skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I can empathize with your brother's situation. That kind of thing is horrifying for anyone to imagine.

With that said, creeps like this continue to proliferate because the courts only do anything in very rare cases (Cosby or other serial abusers). It typically only hurts people who were abused, not helps - it can take years to go through court, and in this situation because it's across borders there's likely no court to file with.

People come forward in blog posts because it's often their only reasonable way to try to hold someone accountable and warn other potential victims.
>one of those rare examples of software where the kitchen-sink approach is absolutely warranted

I actually like this approach in general and I often wonder why there's so much animosity towards it. There's something about platform-like software like Calibre, or Emacs or WeChat where it becomes more than the sum of its parts that you just don't get with just a collection of disjointed, individual tools.
I prefer calibre-web[1] and it is under active development.

[1]:https://github.com/janeczku/calibre-web
It's also a completely false argument since there's libel and slander laws. If the accused was innocent, they would simply sue the false accuser. That they don't says everything.

The barrier and punishment for coming forward as a victim of sexual abuse, rape or harassment is great indeed. Questioning every case is ignorance of existing laws setup to handle any false accusations.
Sounds like your brother believed in something and sacrificed everything. If I were him, I might hire an employment lawyer and sue the shit out of them. Ya know, "Just do it."
It’s a tsunami of freight - 1.5x March this year over 2 years sounds decently typical considering normal growth. The issue is that April/May/June it wouldn’t be odd considering the circumstances if it was 5x or 10x - if there was enough containers, or enough ships, and there isn’t. As TFA was pointing out, it isn’t even about rising prices to get a spot. Sometimes you can’t get a slot period.

Remember all those supply chain shocks and people talking about needing to restock to get things working in chips, manufacturing, etc? Right now there is 100 containers of socks stuck on a ship and in the way.

At least, that is what I got from the article.
well, same, do we have weeds that have evolved resistance to roundup?
"Get a reminder about your meetings one minute before they start so you can stay focused on your work until it's time. No more hunting down the meeting link."

If you're not preparing more than a minute out from your meeting start time.. you are the reason why meetings are bad
Victim blaming or not, I think most parents wisely caution their children about alcohol, intoxication, and making good decisions about their own personal safety, when they reach the appropriate age. What parent doesn’t have that conversation with their teenage kid?
I agree with you about the accusations. He sounds creepy; but one blog-entry is not exactly hard evidence. An internet mob may assume its all true anyway.

> men who use their status within programming communities as a tool to target women

Wouldn't "programming communities" be one of the worst places for a true predator? There are so few women compared to men here. I would think most predators would choose the modeling or acting industry; where this type of behavior is almost expected...
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>You absolutely can be told you consented, and trust that person's word, and realize later that no, actually you had not. It's just convenient for the abuser for you to believe you had.

There has to be a line drawn somewhere when you start talking about hardcore felony level criminal accusations though. Should anyone who's ever had an (at the time) consensual intimate encounter then have cart blanche to hold accusations of rape over you for the rest of your life?

I mean just picture this guy's POV for a moment. You think you had a consensual relationship with someone, who then continued having friendly relations with you for months afterwards. Then out of nowhere you're being called a rapist on the internet. I get that the guy is a total creep. But it's absolutely terrifying to think that being in a crappy relationship can land you in prison now.
Generally count yourself lucky to be alive and then fly home in a few days.
When xhtml was popular internet explorer was a major blocker for using it properly. I never saw xhtml served with the proper content type at the time.

I don't see a reason to mix html and xhtml today. It will only lead to problems. (I.e using self-closing tags and &amp; mismatches in urls)

If you use <div/> in html the browser will just ignore the end / See https://jsfiddle.net/sw8j9fo2/
I don't see any apple M1 dev boards.
"We will not use or promote any software artifacts that are maintained by Mr. Pretty"

This part seems over the top. You go down this road and you end up in some foss hell. Later you find out someone who abused someone checked in code in linux. You can't use windows or a mac because of jobs and gates and you are back on a c64 until you realize what a bad person Jack was and you end up on OS/2.

I guess those who signed want to use an unmaintained version?

I get that people want to do something. Maybe conferences are not the best avenue for the community to meet safely. Providing gender safe housing would go a long way to having a more successful conference if successful means less rapes.
And people who are accused are damned, period. I can see why mob justice can sometimes be the only options for victims, but the abuse potential is massive.

By the way, I see no reason a woman or a trans person could not make this statement.
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I am frustrated by the things I want to do but don't know how to do them.

I want some books to read. Suggest any book that vastly improve your skills.
Is it ok for bars to take advantage of drunk people so they spend frivolously (or alcoholics who throw away their paycheck every week?)
You've listed a number of disparately connected recent news events and referred to some ominous "Court of Public Opinion" which has come to some perspective as if it somehow unites them. My point is you're drawing some thread and connecting this all to your brother. I'll echo again something I said in another reply, I'm not sure how analogous or connected these things are. It sounds mostly like your brother had his word against another accusation, and HR sided against him. Is HR now the "court of public opinion?" I thought that qualifies as due process in this case.

Again you're making some bigger point only you seem to be hearing but spell it out for me and for everyone else.
I use magit and everything seems a lot less wrong :).

I personally found Mercurials a lot more palatable but at this stage git is pretty much ubiquitous.
Even worse, you’ll have blown however many million $ it took to ramp up production.
Relevant passages from the post

> In June, Heather noticed that I was upset at a dinner after ScalaDays. I shared with her about what happened. She warned me to stay away from Jon Pretty. And she wasn’t the only person who told me that.

> 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.
Kind of agree, but I often use Jupyter just to capture the command history and its (textual) output. For someone like me this is still useful even without the graphical part of Jupyter.
Someone can correct me if I’m wrong but I think mercurial would solve the issues you describe.
"Don't speak like you, speak like me"
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Right. Just like the justice system would, social media will sentence him to the extremely harsh punishment of... not being invited to conferences anymore.
> I find the nature of these kinds of posts to be counterproductive. Therapeutic to the author? Likely. A way to mobilize support? Certainly. But the method can be abused.

I feel like you made your own point with the story about your brother. Everyone below is ready to boycott the company which you basically named already.
It's almost utterly irrelevant at this point in time, but IE was also good at printing tables. I was completely unable to get Chrome to not mangle thead/tfoot and content spanning pages. I ended up doing a horrible hack where I guesstimated the amount of content and split up a 10 page table into separate tables each well before the end of a page of print, just to support Chrome.
Does this figure include their army of underpaid slave labor routed through shell companies as contractors?

Profit efficiency isn't a net good, particularly when it involves an underclass of employees given substandard treatment who have to jump through hoops like being fired and rehired on a regular schedule to avoid admitting they're employees and giving them healthcare.
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Look, both accounts read like naive women who accepted favors from a mentor-like figure and did not say "no" to advances. The other accuser starts her letter by admitting that she and Pretty were in an "on and off" long distance relationship. I think a significant component of the discomfort that these women feel is a manifestation of a sort of social indoctrination, wherein young women are led to believe that historically normal and mutually beneficial relationships are somehow dehumanizing because of a power dynamic. There is also an underestimation of the amount of clout and positive attention that accusers receive from communities for coming forward, and vicious, public condemnation of anyone who dares to question the stories or claimed harm to the alleged victims.

Humans are biologically predisposed to trade sexual access for favors. I believe the harm that many victims claim to have experienced is mostly or purely a manifestation of social conditioning and sometimes clout chasing where claims are exaggerated or fabricated. Blindly believing alleged victims carries a significant risk of victimizing otherwise innocent people and we need to move back to some middle ground. Especially considering the biologically determined nature of human sexual interaction - which is never black and white and, frankly, has always been a game of overcoming reluctance. Hesitating and not saying NO cannot be treated the same way as overt rape without criminalizing desirable (for both men and women) sexual interaction. Yes, the chase is extremely important, for both sexes, and we see the same dynamics throughout the animal kingdom.
Another person with a narcissistic personality disorder. I look forward to the day (I'll be long dead, unfortunately) when our society can recognize these people as evil and deal with them in a constructive way while protecting people from them.
yes, ive had similar experiences, and thinking back on it, why take notes when you can just record the lecture and play it back later.... better to engage in the lecture, since thats why we are there in the first place!
I strongly disagree. Businesses do not exist in a vacuum. The second you hire one employee, it becomes about inclusivity. That's why every business has to follow the same employment laws. I'm sorry but I'm not interested in continuing this conversation further when you keep using that loaded term to dismiss concerns. In my opinion, that term is only used to shame people who take a stand on issues of justice, as if it's somehow wrong for people to do that publicly because they don't happen to work for your company.

I'll be blunt -- if it's harmful to your business when activists on twitter discuss potential HR violations that your company might have committed, then your business has issues and you are not qualified to be running that business in that way. Please, hire a qualified HR professional who knows how to deal with this stuff, and let them handle the hiring and personnel issues, that's what they're there for. In my experience technical founders are notoriously bad at noticing when conflict is growing overboard and they need to expand HR, I know because I made the same mistake!
It's worth reading the article just for that story. Sounds like a mom to be proud of.
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In other languages, like C++, we may still want this global property, but we can't break it down into local reasoning.

That's exactly it. You want some set of machine-checkable constraints which add up to the desired global properties. Rust managed to do that. Attempts to fix this in C++ yield a set of slightly leaky constraints which sort of almost do that. Fixing this requires taking things out of the language, which is unpopular.

It's embarrassing that the code below still compiles with default gcc options, in either C or C++ mode. Yes, it's terrible C++. The compiler allows it.

#include <stdio.h>
#include <string.h>
int main(int argc, char* argv[]) {
char buf[20] = "\0";
char* s = buf;
for (int i = 0; i<argc; i++)
{ s = strcat(buf, argv[i]); }
printf("%s\n",s);
}

(Even Microsoft has "strcat" deprecated by default.)
Funny, for me it's the opposite. Can't remember it if I don't write it down. I don't have to read it afterwards, I just remember what it was by remembering writing it.
Speak up HN, don't let voices like this dominate and represent you. Of course what the OP said was not victim blaming. How ridiculous! Several times the commenter expressed doubt and kept asking if he/she is wrong and how would like to be corrected if that is the case.

You come in here with the high moral ground and make such wild indignant proclamation that "men are not bears." Please take this to another community.

> How drunk someone is around another human being has nothing to do with the perpetrator’s culpability.

This is just stupid on its face. DUI exists for a reason and DUI tests are given not because police assumes the drivers, of course would, "take responsibility" and not drink, but because the police exercises common sense if an idiot driver is unable to walk a straight line.
> some people will pause before judging definite rape for described situation where girl accepts invitation to sleep in the same airbnb, without anybody else, with single guy, bringing bottle of wine,

None of those things even remotely imply consent for a sexual advance. Those are all things that should be fine for anyone of any gender to do together without there being fear of a sexual assault.

Anyone who looks at that list and thinks that it's ok to have unwanted sexual intercourse because they happened to have a bottle of wine in an AirBNB I'm not sure I want to associate with.
What if they’re not?
"The problem is that only a tiny percentage of harassers and rapists are ever convicted."

How can that be known? Why do you presume that someone is a harasser or rapist if they weren't convicted?
That's easy. If spacex does not respect the ban, China will fire anti-satellite missiles to the spacex constellation.
YouTube has become difficult to watch because of the ads. It's almost as if they're killing the goose that lays the golden eggs.

I've reluctantly switched to NewPipe, and can watch videos ad free. I'm all for supporting a business that provides a free service, but now it feels like they're just abusing their position, which is why I switched.
Seconding calibre-web; I rarely interact with calibre itself anymore since calibre-web handles the bulk of the tasks I’m trying to accomplish.
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I have never understood the benefit of hiding away the actual history. Many people i know find rebasing to be superior because you have this pretty history, but i actually love having the ability to understand what happended when exactly as it happened in reality.
Interesting reading through all the negative comments here. Maybe this is an indictment of the state of the web, but it seems to clearly solve a problem a lot of people have.

Also have to imagine the long term vision is beyond just accelerating the web as it is now. This opens up possibilities for moving resource hungry applications to the cloud, expanding beyond just a browser to be more of an OS, white-label installs for brands to offer a cloud app, etc.

That this has been tried before (Silk, Stadia, etc) IMO is validation that this idea has legs and just needs the right timing and execution. No idea if Mighty will be what makes that go mainstream, we'll see!
Except KSP simplifies orbital dynamics, such that my favourite aspect, Lagrange points, is missing (or merely artificially inserted).
Because (admittedly an extreme example) if I'm hiring for a public-facing position, I don't want to get someone with pink and blue hair, excessive piercings and poor hygiene even if they're smart and capable of performing the job function otherwise.

In at least some cases, presenting and conducting yourself as a "normal" person is important.
Version 1.0.4, first paragraph:

https://hexdocs.pm/elixir/1.0.4/GenServer.html#content

`The advantage of using a generic server process (GenServer)`

current release (1.11.4), first paragraph;

https://hexdocs.pm/elixir/1.11.4/GenServer.html#content

`The advantage of using a generic server process (GenServer)`
Yes, it requires using your own router instead of the ISP's. I know the article says the ISP router is locked down, but it's not clear whether the ISP router is mandatory.
I once had to write an app which would fill typographically-printed forms fed into a printer by printing on precisely specified locations. Despite being more of a desktop than a web developer the most straightforward and flexible way I found was generating HTML and print-oriented CSS.
I admit I don't know how you end up when you factor in the price of kindergarten, it's significant indeed.

> I didn’t look at Zurich because of the crazy rental prices.

That's also where you have the highest salaries though... With the same reasoning nobody would work in the SV. And as soon as you start looking outside of the city center you quickly find cheaper accommodation.

But I think the main difference is really the taxes.
Something like this already exists; you can construct a house from concrete elements with premade channels/cavities for the wires and pipes. However, they need to be finished up, I think with drywall usually.

I'm not aware this method has any real cost savings though compared to wood frame construction.
Interesting to hear of someone that has gone to management and come back to dev. And lived to tell the tale! More invigorated than ever by the sounds of it. That's quite inspirational
Not trying to sue someone for slander doesn't actually say anything.

There's a lot of factors. How much will it cost? How much publicity will it generate and is that worse than just letting it go? What is the standard of proof that must be met and are they confident they can prove that it's a false statement? What are the consequences if they somehow fail to meet that burden? Etc.

Also, how did the left become the party of "if he's in the courtroom he must be guilty of something"?
She was unable to resist his advances, for various reasons listed. While it doesn't sound like she beat him off with a stick, it does sounds like she shut down, dissociated, and didn't say "no." Consent isn't presumed; consent is not the lack of a "no", consent is the presence of free, ongoing, and enthusiastic yes. Even if she reluctantly agreed, it consent wasn't freely given in light of the power imbalance and intoxication. Even if she reluctantly agreed, that isn't enthusiastic consent. Even if she wanted sex, but he refused to use the protection she wanted him to use, that's not ongoing consent. But she clearly didn't want sex with this dude; not like that
> Right now there is 100 containers of socks stuck on a ship and in the way.

This seems like a real easy problem to fix. Some simple import tariffs could get a lot of the cruft out of the way in no time, and they could be eased back too.
Maybe that's true and some Rasputin-like figure could manipulate you into believing you thought things that you didn't, but that doesn't seem to be what is alleged here. She wasn't living in this guy's cult, he helped her professionally and with conferences, and she agreed to share a room with him on a trip. That strikes me as less mind-control and more just a situation that people get into sometimes.

She is and was an adult woman. Can I not expect her to know, in the typical case, whether she does or does not consent to sex? And I'm not talking about "He got me drunk and then forced sex when I couldn't consent" - obviously that would be rape, but it seems like you should realize that when you sober up, not months or years later.
>>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.

Well, that's not strictly true. At least the official advice in the UK is that even if the crime happened elsewhere you should still report it locally, then the case should be forwarded to the authorities in the country where it allegedly happened.

https://www.helpforvictims.co.uk/content/Q1.htm#:~:text=You%....

No idea how/if that would work in US, but in general you should be able to report it locally.
The software domain is alarmingly incompetent
When it comes to actually making something that could help our society, we've shit the bed, pardon my latin. I'm glad you can build ToDO app nr. 999999, perfect user tracking software on the internet, slot machines tailored for children, and various other useless tools that nobody cares about. But make a site that's supposed to register users for a vaccine? Too hard. Make a site for the CDC for $44 mil? Disaster (https://www.technologyreview.com/2021/01/30/1017086/cdc-44-million-vaccine-data-vams-problems/).

What are people supposed to think about "software engineering"? Convince me that 99% of our practitioners deserve these salaries. Because all evidence points to - no effing way. It's a scam. Keep your politics out of it, I'm talking about technological excellence and that's it.

/rant.
I don’t think so? It was 1% CFR for the absolute highest risk group in swine flu.

Population wide, across all risk groups (including very low risk), it appears IFR (a typically lower end number anyway) for COVID is .9-1.5%.

Which is anywhere from 50-100x higher in real crude fatalities, if I’m squinting correctly.
You can get a credit report for free from them, and they don't charge you anything to contest an incorrect claim against you.

This is a cost center for them, not a profit center. Their core business would be compromised if you could just bribe them to fix your credit score.
Yes. There was a prototype at NVIDIA that did this and there have been other attempts. See discussion in the issues. [1]

[1] https://github.com/ClickHouse/ClickHouse/issues/12572
didn't even take an hour...

so many absolutely disgusting comments already.
Sorry for giving you a real answer to an actual stupid question. Can I have my karma point back please?
I straddle a handful of domains in my professional life. Each of these domains has these stories come up from time to time. Further each domain talks about whisper networks where people alert newcomers who the bad actors are. I have come to view it as more likely that every community has these problems than to view it as a localized concern.
as a white that grew up very very poor, I can't possibly understand why so many black people try to convince me that I'm guilty of white privilege, when most of them had many more resources growing up.