skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm not arguing that tests are useless. I'm arguing that tests are usually impossible. I invite you to suggest a test for https://github.com/VCVRack/Rack for example that could either 1) have prevented a bug, or 2) document the software's behavior.
Well the Ring ad on facebook says "this woman was caught on camera breaking into a vehicle". So I don't think it could be a false report of attempted robbery, unless Ring is lying.
Nokia if you're listening: I'm sick of Android and iPhones and would by a basic smartphone with a web browser, privacy, and MP3, which is also usable as mass storage device. OLED and small size would be a plus.
Have experienced this too. Haha.
If you get away from frontend fluff and work on serious backend systems involving large financial transactions, they will appreciate those more advanced engineering skills and disciplines.
What makes it confusing is that you can check local store inventory online, order online at the online price and pickup in an hour from the store.
However if you grab the book yourself from the physical store and save them a step, they absolutely won’t honor the online price. You have to order online and wait an hour while they take the book off the shelf for you. Or you get exasperated with the ridiculousness of the whole thing and buy from amazon leaving b&n with no sale.
And what about false humility?

What I was firstly taught as a young mathematician was honesty, not humility.
Microsoft launches first AI hub to reverse talent flow to the coasts
A good plan violently executed now is better than a perfect plan executed next week. - Patton

It's much better to get something, anything, on the screen and working than an elegant design constantly refined but never put to actual use.
That I absolutely agree with. They should do that.
Everybody is here.
Everybody are here.

The former is the usual form and the latter sounds very odd to me.

Everybody and his dog vs Everybody and their dog sounds fine to me but for some people it sounds strange.
this topic never stops, trust me

it's time for you guys to realize this effect from calling yourself "coders"/"programmers"/"problem solvers" are nothing but marketing

It's just to impress those who don't know otherwise
afaik, "ze/zir" is not supposed to be gender neutral, but to have a gender denotation outside he/his and she/her.
Yeah, rich is a relative term, it just seemed like what you actually meant in your post was that Marxism leads to everyone being poor, which is patently false.
but this is a good next move for us consumers if you think about the overall position and dynamics of the industry relative to privacy. but as you point out, it doesn't mean we can let our guard down. we have to remain vigilant to imbalances of power that threaten our civil liberties (like the right to privacy).

once apple starts gaining traction with this feature, it's positioning will inevitably change, possibly for the worse, and then we back another borse who will keep apple in check.

unlike on game of thrones, our watch never ends.
I'm not sure if Uber is actually paying drivers significantly less or if drivers have simply wised up to the full costs of driving for a ride sharing company + the jobs market is better than it was a few years ago so there are fewer people who need to drive just to make ends meet.

I have personally noticed that overall average cost of Uber/Lyft for me has gone up over the last year or so unless there's a promo going on. It's now to the point where I think twice before hailing a ride instead of driving myself or looking for another option.
While lots of legacy code emerges organically the way you describe, there are in fact many people in the industry who I'd call "legacy coders." People who saw Dijkstra's "Goto considered harmful" and scoffed, "all these 'for' loops are much less readable than my 'goto loop1' solution." People who use global variables because parameter-based implementations are "needlessly complex."

Basically, not everyone works for Google.
Not sure if you are aware, but matching competitor prices is actually anti-consumer. It's counterintuitive but it means that your competitors won't lower the price on the first place. Kinda like implicit price fixing.
Although this essay is interesting and amusing (and a great rebuttal to many of the sillier objections to singular they), it does not address the main objection I hear (and the one that I find compelling enough to ask that people not use "they" for me):

I present to you as a singular entity. I find it disempowering to be addressed with a pronoun that might be understood as plural, as if you might address some of the needs of the multitudes within me but not others.

I very much prefer to be addressed with a different pronoun if I'm being addressed alone versus when I'm being addressed in a group.

Is that so weird?

Now, on the other hand, I think that gendered pronouns are downright idiotic.

So the pronoun that I've come to prefer is simply "it." I call many wonderful living things (think of an elderly redwood tree) "it" all the time, and it doesn't seem to bother the three nor anyone else.

If it's good enough for it, it's good enough for me.
In the presentation they talk about how the authorisation returns a stable, team-scoped (that means same developer) id.
Makes sense. "Themself" doesn't sound bad to me, really.
Of course the value of a book changes based on the distribution channel.

Immediacy has value, so if you need something _now_ you will be willing to pay for that.

Also, you have to pay in time and money to go to the store, so you _may_ be willing to pay more to have the book delivered.

In both situations, the way the book gets to you changes the price you're willing to pay.
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/publication/why-do-...
No, not all of them.

Over the past few years, products at my local Best Buy are regularly 20-40% more than on their site. (Unless you order through the site for local pickup... then you can get the online price.)

Walgreens is the same. Might be $12 online but $18 in my local store.

Barnes and Noble is pretty par for the course in this.
dc has been my preferred calculator forever. I think I tried to use bc but couldn't figure out the syntax, whereas dc was very clear.
A sphere has positive Gaussian curvature everywhere, in 3D. You don't need to view it from 4D to discover this, you can draw a triangle on the surface and note that the interior angles add up to >180 degrees. You can't project it into 2D space and keep the curvature, which is why all maps have distortion.
Microsoft has a better decentralized approach https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/security/technology/own-your.... Things have come full circle.
I was obsessed with EV growing up, and then found EV:Nova during college. Such awesome games! And the mods.. oh god, the mods rocked! Full Star Wars clone... it was crazy awesome.

I'll never forget that red alien blob craft (IIRC, it was in the original EV), it slow slow to turn but very powerful, allowing configurations with ridiculous amounts of weapons.

And then the stunningly gorgeous Kestrel (http://blog.eamonnmr.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/kestrel_...), damn, this game is one of my all time favorites! Definitely one of the first things which put me on track to fall in love with All Things Space :)

I've always wished for some sort of EV with LAN or Internet play, to make it less lonely. If there were mechanics to make it really work smoothly and still be fun, that'd be dreamy.

I've enjoyed Elite:Dangerous [0], but it's very different gameplay in comparison. E:D is similar in some regards, like ship upgrades, missions, and trading economy but _much more time intensive_ and first-person POV drive, whereas EV was always 3rd person.

I also preferred the ability in EV to to hire subservient autonomous agents who could then be mass-controlled with hotkeys. This really helped scale up combat to take on entire fleets. Then you've got E:D, where it's like "click, click, click, steeeerrrr" to aim and fire every shot.

To sum it up:

EV - Super fun to play, fast gameplay, excellent storylines, easy to start / save / stop / resume, okay-ish economy, fun easter eggs, but lonely.

E:D - Fun, relaxing (or boring, because of all the time to accelerate / decelerate / travel), huge expansive universe (simply massive!), good network play, weak story line, different fighting style, quite excellent trading economy, but high time commitment and overall complexity.

[0] https://www.elitedangerous.com/
>Unlike e.g. German, English doesn't have a gender neutral singular pronoun to use.

What German pronoun are you talking about?
Absolutely does. The experience of going to a bookstore, browsing through the shelves, perhaps reading a few pages while sitting on a comfortable couches, perhaps talking to a knowledgeable salesperson about books (or life or anything), definitely has value. And I believe that value is greater than the convenience of ordering books online and then having to wait a 1-14 days for the book to deliver.
Well I hope B&N will do better than Sears, Toys R Us, and RadioShack after they were taken private and saddled with unsustainable debt.
>before we doom and gloom about B&N, it's important to remember that independent bookstores are doing great

It’s funny watching a movie like You’ve Got Mail today when the trend was reversed. That movie hasn’t aged well for many reasons now that I think about it.
You've gotta squint really hard to convince yourself that the internet has decreased the brevity of communication.
maybe that knowledge makes them hireable after they go to the Heaven
except that in this case, the new CEO is the one who hired the COO and brought him on with him
And I don’t get what you’re on about!

This comment is amazingly emblematic of how shitty and toxic the comments have gotten on this site. You dismiss outright the story of someone you could easily research, all for some pet pity party for some Google exec? Not only is this incredibly lazy rhetoric but it serves literally zero purpose other than to make you feel good about not understanding the reasons other people make decisions.
Others have already pointed out that you, which used to be exclusively plural, still takes plural verb forms and nobody gets confused.

I'll add that this phenomenon is not restricted to English. On, in French, is traditionally a singular indefinite-person pronoun, mostly equivalent to the pronoun "one" in English (which sounds a bit archaic/formal now, so maybe a better translation is "people in general"). It takes singular third person verb conjugations.

However, nowadays, on has almost completely replaced nous (meaning "we") as a subject pronoun in informal, colloquial speech. But its conjugation is still third-person singular.

"We saw each other" is thus translated in formal speech or writing as "Nous nous sommes vus", and in colloquial speech as "On s'est vu".
In this case it's actually the other way around. There are good theoretical arguments that without junk DNA at least human reproduction would be quite difficult.

The average number of mutations per human generation is known and most mutations are deleterious. They destroy something. The mutation rate is high enough that the genome would quickly deteriorate over multiple generation.

But with most of the genome being junk most mutations don't matter, so this problem isn't that serious, and humanity survives.
Man that is an extremely ugly language. Is this supposed to convince people to use it? Who’s designing this language?
Right, my point is that it's already weird to have Facebook but not Google on Android.
Serotonergic hallucinogens and recognition of facial emotion expression
European Union has some regulation for financial markets that have had similar issues in the past. The regulators must approve a rule book for market place, in this case of trading venue, which including onboarding and listing rules. Those rules must not discriminate against anyone - one cannot do arbitrary decisions to block or hinder someone. Everybody must access the markets fairly.

We already seen the regulatory outreach coming to app stores when EU ruled that Google was hindering the distribution of Aptoide store for Android.
Best Buy got in to legal trouble because they'd point 'bestbuy.com' from within the store to a different online store with prices that matched the in-store prices (i.e. higher prices).
It's also quite possible they lack the domain knowledge to receive a succinct explanation of the problem and evaluate if a solution actually solves it.
> git stash # i might need this one day
And i never need it.
It's actually not - if a competitor thinks it can sell more widgets at a lower price and make it up in the increase volume, they will lower the price. If that's the price which maximizes revenue for them, they'll leave it. It's straight forward supply and demand.
Perhaps we are arguing different things. If by developer you are referring specifically to a web-developer, sure they are akin to the a factory worker in that they are, by in large, on the way out. I am arguing the more broad sense of developer as being a substitute for computer programmer.
> So imagine my surprise when I showed up at my first day on the job at a startup and found no tests at all. No tests in the frontend. No tests in the backend. Just, no tests.
> Nada. Zip. Null. Undefined. NaN tests.

On my current project I have 100% test code coverage. Which I believe is quite unusual. But I am pretty sure that if I give a talk about how I did it, most people will be horrified.
Two reasons: first, it contributes to general presumptions of male-ness as the societal default and female-ness being out of place, and second, using either gender as the default in English just plain sounds weirder and more jarring than "they" in a variety of sentence constructions.

For the second factor, the example sentence presented first in the original article:

> She kept her head and kicked her shoes off, as everybody ought to do who falls into deep water in their clothes.

...sounds pretty jarring when you make it 'he'...

> She kept her head and kicked her shoes off, as everybody ought to do who falls into deep water in his clothes.
Why would people be horrified?
It’s often helpful to know who wrote a line of code, because then I can put myself into their shoes and try to figure out what was going on their mind when they wrote it.
ugh, this totally vendor lock-in .

1. If my app is both in IOS and Android, and maybe Windows, would this work across platforms? The answer looks like no... Apple's definition of "multiplatform" means iOS, TVOS and WatchOS, and some javascript for the web. (given Apple's poor track record for anything web-based, good luck with that). If you want to port your app to Android or Native Windows, good luck with that. Your users are locked in.

2. If I have an app that is a competitor to Facebook, and FB decides to cut me off, I can use the existing emails so the user are not locked out the app (i.e. they will be sent an email with a link to create a password and keep their account).

This looks impossible with the apple sign in. Basically if Apple decides to cut you off, your user's accounts are lost.

No matter what some folks believe that 'everything social is evil', some applications providers provide the social log-in just because the user that prefer using them over entering the same information over and over.
Instead of entering email, authorizing/verifying it, and having a profile picture, a social log-in provides those for you.

As I am building an app that has the social login (Google and Facebook) as well as simple email sign in, this feels like an additional burden that I'd prefer not to (for the two main reasons above).

Feels very anti-competitive.... Apple should provide the log-in as an option, and compete with its own merits, but not force app makers to use it.

Also, I think apple is being totally evil now: By forcing companies like Spotify and other competitors to use their log in, they are creating an very intrusive/invasive way to monitor their competitors.

Eg. Netflix and Spotify and a myriad of other Apple's direct competitor are forced to be locked in the Apple's vendor sign in trap.
"You" is grammatically plural as well, its singular form is/was "thou". But now everyone sees it as a valid pronoun to refer to a single person.
And the business will feel it eventually. Developers have this magical ability to create invisible time-delayed catastrophes.
I am talking about convincing a consumer to buy something like a headphone or a smartphone or a laptop that they don't need... not about selling weapons to kill people. Personally, I have never seen an online ad for a landmine.

Edit:
Sorta off topic, but our little conversation reminded me of a quote from Lord Of War.

>Yuri Orlov : I don't want people dead, Agent Valentine. I don't put a gun to anybody's head and make them shoot. But shooting is better for business. But, I prefer people to fire my guns and miss. Just as long as they are firing. Can I go now?
Criticality Between Cortical States
If a better remedy exists someone else can build it. Nobody is forcing us to use Apple products/services.
I always use y'all for second person plural.
Making Some Profit Using CSGO Affiliate Sites?
Is it still worth to go on csgo affiliate sites like https://csgo-guides.com/gambling , then going to the different gambling sites, take their free starter bonus and then going on to the next? I know it was profitable in 2016 where gambling was way better than today but do you think it still is?
I can confirm it's also true for web articles:

mysql> desc articles;
+--------------+---------------+
| Field | Type |
+--------------+---------------+
| id | int(11) |
| kicker | varchar(255) |
| body | longtext |
| headline | varchar(255) |
| sub_headline | text |
| teaser | text |

We used to have varchar(255) for sub_headline as with headline. A few years ago I caught a ticket to turn it into a text type (65 KiB). SEO was the motive. If we ever get a request to make it longtext (4 GiB) I may cry.
This is not a benevolent act. Apple is a company; they exist to make money. They would not have spent the resources to develop this if it did not benefit them in some way.
The do mention that they allow users to disable individual aliases at any time. Which would indicate that they do at least mark that for the user.
What?

Which accounts doing what?

Businesses sending to a cloaked email?
I've started work on one, but I don't have the trading part implemented yet.

https://www.emergencevector.com
> 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.

Seems this might provide some security benefit, e.g. no credentials showing up in web server access logs. Either way, are you sure the final POST isn't made by the client? If so, the client would resolve the address. On their JS configuration page[1], I don't see any obvious evidence that Apple will make the post. They show this line:

`AppleID.auth.signIn();`

P.S. Aghghgh the mixed camelCase and under_score makes me cringe.

[1] https://developer.apple.com/documentation/signinwithapplejs/configuring_your_webpage_for_sign_in_with_apple
Weird. I guess this kinda reminds me of my revelation that "data" is plural, "data are" etc. It still sounds odd to me. But data == many datums (right?), so it technically makes sense. Everybody == many/all people, and yet is conjugated as singular? English is weird.

Now back to hacking javascript...
Observation of a Narrow Pentaquark State, Pc(4312)+
Google's making a big investment in Swift, so if Chris left and they were interested in continuing to support it they shouldn't have a problem.

I've gone to Swift on the Server conferences hosted/sponsored by Google, their (non-TF) Swift teams are building some cool Swift tools, etc.
how often has your bank or paypal suddenly changed the balance in your account? This is a fictional problem because no large institution is going to cheat you out of twenty bucks to risk a billion dollar lawsuit and their customers.
> That’s one possible question. Another is whether an even better remedy exists.

There is, it's called IM2000 where email becomes a pull-based system instead of push-based (so users would have to consent to spam, and spammers have to store their spam to send it in bulk). Unfortunately, despite many attempts to switch over we're still stuck on the current incarnation of SMTP.
The outgoing COO earned up to $47.6 M for his performance in the men's individual fail: https://twitter.com/MikeIsaac/status/1137125244756357120
That doesn't sound any less grammatical than:

A: Joe called asking for you.

B: Oh, what did she want?

(or vice versa if Joe is female)

It turns out that - in a purely objective, language-design sense - the anatomical details (or clothing, whatever) of the bag of meat hosting the specific person this particular use refers to is a really, really dumb way to assign a grammatical gender to a proper noun.
I don't know if it's stalling so much as taking the time to request changes / pair up and teach.

If bad code is getting merged, that's tech debt / time someone else is going to have to spend anyway, plus the time needed to identify the issue and triage down the line. I would think it's better investment to use that time up front and help the jumior level up too.
“The capitalists will sell us the rope with which we will hang them” – whoever
Maybe one day, "y'all" will take the place of "you" as both singular and plural pronoun
If you pick it up directly from the store you pay for the convenience of having the item right now.
Indeed. They are steel stakes used to set forms to pour concrete.

They look like this: https://d323w7klwy72q3.cloudfront.net/i/a/2012/20120125midwe...
I feel like the response then is to get the manager and do so in front of them.
> "Not everyone will become senior during their career"

This. So much this. I didn't realise that until a little while ago but when I did it made me realise I need to understand actually what make someone a senior. It's not just an automatic progression.
They don't want to make to convenient for you to get the online price at the store. They want to force your to the extra step of ordering and waiting.
Full title:Observation of a Narrow Pentaquark State,
Pc(4312)+, and of the Two-Peak Structure of the Pc(4450)+
In the parts of Canada I've lived the rules very much bias in favour of the resident, based on the logic that the cost to the landlord is financial but the cost to the residents is safety, health, etc.

If I recall, in some places you can't even evict in the winter. Same applies to utilities: it's illegal to disconnect heat (whether gas or electricity) in the winter even if for non payment.

Personally I prefer protecting residents at the cost of some people who exploit the system.
> perhaps talking to a knowledgeable salesperson about books

You aren’t likely to talk to a knowledgeable salesperson at a chain bookseller, as generally they are not big book fans. They just needed a job, and these chains will hire just about anyone who can competently work their POS systems.

I can understand certain independent bookshops having great additional value to customers because their proprietors and the other clerks were voracious readers. However, for Borders/Barnes & Noble/Waldenbooks, and various other US chains, their staff has been generally unable to talk in any depth on books since at least the 1990s when I first visited them.
House costs just $20,000 but its nicer than yours