skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm not any more privy to the back-end conversation than most anyone else is, but it sounds like what's going on is more nuanced than that. It seems that the idea on the table went beyond using gender neutral language by default: It was to using gender neutral language even when the person's gender was known with certainty, out of concern that occasionally someone's gender might be unacceptable.

While bulldozering across the landscape with a single pronoun like that might be preferable to willfully and specifically misgendering people, trans people could still justifiably interpret it as a deliberate act of erasure. I'm certainly having a hard time seeing it otherwise; I just spent a slightly absurd amount of time staring at my screen trying, unsuccessfully, to figure out a better, or at least less provocative, word than "unacceptable" to use in that last paragraph.

There are still a lot of lacunae in my understanding of this story, but the way things seem to be pointing is that the "community standard" that Monica Cellio was in violation of was an opinion as much as an action: It would seem that Stack Exchange wants to make being inclusive (not just tolerant) of trans people a community standard, and, by asking a lot of probing questions about the finer details of pronoun usage, she indicated that she's not comfortable adopting that standard.

I think I agree with others that, while SE certainly figured out a way to make literally everyone angry, there's probably no way to make everyone happy here. I suppose the easy reaction is to say that Monica Cellio was fired for thoughtcrime. And, given that the guidelines in question had neither been adopted nor violated yet, it's hard to argue with that summary. But, setting aside the unequivocally awful way that SE has been handling this situation thus far, it's also true that the organization does have a right to decide that it wants to be welcoming (which, again, goes beyond merely being tolerant). And if they do that, step one is to make sure that representatives of SE are behaving in a welcoming way. Volunteer or not, moderators are public representatives of SE, and so SE does have a reasonable interest in (and right to) directing their comportment when they're acting as representatives of SE. It might just not be possible to do that without stepping on the toes of moderators who have a problem with genuinely respecting trans people.

And if that's all they had wanted to do, I'd be a lot less bothered about this whole affair. As it stands, I'm left fearing that they've managed to do more harm than good by emboldening the folks who like to toss around terms like "SJW", and giving them some legitimately bad behavior that they can proceed to conflate with more reasonably-executed efforts to foster inclusiveness.
Oh for Pete's sake, what next.
Actually what you’re suggesting is working against your own interests purely for the sake of working against somebody else’s too. There was also nothing imprudent about my decision. I saw an opportunity to develop my skills and took it. If it wasn’t working out, quitting would have just put my back to exactly where I started. My advice is that if you see an opportunity to advance your career, you should focus on what you’ll personally get out of it. Countering your apparent blanket stance that you shouldn’t do things that don’t benefit you in the short term, and that you shouldn’t enter into employment agreements simply because an employer may be getting “too much” out of it, regardless of any potential long term personal benefit. Personally I find more success in looking at what I can get out of an opportunity, rather than what I can deny others.
SE is a Q&A site, to answer questions. HN an anonymous discussion. Most messages on both do without names and pronouns entirely. The few times they become necessary is it not better to simply stick to neutral?

Not to be uncaring, offensive, or presumptuous, but to be neutral.

In my life, in a social setting, in work etc I'm going to be much more likely to need to use names and pronouns. I'll make effort to get them right and cause minimal offence, along with keeping friendships. Yet people use the neutral form all the time in conversation as well, sometimes mixed in amongst their names and gendered pronouns.

What is so wrong with that?
I look forward to electric airplanes, this looks like an impressive contender, and I would like to know more about it. For one thing, I see this is being flown without an occupant. Is it carrying ballast equal in weight to a person, or is it merely carrying sufficient ballast, mounted well-forward, to put the CofG within limits? And is it carrying sufficient batteries to give the quoted 100-mile range? What is its operational ceiling?
I don't think it's unreasonable to say it has a anti-Beijing bias.
> It's not our jobs as taxpayers to maintain coal miners' "way of life".

When you legislate the job away for the benefit of society you have an obligation.
"You also need great parents."

Indeed. I think the hierarchy of what factors make the biggest difference goes like this:

1. the kid

2. the parents

3. the teachers

4. the school

The kid has to have at least the basic physical and mental faculties or they are seriously impacted no matter how good the rest of the things are.

Then the parents make the next biggest difference. Even if the teachers and school aren't very good the parents can make up for it and can even excel.

It can be a close call between teachers and parents, because if the parents are doing just the minimum a great teacher can still make a big difference.

Last but still important is the school, meaning the facilities and educational systems in use, separate from the teachers who teach there.

Where I live I see most parents focus on two things: extra tutoring, and schools with fancy facilities. Most don't think they should do anything themselves, that they already paid the school/tutor to teach. An example is that despite the teachers constantly encouraging kids to read with their parents every night, it seems like most kids do their nightly reading on their own if at all.
One hopes that eventually it will be like mistakenly calling someone left-handed, with the reality of the situation so obvious there'd never be a need to get angry about it or create rules about it.
There are some constants you can change with laws though. Like Planck's constant
yeah, this breaks userspace. It's much easier to argue userspace is already broken under the current definition
How can you possibly know which situations are intentional versus which are not? It could only be fascism because there is no possible way you could have a solution.
Apple does issue security updates for older iOS versions, at least for major vulnerabilities.
Here is the complete picture

https://thewire.in/politics/amit-shahs-nrc-plan-decoded-comm...
There are hundreds if not thousands of schools where a well rounded student can get a great education. Some parents and high schoolers fret about attending the top ten or so name brand universities far in excess of any plausible difference in educational or life outcomes.
I'm curious - surely there's still some single point that would let the rotor fly away? What does it mean that newer helicopters "doesn't have" this? I mean the rotor is attached? It's a single axel? There are scenarios where the rotor falls off?
Properly used goto is essentially an inline exception handler. That is a good thing to eliminate repetitive fault checks and fragile cleanup code.
>what is new is research beginning to pile up that homework doesn't help below a certain age.

This isn't new though. From the article, every fifteenish years there seems to be a shift back and forth between homework being useful and homework being detrimental. And every time this has happened, you could say that better methods were starting to reach consensus answers.
I personally concur with the strategy of empathy and courtesy, but others won't, and I don't think that's anywhere close to a good reason to kick them out of civil discussion.

But I simply don't buy the "hurt and suffering" argument. Just because someone has a different opinion and expresses it doesn't mean the hearer is hurt and suffering to any degree that has a snowball's chance in hell of overwhelming the right to have and express a different opinion. The right to express opinions is WAY MORE IMPORTANT than the supposed right to not temporarily feel bad.
>There are 3 futures. One where population naturally levels off and finds a sustainable level, one where growth turns out to be truly exponential in defiance of physical limits and one where a lot of people discover they can't be supported by what is on offer and die of starvation or violence.

I think theres a 4th future, which is that natural selection and evolution ultimately control population on a global scale and is the single biggest factor influencing the world today.
Do toasters wear out? I've never seen one that didn't give decades of service.
Is Boeing who you would want to navigate regulatory paper work? Might be bad timing...
I did exactly that earlier this week, and it took me less than 10 minutes from arriving at the airport to sitting on my flight.
I was involved in a networking chassis shipped to a Japanese customer. The CM had made a batch of units with amber LEDs that were very slightly less orange than spec; the Japanese customer checked them with a calorimeter as part of their hardware receipt checklist.

Glorious. I loved that customer even though they were so, so hard to deal with.
https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/334399/summing-up-t...

A supposedly neutral timeline of events.
The 1080p MP4 at that link is 32.5MiB.
On a personal note, I will not buy another gas car. My wife drove a Model X the other day (hates it). Now looking at an iPace. I will keep my Boxster until I can buy the same thing with an electric motor. Need a car for my daughter soon and only looking at crash test ratings + EV. Gas is dead if you are middle class. I feel the infection point will be when you can get an EV for 20K. Next year, solar and power walls are planned (tried this year but just not enough sun, but so close).

From an auto worker standpoint the writing is on the wall. EVs have less parts, less complexity and that means less people and more robots. We as a nation, heck as a planet, need to think about how we are going to live when the manual labor need drops year over year. This is going to hurt China the most I think. I know at my last employer we started with production lines in China, but with in 5 years we moved to Malaysia due to lower cost and the fact that we figured out how to make the assembly less complex and needed less manual labor.
It seems that was the issue. The moderator in question, as best as I've been able to ascertain, decided to avoid gendered pronouns entirely and in doing so violated the rules.
It's more of an exercise in trying to identify emerging areas that might be interesting to investigate. I definitely wouldn't limit myself to those types of ideas though.
Even as a native mainlander who sometimes being identified as a paid propagandist, I don’t understand why and I didn’t receive any information from my upstream contact
I wonder if the fifteen year cycle is impacted by students of the past generation rejecting what they faced moving on to positions of influence.
Federal judge says nobody cares about the iPhone’s notch
We have the same toaster we got for a wedding present 13 years ago. It was not an expensive model (probably $30). I didn't realize that this was an appliance category that was prone to failures.
If you submitted a huge patch to Linux that would really improve support for real-time audio, but break many other things like IO throughput, etc. but your argument for accepting it anyway was "yes, but it's for real-time audio support, so it's really important and more important than what everyone else is working on", you'd be laughed out of the mailing list.

The fact you use the word "prioritize security" is indeed telling. Security is just one aspect of a system. There is no particular reason for Linux to prioritize it above everything else, no matter what twitter infosec drama queens believe.

Obviously the fact that infosec people are quite often insufferable does not help their case.
For craziness in spot markets check out cannabis and hemp.

Some is tightly regulated, some is still black-market and one is like "newly allowed" and driven by fad-market (CBD).

Fast and loose. Good times!
Australian government to crack down on climate protestors
> VW claims it is but looking at its schedule and its still damn slow.

Is it? How many EV models will be available from Volkswagen next year?
The key point here is “to attract ads from big brands.” A lot of alleged banning and deplatforming that is happening on the internet is in the name of creating a brand safe environment for advertisers. It’s why subreddits like The Donald will never qualify for ads because advertisers cannot tolerate the backlash that comes from boycott campaigns that happened because a bulk ad buy put their logo next to content that triggers a virtual mob. The alternative is to charge for content and not take advertising (case in point Netflix and the recent Chappelle special: lots of controversy but no advertisers can pull out and did anyone really cancel Netflix who wasn’t leaning that direction already?)
Yes! Absolutely on our road map.

We were hoping to get this done at the hackathon actually but it turned out our v1 model wasn’t stable enough to track the game state over time. Hopefully v2 of the model will let us do this.

An added bonus over tracking it by hand is that a computer vision powered version would be able to track the time taken for each move as well.

If we built this would your club be willing to help us beta test?
> it is so easy to do right

Using the wrong gender is enough to cause someone to commit suicide? So instead of getting to the bottom of the issue as to why calling someone "him" instead of "her" is enough for them to take their own life, and then putting up the safety nets so that this does not happen (which CAN be done - type any vaguely suicidal query into Google and you can see suicide hotlines and help center phone numbers and locations at the top of the page), it is more effective to pressure others into using the "correct" pronoun?

It is hard enough to get people to talk strictly about work, at work, but somehow it's easier to convince people to change their entire thought process so that they use the terms you deemed acceptable?
The death of gas vehicles has been greatly exaggerated.
I'm only doing a Math major currently, but start my own projects and get involved in various CS organizations. I think not going along the traditional CS path has more bang-for-your-buck in the long term, since it shows drive to pick up things on the side (also the CS program here is notoriously difficult)
Truth and falsehood and opinion are all points on the same spectrum. Typically, facts and falsehoods are mutually agreed upon by both sides, and opinion is what falls in between as cannot-yet-be-determined stuff. But we live in a world where opinion has exceeded its bounds and encompassed fact. Evolution and climate change are still hotly contested. And it is the same with transgenderism: both sides hold different "factual" views (from their own standpoint) that make their broader worldviews paradoxical and irreconcilable, just as if 2 + 2 were 5.
Offensive cyber weapons and their relationship with international arms control agreements, or the lack thereof. Old school, stateless arms brokers like the infamous Viktor Bout are being disrupted by digital as much as hotels and taxis. Code doesn’t need fake air transport documents or any mothballed Soviet aircraft at all. Oh, and pretty much all of IoT as we’ll come to know it. Regs are coming fast and hard for crypto.
You've just proposed something very much like the Strauss-Howe generational theory: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strauss%E2%80%93Howe_generatio...
It is completely appropriate to enforce a trans-affirming policy. A view that considers a group of people -- other people that participate on the site -- mentally ill, has no place in workplaces, large-scale online forums and polite society in general.
Avoiding a chargeback would avoid a ban for a chargeback. That's not really in dispute. My point is it's a legitimate consumer protection that you unwittingly forfeit when you buy into a provider's digital ecosystem. Given no one actually reads a EULA, I think it's safe to say they don't realize what may happen to their licensed content if they do initiate a chargeback. A quick search suggests Apple is no different in this regard [1].

[1] -- https://discussions.apple.com/thread/6474540 (But, it's old, so may be out of date? I didn't spend too much time looking into this one provider.)
> At the extreme you have factory workers who are just in denial. "How can electricity have more power than gas?"

This sounds more like mythology than reality. Can you show me some concrete examples of this to back your claim?
Operation Northwoods
Gulf of tonkin
Operation blue book
The Lavon Affair
Lisuitania
The banning of hemp by paper manufacturers
Pearl Harbour was planned
Reichstag burning
9/11(2 planes, 4 buildings)
Cecil Rhodes and his round table: steering world policy since 1895
Standard oil still exits and owns every strategic resource in the world.

Look all that shit up, and see if you will still defend your gorvenment.

Buy vintage newspapers or use primary sources not fucking snopes or Wikipedia
Whois++
Eh. Yes. Maintenance on MB, BMW, Porsche has always been higher. The comment about the parts I do not understand at all. A part for a 2010+ car from these lines are not odd nor hard to find, they just cost more.
This is not a both sides issue. The medical fields moved to complete affirmation of trans identities a while ago because the scientific evidence for trans affirmation is overwhelming -- literally everything from mental health outcomes to surgery regret rates indicates that.

The other side is both bigoted and factually wrong.
Very small class sizes make a huge difference. Homeschooling (usually) involves a very small effective class size. Lessons can be very carefully tailored, the teacher can change the course of a lesson entirely on a dime if the kid or small set of kids need them to, the pace is better tuned for each student, and so on.

AFAIK most prestigious private schools have much smaller class sizes than public schools, and that's not for no reason. 18-25 kids in a class means you can only give each kid maybe two minutes of individual attention an hour, and maybe less. Practically every single thing is harder for the teacher (except getting kids to participate in discussion, but that's likely a socialization/norms thing—I doubt kids used to small classes clam up the way kids used to 20+ kid classrooms do when they happen to be in a small class for some reason) and worse for the kids.
Yeh yeh yeh, Long live Queen Carrie Lam and Emperor Xi
"The three big ones that stick out are demographics, inequality, and access to information."

The biggest, most important force shaping the world today is the invisible hand of evolution.
I recall learning about this in high-school, which was in the Midwest in the early 1980's, so I don't know that it's as unknown in the U.S. as you say.
HSR construction is definitely still ongoing: https://buildhsr.com

That being said, I don't believe the full SF->LA project is funded, and absent a more cooperative Federal government, it might never be.
Wings don't help if you are below the stall speed.
We've seen many businesses attempt to exploit the lack of regulation at their peril. Ride-sharing companies come to mind as one example.

I think it is more useful to think of regulations in the context of history and societal values. For example, an oilspill off the shore of California helped galvanize support for the clean air movement.

Perhaps it is possible to hypergrow a business before regulation catches up. I think expecting such an outcome risks the long-term viability of a business, since ultimately its foundation rests upon trust in its brand. Companies (in a competitive environment at least) must earn goodwill from their customers to do well.

I hope all entrepreneurs think about building businesses that can thrive even as regulations shift as society changes. In other words, build in some resilience into your business model.

For example, you don't have to have a crystal ball to recognize when a business model over-relies on certain power imbalances. If you want to extract value from such power imbalances, don't be surprised when there is a backlash. For example, ride-sharing companies skirted with employee/contractor definitions. Flirting with this boundary is risky -- and naively hoping that one narrow interpretation is shared by society and lawmakers is, frankly, over-optimism.

Realism combined with long-term thinking, I think, tends to lead to similar decisions as "strive to do the right thing".
Here's an unboxing video of the SimCity Classic "School Edition" Lab Pack, which includes the teacher's guide by Doreen Nelson and Michael Bremer:

LGR - SimCity Educational Version Unboxing & Overview

An overview of the "School Edition" Lab Pack of SimCity Classic by Maxis. Unboxing, first impressions of the package and testing of the radically rad software ensues.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=edXRNtuAGTga

LGR has done many other extensive reviews of SimCity, and here's his most recent retrospective:

SimCity 30 Years Later: A Retrospective (Feb 1, 2019)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TrScy1icWjI
The bigger thing I’m annoyed at here is that “Mike’s Candyshop” isn’t anything new. It’s how the drug industry is run in basically every place that doesn’t have “open air” drug markets. Yes, even the level of organisation that they’re talking about. A decade ago when I was still a heroin addict, I’d have it delivered to my house within a few hours of a single text message, any day of the week, from the afternoon through til early morning.
> because they will be misgendered day in and day out for the rest of their life. If someone believes they are being gangstalked, society doesn't modify itself to ensure no one within 500 meters of them has a predictable schedule.

That's no good reason to go out of your way to misgender someone or pretend to stalk someone who has that phobia. Yes, there will be problems interacting with society overall, I have no good answer for that. But I do know that knowingly and actively hurting people "because society does it too" when you could trivially avoid it is reprehensible.
I might be remembering wrong, but I thought un-flagged ships in international waters are considered pirates and can be acted upon in a hostile manner by flagged ships.
This isn’t the reality distortion field I want to live in.

Tibet exists, Taiwan exists. This is so silly.
It'd be nice to have emergency vehicles. But, don't build hanging parkways with good views, for the privileged, please.

We've been there before - https://www.accessmagazine.org/spring-2003/putting-pleasure-... - with Robert Moses parkways, "bridges instead of tunnels" and the likes. And we've now learned - it's a mistake to put mass transportation system into the air.

(Love flying, private pilot, airplanes, sailplanes, paragliders, had been flying half of my life. Yes, really cute bird. Yes, shiny. It's a mistake to put mass transportation system into the air. It is even worse to put a private road there.)
Between this and the raids on the ABC I'm starting to get a little worried, I have to say
Agreed. Have a 2010 and 2015 Porsche both out of warranty. Use a local shop that is focused on Porsche (BRRacing). Not cheap but not outrageous. Lucky besides breaks and tires the 2010 has had no major issues. I am religious about having it serviced, however. I did have a pump got out, it was like 800 installed.