skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Reading some of Monica’s commentary on this, it pains me to conclude that she doesn’t know just how bad the situation is. She appears to have approached the issue in question respectfully and highlighted her concerns diplomatically, and she believes there must be a “big misunderstanding” because of the extreme response with which she was met. Surely all parties are interested in reaching an outcome everyone can live with, right? Wrong.

The reason her questions and were met with summary punishment was due to the fact that the moral crusaders she was attempting to engage with do not tolerate ideological noncompliance. There was no “misunderstanding.” Chipps and the rest could detect that she was likely to continue to ask questions about the policy, and anyone who dares question such policies is clearly a “bigot” and a “transphobe,” and why would you want someone like that to be a moderator?

Word to the wise: people like this (moral crusaders) will not hesitate to burn your organization to the ground if they don’t get their way. They’ll run coups (like this), condemn you on Twitter, and scare everyone into first being silent, then leaving the org, either out of fear of being the next to be condemned, or just the exhaustion of dealing with it all. I have seen this happen to non-profits, conferences, even private school boards (take a look at Oberlin for an example). If you get crusaders like this in your org, you should consider it an existential threat.

Well, off to delete my Stack Overflow account.
Shame on me for commenting before finishing the video. Turns out there's a very easy fix for at least the finicky switch, and it sounds like it would do the trick for the Sunbeam toaster that I know and lov^H^H^H^H use sometimes.
Do you even know the issue? Have you even clicked the link? It's not a Jordan Peterson "I want to use the wrong pronouns" debate. The moderator was asking if they were allowed to try to avoid using pronouns at all, which I think is the far better solution. She also said that obviously, she would use the right pronoun if she knew what it was or she had to. Nobody in this thread is making caricatures of people, and it kind of feels like you just wanted to comment for the sympathetic responses.
Well, if someone was using it in the context of getting them deported, then it wouldn't be repeated, which is generally considered part of the definition of harassment.
Fair enough. It's rather pointless to argue on HN about SE.

I'm entirely happy to use whatever pronouns people want. But here, how would I know? There aren't even images. Just names, and very often ~genderless names.

Edit: Also, upon reflection, I suspect that I don't even know the universe of gender pronouns in common use.
Are you seriously equating misgendering someone with killing them?
Ah, yes, the fabled "biological pronoun".

Pronouns are not biological constructs. They don't have chromosomes, genitals, or secondary sex characteristics. They are, by definition, tied to gender.

How would life work if pronouns were determined biologically? For example, how would you figure out what pronouns to use to describe me, if we met in person?

You'd have to ask me to drop trou immediately after we met, which would generally be considered socially unacceptable, or at least a bit forward. But if I did it anyway, how would you know my genitalia hadn't been surgically altered? You could try to cross-reference my secondary sex characteristics, but even those could have been modified hormonally. Really, you'd have to ask for a DNA sample to determine which chromosomes I have, and even that might turn out not to align with the sex I was assigned at birth, much less the one I present today. And what pronouns do you choose if it turns out I have a combination other than XX or XY? It all seems like a lot of trouble and expense for pronouns anyway.

What I'm getting at is that people who make that sort of argument aren't actually saying, "the pronouns I'm using for you are based on your biology". That's just disingenuous, or at the very least shows that they haven't given it any actual thought. What they're really saying is, "the pronouns I'm using for you are what I think you look like, even if it's the opposite of what you tell me you are". I don't see how there's a well-intentioned way to interpret that.

It's so much safer (and easier!) just to take people at their word when they tell you their pronouns, just as you would when they tell you their name.
Never got into pills of any sort but that's why people grind it all up and put it in caps.
It's both common and a good idea, when used purely internally to a function in order to redirect error paths to a standard set of cleanup code. It helps prevents memory errors and other problems.

This is the sense in which the Linux kernel uses goto.
> it's removing a choice.

Not from the marketplace.

If you care about this so much, you can go over to Android. I personally like the way Apple handles their platform with an iron grip and is part of the reason I buy their products.
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Whats wrong with wikipedia? I've heard of many of those events and checked out those things and there were entries for those things at wikipedia.

just because people passionately believe things doesn't make them true. there are 1000s of videos and clear evidence of planes hitting the buildings on 9/11 for example, plus 1000's of people saw it.

Johnson was trying to get the war in vietnam kicked off. People knew about it later and didn't care.
I enjoy camping and hunting and tend to purchase SUV's and trucks that can get to remote areas. I tend to buy them in the low years (10-15) years old and restore them overtime ( another hobby of mine) as they always seem to pop up in price and become a good investment at about 20-25 years.

Anyways, one time I came across a deal on a Land Rover Defender and picked it up. It was the worst decision in my car buying life. Oddball parts, expensive, being broke down waiting on parts to ship from England, where all regular occurrences. I am sure, I put over 10K in replacement parts into that vehicle and those where the ones that actually broke and not parts purchased for restoration.

After that experience I came across a Lamborghini LM002 at a really good price, IIRC it was around 25K when no one wanted the Rambo Lambo and passed on it, looking at the prices now, I kick myself for not getting that one. Though it would have been another nightmare.

Point being I agree stay away from used luxury cars but if that is what you want, it's better to buy used, than new and then have to still foot the bill when the warranty is up.
Yes, it does remove a choice, because choice in the market is not along just one axis.
So I've been saying.

Everything is a tea-ceremony, like watching paint dry.

Take Iaido, where they spend a lifetime visualizing the perfect cut; and compare it to western fencing.

Tongue in cheek, there's a certain beauty and peacefulness to it as well.
well I do not think that using non neutral pronouns or names is offensive to another gender. or at least it shouldn't be.
example:
in germany there is the word student. it means the same than the english version. in germany it uses a male pronoun, but the simple word targeted all kinds of students, not just male ones. the word just had a maskulin pronoun. unfortunatly it was gender incorrect, so some people came up with studentin, however now we sometimes need to deal with the rest and the languages get totally fucked up by genderfication. sometimes a maskulin pronoun does not target a certain group of people.
i.e. using neutral/genderfication of pronouns/nouns most often makes it worse. it actually views the world as binary (only males/females) and is most often no the way the language was designed. (some words have a maskulin pronoun but still target everybody) using our languages differently also does not fix any poblem at all, in some cases it might make it even worse.
Wow it’s great to see the Pythonians finally realizing they need a Rshiny for python.. /s
I mean, he doesn't make any genuine effort to actually try to make sense of it. From what I can surmise, the case is presumably "air-tight" except the air ducts along the back edge, and the fan will pull air through the case and over the heatsink. That said, that doesn't necessarily mean it's effective enough, as we can see! hahah :P
That... seems like a non-sequitur here. What to elaborate?
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Wealth, assets and money always are transferring hands. 30 years from now all wealth of bill gates could have been distributed to trusts, funds and next generations. i.e. We are continuously adding assets to what we already have, at global scale. ( And debt to the environment. ) I wonder what would be tipping or balance point.
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Are you using the TV side of AT&T?

We just dropped AT&T (directv) because of the bogus charges. We now only use streaming services. We are using Comcast for the internet and nothing else.
Fascism is a movement on the left, normally is associated with right movement as is easier to associate fascism with racism versus other left excesses.
Giovanni Gentile it's main philosopher has been deleted from history. Today's world Fascism is more associated with the violent left than right itself (Trans kids, pronoun movement, ANTIFA, etc.)
I'm psyched they named it after Heaviside. For the caliber, scope, and importance of his contributions, he is extremely under appreciated. Most of the people who have heard the name only know of the step function, but much of how electrical engineering is done (and named) is due to him.

Some things that could reasonably have his name attached (intended to be descriptive, not prescriptive):

Maxwell-Heaviside equations

Heaviside-Gibbs Vector calculus

Heaviside transmission line equations

Poynting-Heaviside vector

Heaviside loading coil

Heaviside-Cherenkov radiation

Heaviside-Lorentz force

Heaviside s-plane
I'm not experienced in C or kernel code but from my understanding they use it almost entirely like a catch/finally clause of many higher level language which is a widely accepted and successful pattern.
Oh indeed. And how enriching it is to the programming and systems ecosystem at large.

I'm so thankful that computing evolved so fast that we can be here now, from there/then, and yet still have relatively young giants walking among us. The program-star hall of fame of very alive and active pioneers / creators is honestly humbling and inspiring.
We can’t do geo segments (yet) on Crux.run but we could test against bigquery directly
Except you've made both of those quotes up... I can't find any similar comments in this thread by searching for parts of the quoted text you provide. OP is complaining about responses to this article on hackernews, provides zero examples of what he/she is actually complaining about, and you come to support with quotes you made up to match the perceived grievance? Seriously?
Hmm, does it have zygohistomorphic prepromorphisms too?
> I think this list makes no sense unless it is made into a wiki of some sort with community contributions from hundreds of people.

You'd just end up with a lot of noise. The person who wrote this list even has a few scientific publications, which is more background than most people who contribute to the wiki would have.

Perhaps we could create a Foundation that pays a group of scientists a modest salary to spend all their time curating the list. The public can send the Foundation any comments they want.

Of course, the Foundation can't pay enough people to do all the work itself. So they could crowd-source some of the work to people from various fields who know enough about the field to judge what's really under-investigated vs. things that are already thoroughly investigated. Those groups -- panels, let's call them -- could get together and make recommendations to the Foundation.

The Foundation employees could form panels, get their recommendations, and the synthesize that into a list.

And if we're going to all this work to create a good curated list, then maybe the government or donors or whoever could even fund some of the ideas that come out of the final curated list. Not a ton of money -- just enough to hire one or two people to work on the idea for few years. Maybe call the final curated list a Portfolio or something.

IDK what we could call such a Foundation. I guess if the government funds it we could call it the National Science Foundation or something list that. And if it's private, probably focused on more near-term stuff, maybe "VC firm".

Sounds like a really good idea.
> This is about how much noise your aircraft are allowed to create.

Sounds good. The same rules should apply to lawn mowers, motor bikes, construction, bars, stereos, drones, public transport, bands, dogs, children...
PCA

An intro example: principal component regression -- simplifies the inputs into a regression technique (can be used with other ML)

General algorithm is called Singular Value Decomposition, and can be used in lossy compression and other similar simplications.
Please also add your experience related to Japan.
1. You're telling me what I mean by "really amazingly higher"? Well, you don't get to do that. In my opinion, the scarp/cliff around Olympus Mons doesn't count, and disregarding that, it's less than 40% higher than from Mauna Kea/Loa to the seafloor. Frankly, a mountain would have to be well over double earth's highest base-to-peak to be "really amazing" to me. Ten times would really be "really amazing".

2. There's a Wikipedia page on the subject of tallest mountains in the solar system and it says the current leader is (probably) Rheasilvia on Vesta.
Bit of a tangent, but has anyone made any lifestyle changes that have had a significant (anecdotal) increase to their immune system? I eat quite healthily and do regular sports, yet my immune system seems quite bad compared to other people I know.
Uh, there's been an MKUltra entry on Wikipedia since 2002: https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Project_MKUltra&o...
> So when people say quantum supremacy is impossible, do they say that the device itself is extremely complicated to build (like an earth to moon elevator for example), or that quantum supremacy isn't allowed not even in principle?

Both, actually. Some interpretations of quantum mechanics imply that QC is impossible, some imply that it's infeasible for any meaningful problems.
*The death of gas vehicles TODAY has been greatly exaggerated. Their upcoming doom, and expiry notice - has not.
The sad thing about the 1 child policy is research shows you don't need to do it in an authoritarian manner to get similar results. Like in Iran, they subsidized birth control and went on an education & promotion spree and it worked too well. Iran also had a government promoted baby boom similar to what china went through also.
I've had my eyes on Adrian Thompson's genetically evolved FPGA circuits for a while now - they do amazing things very economically and exploit analog circuit properties. So I've always wondered what if we make unreliable but super tiny atomic level programmable gates where we know the unreliability stems from quantum fluctuations, and then evolve circuits over millions of generations (A.T. ran thousands) to see if they manage to start exploiting the quantum effects.

PS: I don't have the expertise to make a strong argument here, but it seems like an intriguing idea. Anything fundamentally against it?
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"Why are half the rations gone!?" - Inigo

"They said they were hungry." - Vezzini

Ambiguity: Is one person eating too much or did many people get impatient (maybe fine depending)?

It's not just a matter of becoming accustomed. It's definitely more ambiguous.

The only way to clear that pickle up is to get used to clarifying questions as appropriate. Or maybe a "they all" will emerge parallel to "you all", but that sort of thing takes time.

My point is that people asking for singular pronouns should prepare to be patient since, at best, these things take time.
Yet they had bullet train quite before that.
It's like embedding Shiny apps into RMarkdown

https://bookdown.org/yihui/rmarkdown/shiny-embedded.html
sigh

I wanted to avoid that, but I have replaced them with copy-pasted quotes to make your searching easier.
> By finding niches where they have market power, firms can reduce their exposure to safe haven capital inflows and volatile exchange rates.

But that would also exacerbate the flux of capital. That Japan has a large number of Murata Manufacturing-like producers is exactly why the Yen appreciated so sharply.

That strategy makes sense for each corporation, but on a national scale it's a great way to find yourself overly specialized and with a diminished safety margin for even your niche, up-market products. So the paper's advice is also part of the reason for the dilemma.

The paper's first bit of advice was to save during profitable periods and spend during downturns. But there's a cooperation problem in that the first companies to apply the aforementioned advice won't have to be as skillful at navigating the swings, so the tendency will be for every company to pursue that strategy even though only a few will succeed while the others are merely hastening their demise.

Seems to me there need to be some institutional mechanisms in place to maximize long-term profitability and stability. I suppose the Keiretsu provided a mechanism like this--a self-interest in investing in diverse sectors, even during downturns. But they're diminishing as Japanese industrial practices increasingly mirror those in America and Europe.
DirecTV did this on their cable boxes for a few channels. I would schedule a show to record, and it would record the show during the air time to the hard drive. While the show was playing it would play off the hard drive. When the show cut to an ad break, the cable box would connect to the internet to show an unskippable ad.

I'll admit this was only on a few networks and maybe only certain programs, but overall it was a pretty poor experience.
There's uclinux, but I don't know how well it works (seems abandoned) and if there are other issues with it running on above mentioned RISC-V core.
>I want to know how this makes a safe unpowered descent.

the wings seems to be enough for reasonable unpowered gliding. The canard design naturally helps prevent stall. And i'd be surprised if the engines on production models aren't split into 2 completely independent groups (given their number - 3 per/wing - on that prototype i think they aren't split) with completely separate power, controllers, etc, so even relatively serious failure would still leave you with half the engines - that would allow while uncomfortable, yet still controlled even vertical landing from lower hover which i'd suppose would be the worst situation to lose engines.
If it's time to shoot from the hip (or rather extrapolate), let's rebut a little bit.

i) Human working population is shrinking, but robots are rising. Remember this person doesn't exist
https://www.thispersondoesnotexist.com/
(but they look much like the real thing). See Boston Dynamics's Atlas, Spot etc. So, yeah, don't worry about demographics. Robots & robot assistants will multiply like rabbits (or rather like Windows 10 SW). This will overcompensate for the drop in working population.

2) Inequality is real. It's extremely dangerous and getting worse (tax cuts anyone?). But that doesn't mean it will reverse itself anytime soon. Most of humanity lived in bare subsistence levels vs the rich during majority of human history. If anything, equality is an aberration from the norm.

3) Access to information is awesome. This means governments & powers that be are hard at work stopping it :) Censure, regulation, control will be the norm going forward. Wild-west attitude towards information dissemination will reverse course.
There isn't - the V-22 rotors tilt continuously from vertical to horizontal rather slowly as it builds up enough speed to transition to forward flight. Same thing with Quantum's VTOL UAVs.
I just checked and wikileaks.org is still alive and well. In fact a few years ago I donated crypto to them as a middle finger to the payment processors. Wikileaks is a perfect example of why banking regulations are ineffective when people can simply bypass said payment processors with crypto.
This is spectacular. I have written about this many times on HN itself .

Jupyter -> internal tool/API is pretty much the holy grail of bridging data scientists, business teams and engineering.

I hope this project doesn't die out. A lot of people would pay for this.
You can write plan 9 assembly straight into go. I'm not sure if it would work, and it sort of defeats the purposes of go, but it wouldn't be 50mb.
I want to buy into a platform that is controlled tightly by a single entity that I trust to deliver a good user experience reliably; in this case, that's Apple.

I consider the tight control a feature and I'm glad this philosophy of computing is available in the marketplace.

I think people underestimate this view.
You could simply convert bitcoin into fiat in the 200+ other countries that are not the United States.
Thanks for reminding folx about what this is actually about, this was a great post
As someone who's been dependent on medication for much of my life, first for asthma as a child, now for allergies and autoimmune conditions, I have zero sympathy for people that chose to become dependent on substances for purely recreational purposes.

This guy was a degenerate junkie. Good riddance.
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Did they actually do We learned (or were painfully reminded, rather) to never ship at 6 PM (EDT) on a Friday. to a practicing Jew?
I don't think it's an underestimated view, it's quite common. I just don't think it would be compromised very much if there was an optional escape hatch.

Buying a hypothetical Apple device and never flicking on the sideloading switch would still give you that. Whereas the person who generally prefers the security engineering, design choices and/or integration of iOS but wants some exceptions is now told "If you care about this so much, you can go over to Android.".
> top scorers...it pays off.

As the article says the debate is about 'what childhood is for'. Some would say it's not for getting high scores.
I added that bit of snark because a big part of this seems to have been a new (pending) Code of Conduct that apparently could be read as "you're not allowed to use phrasing that would normally be recognized as gender-neutral, you must use individuals' preferred pronouns." I know I'd question that if it meant that (while moderating) I was going to have to go look into what someone's gender pronoun preferences were lest I be accused of violating the CoC.

I haven't read the leaked TL (Teachers' Lounge?) chat transcripts and the whole thing has blown up into a massive drama such that reading all the summaries and resignations and objections and whatnot isn't realistic for me, but I suspect that questions along the lines of "Can I just do this?" were interpreted as challenging the whole new CoC and someone felt like they were being disrespected. The (apparent) summary dismissal outside all existing policies for dismissing moderators would fit with it being a knee-jerk reaction followed by a refusal to back down after a mistake.

Frankly if Monica C hadn't asked for clarification but had simply continued writing in such a way as to avoid using any pronouns this would never have blown up, but I think the question was taken as questioning authority.

Edit: As for the neutral pronoun, yes, more than 20 years ago as part of a community focused around a Usenet group that also had regular social get-togethers all over the country. IIRC, the term(s) in use were zie/zir.

Edit2: And having just done a bit of searching: No, it wasn't alt.polyamory or any related groups, though there might have been overlap in memberships.