skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You mean this quote:

>June 2018: There was a TL discussion about gender-neutral pronouns and then "preferred pronouns". (I know they're not "preferred", but this was the phrasing used by the people bringing it up.) Some moderators who are not native English speakers expressed confusion. 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). Tension rose, other people said some things I saw as bullying, and I stepped out. For a long time after, I didn't enter the room unless strictly necessary. Note: no employee said anything to me about my role in this conversation, and while some other mods disagreed with my position, none said anything like "this is a Code of Conduct (CoC) violation". Employees witnessed this discussion.

I don't see anything in there that would apply to fictional characters (Alice and Bob). It all seems to be only about real people. Also I don't see anything in there that indicates Stack Exchange says you can't refer to Alice as "she", unless Alice specifically wants to be called by some other pronoun.
ah no, when you get fired for these social justice rules then its a problem. sorry you think its so simple because if it was then there would never be any issues would there?

you cant force people to say things even though they'll probably use what you tell them because most people are nice. but were not going to change the rules for 99.9% of people and worry about preferred pronouns all the time in every little occasion just because someone exists who doesnt follow the normal pronouns
They would not do deduplication like this because this is based on similar images, but they probably (and should) do it by image hash.
Hey there, we actually launched this as a precursor to our Uber Air service with all electric VTOLs -- Uber.com/air
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Yes,i have been tipping more lately.Now this was my first time in europe,i was shocked to see people were doing stuff outside of tech,young people having arts stuff(dancing etc) as a career,folks were working in bars and cafes. There's just so much more outside of tech. Eastern europe made me feel as if i had way more money.
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we hurt members of our LGBTQ+ community when they felt they couldn’t participate authentically and we didn’t respond quickly or strongly enough in supporting them. Worse, through our handling of this situation, we made them a target for harassment as people debated their right to express themselves and be addressed according to how they identify.

I am responsible for that, and I am deeply sorry. We absolutely support the LGBTQ+ community.
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GPT-2 could have written a better and more genuine apology.

First of all, you don't just use the new PR formula of naming the wrong, saying you take responsibility and then saying you're sorry. You need to dig deep and identify why you committed the wrong in the first place (homophobia, sexism, mean heartedness?) and commit to therapy and reforming.

Seriously.
In the UK we have http://www.legislation.gov.uk
You can not take it on yourself to fix a company especially from a position with no authority. You will end up having negative feelings about yourself and your failures to steer the ship in the right direction. People will hate you for what they see as constant interfering with their decisions. This a recipe for ever increasing stress and eventual burnout.

Please remember this: it is not your company. Not your responsibility. You didn't build it this way. Even if you could fix it - and I assure you that you can't - you would be doing the world a disservice. You would keep sociopaths who only care about short term numbers on spreadsheets in business when they rightfully deserve to fail.

If you find yourself with "negative feelings like unfairness, lack of control, or frustration" especially in the IT sector please remember the job market is booming right now and give a chance to another leadership to make the world a better place.
theyre editing posts for perceived or pretend offense

if it was a specific person then theres nothing to edit because you would just use the pronouns and there wouldnt be any issue. they dont talk about anyone who specifically wanted different pronouns in that story
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Screwing over (and killing many of) our Kurdish allies who fought so long and hard against authoritarian states, and were actually winning.

I can't wait to see this fucker impeached...
Please explain how it’s worse than inheritance.
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> Real documentation is better anyway!

If SO was the alternative to real documentation to you, you’re probably part of the reason why SO quality has declined so much and why moderation got heavy-handed over time, with collateral damage: lazy ass users asking RTFM / I-can-haz-code questions.

(Years ago I answered questions for a while on SO, accumulated a few thousand points, and participated in modding queues. I know how bad the bottom 30% or more of SO questions are.)
That's actually not what's in contention here. Using singular "they" when gender is unknown avoids the old default of "he". Which feminists rightly took as sexist.

What this is about is using singular "they" when declared gender is known. Whatever people declare themselves to be is what they are. The rest is just mechanics.
Wow, looks amazing!
Quite an improvement over V1 of FlightSim. (Nevermind A2FS1 on the TRS-80, lol.)
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> Then they should be just building cheap tunneling then trying to build custom public transit

Cheap depends on context. Here, on R&D, creating excellent machines, mass produced, and reused with high duty cycle, embedded in a big high-productivity surrounding process, all amortized and enabled by scale. And also on tunnel characteristics, especially small diameter (many costs scale roughly with face area). These are not well matched to existing markets. The sweet spot really is in system design, not merely in fancy small TBM design. The scale permits the cost that permits the scale.

> custom public transit that allow only for electric cars with compatible self driving systems

Access could indeed be an interesting issue at some point. But at present, company focus is on dedicated mass transit shuttle bus/vans. More analogous to rail transit, than to highways.
Pardon my ignorance, what does "photoshopped Disk Utility" mean? I get the reference between GIMP vs. Photoshop, but what does it mean by "gimped/photoshopped" an application?
So what, you'd say we have "the cheapest cell service in the world" if we took our currency and reissued it with 1000 pre-2020 dollar equaling 1 post-2020 dollar [0]?

Electronics cost the same amount regardless of what currency you buy them in, which is at least a good portion of the cost of running a cell company. Wages are also similar in the US and Canada.

The Canadian GDP per person is slightly greater than the American GDP per person after we convert everything to the same asset (e.g. USD) [1]. So it's not like we are poorer than americans and we need to adjust for that. It just happens to be the case that a loonie is less than a dollar bill, and a toonie more than a dollar bill.

[0] There is precedent for doing this, though not in Canada, typically it is done after hyper inflation to make amounts of currency seem more reasonable.

[1] https://www.google.ca/publicdata/explore?ds=d5bncppjof8f9_&m...
Interesting, I have a similar problem - I’m bothered that many people around me are making a lot more than me. It feels wrong that so many people are able to buy $3M houses outright. I was browsing real estate section in a local newspaper and suddenly the guilt of not doing enough / not doing the right things hit me.
Yes, I get the Java stuff, I was being sarcastic because it totally missed the context it was built with, in favour of some generalist mainstream adoption critique which misses the point.

Have you seen the homepage?

The Potion Pledge "everything is an object" bit was a good hint.
Do you have any citations for [1]? My intuition is that it's no different than the jargon mentioned in [2], more of just a made up term to more accurately/efficiently communicate.
The encryption works but the endpoints are compromised. The Intel management engine and the AMD equivalent are good examples of how modern hardware is complex enough to seed backdoor hardware into a system.
About a decade and a half ago CCMB (Center for Cellular and Molecular Biology), Hyderabad actually bred vultures for this very purpose. I don't remember if they ended up solving it.
I don't agree it's no different to now. The difference is, availablilty, anonymity, and action at a distance. A bad guy can send a car a couple hundred miles away full of explosives or they can remotely drive it. When it's ubiqitous things maybe change. People were arguably not as jerky before the net. The ability it sit at a screen and type anonymous invective unleashed or amplified supressed behavior. Self driving cars (and drones) might do the same, make it so easy to do certain types of bad things that more people will do them than happens today.
> While the team is currently evaluating something like an in-sim store for supplemental content, there will be no requirements to use it, and no restrictions of any kind on downloading freeware or payware add-ons from other sources.

Great news. I was sure when I first heard the announcement Microsoft was going to try control the market, which would ruin the ecosystem.
It’s fascinating how once you mentally open yourself to the idea that cars do not need to be the biggest beneficiaries of public space, how our current city distributions start looking so ridiculous. And how such a nicer world is imaginable, if more people started agreeing to de prioritize cars and prioritize humans.
I don't know that I'd call it a double standard though- a far greater percentage of the population benefits from road transport than subway. Unless it's handheld and it fits in a bag, goods and services are almost exclusively delivered by road vehicle. And even if a messenger is using the subway to deliver a package, it most likely was on a truck at some point before that.
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2005: https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/Sexing-to-increase...

2006: https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/hyderabad/CCMB-to-b...
> I will have $80 remaining that I can spend on something else which will pay someone else's salary

Will you pay someone else's salary or will you issue a stock buyback?

So far it seems like the later is happening, and as a result wealth accrues at the very top percentiles.
The part of the story you're missing is the somewhat recent (arguably happening for many years, now) phenomenon where some people take an issue like this (correct use of pronouns, in this case), weaponize it, and use it to assault communities. If you find yourself in a situation like this, you cannot get away by being more neutral and more reasonable, because it's not a misunderstanding - it's an attack. The situation is very asymmetrical; a lot of people and organizations yield at the very first opportunity, and people thinking it was just a misunderstanding get thrown under a bus.
After getting a ThinkPad. I could never go any other laptop... the track pad may not be as good but I rarely ever use it. Compared to the keyboard which I use 99% of the time.
It also allows for the people to “change their mind”

Authoritarian governments do not
I have no love for telus, bell, or Rogers.

Should Canadians pay a bit of a premium to be able to supply some of the things that we depend on to live ourselves, in our own way, on our own terms? For food I think yes. I am happy to know that the milk and cheese I consume did not come from American mega farms with all their problems.
I think they had a data cap of 23gb/mo before you'd get really slow speeds
Shouldn't you calculate it by passenger-time? The car seats 1-3 people, sits in traffic, etc. A passenger BUS probably does a lot more CO2 than a car too...
> An arbitrary object should have absolutely no business knowing how to render itself,

Well, `toStrig` and its inverse make sense mostly for value types and these usually have ONE canonical representation. SQL has been based on converting values to/from strings since... always. E.g., when I want to insert a GUID into a table in SQLServer, I send it in as a... string. JDBC driver returns it as a string as well.

Problems with string conversions arise when a value type doesn't have a single canonical representation, e.g., dates and times.
Can you give an example on how to word a question?
... in the practical terms and in the particular situation discussed in the thread.
> theyre editing posts for perceived or pretend offense

Who are "they"? Monica in that part is upset about people coming along and adding weird grammar into her posts. Those people could be other mods, or could be even regular Stack Exchange users. At no point does she say Stack Exchange staff are editing her posts, or that the editors were following a Stack Exchange rule.

> then you would just use the pronouns and there wouldnt be any issue

Monica has said she never uses 3rd person singular pronouns. So no, she would not "just use the pronouns". And people have taken issue with the fact that she never uses 3rd person singular pronouns, that's the reason she was fired.

> they dont talk about anyone who specifically wanted different pronouns in that story

Just because Monica doesn't mention a specific person by name in the blog post doesn't mean there wasn't a specific person involved with the situation. I think it's very likely the story Monica is talking about involved a specific person.
This is nonsense, if you write natively-executed software you'll definitely make use of being able to read assembly in a debugger.
This is more or less the pitch I've seen when a tech alternative first comes out. For example "web advertising vs TV advertising".

But I guess that's because there's not competition yet.
> generally

Yes, generally this is the case. I'm just pointing out that historically, not everyone has won equally, and some have lost.
Five to Fourteen-eyes[0] wouldn't mind.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Five_Eyes
Definitely - I currently do this by having a notebook where I write down conversions, having worked them out on a calculator. Being able to do this automatically would rock.
Well, I'll just say you have to separate the analysis of the policy proposal, from what kind of actual policy we would end up with given political constraints.

A similar critique of whether it's politically feasible could be made of any other proposal, including, say, a libertarian one where every existing welfare program is gutted.

> Also when Government was any good at anything?

Depends on who you ask, I guess.
So in the past, out of that $200, $100 went to labor.

Now, only $80 are left, and capable robots also compete for that. So maybe you spend only $40 on labor.

So now you support only 40% percent of jobs. And that's without considering second order effects.
Sorry. I have no agenda against men. I am one. Isn't it obvious? But some of my personas are female, I admit.

I was just pointing out that "sir" implies male gender. And given that we're talking about gender pronouns, not titles, the rest of it is irrelevant.
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I am an experienced fullstack software developer (8 years) still open for areas to specialize in. I've lead a few small teams, mentored juniors, contributed and kickstarted dozens of projects.

My interest is in anything increasing productivity via automation, visualization and process streamlining. Anything out of this box will probably still be pretty interesting to me. Please hit me an email and I'll look forward to helping you out!
Another wish would be able to export (email) to my kindle. Using a normal device is kind of a pain but I can let my kindle keep the screen on for a long time and it's readable even at a bad angle.
I agree, I was actually watching this situation with glee, hoping every moderator on the entire site would quit en-masse. Maybe then it would be useful again.
To gimp something means to severely reduce it's functionality. The photoshopped part is a joke; it doesn't mean anything.
It sounds like what you want is "something that isn't remotely what TeX was for, and what it's still really good at". Which is fine, of course, but not something a TeX engine should try to do. Maybe some kind of modular TeX-wrapping typeprocessing (not typesetting) environment.
Fully agree - I believe one of the core stated issues about writing in a non-gendered way when the "preferred gender pronoun" is known is that is it can be considered rude and disrespectful to the persons identification. And, to me, this seems quite forced and too "inclusive". I have absolutely no issues with any preferences, identifications or anything similar, but I don't think anything positive for any community can come out of characterizing people as rude when they simply try to write/speak in a way that is as neutral as possible, and instead require them to go out of their way to find and recognize the person's preferred pronoun. Especially so when the topic/context is one that has nothing to with the person / gender / identification - as is mostly the case on sites like SE...
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Quebec is nice if you're a tourist.

I tried living there and that sheen quickly fades. Especially after living in a US city. It's a joke if you think anyone in the world is even attempting to try to imitate Quebec. Montreal is nice because of what is left from the past greatness in the pre 1970s and because of its decline it's now a dirt cheap urban playground with economy-class hipster NYC lite for the unemployed artists whose parents can afford paying their $400/m shared living rent.

Otherwise the economy is incredibly behind the times and incredibly lucky for the political influence it's established over the years being the special child who gets preferential treatment despite having none of the excuses the have-not east coast provinces have, despite receiving the most aid of all of the provinces.

There's a very good reason MTL rents are 20x cheaper than NYC despite the large stock of high quality old buildings. And it has nothing to do with what they’ve achieved recently.
This looks really interesting. Can you give us an idea of the performance? E.g. roughly how long would it take to process 1 million 1920×1080 JPEGS, without GPU and with GPU?

What is the scaling like? E.g. what if it was 10 million?
"The average Chinese person either doesn't know about Tinanmen"
I am an average Chinese person but I know it since I was a teenager. I suggest that you don't assume that Chinese people is controlled like puppet, that's simply wrong.
One historian that see AI as different is Yuval Noah harari. He has interesting books.
It’s a joke: gimp as derogatory slang [0] should not be used, so you use... Photoshop.

[0] https://en.m.wiktionary.org/wiki/gimp
> I see lots of volunteers answering questions and only voting to close the bad ones and they are bad ones.

Before answering questions in future give them a bit of a Googling. Find the ones someone like yourself didnt spend time on, the ones that instantly got closed as off topic or duplicate or moderator was grumpy today so closed.

I get it, wealth of free information and that, sure. But these are the top results in Google. The top results, not a /new queue where you’re hiding. The pages that someone having this problem will visit.

From the visitor’s point of view, SO is a cesspool of power tripping mods who love to close questions.

The solution? SO should noindex closed questions and add canonical links for duplicates. Simple enough, tell the damn search engines things are closed/redirected as well as the user. It would improve the end user experience infinitely to stop arriving on what they perceive as unnecessarily closed questions.
so we roll over and just take it?
i faced this aswell as everyone around me a the conference was making 2x of what i made each month + stocks and whatnot.
Pre-posix macOS (previously known as ‘system N’ where N was the version number) did indeed use pascal calling conventions, so the posters assertions aren’t unreasonable.
Meaning it has good documentation?
Can you give some examples of those "terrible bugs" you have experienced on a yearly basis?

I have developed for iOS for the last 5 years, and I haven't ever experienced those in UIKit. This year brought one single bug in UISegmentedControl, in a situation that doesn't happen often:
https://forums.developer.apple.com/thread/122736
iPhone has "driving in the car" detection, afaik it only stops you from receiving texts but maybe they should go further and don't even let you unlock it (you can always dismiss it by saying that you are a passenger).

Anyways this is hardly a hardware issue, I think that punishment for texting while driving should be way more severe. Why not do it the high-school way and confiscate the cell phone? You can grab it later at a police station or pay for shipping if you are not a local.
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I accept this criticism and I’ll rethink my position on this. Thank you for continuing to engage with me on it.
Well people will always "work", but I think the nature of what we consider "work" and "outcomes" might be different.

In our current scenario "work" is generate economic value, and "outcome" is dollars.

In another scenario "work" could be stories / media, and "outcomes" could be attention.

In another, "work" is playing video games, "outcome" is level.

In all these scenarios you have people feeling the dopamine and at some level deriving satisfaction. It seems a bit dystopian (and anti-social) even to me, but if we're just talking about "human limitations on society" then I don't see why it couldn't be the case.

If we really lived in a post-scarcity world like The Culture, I'd imagine we'd have to evolve how we think about "work" and "outcome" in the same way that most of us no longer "work" for the glory of god for an "outcome" in the afterlife.
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There's Dokku for single-server and Flynn for more flexible, multi-server setup. I'm curious for other options.

I wish there's an easy way to have Netlify style preview deploys for all branches with none of the hassle.
Helicopter Taxis are much cheaper than I thought they would be. What distance do they travel for that amount of money? Not familiar with New York.
Putting aside flippant use of the term insanity, what is the issue with gender pronouns?
None of this is about posts involving hypothetical people (like Alice&Bob in cryptography examples). You're the only one who thinks that.

The topic is about when a real user asks that they be referred to with specific pronouns, and other people instead refer to them with different pronouns or avoid using gendered pronouns. This whole conversation is about real people.
Yes, but before the triboro he used public opinion around parks and easy trips out of the city to force his building projects through. That’s what put him in position to build and run the triboro in the first place. But yes you’re right, the TBA and the fact that he wasn’t a city employee is what gave him the power to really go off the reservation.