skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Shows how little effort it is to be a bit more inclusive, doesn't it? :)

OpenSSH used his/her, so already better than others that always assume the programmer is male.
Singular "they" is such an improvement over the "his/her" construct. It sounds completely natural.

I'm from the south, and I'm pretty sure I recall hearing singular they used frequently when I grew up. I know I was using it back in the 2000s before all the drama against using it started. I think a large portion of the AIM/IRC/LiveJournal contingent adopted it pretty early on too.

Anyone gatekeeping this word is either extremely OCD, a total grammar Nazi (which I can't fathom - language is flexible af), or they're turning the issue into a stupid political talking point.

edit: proud to be downvoted by hateful anti-trans/anti-LGBT people. You won't win against love, though. Do what Jesus asks you: don't throw stones and love one another as yourself. I think Jesus would be pretty stoked about using singular "they" if he spoke English.
Total remote control of the device allows quite a bit... disabling thermal protection, disabling fans, changing voltages on regulators to be out of allowed range, etc.

Just that attackers didn't choose to destroy a device in this instance, but just erased it, doesn't mean allowing control of all software on the device to randos on the internet, by not patching a root RCE vulnerability is not a physical safety issue.
Yes it does. It’s been used that way for 800 years now.
All of these calculations are inflation-adjusted, so, no, not at all.
My point wasn't clear. 7 years is quite a long time. And as far as I know in general they can't prevent after market parts being produced.

So car manufacturers are forced to allow their cars to be repaired, not necessarily with their parts, a long time after they've stopped selling them.

IT stuff should start following the same lifecycle.
"I interviewed a developer yesterday."
"Where they any good?"

Sounds a lot more natural than "Was he or she any good?"
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Something like improved dividends after some holding period?
55% of people worldwide live in cities and this number is growing. Consider whether you might be projecting your opinion onto everyone in this case.
> AbstractBeanFactoryFactories

I absolutely get what you mean and it sucks. I too love learning (and arguing, which doesn't help you that much on the job...)

I think these practices grow themselves out, but it takes quite some time. On the other hand, I can be defensive too if people just want to rewrite software to change the implementation language. It always sounds fun at first until you grasp the complexity of the project again.

> Tickets, JIRA, daily standups, scrum masters, sprint planning, backlog grooming sessions. Why does nobody question any of this "best practice"?

In my experience these are use to give people outside of software (and some developers) an illusion of control. If you can identify that want and can supply it with different means, you may be allowed to just skip it. I hate scrum, I like coffee breaks with colleagues. Of course that might not scale for the largest companies, don't know.

> I know some of you may say I should go get checked out for depression

On the contrary, depression stifles compassion for the craft. Like JIRA and daily standups or other formalities. As I said, if you can reduce the fears of management, they tend to give you the freedom you want. If other devs don't like that, go to management and make them your minions.
King OpenSSH speaks to the croud...they.

It's ridiculous, pretty happy i have nothing to do with peoples like that (not talking about queer/gay trans...but assholes)
"Fin updated their profile picture" is what Facebook has used since forever if gender was not set. Did you ever notice it?
Somehow there is no mention here yet about this infamous rant: https://dgraph.io/blog/post/why-google-needed-graph-serving-...

> I started a project to unite all Google OneBoxes under this graph indexing system, which involved weather, flights, events, and so on.

Now we know who's to blame :)
I'm a native speaker too and while I think there are a few areas where it feels a little unnatural, for the most part it seems natural to my ears. Could be a dialect based thing for how it feels though.
It is, if you want to receive business for money laundering and want to obfuscate it by using civilians.

I don't see another reason to go down this path...
This title is misleading. The actual PR is "docs: Use more appropriate language when referring to the user" and that's a fair description of these changes which clearly improve readability.
I often encounter documentation where the user is always referred to as just "she", even though most users are presumably male. In my experience it's a lot more common than the user being referred to as just "he", but that may be observation bias on my part.
Three instances in the man page and one in a comment!
(With the risk of stating the obvious) Can't you access it over the local network if you plug out the internet connection of your router?
Do you have "My Book" or "My Book Live"? I also have a bunch of external hard drives, but I think they're older than the whole Live bit.
For those who don't know, the "Vetinari" clock is a reference to Lord Vetinari, patrician of Ankh-Morpork in the Diskworld books of Terry Pratchett. He had a mechanical clock that behaved like this in his waiting room so that people waiting to see him would be slowly driven crazy by the irregular tick.
There's also:

if Person.id > 10:
#terminate
return True

I hope we're at least recycling those ids, although even then I'm not sure that 10 people is a viable minimal global population ...
Native speaker here. It definitely does sound natural when used in the singular. When a person uses it in the singular, they're generally aware of what it means :)
I find the demo video terrible, though. Of course, it gets the general idea across but it's too fast-cut to see any details which - for something visual like painting - is kind of the whole point.
Is it kosher?
Have you ever come across the game "Guess Who?"

Do they have grey hair?
Yes, they do.

Sounds entirely natural to me.
If only I could somehow factory reset mine - it's carrier locked to Lithuania, and since I don't live there any more it seems stuck.

Would be nice to be able to repurpose it for something
Connecting a hard drive directly to the internet is probably never a good idea.
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How would you rephrase: "He requires access."

They require access would imply multiple people right?
The only argument except all the ethical ones.

> Proponents never attempt to claim any positive effect or show evidence of it

Like workers being able to afford food?
Totally. I much prefer that we bring everyone in line with English, we should start doing PRs with other languages next. They must really be suffering without "they/them" pronouns :3
London, primarily.

I just couldn't live somewhere so busy - trains/tube at peak times are a grim enough experience just doing it on occasional visits - couldn't deal with it every day, let alone during a pandemic. And then there's the insane cost of housing, and the noise.
OK, well now come up with a formula that says (from a series of objective and not-readily-gameable characteristics) for a random electrical/electronic device (or, if you want to separate the two, provide a way to do so - is a 1980's microwave with an 8-bit controller for the timer 'electronics' or 'electrical'?) how long the warranty should be, how long it should be 'supported' (for a definition of 'supported') and how long critical errors should be fixed. Also specify which issues, and at which time point, should be paid for or not.

There is a lot of 'everything should be supported for eternity for free' in this thread, but I see no (at least somewhat) concrete suggestions for better solutions. If it was easy, we would have done it people.
I also noticed something was off. Looks very weird. No idea why it is like that.
As a male, I would be comfortable with using 'she' as a default. Just do it once and get the signalling over with.
that's a good argument but there are so many things that macOS can't do that windows can (legacy support, endless tinkering with relative ease. maybe more things but i think these two things encompass a lot more and are the main reasons holding windows back from being the same as the oh so esteemed macOS)
It depends on the location, solid high probability for some areas, specially in the years of the big scam.

I remember three perfectly healthy old lebanon cedars, maybe four, and one... not two, ancient beech vanishing like a poof at night from public parks just in my city in the last years. Trees with soft wood or palms (easy to transplant, not valuable wood) are always respected for some reason. Hard wood ancient trees or old conifers were systematically chopped down in other cities also. Is a pattern easy to follow. Always the same pool of species.

And is not just in the public spaces. I remember also an old Mimosa tree, a cherry tree that I planted and was chopped in the weekend last month, and a lot of trees removed in the river bank in the last ten years under several excuses.

Stealing wood or firewood is serious money and a low risk crime. Most people don't understand how expensive are those things. Or don't bother to say anything when one rare hardwood tree 100 Yo is replaced at night by two tiny 2 Yo, fast growing and cheap as a rat species. For most people all trees are the same green thing. The statistics say that the number of trees in the city increased by 2 and everybody is satisfied.
Like the OP said, it will force their citizen to understand how it works. One can speculate that the average Salvadorian will understand more about Bitcoin than the average HN reader.
"They" sounds like someone with multiple personalities...
+1

This would allow to avoid space, %, / and + to be more URL friendly, and so allow more usages.
So what if we've changed the definition of "rain"? You're going to get wet either way!

All we did was include this:

"B: When a man stands on the third floor balcony and..."
Average HN is a salty nocoiner.
Can't change the alignment of the taskbar nor have other apps customize it WTF.
They still need the store and other Google services to run apps in their native ecosystem.
It's not more confusing than addressing your male or female cousin. Language isn't always helping, but using "they" for everybody just seems like a natural fit.
> What benefits does NUM have over html over http?

Web standards (JSON-LD, microdata, RDFa) are inefficient, since you have to download the entire HTML to find a particular piece of data like a phone number.

Web standards are also not widely adopted enough for developers to build something on top of that data. For example, web standards can't be used to find a phone number for _any_ company with a phone number published to their website, since many small businesses don't mark up phone numbers with semantic web data.

We're pre-populating NUM with millions of pieces of data so if a phone number is on the public website, it'll be in the NUM record for that domain.

> One can use some semantic html tags to organize the data for parsing, making it roughly equivalent to NUM modules.

Of course, the problem is that not enough websites do this (especially those of small business).

> If a NUM client is running w/o a newly developed NUM module, how does it parse that data and how is it better than html without semantic meaning?

If NUM is used for general purpose data storage (instead of for a particular module), then parsing of that data would need to be handled in a bespoke client – not a general purpose NUM client. Any advantages of using NUM over HTTP in this example but would be related to scaling and cost savings only.
Ouch... Insane lots of crapware over there.
This is not the place for political/culture wars.
In isolation, yes, but when you're actually using this sentence there will be context. "When you want to onboard a new developer, they will require access."

"There's a new person joining the team."
"What do we need?"
"They require access to the stack."

Both are obviously singular they.
I’d need to see the preceding sentence but probably not.
The only thing I dislike about gender-neutral pronouns in English is how they make the traditional "they" ambiguous and a bit confusing. I would've much preferred using another set of pronouns for this but I understand that adaption of such a thing is next to impossible.
Not 7 years after you bought it. It is 7 years after they stop selling it. If you bought the last one, sure. But if you bought it say 2 years after release you may end up in the tens of years of usage. Also don't forget cars need maintenance. You can compare with buying iPhone on release day versus the day before it is discontinued.
TLDR: 4 instances of "his/her" replaced to "their". Move along, nothing to see here.
Context. Or “the <descriptor>“, like “the user requires access”.

“The user can change settings by selecting properties. Once there, they can opt out of silly debates.”

Is there any ambiguity? Pronouns belong in places where an identity can be, well, identified. Not standalone. Sans context we don’t even know who “he” is. If it’s a real person and not a hypothetical person, use their gendered pronoun if desired.

“Jtsummers needs access. His credentials can be verified by…”
Geometric proof enriched with interactive visual references
Building a Career in Software is a good one I read recently.

Did not finish Clean Code yet but enjoying it so far too.
> Makes me wonder what we ate before potatoes were introduced to Europe, I have no idea really.

There is a very interesting book [1] on this subject, and it's title is slightly misleading: the cuisine of the Netherlands of course means you're going to be talking about European cuisine in general, and the effects of trade routes opening up (middle and central Asia first, north Africa, later east Asia and the Americas).

Highly recommended if Dutch/European history of cuisine interests you.

[1] https://www.amazon.com/Kleine-geschiedenis-van-Nederlandse-k...
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Start with any venue at any level offering you a 15 minutes slot for a 5-6 slides presentation or a 2-3 pages case study. Be it a peers meetup, a local open day, a virtual conference. Treat any opening as a nudge to get out of your shell, wrap up your work and speak about it with different people. You will find your best path and your best convenience realtively soon.
Due to a decline in income from advertisers many traditional media have fired a lot of journalists. The remaining ones are under great pressure to produce articles. So it is not surprising that the quality of journalism has declined.
... while sitting on porcelain with his trousers down.
It's likely just a case of "it it ain't broken, there's no budget"
Nothing fancy here. An uncomplicated "EfficientDet" Object Detection case study
Boxes full of disks used to be special, in a past time there was only the glorious Thumper. BB pods and hyperscaler servers built by Quanta and Supermicro have pushed "boxes full or disks" into race to the bottom territory.

Software is now the only thing that separates services like BB, Dropbox, et al.

Don't cry for BB pods, they did their job and now you can get a higher quality chassis at a similar cost basis from Dell as a result.
Managing an integrated grid using household solar and battery as part of the supply management is one thing.

Adjusting people's usage for demand management is another.

They need to be separated and managed differently.

Instead of push adjusting HVAC for demand, they could use proper price signals with the appropriate local automation at the household that can be over-ridden by the consumer.
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Thats a gross generalisation. One would think, that average HNer would be a coiner because of their background.
/ and % don't play well with URLs. I would take + - * . $ instead.
Dutch and Amsterdam restaurants are not a good place to look for Dutch cuisine, although I remember the stamppot restaurant fondly. I'm afraid you'll have to get into non-urbanite homes to get a real taste, in the south of the country if you can, or accept a level of fusion which some higher-end restaurants offer, but is generally hard to trace, even for a Dutch person.
> But consumer electronics are written off on much shorter timeframes than cars.

They are, but it kills the planet.

We have 12 year old PCs in the family. Well, back then they were high-end models bought for work. Now they are running Linux just fine for general family purpose. They use a bit more of energy than a new model, but where we live you have to heat buildings at least 8 months a year anyway. I am sure producing a new one would have required much more resources.
Politicizing everything.
I remember Opera showing an error when I tried to follow a link from Internet to a private addresses (192.168.0.0/16 and such). Don't browsers enforce that anymore?
Disclaimer: I'm not a native speaker.

Why "they requires access" isn't fine?

It looks grammatically incorrect but the ambiguity is removed thanks to the "s" particle.

English already has similar irregularities in other contexts which seem to bother nobody.

i.e the sentence "If I were you, I'd do X and Y". The word "were" looks weird there but it solves a problem. Can't we treat "they" as singular in a similar manner?
> pronouns in English is how they make the traditional

How is this different from any other word? There are the odd times where it might be awkward or ambiguous to use, but I think those are the exceptions. When it happens, just reword your sentence.
Wow--I wasen't expecting that.
You can probably open up the portable hard drive and remove the physical hard drive, ending up with a 3.5". Some contain high quality server hard drives (some don't) for cheap price. You do lose your warranty though.
How to be a father...oh and mountain biking! (Though not at the same time) :)

Also, in my free time during work I'm trying to improve my writing by creating technical and leadership blog posts...it's difficult!
TPM is on chip so you'll be fine, just enable it in UEFI
You're looking for the Steam Runtime, not Ubuntu for future projects - it bundles the dependencies into a container similarly to Docker so that no matter what distribution a user is running it'll work for them.
This scenario is for a specific person and you would most probably use their name or you would still use he or she or their pronoun in context.
Treating trans and non-binary people as people isn't being political.

Plus, singular they is awesome. How do you even say "he/she"?
It is pretty broken though, since the image looks terrible because it skips a lot of the image processing steps.
A small developing country with little industry, high inequality and some of the worst murder rates in world decides to spend their very limited money and attention on populist nonsense like this.

I guess the gangs will appreciate it?
You're not wrong to want to write code your way. Not everyone is meant to conform to the absurdities you describe. Honestly, I don't know how you tolerated it for this long.

Write code your way for yourself. Find a way to turn a profit on your own. Solve problems that create passive income for you.

Being yourself is perfectly valid. I'm not sure therapy is healthy if conformity is the desired outcome. Others might have ways of putting you in boxes and providing shifting diagnoses. That's fine. Ignore it and do your own thing.

Earn your own money, your own way. Embrace your eccentricities. Use them to your advantage. When you are successful, people will look to you as a standard or model for correct behavior. Therapy won't be recommended.
>the traditional "they" ambiguous and a bit confusing

How traditional are you talking about, because the singular they has been in use since the 14th century - according to wikipedia that's only 100 years after "they" as plural

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Singular_they
On one hand, if a person is mindful and aware of their actions, they are likely to make thoughtful decisions about what is appropriate.

On the other hand, some habits form slowly. Sometimes bad habits creep in when you are in a hurry or lazy.

It depends on many factors. Many people find value in setting rules that seem too strict for others. Know yourself and choose accordingly and/or adapt to your workplace as necessary.
The thought of enabling internet/outside access to my Synology DS218+ always made my skin scrawl. It will never happen.
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Exactly! English is the only language where I hear such illogical statements. Same goes for the inverted usage of "all but", which imo _should_ mean "everything except for" but seems to mean "almost". I wonder what causes this.
"This person requires access"?
I write plenty of POSIX code on my Mac. Sometimes I send it to people to run on Linux without once running it on anything but my machine!
> If they provide you with a computer, they are tracking every click and pointer movement.

You meant this as an exaggeration, right?

If not -- How exactly are they doing this? Every click and pointer movement is less useful without the corresponding screen capture.
> Anything outside work hours doesn't need to be on a calendar.

I'm happy that works for you, but for me or anyone else who can be absent minded sometimes, that does. not. work. I need a calendar to remember promises I've made to people about when and where I'll be. Tuesday I'm meeting a friend to catch up in person, Thursday I've got a birthday dinner to go to, there's a show on Friday that I have tickets to. Stack multiple events in a single night if you have a busy social life. That's not a ton of information to remember but human memory is imperfect, and that sort of information is in one ear and out the other for me.

Prior to pocket computers, I'd have a paper datebook to carry around (and lose), but thanks to modern technology, it's stored in the cloud and accessible for me at https://calendar.google.com.
Announcement of Fleta mining policy change
We inform you all that there has been a change in the Fleta mining policy.

The Fleta Formulator and Delegator, which required 15 days of unstaking period for the cancellation, will be dramatically reduced to 2 days.

Changing mining policy wasn't an easy decision.
However, we decided after deeply considering how Fleta holders can more effectively stay in the Fleta ecosystem.

Before: 15 days of unstaking period for the cancellation

After: 2 days of unstaking period for the cancellation

Start Date: 8th July
Note
Starting on 26th June, the unlock period will be reduced day by day, and, finally, on 8th July, the two days of unstaking period policy will be applied.
Revealing Our 'Hidden Visits' with Cell Phone Data and Machine Learning
Yeah bitrot is way worse than people imagine. About ten years ago (wow time flies) I ran an experiment to validate hyperlinks and measure bitrot and even then, links older than a few years did not work. This is why we will be leaning ever harder on stuff like the Internet Archive (thank you Jason!) as big ass media companies keep turning the screws to confine our attentions to their content while spending considerable effort to attack outside content.
Possibly largest Bitcoin heist (69K Bitcoins) has taken place in South Africa
What is the confusion? People on Windows 98 are able to send emails too.
Irrelevant and even toxic.
PHC had some of the biggest names in the crypto field, had NIST representation and multi-stage evaluations with top notch testing.

PHC was far more mature in many ways over AES.