skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I believe the post was referencing the OP's statement that "Certainly better than Chrome when it comes to privacy.", not any kind of purely technical merits.
As a non-native english speaker, using singular "they" is confusing. It may even negatively impact some people.

I've seen a recommendation that we should use "on another hand" instead of "on the other hand". Because, you know, we should avoid seeing things as black and white. I agree. Things often have more than 2 sides.

My English teacher said "on another hand" wasn't acceptable. You might be deducted point in a situation like TOEFL exam.

Another example is "I ain't" in some other dialects. We don't want to discriminate against certain groups. But, at the same time, it's wrong to use those phrases :S

Using a singular "they" is on a different level of being problematic. You don't wanna look illiterate in a situation like TOEFL exam and some other official situation. On another hand, you don't want to be publicly shamed and ganged up for misgendering others.
The oauth2 requirements for twitter signup are quite aggressive.

* See Tweets from your timeline (including protected Tweets) as well as your Lists and collections.

* See your Twitter profile information and account settings.

* See accounts you follow, mute, and block.

* Follow and unfollow accounts for you.

* Update your profile and account settings.

* Post and delete Tweets for you, and engage with Tweets posted by others (Like, un-Like, or reply to a Tweet, Retweet, etc.) for you.

* Create, manage, and delete Lists and collections for you.

* Mute, block, and report accounts for you.

* See your email address.
In short ...
too many people take themselves too seriously.
too many people reading the intent to malign from internet postings made by people intending to help.
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Mouse_acceleration
Relatedly, I'm curious how people are handling local backups with large S3 buckets?

I've been using AWS CLI sync, but it's getting increasingly slow. To the point that it seems untenable.
Paris has 2 large central parks, Vincennes and Boulogne, that are part of the city. 8.45km^2 10km^2.
Mahatma Gandhi's many posthumous enemies
Power is what it usually boils down to - power to control what may or may not viewed, power to revoke privileges, power to ban, it's very tempting, look no further than Twitch mods of large streamers.
How about "[A-Z]" ?
20 years ago someone probably said the same thing about a machine so crappy you wouldn't consider using it for a second.

The primary change in complexity is in between 1 core and more than one core not a particular core count and we exceeded the ability of one operator to understand everything that is going on in there before you were born.

Using a slower machine with less ram and cores wont make it easier for you to understand it will just mean waiting longer for it to compile.
People look at weird syntax and discussions about things that have no resemblance to the problem they are facing, and conclude it must not be useful for anything real. Yes, those problems have no resemblance to any real problem because of abstraction, but most people's experience with abstraction is in a Java-like language where nothing good ever gets out of it.
Consider that you were far more likely downvoted because you show no awareness that increasingly onerous penalties are ineffective deterrents when people don’t expect to get caught. If pickpockets can work the crowds at a pickpocket hanging, people will keep using their phones. Passing “tough on texting” legislation makes people feel like heroes but it is no panacea for the problem. And much of the danger in utilizing phones exists even when it is completely hands-free, which is unlikely to be banned even in the most restrictive case.
I'm most bothered by Indonesia and what is happening there. The pursuit of profit is so strong that the cheap land-clearing method of burning has destroyed the air quality of many parts of SE Asia and caused suffering to millions of people. In the last couple of months alone, nearly half a billion tonnes of CO2 have been released into the atmosphere from these fires [0].

And it's all about money.

[0] https://www.channelnewsasia.com/news/singapore/indonesia-for...

more:

https://edition.cnn.com/2019/09/11/asia/malaysia-singapore-p...
I should sue you to wast my 2 seconds.
The intent was was to prevent collisions, but the use is now as a persistent ID, used for tracking.
Although this seems great, use Ghost. The editing interface is unreal and the SEO/RSS/integrations are plentiful. You can customize it however you like, but there's some nice templates they have for free as well. I use it on Docker and port it around servers all the time (had some server problems here and there and it's super easy to port it using docker to different servers).

The best part is you don't have to worry if Able.bio goes away one day. Self-host will only go away on your account.

Actually running https://sdan.xyz/blog on it. (I personally love how the design and fonts come together... I created this design and it's available on Github)
It's about writing around pronouns, not using neutral or gendered either way. That was said to be unacceptable.
Aren't these German words just compound expressions? It's just that they don't put hyphens or spaces between words.
Approximately 8.6% of US households do not own a single car, as of 2017. Only 76.4% of commuters commute via single-occupancy vehicles; another 8.9% commute via carpool. These statistics are nationwide. Your claim that "95% of Americans truly can't live without a car" is contradicted by the fact that more than 5% do not own a car in the first place.

It's true that living in, say, Rantoul, Illinois is going to be difficult without a car. But the list of cities that have at least some form of bus service does go down to some pretty small cities (<100,000), and most of the country anyways lives in large cities or their suburbs, where transit is viable.
Macs are no longer suitable for general computing
Really? The post here seemed to indicate otherwise:

> I said I avoid singular they for that reason, 95% of the time you can write around the problem, and (on SE) I'm offended when someone edits my posts badly to solve a gender-neutrality problem. (Editing well is fine, which usually means pluralizing or using a name or something like that instead of either generic "he" or singular "they".) Some people said not using preferred pronouns invalidates the person; I said for me it's not about the person at all but the quality of my own writing (an important part of my identity).

and later:

> I answered saying that we already have a negative commandment, don't call people what they don't want to be called (like wrong pronouns), which is proper, but this question calls for adding a positive requirement to use specific language and we shouldn't do that. I talked about writing in a gender-neutral way, that we rarely even need third-person-singular pronouns in our discussions, and not using a pronoun at all isn't misgendering.

This, to me, sounds like "I refuse to use the pronouns you ask me to use for you and will instead rewrite whenever possible to not use pronouns for you".
Avoiding pronouns appears to be an offense in that new CoC though. If I was to refer to your comment saying "As Barrin92 wrote", I'd be close to a ban if you've stated your preferred pronouns in your profile, as those are to be used.
It's not a dick move because the singular "they" covers every conceivable pronoun that could ever possibly exist. Saying "they" is not the same as calling a man "she" or calling a woman "he" or any combination of genders and pronouns. The singular "they" is as accurate for one gender as it is for any other possible genders and covers all of them exactly the same.

That's the entire reason neutral words like "they" exist, to cover every possible case to avoid mis-gendering. If we decide that the singular "they" is inappropriate, we might as well do away with pronouns altogether and refer to people by name every time we mention someone.
> get the fuck out of the anglosphere as soon as possible

Can you expand on this?
Yeah this seems an issue in the anglosphere, but similar issues are arising in Spanish though. There's also push to change the language in weird ways from the left, although it's true that is not as widespread.
“In This Thread: We Pretend We're on HN”
Also very dangerous particles go airborne from the use of brake pads. EVs (and hybrids) use mostly regenerative braking, and release almost no such pollution.
I don't understand why this has become such a common theme in the tech world. A small clique of non-binary/LGBTQ+ people who wield undue amounts of soft power and use that soft power to fight pseudo-political internet battles. I've yet to experience this with any other subculture I'm involved in.
I was hoping for a little more detail around the beginnings of AJAX. I know it was added to IE to support Outlook in IE but I thought Maps was the first big use of it outside of Outlook.
20% of NVIDUA 1050 Ti cards for sale on eBay are fake
This is unrelated to what I'm talking about lol
This! Things like minimum street and shoulder widths are totally different between the UK and US and they dramatically impact driver behavior. I'm an engineer in the US for the record.
Exactly, I never understood the Internet's dumbfounding with German compound words.
This is crazy. Ben Watson writes/edits for DefenseOne, which has certainly published a fair bit critical of Trump & his team; but then if you are a member of the reality-based community, and a public writer about stories in the national interest, it would be hard to not do that. Calling him a propagandist harkens back to dark American behaviors of the past rather than aspirational American values. It's also not like he writes for one of the publications that would be considered a particular gadfly to the Trump community, like NYT or Washington Post, so it would be good to investigate how this CBP officer even specifically knew to "call out" Watson.
(Native English speaker)

I find it pretty easy to use "they" when the gender is unknown, which fits a lot of writing online.

I find it much, much more difficult to remember to call my friend's partner, who looks in every way to me very feminine, and has an unambiguously feminine name, "they" rather than "she".
Different strokes I guess.

For me it’s the utility factor. I can get a well equipped, 4 door Tacoma for $32k. That’s a hell of a lot more useful to me than a $40k Tesla. Perhaps if Tesla had a small sized pickup for less than $45k I’d give it a look, but their lower-end options just aren’t that attractive.

When you’re looking at a vehicle that’s the size of a civic, that isn’t a fun sports car, I just don’t see how the average American can justify it. I’m not exactly sure who Tesla Model 3 is supposed to be competing with. It’s not cheap enough to compete with Honda, Toyota, etc. and it’s not expensive enough to compete with luxury brands like Mercedes, Lexus, etc.
What does mun plan to do that will improve performance over luajit?
They avoidance of ‘they’ as a singular personal pronoun is a recent occurrence, historically it has been used frequently when gender is unknown or unclear. The Oxford English Dictionary did some research on the history last year https://public.oed.com/blog/a-brief-history-of-singular-they...

The only recent change is people expressing a desire to use they/them as their own forms of address, but this isn’t an invalid use.
I think folks might be more comfortable switching to this if they understood the business model (or philanthropic finding source). This platform will only have value if it scales (and therefore has substantial costs). How will those costs be covered? What about paying you for your time you spend building and maintaining it?

Looking forward to learning more about your plans, and having an alternative to the existing ecosystem.
"They" have been used like that for ages. It is certainly less clunky than writing "he or she" in cases where you are not referring to any particular person.
New Mobile App: Flutter vs. React Native?
(a) https://media.giphy.com/media/uiYgcNCdXfrck/giphy.gif — I am no man ;)

(b) If you earn 2500$ a month, do you actually have 250$/month after all expenses are paid? I don’t. I’m happy if I have any money left at the end of the month.

An average employee has no savings whatsoever, and can’t even fully pay all their expenses. 95% of the western world would be happy if they would have 10% of their income left after expenses at the end of the month. 100% of the rest of the world would be happy with even any money left at the end of the month.

Companies are making far more profit than any single employee ever could dream of, often with massive profit ratios (Target and Walmart are at 25% to 30%, as is Google — that’d mean 830$ left after expenses for a person earning 2500$!), and many of the companies with the highest profit ratios are pure middlemen, providing no real benefit at all.
It's a better alternative to Cygwin, but Cygwin wasn't all that useful before. There are just too many differences between Linux and Windows. You are better off using Windows as a thin client SSHing into a remote Linux session.
Their network should be high latency too
You already use "you" as both singular and plural. Historically, "you" used to be the plural form of "ye". Grammatically, singular "you" works just the same as singular "they", so it's not confusing at all (I'm also a non-native speaker). See https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/you#Usage_notes

The references to "on another hand" I've found have been mostly historical (e.g., a Senate speech from 1830) and/or discussions whether it is correct. I can't find anyone advocating its use.
With an indefinite referent though (from you link: "a man", "a person", "every one"). Not with reference to specific definite person. "Jack got their jacket" does not usually parse as Jack getting his own jacket.
Use Ghost. It's self-hosted and gives all the functionality you need for beginners and advanced users alike.

Running it on https://sdan.xyz/blog and it's fantastic. I get RSS/subscriptions (https://sdan.xyz/subscribe)/podcasts/a whole plethora of integrations super easily.

And since it's self hosted, you don't need to worry about it ever going down (unlike if Able.bio ever does).

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GMail was a heavy AJAX user and predated Google Maps.
I may not necessarily agree with BAT, but I do suggest Brave to anyone who is too flustered to use Firefox with uBlockOrigin and other extensions [0]. It really has a great UX.

As for long term sustainability of the web [1], Brave, imo, has a better idea on their hands than Google's proposed privacy-sandbox [2]. For the sake of competition and innovation, I hope there are many more such initiatives.

Best!

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20783339

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20809574

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20767891
I recently got caught off-guard on HN. Until a few months I didn't really get that 'they' could be used to refer to a company and I believe it led to some quiproquo in a conversation. One HN commentator went into my post history and hinted I was lying about it.

shrugged
> I think some memories need repeating so that you can continue remembering them. Most of the memories that I have from my early childhood are ones that I think about once in a while.

I think this is exactly true. And for example if someone else is involved in the memory and you relate it to them they wonder 'how did you remember that it happened X years ago??'. But as you say it's that every now and then (at least with me) you have thought about it and reinforced the memory. The other person has not typically. Which is why they are surprised that you remember the event. So yes you 'remind' yourself I think this is true from what I experience as well.
> Paris has now public piss boxes on every major cross-roads

I live in Paris. I can confidently say, no, that's absolutely not true.
What is the alternative on a Q&A site that explicitly restricts tangential conversation?
You're right! Turns out it's me that hasn't read the article. Anyway, remove the sentence about it not being harder to learn than any other language (which I think is unfortunate) and then I don't think what you say contradicts it. Haskell can be very hard to learn yet still within reach of most programmers.
I don't really find it any harder than picking up someone going my Mrs. rather than Ms. or someone changing last name. There's usually an adjustment period, of course, but it's not that hard to pick up personally.
Bullies.
I picked up one of those in China about four years ago. At the time I was finding hotels would offer free ethernet internet connections but either no Wi-Fi or expensive Wi-Fi. This was cheap, easy, and fits easily in a bag. Recommend.
I don't find it to be unreasonable. If a trans person clearly states that her pronouns are "she/her" and you twist your sentences around to avoid using pronouns at all, that could certainly give the impression that you don't recognize her identity as valid. I am not saying OP did this or did this intentionally but it's not an unreasonable policy. It sounds to me (without being intimately familiar with the situation) that OP has esoteric stylistic preferences that are not transphobic but happen to be consistent with the language that transphobic people will use.

Pronoun use is pretty straightforward. If someone says their pronouns, you use their pronouns to refer to them, just like you would anyone else. It may feel a little disorienting if you don't talk to many trans people and, for example, they use singular "they" or have a pronoun that seems different than the one that you would naturally assign to them based on their appearance, but it's not difficult and you can get used to it pretty quickly.

The reason that people are so sensitive and strict about this is because the stakes for trans people are very high -- some people don't believe trans people exist, should exist, or should have the same rights as cis people. Refusing to use the right pronouns reveals either a benign misunderstanding about trans people or a willful hostility towards their existence. The latter is extremely common and can be both hurtful and often scary, as trans people, especially trans people of color, are often subject to violence because of their identities.
This is a topic no one can talk about today. Previous discussions on this on HN quickly dropped off the page.

I've always found the concept of preferred gender pronouns to be problematic from a pure technical perspective. But I was so afraid of the stigma I haven't really written about it. Recent events made me finally publish this last night:

https://battlepenguin.com/philosophy/perspective/preferred-g...

The summary: pronouns reduce cognitive load, because you can refer to someone by a broad category. With custom pronouns, you now create a way to offend someone in the base language.
https://waitbutwhy.com/2019/08/stick-figure-guide.html
duplicate: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21138418
And that’s why I am not twitter anymore ^^ just one giant minefield
Steve Jobs gave credit to Xerox Research Lab in a few interview I saw. Xerox and Apple actually worked together and Apple used that tech to build a unique & creative product instead of copying an existing market and selling it for cheap leveraging the abusive labor policies.
It would be cool if we could live in cities where crossing the street carelessly didn't have to end in death.
>The employee did not stay to field questions, but came back a couple hours later to tell me "we've been as clear as we can and your values are out of alignment".

The core issue as I see it isn't CoC or gender pronouns. Stack Overflow is punishing people if their perceived internal views (ie: "values") are not the same as a set of unwritten allowed views. So basically thought crime mixed with McCarthyism. Except without any specific clarify on what the allowed thoughts are.
> ...a much smaller minority has a harder time taking alternatives

At any given time it's a minority. But everyone is a baby, has a baby, or is elderly at some point.
I was hopping for any detail.

The ajax part was not that innovative. As with every product that succeed, the content was awesome. How did a startup with 2 people living "out of maxed out credit cards" in early 2000s even acquired mapping data in the first place?
Very interesting!

I'd always thought Tron was the film with the first CGI, I've just been reading https://www.empireonline.com/movies/features/history-cgi/ apparently it wasn't the first film to use 3D CGI either. Although Tron did make extensive use of 3D CGI.
I miss the good old days of the Internet, when men were men, women were men, and children were FBI agents.
> It's also super weird

It’s a private organisation. The person “let go” was a volunteer. It sucks, but both parties acted within their rights, legally and I’d argue morally.

Lots of places have weird norms—dress codes, for instance. This group has a different view of pronouns. They want to enforce that as a cultural value. Apparently, their leadership either agrees or doesn’t find the topic worth burning political capital over. The author did find it worth burning political capital over, which caused him [EDIT: oops, them] to be ejected.

The cost of vilifying norms we disagree with is a reduced cultural space private organisations can explore. That loss of dynamism may reduce the frequency of seemingly-silly subcultures, but it also hits our broader culture’s flexibility.
Getting downvoted, but there is something worth discussing here.

Originally you had sex === gender. Pronouns being words to address them and describe them per their sex/gender.

Then there was a split between sex and gender, and a push for pronouns to describe gender rather than sex. A bit confusing when the person in question just transitioned or does not "pass" (for lack of better terminology), but all around pretty simple. While there's been trans and non-binary folks forever, it's still a recent thing in term of large scale awareness.

Then things moved forward with genders being much more complex with a ton of variations, but we still only have a few pronouns, so it no longer quite works. So things moved from pronouns matching genders to "preferred pronouns" Logical for non-binary where things aren't as simple as men/women (and thus he/she doesn't map cleanly 1:1), but it gets really confusing with things like people who identify as one of the binary genders but wants to be addressed by the opposite pronoun (eg: a woman requesting to be addressed as a he, but still identifies as a woman).

At that point keeping this straight in one's head gets seriously confusing and complicated, and has a lot of parallels with Asian languages that have deep complex hierarchies of ways to address based on status. Obviously it's possible since those other cultures can do it (albeit in a different context), but foreigners have a pretty hard time with it (you need to learn LOT about the language and the people to do it correctly).

So realistically, especially while we're transitioning to this new world, it's a heck of a lot easier to stick to gender neutral. Personally, I'm old and have a lot of decades behind me of habits that need changing to make people happy. If I'm in a group and it's not completely obvious what to use (or I don't know folks personally), I'll just stick to gender neutral everything until I catch on or get corrected. Never offended anyone (or at least no one told me so) that way, and it makes things a lot simpler.

I mean, I can't remember people's first name until I hear it quite a few times, and its (generally) a fair bit simpler, assuming western names since thats where I'm from. Fortunately people generally don't take it too badly if I ask them to remind me a few times or I get it wrong a bunch, but first names aren't as emotionally loaded.
Chinese money talks
And... how is it that you know when someone is twisting his or her sentences?