skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> But I am challenging the oft repeated claim that a “transwoman is a woman” or “transman is a man”

I never understood how people are having that discussion. What gender a trans person is comes down to how you define gender and there's a clear divide between people defining it as more of a social thing and others defining it as a mostly biological thing.

Saying "trans women are women" is really just saying "I don't think chromosomes and genitals are the main thing that defines gender. So ultimately this comes down to a disagreement about a words definition, which is utterly pointless (unless you're specifically looking at it from a language perspective I guess, in which case it's probably quite an interesting debate).

One way or another, this has nothing to do with whether gender dysphoria is a delusion or not.
Name a few that were produced in the last 5 years.
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Org mode. Not sure if that’s relevant for you because I don’t know what “text editing” includes for you. But it’s a killer feature
Lacrosse has a larger net, and goalies have far less and smaller equipment.
According to various sources (here on HN, also their official site) they only have fire detection and not suppresion [1].

[1] https://www.ovh.com/world/us/about-us/datacenters.xml
Affinity Designer?
All of the creepy stuff has always been in the apps, and I don't see how this changes that.

Not all of it. Google embeds a lot of creepy into Android itself, including AOSP.

But apps are a legitimate concern with an easy, sensible solution --- don't install creepy apps.

eOS offers an alternative app store with non-creepy apps.

FDroid is another popular alternative store with only open source apps.

Some things are not available on these alternative stores. For these, I use Aurora store (load the client from FDroid) which lets me install just about anything from the Google Play store without a Google login and I can see how creepy an app is before I install it. They scan apps for trackers and show the results.

Finally, if all else fails, I can't find a suitable alternative and I really, really want a particular creepy app, I use an old phone (Moto G4 Play running eOS) with no personal info stored in it. About the only thing I have found that falls into this category is some banking and payment apps.

Bottom line: Non-creepy apps are available if you take the time to look for them. One of my personal favorites is TwinMe --- peer to peer video and messaging with no personal info required. Actually works better than the creepy stuff and my iOS friends like it too
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Starting your day on the Internet is damaging your brain
Nowadays, several smaller European countries recommend prefixing the postcode with the ISO country code:

Kúpeľná 1/A
SK-811 02 Bratislava 1
Slovakia

Pošta Slovenije d.o.o.
SI-2500 MARIBOR
Slovenia

In fact, I see it's a general recommendation for international post: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_postal_codes#On_the_us...
The GDPR does not fix this at all.
They often work _way_ more than other children. If your kid is doing "chores around the house" for hours every day, it's exploitation too.
I already do both. Netflix has barely anything worth watching: it's mostly third-rate junk and only occasionally releases anything half-way interesting. Putting the squeeze on people for short-term profits just makes their service less cool for some spare change signals that they've given-up producing quality content fast enough.
cryo, a native Qt5 application provides end-to-end encrypted arbitrary large p2p file transfers.

https://cryonet.io

Shameless plug I'm the dev and using it daily :)
Last I checked, they are economical but not terribly efficient if you're using them in an environment with the power usage pattern of a household.
I think we need a strong wealth tax here in the US. It would take Emoji domain guy 70,000 years to make this auction price.
Why are you calling artists making a fair living off their work grifters and scammers? What's your problem?
> Business and money are fluid, but not that fluid.

Manufacturing and moving physical goods is not fluid, but creating and transferring a fungible, pseudonymous asset is. It would be possible for a country to block or put a tariff on imported goods from a country that didn’t do enough to curb carbon emissions, but it wouldn’t be possible to block imports of crypto without overstepping.
Aside of IoT the #1 choice for learning programming is obviously Ruby.

For several reasons:

1. Designed with dev-x as a primary goal.

And that’s crucial for absolute beginners who don’t want to waste time understanding legacy decisions of python or shitty infra of c++ etc.

2. Both truly oop and packed with strong fp features - so you can learn almost any modern programming idea without hacks and workarounds.

3. Serious and modern enough for huge projects yet friendly and simple enough for absolute beginners.

So you would not throw away your skills like if you’d learned BASIC or some other “nobody really cares in 2021” kind of language.
> they're just loops of wire around a core.

They're loops of increasingly expensive wire around a core, and they take a lot of it.
> activist veganism is one of the biggest reasons family farms are being destroyed all over the world

You're going to have to provide some substantial evidence to back that up. In reality, family farms are actually being destroyed by factory farms[1][2]. This is the case with most industries - smaller operations cannot compete or get bought out by larger players.

> massive areas being deforested ilegally are often used to produce soybeans

If you are concerned about deforestation due to soy production, pointing to vegans as the main culprit is misguided at best and misleading at worst.

If you care about preventing deforestation from soy, then you should know that around 70-75% of the world’s soya ends up as animal feed for cows, pigs, chickens and farmed fish[3] "In 2017, Brazil produced 16.3 million tons of soymeal for its domestic market, and more than 90 percent of that became animal feed, with 50 percent used as chicken feed, 25 percent as pig feed, and 12 percent for beef and dairy cattle feed."[4]

1. https://sentientmedia.org/family-farms-and-the-rise-of-indus...

2. https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/mar/09/american...

3. https://www.chathamhouse.org/sites/default/files/publication...

4. https://news.mongabay.com/2019/01/brazilian-hunger-for-meat-...
Syncthing is a FOSS alternative: https://syncthing.net/
Miners outside the US are paid by US investment into crypto. It’s an externality with multiple solutions, but increasing the cost of electricity in the US does nothing.
There is Russia and then Russians there running things. They have different goals. If Abkhazia is anything like I think it is...you just pay someone up and you can do whatever you want. That includes stealing electricity, or killing someone.

"Now I'm in power so it's my chance to grab something" is the mentality in a lot of countries.
> Alas, there is no PoS algorithm (who's security does not depend on PoW blockchain)

What does this mean?
I don't like the idea of a carbon tax in comparison to a fixed carbon budget. Why would we let politicians decide on a percentage, which might or might not lead to the desired outcome, when we can just limit the budget and trade emission certificates?
I also think the government should not sell the certificates but issue them equally to all people (e.g. once a year) who can then sell or consume them.

Disclaimer: I am not subscribing to the climate alarmism, but I see that there is a majority now which does, so I at least demand efficient solutions and not more bureaucracy and cronyism.
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For the time being, value types will eventually fix that.

Ironically some of the ideas how to proceed with value types integration were already present in Eiffel, but so are design decisions.
> anyone who can do that wouldn't waste their lives workin for criminals when they can make safe money legally

The skills required to set up a secure communications network aren't that valued (as in it won't make you a millionaire) in the legal world, and even less so in Europe where IT salaries are absolutely terrible.
Posted 2 months ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25891978

This is not the first time that I see an article already posted not so long ago reposted through the betterprogramming.pub url.

Edit: another example:

Initial post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26314756

Repost with the betterprogramming.pub url: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26369441

Second repost, this time with an edited title : https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26412047
Well, it's hard to tell. You don't know the difficulty of the task, I don't know your tendency to stress and freeze. But the puzzle I use is really just a bit more complex than fizz-buzz. So much so, that when I learned about fizz-buzz years after I started using this one, I was kind of relieved. Because they way I've gotten into using it is that I had to interview a guy to help me with a freelancing project (for a long time client) while we were working hard on finalizing a VC investment into our first startup. And since I was really busy with the startup, I just started figuring out and googling for a puzzle like 15 minutes before the interview started. This was meant to be the warm up task, I've just googled it to see if there is a trivial solution besides what I thought up. I've also took another one from topcoder (a medium hard from the level where I was at years ago when I stopped playing, which it self was something medium-ish, can't remember exactly).

Since in the past few years I've only been interviewing freelancers for temporary positions on the projects I've worked on, I kept going with this simpler task. Now even with that, some people struggle. And I see that as a very bad sign. But I'm always giving hints and helping. I always start by saying that if you have any questions or feel like discussing an idea, feel free. And if they keep thinking and don't tell anything I'll start the discussion. (But that's part of the test, because, you know, things like this happen during real work: you get stuck, you don't understand the requirements, etc. And then I will want you to reach out and ask/discuss.)

Another task I do during the interviews is code review. Even if you do badly on the first one. The piece of code (now actually two pieces) has a lot of room for improvement, while only about 20 lines long. That's a totally different kind of task, less about problem solving and I guess less prone to cause anyone to freeze.
> Trump did it

That’s exactly my point...
I recently (2 days ago) had an attempted login into one of my accounts. The password was randomly generated by bitwarden and not reused anywhere. Luckily I had 2fa which alerted me to the attempt. This is beyond puzzling to me as there is no possible way someone could have guessed or downloaded this password from a DB leak. Can anyone suggest what this could be? (The attempt came from a country that is not my own)
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You can move underground. Put a PC in regular homes with a few GPU's, kick back some money for the people letting you do it, and the energy is dissipated across dozens of regular homes. Sure, it would be a lot of work. But it's certainly worth it given the very cheap energy.
I think this is the solution used in FreeRTOS if you use heap1 as allocator.
That's actually us - the Local Group (the Milky Way, Andromeda and other smaller galaxies, about 3 Mpc diameter) is part of the Local Sheet (about 5 Mpc × 0.5 Mpc) which is on the boundary of the Local Void (about 60 Mpc diameter).

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

* 1 megaparsec = 3.26 million light years
Not most. Some.
You don't even "own" the JPG, you have a signed piece of paper that reads "iamacyborg owns that image", and which has no legal value at all. Anyone can make them regardless of who created and has legal copyright of the actual image.

If you're thinking "but it can't be that stupid" then well...
After compilation of the basic example core_basic_window.c AVG antivirus detect a Trojan Win32:TrojanX-gen.

The library owner on github site say about it:
"Most probably a false positive. In any case, it's an open-source project, if you find malicius code, please report."

Very disappointed because now I need to examine all the source code and I just want to see a basic demo running.

I trust AVG because every day I'm running every app I found on the internet.
> On what possible ground should it matter what physical location those two screens are viewed at?

On the terms of services.

"4.2. The Netflix service and any content viewed through the service are for your personal and non-commercial use only and may not be shared with individuals beyond your household."

I don't agree with it, and I do pay for two simultaneous screens, but that's how it is.
Has Y Combinator lost its way when the latest company is a Mac only widget?
> On Emacs: <Alt>+<Shift>+, (M-<) Ctrl+Alt+Shift+5 (C-M-%) f.. <Enter> bar <Enter> <Shift>+1 (!) (17 key strokes)

I get 19 here, and a lot more keys off the home row. Four keys at once is quite a bit slower for many people than two or even three.
The Great Acceleration
I think it will still take years until the migration to PoS is done. Therefore why don't use a blockchain which is already PoS and has the needed infrastructure??? Tezos has everything needed. A lot of NFTs are beeing minted there right now. But it could be much more. It would make sense to spread the word instead of complaining about the bad impact PoW has. We should talk about the solutions not the problems.
I agree with you. And the irony is that the western wealthiest countries have the highest carbon footprint per capita. So the biggest impact would be made by changing our own lifestyles, but it's easier to rip on crypto art than give up your laundry dryer or SUV.
FDA Postpones Inspections Delaying New Drugs and Creating Shortages of Old Drugs
I voted remain but would vote leave if we were to ever have another referendum. The reason being is that it's clear to me now the direction that the EU is going in (removal of the nation state, EU army).

Actually I think after seeing the vaccine rollout by the EU, many more Brits would vote to leave.

It's interesting how events have turned out.
This is no different than what already happens in other platforms such as Twitter, Instagram, YouTube, etc where people steal other people's content to make money for themselves. There are mechanisms in place to prevent this in most of these NFT platforms just like there are on the aforementioned ones.
https://www.silentcircle.com/looking-for-blackphone/

https://www.encrypted-os.com/
No, his post is on-point and worthy of discussion, or meta-discussion if you like.

HN comments on anything EU or Brexit related during the morning/early afternoon CET, i.e. before America wakes up, show the ugly truth underlying EU ideology. The comments are filled with spite, anger, hatred and anti-British, anti-capitalist sentiment. This reflects the type of discourse that has been routine in the media and politics of EU member states over the past five years.

I do believe that one of the major reasons the UK voted to leave was the realisation that other European countries were not in fact friendly allies as the Remain campaign tried to portray, but rather arrogant and complacent takers that saw the UK as a resource to be exploited and abused. Whilst in public EU leadership tried to stay on message, way too often the mask slipped and the truth was revealed. Examples:

French ex-President Francois Hollande on Brexit: "There must be a threat, there must be a risk, there must be a price [for leaving]"

EU negotiators when they thought the UK would accept the previous withdrawal agreement: "We got rid of them [the British]. We kicked them out. We finally turned them into a colony, and that was our plan from the first moment"

Guy Verhofstadt: "The world order of tomorrow is not a world order based on nation states or countries. It’s a world order that is based on empires"

An anonymous German ambassador: "There is no shortage of acrimony. I don’t think there will be any circumstances under which there will be anything other than a Brexit cold war."

And their demands during the negotiations were of similar spirit. Sadly these attitudes are not merely confined to the hallways of EU institutions - it is worse, it appears to be endemic amongst the population. It is a totalitarian attitude: bend the knee to the mighty group. Give in completely, or we will crush you into submission. Americans may find it shocking but it's no surprise to those of us who have lived through it directly. The good news is that now the UK is out and the Rejoin campaign has died in its crib due to the EU's vaccine disaster, EU ideology will gradually fade away there with time, as it did in other countries that opted not to join at all.
FWIW I can’t recall seeing one of these plates in 10+ years.

I have seen them before, though. Part of my family is a little, uh, rough, and when someone would get these in the past we’d say “oh so and so got their party tags”.

So I’ve always remembered them as party tags... lol.
Do you have ANY idea how chores on a farm look like? Hint: it's nothing like vacuming or taking dishes out from a dishwasher. It's lots of hard work. Dealing with excrements and dangerous animals (even a cow or pig is dangerous in confined spaces).
Covid pandemic: Biden eyes 4 July as ‘Independence Day’ from virus
This logic seems wrong.

By definition pollution is a problem of location and concentration.
Yes it does. For instance, most places don’t send payslips over email for GDPR compliance reasons.
Yeah I somewhat agree, but transparency is surely a good start?
I think people mash all 3 control keys with the left hand and reach across for the 5, or stretch their fingers very awkwardly and do all four. We’re into Rachmaninov territory at that point.
I work roughly 60/40 from my office (Windows workstation) and home (macOS laptop). I have a significant insight into how they work and their shortcuts; not only that, but I use Sublime Text and VSCode in both, and am familiar with the differences between macOS/Windows for those shortcuts. That being said, in terms of productivity, ergonomics, and things generally being well thought-out, Windows is nowhere near macOS. It does certain small things right, like Win-Shift-S copying to clipboard by default (you need to hold Ctrl while releasing the capture to get the same behaviour on macOS), and overall is much snappier due to macOS being a bloated mess. Overall, though, Windows is garbage for developers (yes, yes, if you're using Microsoft technologies or oblivious to what happens outside of your IDE you will probably be happy enough) -- and I have tried WSL2, Cygwin, working from a VM (yuck), and many other similar options.

I've recently discovered VSCode's remote functionality (more specifically, how incredibly well it works), so I've set up an SSH box and can now seamlessly work from anywhere (side note, having tools that only serve you is incredibly fast if you're used to things like GitHub or managed CI).
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How does the cost of building a standards compliant web browser have anything to do with lack of access to the internet? Web browsers are free.

This is an infrastructure issue where people don't have internet access.
How Big Tech Is Importing India’s Caste Legacy to Silicon Valley
That would explain the off by two counting error.
Thanks for making my point for me about how the left react to discovering what other people believe.
You still need to allocate a node for each addition to the LL for the stored struct, unless you pre-allocate a set of them, and at that point you very likely are better off using a static array.

The linux kernel LL implementation uses kmalloc (i.e. it performs allocations) - although they get to dodge some of the problems of userspace allocators by using their own.
Sounds like a plaster on a gaping wound. The comments engagement is quite low, even on very popular videos.

I think more needs to be done for publishing transparency.
This is a seminal classic ...

One wonders what Benajamin would think of NFT's, where we have gone from an age of mechanical reproduction to ...
... another layer of abstraction?
The real estate agent we had replied with "but I don't understand why you won't email your documents, we've never had a problem using email to send sensitive documents before and we've done it hundreds of times"

We hear about leaks of user databases all the time now so I'm surprised we don't hear more about mail boxes leaking out. All these small business mail boxes must be an identity thief's dream.
>> International travel currently banned.

> This is the same in many countries, including the UK right now.

It isn't really. Many countries barred non-resident non-citizens from entering but only a couple went to the extent of attempting to prohibit their own citizens from leaving. The latter restriction is far more draconian.
Also, btw, do we have to say "Sir Tim Berners-Lee"?

The headline comes from the BBC so it is natural that they use his title. Elsewhere he might be referred to differently.
Even if you're limited to flat boards, there are traditional designs that knock this into a cocked hat.

https://mjonesaifabantiques.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/2... is glorious, as is https://images.antiquesatlas.com/dealer-stock-images/pre1800..., and that's not much more than a few boards nailed together.
I'm even skeptical of Bitcoin as a store of value. Sure it's deflationary, but it only has value if people will buy it.

The only thing that ensures some value are transactions being made, and right now that is just a low level of illegal black markets in drugs, etc. you can't use it to purchase normal goods or services - I don't feel that justifies the current prices so it seems like a pump and dump.
1) From Russian perspective the biggest risk of having Poland and Ukraine as transit countries is that it limits the political costs of aggression towards Eastern European countries, period. It is not a good thing, because it decreases the stability in Europe, which serves only Russia as their strongest cards, such as military power, disinformation and intelligence services, can be played most effectively only in these circumstances.

2) It does not need to be a military aggression. I see your stance against Ukraine, but let's be clear Russia for a long time was involved in Ukrainian political processes as it tried to be in the USA, UK and around the world. It was Russia that annexed part of its territory and this is unacceptable.

5) If you need natural gas to balance the only other energy source you have - the renewables that's dependency. Poland is whole other topic - it limits natural gas usage to not be as you call it on "Russian leash" that much and will be seeking nuclear as the way out of that problem.

6) The nice political bonuses will potentially enable aggression in eastern part of Europe. I guess that's fine for you, but it's a very Russian perspective.

The rest basically is the argumentation based on "what you're saying is a US propaganda" so I'm not even going into that. Cheers. EOT.