skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>Do you think Linux's general usability (i.e., not for you specifically, but for the average computer user) is on par with other OSes?

Yes. It is orders of magnitude more usable than Windows 10 at least, which is awful. I haven't used OSX in a few years, but there were always some annoyances about maximizing windows, having to jump through hoops to install programs from the internet, or having to restart after updates.

I would very much like to see a user study of new computer users trying out Ubuntu, Windows 10, and Mac OS for the first time.
> I've seen a few videos from various Universities

I've also seen a few videos from various Universities. _Remarkably few_, given how much attention this topic gets.
I disagree. SailfishOS is really smooth there, what proves that it is doable. Ubuntu Touch isn't half bad either.
> if you won't need the full bird.

Never heard this phrase before, but I like it.
Its interesting that you didn't actually tell the poster what they did wrong.
> by not respecting property rights

Ref. the movie Viva Zapata! Which has Marlon Brando playing a Mexican revolutionary hero facing this kind of disillusioning outcome over & over. (Mostly bringing this up because I went to the trouble to watch it recently and needed a conversation to work it into)
And then when they got to the 9th & 10th floors there was a pandemic.
Auto mechanics are in much greater supply than and make a much smaller salary than software engineers, and repair/diagnostic work is much different than the design work that seems to be less and less of my job. We're more and more in a place where we're just stringing together other people's rent-seeking SaaS services and putting up with all the resulting bullshit, rather than actively making our lives as developers easier by making stuff that results in less work.

That, and our employers are taking 99% of the value we create, when that figure should be closer to 90%
Having the ability to do something and being a do-er are not one in the same, but based on your comment you are treating them as such.
Is it time to buy crypto?
You can say you’re not debating their existence till they’re blue in the face, but I’m telling you that’s how it will feel to 9/10 trans people when you try to discuss this topic with them.

You can ignore their feelings but that’s the problem. You don’t care that it’s upsetting. To you it’s just some abstract intellectual thing to discuss but to them it could be a source of trauma and pain. I don’t think you’re appreciating what you’re asking a trans person to do when you bring up topics that relate to trauma they’ve experienced.
I don't see how that answers either of my questions, or continues the thread of discussion I was attempting to pull on. Are you saying that unions would enable sabotage to prevent outsourcing? If so, I disagree. Software used by businesses often has many external vendors (notable ones in software: GitHub, Slack, Teams...). The idea that an internal dev team could sabotage these sufficiently to prevent outsourcing sounds far-fetched to me.
I don't think that is what commenter is saying. I, personally, of course defer to nicknames and pronouns.

I think it is more similar to race-blind versus race-conscious policies - along with gender-blind versus gernder-concious.

Is it better to assume that men and women are pretty much the same in academia and each are capable of the same thing? Or is it better to assume that men and women are intrinsically better at different things with certain characteristics.

I think the answer is in the middle but clearly there has been a move in the last five years to say that gender inherently effects your worldview/characteristics while simultaneously saying that men/women should have equal outcomes in all fields. Its not internally consistent.
While meaningless may not be the best choice of word, Costa Rica's success with hydro is borderline useless to the majority of the world that does not have geography for a dam.

Hydro energy works, what exactly is novel or meaningful about that?

the title here is 100% clickbait as it frames the situation as "renewables" work when the accurate claim is "hydro + a small population" works.
I was about to write that a guide to estimating savings or income from partial information would be really useful, then it occurred to me that, since businesses & management do that a lot, this is probably exhaustively covered in business & management literature.

Maybe some case studies of how to do this specifically with the kinds of info a software consultant (or, indeed, a low-ranked development employee—all are advised to attach a dollar value to their work for later bragging/self-promotion purposes, after all) may readily access, then, would be enlightening.
It's not a bad idea. It would be cool to make a single serving page for this and give it some more structure, break out recommendations specific to different technologies, incorporate content written by others, get testimonials, etc. But it's also evergreen content, so if I wait a year or two to incorporate feedback then I think it will still be just as valuable.
> To us the elephant in the room limitation of PS1 is not mentioned here as far as I could tell from a quick read-through: it had no Z-buffer.

There is a section "Visibility Approach" under the GPU section that starts: "Just like the competition, the PS1 doesn’t include any hardware feature that solves the visibility problem."

I agree that it doesn't really stress the ramifications of that.
Students don't (and shouldn't) have the right to disrupt the classroom with their speech. Like, you can't just go and yell expletives in a Wendy's and expect to not get kicked out, and IMO the same should apply to classrooms (even though it's the government that is enforcing these rules here, rather than private property owners).
https://signal.org/blog/private-contact-discovery/ seems like an application of SGX where net privacy is increased.
It is not acceptable for men nor trans-women nor cis-women nor anyone to be raped in prison. My comment does not condone rape. If you think that all men and all trans-women should have separate cells to prevent this possibility, I think that could be a positive step forward. I do not think that subjecting cis-women to the fear of rape is a positive step forward.
> HN is for topics that gratify intellectual curiosity

I think that's the problem with a topic like this on HN. There will be little learning going on, with many statements made with certainty by individuals that have never studied any of these concepts in any detail. The level of dismissal in the comments is itself a reason to pull the plug.
What language has a better type system?
The Algorithmic Story, a Thread
Fear of rape or pressurised sex amongst prisoners is perfectly real, but if a tiny minority of transpeople are a distant third in terms of sexual threat to female prisoners behind male warders and natal females and a campaign organization proposes rehousing transpeople (all 125 of them) in different prisons as their solution to prison rape over better safeguarding practises or single occupant cells which might offer many more women more protection from more pervasive threats it sounds suspiciously more like a "talking point" against the target group than a practical solution to sexual violence in prisons. Especially if the campaign groups responsible have long lists of other issues with transpeople, and somehow the sexual activity involving people with penises and keys doesn't get the same attention...
> Schools are controlled primarily by state and local governments, which are not universally controlled by Democrats but split along typical red state/blue state lines

Fine, but the claim was about the teachers' union. In a red state, who does the teachers' union campaign for? I'd bet that there are few examples of the teachers' union campaigning for Republicans, even in a red state.
I don’t like wearing a watch
So for me the MP3 player is still great
I’ll leave the semantic arguments to the Latin majors. Russia may see some legitimacy to its claim to Crimean territory, but it’s a self-asserted claim and it should be treated with as much respect as any other self-asserted claim.

Again, I assert that I am mayor of Moscow.
I tend to think they're underfunded and poorly administered with a lot of overhead.
Isn't it the case that pre-rendered tiles are more performant for the mobile user? Continously rendering the tiles on a smartphone is draining more battery? I would guess?
I agree as well. You can be a "cloud consultant" or you can go all in on AWS costs, have a newsletter, keep your face in front of people, etc. Guess which one probably does better.

Of course it has to be a specialization that enough people need to be willing to pay for.

You also have to keep a clear lookup for a new area or areas if your specialty is in decline. You don't want to be the Y2K mitigation expert in 2001. Or the top performance expert for some legacy or discontinued computer architecture.
Traditional art is 90% money laundering and recent laws worldwide have attempted to address that with AML/KYC. I believe that is one of the reasons we have seen a huge influx of money into NFTs.
This is common in many of the team sports I've played in. The more someone hates their nickname the more likely it will stick. Generally it's only done with close friends.
But how do the milestones get surfaced on the Board view?
One of my favorite sci-fi authors is Ian M. Banks (discussed here on HN with regularity). His Culture series describe a post-scarcity interstellar society of human(oid)s who among many, many things can change their own gender just by thinking about it. After suitable body alteration time, you can be a male, female, or even something in between (that happens to be important part of one of the characters in one of the books), with most citizens transferring back and forth at least once to act as both a father and a mother at least once in their long lifetime.

In this society, there is no gender inequality. Ian's own "A Few Notes on the Culture" essay http://www.vavatch.co.uk/books/banks/cultnote.htm states it best:

A society in which it is so easy to change sex will rapidly find out if it is treating one gender better than the other; within the population, over time, there will gradually be greater and greater numbers of the sex it is more rewarding to be, and so pressure for change - within society rather than the individuals - will presumably therefore build up until some form of sexual equality and hence numerical parity is established.

Until our science invents this, this is a great thought experiment to conduct.
"I think what they ended up doing was just embedding a PS1 into the PS2, so use of the C APIs never mattered." I'm not sure on the PS2 but I know that's what they did in the PS3 - I found the 60GB launch PS3 that had the hardware PS2 embedded as well as the greatest amount of ports and maybe a few other aspects that made it one of the more sought after PS3 version. I still use it as a Bluray player and occasionally fire up Little Big Planet - still one of my favorite games.
And Nintendo DS has a GBA core/CPU on board.
An interview with a leading venture capitalist
"Enforced group-think is going to be the death of these universities."

How?
The usual citation is the Paradox of Tolerance but that posited a right to protect against people using fists or pistols, rather than ideas, to debate and premised it on the right of self-defense from physical harm.
I was thinking about this today - they should drop the commission to 10% across the board and change the policy on IAP. For in app media subscriptions, 0%, but stick with Apple Pay only for IAP. For app/game features exluding streaming media, 10%. IAP for game 'content' such a lucky dip boxes (the crap that Epic wants to sell) 100%, because selling this shit should be totally outlawed.

Edit: Allow a mechanism for chargeable updates.
Would you please define "self-made"?

From your link: "“As our society has become more meritocratic, we’ve simply replaced an aristocracy based on title, class, race and gender with a new and equally persistent aristocracy based on genes, education and parenting,” Pearlstein continued. “Unless we are prepared to engage in extensive genetic reengineering, or require that all children be brought up in state-run boarding schools, we must acknowledge that we can never achieve full equality of opportunity.”"
There was less competition but it was also tremendously difficult to even see what others are doing, or to learn from them, or to even talk to them....just being in possession of scientific texts was enough to get you killed not too long before Newton's time. That makes his accomplishments more impressive to me, not less.

Here's an analogy.

I'd be more impressed by a medieval European serf if that serf could create the Intel 8086 than by you if you designed the next AMD 32-core processor.
> NFT is simply provable ownership of a digital asset.

No. NFTs are provable ownership of a token representing a digital asset, but not ownership of the asset itself. Buying an NFT doesn't confer copyright ownership, for example. Nothing prevents minters from just lying about their ownership of an asset, and they do.
I don't use GitHub Issues [much] because I was under the impression that issues are not themselves stored as a git repo, but rather they are some kind of proprietary database GitHub maintains. Thus they create lockin for GitHub.

Am I wrong about this?
It's not just like a nickname, though. It's about who you're willing to date, who is put in which prison or who is allowed to compete in which sports competitions.
Sudden outbreak of common sense.

We need, on social media, to learn how to deal more effectively with excessively loud, but not very numerous, activists. As some previous articles noted, trolling gets more clicks than facts. This empowers extremists, from Q-Anon on to trans activists.
> it takes up so much time and energy away from things that would benefit everybody including trans people, like universal healthcare, better employee protection laws and better

Distraction working as intended then? Neither political party has really shown any clear legislative intention on delivering on those things you ask for.
The result is still the same.
>Electron

You're really overestimating the Pinephone's hardware. Firefox takes about 10 seconds to open.
It seems to me that the person who researches how to do this for software development, then packages and publishes the information, is themselves producing a valuable (and therefore saleable) piece of content.
Here is a demo suggesting otherwise: https://sr.ht/~mil/Sxmo/.
We used PentiumPro PCs to run SPIM to write a VAX-subset emulator in MIPS asm. VMs all the way down :P
> That makes approval voting a tougher sell for implementation than RCV.

Approval voting was passed by a 2-1 landslide majority in both Fargo and St Louis. Public opinion research by the Center for Election Science shows random American voters are much more supportive of approval voting than IRV, relative to the status quo. By a huge margin.
No, Newton is exceptional. It can be argued that he did more to progress physics and maths than everyone before him combined. He did so many things, but people just say "Oh Leibniz replicated one of the things after having seen the derived works of Newton" and dismiss him after that.

Newton started the Calculus of Variations, one of the most powerful methods we have for calculating things. It wasn't until Euler 100 years later that the rest of the world began to properly understand what he did then.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calculus_of_variations
Letting users bypass App Store would be security risk, says Apple
Firefox? Use the C-Alt-R, Luke. (Reader mode.)
This is normal fluctuation. People have been saying such things since the early years of HN—see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17014869.

There was a great deal of Trump discussion here, too. Such perceptions are prone to sample bias.
Is science having a stroke? The self-licking napalm ice cream cone
Yes, I think code review is async pair programming.
What a tough problem to solve. My current thought on the gender identity issue is that society should default to the absolute minimum amount of categorizing people by their gender. What you identify as only matters to the extent that we divide people. Nobody would care if you used the women's bathroom, if such a thing did not exist. And when it is absolutely necessary for a distinction to exist, then we can spend the effort required to justify why, and along with that justification we should be able to clearly identify how it applies to transgender individuals.

This would mean throwing out a lot of the more epheremeral complaints "I feel unsafe if there is a man in the bathroom." Why? Let's fix that part, then. Because there are going to be scary women too.

I don't know. I don't have a really good answer I feel comfortable with. I do think a significant part of the problem, however, is not ideological, it is technological. It's way, way too easy to pile on with very little effort.
The world you’re looking for is “real”
One shouldn't expect courage from The Economist, but it's always wise to bet on their prudence.

I don't read The Economist for facts or details so much as to get a sense of what topics a current establishment can no longer afford to ignore. The details are secondary to the neccessity that a writer, a sub-editor, and a senior editor with tremendous personal stake in maintaining access to the circles that define establishment media, have collectively recognized that to remain relevant as a publication, the risk/reward on any ensuing controversy still means the magazine has to acknowledge which way the wind is blowing.

When The Economist says something is just starting, it means it's been brewing for at least several years and they need to comment on it. I don't think direct discourse on the topic improves the discussion on gender because the participants use a critical theory in which the promise of discourse is just bait to corner political targets for their mobs. However, we (and even The Economist) can recognize that popular tolerance for these tactics has finally reached an inflection point, and this change in attitude is what will finally allow real analysis and insight by thoughtful people into topics about gender.
>CD distortion

There is no such thing as CD distortion. Does that make the whole opinion invalid?
"The parent comment was implying [...] something that, while it may be true for the people he encounters, is not true for society at large."

Do you have a source for that?
> Or how being anti-Marxist makes you a racist.

Especially given the historical record on empowered Marxists and saying/doing things that are extremely racist and homophobic.
This is an invitation to track the course of medical debate through the west. That's a very open platform from which to discuss transgenderism, its etiologies and its impacts.

>> What do you have to say about the primary phenomena of clinical suffering? Its etiologies and its course in medical debate across the west? That is a discussion which hits squarely on "What is trans?"

And surely you don't think we're the only conversation in town. Look at this entire post and see if there's anything which rises above the Joe Rogan level of debate. It won't.

> I find this ironic since you're the one bringing down the quality of discussion with all the red herrings. What do you actually want to discuss? Where am I going wrong and what do you want to convince me of?

I don't accuse you of hate. I accuse you using the topic trans elite sports as an intellectual point to push around.
Using the same int<whatever>_t on all the targets may fix it in terms of correct behavior, but doesn't meet the definition of using different types on the different machines in the same overall logic, while getting the same result.
"I fail to see how that's fine but laws about selling sex are somehow in violation of these worker's agency."

You don't understand how limits on some types of work are different from a comprehensive prohibition on other types of work? I don't beleive you.
Amazon faces MPs’ scrutiny after destroying laptops, tablets and books
In as much as their privilege and fame might make their words more likely to influence people, possibly.

> Advocacy of force or criminal activity does not receive First Amendment protections if (1) the advocacy is directed to inciting or producing imminent lawless action, and (2) is likely to incite or produce such action.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Imminent_lawless_action
So you're saying that a nation without a large standing army can build a new force well suited to exploiting weaknesses of its adversaries who spend substantially on maintaining investments in defense which contain those exploitable weaknesses?

One might go so far as to say that not having a strong standing army for an extended period of time actually proved militarily advantageous for the Germans in 1940 when their new army outmaneuvered an obsolete one.
There's still nothing available today that's remotely as useful as Bugzilla, imho.
I'm not sure why you couldn't simply skip the topics that you don't like, and completely avoid them, regardless of whether the reason for your lack of interest is politics or just that you never owned a ZX Spectrum or whatever.
The same has occurred in regards to race.

For decades the ideological left preached, quite aggressively and consistently, that we must move to a post racial society, that race should not matter. This was the clear majority belief on the left as recently as the beginning of Obama's first term. My entire childhood was filled with that preached gospel: a person's character is what matters, do not pay attention to their skin color, look beneath that, their skin color is not what's important, what is important is what's on the inside. And so on. That ideology made tremendous sense to me.

Now they are saying the exact opposite 24/7. Their messaging has entirely changed. Now race is paramount, the color of a person's skin matters in a huge way, everyone is to be divided by race, everyone is to be treated differently depending on their race. Society must be splintered by race. They're segregating everyone into tribes and pitting them against eachother.

So was the former ideology bullshit, or is the new ideology bullshit. Their credibility is shot, not that anyone cares. Next week they'll switch it again if it serves their pursuit of power, and proceed to memory hole whatever the last ideology was that they were pushing as though it never happened.
I've never understood the line of thinking in this sub-thread. What important point is being made by nitpicking and tearing down people who - for perhaps a complex set of reasons including luck - have managed to reach legendary hero status? Why not just let them have it, let people have their heroes?

The whole "well, he wasn't that great, he had help, and probably a lot of other people could have done what he did..." argument just reeks of bitterness, jealousy, and sour grapes.

Aristotle managed to go down as the genius of his day, his contemporaries didn't. Do we really gain anything by vaguely questioning that?