skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My opinion: never look at TOEFL or any test for how to actually speak a language. They're always out of date.

English doesn't really have an entity that dictates "rules". The guidelines vary between dialects, so I can only speak about American English...

You can read the Oxford Style Manual or The Chicago Manual of Style for reference, but sometimes people disagree. Previously people looked at Strunk & White's Elements of Style, etc.

---

On this particular issue, "they" is fine as singular, and is being used like that very frequently these days.
Seeing that the instigator's post is the most downvoted I have ever come across on Stack Exchange, I thought of the saying "the Revolution devours its children".
Running with your totally made up example, what's the correct pronoun if the writing is about an interview that happened in the 90s?
Google maps routing is rubbish for walking and cycling in Oslo. There is a tunnel under that road...
https://outline.com/Jr68vZ
You had a choice to get 4 USB-C ports instead, if that was a big deal. And there are numerous affordable port expanders that will give you multiple USB-A ports, HDMI, Ethernet, a card reader, power in, using only 1 port. So this isn't really an intractable problem.

There is no "Apple dongle" that does what you describe, so I would surmise that you got a cheap unshielded product. I would return that product and get something that is built right. Your wireless interference issue has nothing whatsoever to do with the MB Pro itself.
Might be. Stick to T series Thinkpads or X1 Carbon and there aren't any problems. I personally think the X1 Carbon is a PERFECT replacement for a macbook. The only thing lagging is the trackpad. Its not bad but no PC trackpad is quite as good as the macbook one. Plus the X1 Carbon keyboard is a luxury to type on - esp compared to the current macbook keyboards.

However it is not enough of a burden these days (to me) to make it worth going to a macbook pro these days...
LuaJIT is not available on every platform. Love2D for example is pretty slow on iOS, especially at computing paths etc for custom draw calls.

Defold is slightly different, still allowing Lua scripting, but not more than that, which is the appropriate place for Lua in a mobile-dominated market.
I don't understand how that link describes something that invalidates this?
"arch contrarian"

Could make a good title for one of her German synthpop music videos, which I kindof dig.
Scientists Implant False Memories in Birds to Teach Songs They've Never Heard
Nobody "wants" another recession. We all read these articles, though, and then go on to spread them amongst peers like wild fire. The echo chamber only gets louder as time goes on. At some point those predictions/analyses become irreversible and de facto a self-fulfilling prophecy.

I've started refraining from talking about negative financial news with friends and family.
https://github.com/iamadamdev/bypass-paywalls-firefox

Posted just the other day here by another user

Disclaimer: i haven't used it
Every language has confusing pieces like this, which is why context is important. Your example could certainly be confusing, but if even Bob doesn't know who you're referring to, there would likely be confusion in "he helped me out with this problem". It would likely make more sense to say "I talked to Bob. They helped me out with this problem."

Pronouns in any form will make a conversation more confusing if there's no context. If you want to be absolutely clear in your communications, you'd get rid of all pronouns completely. "I talked with Bob. Bob helped me out with this problem. I want to thank Bob for Bob's help. Bob can we talk after this meeting?"
Deafness-causing protein deficiency may make brain rewire itself
In what ways, specifically, is macOS "3-5 years behind everything else"? I consider that a ludicrous statement.
I don’t drive but I was referred this app by a friend called OnMyWay [0]. The premise is they pay you to drive and put the phone down.

[0] https://apps.apple.com/us/app/onmyway-drive-safe-get-paid/id...
I agree.

Recently, though, a trans acquaintance told me that some trans people do find gender-neutral pronouns like "they" to trigger dysphoria. I said I don't understand how that's possible (not that I understand dysphoria to begin with). They said they don't get it either. Have we then found the line separating the realms of cultural accommodation and psychiatric help, and is that minority of trans people across it?

If not, the pronoun floodgates are loose!

https://uwm.edu/lgbtrc/support/gender-pronouns/

How will civilization endure? After us, the deluge. We shall not last, the die is cast. YwY
this isn't a legal matter, nobody on stackoverflow is going to sue you, they're apparently just going to stop you from being a moderator. If you work at the white house and you call the president Donny I would expect you don't have your job for very long. And that wouldn't be exclusive to the white house or stackoverflow either. If you start a pronoun rebellion at waffle house or are rude to your customers in some other way the same thing would happen.
I don’t think the CBP officer has any specific knowledge of Watson or DefenseOne, but instead believes that generally journalists are propagandists and “enemies of the people” as Trump would phrase it.
It will take another 208 years to achieve gender equality in the US
Exactly, and you only saw it online. This type of "alphabet soup" people doesn't really exist outside of the twitter rage machine.

I volunteer for a large organization promoting gay rights and have never seen people complain about this type of petty issue.
That makes sense, and the actor model (well, entity-behavior, which is fairly close) has been what I reached for in the past when doing game dev.

I agree that looking at a whole worldstate at once is unlikely to be useful. But I do see great value in keeping state changes isolated to the edges of a system, and acting upon it with pure functions. If you have the means to easily get at the piece of state tree that you’re interested in, you can reason more clearly about how each piece of a simulation reacts to changes by just feeding the relevant state chunk to it and seeing what comes back. That takes more work to set up or repeat if each agent tracks its own internal state.

I haven’t used Clojure to make a game before, so I’m speculating here. I find myself avoiding internal state by habit lately, though of course “collections of relevant functions” are valuable tools. I just lean towards using namespaced functions instead of objects with methods.
fantastic polemic -- utterly false dichotomy. We are in an age of massive systems, and systems-thinking is called for..
It’s a factor — yes. I want control of my hardware.

When I travel on holiday or business I usually take an Apple TV and a HDMI cable. Bring your own media, vs. the hotel setups which are usually awful.

It is common for hotels to use WiFi which redirects you to an interstitial page to accept terms and conditions, input your room number and last name, select a WiFi plan and duration. Unfortunately the Apple TV doesn’t support these kinds of network setups — but you can solve this via your MacBook.

Unplug the Apple TV, switch the laptop to its MAC address. Associate to the WiFi, hop through the WiFi login flow, reconfigure back to the normal hardware address and then power up the Apple TV — works great.

Not being able to do that is frustrating, and represents a reduction in the functionality of the MacBook (to me).
This too, eh? "Domain Modeling Made Functional" - Scott Wlaschin

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Up7LcbGZFuo
Why There’s Still No Lyme Vaccine for Humans
WSL2 might be better when it gets released in final form, but when I used WSL it was better than cygwin etc but still a PITA to deal with.

Personally I think Linux (Fedora or Ubuntu) on Lenovo Thinkpads - esp X1 Carbons is the best option.
The people you know are probably, you know, cool, sane and well-adjusted NB, trans or genderqueer people! Like the majority. This isn't about those, it's about a minority (of what's already a minority) of mentally ill people who are playing a dangerous game. They're winning some battles right now, but every win is taking them closer to... something really, really bad.
> Connect your website to all the services that Google offers: Google Analytics, Google Search Console, Google My Business, YouTube… Google did not create them to please you. It created them to collect and analyze as much information about you as possible.

:(
Ah yes, the Linux experience.

Step 1. Find guide on where to find guides for linux distro

Step 2. Read guide on how to find guide for X Linux distro

Step 3. Read guide on X Linux distro

Step 4. Install X Linux Distro

Step 5. ???

Step 6. Find out Linux distro doesn't have Y feature

Step 7. Repeat 1 to 6 indefinitely through the universe of NIH syndrome filled Linux
Convince Americans that have never lived in another city type that isn't strip malls this. Things like speed cameras, road diets, et. al. are considered attacks on people's way of life. The wealthy ones even resist every attempt to make our cities into a more walkable form whilst enjoying their trips to Europe to see such quaint towns.
So why is this situation even happening? Can you explain it?
How much of this is or isn’t related to schizoid?
What if you use they for just about everyone? The other question I have is am I expected to look up every single person's preferred pronouns that I reply to? This situation doesn't make any sense at all to me personally.
Can you export your passwords from LastPass to bitwarden easily?
Like this? https://tabnine.com/blog/deep/
Empirical support for https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x2hwqln ?

I suppose the continental and also real equivalent would be the Hapsburgs.
> I must warn you: blog topics will seem really boring. That’s normal. You’re writing for Google, not really to bring lots of value to users. (But don’t worry, they only look at the pictures )

It always makes me sad that the sad state of the web is imposed by an artificial decision.

Good article, very different from past years where repeating a keyword was useful.
An ICE vehicle always requires going to a specific place to fuel up.

For many people, an electric vehicle can be fueled at work or home eliminating most fueling stops. A few exceptions are not a deal breaker.

If you're just looking for excuses to say no, of course, just stick with the ICE for now.
No, that part makes sense. Strong value alignment is something you want as an org.
AJAX is the one feature people can point to as something good that came from Internet Explorer. That and maybe their take on the box model. But virtually everything else they got wrong. Worse yet, they got complacent with their lead and web development stalled for years as a result.

Other browsers have done far more to get us to where we are.

Chrome introduced a modern security model and many useful APIs and protocols (including HTTP/2). Firefox popularized the concept of browser extensions and developer tools like Firebug. Safari made much possible by opening WebKit, such as Chrome and mobile browsers. Opera invented half of the original browser concepts including tabbed browsing.

AJAX was largely responsible for the initial push to modern, dynamic websites, but it doesn't score enough points to make Microsoft the good guy in this history.
What the National Security establishment is thinking
Interview on 2019 October 6, Meet the Press, between host Chuck Todd and former CIA Director John Brennan:

CHUCK TODD: One of the things I used to do, when I had to travel overseas, professionally, is read those CIA -- the public fact sheets and CIA descriptions of the politics and what's happening in that country. How would the CIA assess the stability of the American government right now?... If it were assessing America as if it was another country?

JOHN BRENNAN: We would look at it as a very corrupt government that is under the sway, right now, of this powerful individual who has been able to just corrupt the institutions and the laws of that country.

CHUCK TODD: What would you say about the stability of the democracy?

JOHN BRENNAN: I think it's no longer, you know, a democracy, if an autocrat is -- has it in his hands. And people like Johnson and others are putty in his hands, which means that the democratic principles upon which this country are founded are, are eroding right now.
Talk: Acme Changed My Life
This is not about a recession. This is about fundamental shifts in financial market expectations (the exhaustion of growth, ~$17 trillion in bonds offered at negative interest rates, etc).

If your entire socioeconomic model is based on positive rates of return (retirement, pensions, investment income, etc), and you can no longer obtain those returns safely, things start to break down. Maybe the idea of retirement is an aberration in history if we're not going to provide for it through a transfer system. Maybe a dollar today is just as valuable as a dollar tomorrow, or ten years from now (time value of money). Do you save for retirement if you absolutely can never save enough due to the rate of return? Do you no longer care about all of that extra fiat (speaking about corporate finance) when its utility rapidly declines to near zero?

This is not constrained to just Europe. Look to both Japan, where the Bank of Japan owns a non-insignificant amount of the Nikkei, or the US where the Federal Reserve is already dropping rates again. This comes to every first world country eventually, the financial version of the Langoliers.
Trapped in Elon’s Mansion: How a Playwright Named Bagel Took on a Billionaire
> My English teacher said "on another hand" wasn't acceptable. You might be deducted point in a situation like TOEFL exam.

That is likely because 'on the other hand' is what is known as an idiom; a fixed saying. Even if some people are advocating for change of certain idioms, as a (second language) student of a language you are ill-advised to take the liberty of promoting such a novel phrasing, because people may find it hard to tell if you are making a mistake (and that they should adjust their language to your perceived level) or are in fact advocating a different way of saying things.

When taking an exam you are of course expected to use only language that is currently seen as obviously correct, because the examiner cannot tell the difference either.

> "on another hand"

This seems silly. You use on the other hand to contrast two viewpoints. There are other idioms for enumerating more than two.
The issue is when you use pronouns for others, but you won't for one person, because they're transgender. You're really calling their otherness out, and it hurts.

There are people in this world (ex: Ben Shapiro) who simply refuse to gender transgender people correctly on principle. If you are such a person, and your organization doesn't let you do that, and your solution is to use gender neutral pronouns for transgender people? Yup, that's very nearly as bad.

This is very different than me referring to you or anyone else who I only know as a screen name as "they". That's normal because if you don't even know their pronouns, what else can you do? But if you are part of a team and you know how people identify, you don't really have an excuse.
That seems to refer to the last release, but the GitHub commit history seems active, if not quite high velocity:

https://github.com/tectonic-typesetting/tectonic/graphs/comm...
It is a long accepted usage, with regards to abstract persons, like "one".
interesting. yeah I'm definitely proxiying all API calls through my own gateway. and yeah I'll have to run some tests.
TERM=vt100 should always work or the program is broken.
Know why? Apple is the worst privacy offender and you’re their product.
Cool, just the other day I was looking for a place to quickly paste the longish top comment from the "who wants to get fired" thread [1] in order to be able to read it reasonably formatted. I've published the story here and given the original author control:

https://able.bio/throwthrowthrowyourboat/my-grand-ulcer-name...

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21141785
We've seen the phenomenon globally.
I do! I remember showing everyone in the family black and white satellite images of our neighborhood.

I seem to recall it was the first place any of us had seen satellite images outside of movies or CNN, and certainly the first place we had seen images of where we lived.
Yup - https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/wp-content/uploads/...
The headline sounds worrying but the article is merely about technicalities of European pension regulations in light of low bond yields.
XML Data Islands were also an early version of XHR that MS introduced in the late 90s. It allowed you to load XML sort of like an image, and then hook into the loading events .
RuboCop Adds Minitest Cops
Mind linking us to a some of the myriad of vapourware please? Just haven't seen that many EVTOL aircrafts successfully fly, like the heaviside shows, but maybe I have not been paying attention.
> much more likely

Maybe but when you go from a very low likelihood to begin with increasing it even 10 fold might not make a practical difference.

The point was any one of us here can accurately judge content on a handful of topics in our areas of expertise and to a lesser extent in connecting fields. But we can say next to nothing outside of that. Let alone generalize to "all" platforms and "99%" of content. It's not "tech"/"non-tech" but "what I know"/"what I don't know".

> interesting insights

How would one even realize this if they're an expert web developer reading a blog on astronomy? Every single article on a platform could be either gold or shiny manure and most of us wouldn't really tell the difference unless they solidly overlap with those topics mentioned above.
With a definite person it is pretty unusual, yeah.
Working from home used to make me feel anxious about being lonely and the lack of networking. Now I know I made the right decision and plan to stick to it as long as possible.
> never look at TOEFL or any test for how to actually speak a language

I agree with you.

However, TOEFL is the gatekeeper for applying to a US/UK university. They have real power to punish you for using what they think is wrong, in this case singular "they" is wrong for them.

We study English to take TOEFL exam, so we can get into great universities.

At this point, we need to balance between being punished at TOEFL exam or being punished by public shaming.

TOEFL could have just published a blog post saying that singular "they" is acceptable. It probably takes 2 minutes to do so.

Yet they don't, even though singular "they" has been used for decades (as many comments point out).

It's dumb, and that's why I suggest we scream at TOEFL's leadership instead.
Oh, definitely, that list would include only white males, and maybe asian males?
This is a completely terrible idea.

Let's suppose we have a just barely subcritical reactor with k = .99. Then, you're going to need about 1% Cf in the core to sustain a chain reaction.

The core of a 1 GW reactor contains about 100 tonnes of fuel, and fissions maybe a tonne of fuel per GW(e)-year. So, at k = .99, it would consume 10 kg of Cf per year. At current market prices this would cost $270 B/year, assuming even that much Cf were available.

It would be BY FAR cheaper to provide the neutrons to drive a subcritical reactor by means of an accelerator, rather than with californium. 1 GeV protons on a uranium target will produce about 60 neutrons per proton, from spallation and fast fission. This sort of scheme has been repeatedly investigated, but has no sufficient advantage over conventional reactors to justify the extra cost and complexity.
Ha, so true. I know a lot of people (particularly East Asians) who struggle with basic English gender pronouns. I used to have a Chinese co-worker who just always got them backwards and when she said "him or his" I always assumed she was talking about a woman and vice-versa.
Ok but what happens if the car parked next to the tesla catches fire?
New Approaches to Cracking the Communication of Whales and Dolphins
Millions of Android Phones Are Vulnerable to Israeli Surveillance Dealer Attack
Building a constraint programming solver in Julia
I think a modernized Lisp (the program is composed of many tiny expressions that can be reevaluated) can shine when hot-reloads are highly desirable.

Isn't static typing kindof clashing with the hot reloading focus anyway? Maybe make it possible to add the types later.
It was a race to the bottom, it may have taken longer, but they all would have been shaving a dollar off at a time till somebody hit zero.
hi, i've pasted your story here. the account password is passwort1 if you're uncomfortable with that and want to delete it https://able.bio/throwthrowthrowyourboat/my-grand-ulcer-name...
The time to start worrying is long past. If you aren't worried yet then you've been ignoring the tell tale signs that are all over the business world. Safeguards instigated after the last close call are being relaxed, whole asset classes (including regular savings) are no longer viable and pensions are being cut while at the same time the age at which you get are eligible is being raised.

2008 wasn't the worst crisis ever, that doesn't mean we've seen the bottom of the pit yet.

If you are counting on others for your old age then maybe think again.
> “Same way you prove someone is posting maliciously in any other context -- you make a judgement call based on history?“

Since when is that the evidenciary standard for making a decision like this? At the very least that certainly doesn’t seem in line with Stack Overflow’s policy (which favors assuming positive intent and working to rectify before punishment), so seems implausible in that specific case. More generally, “make a judgment call based on history” sounds like a recipe for huge abuses of power and double standards in applying the policy. Instead you need clear guidelines on exactly what it means (which seems near impossible in this case.)

> “People who care about having the correct pronoun used will either gently correct you or have their pronouns in their profiles.”

There are a lot of problems with this. For one, it assumes you can identify “people who care” and removes the possibility of people who might care but don’t speak up for any variety of reasons.

More importantly though, without a clear policy on the first part, then writing something which presents any way in which someone can “gently correct you” may already be a violation of the code of conduct, or could selectively be treated as such, with no hard guidelines by which someone could defend themselves as having made an honest mistake.

Going further, a lot of the discussion in the SO meta posts seemed to be around the idea that pursuing a gender-neutral writing style that structures language so as to not need any type of pronoun reference was itself a form of misgendering or disrespect. It’s not fully clear, but there’s significant reason to think the people lobbying for the SO policy were trying to say that you both have to write using pronouns and also have to know and use the correct pronouns, and that any other type of behavior would potentially be considered a violation.
I disagree. It seems way more unix-y for programs not to break piping by spewing color codes.
Stack Overflow hired a highly political, sanctimonious Community Manager and this is the result.

E.g. he suggested users who didn't like the rules require therapy
https://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/389935/why-was-the-...
http://archive.li/UGUNK
I recently watched a video of an Argentine-Canadian telling his story of why and how his family left Argentina in 1970, during the military dictatorship. He described how the government employees would treat citizens like garbage, how they looked at you with contempt. The current behavior described in this article reminds me of that.

Here's the part of the video mentioned above
(Spanish, the English subtitles are okay):

https://youtu.be/b6r3wKax2NM?t=1302