skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you are willing to leave behind rich text/word processing entirely (as I mostly have), it's not really an issue. It's everyone else who is so married to this idea which is a much harder nut to crack.

The proliferation of many smaller writing apps (iAWriter, Byword, 1Writer, and on and on) on macOS means that many of these people probably could leave Word if they tried or switch to a plaintext app which can give you a styled preview (ahem, BBEdit) and they would be fine. Almost all of the features are there.

It's just the comfort of Word as a known thing and the idea of how people use computers to create text which prevents them from taking that leap of faith.
I don't believe sshfs is safe to use with concurrent access on the database: https://github.com/libfuse/sshfs/issues/204#issue-561260021
Looks like this bot is falling afoul of the Scunthorpe problem.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scunthorpe_problem
The dumbest mistake was changing pronouns that refer to specific people. So much for respecting people's own pronouns!
Joke's on you! Y'all is double extra un good because it's a Southern thing.
What's concerning to me is that 1) the census is mandatory on the basis that the answers are private but 2) all the information will be made public about 70 years later.

What if you don't want to volunteer your information?
I’m not sure what you’re going on about - we’re in agreement that the bot in question doesn’t even do what it purports to do well at all.

The question isn’t whether the bot in OP is good, it’s not, it’s whether or not switching to gender neutral language is useful or not.
Remember when "tone policing" was a buzzword? As a way of saying "don't criticize my snark or vitriol", i.e. the language used.
I am offended by this blatant speciesism. This is the internet, how do you know I'm not a dog?
Yes that is a good way to calculate the heat loss.

The site will still show you the cost difference per kWh of heat without the heat loss.

Since heat loss is the amount of heat the house loses per hour, and you have how much fuel it took to heat your house, you only need to reduce the amount of fuel consumed by the amount of fuel you lost when heating.

For example if your furnace is 95% efficient than you need to reduce that number by 5%, since 5% of the fuel didn't end up heating your house.

Divide this new number by the amount of heating hours and that will be your heat loss.
Looks like my question was answered in a sibling thread.

The behavior of Alt+Click/drag is to allow you to click on any part of a window and move the window. It is extremely useful not just from time-savings (no need to click on the top bar to reposition a window), but also to be able to grab windows that are positioned off-screen or beneath another window and move it with a single operation.
The reason people are unbanked is nearly always because they don't have any money.

People with very little money are not going to put it into "some phone app", as they will see it.

I've heard this idea that cryptocurrency is going to help people in poor countries for almost ten years. At this point, absent even one concrete example, I'm comfortable calling it a falsehood.

Trying to guilt us into liking your Dunning-Krugerands by implying we are somehow unsympathetic to the plight of the poor is not very nice. Please stop doing that.
Wow, I could write almost the same article about my '85 Westfalia Vanagon.
Because it looks like an entertaining April Fool's day prank.
This remind me of how amazingly complex a modern car is in terms of making it easy to drive and how may iterations / how much evolution has taken place.
I love seeing old timers on the street. The ones that get preserved are usually so much more aesthetic than contemporary cars.
You don't want to wait to the last minute to stop something. If you see an accident forming from afar, you start reacting now.

This bot may be a "joke" but it represents the thought police and the author should be sternly reprimanded.
Plane departing from Salt Lake shatters windshield mid-flight
> "There is long history of science-fiction writers painting correct visions of, at the time seemingly impossible future"

That's a pretty weak argument. I love scifi, and I love for example Philip Dick's writing, yet I would not consider PKD's opinion on the future of AI/AGI particularly relevant.

James Cameron is not an authority on AI either.

If people said "Yudkowsky is a nice fanfiction author" it would be one thing. But he considers himself an actual AI researcher, and that's just not right. He is not qualified, and has no accomplishments in the area, other than writing fanfiction about it.
Nobody is stopping you from thinking the word "man" or "woman." There's no point in making such a ridiculous claim.

This is clearly just a badly programmed bot. However, if you look at one of the (less) buggy PRs it submitted, you'll find an actually helpful change[1]: replacing gendered pronouns with neutral ones makes sense in the context of documentation, wherever that documentation is in fact gender-neutral in disposition.

[1]: https://github.com/moby/moby/pull/43441
A single man can be your ancestor in more than one slot on your family tree.
I didn't return my Apple Studio Display
I'd say it's a false-flag operation by someone who doesn't like inclusive language.
*compersonds
Is this basically Digg? Have we come full circle?
How many cars can be reconfigured on the fly to act as a sporty racer, a huge work truck, an ATV, a unicycle, or literally any wheeled vehicle you can imagine?

Computers are general purpose tools, the ability to reconfigure them to accomplish different tasks is the core feature that makes them useful.

Not being able to pick out software and hardware that work together is like not knowing how to drive. If you can't do this then you are just a passenger.

Willfully avoiding learning basic programming concepts is like refusing to learn how to change a flat tire. I guess nowadays if your car is always connected to a cell tower and you have a comfortable income you might be able to drive your whole life without ever needing this skill but they were still teaching us how to do it back when I took driver's ed.
Depending on levels of investment, those amounts are close to month-to-month portfolio variance.
For awhile I was into autocross.

I remember one guy who would always show up in a Porsche 914 with racing tires, and he would run circles around us amateurs.
The replacements are hilariously bad.

“helps” → “theylps”

“Un manuel de Metapos” → “Un personuel de Metapost”
OK, so for you, "bootstrapping statistical mixtures" means "warm-starting EM mixture modeling".

Personally I never would have guessed that, in retrospect it makes sense... to each their own!
Hillel Wayne and a bunch of people (including me) have started an initiative against the yearly April Fools' cringeposts: https://www.aprilcools.club/
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"... a gated community ..."

Occam's razor - when your friend moved into this gated community, it is almost certain they had to provide some background information, including name to the gated community. Might even had some contractual requirements that needed background checks. This person maybe just looked at the monthly flyer that was stuffed under every owners' door "please welcome Jimmy John Joe Smith living in 123 Fancy St." ...
story makes me realise why MOTs exist :P sounds like the owner has good fun with that relic, but I wonder is it actually roadworthy?
IMO, it would be hard to do this all at once.

Also, don't forget time zone skew: Your March 31, 22:00 can be April 1 somewhere else.
What specific information do you need? 1000 twitter accounts? An MIT study? I'm curious what you need to not be annoyed?
My first car was a 914. Love and miss it to this day.

At some point the solenoid died (or some other electrical component). So to start it, you'd have to reach under the car with a screwdriver (or some other piece of metal, but I kept a screwdriver in the car for this purpose), and short out across two terminals.

You then had 10-20 seconds to get out from under the car, into the driver's seat, and turn the key. As a practiced manouver, it was pretty quick.
Potentially related to the quote: “As it turns out, we did not pass our live assessment the first time.”
Red Dead Redemption 2 has several species of ducks that you can hunt https://reddead.fandom.com/wiki/Duck_(RDR_2)
"Dont" [sic] worry, it's invested, not stagnant.
In high school, my friends and I managed to resuscitate a 914 that had been stowed away in a garage for over a decade. We towed it to the top of a hill with a pickup truck and attempted a clutch start after we'd picked up some speed. None of us (especially me in the driver's seat) expected this to work, but amazingly it fired right up. One of my friends managed to jog alongside and jump into the car as I tried to keep it puttering along, and we ripped a few laps around the neighborhood. Soonafter, we stopped the engine and were never able to get it started again. Thanks for bringing up this memory. Cool article.
It's a curiosity, it's funny, and it lightly touches on a modern theme/discussion around language and terminology in software development.

Not every article/submission needs to be some big, serious new thing.
Where are the Commodore 64 SID chip tunes? Never Ending Story, Rambo, Green Beret, Attack of the Mutant Camels. Of course none of those sounds are 'endangered', just nostalgia.
That’s basically why it does local optima rather than global.

As for an example where you know the global optima: real life hill climbing rather than the blindfolded version used to explain the algorithm of the same name?
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So sounds like you agree with me that Hillary did indeed break the law but you argument is that we need to understand "realpolitik" on why she can not be prosecuted. I guess I strongly disagree.

BTW, you other argument is that Mr President should have been impeached over this scandal and refusal to fire Secretary of State who broke the law. This is not a bad idea in general and I would agree that this should have happened.
To prevent spam, github should not allow bots to interact with repos by default.

It's up to repo owner to opt-in PRs, issues, comments, etc made by bots. Maaybe also add whitelists.
It wasn't until I met some openly gay folks and I hung out with them that I realized how much energy goes into "is this situation ok to be gay in?" considerations. And there's almost never a sure yes or no answer.
Sure, and I agree that this is really the only way, but also isn't super practical for a lot of things.
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Why did the title of the post change? It doesn't reflect what's on the page.
Well, if we pretend that it's just this single instance, it probably isn't.

But this is part of a cultural phenomenon, unless you want to argue that wokism doesn't exist.
The article doesn't justify the title but it does a good job introducing carbon taxes/credits, particularly in terms of "low hanging fruits"
IMO there's a couple of networks that have provided a killer app, but Bitcoin maximalism and ETH dominance completely overshadow them. I've followed loosely since 2009, never got into it because I knew the UX would be a problem, but little did I realize markets don't always evaluate technology on merit (an important lesson). It's wild to me now to see networks that have solved the UX problem, but other networks are so entrenched people ignore it or downplay it because it's a risk to their existing investment.
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Seems like it might be satire after all. The bot follows and is followed by this account @exclusive-human-programmer, which has the following content in their readme: https://github.com/exclusive-human-programmer/exclusive-huma...
Well everyone has a preference. Personally, I don't really care about my pronouns. But my preferred adjectives are 'smart', 'clever', 'clean', and 'elegant'. Please only refer to me using those.
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The account you're responding to is named "hunterb123", so they may not be reading and responding in earnest.

UPDATE: As expected, they proved my point in their response "I'd just worry about the content of my post and not about my name or laptops."
I do. It's a hard problem! How do you know when a new phenomenon crosses the line from "minor issue which probably means your attention's being hijacked if you're worried about it" to "big thing that needs to be argued against or everyone's gonna start doing it"? I don't have a great answer, other than to say that inclusive language bots subjectively feel to me like they're now in the second bucket. I'd bet $20 that within a decade some major tech company will implement inclusive language rules into every team's linter.
Is this poorly coded bot newsworthy, or even notable? Why?
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I find it takes even more effort to continually understand the situation of the traditional financial system and the current status of geopolitics. I don't know when my country could became the next Russia. It's a hostile world out there; effort is required to survive, and risk is unavoidable
Awesome to see work in the DB wire compatible space. On the MySQL side, there was MySQL Proxy (https://github.com/mysql/mysql-proxy), which was scriptable with Lua, with which you could create your own MySQL wire compatible connections. Unfortunately it appears to have been abandoned by Oracle and IIRC doesn't work with 5.7 and beyond. I used it in the past to hack together a MySQL wire adapter for Interana (https://scuba.io/).

I guess these days the best approach for connecting arbitrary data sources to existing drivers, at least for OLAP, is Apache Calcite (https://calcite.apache.org/). Unfortunately that feels a little more involved.