skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You mentioned:

> She made it clear in a comment quoted by The Register that she refused to use the singular they in any circumstance, even when it was known that it was someone's preferred pronoun.

But this is more subtle than that. Monica didn't say that she would use "he" or "she" even when someone prefers "they". She said that she would write in a gender-neutral manner while avoiding gendered pronouns altogether.

Here is the full context of Monica's stance:

> I completely agree that it is rude to call people what they don't want to be called; knowingly misgendering someone is not ok. But the policy was about positive, not negative, use of pronouns. I pointed out that as a professional writer I, by training, write in a gender-neutral way specifically to avoid gender landmines, and sought clarification that this would continue to be ok. To my surprise, other moderators in the room said that not using (third-person singular) pronouns at all is misgendering. The employee never clarified, and this is one of the questions I asked in email. In my email I said clearly that I'm on board with "use preferred pronouns when using pronouns", but from the fact that they fired me without warning (or answering the question), I conclude that that's not the policy. I haven't seen an actual policy, though I am being accused of violating it.

Link: https://judaism.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/5193/stack-...
Most things you listed, like BBQ, are clearly luxuries if you just need a space to live.

I come from eastern europe, where apartment blocks are common and some are quite nice, and never understood the obsessions with houses so prevalent in Uk and US.
I guess I was taught differently. Apologies without positive action are hollow. Repentance requires positive steps and attempts to fix and undo the harm you have caused. How can a person truly trust an apology has meaning when harm is left in place?
You can find your own land to own.

Back in 1962 my grandma had her house built on some undesirable empty hills, in the city but far from the action. There wasn't a tech industry. That house is in the geographic center of San Francisco and is now worth about $2,000,000. It's still on a lovely tree-lined street with plenty of available free parking.

You would take that from her and the other people who created the neighborhood you now covet. You would change it forever, adding all the charm of a trailer park or housing project. The free parking would be gone.

No. You go make your own desirable neighborhood in a different city.

You're trying to cheat by skipping a step. You don't want to wait half a century. You want that nice neighborhood now, without investing the time to create it.
The North has plenty of water. It is historically underdeveloped and still hasn't caught up with South- East
There's only so much you can do yourself, take into your own hands, look at from the other perspective, mingle around a problem until at long last you'll end up where you started again: Forces out of your control.

And it's (or should be) OK to blame them, you've done your homework.

But then someone comes along and says "You've been going at this the wrong way! Think positive! Think like a 'player'!". And as you roll your eyes, people label you passive-aggressive.

People like that are probably a minority, but they most certainly exist, too.
“and give up on my dream of being a tech billionaire? no thanks”. Also popular is “the bay area has one of the greatest collection of minds ever assembled in the history of the world”. If they are really that smart and money flows so freely, then they should have no problem solving this little problem.
Disagree with the non-apology part. It's clearly very grovelling
I mean, it's possible you hate your neighborhood, neighbors, the closeness of it all. What if your tiny house was in the middle of a 10 acre forest? You could go on a walk without bother. San Fran is probably just PEOPLE. EVERYWHERE. SHITTING. EVERYWHERE.

Not only that, but big cities are probably pretty isolating... whereas in small towns, people will engage you in conversation because people are still novel in small quantities.
If you install Browserpass for Chrome (there's an alternate for Firefox as well) all you need to do is type in your keyboard command and it'll automatically fill out your info for you on the website.

Meaning:
Suppose you go to gooogle.com instead of google.com, the extension won't fill out info because it doesn't recognize you having an user/pass for gooogle.com
In the US, because the government is not profit-driven, results rarely matter. So workers are seldom penalized for poor performance. So you end up with shitty workers. There are lots of people with great work ethic in the US, they're just mostly in private industry.
> It’s why you see a lot of COOs and CEOs with some legal background or at least familiarity.

An alternative hypothesis based on people I know - traditionally, smart/middle-to-high class people pick between medicine, law, and finance, with law school being the default. Then many of these people realize they don't like practicing law so they transition into something else.
The CoC is almost certainly already written, but this quip is a cherry on top:

> We’ll be reaching out to her directly to apologize for the lack of process, privacy, and to discuss next steps. We’ll keep those discussions completely private unless we both agree to share any of it with the community.

So they're going to demand she stays hush about what they say to her unless they approve? Seems extremely dishonest and scummy to try and control someone you've already wronged.
They need to fix their reputation of awful privacy violations. While the reputation is more out of fear and speculation than it is of actual understanding, they still need to fix it.

So when companies like Apple are offering great security, people are scared Facebook is reading their conversations, continuously tracking their location, and listening to their microphones.
It has to default to one size though, right? What's the argument that US letter size should not be the default?
For me it’s Stunts and Bone Thugs n Harmony, E. 1999 Eternal. Listened to that CD on repeat building tracks on an IBM ps/2 as a kid.

Also Biggie’s Warning and anything Visual Basic 3.0. I don’t know why
We very well know that is not what costs money. Houses with everything you can suggest cost 200k$ in rural areas, but cost 2 million in metropolitan. Rent just follows the price.
Yeah, that's a good point. If they're keeping the rule that you must use someone's preferred pronouns, then it sounds like Monica can no longer be a mod there regardless of their conversation.

And, I guess, that's the crux of the problem really. Does SO want people like her around? Ostensibly they do, if they're trying to have sites for Judaism, Islam, etc. But it seems incompatible with the new CoC. Monica offered the half measure of only using names, but it seems a hard needle to thread if you're trying to support incompatible ideologies. I think SO is going to have to give up something, and I'm betting it's going to be the goal of being a central place to discuss religion.
> You don't have permission to bore a hole in the roof

Is this really a relevant issue, when you just need a decent place to live?
I have a question that's kind of adjacent to this. I've wanted to play with mapping and especially with geolocating data, but at least right now, I don't want to put much money into it. Are there any reasonably decent tools for doing bulk address to latitude/longitude geolocation, preferably something I could pull down and run in Docker containers on my desktop machine? I'm aware of the Data Science Toolkit, but it seems a bit out of date.
U.S. Supreme Court case opinions are also generally well-written, to the point that even people without a law degree can follow along, barring bits of jargon that usually aren't necessary to understand the overall meaning. For any news article summarizing a Supreme Court case, I generally recommend just reading the case itself.
This is neat!

When I was eating keto, I got frustrated with how bad the search functionality was on all the keto blogs, so I made a similar tool It's a keto recipe searcher/aggregator:

https://ketohub.io

During this, I ended up going down a long rabbit hole trying to figure out how to parse recipe ingredients properly, and eventually spun off a separate ingredient parsing service:

https://zestfuldata.com (the service)

https://mtlynch.io/resurrecting-1/ (a 3-part blog series on how I built it)

OP - if you're interested in adding ingredient parsing to the site, I'd be happy to work with you.
Bathrooms and kitchens
My preferred pronoun is nigger, and everyone must refer to me by that.
Yes. Those were not good days. In those days, every tech savvy person somehow automatically got the privilege to be rude to the less knowledgeable people. If a user came for help without doing sufficient homework, a project author or community would rudely ask the user to go RTFM. There are more civil ways to send the same message. CoCs are a way to bring in that civility in discourse. Do you have a better idea?
> I suspect the organizations promoting the concept of Missing Middle housing aren't for bringing back SROs.

Because they're a bad idea, that had terrible consequences, and most reasonable people have vowed never to repeat that mistake. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tenement

It's not like building real housing costs that much more. Trying to downgrade housing to make it cheaper is by scrimping 50sqft here, or a bathroom over there, is like the textbook definition of "penny wise, pound foolish".

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Housing is expensive because land is monopolized, hyper-overinvested, and carries zero risk because of government-guaranteed bailouts. Housing in cities is expensive for the same reasons, plus the inherently higher costs of higher density in construction.

Housing is not expensive because an apartment is required to have running water, a functional toilet, and enough floorspace for a mattress. That's just simply not the issue.
High-energy experiment is generally statistically unsound
It's not a policy problem, stop blaming the government for the stupid decisions of individuals. It's a market problem, if renters said I'm not paying 1600 per month then the rent would be lower.
He's 79 years old. The average male life expectancy in the UK is 79.4 [0].

I mean, he's not unhealthy (as far as I know), but it's pretty common place for older folks to commiserate about their impending mortality.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_life_expe...
The notch is pretty smart. People want more screen space, but it’s nice to have the battery and time visible, the notch let’s you stick them up there with the camera in otherwise wasted space.
I live in a 490 sq. ft. NYC studio and it's honestly great for just myself.

That being said, once apartments get that small, a great floor plan is essential to having a functional, yet spacious small apartment. I have a walk in closet, two regular closets, a laundry closet (with stacked, in-unit washer and dryer), a standard bathroom, a full kitchen, a sectional couch, a media console, and a queen sized bed. I've never felt cramped in my apartment.

I've seen studio apartment listings with more space (in the ~500~600 sq. ft. range), but the floor plan is such that I wouldn't be able to fit what I currently have in there despite the additional ~0~100 sq. ft. of space due to a non-rectangular floor plan (trying to fit any piece of furniture in a non 90-degree corner will never go well).
I was hoping this would be something like a nation state manipulating an AR app's reward locations to pick up images or audio from hacked phones. Has anyone tried that yet?
>Explain to us, with examples, how the firing is justified, and how pronoun usage would re-conciliate with moderators with religion restrictions.

It's clear they have no desire to explain and would very much prefer nothing further is made public:

>We’ll keep those discussions completely private unless we both agree to share any of it with the community.
The complete list of 32-bit Mac games no longer supported (in macOS 10.15)
I've paid more than that for a regular uber to lga, just getting stuck in traffic the wrong time of day.
According to Monica they've failed to return her emails so please understand why I'm sceptical of SE here.
I like the part where it clawed back the earnings of the founder and any expenses weren't usable as deductions on their taxes. Wait, thats not what I read at all.

Anyway, why was a helicopter company publicly traded last decade? Thats funny, too bad they needed to rollover debt during a period of time when financing had dried up for everyone in 2009.

Is a public company from 2009 the only data? I thought the whole premise of this subthread was that there were companies always filling the void.
I'd argue the opposite- it's like saying that water is legal but it's illegal to drown someone. Nothing in the field of machine learning is in itself illegal, as opposed to things like hard drugs and heavy weaponry, which are in and of themselves illegal for private citizens, regardless of what they're doing with them.

While we're at it, whenever anyone talks about machine learning they're not talking about a technique of mathematics, they're talking about a technique in software development (albeit that has some mathematical roots.) It's not popular because we're all passionate about discovering mathematical truths, it's popular because we can use it to make computers do cool things. :)
Looking at models doesn't shed too much light, because some categories have their sales more concentrated across a few models than others. The post I was responding to used "The number of light trucks sold in September 2019 is almost three times the number of 'passenger cars'."

For Australia the same figure was 2.4 times ( https://www.caradvice.com.au/797477/vfacts-september-2019/ ) and 2.1 times in August - though this is only a recent change in the Australian market (passenger car sales being down considerably in 2019 versus 2018).

But yeah, the difference isn't as much as I thought it was, primarily because I didn't realise until looking into it now that crossover SUVs like RAV4s and CX-5s are considered 'light trucks' in those US figures.
Yeah, thicker skin and reading manuals.

All jokes aside, there's surely a middle ground between being rude to everyone and "hi guys wowzors dinosaurs and ninjas! this project is made with <3" and the overwhelming passive-aggressiveness of this inane dumpster fire drama over CoCs.
I understand the futility of reasoning against snark, but I still feel compelled to mention that no collection of minds in the history of anything has ever really succeeded in solving the problem of dysfunctional politics.
I’m from the Bay Area. This is my hometown, going back 5 generations. What should I do? Move?
I can't really understand this sentence of yours

> My cynical self noticed that there are a lot of "apologize" and "sorry" in this update, yet I believe this is a first good step.

in particular with the "yet". Would it be a better first step without apologies?
The same queuing problem exists all over in computing as well and is similarly poorly addressed often as not. Japanese car companies and more generally lean engineering is all about fixing this. I highly doubt worker assignments are anywhere near optimal and are probably mostly whatever the job foreman feels like is right.

Some groups have this down to a science for their particular industry (say, Apple supply chain logistics) and others aren't even aware of the issue and pass it off as expected.

It would be an interesting study to get queuing theory people, lean experts, or some such qualified group to look into public construction and maintenance projects to simulate and analyze optimal vs. actual. No question this would be very hard to do because unions hate this kind of thing and people don't like being measured over their shoulders and the basic implication that they're "lazy" or inefficient or whatever. (it's hard to measure and improve worker output while actually making the worker happier too because there tends to be a Stanford Prison Experiment vibe where you get managers nitpicking lunch breaks and the basic pleasantries of working instead of bulk errors like allocating skill sets)
I tried unsubscribing but none of the options actually worked. I stopped participating in the network about two years ago and I can’t say I’m disappointed.
I looked into this project when it was first announced. The “in Rust” part seems more aspirational than reality. For those who may not know, Knuth originally wrote TeX in a language called WEB, which is basically Pascal with some preprocessors for making it usable and documentable. Later extensions to TeX, including eTeX, pdfTeX and XeTeX have also been written in WEB. The existing TeX distributions (TeX Live, MikTeX, etc), at their core first translate this WEB/Pascal into (autogenerated and basically unreadable) C, then run it through a C compiler, etc.

What this project has done is take the auto-generated translation into C of xetex.web, and wrapped this (unreadable) C code in Rust — which is an odd choice to say the least. It seems (from Reddit comments by the author) that the reason is that author of this project at the time was unaware of LuaTeX, which (starting with a manual and readable translation into C years ago) is actually written in C.

All these odd choices aside, and barring the somewhat misleading “in Rust” description (misleading for another reason: the TeX/LaTeX ecosystem is mostly TeX macros rather than the core “engine” anyway), there are some good user-experience decisions made by this project. With a regular TeX distribution these would be achieved with something like latexmk/rubber/arara, which too are wrappers around TeX much like this project.

There is still room for someone to do a “real” rewrite of TeX (in Rust or whatever), but as someone on TeX.SE said, it is very easy to start a rewrite of TeX; the challenge is to finish it.
Jeremy Howard: Deep Learning Frameworks – TensorFlow, PyTorch, Fast.ai
Yeah homebrew does that remote lookup thing when I try to complete `brew install xx<TAB>`. Because of the delay, it's not a good way to discover packages at all especially if the package name has an unexpected prefix that causes bash completion to fail. Much better to just `brew search xx` then browse the entire list of possible candidates than to rely on tab completion.
> how pronoun usage would re-conciliate with moderators with religion restrictions

It seems clear that, in their updated CoC, the requirement to be respectful trumps religious restrictions. And that's pretty much the standard here, isn't it? I can't imagine rudeness being OK here, even if it's required religiously.
34k CNY, each of which is .14 USD
Show HN: Fntags – JavaScript Instead of HTML
Relevant wiki articles[1][2][3].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tesla_Factory

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gigafactory_1

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gigafactory_3
You are talking ideological nonsense.

In the real world, public housing works perfectly well. For instance, more than 80% of singaporeans live in public housing, and the system is considered a success: https://theconversation.com/a-century-of-public-housing-less...
I've created this web ui framework where you write templates in javascript instead of html or any other templating language.
It's written in es6, so it can be used directly in the browser.

The library is under 3kb when minified and gzipped, and around 9kb when minified alone.

The api was largely inspired by functional components and state hooks in react.

The dom is built directly by the tag functions, the tag functions are effectively equivalent to html tags. There's no virtual dom or other representations, and the dom is updated directly on state changes.

fntags provides the ability to bind any element to any state you have a handle to.

If you're looking for something light weight for your next project, try it out!
> I can't tell you how many time in my code or in others', a .ToString() was expected to do one thing (pretty-print, for example)

I'd expect this to turn the object into a String.
There has been an endless parade of these guys but only the one was public, in recent history. Obviously I am not aware of the disposition of the others. Maybe they were all roaring successes.
That tells me you never lived in a really bad house, with rats and mold, leaking roof, collapsing drywall and no hot water.

I did, it ain't pretty.
That's interesting! But by golly, was 1973's Westworld a chore to sit through. The remake has the technology and a compelling story.
Shakespeare used singular "they". If you want to cite your personal authority vs The Bard, you lose. Hint: he used it in gender-bent situations. Theater people tend to be progressive... 400 years ahead of the game in this instance.
When I first read the article, I thought "Wow, this is perfect for a boss to handout to their employees and shift the blame!".

Realizing now, that this was indeed written by a CEO, does add a bit of flavor, but maybe he doesn't have any employees, and it's just a motivational piece he uses for himself. To be honest, I really don't want to know.
That would stop new building construction.

Many would convert existing structures if possible to another structure type.

Land value will drop to a level where rent is affordable. No matter what the owner will rent out the unit for costs (including taxes) + profit.
The schedule is a dead giveaway that there are no plans to actually take significant action on feedback. The feedback process is likely only there so that they can say "We requested feedback," and to appease the type of person who thinks "there was a written process, therefore the outcome must be unassailable."
Actress Marilu Henner has an exceptionally good memory she can recall every second of her life in perfect detail she has hyperthymesia. She was on the TV show Taxi in the 1970s.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marilu_Henner

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyperthymesia
Zestful looks awesome! I'll take the chance to look into it more over the next few days. But looks like something that I would benefit from using :)
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