skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The difference between "using the language formally correctly" and "using the language in a way to pass the exam" (and of course "using the language as it is actually spoken") is not a problem specific to English or foreign-language speakers. Many (most?) countries have even stronger regional variance than English, even more than e.g. American vs. UK. TOEFL-takers are not idiots; they can understand what is correct in one context is not in another, especially hyper-formal, artificial contexts like taking tests. And the overwhelming majority of objection to singular they does not come from people who have deeply tied their identity to TOEFL.
I'd like to learn how to force cultural change on people who don't want it and don't care about it. It's just a really cool society hacking technique.

So how does a bill become a law with regards to this pronoun stuff? Who were the people who initiated this policy? What motivated them to do it? Who influenced them? Who influenced them? Who funded the whole movement?

4chan has been doing research into this by doing enough trolling that they got the ok hand sign classified as a hate symbol. It seems, based on following the timeline on that phenomenon that a lot of what is considered forbidden in our culture is generated by certain 3 and 4 letter non-profits who feed that information to Google, Facebook, and others. That's just the negative part of it all though: how behavior becomes forbidden.

I want to know how behavior, like the pronoun stuff, becomes prescribed. I want to use that machinery to get society to do strange stuff as civilization level performance art.
Not really. Propaganda is news generated with the express purpose of changing people's minds, usually in direct contradiction with the facts. Journalism can - and usually will - have some kind of bias but it will be fact based and any errors of fact will likely not be on purpose but will be accidents. The worst you'd be able to charge journalists with is to have an agenda and to select from the facts. That's bad enough, but not nearly as bad as propaganda.
Here's a CleanTechnica article on the topic
https://cleantechnica.com/2019/10/06/just-as-expected-luxury...
I get a little joy out of replying to "first page of Google, guaranteed!" email spam asking why they're not on the first page for "SEO".
Why not just use geohash and text ranges?
mh sorry, that may have been my mistake… I edited it on my phone
Yes, Zio is really interesting. Unfortunately, its author has been recently outed from the community for political reasons (and there is too much drama in Scala community in general). I only hope that the dust will settle someday.
Discussed at the time: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16851165
I found the same on googling it. But to be honest it was just the Portuguese version of the word misleading to this form, rather than a profound knowledge about its accepted variations in the last century.
In N-bit unsigned arithmetic as we have here, -bound = 2N - bound (and similarly for 32-bit) and the unsigned modulo operator "knows" that. In essence, that is a tricky way to compute 2N % bound, to work-around not able to represent 2N directly in an N-bit integer.
"When Jenner won the 1976 men's decathalon, she was ecstatic."
> The whole narrative that the media are the enemy of the people needs to die and soon or we will all regret it.

It’s not clear to me that the press as an institution is still necessary in the age of the internet. It’s also not clear to me that the media, as it exists, deserves the protections that have developed over the years. The notion of writing articles that not only don’t cite sources, but keep them secret, is obsolete.

Americans no longer trust the press: https://www.vox.com/the-goods/2018/10/25/18022956/amazon-tru...

> The top five were the military, Amazon, Google, local police, and colleges and universities. The bottom five were the press, the executive branch, Facebook, political parties, and Congress.

And with good reason: https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/a-certain-bloombe...

While Trump has undoubtedly degraded the office of the President, the blatant politicization of the media in response to him has degraded the press just as much: https://www.dailywire.com/news/leaked-transcript-nyt-staff-m...

The fact that a press is necessary to a free society does not mean that this press is what should serve that function. In this day and age of universal literacy and universal access to information via the Internet, we need reporting of facts, not self-appointed guardians of the “narrative.”

Go back and look at CNN tapes from the late 1980s or early 1990s. They’re unrecognizable compared to news broadcasts today. Neutral, unemotional, reporting of facts. No attempt to construct larger narratives or push them down viewers’ throats.
Throughout civilization we’ve sorted all the simple problems. What should we do when someone murders? Solved. What if it’s because they were bullied? Solved. How do we identify corruption? Solved. How do we deal with alcohol? We have a half-working answer. What do we do with dictators? Solved. How do we compete to create better industries but no so much as not to have thug mentality, employees burning out at their desk and without depleting Earth’s resources?

The remaining problems are the hard ones. No surprise they are hard to solve. Ones that can be solved with our current intelligence already have a known solution.
The SO Code of Conduct was - I believe - not intended to create nor dispel confusion. It was created to legitimize/bless authoritarian site management/moderation practices with no due process. Before that code, there was a general "be nice" principle, and informal customs regarding what happens when you don't act nice. After the code, it became the accepted, hallowed norm that you can be kicked off or otherwise harshly penalzied on almost a whim, no input from by your peers, no public record of what had happened, no opportunity to argue in your defense etc.
The two co-hosts' valleyspeak inflections became intolerable. I'm sure their
story was more complete than the medium article, but it was like Guy Raz times
two.
I use netcup.eu , a German Provider.
They have cheap hour based plans so that you can cancel your plan everytime.
I especially like the "done" (!) at end :)
Thanks for this one-liner!
I hate to break it to you, but...

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/travel/news/the-most-googled-que...
I understand the helping feeling.

Stack overflow just hired a ceo to extract as much value as possible. They should pay you or reward you for years of service. You've saved them personally over 250k if you have been doing this for 5 years or more.

Volunteering so a for profit company feels helpful but who are you helping? If no one volunteered then someone paid would perform the same tasks...
If referring to someone by the correct pronoun is respectful, referring to them by their name is even more respectful in my book. Or avoid talking about them in the third person where possible and only talk to them, for example. These are among the ways of "writing around" the pronoun, and they're both more respectful than using the pronoun. I suspect they're more constructive and efficient in other ways too, but would have to pay attention to see whether that's true. Anyway, if English is like code, all the pronoun solutions are currently hacks, so I'm all in favor of refactoring to avoid them.
Nearly any first post comment will get upvotes, if the sentiment of a first post comment is negative, it steers the whole discussion in being over critical. First post and top comments provide a positive feedback loop that is often too hard to overcome.

I don't know what the answer is, but I think internet points make things worse in general. I'd love to see a forum with sentiment analysis built in and automoderators that dynamically reorder or weight posts so as to not encourage gaming the system.

Maybe upvotes on critical comments should count for less?
Very good point, this is probably worth mentioning in the README. I'll add a note there for sure!
StackOverflow is made of of people, not technical knowledge seeking robots. Those people are messy and will inevitably come with a hole bundle of values in addition to their desire to ask and answer technical questions.
Oh I see, thanks, yes me too.
Yes. Being old, I remember. Well, considering that the "G" stood for "Graphics" and that "Graphics", in my native American English has a hard-g, I'm just going to declare the author of the format to be a troglodyte and go on from there. (Not that there's anything wrong with that - many of us tech-types are troglodytes and misanthropes and lack a classical education)
For non-'muricans...
CDL = commercial driver license,
class A = these cool large trucks
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commercial_driver%27s_licens...
That might be true to rapidly changing fields.

But most businesses work in slowly changing fields.
Words are really the best way to describe my inner thoughts. Thinking of the Nike Swoosh - I know it as a bulging white check mark. That's about all the information I have on it available to conscious access. A visual representation of it must be stored somewhere, because I'm confident that I'd notice the difference between a genuine and obviously counterfeit Swoosh if I were confronted with it and could see it.

For all the other things you mention I'd describe them as you might describe them in text. That's just how I think about them too. If I was trying to describe everything I noticed from a visit to McDonald's I might say something like "I noticed the golden arches, which seemed like an M with gentle curves at the top, perhaps twenty feet high" or something like that. Somewhat like recounting memories from a book you've read.
This storm is really _not_ about gender pronouns, nor about the use of singular "they", nor about inclusivity.

It is all about how StackExchange Inc. is managing the StackExchange network; and the liberties it allows itself vis-a-vis individual moderators and the community at large.

The fiasco is that the answers to these two questions are really bad.
> skilled conservative tech people still get jobs, they just need to shut their mouths and blend in when people talk at lunch or whatever.

"Skilled colored people get jobs, they just need to keep their mouths shut and respect their betters. Skilled women get jobs, they just need to keep their heads down and endure a bit of sexual harassment."

IMO that's what that argument sounds like. Toxic work environments are toxic. And just like you don't take the white dude's word for it that his workplace isn't toxic to women or African Americans, perhaps we shouldn't take the word of the left that their workplaces are not toxic to conservatives.
I didn't know saw! It looks very very cool, and it's written in go!
Thanks for (making and) sharing this!
High-Income Millennials Put Retirement Savings Ahead of Student Loans: Survey
> It seems fairly obvious that any new automated technology removes more jobs than it creates

The clearest real world check for this theory should be the unemployment rate.

If you're right, it should be steadily rising as more and more jobs are automated away.
True, I've never heard of an official state established Q&A site. So there's even less danger of state suppression of rights in the case of the technology site.
There's no assumption that all the cases are covered up. Only some. The point is - in practice, don't try to go in too deep with templates.
I'm not sure the 87 stock correction was worse than the recession preceeding it in the early 80s.
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Heroku customers: we are sitting ducks for trademark bullies
In the event of an alleged copyright infringement, the DCMA explicitly provides a dispute process, wherein a take-down can be halted by the target until/unless the complainant obtains a court order.

In contrast, if your Heroku-hosted website makes provably fair-use reference to another firm's trademark (such as a side-by-side factual feature comparison) yet a trademark bully alleges infringement, Heroku offers NO certain process to forestall a take-down other than you removing the allegedly infringing content.

Heroku's response to any infringment claim is: "Please remove the content and/or above-referenced link(s) within 24 hours or else we will have no other choice but to disable your application"

Heroku COULD offer a dispute process (see EFF link below). But according to the person whose title is "Trademark Counsel | Salesforce" the best they offer customers is a "may be":

"... we typically must require the customer to remove the allegedly infringing material within an expeditious time frame... you are free to reach out to us to explain the situation, but in most cases, our ability to provide an accommodation MAY BE [emphasis mine] limited to providing additional time where you intend to contact the claimant to resolve the claim and/or apply for a court order against the claimant within a reasonable amount of time."

Note that "MAY BE"? Also the problematic notion of applying for a court order against a claimant absent any legal action by the claimant?

I think Heroku needs to remove the "may be" and codify in its policies that Heroku will defer any takedown based upon an allegation if disputed by the website owner/customer, unless/until the complainant obtains a court order ... as do some other services referenced by the EFF (link below) such as Imgur ("We reserve the right to refuse to remove any material that in our view constitutes fair use").

www.eff.org/pages/who-has-your-back-copyright-trademark-2014

If you agree, let Heroku know.
I develop in a well-controlled environment. When I deploy I'm opening my app up to a whole uncontrolled world of chaos.
One issue I see with HTTP header versioning, is that now I have to add the HTTP version header into my routing logic. I already have to take domain, sub-domain, protocol, HTTP-verb, application context, and path into account when considering routing of HTTP requests. When defining my API signature, I would now need to include more than just the URL path and verb, I would need to include the version header value. I can imagine troubleshooting with other engineers.. "wait can you look through the logs and verify the http version header you used for that request."

Also, I really like when one piece of data can serve dual purpose use. In this case, the URL, which is highly visible, contains the version in it. So the one string of data reveals more information to me.
Maybe, but even native speakers have small errors and weird phrasings.

Whoever thinks you can’t teach them because of a small typo probably wasn’t going to learn anything anyway.
Did it all summer this year, in Paris. I work in the city and live in the suburbs on the opposite side of the city. It felt great ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
I don't use a bike, but I comute on my escooter and it's insane the amount of people who uses the bike lane for whatever reason is. It's so insane. I had 3 accidents in the last 3 months made by pedestrians and 1 motorcycle woman who did it everything wrong.
FreeBSD and Custom Firmware on the Google Pixelbook
Moving cubes with pathtracing, lighting and ambient sound in 64 bytes
Bypass Paywalls on Firefox
>>It seems fairly obvious that any new automated technology removes more jobs than it creates.

It's obvious in the naive way that it's obvious that breaking windows creates jobs. It's a fallacy from over-simplification.

Automation results in labor savings that can then go into providing more of those services that cannot be automated.

Financially this manifests as demand for sought after human-provided services increasing when consumers see cost-savings on services that are automated.
That sounds awesome. Are you in Oregon?

Edit: Ah, I see your username now =)
Discoverability isn't real.

It's a term people use when they want to abdicate their marketing efforts.

Whether you use your own platform or build on someone else's - discoverability almost never "just happens." People put a ton of work into being discovered "organically."
I think it's part of mainline now (just like User Mode Linux/UML). So it's not abandoned.
Also css, early on.

Anybody remember LAYER tags?
That seems reasonable to me. Pronouns are mostly there to define a referent, not to make you think about someone's gender presentation or genitals every time you see the pronoun. So if you have a long article about Caitlin Jenner and you consistently refer to her as "she," I think it won't actually be jarring. (Similar to how if you repeatedly use "... he said" etc. in writing, it subconsciously disappears to readers, but if you as a writer decide that it's repetitive and you need to use other synonyms for "said" every time, that's actually distracting.)

Of course maybe the real answer is to ask her what she'd prefer?
One of the Uber drivers I rode with would disagree with you on that. He apparently considered a woman would only be suited to run a small suburbs town. At most.
It doesn't. It only supports a prefix to filter out objects.
I am happy to get PRs for this kind of features if you have a use case!
I agree that quasi-equity purchases will be on the table. ETFs have different voting rights than direct stock. Governments won’t let these pensions fail in mass. Also look at dual interest rate options like teltros in the ECB.
Stack Overflow has handled the communication and PR side of this about as badly as a company can, and I started - and still want to be - on the side of the moderators.

However, as near as I can tell from piecing together the different leaks, it turns out a core issue was that Monica Cellio refused to use the singular "they" construction, including when she knew that was someone's preferred pronoun.

In my view she is 1) objectively grammatically wrong and 2) just being needlessly rude. And ultimately, I can't bring myself to support this position at all. If you lost your moderator role because of a refusal to use a widely used and accepted English construction, even though you knew this refusal would hurt people, then uh, I hope you're happy with your life choices, but I have no sympathy for you.
I pay a sub for some desktop software I use. I don't have a problem with it.

If you estimate that the average user will use the product for N years, you can charge a one-time fee of X or a yearly sub of X/N and make the same amount either way (assuming you got N right and forgetting inflation). A yearly sub is very simple to explain. And people who use the product for longer pay more, which seems fair. The sub also helps to finance the ongoing costs of development and support.
But those browsers by default had this charming noise (an audible click) every time a page loaded or iframe loaded. When you would click a widget button you’d here this curious storm of clicks as the iframes all reloaded.

Wow. I'd forgotten about that. And all these years later, now I know what was going on.
What problem? Iceland has way less “genetic diversity” than Britain and is doing fine.
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If I'm reading these leaks correctly, the core issue is that Monica was not okay with singular they. The issue isn't that SO was forcing her not to use it, it's that they were forcing her to use it, and she was refusing.
Or no versioning.

Create new endpoint URIs for new semantics.

Use vocabulary-based (property-based) entities and never change word (property) semantics.

Contrary to its unpopularity (or because of?), this “strategy”* is far far simpler to maintain and evolve than is “versioning”.

*I say “strategy” because this is more commonsense: it’s how we do things in the real world anyway.
Excellent.

The submitted file in2war64.com shows only the blue "background" when run from bare-metal booted DOS floppy on a Pentium D (x64 based on dual x86) with its associated Intel graphics hardware. No sound either.

Your file "war" is a nice binary, works natively as sector 0 of a floppy disk, with a traditional FDD plugged directly into the legacy FDD parallel connector.

On the same hardware.

Also works with USB floppy drive, even on a UEFI PC as long as the Legacy/CSM is enabled and Secure Boot is disabled.

To use a common USB Flash Drive (UFD) natively instead of a floppy, legacy BIOS can require a partition table to be also present on sector 0 of the removable UFD. This can be effectively added by partitioning (format not needed) after copying "war" to sector 0 of the UFD:

from Linux command line:

First copy "war" to sector 0 of the UFD, where X is the identifier of your unmounted UFD:

(sudo) dd if=/<path to>/war of=/dev/sdX bs=512 count=1

This overwrites any MBR and partitontable that may already be on sector 0 of the target X UFD; with the functional "war" replacing the MBR, and zeroes replacing the partition table.

Only sector 0 is replaced, all other sectors remain unchanged.

At this point sector 0 of the UFD is no different from sector 0 of the working floppy disk.

Then create a partition on the target X UFD using cfdisk:

(sudo) cfdisk /dev/sdX

make it primary, full size, bootable, type 0C

Only the final portion of sector 0 is altered (leaving the "war" binary intact at the beginning of sector 0), all other sectors remain unchanged.

Then the UFD boots natively just like the floppy.

Still for UEFI need Legacy/CSM to be enabled and Secure Boot disabled.

Still no sound.
For completeness, full text of the note from Salesforce legal counsel (which made the original post too long) is: "Thank you for your email. We apologize for the difficulty this situation can cause, but unfortunately, because we are not in a position to determine the merits of trademark (or other intellectual property) infringement disputes, and because of our potential exposure to legal liability in such circumstances, we typically must require the customer to remove the allegedly infringing material within an expeditious time frame. When faced with such a situation in the trademark context, you are free to reach out to us to explain the situation, but in most cases, our ability to provide an accommodation may be limited to providing additional time where you intend to contact the claimant to resolve the claim and/or apply for a court order against the claimant within a reasonable amount of time."
Ironically, not 2001. 2001 animated the computer displays onto film, and then pasted the film into the scene.
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Yep, if you’re sick and poor, Europe is the better bargain for sure. I think it would be good for the US to have a stronger social safety net, but nevertheless, most things are more affordable in the US (my Internet is $60/month for fast speed as I live in one of the regions with ISP competition).
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This is unheralded rubbish.
I know this isn't what is at issue here, but I can't help but feel it's connected:

Gendered language runs deep, especially in languages like Spanish. Essentially anything ending in 'a' is considered feminine, and anything ending in 'o' is considered masculine. How could one hope to bring equality or neutrality to such language? It almost seems like a new language altogether would be easier than fighting to modify thousand-year histories and trillions of written words.

I'm all for healthy dialog that leads to ending oppressive norms, building compassion and inclusion. This situation feels like its own form of oppression, and as such ought to be questioned, if not resisted.

I honestly think everybody at the table here is trying to do the right thing as they see it, yet almost everyone is going to walk away hurt; there are no winners.