skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Forking is not violence you perpetuate against people you dislike.

It's a freedom; a person can disagree and go their own way instead of being hounded by zealots demanding compliance in the guise of friendliness.
Yes. It's important that as a society we come to terms with the fact that historically, and now, a lot of people use whatever little power and fame they have to abuse others. We can't sit by and let this happen.
It is terrible abuse and disgusting. Keep no silence, sue the predator and send him to where he deserve to be.
You'd think this type of behaviour wouldn't happen anymore, given the whole MeToo movement and people constantly complaining about getting cancelled.
I've got a lot of problems with this work, but I think I can best summarize my issues with the question: Who are the "Democratic elites"? A list of "Democratic politicians" and quotes from them is given, but I'm curious if that's the full summation of who the "elites" are, or if there are other, thus far unnamed "elites".

I can't think of a better example, but this reminds me of some of the papers on skull size from the late 19th/early 20th century (Mortonites? A bit fuzzy, it's been a minute). There was an undeniable correlation, but it took decades to undo the false causation that was implied (not directly stated in that paper or this one), and that damage still has not been fully undone, despite the heroic lifelong work of Franz Boas and others.

This paper needed to discuss why racial framing isn't persuasive, and it doesn't do that. The whole, "We should trick white people into being kinder to minorities" argument is, frankly, insulting to white people, among many other not-very-noble things. White people should be able to hear arguments about racial inequality without losing their collective minds.
I have a feeling a ransomer could get away with it many times before they saw any change in customer behaviour.

It's a tragedy of the Commons thing I think?
Here's the rap remix version: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_LjN3UclYzU
If it works well, I wouldn't be opposed to using it. $30 is kind of steep, but a web browser is something I spend the vast majority of my computing time using. Depends on how good the tab management is, and how fast it starts up locally on my computer. Some websites are so shitty I don't even want to open them on my own computer.
Looks like JB Kempf is the Shadow CTO

It's one great piece of tech, so I'm not surprised he'd be interested in trying to turn it around
bring in the stallmanites!

I for one am glad there is someone to stand up for him - it makes it very easy to tell who wants to cherrypick and debate semantics due to their own biases.
AWS does this too, also to the tune of 100k iirc. You just need to show that you are funded by a known VC, and then each subsequent funding round gets you additional credits.
Honestly the real answer is far worse. It's a ridiculous meme.
Alternatively: people diluting the signal, where people bring up serious accusations of rape, and then others show up and compare it to people who are considered assholes by some.
To me it sounds generous and possibly completely harmless.
You're apologising for a serial sexual harasser. You are the problem.
I'm sure what your brother faced is terrible but how exactly does this relate to the story?
In the US, lynching has extremely strong implications of racist violence. It's not strictly the definition of the word, but most folks in the states will understand a lynching to imply race related murders.
And what is the most common privacy-violating preinstalled app? Facebook.
Sales of development boards will continue to anyone who wants to buy, including lay people. No one is going to be prevented from "building their own PC". A majority of "nerds" in recent times have had a proclivity to take jobs with companies that seek to "control basic access to computing." I am skeptical that they are seriously trying to convince or train "lay people" to avoid their employers. More like the other way around. If these "business models" fail, nerds lose their jobs.
Reads like Douglas Adams.
From JB Kempf of VLC, and supported by Xavier Niel who is a huge VC in France and founder of Free, which totally disrupted the ISP mafia in France.

This video is a great interview of JB + story of Shadow
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q0c1CJT8X8A&t=20s
Man that looks so cool. What a beautiful, clean user interface and I assume an amazing experience, with the full power of Lisp.

Is there any chance to get a Lisp Machine as an image that we can load in a VM?

All I need is a connection the internet and I would be happy to spend all my spare hobby programming time dialed away in my own small corner of a Lisp Machine. No distractions, only Lisp.
A massive company that makes overpriced, low-quality athletic products that double as status symbols, which they manufacture overseas (often using child labor) but then sell for massive markups in the US, Europe, etc. They have an extremely aggressive "woke" presence in their advertising, because as long as you care about social justice for your targeted customers, who cares that "people of color" in the developing world are being paid slave wages to create your products. You probably know who I'm talking about now, but I'm not going to name them.
PlantUML demo - my diagram quickstart for developers
Hello. A few answers...

>> But does a person not have some responsibility here to not get so intoxicated when alone with a member of the opposite sex in a private space?

No. You are shifting the blame to the victim here. You should not be assaulted/attacked/whatever whether you are sober, tipsy, drunk, unconscious.
We're not talking a huge amount of money. I'm saying let these companies recoup the balance of the cost. For a small company it might seem unreasonable for a Google to bill them $100/hr for consulting services. Then again if 1,000,000 people are asking for those services at 8 hrs a pop. You do the math.
Six hours? It'll be flagged out of existence by then, most likely.

On edit: it took mere minutes for the HN rape apologists to show up!
The similarity is that both are mob actions, done without legal charges or rules of evidence.

I'm not defending the guy specifically; I have no idea whether he's a guilty scumbag or a persecuted innocent. But even jerks deserve a certain amount of due process before punishment. Maybe she's the scumbag? I don't know, and neither do you.
Your comment did inspire me to go looking for the distribution of elements within the iron core: "carbon, neon, oxygen, and silicon burning leave a core composed of iron, cobalt, nickel, and neighboring species, referred to as the iron-peak nuclei".

For anyone else interested in a readable article on a slightly more detailed look at supernova than wikipedia, and a discussion on the difficulties of modelling supernova, I liked this article: https://aip.scitation.org/doi/10.1063/1.4870009
That's not performance, it's overshooting — increasing a performance metric well out of the range where the increase performs anything.

It's higher efficiency that leads to no additional effect.

You don't get there faster, unless you want to count nanoseconds. All it really is is a way to surprise other drivers, and surprising other drivers is unambiguously bad.
I thought nothing in the post was particulary damning and all of it quite ambivalent.
Everyone is migrating Scala projects as we speak.

This has very little to do with Scala and everything to do with the darkside of the conference scene. Getting involved with conferences at the level she did introduces travel - drugs - drinking - partying with somewhat like minded young people. The culture at the top can be about money, stars and groupies but it revolves around power. Those in charge decide who speak. Those who speak can get opportunity and money. Money buys speaker slots.

Conferences are an anti pattern to programming.
I wonder why this post would be flagged on HN, but the post from David and Jason is not.
Today we learn that Aaron earned an iron urn.
This is a weird triple down.
This article feels extremely confusing... maybe someone here can clarify?

Nothing appears to be "deteriorating" whatsoever.

According to the article, in March we imported 1.5x as many goods as in March 2019, as retailers restock inventory. Which is amazing that such increased shipping capacity exists. And because there's so much demand for shipping, shipping prices are rising.

This seems... great? We're successfully restocking tons of stuff, but higher shipping prices mean that retailers will continue to give priority to what people are buying, and so a full post-pandemic restocking will be smoothed out over the rest of the year, rather than all at once?

I mean, scheduling restocking seems pretty flexible and can therefore respond intelligently to prices.

This article seems like everything is going great. What's deteriorating? What's the "tsunami"...??
Spent a lot of time with that dataset a couple of years ago, looking at historical flight delays and cancellation rates. If only this type of data was available outside of the US. The data is updated daily I believe and provides a lot of detail and is of pretty good quality.
Thanks. Also good to hear that I’m not the only one who finds that surprising.
> so Google is surely debating internally on how long they want to continue this strategy if it doesn't begin to pay off

I am certain that nobody is considering shuttering a business unit that has an annualized revenue of $16 billion and is growing 46% per year. Anyone who is “surely debating” this would be fired from management at any sensible company.
The old "MRS" degree
She is definitely the kind of woman where a man shouldn't be making such advances. Let her be the acting party. She would have been telling another story if she were on top and had taken the initiative.

One of the simplest ways for a man to avoid the problems of consent where he suspects there may be is to be the one from whom consent is needed.

That is the absolute safest other than leaving. If you as a man attempt to get consent that may not be something you're able to obtain. She might be intoxicated and unable to consent. You might not know that. However what's safe is to let anyone initiate sex with you while you remain passive and let them have sex with you.

If you leave then I would strongly advise to say it is because you are feeling sick and think it's something you ate. Go to the toilet first and say you have the runs. That will cushion her pride and make her just glad you left. No chance of something mean-spirited.
“This video is sponsored by xxx”. You can’t escape that.

Well, almost (https://sponsor.ajay.app/)
I wish such system was still being commercialized.
The toothpaste is out of the tube on this one. Outside of the current path, I think the only option is spinning off GCP into a separate company. I don't think this is a bad idea either.
I just can't think of a major open source python lib that hasn't added support for 3 if the functionality wasn't replaced by a new feature in 3.
> I have reported all of my experience to the ScalaCenter in 2019. I was hoping to see concrete actions, such as building a reporting mechanism, to protect minorities in the community. Unfortunately, I am not aware of such actions taken.

That sounds like a community failure, not just One Bad Guy.
i've done this before and performance was meh.
Not necessarily by a racist mob, just an angry mob[1].

[1]https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/lynch#English
The multicore performance is good for a portable, because background threads can run on the efficiency cores without making the whole system thermal throttle. Intel can't do that.
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Sometimes it's better not to communicate publicly at all than to write vague nonsense like this, especially on a controversial issue you've caused as a founder.

Imagine Basecamp employees reading this blog post, trying to make sense of the latest controversy at their workplace; does this add anything meaningful to the discussion other than, "shit will blow over, deal with it".
It seems to me that's an awful lot of stupid on their part.

Patient claims medical--call the facility and ask if they should be hot.

However, having read about their stupidity I would be inclined to get a card from the facility even if I didn't expect to be going anywhere with radiation scanners. (My wife had a card--which was sitting at home in the pocket of the jacket she had planned to wear. She changed her mind on flight day and didn't think about the card until she tripped the scanner. Note that she probably had an easier time of it than a typical tourist would have as she speaks Mandarin at native level.)
> "I felt being taken advantage of that he had unprotected sex with me when I was intoxicated. Nothing felt right. I remember panicking and crying."

After reading above and then seeing the part about "insisting" I feel there was more behind this statement. The author's circumstances was also very easy to be taken advantage of. I'm not woman but my guess is there probably is shock involved in situations like this. People are not acting in reasonable ways when in shock..
I don't blame the people who go public - I just wish that the rest of us would be a bit more hesitant to immediately signal boost them. (For example, I might avoid upvoting a story like this to the top of a tech news aggregation platform when the accused hasn't had time to respond.)
+1 on Rectangle recommendation. Learn a few hot-keys (or rely on the menubar dropdown) and you can very easily get any layout of windows you want.

I was using Spectacle before, but I think the project died, and Rectangle is what I use now.
I'm unclear what that would mean exactly. Some particular market space where a Linux-only based software package is the dominant solution in a business or consumer space? Do you mean a Chromebook?
That the company is OK with that kind of speech being on their platform.
CDC Eases Face Mask Guidelines for Fully Vaccinated People Outdoors
Is he the sole creator? That is a sadly small sum for this work.
You mean the law enforcement in a foreign country that you are visiting for only a few days? The one that would require you to spend untold thousands of dollars, that you don't have, on flights if you had to testify in a court in a language that you do not fluently speak?
I have a dedicated shell script for each thing I do in git, because it is impossible for me to memorize the original syntax and I'm terrified I'll gut the repo by getting a flag wrong. I have an "undo" script, that just gets rid of unstaged changes, a branch deletion script for removing local & remote branches, and so on. I just take my scripts with me everywhere I go. They're not ingenious, just a necessity. I advise doing this.

People like to tell me, "Oh see you just need to understand that git has something called a 'directed acyclic graph' blahblahblahblah" and no, that has nothing to do with it. It's just incredibly arcane and bizarre syntax for the most obvious everyday operations. But since my scripts make life easy, I sort of don't care at this point.

Also I don't rebase and thus I don't force push and thus I don't reduce my repo to a pile of burning rubble and work til 3AM repairing it and if people ask me to rebase enough times I'll threaten to literally take a dump on their desk/car/front porch which usually makes them stop. I advise doing this as well.
Care to elaborate?

This is strictly worse for privacy than a VPN run by the same company, no?
I had the pleasure to get to know the author for a brief time in the period her article describes. Some of the surrounding events she describes were public knowledge via Twitter posts and such, for instance getting stranded in Berlin.

From my outsider's vantage point I remember thinking something felt off about Jon's interactions/role in those stories. It was gut wrenching reading the article this AM realizing what was really going on.
worth noting that google doesn't give out 100k for free, or to "any startup". They give it in exchange for equity, and only through their VC partners and accelerators.
Safari 14.1 (shipped on Apr 26) includes null pointer exception fixed in January
The 2nd amendment still exists (for now). Protect yourself and eliminate a predator in 1 easy step. Please. For the children.
Law enforcement will tell you to pound sand. Much (not all) of this kind of abuse isn't illegal, and DAs rarely want to prosecute the parts that are. It ruins their district's crime stats, it's difficult to prosecute, and many of them just don't care.

Not to mention that this took place while traveling to a foreign country.

Edit: I'm assuming that folks disagreeing with this post have had nothing but success with reporting sexual harassment and assault to police departments, foreign and domestic... Because the alternative assumption is a lot less charitable.
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> When I read comments like this, I feel sad. Between the lines I always read a resignation to design choices that create unnecessary accidental complexity amd are an obvious step backwards compared to other version control systems, even ones that came before. Competing systems like Mercurial, Plastic or fossil are a simple proof by existence for this claim

And then IMMEDIATELY:

> Yet there is some snobbery/mysticism around git
I'd say it's more like 10 seconds, maybe even less than that, but I agree.
its a reminder that mob justice is really terrible when it is wrong. we dont have all the facts. we should absolutely take precautions from this guy causing further harm, but the rape accusation needs to go thru the legal process including allowing the accused to defend themselves.
> That being said, there is a court and criminal justice system for a reason.

The alleged crimes are difficult to prove in general, but in this case the victim seems to have been only visiting the country where the crime occurred. And didn't fully understand what had happened contemporaneously. I would hope she approaches the appropriate criminal authorities to report, and I would hope something is done, but without local knowledge of how these reports are handled in Berlin, I would expect it to mostly be written down somewhere and no further action taken.

Speaking out in a public way like this helps others who experienced the same pattern of behavior to recognize it, and possibly share similar experiences to the point where a criminal investigation may be started, if relevant. It also may help put people who might be exposed to similar behavior in the future on notice, so they can attempt to avoid it, or report it as it happens, if it happens in the future.
This 'think of the creators' argument is a low-effort appeal to emotion that deviates from the core issue. Neither youtube premium or youtube ads value my privacy.

I am happy to support content creators through patreon or whatever monetization platform they choose.

What I am not ok with is having every single click and watching period profiled and stored. I would happily not block your ads if you weren't building up user profiles.

A business model with generic vanilla ads based on the video I am watching instead of my profile would still provide millions upon millions for Google and shareholders.

Targeted ads only benefit Google by selling the illusion of advertisement metrics to marketers. Neither users or content creators stand to benefit from targeted advertisement quite the contrary.
>You share most of your specificities with other homo sapiens.

Sure, but that's neither here, nor there - and totally orthogonal to the discussion.

Free will is about expressing the self, not about the self being unique.
Some pixel artists indeed intended their creations to be seen as little squares, even if CRTs of the 1980s stretched the squares into rectangles and fuzzed and scan-lined them. Right now there is a story on HN about a $660,000 copy of Super Mario Brothers. Look closely at Nintendo's original 1980s box art. Mario is made up of crisp little "pixel perfect" squares:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Super_Mario_Bros.#/media/File:...

Look at other Nintendo pixel box art from the 1980s. Many of the earliest Nintendo games had this common box art style. It's all little squares:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metroid_(video_game)#/media/Fi...

https://www.oldschoolgamermagazine.com/early-nes-nintendo-bo...

I have an NES classic edition and it lets you select if you want the CRT effect applied or not. Sometimes I play with this effect applied (how I experienced it as a child) but other times I enjoy the "pixel perfect" mode.

I designed pixel fonts back in the 1990s and I was always unhappy about how CRTs fuzzed them. I loved the sharp little squares of LCDs much better.
Yes, what happened to due diligence?
Universities use an unblinded selection process as a way to intentionally handicap East Asians (and to a slightly lesser extent, white people). Their proportion in enrolment has been trending down steadily over time and has converged to be nearly identical across all the top universities (except for Caltech) which suggests they're all silently colluding (by copying each others' quotas) to keep the Asian enrolment percentage at precisely the depressed X percent.

Private companies don't have such explicit Asian quotas in place but the spirit of affirmative action is to handicap Asian men and white men in the interview process. Google does this by making the interview process easier for non majority groups. If you can't apply the handicap then it follows that the majority groups proportions will increase.

Of course, the counter argument is that implicit bias and so on will mean the opposite will occur. But empirically that isn't what has happened in universities, and so I have no reason to expect it to happen in private hiring either.
The author doesn't care about that, she wants to bully others into embracing her political/social believes.

Assuming she has skills and isn't a risk to companies, just walking away and offering her valuable skills to some other workplace that shares her believes and makes her happy, would not only reward workplaces that do what she wants, it would be better for herself and her cause.

She isn't a rational activist she's a bully. She doesn't want to take responsibility for herself.

This kind of reminds me of "victim blaming" issue of people advising woman to not walk unarmed and alone at night trough dark, dodgy paths: feminists tend to see this as an idealistic statement ("you, woman, are the bad one for not behaving correctly"). instead of an pragmatic one ("you, woman, should not do X because it is dangerous for you").

Understanding this as the 2nd interpretation and taking the advice would require taking personal responsibility. They don't do that, they think in terms of how the world should be (men should not rape women, therefor I should be able to walk this path without fearing for my safety, if I walk this path it's not my fault if something happens to me) instead of how the world is (men do rape women, therefor I am not able to walk this path safely, it is my responsibility to decide whether or not this is worth the risk to me).

Ps. don't conflate that is people who say this is how to world should be and women should be raped if walk trough the wrong street at the wrong time. That's a different thing.
Slightly later she writes "I maintained friendship with him for a few months after May, because I was convinced that it was all consensual". I think it is something of a philosophical issue to debate about whether you can think you consented and later determine you didn't. It's also strange to me that it takes months and consultation with a therapist to determine if you did or did not consent.
you spelled "nike" wrong.
Yes, I'm sure they'll treat it with the seriousness that they treat the decades-long ignored pile of rape kits.
The press requires a license in the UK? Foreign press? Really?

(American here, so I don't know. But the idea seems insane to me.)
> I don't want to victim blame here

And yet