skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't absolutely believe OP's story, but an important feature of OP's story is not naming any names.

The story contains various propositions that can basically be divided into:

1. propositions that can likely be independently corroborated by large numbers of people:

--- the conference really happened (we are not told which conference where, but if we knew that, numerous people could be found to attest to it, if it had been real).

--- that the organizer was loudly accosted by the woman, accusing him of stalking: this is a public incident that supposedly happened, in front of witnesses.

--- the non grata couple is real; people don't like them for some reason and warn conference organizers

--- the non grata couple are known for harassing behavior

2. claims made by the organizer, like:

--- he denied participation in the conference to the couple

--- he was harassed by the woman with repeated contact attempts

--- the woman's allegations were false

The claims under (1) are verifiable true or false. If they are true, they lend overwhelming credibility to (2). Basically if everything under (1) is true, it's almost inconceivable that the (2) claims aren't.
Okay but hold on a second, I didn't see this in any of the comments so far:

A fully specced new macbook pro with the i9 costs 6500 DOLLARS.

i9 CPU, 32GB RAM, 4TB SSD, and Vega Pro GPU.

I have spent, in 15 years of owning/building computers and laptops, around $8000 total. The fact that these numbers are even comparable is insane.
And I don't want to start that discussion. I just think it's easier to call China a totalitarian capitalist state, without torturing other labels to make them fit. It's not unthinkable for a state to miss represent it self when it comes to names or labels.
You originally make a completely bad-faith that compares the state to a two year old. Showing a more developed argument now, regardless of its truth, doesn't make the original argument better.

I don't agree with your developed argument either but that's a different matter.
My speculation is that this will be the last model with it. Next year's redesign will give up on the concept. They just have too many parts and the economics of it sort of demand a final run.
The headline "Two programmers played a pivotal role in the birth of chaos theory" would have done a lot more to further the right of women to be in the STEM fields.

Pointing out they're female only further makes it look like most women are too incompetent to do math or science.
I wasn't really asserting that the two were equal but that it likely will not be viewed as unequal by a layperson. Comparing just these two specific policies, maybe it is, but if you look at China's actions on a large scale, it changes the picture. The US, too.
>I hope young people who are familiar with "fake news" but not necessarily as familiar with the history of propaganda and censorship will study that history.

What inspired me to learn about it was none other than a youtube video title "Rule From the Shadows: The Psychology of Control". Sure, it sounds like it'd be a conspiracy theory video, but it's far from it, listed all sources, and recommended books which were discussed.

Those books being:
The Crowd by Gustave Le Bon, Crystallizing Public Opinion, and Propaganda by Edward Bernays, Sigmund Freud's nephew.

That video on youtube really changed the way I view the world, especially media and "groups" of people, like antifa, the alt-right, or what have you. When you see the words of Le Bon or Bernays in action, it sends a shiver down your back. The downside being that most people will assume you're crazy or paranoid if you start talking about Bernays or Le Bon.

"The conscious and intelligent manipulation of the organized habits and opinions of the masses is an important element in democratic society." - Edward Bernays
“How Complex Systems Fail” by Dr. Richard Cook in Tweet Form
c# is one of the most popular languages in the world. what are those people using?
> Bob Dylan and The Beatles are regarded as very important and influential figures in popular music

This was the assumption through the later half of the 20th century, but I don't think it's the case at this point. I haven't even heard The Beatles in a commercial context in about a decade (something unthinkable as early as 2000). Hip hop clearly had a large influence on the pop culture of today and (totally unrepresented in this collection). Plus there's really no excuse for including The Dave Matthews Band :P
Beat me to it. I was creating one just now.
Thinkpad T series and Dell Latitude 7390/7490 are good choices around that price.
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How to sort data in NumPy
Sure it is my place, I am a member of this society and we live in a Democracy. I get my views, you get yours, lets talk about it and think about it and slowly over 50 years some stuff will get hammered out :)

And, as I said, I am not convinced that all data you interact with is yours. I think data is data and it has attributes that should go other places whether you want it too or not.

History and fiction are great tools to explore ideas. So maybe just try exploring the idea that knowledge and advancement of society depends on a certain amount of data to float free. If we clamp down too hard it might paralyze advancement.
Not only would I not call Clojure a "proper lisp" but since it doesn't run any Lisp code and lacks fundamental Lisp data structures (e.g conses), I wouldn't even call it a Lisp.
This is why I think it's good for technical debt to be partially accounted for by development management types - write down how much offensive and defensive work is required to sanely complete a project or just stay ahead of the curve and let the total of those two parts be reported as the cost of the feature - it's a benefit to the long term health of your company.
I'm not OP but at work we have a actually not-so-complex website that takes a full second to render a new page when switching, on my MacBook. On production and without loading anything via the network.

I blame it on create-react-app, which feels very very bloated to me. Whenever I write React from scratch it feels super performant, even with Redux and much more complex layouts than the page I mentioned.
The account still is up. They just deleted their tweet.
>do Google and Facebook actively exterminate them

populist non-techie people concerend with transhumanism have a niche, its called the "conspiracy theory" community and yes it is actively getting banned or shadowbanned at all significant gradations of intensity by facegoog
What you describe here is exactly what we are doing with a tool called EASA. It enables us to very quickly create web apps using an existing spreadsheet as the logic module. You don't need to be a dev to do this - our BIs find it straightforward - the closest you get to code is a bit of SQL.

It works well - we have successfully applied this to about 20 really critical spreadsheets for functions such as pricing, deal valuation, risk analysis, and even for engineering analysis. Users simply use a web app (that can look like the underlying spreadsheet - or not). The system is also integrated with SAML, so authentication is there, and you can also integrate the apps you create with 3rd party systems - we are looking at launching Excel-based pricing apps directly from SF.com, for example.

Anyway, the site is https://easasoftware.com/ - there are some vids there which probably do a better job of explaining it than I have done here. It's not just about putting an app on top of a spreadsheet, but really putting an app on top of processes that involve spreadsheets. And you can use things other than Excel as the logic module, like Matlab, R, Python - in fact we are dabbling with using EASA to deploy ML models created in Python.
It's a sign of how people are on the Internet. I did more than 1000 hours of volunteering in high school and it's made me who I am today. Now I run a startup that uses AI to automatically create real-world social events between friends: research shows the best solution to loneliness is seeing people in person more often and volunteering is certainly one of the best ways.
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I love the keyboard.
Wasn't that kind of the point of the "Pro" line? I mean, if you just wanted a kinda cool laptop, you'd buy a MacBook or MacBook Air. It's now the MacBook Prosumer, and there is no pro option.

Hacker News has been whinging about this Apple dilemma for years. I'm sorry to say that I just don't think there will ever be the golden age of MacBooks again. The "Pro" ideas coming from Cupertino are gimmicky at best for developers, and we will be stuck working on various Linux machines and leave the MBP problems to designers. The hacker-type software engineer is not Apple's target market for the MBP, and I think even before it was likely coincidence.

If you look at the pro target even in this post, the majority of Mac "pro" use cases being displayed here are creative in nature. Devs generally aren't spending their days editing video or sitting in Maya and they are targeting those markets - people who need power but don't wrench into their OS internals or open a debugger when something goes wrong. Those customers are also a lot less flighty as long as their creative tools work.

As for me, I stopped complaining and wishing for a pony, accepted that the MacBook is dead, and moved to a ThinkPad for daily use. My 2015 MBP will stick around when I need macOS, but it's best to start converting my workflow to a different platform where I see a future for development work.
> should we be aggressively encouraging men to take up nursing?

yes, of course!

But should we reject good nurse candidates because they are female, and give their jobs to sub-par male candidates? Not so clear.
Interesting! Where can one read more about this initiative? French sources OK.
There's an argument that it's only technical debt if you're paying interest on it. i.e., it is costing you something: time, pain, preventing improvements, etc.

Consider a financial instrument that is interest only on a perpetual timeline, and you are not required to pay down the principle. If the cost of paying the interest forever is still less than paying down the principle, why wouldn't you just keep paying interest? Like you said, it takes an experienced, competent leader to make a good judgement about what the true costs are either way.
None of the promo pictures show the keyboard, Touch Bar or trackpad. CPU speed is not the reason I haven't upgraded. Those are.
I have command-shift-u bound to “open selected url” this reliably works in cocoa apps and often doesn’t work in electron apps.

EDIT: VS Code is the main place I run into this
It seems that way. When I use the online booking tool they tend to have gaps.
One organization I considered volunteering for had a volunteer form that demanded that I

"defend, indemnify, and hold the Released Parties harmless from and against any and all loss, damages, claims, expenses and attorney’s fees that may be suffered by any Released Party resulting directly or indirectly from my volunteer activities, ... except and only to the extent the liability is caused by the gross negligence or willful misconduct of the relevant Released Party."

To hell with that.

On the other hand, a different organization (that I did work with) valued their volunteers enough that they stated that if a volunteer were to be injured while there, they would be covered by the organization's workers' comp insurance!

I'd still like to volunteer for an organization, but only someplace where it's clearly for the organization's benefit as well as my own.
Looking into Pop OS, I found these useful links:

https://pop.system76.com/docs/difference-between-pop-ubuntu/

https://www.osboxes.org/pop_os-19-04-and-18-04-vm-images-ava...
I'm really hesitant to buy the notion that supply chain - and especially manufacturing - for cars is even remotely similar to that for hardware.

And the fact that Foxconn and other suppliers actually do most of the grunt work there.

And there's the other end: retail. A $1K gadget you can stick in your pocket is a not a $70 thing that has all sorts of other impacts and externalities.
Some tricks I like:

- Magnesium bath (aka epsom salts)

- Orally supplemented liquid magnesium (though I have heard folks say that absorbing magnesium through the skin is actually a better way than orally.)

- Cold shower for 2-5 minutes, warm shower for 4-8 minutes, repeat and play with the times, ending on warm if your goal is sleep. Ending on cold if your goal is to be awake/get over a sickness.

Edit, also:

- exercise, but not too late into the day

- minimize late night screen time (duh. only mentioning it because I recently discovered the Accessibility-->Display Accommodations-->Color Filters on the Iphone. If you set it up to use a custom color tint and slide INTENSITY and HUE to max, then turn on the Accessibility Shortcut at the bottom of Accessibility, you can basically get your phone display set up to toggle a red light mode, which is much easier on the eyes at night)

- somewhat controversially: cannabis

- if you're dieting, save your carbs until the end of the day

- meditation, yoga, foam rolling, stretching - immediately prior to bed

I also do random shit like wear a bite guard to prevent grinding and occasionally go through phases where I'll tape my mouth shut to promote nasal breathing
Much better than community is family. Go to church, meet a nice girl or boy, get married and have some babies. That's the actual solution for the loneliness epidemic.
A ui is more than its appearance: the interaction model of electron apps is always slightly off from cocoa apps.
Some US Digital Service folks know people at DHS CIO and passing this on.
> can't actually be used to take on anyone with any real firepower

This isn't entirely true. Civilian firearm ownership can make occupations more dangerous for invading forces. Obviously, if an enemy wants to level your city with bombs and artillery, rifles won't help you, but often this isn't their intention.
Technical debt doesn't make the software worse, it makes the codebase worse which degrades the ability to maintain and add features in the future (which is paying interest on the debt, so to speak).

So, in the context of oldschool console video games that ship and then end development permanently, it's absolutely a reasonable decision to add some technical debt if it means fitting one more nice-to-have feature in before launch. Because you don't pay interest or pay down that debt ever. The code is shipped and then it retires, presumably.
I'd say the Internet is more like Dante's "dark wood" in that it leads to Hell, but without a Virgil and no road to Paradise (or even Purgatory) waiting at the end.
I have seen the following variations in Pakistan. Given name is what people prefer to be called informally. * marks if people strongly prefer to be referred to by this name in a formal setting. Prefixes are usually religious in nature (Muhammad/Syed) and then you are never supposed to use them except when reading out the full name.

FamilyName GivenName*

<optional prefix> GivenName FamilyName

GivenName* Father'sGivenName

GivenName Father'sGivenName FamilyName

Father'sGivenName GivenName FamilyName

Prefix GivenName*

My name is of the third type and as a scientist it annoys me immensely that my work is referred to by my Father'sGivenName in western culture when no one has ever called me that in real life in my culture.
Very few monitors use OLED, and most phones don't either although it is becoming more common there.
The Disturbing Resilience of Scientific Racism
> If you spend all your time on them, people perceive your product as holding still

I've always found this hilarious... we spend thousands on hiring developers and one of the primary goals is to find a well rounded person who is okay doing maintenance tasks and ensuring proper code quality and knows how to write effective tests. A short time later, I come on to a project just for a status update and find the developers cutting tests and maintenance tasks at the orders of the PO who then complains that tickets are getting larger and larger.
Emma Watson on Framing and Abortion
Problem is when church starts asserting their infallibleness and rejecting science.
>You didn't see a connection between people suffering from a lack of meaning and purpose and the decline of an institution that basically specializes in that?

There's nothing concrete there. The fact that an institution that specializes in giving life meaning and purpose is seeing a steady decline in membership could be interpreted as that institution actually having a poor capacity to provide those things. The only connection is the one you made up.
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Debt heavy choices made knowingly are more rare, as programmers consciously avoid it or choose debt that won't accumulate beyond certain bounds.

Whatever it is, I think most projects deal with "technical debt" accumulated unknowingly. There's no theory around how to create a "good design" and thus it's often shooting in the dark or using preexisting patterns. Most software projects have design flaws that only become evident later. In my career, I have dealt with this type of problem more-so then debt accumulated knowingly. Additionally my current company is calling this type of debt, technical debt. I have rarely rarely seen technical debt taken on knowingly and documented.
Ah I see! Yes indeed.
Cons:

1. You're meeting people of the same gender, not a mixed group usually

2. No time or patience for politics

3. (Some) sports usually attract overly competitive people who don't know (or don't care about) basic civility

4. Level/skills differences

(I agree with the carpooling commentary though)
For me 13” Retina MBP circa 2013 was the pinnacle of form factor, price, & performance. Unfortunately they went out of support and employer forced us to upgrade with 15” Touch MBP. I don’t have any complaints about keyboard, guess I’m just lucky in that regards.

But new MacOS and hardware are frighteningly unstable. I have observed roughly 1 in 5 times that it’ll crash outright with blank screen when attached to external display. Resetting PRAM, & SMC work for a couple of days and then back to same behaviour. Apple Store had a quick look but stupid thing didn’t crash so they blamed it on faulty cables at work and home. How can a cable can cause it to crash even after disconnected?

Unless they up their game I’ll never spend my own money on another Mac.
>Half the links you show are for "median" values, which will always increase in an economy that is growing (as it did under the Obama years). It's fact that the middle class as stagnated as the ultra-wealth have gained immensely over the past decades,

You're confusing median with mean. Median is the middlemost income, which represents the middle class well. Mean is the average including tops and bottoms.

>I'm not arguing any further with someone who argues in bad faith.

You presented worse sourced, out of date data, misuse or don't understand basic terms, and don't look at evidence from well respected sources when presented. How am I the one not arguing in good faith?
Glad I bought the case for my mbp 13 2015.
What is Phoenix?
The world's most popular database becomes the world's most popular web framework. Makes sense.
> Google Voice 2FA

Unfortunately many places are actively refusing to work with Google Voice. I got a message from Bank of America saying specifically that they're removing Google Voice support:

> You can't enroll in Zelle with a landline, Google Voice or VOIP (voice over internet protocol) phone number. (Section 3.C.3 Enrolling in the Service)

This follows with some other unnamed (because I don't remember them) services which also refuse to work with Google Voice.

That's really unfortunate because I've been using Google Voice for nearly 10 years without issue until recently (when companies specifically remove support...)
It's a little more than a shoestring budget, but I built my NAS from an old Supermicro server I bought on ebay. I found a 4U 24-bay machine for $1200 with dual xeons, 256GB (!) of RAM, 2x PSUs. All I had to add was a RAID controller ($100~) and a flash drive for the OS (because I was being greedy and wanted all 24 bays for storage).

It works great -- although it is as loud as a jet engine.
I...agree? I mean, I said that. ;) Unless your definition of "communist" is "what China is," it doesn't qualify.
No, I haven't.

It's comical how the FA jumps right in assuming you know what it is, what it's for, and why you should care about the first two -- comical in a good way, for those of us who are happier not knowing.

I have a vague impression that Elixir has something to do with Erlang, and that is all I need to know, but that Phoenix has something to do with Elixir also wasn't mentioned right away.
How can you generalize like this and say one is better than the other?

For me, religion sucks. But religion works for many people. For some, volunteering may be the best option and for some, sports. There is no one size fits all, one is better than the other solution.

People might decide to do more than one, depending on their mood (why not volunteering and sports?) - I don't think problems like loneliness has a one size fits all solution
Sorry if slightly off topic: This reminds of me a great play about a young, fictional mathematician woman that comes to great insights about chaos and entropy in the universe.

The ending is beautiful.

"Arcadia" by Tom Stoppard
Unitarian services are interesting. I have only gone a couple times with the atheist lesbian neighbors who invited us, and the sermons focused on some utilitarian concepts, power in community, and the goodness in helping others. I did not feel pandered to or prostylytized. Pretty sure if you're looking for a church that is accomodating to atheists, focused on community and good-will over dogma, then you'll find Unitarian services amenable.
Developers are the market in that talking point, not the end users. If you have a choice between your standard desktop GUI toolkits (AppKit, WPF, Qt, etc) and the web toolkit, your prospective user market _of these toolkits_ are developers.

Developers overwhelmingly choose the latter. Thus, the market has spoken on the matter. If you (or anyone) want it to be reversed, then you need to complain at the desktop GUI toolkit makers enough that they invest time, resources, and so on to make them as approachable and "just works" to compete with the web.

The web platform won, insofar as desired common rendering APIs go, and that's the game now. That we're even still debating this in 2019 is ridiculous.
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Thats fair enough. Laptops can be very finicky for drivers.

I've been using LTSC on my work / gaming desktop for about 6 months and its been the best OS experience ive had since DOS. Everything works perfectly, and otherwise it just stays out of my way.
The annoying thing is that for once this is an actual bug in the firmware and the upstream doesn't care about fixing it. It's simply not fixable on Linux side without rewriting the whole wifi stack to use Mac's model. It's not the typical "Linux hasn't got a driver", but without digging into the issue it looks like that.
You are right. They say people only remember the beginning and the end of a story. That's precisely what I did.
My heart is broken.

I grew up an hour to the southeast of the Bay, and went to high school school in Atherton and college at Berkeley (both in the 80s, long before many HN readers were born). I used to be so proud that my home was the most progressive place in the country. Now I am embarrassed. My old home is now emblematic of much that is wrong with our culture.

What the Bay says (We're so liberal! We're anti-Trump!) so deeply contradicts what it does.
Doesn't this just turn a targeted nuclear strike on a city into a dirty bomb strike on a city?