skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> You hear horror stories about men being falsely accused and getting their lives ruined (though I don't know how big that number is, but it's something to get mad about so it gets a lot of attention)

I wish there was more of an effort made to measure that. It would really help with these types of conversations
He named people (and showed pictures of messages) on Twitter in this convo [1], FWIW.

At this point, I think it's more to avoid further escalation, as said in the article.

[1]https://twitter.com/unbalancedparen/status/11223070591548702...
I've been a co-convener for two Python conferences in Vancouver.

The conferences were small (<200 people) but I don't remember the organization being as stressful as the article describes.

For me, the key sources of stress were:

1. hoping that tickets and sponsorship would cover our costs (at some point you have to pay for your venue, flights for your keynotes, etc. and this happens before ticket sales open). I think that we lost a few hundred dollars on the first conference and donated a few hundred dollars to the Python Software Foundation on the second one.

2. the BBQ. For both years, I arranged a beach BBQ but didn't have enough budget to deal with contingencies in the event of rain (remember this is Vancouver so the chance definitely exists). My plan was to refund attendees if we canceled the BBQ but that would have been thousands of dollars out of my pocket and lots of disappointed people. Fortunately, it didn't rain in either years.

I would say that convening a conference in a city where you have lots of connections really helps. For example, I was able to buy salmon direct from the docks for the BBQ because I knew someone who was willing to help me. I also used my family as the chefs (https://photos.app.goo.gl/C6yNzqMnBG98GxE36).

What I do remember being hard was not the planning but going without sleep during the conference itself. As a convener, I had to be at the venue before any attendees arrived, had to leave after the last attendee left and then still had to deal with issues, etc. for the next day.

Still it was tonnes of fun!
Right on spot.
>I can't imagine legal action helping much.

If they're continuing to harass them as described, it seems like a prudent choice.
Yeah, but Musk is like Steve Jobs 1.0. Steve Jobs before NeXT and Pixar.
That's exactly the feel I've been going for. Instead of "gradual typing", I wondered if there was a way to make everything statically typed but still read from a file. I settled on a combination of type providers (F#) and compile-time function evaluation (D).
They changed something in it and claim it’s fixed (yet again). We’ll see how it shakes out.

But if you don’t like butterfly keyboards... yep, still butterfly even if it’s reliable now.
At it's basic level saving face is pretty close to minimizing embarrassment.
> ..."At that precise moment I saw the former speaker. She was calling the security of the event and using her cellphone to record me. She yelling that I was at the conference to stalk her, and that I was harassing her and following her. I never thought something like this could ever happen. It is worth noting that, at this point, I had only talked over the phone with her once, met her in person also once and, as I stated before, I had received several persistent communications on her."

Sure sounds like a "cry bully" to me. Despicable behavior for sure, and it does validate his decision to not have her at the conference (after he was made aware that her participation at the conference would be highly problematic to others - particularly women, in fact).

Edit: Also a representative example from the twitter threads that were linked elsewhere in this comment thread: `"uh these people are like that, be careful. they take it out on someone, they see em as the enemy and they start to fuck legally, and you also start getting anonymous complaints". I feel like a fool, many knew and I did not. That's why these things have to be SPOKEN about, they shouldn't be hidden`
I thought the same thing. Now I'm stuck with a $1500 Asus laptop that barely plays Netflix a year and a half later. despite an 7th gen i7 and 16gb of DDR4. Now I'm saving up for a Macbook Pro again, despite my hatred for the keyboard and touchbar.
The transform to display the "solid red" block is actually the post-transformed data. The clipboard (rightfully) is carrying the original source buffer.

The issue would be the mechanics of the copy (attaching metadata) and pasting (interpreting the metadata in conjunction with the source image buffer.)

So technically, no, there's no conversion on the source data, it's the representation in the pasted context that's the issue.
The unmanned vehicle universal remote
The main trouble with ground-based is clouds, that is what makes you go airborne.

I could picture planes in the air 24-7 circling around vulnerable points, or being dispatched on warning. Either way it would be expensive but would be awesome.
I'll be interested to see all the clever ways this will be used to fingerprint users and browsers.
It is very important to have community. However, church is but one way to achieve that (others are good city planning, with pedestrian oriented small town centres; a strong secular society with institutions and clubs supporting hobbies and sports, etc.)

The problem with the church as the main provider of community (and values) is (at least) twofold:

1. It tends to impose some bad values with the good values (not to mention bad epistemology and ontology), and,

2. when people notice that and leave church, they a) also lose their community (which can be devastating), and b) sometimes throw out the good values with the bad.
I have, for as long as I can remember, held the Sam Harris / Dawkins view that religion is nothing but an archaic and evil form of cattle management system. But the older I get and the more I contend with what religion actually is rather than what it is understood to be by the anti-theists, the more I approximate your understanding of the matter. The social fabric is being torn apart and there are virtually no institutions left to hold it together. This will most likely not end up in a very promising future for my generation and the ones to come after it.
Depends on how you define short, how many trips you take per day, terrain, weather and physical ability of the person to actually ride a bike.
I've been using MacBook Pro's with the touch bar for a while now, but I just picked up a MacBook Air (in addition to my MacBook Pro). It has a mechanical top row, with just the Touch ID button at the end and it's fantastic. It's so nice to have those keys back! I would pay $100 extra for a MacBook Pro without the touch bar.

Here's the keyboard in all its glory (if you're curious):
https://www.apple.com/newsroom/images/product/mac/standard/M...
This whole thread is the worst kind of whataboutism. Trying to justify or normalize the consequences of drug use by equating drug users with consumers who don't know how to optimize for their values (and trivializing the work and special knowledge involved in that optimization process). It's shameful.

- Balancing your family's diet without meat requires specialist knowledge and effort that "not buying drugs" does not.

- Balancing your family's transportation needs with environmental friendliness requires specialist knowledge (chiefly the carbon impact associated with different candidate vehicles) and additional cost (an environmentally friendly vehicle with equivalent capacity is almost always going to cost more) which is also not true for "not buying drugs".

- Assessing every candidate clothing item's working conditions requires lots of specialist knowledge and effort that isn't true for "not buying drugs".

And this is without comparing the marginal impact of an individual's environmentally inefficient consumer choices to a drug user's significant and direct impact on drug violence. You'd have to place a pretty low price on human life (especially the minority communities that are most impacted by drug violence) to make this equivalency.
It certainly competes due to the fact of being free software, which is a strong requirement of my workflow. I can try Mathematica and Maple (and love them), but ultimately I have to end using a free software solution.
related Studio C sketch: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CxV0Nh10h5s

I've done that in my high school Visual Basic class- I woke up around 2 AM, knew exactly where I was going wrong, fixed it, and kept going until I'd finished my program. By the time my dad woke up at six, I had written over six hundred lines of code, had about twelve new features, and I was so exhausted I got sick for two days. I'm still proud of that sprint.
I think it's impossible to say, since if you were off by a single foot your property would be effectively worthless

I believe sea level rise is already beginning to slow down the housing market in Miami
Personally, I've found thing since learning Julia I've become pretty distrustful of the whole notion of prototyping in one language and then doing a full implementation in another.

It just seems so unnecessary when you have a language where you can start out in a highly interactive state that seems a lot like Python or Matlab but then you can seamlessly start optimizing or generalizing functions and end up with something that runs basically as fast as C but retains all the dynamic advantages from the prototyping phase.

Yes, Julia's namespace isn't as polluted as Mathematica's is and I think that's a good thing. It's got an amazingly vibrant package ecosystem and packages are treated on such a first class level that as soon as you load a (well made) package, it composes so well with everything else, including other packages that it feels built in. I've never really felt like I was 'writing some shim' to utilize code from a julia package.
The press release is downright misleading. For 8 cores, or even 6, you have to buy the 15" model. Neither are available in the 13" model. And the 15", while starting at $2399, is not the 8 core option, that is the old 6 core option.

And of course the 8 core option, at $2799, only has 512GB of disk space and 16GB RAM. If you want a reasonable 32GB and 1TB disk space (which presumably you would if you have a use for 8 cores), it's a whopping $3,600.

And that is of course before accessories and tax.

I thought that after the overpriced iphone release they would have changed their pricing on everything else, but I guess it's just same old apple.
They also pay their employees using a large amount of stock. A poorly performing stock means poor morale and more difficulty recruiting.
No touch bar + better keyboard.
Please don't get into old habits of breaking the guidelines. It's absolutely not OK to address other community members like this and we ban accounts that keep on.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
There are many programmers making closed-source software using open source tools. For example, anything that runs on an embedded Linux platform is built using open-source tools (e.g., GNU compilers and open-source libraries) and is usually closed-source. There is also anything that runs on an open-source interpreter (e.g., Python), which includes a lot of things that aren’t web apps.
Would probably need a good bit of extra fuel for course corrections too. I'd imagine that a lot of ablative material gassing off on the side close to the earth would have course impact. And influence aerodynamics.
There is no evidence that this was ever true.
The thing is, they don't even need to push the envelope. I would have been happy with a classic MBP with upgraded hardware but without USB C ports and no touchbar.

It's just that they keep introducing stupid, useless gimmicks.
I was hoping for something more specific i.e. concrete actions
And don't overdo it.

I tried cutting out sugar several times passing on fruit, even vegetables like carrots.

I never managed to do it for more than a week. Now I try to do what you have done and don't eat desserts, chocolate, etc. And eat processed food sparingly.
This refresh was about the new high-end 8-core processors. Why would they update the "13 inch model" now?
What is SF?
You underestimate how far some people are willing to go to harass someone, and in his case it has financial consequences, hence the lawyers.
Am I the only one who gets tired of, "oh look something free on HN, okay time to shit on it, it's not open source".
The problems you've described are problems with all human organizations, not just churches/religions.
I think just wanting to do it is an excellent motivation for any intellectual pursuit.
configuring tiling looks a little over complicated in the writeups.
I have seen emails from Japanese colleagues where the last name is capitalized for clarity.

Capitalization is particularly useful for Chinese names where names are not written in Chinese symbols (hanzi/漢字) because the romanized names could be ambiguous as to what is the first name; for example: 江劉鋒 JIANG Liufeng (where both Jiang and Liu could be potential Chinese surnames)
This is not an HTML page.
You could have phrased that in a far less confrontational manner. Claiming someone you don't know has “zero concept” is unnecessarily confrontational, all the more because you're doing that while simultaneously claiming to represent a huge and varied field with absolutely no cited sources for that claim.
I think that a bunch of basic social functions started out as religious and are now carried out by atheists and the like (marriages, potlatches, etc.). In a pre-scientific world, everything was religious. What is a church but community and religion? If we can strip the religion from marriage, why not church? I know atheists who attend Unitarian Universalist churches for the community (and my parents took me as a kid, my dad an atheist and my mom a mushy-not-really-religious-but-believes-in-somethingist). It's not for me, but that's probably a social issue related to how I respond to those sorts of groups and not really related to religion. Secular churches do exist.
How to Program Materials
I checked their store out of curiosity.

Switching from 512MB to 1TB SSD: +$400

WHY? This is literally the only thing that bothers me about Apple pricing. I get that you pay for the design, I get the quirks like introducing touch bar, everything. But I don't get why upgrading from a $50 to a $100 SSD adds 400 dollars.
If you want the real examples, you look at daycare workers and elementary teachers. Insurance is an issue with daycares that hire male workers. Plus, you have quite a few parents that are fine with their boys being changed by women, but not their daughters being changed by men. Thus the problems, plus the pervasive stories of child molestation and societal stigma against males in this area.

The shame of it is that witnessing positive interaction between the sexes at that age would do quite a bit for the children later in life. Particularly in communities where the percentage of in-household fathers is low.
ah... Home Depot dysfunction. yesterday, at Home Depot a fellow customer told me about his experience buying bags of gravel. he paid for the materials and the HD workers told him they'd bring it out to the loading area so he could put it in his vehicle.

he waited there for forty minutes. no gravel. his patience ran out and he decided to ask for a refund. they sent him to the refund desk, which, naturally, required him to return the gravel before they could give back his money.
8-core CPU, even presumably with HT off after all the recent Intel vulnerabilities, makes me laugh after my personal experience with my late 2016 MacBook Pro 13 touch bar with fastest (at that time) i7. During normal browsing especially with plugged charger, it was heating so much that something in the keyboard was unglueing. The space bar and 'c' produced different clicking sound. I was quite unhappy with that since it was my first experience with Apple products. I took it to Apple Store, they replaced the top part (with keyboard), it fixed 'c' and 'space', but issue appeared in '~' and 'tab'. I took it again to Apple Store, they replaced top part again. And again same issue with different keys. I took it there again, since replacing top case didn't help they proposed to replace whole laptop. I agreed. New laptop had the same issue again so I had nothing to do but wait when Apple will acknowledge the issue. They didn't but started to replace keyboards because of key stucking issue, so I requested a fix again and finally they managed to fix it...
Gopher will be dead when there are no Gopher servers left online and when installing a Gopher client takes substantially more effort than any other package. Right now, Gopher clients are in official repositories. All I need to install one is:

sudo pacman -S elinks

and all I need to visit one is:

elinks gopher://gopher.meulie.net
You should always strive to have someone pay to make you better.

If you are in a job that is improving your skills that will get you to your next career milestone, great.

Doesn't sound like that is the case, so use the situation to your advantage. Use the spare time to gain practical experience in the skills you have identified for your career ambitions. ( Again, getting someone to pay you to get better, through freelance. )

Having an unchallenging job can make you feel like you are wasting away professionally if you don't have a plan for the future. Being able to say: I want to get job X, and am working to get necessary skills Y & Z, can make you feel better about your short and long term outlook.
Did you ever do business in China? I can tell from experience that doing business in China is much much harder than doing business in for example the US or EU. First of all you cannot do business in China without a local partner. Obtaining licenses in China requires bribery and is hardly possible. Copyright and trademarks are not respected. Copycats everywhere. Chinese legal support is hardly possible without having a Chinese passport. The list is endless. It is absolutely not a fair situation for US companies in China versus the other way around.
You're mixing up two things. When a lot of new premium housing is built, you might indeed see the reported "average sales price" go up, since there are lots of sales of new fancy new houses.

But the price of older housing goes down. Because people who bought a new premium house, therefore did not buy an older house, which reduces demand for older houses.

There are lots of nice older (1940-1990) houses in SV that are good to live in. Before the tech boom they were perfect for middle class families: pleasant and affordable. They could be affordable again (and they're still pleasant) if the supply of premium housing were increased enough.
I've got small app that is using KV as poor-man time series db and wonder how could I still use it without too much cost. Currently it's writing 50 times per minute every minute, but with bulk write I could write only five times instead.

Given that writes aren't free in GA, I wonder how do you calculate requests, in particular are batch writes counted as single request?

Do you plan exposing more worker friendly way of batch write?

Do you have any plans about atomic counters (could be really useful for rate limiting, abuse control etc)?

Do you plan adding list/range operations for KV?
Are you sure you wouldn't rather have the 2008-2012 body? It's a bit easier to upgrade or repair.

(At work I have a 15" MBP with the 2013 body. I'm eligible for upgrading it, but what would I replace it with that could possibly be better? Literally the only downside that I care about is the fact that most conference rooms at work no longer have magsafes lying around.)
I heard there was a Soviet-era joke along these lines:

Q: Under true communism, will there be money?
A: Yes and no. Some will have money, others won't.
How's the thermal handling with the 8core? Full speed for half a minute, then throttled?
How does that work? I thought the haptic feedback is only in the trackpad.
Yes, but one reason they are torn apart is that people see the (terrible) flaws in these old systems of holding society together and abandon them, while new and better systems are slow to gain a foothold.

Some places manage to have community without religion, and that, I think, is what one ought to aspire to.

(Edit -> Some places)
We repair these as part of our business, and to be clear, both the keyboards and the screens are failing on these at an alarming rate.

iFixit detailed the issues with the screens, which (in Apple's unending quest for "thinness") use a thinner flex cable to connect the display to the rest of the laptop. This thinner cable is prone to breakage, and we are already seeing 2016-2017 MacBook Pros in our shop regularly for this issue.

Since Apple built the flex cable into the display, the only solution (even from third parties like us) is a new display. At $600-$700 each, this is unacceptable.

And, like the keyboards, this is a part that's pretty much guaranteed to fail (unless you basically never open your laptop.)

Apple hasn't announced a fix yet, even with a petition with over 11,000 signatures, and more screens failing by the day.

From the time the keyboard issues happened, I made a strong recommendation to avoid buying these. If you can do your work on a PC, do so. (Personally, I now use a Dell XPS 15 as a "desktop replacement", and kept my old 2013 MacBook Pro around too.) If you need a Mac, consider a desktop version (with a SSD!), or stick with the 2015 or older MacBooks.

Even if you think the keyboard issues are fixed, consider too that this is the 4th generation of these keyboards--and Apple promised that the 2nd and 3rd generation would fix these as well. This plus the screen issues means switching to PC if you need speed should be a serious consideration.

iFixit article on "stage light" display issues/"flexgate": https://ifixit.org/blog/12903/flexgate/
> When encountering Asian

Not Asian, East Asian[0]. Asia is big.

[0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/East_Asia
it could still be an issue if your disk get inspected (or worse replicated).
Debugging Firmware with GDB
> Verifying the safety of a bridge design is computationally trivial

I wouldn't trivialize the models used to verify bridge designs. You can't just make a couple free body diagrams and call it a day. You have to model the dynamics to avoid Tacoma Narrows Bridge type disasters. And there is a significant stochastic component that needs to be considered as well, which can't really be solved except by rigorous simulation.
I believe both A and B are at work; it's probably a direct copy of the input buffer without metadata making B likely impossible, if it were trying at all, which I'll speculate isn't even a possibility.
So is mine, but it would make life easier all around.
I agree. The aim of women's suffrage was to garner more votes for Republicans in a similar manner. I hope we aren't so quick to throw that away without a vote like it seems many are ready to do with the 2nd.
Apple is known for its operations. Tim Cooke was head of ops before he was CEO, imagine Tesla produced the same cars as today, but when it wanted to ship its inventory to Europe it didn't tank an entire quarter of sales because of fuck ups? Or imagine if Tesla had a competent scale-up of manufacturing their Model 3. Those are the things that Apple could help a lot with.
There is some claim that they've fixed the keyboard issue.

Aside from that, across 2 MacBook Pro's and a MacBook Air, I've had 0 keyboard issues. I don't know if I've just gotten lucky, kept my keyboard clean, or what, but it just has never been a problem for me.