skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
yes I believe it genuinely, as these are my three k-12 kids told me what's going on at school, and I got involved with school quite often, I can see those myself to some extent too. the middle school one actually told me she thinks at least 1/3 of her classmates are hard to tell their genders these days, and to greet a classmate the first sentence now should be: how should I address you? otherwise her classmates actually got offended if you got it wrong on the gender side.

my high school kids told me they are aware of those sensitive gender subjects at middle school and they feel it's more frequent these days.

Google will show you some data points, e.g. Gen Z (from 1995+) has close to 20% claiming to be LGBT+. Things changed a lot.

I'm neither a liberal or conservative, I consider myself independent.
Or, as in this case, "first, assume a pizza parlor owner who, when two people cannot agree on how to split up the whole (which they presumably already paid for) will give them just half a pie, but asymmetrically allocated".

Sheesh. What real world scenario is this supposed to model?
that costs time and mental energy it's not always worth.
Is that really true though?

Yes, the UIs Apple make are no longer anywhere near as intuitive as they were in Steve Jobs’ days, but Apple definitely still have their soul. You don’t even have to look further than the latest iMacs.
I sincerely hope this is satire.
> Standardised aptitude and personality assessment

"Free Personality Test" -> It's a cult.
Microsoft's OS business is a classic "cash cow". It's very big and very profitable, but has limited growth prospects and its revenue is currently growing at only single digit percentage points per year.
Every MBA course teaches that the way to handle a cash cow is to milk as much profits from the users and spend as little money maintaining it as you can get away with. You do this to maximise the amount you have to invest in other, faster growing businesses that will be the future of the company, even if it causes long-term damage to the cash cow.
MS have been milking their OS and Office businesses to fund their cloud and XBox businesses and, so far, it's a textbook example of the strategy succeeding; the cloud already brings in more revenue for MS than Windows and is still growing much faster than it.

The OS features that are getting attention, such as VS Code and WSL are ones that have synergy with the more important businesses and help them sell. Things like fixing the safari park of UI conventions don't have that synergy, so the resources that could improve them go to the other businesses.
The ads and forced sign-ins are also part of this; in the long-term, they'll drive some users away from Windows, but right now, they funnel money and users to places that should matter more to the company in the long-term.

MS aren't listening to Windows feedback - and the internal feedback from people working on the product is usually part of it in these situations -, because what's good for Windows isn't what's good for MS.
The professor job is an absurd ask:

- Enterprise sales rep with a $500k-$1M annual quota (aka grants).

- R&D manager of a team comprised almost entirely of junior employees

- Lecturer and administration for teaching.

- Administrator & volunteer within the department, chair roles for key academic conferences, and editor on major journals -- all to check the "service" box for tenure.

- Because they aren't a proper CEO, they don't even have the ability to push back on obscene G&A costs (ie 50%+ of grant contracts going to university overhead!).

It's a labor of love (esp in STEM!), and I feel bad that many are caught in this morass.
> "Linux still barely works in 2022"

What do you mean by this?
Correction: in case of specific nsswitch configuration it may not play well with resolved. But nsswitch.conf also gets bind-mounted per network namespace:

https://www.philipdeljanov.com/posts/2019/05/31/dns-leaks-wi...
Your comment was marked dead which I just vouched for, it's disheartening when people will flag posts they disagree with.
I wish that those institutions and people on your side of the issue would be more honest about what they are doing. If Harvard would just come out and admit to the Supreme Court that they discriminate based on race, it would made the case much easier and much easier politically to shut it down.
I really do believe the old wivetales that everyone can be bought (Whether it be by money, power, or with fear). it's just there are some people out there willing to accept a pat on the back by those with power thinking they can avoid fear. For them its better to be a passenger on the train heading toward oblivion, then tied to its track. Then there are the egotists, who think they can work there way into a position or power, instead of remaining a cog. Finally there are those naive enough who think that miracles occur all the time, and they alone can enact some change in something already lost.
The pizza parlor owner is simply invented as an all-powerful force in the universe, with the capability to decide on the fallback positions. It is totally unclear to me what real-world scenario this is supposed to refer to.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology/Typical SAT scores

Reading and Writing 730-780, Math 780-800
Negotiating is pretty much dead these days in most western countries where large chain retail has taken over. An ever increasing chunk of shopping happens online, where negotiation is obviously impossible. Other than that, employees at stores like Walmart, Home Depot, Costco, Target, Lowe's and all grocery and convenience stores don't have the authority to alter prices either. When you have ruled out like 95%+ of all retail, where exactly is this bargaining happening?
A true craftsman! Awesome :) there is a great satisfaction that comes from building good things well.
Home improvement is pretty cancerous right now. I get quotes with ~$5k in labor for work that would take me a week to do in the worst case. That’s literally double my rate without considering that working for yourself is tax free.

It baffles me that our markets are so inefficient that it’s 125% more effective for me to take time off my ‘highly skilled’ engineering job to do ‘low skilled’ renovation/repair work myself.

I can only imagine all of the inefficiency comes from teams of salesmen/project managers/owners who suck all of value out.

But still how do they get away with such bad deals? Are people so pigeonholed that they can’t imagine doing the work themselves? Is getting bonded/licensed/whatever other paperwork is required to compete with these sleazy companies that difficult? I’m sure a lot of people wouldn’t mind learning how to install drain systems for $125/hr minus overhead.
Out of curiosity, what games do you play? Would wine and/or a virtual machine suffice?
Don't blame me for that "mass suicide" comment, that was someone else's unimaginative and disingenuous reduction of many possibilities (various ways population might shrink) into one -- the most ridiculous and easy-to-shoot-down one as a matter of fact, which is why I throw the "disingenuous" in there.

Nothing will be done to stop climate change. I'll bet you a million 2022 dollars, payable in 2050 in whatever units or quantity are used then. Nobody who actually makes or affects policy is reading what we type here, and they don't pay undue attention to how we vote either. So like I said, I'm not proposing a solution; climate change is happening; there's no rest of the sentence. (There's no "...unless we hurry up bla bla hey guys c'mon etc. etc.") Nobody was in charge of changing it and nobody is in charge of stopping it (because nobody is in charge, at all).

The only thing you can say with any certainty (and it's surprising how obvious it is to some and how unacceptable to others) is that since technology and human activity are what caused the problem in the first place, and since every single permutation of more of the same, including and especially those designed to make our activities more efficient (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jevons_paradox) will just make it worse, then the only plausible solution is LESS of that. Nobody wants to hear about less. Less is negative growth, less is a recession, and nobody wants to hear it, as I already said and as you and your fellow commenters and downvoters have amply confirmed. It's funny how smug you all are while being naive enough to believe that somehow the thing that caused it all will be the solution to it all. Bla bla same actions expecting different result bla bla insanity bla bla?
Yes I'm familiar with non leftist thought - I only really started to identify with leftism about a year ago, having been something of an amorphous socially progressive conservative beforehand (having liberal social views but also believing in personal responsibility as the primary way to fix any and all social problems). I didn't even come into leftism through a normal way - I started learning about cybernetics and systems theory, then encountered Deleuze and through him fell into critical theory and then rediscovered Marx's critique of political economy, which tbf I did already have some reasonable knowledge of.

Intersectionality is not saying that those categories are all a person is - it's saying that those factors are predictive of certain oppressive tendencies society may have towards the individual. A common misconception I hear about leftism is that it is against treating people as individuals; this is not true, but at the same time denying that black people are oppressed in the US because they have individual identity is a non sequitur at best. The leftist ideal is actually that all people are free to pursue their passions and creativity, which is not something an innately collectivist ideology (like fascism for example) would promote.

I do think that a classless society is extreme compared to our current system, I wasn't denying that - but that doesn't mean that leftists area engaging in "extreme overgeneralising"; I still have no idea what that was supposed to mean. Honestly I see a lot of people critiquing left wing ideas using these really vague descriptors and I don't get why. If somebody has an issue to raise they should raise it explicitly so we can discuss it! Political discussion helps us all to learn.
They may secretly start throttling you/adding latency to get you to call back. I may be crazy, but after I renegotiated a higher speed for a lower price, I have been having all kinds of crazy latency/timeout issues that don't happen on a VPN.
Is there a source for this?

And also, can’t you just disable Secure Boot?
so dope, thx for sharing
European elite go to American schools. Just like the elite from all around the world.

The premise is faulty from the onset. Most ‘top’ European schools are mediocre outside of liberal arts degrees.
I've had the freezes happen when my nvidia drivers weren't properly installed and when the kernel wasn't using the nvidia DKMS modules. glxgears should run super fast at a consistent framerate. Check out https://gist.github.com/wangg12/c69b56272eaeed1aba9515d19f55...
Ratio of tenured staff only tells /part/ of the story. The problem with this ratio is that there's a massive oversupply of people to do the work (new-minted phds) compared to the number of available prof positions. ie, Supply >> Demand, which has made it trivial to convert what would have been tenured jobs a couple generations ago into rotating assistant prof positions. It may be that the increasing admin staff has taken advantage of this situation more ruthlessly than good communist professor admins would have, but "Supply >> Demand" and a consequent race to the bottom in the labor market is the major factor in this part of the 'why academia sucks' story.

Meanwhile, states have pulled back or failed to increase university funding, and the universities fill the gap with greater tuition. Here's the story+graph for the University of California system:
https://accountability.universityofcalifornia.edu/2015/chapt...
This is the GP's point, and completely spot on.

It is also true that there are more MBA's in the admin buildings and that they suck, and are likely paid more than they should be. But while I think it /is/ a factor, it's likely not the biggest bottleneck.
Because that basically would reduce the efficiencies of open source. Rather than having like a single source of Truth for a particular set of functionalities that can improve and iterate over time as a focal point for the demands and needs of all the people who could conceivably use some version of that software, you destroy all that in order to have everybody taking care of their own forks and so obviously you going to be duplicating the work. I mean with unlimited resources it probably doesn't matter but resources are limited.
It "works," but not well enough for my purposes. I need to be able to share PowerPoint on Teams with my full slides visible to participants, and speaker notes visible only to me. There's no native PowerPoint for Linux, so that's a no-go.
I'm really really bad at this.

in fact I'm so bad at this that it extends to the inability to see prices on items.

If I walk into a shop and notice that it doesn't have prices on items I'll walk out. I do NOT want to be talked into buying something.
I’m guessing it’s like everything else: cost and margins. Most people either aren’t willing to pay for it, or aren’t given the option because people think they won’t be willing to pay for it.
Je préférerais ne pas.
The evil megacorps tend to pay more and have good benefits. But they will downsize in a hurry when they lose profits. I had a friend who worked at Microsoft for 10 years and they laid him off. I have friends who went to California Silicon Valley and it ate them up and they burned out. Just a job they see.
With the inflation we've seen in the last 24 months do you think the tuition will still come back to earth or just stay put for a decade or more?
35 years ago the 747 and DC-10 were flying the route with 4 and 3 engines respectively. ETOPS only applies to 2 engines.
Anyone actually in the position to make change won't, since change means work and directly puts them and their coworkers' jobs in jeopardy. The road to non-discriminatory behavior can only be implemented by the management and investors running the show, so it's done in their way and on their time table.
It depends whether someone is making a reasonable request as your supervisor or they’re asking you for a favour. If the former, it’s literally your job to do what they ask and if you can’t, you need to give them a reason why not. If the latter, ‘no’ is fine… but I wouldn’t use this too often with anyone I might ever need a favour from in return.
I switched over to castrated versions of Windows a while ago, like AME and Ninjutsu OS. The polite word is "custom" versions, but I call them castrated versions because they can't fuck me anymore.
I find people from research institutions are significantly more likely to misunderstand the fundamentals. Statistics for example is based on very specific assumptions and it’s really important to understand what they are to avoid making huge mistakes.

There’s this unfortunate idea that tests are there for the school rather than the student. Avoiding misunderstanding is critical and getting something wrong is one way to discover them. But that’s really inefficient, the basic question and answers with a professor are why your not simply reading from a textbook or watching a YouTube video.

That said, if you went to a horrible collage I can see why you would think YouTube was just as good and doing research was the real secret to learning.
I've been looking at the Punkt M02 with starry eyes for months now, trying to calculate a path that could make it a reality. Here are my current roadblocks:

2FA (Authy etc) .. Can I find a CLI replacement I can run on my laptop?

Cameras .. portable, compact cameras have not kept up with apple/google from a feature POV, and even the smallest are the size again of carrying a dumbphone.
I did not develop a graphical Windows application since around 15 years now.
At the time it was mainly Win32, and WPF just starting.

I remember that Qt was a big thing though. They had this CSS like capability that would allow you to style your application after the fact. You could also just change the rendering backend at build time.

Is Qt not an option anymore to have all the various GUI details right?
> Other than that, employees at stores like Walmart, Home Depot, Costco, Target, Lowe's and all grocery and convenience stores don't have the authority to alter prices either.

They sometimes actually do, but they aren't meant for haggling purposes, and are often only allowed up to a small amount (like say $20). They're meant for things like price-matching or resolving pricing discrepancies.
I've probably played ~15-20 games on wine now and literally all have worked with, at most, minimal tweaking (Changing the proton version). I mostly play single player or indie multiplayer so I haven't had to deal with the anti cheat.

Only game that hasn't worked with Proton is Oneshot and its kina understandable considering the games context... It did have a linux version that mostly works out of the box though!
Why can't they just sue you if you fail to pay? Surely if someone doesn't pay for your services there must be some legal means to get the money that you are owed.
Both bridges play the interesting role of spanning international waters wholly inside NATO countries. Russian naval vessels routinely pass under the Great Belt Bridge, and (I certainly assume) under the Istanbul one as well.
My first son was by cesarian and we did not have insurance. The bill was $15,000. After some various payment plan discussions I asked if there was any other way to pay. The lady said yes, if you pay cash before you leave the hospital is is $2000. I since have used the pay cash method to pay a fraction of various medical bills.
setjmp and longjmp are jumps, not exceptions. But sure, you can use them as part of an error handling strategy that resembles exceptions. It's lower level though. Similarly, goto isn't the same thing as a function call but you can certainly use it to that end.

Signals are similarly not exceptions, plus don't they vary significantly between POSIX and other platforms? I don't think Windows (for example) supports user space (ie non-cooperative) preemption. I recall that this caused issues for Go because the authors implement their own lightweight threads in user space.
It's also important to note that higher education is responsible both for education, and for handing out credentials. Tying these two together real screws over the student. Imagine if driving schools were the only ones who administered driving tests, and they required you to take two years of expensive classes, including numerous classes that had nothing to do with driving. Most people would take them simply because they had to, even if they saw little value in them.

If you split these two - say, had a national assessment and credentialing program that didn't require a college education - I bet most students would find much cheaper, better, and quicker ways to learn than college.
Sorry, I don't have a useful anecdote about that.
If government funded student loans are eliminated and as a result the demand goes down, will the price of education decrease by the same amount? If the demand is relatively inelastic, wouldn't it be the case that it wouldn't lower the price as much as expected? In other words, how elastic is the demand for education? How much of the current costs are resulting from taxpayer funded student loans?
Unfortunately in my experience it's not that straightforward. I have a reasonably good open source portfolio but in my experience companies don't care about that. And it really only comes up often as a negative where companies think oh you got to spend time doing this stuff and then the negative for me is that could be IP conflicts in the contract where they end up owning things and it becomes unspecified so... Not a panacea. So better route for open source people is to somehow monetize it.
Because you contributed so little to the conversation that anyone could trivially fill in your response.
You can offer to settle, which is similar. A "settled in full" note goes on your credit report.
A given college can only accept a certain number of students each term. Giving a slot to a less-qualified student necessitates dropping a more-qualified student, making it zero-sum.

I'm not talking about Harvard specifically (I don't even know what case you're talking about), this is just the normal state of colleges in the US.
It's not abandoned, but the intended use case is not consumer use:

https://gist.github.com/0xbadfca11/da0598e47dd643d933dc
"sounds absurd, by the way".. that perhaps explains all the downvotes. One of the surprises about getting older is that stories from your youth sound more and more absurd with time. I didn't grow up with the Internet and the "MIT whiz kid" wasn't common in movies/shows until the mid 90's and ever after. What was a thing during my high school days were the relentless TV commercials for tech schools masquerading as advanced degree institutions. Who lies on HN about a personal story BTW ? What would be the point.
I just read all three credit bureaus removed medical bills from their report.
Roll the Dice by Charles Bukowski
I use macOS + Windows + Pop!_OS (Ubuntu-based) on a daily basis and they're all better or worse depending on the task at hand. They're all useable but imperfect. For me, Windows is for gaming and some music production stuff, macOS is my work laptop and dev environment, and Ubuntu is for most other things like personal use, but also my desktop dev environment.

Testing Windows stuff on an M1 Mac with Parallels doesn't work very well today (I have hope that we'll get there soon). Windows VMs work a lot better on my Ubuntu desktop, but a lot of our dev tools have mostly macOS users, so getting them to work with Ubuntu takes a bit of massaging at times. macOS is hard / unsupported to virtualize, so I basically have to use macOS when developing macOS software.

If we could run macOS as a VM, I'd choose Ubuntu / Pop!_OS for most things.
Agreed, always one of my peeves.
Bought a high-end laptop recently and really wanted to give Windows 11 a try [after being a Linux user for about 7 years]. While the WSL and WSLg aspects of it along with development-related features have improved considerably, the base of the system as a whole was still the same mess.

So much telemetry stuff running in the background, so many unnecessary updates kicking in, heavy CPU and memory usage and the general perceived slowness of the OS have all immediately pushed me back to Linux. There's no bloat, the difference in performance is night and day, and I have to never worry about any privacy-related stuff.

Long live Linux Desktop.
Cray-1 RPI Factor
Price $33M (2020 dollars) $75 (8GB) 440,000x
Weight 5.5 tons 45 grams 74,510x
Power 115 kW (@208 V 400Hz) 5.1 w 23,000x
Memory 8.39 MB 8 GB 0.001046 (1/953x)
Performance 160 MFLOPS 9.69 GFLOPS 0.01651 (1/60.56x)

Not too much to it. Just a couple numbers.
One interesting idea is replacing traditional student loans with personal funding based on "personal equity", similar to VC funding of startups. Backers would provide funds for individual's education in exchange for a percentage of their lifetime earnings. Obviously, there is a number of questions to think through here, but the incentives of all participants seem to be much better aligned to produce best results for the society. Lambda School / BloomTech and a few other companies are already looking in this direction but haven't broken into mainstream yet.
Encoding space is almost infinite on intel though.
Arduino fan builds the smallest 'Space Invaders' game
Levels.fyi has a salary negotiation service which people say works well.

https://www.levels.fyi/services/