is only true for certain services.
The internet didn't shrink 6% real estate commissions. But this lawsuit may
But wasn't the later stuff done by Dehomag, the German subsidiary started by IBM? IBM's direct involvement in Germany apparently ended when the war started in 1941, although Dehomag kept using their equipment. Just because they used "IBM technology" doesn't mean that IBM still had a hand in it. I mean, if you want to go down that route, shouldn't we be pointing a finger of blame at the train manufacturing folks, too, for example, since their trains were being used for transport?

Perhaps you should actually read the book, read the contemporary discussions of it, and maybe IBM's response to the whole affair before, you know, just jumping to conclusions based on this one article.
I always found ArsTechnica’s articles a bit weird, now I understand why.
How can you define seniors as pros? I know some senior devs that suck at programming, still coding in Perl using Notepad++ and their systems are full of bugs.
It's true that there is an ambiguity in this particular sentence you've constructed. But that's always going to be possibile when pronouns are involved. Just pick two subjects that share a pronoun, put them in the same sentence, and then use the pronoun. Uh oh!

What if "Harper" were the name of a company? Rejecting singular "they" wouldn't save you then. I would propose that whatever remedy you would suggest for the "Harper Inc." case, you go ahead and apply to this one as well.
How to get your product noticed
I'm not sure that line of argument holds up terribly well; people working in an industry I consider immoral aren't really my primary concern. How would you respond to an analogous argument like "landmines are made by people in factories - if we stopped making landmines, all those poor people would lose their jobs, is that what you want?" (side note, the answer to that hypothetical is also 'yes').
It always happens to me while I approve my own pull requests to master.. :’(
"everybody" refers to a group of people, but the word itself is singular and would typically use singular verb forms.

In day-to-day English, I've seen people use it both ways though.
Do you wants to go, too?
I went the opposite way, from an employer with an insane dedicated server to using cloud services, and I was appalled at how weak the cloud SQL servers are.

Of course, they don´t need hardware expenses, licensing is factored in, administration is orders of magnitude easier and cheaper, so the tradeoff is usually worth it.
Psst…you probably meant “cede” instead of “secede”.
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"Harper presented to Jake and he was confused."

Which one is 'he' referring to? Exact same ambiguity.
I've spoken to Bay Area attorneys about this. Non-disputed evictions take 4-6 weeks. That's non-disputed. That's on the long side! Other jurisdictions take a few days to 2 weeks for non-disputed. An additional month for disputed evictions is an average, so that's up to 10 weeks or so. It can drag out for much longer. It depends on how good the case is for each side.
And still, nearly all retailers have adopted a price-matching policy that matches not just their own website, but competitors as well.

There's really not a good reason for their in-store price to be higher than their online price in 2019.
"their" is used kind of like an indefinite pronoun. I guess you could use "one's" instead.

The article arguments against people who would say that "their" is incorrect, and "his" should be used instead
Most people severely underestimate the speed of fire and overestimate the speed at which they can respond. Even if a fire looks tiny, you have a very narrow window of opportunity to react before the fire spreads beyond your ability to control.

The same applies to fire in the home - if you can't put it out right now with whatever comes to hand, you've probably lost your window of opportunity to fight the fire. If your sofa or curtains catch fire, there simply isn't time to fill a bucket or fetch a hose. If you don't have an extinguisher to hand and can't snuff out the flames with a blanket, you need to run.

https://youtu.be/w4W82HIzUcc?t=78
Not knocking the system, quite thrilled by it personally: the other option is Google or Facebook at this point and if I got off OAuth and email with Google (leaning towards buying a personal domain and going with proton mail or similar, may wait until this built in burner option is available), I could probably rid myself of them (Facebook is more of a mental break I’d need to make, honestly). I’d love this.

I’ve personally tried personal burner email addresses for forums sign ups but the thing I found is that it is a maintenance (if that’s the correct word) nightmare. If you go with the ones that last for a brief period of time, you better guard the credentials because there’s no clicking forget password.

I’m hopeful of the feature, but even if it proves to not be that great, I’d still rather they be my identity provider over Facebook or Google so it’ll still feel like a net win.
"I don't know" is often the best answer.

I was listening to some Christian on a video criticizing atheists and saying something related to the god of the gaps fallacy.

He commented something along the lines of "you have to have an answer to these things!"

No. No you don't.

You don't just invent some fairy tale just because you don't understand something.

Often the best answer is "I don't know"
Heh good point. Thanks for helping me adjust to modern society.
Yeah, that's the trouble I've had looking for similar games.. I'm really hoping another shop will be able to build a game like this again someday with the same level of richness. But it feels like an older, less popular style of game that just doesn't really have a market these days.

Thanks for the tip! I might need to just see if I can spin up a VM and do that. Would rather not need to do it with my regular computer OS.
I think Liquix is referring to the inverse scenario, which is people outside the LGBTQ community refusing to use "they" to refer to someone who prefers they/them.
Yes, the second one should have been "stimulated". Thanks for pointing that out.
I can’t think of any other retailer that does this. Best Buy, Walmart, Famous Footwear, Bed Bath and Beyond, etc. all honor the same prices in person as they do online.
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Every once in a while I still go in there and buy a book for more than I need to... just to hope that I am keeping the store open.

I miss bookstores.
That’s one possible question. Another is whether an even better remedy exists.

For example, do we need the ability for Apple to delete the link between a company and all their users in one sweep, or is it sufficient to make it easy for individual users to cut such ties?

If the latter, could we remove that giant master switch, or move control of it to a third party?

(I haven’t watched the video, so, possibly, that giant switch doesn’t exist. Skimming https://developer.apple.com/sign-in-with-apple/get-started/ didn’t tell me that, either)
If I may, I am personally very excited for more people, especially wealthy people, to go into space so that many of them experience the overview effect.[0]

> The overview effect is a cognitive shift in awareness reported by some astronauts during spaceflight, often while viewing the Earth from outer space.

> It is the experience of seeing firsthand the reality of the Earth in space, which is immediately understood to be a tiny, fragile ball of life, "hanging in the void", shielded and nourished by a paper-thin atmosphere. From space, national boundaries vanish, the conflicts that divide people become less important, and the need to create a planetary society with the united will to protect this "pale blue dot" becomes both obvious and imperative.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Overview_effect
Don't most people already use a secondary email for signups to sites that they don't wish to hear from? I believe it's a solved problem, even for average users.
Oh lord dat Terminal, it makes my retina bleed. Please hurry with that new shiny goodness [0].

[0] https://www.theverge.com/2019/5/6/18527870/microsoft-windows...
Nasa Is Selling Out the International Space Station
App Store guidelines have no bearing on enterprise apps.
That's the point. The context of the code matters. 99% of code is not critical to life. Applying NASA level of rigor to every line of code ever written is an indication of mental disorder (autistic obsession)
They have one on udacity
As far as I know, it has never been a requirement that when the police would like the public to help find a person accused of crime X, the photo they give to help the public recognize the person must be a photo of the person actually committing crime X.
https://stallman.org/articles/genderless-pronouns.html

Can somebody explain, what's wrong with `he' referring to a person of unknown sex? At least in German (er) and in Russian (он) masculine pronoun is still being used for that purpose.
That your app gets rejected otherwise.
This feels like an attempt to shake down some local English aristocracy/bureaucracy for money.

I presume there are a zillion ways to prevent this from leaving if people really cared.
That's just "decentralization" by obscurity. (emphasis on the quotes)

That aside, the main problem isn't centralization but rather the trust level. The point is to not have to trust someone isn't serving you the false data. Contracts must be created and ran only when the data can be cryptographically verified to be true.

There are no trustless oracles if any of the required data are outside of the settlement system (e.x. blockchain). Even when the data are inside, you still have cases of collusion that make things problematic.

People are trying to sell something that's close to impossible. Especially when they try to add infinite flexibility on it.
Even with the currently low stakes there have been incidents of "oracles" getting compromised. There are several strategies to try and camouflage a centralized oracle to a faux decentralized entity but eventually if stakes get high enough, your entity will become a target and it'll become once again obvious what's happening.
Always happens when a new CEO comes on board. I'm surprised it took Dara this long, but I guess his first job was to get Uber out of the PR nightmare and through IPO.
Unfortunately, Apple Sign In for the Web - insists on using HTTP POST's for the redirect_uri. This is a snippet from their official JavaScript library.

const t = {
baseURI: "https://appleid.apple.com",
path: "/auth/authorize",
originURI: "",
env: "prod",
uxMode: "redirect",
responseType: "code id_token",
responseMode: "form_post",
client: {
clientId: "",
scope: "",
redirectURI: "",
state: ""
}
};

Notice the responseMode which is set to form_post which I believe is the only supported mode.

This means you can no longer do things like localhost redirect_uri's for testing, or even use Apple Sign In on an internal web-app. Also, goes against OAuth2. :(

I submitted this feedback. Hopefully, someone takes a look.
This seems to be a case of “anyone but Apple” logic by naysayers.

If Mozilla or name your blessed organization of choice came up with this system, most of them would be fine with it.

But because it’s Apple, there’s all this consternation about it.

Apple’s huge advantage: their revenue comes from devices and services, not advertising.

It would be different if this was a one-off but they’ve been implementing privacy features for several years…
I don't get what she's on about. that the guy who led Android received some millions? really? he should have received billions. larry page screwed him over by offering only 50m and he said himself he felt guilty. and all of this for an alleged assault that was never proved, only labelled credible after an internal investigation? feel bad for the guy, he developed the most popular os and is not a billionaire.
it's fair to say that if you don't like it, then don't speak about it

that's your definition of engineering, or whatever officials that define it

more so, who cares about your skills other than your employer? And your employer cares about your skills, why should he care about your title?

even if other programmers who like to address themselves as software engineers, is it up to you to decide whether they can be hired?

It's just a title for god's sake
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Yes, but blame puts the focus too much on the authors instead of the changes themselves. I also use it to understand how code evolved over time, but only in circumstances where I suspect the history to hold import clues.

Pinning bad work on a person does not make progress. Fixing bad code does.
"Could be" on sources, scare quotes, stay classy.
What dialect of English is that?