skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Most Americans don't need a pickup truck (I know, the horror of such a statement). If you value the added utility, different strokes. Tesla is pulling sales from entry level models produced by luxury manufacturers, but also pulling sales from people who would've traditionally paid less for a non luxury vehicle. My brother badly wanted a 4Runner until I let him borrow my Model S for a week. He then decided he couldn't live with anything other than a Model 3 or S.

I expect Tesla sales to increase further with the introduction of the Y crossover built on the 3 platform.
And, if you're coming from a Romance language, it feels natural to use "plural" pronouns (like "they") for singular subjects because that's the formal way to address people in those languages (when you're being more respectful). It seems like such an efficient solution. (Ironic, too, that it comes from languages where inanimate objects have genders!)
I really like how simple it is in English to use the singular pronoun they when the gender of the person you are referring to is not known. I find that it reads a lot better than the compound he/she.

I wish we had something similar in Dutch that didn't sound like a kludge. If we do, I haven't found it yet.

Interestingly, in Japanese it's rather easy to refer to people in a gender-neutral way if you know either the profession or the name of that person; the honorific suffixes for names (e.g., さん or 様) where we would use Mr/Mrs/Ms don't differentiate by gender in Japanese and professions are often gender-neutral in name.

It gets trickier if you don't have that information, because you tend to need he or she (彼 and 彼女 respectively) or one of the very common age bracket and gender specific classifiers like (you who could be someone's) sister (お姉さん) for any adult woman under the age of 35 (or older if you want to flirt a bit). Of course there is always the generic that person (あの方 or あの人).

Luckily, Japanese allows you to complete leave out the subject of a sentence and still make sense if the context makes it clear, so there is that.
My bad!
Made this post a while back and I used 10+ repl.it embedded editors.

Although it does seem to load eventually, I should update it to use some better editor that loads faster!
Something like "Jenner said that Jenner's children all have a good relationship with Jenner and that Jenner values Jenner's time with Jenner's children."

(To be clear, I made this sentence up just now, I'm not quoting anyone, but this is presumably the sort of thing that would motivate a policy against not just misgendering but also deliberately avoiding the use of pronouns. If you use this construction, and then use "he" to refer to, say, Daley Thompson, you're sort of calling attention to your refusal to use a pronoun. My reading of the article is this sort of thing is not the moderator in question's intention, though.)
The "black lives matter" movement is a protest against the fact that black people are killed by police officers at alarming rates. The phrase "all lives matter" is a deliberate attempt to draw attention away from this fact and undermine the goals of the protest.
The point is that it's not an unknown, made up word that came from nowhere. It has been used in the English language for hundreds of years. It's not confusing to use because one can infer from context.
Interesting, I didn't know this - thank you! Here is a brief history if anyone else is interested [0].

[0] https://public.oed.com/blog/a-brief-history-of-singular-they...
This sounds like exactly the same slippery slope people were concerned about when Coraline Ehmke's "Contributor Covenant" showed up.

People are starting to get pushed one direction or another, and it might not necessarily be the decision that they really wanted to be pushed.
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It seems all sites that rely on free labor for moderation end up with similar sorts of problems. Moderation is time consuming, tedious, and thankless work when done well. Who wants to spend hours doing this each day without any financial incentive? You end up getting folks attracted to having some degree of power over people, or ability to enforce or espouse their own views/values/ideologies, and so on. But all of these motivations are completely antithetical to what the position 'ought' be about - which is essentially a digital janitor.

Pay moderators and the problem goes away since you now attract a pretty normal pool of people whose motivations might be earning a buck, or career advancement. I think we can see that clearly enough here where it's self evident that the moderators are paid. The problem of course is imagine a larger site wants 100 moderators. OK, you can get 100 people who are going to do a mixed job at best, but for free. Or you can pay $3,000,000 a year for the same team. Most companies? Easy decision. That's a $3 million executive bonus right there!
Utility tokens are, like arcade game tokens or food and drink tickets at a fair, valuable for their use with a particular venue or service -- not for their exchange value. Generally, the law does not recognise these kinds of things as currency.
Yes, it's a private organization acting within their "rights", but this private organization is heavily reliant on their community, which they are now alienating themselves from.. which is the topic of discussion.

The moderator (whom you are ironically misgendering) was not attempting to burn political capital, and was never told they were doing anything against the rules by offering their opinion on a topic of discussion.
I agree that it's a tiny minority view, but it's not a straw man when that tiny minority are making the decisions at Stack Overflow.
It's not just more difficult, it also feels weird (to not say more). In France, they want to change how to write things so you write the masculine and feminine version of each word at the same time, and even though it looks like the most stupid thing in the world, a lot of people working at university or some politician do it.

Progress they say....
Pronouns are meant to be a finite set, contrary to names which are an infinite (or unlimited) set.

That way you can group many multiple names under few pronouns.

If you want to allow an infinite set of pronouns you might just as well remove pronouns altogether as they would stop serving the purpose they are meant to serve.
The Surface Pro X hardware looks great but the single reason why I would choose a Surface over an iPad/Pro is because it runs an OS where I can code using my usual toolchain.

I certainly hope they put WSL2 on the OS that runs the Surface Pro X.
If you have the hosted version of 1Password, you can use the 1PX extension which is completely standalone.
There are two genders, your dna decides which you are. Nothing can change that and people should grow up and don't whine so much. I don't care if what you want to be called but if you're genetically male then I'll call you that. Even if you pretend to be female. Only kids are allowed to play pretend imagine games. If you're able to whine about these subjects then you got too much free time on your hands. Find a job or just stop bothering other people with your mental issues.
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A technique I often use when I ended up in a confused spot or feel unhappy is to write letters to a person without sending them.

Somehow having a person in mind that you have to explain the whole mess to, really fucuses your thoughts and helps you in some way to figure out where you stand faster and more easily.
Amusement ride tickets have inherient utility: you can redeem them for a ride. What utility can you get from BAT, other than selling it?
The policy is talking about situations where a person's preferred pronouns are known.
Also appreciate your comments on how fast it can load! I've been vehemently working on load times across all my websites for over a year now.

Working on a blog post on how I could reduce load times and make it portable, scalable, and reliable (the server itself).

Thanks for the feedback!
If only it were possible to have no incentives.
Foods im not so sure but there are some chemicals that can pretty effectively resolve a hangover
I specifically mentioned I wasn't talking about the StackExchange case, just the concept of pronoun usage in general. The comment I replied to seemed to be making a broader statement on this topic, hence my response.
The main reason I don't use Medium is due to its restrictiveness on layout. I often include JavaScript snippets that are connected throughout the webpage to showcase concepts, or like to include table of contents for navigation, which you just can't do on Medium.
Although, I should mention that the way SE is handling this is still very strange.
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Disagreement between mod and policy makers is hardly a stack Overflow fiasco.
Thanks, I'm aware of the etymology. This is the exact way that people with particular self-expression view attempts to claim that "*" or "people" is as inclusionary as LGBTQIAGNC.
StackOverflow is a community and communities are sustained by shared values. It makes perfect sense to oust leaders from a community who are out of alignment with the values the community wants to support.
Changing your MAC is critical to privacy.
At StackExchange this is unlikely and difficult. But in an everyday scenario this is quite possible: you call the girls in the class "she", the guys in the class "he", and the boy who used to be a girl and wants to be called "he" these days, you call "they/them". Using a neutral in that scenario could be wrong.
It only became more acceptable a few decades ago, and relatively recently surged in popularity. "They" was first used like this hundreds of years ago, so it's not a new concept.

Many EFL curriculums in foreign countries are out of date, because languages change all the time.

If TOEFL or whatever says otherwise, they are wrong and out of date. Not that anyone seriously thinks those standardized tests actually reflect any meaningful grasp of a language.

Anyway. "They" is perfectly fine as a gender neutral, singular or plural pronoun. Anyone that says otherwise is clinging to prescriptivism and is in denial.

[0]: https://public.oed.com/blog/a-brief-history-of-singular-they...
I'm not telling everyone. I'm telling you to stop doing it.

BTW, your phone is locked because it has detected you're going faster than 20mph. And rather than take that as the big clue to pay attention you continue to bypass the big ass warnings it's throwing at you. Put the fucking phone down!
Whenever people talk about how IE ruined the internet, I think about AJAX. I actually thought IE was great for the web. A poignant example I remember was, if you got a /TR /TD out of order, Netscape wouldn't show the web page at all. It'd work fine in IE though.

IE just made it so much easier to move fast in web development. People blast IE, but I really don't think the web would be as good as it is today without it.

Contrast that with what Chrome has done to the web. Not good.
Because the comment at the top of this thread uses the phrase "punish that assumed thought crime." It's just a disagreement of values.

I'm not going to hire a Catholic to be a pastor at my Lutheran church, but that doesn't mean I think that Catholics are committing thoughtcrime. (Despite the historical fact that many Lutherans and many Catholics did go to war for disagreeing with each other thoughts.)
> how to move the most amount of people, the safest and quickest way, for the cheapest cost.

Cars are not known for being cheap[1], safe[2], or space-efficient[3].

1. https://www.nerdwallet.com/blog/loans/total-cost-owning-car/

2. https://www.advisory.com/daily-briefing/2018/12/21/child-dea...

3. https://www.theguardian.com/cities/2014/oct/17/bikes-cars-cy...
At least you can buy actual non-discretionary purchases with a credit card.

I've recently become much more alarmed by the rise of these "buy now, pay later" companies like Affirm and Afterpay, which partner with merchants that most would categorically put in the discretionary bucket (shoes, makeup, jewelry, designer clothes) charging similar interest or fees.
I am left leaning and have actively supported the LGBT community, campaigned for marriage equality and helped raise someone who is LGBT and who suffered from brutal bullying in school.

I have moved away from actively supporting the LGBT community but I still support my friends and family. I did this because the toxicity and witch hunting has gotten out of hand. We all used to fight the good fight. But the community has transitioned into a culture that is creating an increasing number of rules and tribes in order to differentiate themselves from the rest of society and in order to 'trap' outsiders into making a faux pas and then elevate themselves by pointing out the mistake. My sense is that this is a vocal minority in the LGBT community, but also highly influential, and that influence comes through fear of being called out.

If you'd like to see examples of some of the toxicity inside the LGBT community itself, just do a search on TERF (Trans Exclusionary Radical Feminist) on Reddit: https://www.reddit.com/search/?q=TERF

The LGBT community is managing to alienate those who used to vocally support them. I think all of us hoped that we would some day be one people. Instead there is a persecution underway of anyone who is not LGBT - and merely pointing this out will see me accused of engaging in hate speech.

As a side note: The comment thread here is a bloodbath, in case you hadn't noticed. Massive swings up upvoted and downvoted posts. The LGBT community will no doubt explain this away as haters and extremists who waded in and downvoted anything supportive. In fact many of us are supporters of human equality. We just don't support persecution, witch hunts and people who need to bring others down to elevate themselves.
> Unless you have pure direct democracy on every issue, someone is going to make a judgement call which not everyone is going agree with.

This will still happen -- on every issue -- if you have pure direct democracy on every issue. It's not a problem that direct democracy improves or even addresses.
> their culture is stupid and alienating to many intelligent people

We grant private organisations wide latitude to set their norms. Seemingly stupid norms can develop into, or inspire, sensible ones. Alternatively, they can illustrate the deficiencies of the norm.

I’m arguing against automatically branding this as stupid. I don’t agree with the norm, as a frequent user of the singular “they”. But there isn’t a clear right answer to the question, and that means diverging solutions deserve at least the respect of being explored.

(I would be more pointed if this were a government agency or company firing someone for not following this communication policy.)
The language can change. I understand.

What I have problems with is:

1. We publicly shame people for not use the new word. Calling them names like bigots.

2. Your authority thinks the new word is wrong.

It just seems, at this point, you should scream at your authorities to support singular "they" officially. Here they are: https://www.ets.org/about/who/leadership/

Instead, we spend energy and effort publicly shaming random people.
\w covers non-characters, though
Maybe it's more concise to specify who doesn't matter
"It’s a private organisation. The person “let go” was a volunteer. It sucks, but both parties acted within their rights."

This. Also, if you have a legal dispute with someone, hire a lawyer and STFU. Do not go ranting on HN - that really screws stuff up for whoever has to be your advocate.
I was using that feature for the last year or so but recently they took away the public IP address. So I think it’s no longer free for common use cases like hosting a website. Correct me if I’m wrong!
One of the many reasons I'd never work at a big company.

I just want to build software. I don't go to work to talk politics or have to keep track of every person's political radicalism for fear of being fired.

I'd also prefer not to add even more social anxiety because I don't keep up with the latest stuff on Twitter.
I imagine I am eventually going to end up with a rpi (built-in dualband wi-fi serving as AP) and a usb battery pack and a 4/5G modem strapped to my lower leg whenever I leave the house, backup pistol style, as smartphones become less and less able to be configured to preserve privacy.

Turns out I need to have root on my dns server and iptables/wireguard on my NAT router. It’s slowly becoming non-negotiable.
Which action? The directors or the moderators?
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FTFY
Even if someone's pronouns are known, what is the issue with using a gender neutral term? The ire with he/she is misgendering someone, so why is going with a neutral term for everyone a bad thing?

I am not trying to be inflammatory, I am genuinely confused as to why this would upset anyone. I don't look up the pronouns of every single person I respond to on the internet.
You know what else is a dick move? - punishing people for wrongthink.
Apple's patent on new stability feature for Airpods
Beginner ArXiv papers for non academics?
Hey HN could you please point me towards some of simple arxiv papers to get a hang of reading research papers? Any subject/topic is fine. Most of the papers I look into go way over my head. (I have a bachelors in CS)
I disagree - as a vendor I think you should charge based on the value you provide to users, not the costs to run your service. That is to say I don’t think desktop software needs to have a “cloud” piece to it to make it valuable enough to users to justify an annual charge. Users don’t usually care where your app or service runs, just that it solves their pain points quickly and easily.

The question then becomes how you justify that charge, but I think you can legitimately say support and/or new feature development (especially if you allow customers to have some kind of input into that). Having guaranteed support from a company with the technical chops that Andy has would be worth it alone for me in this instance.

Jetbrains have an interesting model with their IDE’s whereby you can fallback to a perpetual desktop license for their products if you don’t want support or updates. Perhaps that’s a nice compromise option.
Mun is primarily focused on hotloading, the ability to change your code while its running. Our goal is to enable hotloading of all constructs including structs (similar to how Lua works) and without having to annotate anything.
I just run a giant Javascript file on a Pi that does this. Devices just need to send data through LAN as dumbly as possible.
I have a great credit rating and my interest rate is 25% and late fee is $25. Doesn’t sound like the poor are being offered something that drastically different.
It looks like the intent of this language is something that can replace Lua as an embedded language in games and other applications that require scripting, without the overhead of requiring JIT compilation to be performant (which you can't have on iOS). The JVM is a bad candidate for that. I believe Dart uses JIT as well.
People are worried about pronouns meanwhile the supreme court is revisiting the LGBTQ workplace protections laws... https://www.vox.com/2019/10/2/20883827/supreme-court-lgbtq-d...
If you're randomizing, it's best to use the full range.
Do people not like dashlane? I feel like it’s the best of the bunch although does cost some money.
Will any BSD run on it?
I was honestly just trying to show how ridiculous of a request GP is making.
That was the next thing I was wondering about. Will there be some "visited your profile"-marker or whatever so that somebody could be "innocent" because he did actually not visit the profile or will that visit just be mandatory before commenting on a post?
What how do you know I am one of the millions. That's a rich assumption!

I am technologist ...looking to solve this problem because no matter how you phrase it they will keep doing it!
I have a feeling you mean that they ignore known unknowns. Everyone ignores unknown knowns, because they are unknown.
Exactly

“3) Use “they” “them” and “their” as gender-neutral pronouns. Almost a good plan, but it doesn’t work. Too often I’ll be talking about two WBW characters, and when I say “they,” readers can’t tell if I’m referring to the one I was just talking about or to both of them.”
> ...and? What's the problem supposed to be?

Read the whole thread, start to finish and the context should make it clear.

> I've never seen anyone be confused over the idea that the speed of light is 300,000,000 when measured in meters per second, but 186,000 when measured in miles per second.

Right, because unit conversion is not confusing. But what can be confusing is unit re-definition, which doesn't happen very often and can seem counter-intuitive at first ("how can a government seemingly change the value of a natural constant?!").
Where are pronouns specified? How much digging are volunteer mods required to do under penalty of censure? Will all Stack Exchange sites add a "pronouns" field to user profiles that can be displayed along with user IDs? Are mods going to be required to go look at each user account's free-form description each time to check for pronoun information and possible changes (there have been references to 'gender-fluid' which makes me think the pronoun may change frequently)? Will there be history tracking so when a mod says 'she' and gets called on it by a 'he' it can be shown that the expressed preference has changed since a response was written?

You couldn't do a better job of building a system of unavoidable traps if you were actively trying to sabotage the system. By the time this is all done every.single.moderator will be guaranteed to have violated the CoC at least once and can be censured or fired for it on a whim.
The only settings that don't have that performance warning are the extremes - native resolution or half that. Both of those are not optimal.
I don’t think this is down to macOS version, it seems related to the vintage of the hardware.

I have a Late 2016 15” which allows me to change the MAC address, and anything 2018+ does not seem to allow it.

Both the 2018 and 2019 model return zero when you type “ifconfig” commands to change the hardware address, but the command has no effect.

Have tried this on Mojave and Catalina.
Not even that, but what if a post from some years back is now no longer using matching pronouns?
> “Fine, but that's a criticism of the people not the language.”

I totally agree, and my dissenting opinion of Haskell is not based on anything about people or communities, just on ergonomics of using it and working on a big legacy codebase of it in production.

I mentioned the asymmetry of people who can be zealots about only one paradigm being The One True Way only in response to the parent comment I was responding to.
> Furthermore I suspect this is less about he/him vs she/hers but some of the more esoteric pronoun preferences.

Is that the case here? I would think it is a bit too avantgardist to expect people to contort their sentences to include singular pronouns beyond he/she/they at this point. I get the impression that those esoteric made-up pronouns tend to be mostly used for straw-men arguments.
I don't see how the Windows registry is markedly different from dwrites in macOS. And on the Mac, there's about an order of magnitude less BS to begin with. Maybe two orders.
> Meh. It’s a private organisation. The person “let go” was a volunteer. It sucks, but both parties acted within their rights.

The drama isn't that any party acted or is alleged to have acted illegally.

Stack Overflow derives huge value from, in part, free moderation by volunteers; part of continuing to extract that free labor means maintaining positive relationships.