skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This reminds me of one curious legend / hypothesis about the last days of Atlantis that I read in some book. The story was basically that during the Atlantis era, the "world config" was tuned slightly differently and that allowed what we'd call magic: curious long distance effects that could be caused without the modern tech. For some time it went well, but then it started sliding to the dark side: bad and evil people, that could use anything to gain power, kept winning over the good people who were restricted by "moral" and things like that. By about 10,000 B.C. the power of evil people became indisputable: they could see nearly everything and could instantly squash any opposition by means of notoriously powerful black magic. There were a couple unsuccessful attempts to bring power back to good people, but it never worked for long time: evil people kept taking it back quickly and efficiently. I think, the Lord of The Rings book took the idea from that story. The situation looked completely hopeless and there was no point to continue running this show, so shortly before 10,000 B.C. the entire civilization was "hard reset" and the "world config" was tweaked to prevent any long distance effects. Since then people are following the technology track. As we see, it's taken only 12,000 years to replicate the very same system without any magic: powerful long distance weapons and amazing surveillance technology that would impress even the Sauron form the movie. We are only missing that Sauron who would consolidate all the power.
FWIW, I created a mirror of all of Apple's OSS releases on GitHub here: https://github.com/apple-opensource-mirror
Good point! If we're stretching the definition of "coastal" to include proximity to bodies of water, we could also include cities adjacent to rivers and other lakes as "coastal." Then, we can add Austin, San Antonio, Memphis, Dallas, St. Louis, Salt Lake City, and of course Detroit to the ranks of coastal cities. (Depending on who draws the metro area, Atlanta could also be a coastal city using this definition.)

But that's not the grouping of cities commonly referred to as being "coastal." I obviously know that non-coastal != rural, but that equivalence is frequently used in American discourse. See also: "flyover country", etc.
Everyone should be driving electric-bicycles. Cars only for special occasions.
New York and San Francisco are two of the most provincial cities in the US. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/View_of_the_World_from_9th_Ave...
Why not add an expectation, then, for what kind of string it is? You just have to have one. E.G. perl has .perl, which has the constraint that, for any obj, it should be that obj == (EVAL obj.perl). It doesn't matter what that is, as long as you agree on it. Having objects that know how to print themselves isn't intrinsically problematic.
I think you should invest the time to read what happened, the moderator the letter was written to support has her detailed write-up here [0].

[0] https://cellio.dreamwidth.org/2019/10/05/stack-overflow-fias...
> going as far as buying a domain and setting up a website to publicize how upset you are, just to complain to a place that you volunteer at, you know, maybe it's time to just let it go.

This is a terribly shortsighted interpretation. Stack Exchange is a community like any other. Volunteers tend to care about the communities they take part in.

It is entirely reasonable to complain if you volunteer in a community and see the organizers of the community take action that cause it to deteriorate.

Telling people that participate in a community to shut up and go elsewhere solves no problems. It doesn’t improve the community. It doesn’t even necessarily help other communities.

Honestly? Your comment is so devoid of empathy that I am not sure if you are intentionally trolling or not.

> The users don't actually implicitly value what the moderators do.

You have no proof for this statement, just like most of your other statements.
Translator fail.
The other side can view it similar to past bigotry in history. It's unfortunate when people in society don't blend in for the correct pronouns to be used automatically and even more distasteful when other people dismiss the effort of an unfortunate person in trying to liv life without being reminded by others showing no care in the world for the person. In any case I doubt stack exchange will be hurt by this conflict.
Who else remembers the world before SE, when people just did exactly the same thing as SE, but on mailing lists, and we found answers via web search, and we didn't need all this moderation, categorization, voting, etc?
This might be more an indication of insufficient ventilation or an inadequate or non existent kitchen extractor fan.
Seems like there was a disagreement regarding the use of gender pronouns that resulted in 73 moderators getting "fired" or leaving.

The author of that summary mentioned one thing I found especially egregious, which is a policy that stated avoiding using pronouns was out of alignment. If I understand correctly, when she asked how they would know if she was avoiding pronouns or just naturally not writing them, she was fired. I may have this wrong as I just skimmed the summary. Also it seems she had multiple disagreements on this front before.
Pronouns affect most people. Most people use them. If you are talking about trans people, it's estimated to be about 1-3% of people. That's roughly one in thirty to one in a hundred people.

That puts it at about the roughly same numbers as the number of redheads. It's uncommon, sure, but it's not totally minuscule.

Trans folks are also one of the most likely (if not the most likely) minorities to suffer physical violence just for who they are. All they are asking for is the same basic level of respect and politeness that anyone else gets.
Should pull a Minneapolis and legalize multi-unit housing on all lots.

Also, remove height restrictions and build better transit.
Isn't there also an issue with low nutrient levels in much of the soil which makes it unsuitable for agriculture even with access to freshwater?
California has a law called Prop 13 which sets the valuation of a property, for tax purposes, to what you bought it at. It then can increase at a maximum of 2% per year. This started in 1976, so this person might only have to pay tax on a valuation of say $100k for the $2 million house.
> fired with basically no due process

> mods will be getting their jobs back

Are mods paid for their work? Is it a formal 'job'?
I think a very small minority would call me out on that small mistake, but a significant number of people would kind of feel the same way.

Having an editor would definitely help! Good idea to think about. Just not sure if a free blog is worth investing that money.
but you'd expect that technological advances to prop up the implied drop in worker productivity (which is why there's an implied scarcity of goods and services in the future).

What i know for sure though, is that a large number of future retirees hav not have saved up enough for themselves.
> Maybe don't volunteer there. StackExchange isn't even a charity, it's a private for-profit company.

This. Stop giving your time for the profit of people who don't care about you. You want to help the community? You want to be respected? Great! Find some like-minded people, start a new site, maybe even make it a non-profit or at least democratic. But above all, stop making rich people richer off your labor
Regardless of what SE should do with pronouns, a mod shouldn't get fired for clarifying
Maybe they should and maybe they will move on--but that will be to the serious loss of both StackExchange and StackExchange Inc.
What is being fired in this context? Are these moderators employed by SE? Or do we mean she was banned as a moderator?
Because if you read the apology, he's actually backing her up. The "apology" is a lot better written than the terrible thing that was posted a day or so ago, but it is STILL essentially "We're sorry that you are upset."

It's not an apology. AFAICT the facts of the matter haven't changed here at all.
nah women start chats like 1% of the time so theyre just messaging back men who actually reached them first

okcupid was from 2009, its way different now after ten years. women control the scene and they only go for the top. thats what the tweets i linked from 2019 show
Do you need someone to actually say out loud that they would not build a pyramid like a pharoah? Meanwhile, I just want to know what the actual attraction of a two million dollar car is.
That is one side of the story. I'm quite certain there's another side to it, as with anything. (In fact, I'm quite certain there's many more sides to it, with all the people who have jumped on.)
If a community destroys itself over showing basic respect to a marginalized group, it probably shouldn't have existed at all.
PG Essay: http://www.paulgraham.com/identity.html
I am not talking about cheap but about pollution. As more cars go electric it would be better if the car charging is done at peak solar. UK is getting out of europe with brexit but the other remaining countries are connecting their grids with each other so even northern european countries would be using more solar even without having much sunlight
you'll get a lot of strange looks if you're standing on your residential street with your arm out expecting to get a cab.

Depends a lot on your neighborhood, and the time of day.

I lived in The Loop, and in the Gold Coast, and just walking out the front door of my building, I'd get anywhere from one to three cabs honking at me to see if I needed a ride.

But then, once you got past Halsted, Division, or Harrison, it was taxi ghost town.

In every town I've lived, the taxi industry killed itself by focusing on tourists and office workers, and not being available where the locals need them.
That's what a lot of them are doing, something else with their valuable time. They're just letting Stack Overflow know why on their way out.

The problem is perhaps the extent to which people invest time and effort into other people's private corporations. The Wikimedia Foundation, for all of its flaws, actually does try to listen to its users and build a public good. But when you play around in a corporate sandbox where you are just a commodity to be sold to advertisers, you don't have any rights.

I think it's a flaw in human nature really -- we expect to be recognized and given status for building community and providing value. But when you do that for a for-profit company like Stack Overflow or my own experience with TV Tropes wiki, you may find out one day that your value is only in your imagination, and you can be shut out of your community. This is not how it happened in tribal societies, or in small cities, but the information age has enabled even more detachment from empathy than the industrial age did. Now you can take away someone's community from them on their holy day from a chair a thousand miles away.
Objects knowing how to render themselves is great for debugging. In fact, many of us see toString just as a debugging function, and nothing meant for end-user presentation in non-debug console output.
Depends on the building. If you're on the lake end of Lakeshore East, those cab lights will whirl and blink for hours before a cab will accidentally wander past Aon Center and see it.
I don't understand why people would volunteer to do work for a for profit entity. Especially one that will, apparently, fire you on a whim.
no its not basic respect, stop making it so dramatic

theyre not talking about any specific person are they? no, they want to change all the examples to be gender neutral. why? when people hear Bob they think He. they dont ask "well what if bob is trans?"
NBA Executive’s Hong Kong Tweet Starts Firestorm in China
Ironically it is is almost impossible to engage on this topic in a thoughtful way without stepping on some sort of social landmine. As someone who has been around for a while I find much of the back and forth in this area exhausting and at times bewildering. Treat others how you want to be treated, count to ten before replying, don't engage with annoying people, pick your battles, life isn't necessarily fair. This sort of advice has been around forever and I much prefer it to the legalistic CoC approach.
The northern portion of the Korean Peninsula would become uninhabitable for many decades.
I saw a previous article earlier, but WSJ is generally paywalled and I can't read it, while NYTimes is less so.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21176976
Pedestrians are very distracted (texting/phone/music) and drivers are very distracted (texting/phone/music). I’m actually amazed that I see people walk right into the street while looking at their phones the entire time, with either misplaced trust in their surroundings or dangerous obliviousness.

Worse, drivers “seem” a lot angrier in recent years, and much more impatient. They’re likely to just go through, crosswalks be damned, missing people by a hair.
Eleven months! Don't move here.
I lived in Flatbush and Bay Ridge, and we just called car service.

It's like Uber, but instead of using an app on your phone, you use a phone on your phone.
I think a "presenter" is required.
basic respect? you realize these are code examples that sometimes talk about people and use normal pronouns that everyone understands just fine?

if theres a example with bob and alice and we say he and she, whats the problem? do we really need to be extra careful in case Bob in the example is trans?

Like thats really a problem? this doesnt have anything to do with basic respect. its just people who want to control everyone else
I agree. Without these people the site could fall into a mess of bad answers or a self promotion answer driven platform like Quora.
Pretty sure “stupid decisions of individuals” includes older residents demanding that no new housing get built in their neighborhood lest it “turn into Manhattan” when the reality is that an extra unit on every block would house everyone who’s moved to the Bay Area in the last 10 years.

Thus perpetuating a housing problem that prevents them from moving anywhere else in the Bay Area because now it‘s unaffordable.
Unless of course your job was automated out of existence by a robot...Seems like a bit of an oversight in your calculations hmm?
I don't get how this became a thing. 5 years ago half of the people who are railed up about this didn't even know what word 'pronoun' means.

Why would using the wrong one be harmful to anybody?

You can call me a she but it just would mean that you'd be wrong. It would harm your public image more than mine since there would be no harm to mine. None of my self-worth or my worth to other people relies on people believing me being any specific gender.

And if you build your worth on your gender should I really be interested? It was your choice. You could have chosen otherwise. Any harm you might feel when someone misgenders you is self inflicted.
literally not the problem here

more like people cant use Bob in an example and say He because "what if Bob is trans" comes up. cant even say "they" to be neutral because apparently "singular they" is offensive.

this is dumb. its not a real problem for the site. the rest of us dont need to deal with all that because some people have nothing better to do.
China is offended by him offering an opinion on something. So, that makes them right?

I'm offended by his backpedaling. That makes me right, right?

China really needs to get a grip and understand that with seven billion people in the world, not everyone is going to agree with everything it wants.
Sorry, I didn't mean to imply that rolling back to the old CoC would make every LGBTQ+ person feel unvalued. Everyone, regardless of community membership or not (you can probably tell that I'm struggling for appropriate language here), has differing levels of sensitivity to any issue. Some people are glad when others make an effort to do the right thing, others won't be pleased unless their individual needs are met 100%, and some are angry that society is moving in one direction and they can't be openly bigoted anymore.

However, if you're looking at it from a policy perspective, rolling back the CoC or not can be viewed as a signal, which every person is free to interpret as they wish. This is probably going to be dependent on whether you like the changes or not (some LGBTQ+ people have spoken up and said that the changes to the CoC are actually harmful). My interpretation: rolling back the CoC signals that SO wants to go back to a point when the mods were happier, work things out with the mods from there (there are several other complaints the mods have), and that the LGBTQ+ issues take a backseat. Not rolling things back signals that SO wants the LGBTQ+ community to feel valued and included, but tells the mods that their complaints won't be dealt with the way that they want. I don't think it's possible for SO to send the message that everyone is valued equally- even if they say it their actions won't reflect it.
Makes me think they were aiming for something more and didn't quite hit the mark. So settled for what they ended up with.
This all sounds perfectly reasonable.
I am guessing that people lost their shit at these "bigots".

Did that happen, or was this accepted as reasonable debate points?
The pointlessness of daily standups
Just because quit is an option doesn't mean some can't or shouldn't choose to try and make a final ditch effort to save something they care about.

Sure, to somebody who doesn't care, its easy judge the fact that they care, telling them to just stop caring. Unfortunately people don't work that way and if you ask somebody who has volunteered at a food shelter or drop in center for 5 years if they would walk away the moment they stopped liking the direction it was going, its not hard to see why some would have a hard time saying yes
Japan is still using these technologies because most Japanese aren't computer literate. Many are smartphone literate. Most of what I have experienced in my time in Japan so far are clients trying to move from pen/paper to smartphone/cloud.
I use codebook which allows syncing directly between devices, to a local folder, to Google Drive, or to Dropbox. It doesn’t have Linux support though.

I’ve been really happy with it, and it’s a one-time cost (per device though). The company who makes it also makes an open source encryption layer for SQLite.

https://www.zetetic.net/codebook/
You believe in liberal society.

China does not.
"If you want to know who rules over you look at who you are not allowed to criticize"
And no affordable housing.
I'm the NOT the original parent, but I am a developer, and use a 2018 MacBook Pro (15-inch). I'm a heavy vi user (vim actually.) I did not particularly care for advice to remap the escape key in vi to caps lock. So I just use the virtual escape key on the touch bar. It was odd initially not have haptic feedback on the escape key, but I got used to it and my typing speed in vi is almost as fast as it is on a normal keyboard (But definitely not as fast as it would be on a real keyboard). I have no real use for the touchbar. Occasionally, I use it to switch between browser tabs, and adjust video volume and scrub backwards and forwards in Premier Pro. But I don't really need it. I don't hate with a passion either. It's just there.

Edit fixed a typo: I am NOT the original parent.
I used to participate in SO but it is really turning into a hit n run site for me now. Overzealous duplicate and notconstructive flags combined with the dumbing everything down for new users policy made it frustrating and unrewarding experience. It still is to be frank when the "answer matches actual question in title" rate is about 10%, but what else is there?
I liked Monty Python and the humor until I saw the final scene in 'the life of Brian'; couldn't find them funny after seeing that scene, as I used to remember that an awful lot of people died at the cross as a means of capital punishment, dying a slow and painful death. Didn't manage to swallow that 'Life's a piece of shit, When you look at it'.
Pakistan Cuts Access to YouTube Worldwide
This is interesting because I never really thought about spatial and visual abilities as opposing- I'd say I'm subpar at both but very strong with language, so I sort of assumed that was the tradeoff. I always thought of daydreaming for example as "hearing" fake conversations with people. Was very surprised to find out that other people did not think the same way. I'd love to see more research on this stuff. But even just reading other people's accounts here has been informative IMO.
> My bathroom, a 3-by-6-foot “wet room” with a walk-in shower, is so small that it doesn’t have a sink, and I have to use the nearby kitchen sink

First world problems.
Another Brick or Two in the Chip Design Wall
> If privacy doesn't exist anymore, then the inheritors will receive a level of power they have never had before.

I’m having a hard time understanding your implication here. Wouldn’t the inheritors want more privacy as that would lessen the visibility of their actions and those involved?
I agree, generally. For that, I like Python's "repr" concept. A debug format should, in my opinion, match the definition syntax and be largely be handled by the language.
There's got to be a hard cost breakdown somewhere.
So there's a difference between blame, and discussing failure.

"The project was not delivered on time because requirements gathering took so long. Here's how we think we can help Product define them more efficiently in the future" is different than "It's Product's fault".

Both are laying blame on Product. One is suggesting a solution and sharing ownership of it; the other is only seeking to point fingers.

I would argue at no place should blame be okay. Because that creates a toxic culture; people begin to be less open and transparent about failure, are less likely to take responsibility, more likely to pre-emptively finger point to try to shift blame, etc, and it becomes political. The fact that you feel you are blameless is irrelevant if they can spin it so that it sounds like you are to blame (and trust me, speaking as a dev, the other departments are going to have way more time and experience in playing politics).
Why should the burden of solving that be placed on the defenders of privacy? The people calling for the power to spy on everyone have not offered any explanation of how backdooring everyone's communication reduces sexual abuse of children.

Of course, they don't really care about child exploitation. They are cynically using the issue as a pretext to preserve and normalize a massive expansion of their power.

The DOD budget is $617B[1]. The entire DOJ budget is $6B, with about half of that allocated to law enforcement[2]. I'm not sure precisely how much of that is spent investigating child exploitation, but the DOJ doesn't view it as a high enough high priority to even mention it in the budget. A couple of highlights:

- $295 to fight the opioid crisis. How successful was the drug war with the ability to tap phones again?

- $486M for violence against women programs and $45M for victims of human trafficking. Maybe next they will tell us that reading our messages and snooping our video calls will make women safer.

[Edit: Also interesting, the FBI's nearly $10B budget request[3]. The budget request doesn't break down the spending, but it does include a section on crimes against children almost at the very end. They highlight their recent investigations have led to about 1000 arrests. The FBI's stated top priorities[4] do not include crimes against children.]

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

[2] https://www.justice.gov/jmd/page/file/1033086/download

[3] https://www.fbi.gov/news/testimony/fbi-budget-request-for-fi...

[4] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federal_Bureau_of_Investigatio...