skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes, of course she should have contacted law enforcement, but she was in a foreign country, intimated and young. And law enforcement still fails women:

https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-features/how-po...

In an ideal world, the criminal justice system works. In the real world, it's a patchwork system that sometimes works and sometimes doesn't.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/arts-entertainment/2019/09/17...

So this is why we see women continue to post these stories. Her story is backed up by other women.

I believe her.

Meta: I don't know how to make the justice system work better in a case like this. The presumption of innocence is critical and I don't want a system easily abused by false accusers, but it's also clear that predators can take advantage of the presumption of innocence. Even if she had gone to police at the time, ultimately she would have to convince them it wasn't consensual.

https://slate.com/human-interest/2014/11/how-cops-respond-to...

Edit 2: found this paper from 2012 written by a police organization that talks about the complexities of dealing with sexual assault in the criminal justice system:

https://www.policeforum.org/assets/docs/Critical_Issues_Seri...

A quote from the conclusion: Rape is the most underreported of crime, because rape victims find it so difficult under the best of circumstances to report it to the police. But it’s made worse when victims say they were interrogated by the police as though they were criminals. Or they are disbelieved and threatened with lie detector tests, or essentially are blamed for the conduct of perpetrators.

Reading the paper, false accusations are barely discussed. The paper spends a lot more time talking about police not believing victims ("unfounding").
Yeah and Mac OS will bitch about Java 8 as well.
He wasn't her "partner", he was her mentor; he abused his position, tricked her into staying in an apartment alone with him, got her drunk and forced himself on her against her wishes.
Basecamp leadership has always thrived on fanning the flames of public controversies.

They're a tiny company. Less than 100 people. Everyone knows about their software because they're loud and make a lot of noise, but I barely know anyone who continues to use it.

Yet here we are, following along with their internal company drama and plastering their name across social media. They seem to be doubling down on the controversy with this weirdly cryptic blog post. Probably because they've always been rewarded for fanning the flames in the past, so why stop now?
There's already multiple billion dollar companies trying to compete and get to where Apple's at. Apple has the lead now but they wont forever. They never do. I don't see what the big deal is here.

Competition has brought us such great processors. We should be thankful for it.
this, mainly.

Though if everyone else is on their phone, and the crowd is large enough, I find it fascinating to people-watch.
There is Mezzano: https://github.com/froggey/Mezzano
> it might take time, but you'll get your money back.

And that's really the key difference between credit and debit.

With a debit card, if there is fraud, the money is gone from your checking account. You will get it back, but it will take time, and in the meantime you may be suffering from all kinds of unpleasant effects of having a suddenly and unexpectedly empty checking account.

With a credit card, if there is fraud, you have a debt on the books. You will get it removed, but it will take time, and in the meantime you still have all your money.
> Can you sideload via Play Store apps?

Yup. Check out aurora store. It's a open source frontend to the google play store. All apps can be installed(except of course paid apps. Though if you bought the app and sign in to the account with aurora you can)
I don't think that's what the parent meant.

If someone is intoxicated, I agree that it seems weird to disregard their consent when drugs+alcohols are the social lubricant of society (and very interwined with sex).

Also, of course you are responsible for your actions even when under the influence (drive and kill someone? no excuse because you were intoxicated - it's your fault). It's crazy to me that people call that "victim blaming". Although I understand how someone can take advantage of others, I don't think the distinction is intoxicated = taken advantage of.
Logistics is a massive global system, plenty of hacks
You are conflating conviction with mere, non-legal accusation.

Conviction means someone made an accusation at a legal level, then it was considered worthy by police, then by a country's prosecution service, then by a jury, and then (probably) by an appeals court too. Under normal circumstances, that's a bar infinitely higher than, "I'm claiming to have a story about someone."
I think there are other contributors, but he rubs lots of people the wrong way, so probably not as many as there could be.
It is entirely based on time employed, up to a cap:

"You’re eligible to participate in profit sharing after two years of working at Basecamp. You’ll accrue one share per month starting on your second anniversary at Basecamp, and you’ll max out your shares at 10 years. We calculate shares based on months of tenure so there’s no unfair cliff between being hired in December vs January."
I agree the UI is confusing. However, I'm glad Calibre exists, solves my needs, and is so versatile. And in the end, I decided the confusing UI didn't matter all that much. I'd rather they* spent their efforts in improving stability and features rather than making a fancy intuitive UI -- assuming of course you can't have both. If you can have both, all the better!

*I'm never sure if Calibre is a one-person effort. If it is, more kudos to the author.
The national news anchors de facto define the standard US accent.
oh sweet, I wonder who are their customers today.
@mirekrusin: "I don't know anything about it, but this starts to look a bit like public lynching."

Trial by Internet.
Publicly taking high moral ground when it costs you nothing is insanely gratifying and as old as the humanity itself.
> I’ve also heard claims from a couple devs that side-by-side comparisons with their x86 macs show a massive increase in RAM usage for the same app for whatever reason.

Partly because the GPU works differently, partly because some inaccurate methods of counting memory (Activity Monitor) have cosmetic issues displaying Rosetta processes.
This article is written for "FreightWaves" which is "The Fastest Way to Navigate the Freight Market". The target audience is people who need to ship stuff.

For them, service levels are deteriorating. What is normally easy has become a struggle.
A relative ran an online community. It was small, but not tiny

There was some cyber-bullying (for lack of a better word) going on. My relative called law-enforcement, then was referred to the FBI. A case was filed and was told they would circle back on it to collect details. They never called back. My relative was never able to make contact with them about it again.

Completely ignored. I can't remember the details, but it wasn't just a "you're fat and ugly" type of bullying. But it was a real safety issue for a member of the community. Law enforcement completely failed in this case.

Now what?

I despise the "public court". The internet and viral online comments deciding who's innocent and who's guilty. (the man during the US capitol riots who lost his job because he was seen in a photo holding a black woman. Turns out, he was actually saving her life! But the "public court" announced him as guilty and they went after him, contacting his employer, people saying awful things about him online. https://kfor.com/news/washington-dc-bureau/white-man-seen-in... )

But on the flip side... what do you do when law enforcement completely fails?
I was surprised by this on my first use too. I just decided to give up and store my ebooks in the format that it wants, rather than just the media/books folder I already had.
This! All these comments about how bad ads are at targeting a proper audience really miss the point, you have to make comparisons to conclude anything. If an ad is relevant for x% of users and x is very small, that's still better than 0.5*x%.

I don't think it's a mistake if after you bought product P, you get ads for P, it probably does work in practice.
Sorry I can't resist but put my hacker hat on:

How would effective prohibition work? Beams are directed enough to make them hard to find from a frequency perspective. Payments will probably be possible in BitCoins at some point given Teslas move in that direction. Controlling the import of hardware seems like a way to do it, but I bet it would still show up everywhere.
In the legitimate "cancel culture" cases you generally find that all other avenues have been tried multiple times, often for years.

In the original #metoo Hollywood case it's that the whole culture was/is rotten and has been for decades. There's no other recourse because the culture normalizes "casting couch" type stuff. That's where the term comes from after all.
Some men decide to behave like wild bears, it seems. So while it indeed doesn't change anything about the responsibility, it is still a good idea to take steps that could prevent becoming a victim in the first place.
Would it be ok for the guy to get her drunk, then go to an ATM and talk her into emptying out a bank account?
"All publicity is good publicity" is not a thing in 2021.

Basecamp is losing a lot of business/prestige over this decision.
I only kind of agree.

In this case a Chinese woman living in the USA apparently got raped in Germany 3 years ago. To involve law enforcement she would have to travel to a country where she doesn't speak the language, to make an accusation for which she has no evidence but her word, against a man who lives in another city.

What, exactly, do you imagine that the police are likely to do with her report?

I hate the court of public opinion as much or more as the next guy. But if this is a real pattern and he is as practiced as it sounds, after 10-20 women come forth then I'll be very confident that the crime is real. And there is also a chance that we can hit a critical mass where law enforcement somewhere may take an interest after all.

I agree with you that ideally this would go to the police first and they would actually act. But in the real world, she picked one of the best of the bad options available to her.
> Wish this was a problem society could and would tackle as a “group effort”.

From a macro level, it has been. There have been water pacts in the west for nearly a century. But these will likely need to change in order to address the severity of the issue. I'm curious how these will be changed in the future, it seems like there might need to be new legislation sooner rather than later.
They should perhaps revisit their title, then.
Their hiring posts certainly are but I can’t recall seeing much else about them beyond that - am I just mistaken?
Except there's no such thing as witchcraft but sexual harassment is very real. Victims have every right to speak up.

Libel and slander laws are also real. If someone is actually making a false accusation, there's already legal ways to deal with it.
CEO of $2B Startup Ousted for Taking LSD at Work
Multi-instance Multi-tenancy on Kubernetes
Yes, with the addendum of, "If any of these things place you into a minority community, you immediately lose."

What is "good speech"? What is "good dress"? What is "attractive"? To much of society, those answers are, "Whatever sounds/looks like the popular culture I consume." and that's a problem.
My attempt at one: https://pastebin.com/SEEpx3C4

> Hello Hackernews, This is one. Whats so tough?

47d751f8964d717320b888888b81db0a8a35e79f528549f0e9dba13e0e4d6c4c

(In short, allowing all unicode characters makes this trivially easy... HN gets rid of some of the unicode weirdness though so I had to put it on Pastebin. I assume this matches the 'load bearing' criteria as I only use variable width spaces rather than additional characters.)

Not putting it on the blockchain though because I don't hate the planet.
Unless you turned off swap, out of memory actually means out of swap, so probably the machine was out of disk space.

Safari shows a memory warning when a tab uses ~2GB memory, and can be too aggressive about it.
What do you do if you're mugged in a foreign country?
Depends on how long it continues. If demand is back to normal in 2 months and it takes 3 months to ramp up your manufacturing, then you'll be too late to get any benefit from this.
As a tech lead on game projects that feature less than the most technical developers (artists, game designers) the biggest "problem" with git happens to be its strength.

The inconsistent cli and naming can be pasted over with cleaner GUIs. No, the real issue is gits configurability. Not just the configurability but the enforced decentralization of that configurability.

For better or worse, it seems like git is actively hostile to any kind of concept of a central authority. Can I configure hooks for my team? No. Can I configure diff tools for my team? No. Can set recursive pulls to be the default? No. Can I enforce line endings? No. Can I even enforce LFS is setup right? No.

I certainly can't even enforce things in receive hooks and expect team members to know how to change their histories to adhere to our policies.

I love git but its such a pain.

I really wish someone would come up with some kind of "accept remote config" policy or some such thing.
> I don't want to victim blame here ... but does the victim bear some responsibility?

The answer to your question is no. The victim bears no responsibility. The abuser took advantage of someone, who bears no fault for the result. There's no "well, both parties were in the wrong here". The abuser should not have abused the other party, no matter how vulnerable the other party made themselves.

You specifically said you didn't want to victim blame, then immediately blamed the victim.
I'm genuinely curious to hear any specific changes you might make. I'm a librarian and I can say that Libby was a huge improvement in usability over the Overdrive app and we spend much less time on basic user support now. There are weird quirks for me as well, but I'm always hard pressed to say exactly what I would change.
What are people supposed to do then. If your friend sees somebody at the store and says “that guy is an asshole, he used to beat me up in middle school” do you respond “wait I can’t develop any opinion of that person without a trial”?
Someone should coin a law for this phenomenon: Every single time a ~~woman~~ victim makes a public statement like this, in the comment sections a man must be discussing false accusations or the court of public opinion. I don't think I've ever not seen this.

People who are abused are damned if they do, damned if they don't.

edit: removed specific gender

edit2: I'm not trying to be inflammatory here. This is a phenomenon that I've noticed over the years.
> Imagine that you were convicted of murder

OP points out that we have criminal courts for a reason - he's not comparing this scenario with an actual conviction after a trial with presumed innocence. In your analogy, it would have to be common for people to be fired from their jobs (and blackballed from entire industries) on the strength of a murder accusation that hasn't even been presented to the police, much less been through a trial.
Holy smokes, these things generate a ton of CO2 if it takes a metric ton to store indefinitely on the blockchain.

That's apparently 1/5-1/8 the CO2 of RUNNING AN ENTIRE HOUSEHOLD FOR A YEAR.

https://www.whatitcosts.com/carbon-offsets-cost-prices/

The only way I see this as not being terrible is if the offset is much less bad on a yearly basis.

This also seems to be hundreds of times more CO2 than the average US internet user uses in a year.

https://www.energuide.be/en/questions-answers/do-i-emit-co2-...
Nice, that does look like a similar idea
The problem is that only a tiny percentage of harassers and rapists are ever convicted. The court -- rightly -- sets a very high bar to conviction, and police and prosecutors often won't even attempt it unless the evidence is overwhelming.

You're concerned that this is stacked against you, but the courts are stacked against the victims. So it doesn't really suffice to decry the one problem without addressing the other.

So perhaps you can see what it looks like to many women when you say, "Hey, I'm sorry this happened to you, but this bad thing happened to my brother, so _shrug_". Did your brother go to the courts and police to address these issues? It may been unlawful termination.

There is a large domain of behavior that is either nebulously legal or difficult to prosecute but which makes our communities much, much worse. It's counterproductive to tell the people victimized by that to stop talking about it. The solution is to go forward and find ways to set up our communities to protect people. And that can't mean just asking victims to accept that.
Some phones also were made with Java in mind, I think?

Not sure if android or old nokias, or both.
Law enforcement is not perfect and these crimes are often hard to prove in isolation. So worst case you go to law enforcement, they talk to the perpetrator but do nothing, and then the perpetrator mostly destroys your future career. A lot of downside and risk for the victim. You can look at the film industry for numerous famous examples of victims being blacklisted in retaliation.
Interestingly, I see some of the former in online forums. I see a decent amount of the latter, both with and without justification. I've never in my life seen a single poster do that. You have a cite demonstrating this happens "a lot"?

This sounds like a strawman. You're taking a criticism often made (again, not without justification) against "your side" and arguing against it by charging the "other side" with hipocrisy despite the fact that e.g. the /r/FloridaMan community has almost no overlap with woke SJWs (or even the surburban families in my neighborhood with BLM signs in their yards).
I don't know who he is, who she is and I don't care about the scala 'community' too much, especially the types that give talks at conferences.

The writing is like a story that is missing pages. Surely the law needs to be involved here?
Very tactful. You should respond with this story in real life when someone tells you they were sexually abused.
LinkedIn rolls out Stories feature worldwide
The Lead-Crime Hypothesis: A Meta-Analysis [pdf]
@specialist Are you an artist? Do you have links to your art?
Yes, but this illustrates that it's possible to make changes in how you present yourself to overcome potential class biases. This levels the playing field a lot. And why shouldn't people seeking higher status jobs or education be expected to present and conduct themselves accordingly?
In my teens, after long programming session, my brain simply refused to understand what I was looking at. These occasions often led me to try to fix bugs by randomly changing the code. Some bugs were mere off by one errors, then I changed for loops to stop earlier, initialized pointers to NULL and early bail out of a function if a parameter was NULL, increased size of arrays...

It worked more often than I'd like to admit. Reading the code later was utter incomprehensible and left a bitter taste. Eventually I stopped using such technique. It was better to leave to code crashing than having it working without knowing why.

To this day I still see inexperienced C programmers making the same mistake. Such fixes are the kind of mess that will make something work on a computer just to crash in another OS or architecture.

The funniest example of such a specimen I saw was a very interesting graph problem solved in C. It worked beautifully. The algorithm was elegant and low complexity but it was not general enough and some cases had to be specially handled. New special cases were discovered and the team had to resort to a few tests that started breaking when other cases were fixed. Bug appeared and were fixed randomly. A last case was fixed and then all the other previous important cases crashed.

What to do? Valgrind to the rescue!

After running the code on Valgrind, success! Not that it helped fix the bugs, there were lots if complaints, but it didn't crash. So, instead of fixing the bugs, the team decided that it was to be run only under Valgrind and everybody was happy.
Don't think this is very accurate. If I'm wrong, please cite a real-world example.

My last two places would implement new stuff but in very isolated areas and certainly never "the whole stack".
I'm a middle-aged white guy. In situations where everyone else is 20 years younger and dressed in half the clothing I am, I come across as a total perv if I look at anything except my phone. Or at least that's how it plays out in my head.

I do find it useful to sometimes be absorbed in my phone and not aware of what's going on around me. Or at least to have that impression.
you could also pay for education, attend workshops, code projects on a team, etc.
> A mullet
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> I've met people who had 200+ tabs in their browser, using 10 GB+ of memory on Chrome. Good luck telling them to use a thin client/buy a faster computer/change their workflow.

I don't know what point you're making here, would this person also be more likely to pay for this service? or less likely to purchase more ram/a better computer so be more easily convinced to pay for this service?
A lynching is done by a literal mob. This is being done by a metaphorical mob.
They said they'd split part of the sale proceeds, should it ever happen, with all the employees. There's no way the expected value from that would measure up to years of Amazon RSUs. But then, that's the case for almost every other company attempting to pay top of market.

"There are no plans to sell Basecamp or take the company public! But, in the slight chance of that happening, employees may be eligible to receive a portion of 10% of the value of the company if Basecamp is sold or made public. That 10% would be divided into shares, and shares distributed amongst employees based on their tenure at the time of the sale/offering."
My only experience was a friend who owned an RX7 - incredibly fuel inefficient, burned a pint of oil every second tank, had to spend a few thousand on repairs when it had around 60k km on it.

Has Mazda improved their design or manufacturing in the last 20 years? Probably. Would I trust it even if someone gifted it to me? Not a chance.
Perhaps they should add a mitred hat, some beads, a censer, and a droning chant...

Change it from theater to ceremony!
https://www.pcgamer.com/ex-valve-employee-describes-ruthless...
This is the most illuminating, but here are others:

https://www.gamasutra.com/view/news/187296/How_Valve_hires_h...

https://www.wired.com/2013/07/wireduk-valve-jeri-ellsworth/

https://www.glassdoor.com/Reviews/Valve-Corporation-Reviews-...

I would take the handbook as more of a vision document than as a true account of the experience.
John Wayne Gacy was convicted in a criminal court of law, with rules, where he was presumed innocent until proven guilty.

You attempt to draw a connection, but it's a false analogy out of the gate.
And yet no one, including people in this thread who are claiming that the intent of Google's wording is to deceive, are actually the slightest bit unclear about what Google means.
My sister has been raped. The officers laughed. My wife has been harassed. The officers wrote some things down on forms and did nothing.

It achieves little.