skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I never claimed that businesses "exist in a vacuum", and no, it isn't about inclusivity as soon as an employee is hired: The sole reason why businesses hire people is because they have some work on their hands they want to get done to make money. Others want these decisions to be about "inclusivity" but from the business perspective it isn't.

Employment laws don't exist because business is about inclusivity, they exist because we as society don't want businesses to do what they want to do. Employment laws work against business interests, not in favor of them.

Regarding that dismissing concerns line, some concerns are not relevant for some people: If you are a doctor and you wish to save the lifes of your patients and to do that you use some sort of specialized software the interfaces with your medical equipment, concerns about the energy of efficiency of the x86 processor it runs on can be dismissed by "I don't care whether this computer draws 100 or 45 Watts, I need it to save lives". Many business people do the same thing but with their goals: "I don't care about inclusivity, I need employees who work for the business and not against it".

And I'll be blunt aswell -- If you allow SJWs to disrupt your workforce with irrelevant junk, and thereby harm your business, then you are not qualified to be running that business.

And regard HR professionals, yes they are there to keep the workforce productive, not to be inclusive for political activists.

I've read the posts again and I think there is still a misunderstanding regarding the term SJW: I'm not using SJW as a term to dismiss something, as I already stated I use it to describe troublemaker/activist-types not normal-acting people who have concerns. That's a huge difference.
My brother was suicidal at one time due to the accusations, and more importantly, the fact that everyone immediately believed them. When his wife got the idea to call the daycare and ask if they had video footage, he thought for sure he'd be saved. (His employer also had his company cell phone location data which further corroborated his alibi). He literally proved himself innocent to his HR department. But if you've ever been involved on the inside in one of these situations, once HR has initiated a termination, they end up introducing additional liability if they halt the termination (effectively admitting they were in the wrong).

He certainly COULD have sued for slander, but the cost of the lawsuit and retaining a lawyer, and for him, the emotional toll, was too high.

And I completely understand that there is a huge toll for accusers as well.

I think, depending on the venue, that the process can be very traumatic for accusers with real claims, and also accused who are targeted by false accusations. The colleague who accused him was a woman who his coworkers had warned him "not to cross" because she was "a total sociopath" according to his other team members. One of them even told him "you should have listened to me" after he was terminated.

It's interesting how poorly most coders understand the realities of human nature. People aren't devils, but they aren't angels either.

I just really resent the fact that any attempt at injecting nuance into these kinds of conversations brings out attacks from the un-nuanced, tribalists who reduce everything down to bumper sticker slogans and identity groups. It's disgusting and reminds me of the sectarian conflicts I've witnessed in other nations.
Could be true, these days. Didn't used to always be, at least on consumer hardware, though I've not seen a non-NATing Internet-connected consumer network in most of two decades.
Interesting that from the article at least, his biggest miss seems to be the nuclear bomb. It must have seemed like such magical thinking in the 19th century to propose we could actually turn matter into energy.
Well, their arguments[1] are quite compelling in general, rest of the software[2][3] seems to be highly specialized and specific, I'm guessing there is a lot of maintenance that has to be done still.

- [1] http://www.symbolics-dks.com/Genera-why-1.htm

- [2] http://www.symbolics-dks.com/Macsyma-1.htm (general purpose symbolic-numerical-graphical mathematics software product)

- [3] http://www.symbolics-dks.com/PDease-1.htm (general purpose software that uses Finite Element Analysis to obtain numerical solutions to a large class of partial differential equations)
I think you underestimate how skilled abusers can be at emotional manipulation.
The ISS is in a relatively low orbit at ~400km altitude, geostationary satellites are up at 35,000km and have basically zero drag.
> Can you please provide proof that our justice system is failing victims? Do you just mean that the conviction rate is anything less than 100% for accusations?

I'm confused that you think this is something I can prove through citations. The way we adjudicate whether someone is a victim is through the courts, my claim is the courts do a bad job of this. There are only two things I can think to poinnt you at:

1. The numerous written accounts online of women attempting to get justice and being stonewalled. Some of the more famous cases during the beginning of the #metoo era showed this.

2. I can say that the lived experience of every woman I know to have gone through the courts found it unnecessarily degrading (n~=20) and while I believe all of them, only a quarter (n~=5) received a guilty verdict. I know far more women who did not go through the process due to stories from women they know.

I'm personally convinced, if you're not I understand but am not ready to expend the energy digging up cases to try and convince you.

> can you clarify what you mean by "verbally insulting and degrading them"

Literal slurs, misogynistic generalizations about women being temptresses, stereotypically horrible questions such as "were you asking for it?"
> 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.

Huh? Have you ever heard of the Central Park Five? Google "Central Park Five" and you'll have a more enlightened view!
Then manufacture locally and sell what can’t get a place on a ship.

The lack of shipping capacity creates business opportunities and not just for building ships or ports.
Being quite involved in the Scala community myself, I can tell you that the impact of his technical contributions is basically zero.

None of the projects he developed along the years has had any momentum (save for one, called "magnolia", which has a modest userbase).

He was giving more talks than anyone else in the community, solely based on vague ideas he couldn't even make happen. He was always bluffing somehow, presenting himself as some kind of grand architect pursuing grand ideas, while his effective impact was close to zero.

I think he was tolerated just because he's been around since basically the language was created, and thus was friend with many people, and could tell stories about the early days of Scala.

With him (hopefully) going away, this will have no impact at all on the development of Scala or related projects, apart from saving slots at upcoming Scala conferences.

So it's definitely not the same phenomenon as RMS or Elon.
+1 but especially our boys. Girls and women already learn so much about how to avoid being harmed by men. It’s time for our boys to learn how to become kind men - and for those of us who are men to model that for them.
What does a ‘head of sustainability’ do?
Such a great play / movie. I sometimes sing Hymn to Him just to get a nasty look out of my wife.
As everyone is saying, obviously drop the “mentor” dude and his BS offer. You can do it in a polite way and if they take offense that’s on them. Additionally, you need to find an impartial business advisor. Because if you’re botching this situation (and you are) you’ll botch others. Try to find a real mentor or a good startup lawyer who can advise you in the future.
I'm surprised at an article on free will that mentions neither Skinner nor Kahnemann. Skinner's studies on behaviourism and operational conditioning led him to question free will in quite a dramatic fashion - in some ways I think akin to how Darwin was able to reason from "reproduction with modification" to evolution, without ever having a mechanism for modification in mind (gene theory came along much later).

More recent studies of cognition and reaction have provided some of the counter-mechanisms, the things we do without deciding to do them, such as reflex arcs (the mechanism in action that causes us to withdraw our hands from something hot before our brains have realized it was hot, e.g.,), and, more importantly for the free-will discussion, Kahnemann's (and Tversky)'s two-systems model.

The basic idea of that model is that our body and brain do a lot of prefiltering, dealing with much of what we encounter and manage without ever involving the conscious mind. Think of driving on a familiar, quiet road. You never think about it, you might not even be aware of much of the drive, but you drove safely.

That "fast", low-energy-requirement system only flags things to the conscious mind - the slow, high-energy-system that we identify as ourselves - when it cannot make sense of what it encounters or when there are surprising happenings.

The workings of the fast (aconscious) system are inaccessible to the slow (conscious) system.

So we have within us a system that decides a great deal without our being involved, at least not consciously, and that only presents for our conscious consideration things it needs help with.

We make conscious, free-will-like decisions, based on filtered and reduced information. How free is that, really?

Of course, the definition of consciousness is a question all its own.
It's just me nobody else is working on WakaTime, so it's ok. Also, S3 scales beautifully and has been the best database decision ever. Built-in reliability and redundancy.

SSDB has also been wonderful. It's just as easy and powerful as Redis, without the RAM limitation. I've had zero issues with SSDB regarding maintenance and reliability, as long as you increase your ulimit [1] and run ssdb-cli compact periodically [2].

I've tried dual-writing in production to many databases including Cassandra, RethinkDB, CockroachDB, TimescaleDB, and more. So far, this setup IS the right solution for this problem.

[1] https://wakatime.com/blog/47-maximize-your-concurrent-web-se...

[2] ssdb-cli compact runs garbage collection and needs to be run every day/week/month depending on your writes load, or you'll eventually run out of disk space. Check the blog post for my crontab automating ssdb-cli compact.
The more formal education someone has, the less their writing will reflect these origins. Spoken language has both an accent and a sociolect (dialect associated with a social class). I don't think there's a writing equivalent of accent that is associated with a social class.

Consider that people will do all of their writing in an educational or formal context. I.e. nobody grows up writing to their parents, siblings, and neighbourhood kids in a particular sociolect the way they do with speaking. Many people who speak with not just the accent but also the sociolect of a particular class group will nonetheless write in a way that only really reflects their education since that is the context where they have done most of their writing.

There are definitely stylistic tics that reflect certain ways of thinking. Someone who describes an idea as a "first order approximation" which is "correct to an order of magnitude" reveals that they have come from a particular way of thinking about the world. I'm not sure how may social class related style "tells" would make it into someone's written communication though. Especially task-related communication during a hiring process. Unlike accent which is always on, particular sociolect may only be deployed in a particular context.

It is often pretty easy to tell writing, even if grammatically correct, which comes from someone who is not highly educated and doesn't used writing as a main method of communication. They tend to ramble and their writing reads like a transcript. I used to follow the legal advice subreddits and often the people with the most complex and troubling problems would describe them in this wildly digressive way where right in the middle of a paragraph about something that X had done to Y we're suddenly treated to completely irrelevant details about Y's sister of X's uncle.

Again though, this only shows up in the writing of someone who hasn't had a lot of education. Someone from a humble background but a lot of practice writing may have an obvious accent while writing like any other educated professional. Unlike accents which are almost indelible.
> That's what an embassy is for... they help deal with these situation.

Have you ever worked with an embassy? I have, it's no picnic even in the best of circumstances (lost passport). It takes time to setup such an appointment and you are expecting a young college student to have the wherewithal to navigate that all while being on a budget and having their current lodging with the aggressor.

You are expecting an abused person to do everything right in a foreign county while currently staying with their abuser.

Don't blame a sexual abuse victim for not doing everything right and by the books.
Or, in movie-musical form:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jhninL_G3Fg
I for one, while having a mountain of ex-girlfriends/boyfriends, haven't left them vindicate enough to do something like coordinate a character assassination against me.
If you just want to convert books and then copy them to your device I suggest you have a look at the command line tools installed alongside calibre.

`ebook-convert` does exactly that.

https://manual.calibre-ebook.com/de/generated/de/ebook-conve...
>That being said, there is a court and criminal justice system for a reason.

If you come to my home and act in a way that my family and other guests find offensive, we're not going to invite you back. We're also not going to try to prosecute you.

There is a huge set of behaviors that are not criminal nor civil offenses, but still things that if experienced would likely lead people to want to avoid you, not hire you, not work with you etc.

The author did not claim that Mr. Pretty broke any laws. She doesn't call for any legal consequences. There's no basis for suggesting that the story needs to be judged by a legal system.
That sounds really interesting — what makes RISC-V better than ARM for this?
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States Are Moving on Privacy Bills
Your point of view will drive the deployment of fully passive tracking, where you have absolutely no say in how/when/which data is collected. Things like pervasive cameras, cell tower dumps, etc., will become the norm whether you want it or not, but with the added downside that you have not say in it.
I'm not. In fact, I'm the opposite. That's literally why I wrote that comment. It was for the benefit of people who were not US citizens who may not understand that a US reader will likely interpret the phrase that way.
Make no mistake. This is a public lynching.
Unlike other kinds of content most books ever written are out of copyright and completely free today. Publishers and distributors, however, have every incentive in the world to keep charging you for them. Efforts like Project Gutenberg and Calibre are going a long way towards taking back control from Amazon & co. for things that shouldn't be owned and controlled by them in the first place.
The requests are made direct from cloud servers?

With your early users, you might try to figure out their actual use cases. I imagine some of them might be evaluating it as an alternative for the same purposes for which they'd use a VPN service.

And if they're using it that way, you might make sure you're not going to get blocked by sites in a way that would kill your business.
I tried a variety of Google searches, but I can't find information specifically narrowed down to Apple's share of the notebook/laptop market in the U.S. Can you help me?
And what if they were consenting - I'm not saying that's the case here, I don't know obviously, I'm asking in general, just like my comment is a musing about the vagaries of when is consent not consent.
They kind of are. A one-man shop can only do one thing at once. Either they save costs on data storage, or they spend that time doing something else.
Sounds like a solid investment strategy.
We seem to be entering a global version of The Beer Game (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beer_distribution_game). The game is a training session on supply chain co-ordination designed to show effects of trying to order beer and bottles months ahead of time then demand changes etc. It's mostly chaos

(I was speaking to someone who has seen their shipping from China to Europe quintuple - apparently all the containers stayed in Europe as no one wanted to send them back empty.)

The game is designed to show that "local" signals aren't always indicative of full system - the example being that retailers etc are stockpiling right now on-shore. But this creates more demand than usual, slowing delivery. So the naive retailer will say "OMG it now takes 3 months and 2x price to get widgets, I had better order 4 months supply ... and so it goes - an infinite bug methodology.
Hehehe, at least you got my point :) For me, the novelty with cars is extracting value for them very efficiently, but I must concede that others do not care at all about price/enjoyment ratio at all, or at least have very different enjoyment calculations compared to my brain's
why would they be motivated to do that?
The author doesn't appear to want to make the claim that Mr. Pretty raped her. She suggests, strongly, that he's a shitty person. She wants other people to know this. Courts don't adjudicate such matters, unless they have further consequences.
I actually don’t want to see stuff like this on Hacker News. But I don’t make the rules.
Reminds me of KBB.com who were "unable" to remove my personal data after they determined I'm not in California.

They share your phone/email with lots of dealers if you request a quote and don't read the fine print like I didn't...
How does Mighty make Chrome faster? Is it a Chrome plugin?
you will get some replies with the depth of "it would be worse if you were not white." I think there is only the smallest amount of truth there. Here are things that have happened to me, a poor white kid from california (and this is just off the top of my head):

I could never join a sports team in school or other extra curricular, that shit's expensive.

I had to steal food to get enough to eat.

I've been pulled over multiple times, nearly every case because my car was shitty and the cop was shaking me down.

I've been stopped by cops for walking through a hospital parking lot to go visit a friend.

I've had a cop pull a gun out at me and order me to the ground. I was 14.

I was told at a young age to follow cop orders exactly and be non threatening else I may get shot.

My mom didn't come to a complete stop at a side street stop sign. Pulled over and the entire car tossed. The cop told my mom she likely stole it and they will find out what she did.

A white buddy got the shit beat out of him by a cop. His crime was being poor and skating.

I've seen a lot of nice cars going to a car race and then there was my buddy and I in a shitty car. We got pulled over and harassed.

I was constantly excluded from most of my peer group because I was poor.

I had to work multiple jobs to put myself through college -- little financial aid there.

I spent over a decade scraping by because I didn't have a single role model on how to grow my career (or even really start one). Living in a low socio-economic area makes it hard to earn enough to get out.

I was the first and only person in my family to go to college.

I've been ghosted on interviews, called racist names, and hell, my wife had rocks thrown at her as a kid because she was one of like 5 white kids at her inner city school.

Classism is elephant in the room nobody seemingly will acknowledge. But, hey, I'm white, so it can't be that bad, right? /s
was there a quarter without drama in Scala community? :o
Strawman argument.
Not a "fix" (I should have picked my words more carefully), but it would stem the bleeding from inflation.
Why is this being downvoted? A younger colleague participated in such a course (because he was on an NIH-funded project), and it was case study after case study, together with "how would you have acted in such a situation, and why". He reported that he found it extremely useful.
Yes, sure. Instead, by holistically paying attention to data, we can see that rape is a wildly underprosecuted crime[0], and thus we can stop acting like there are no possible barriers obstructing these victims from justice.

Actually, it’s kind of hilarious when I put it this way... you’re the one selectively looking at the data to justify inaction.

[0]: https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2018/10/06/less-than...
It was also, disgustingly, probably not legally rape in Germany at that time. (Or only recently so.)
If a bunch of my ex-girlfriends coordinated a character assassination campaign against me I would probably be forced to consider that maybe I’m an asshole.
> show that the benefits outweigh them

Governments and banks can't touch your money or see what you're doing unless they get your keys. What other reasons do you need?

We don't need anyone's permission or blessing either. We want our freedom back and society's gonna have to accept this. If that means more crime, energy consumption or whatever -- so be it.
I've personally helped over a thousand HN users with these sorts of requests. If you know how we can do a better job of that, I'd love to hear about it.
Web browser bug that it's even possible.
If you think ostracizing someone and removing him from positions of influence is equivalent to shooting him, I don’t know what to say to you.
Seeking ideological heterogeneity is the truest and most desirable form of diversity. Kudos to Basecamp for recognizing that they can achieve this via geographical diversity. On the other hand, I've also seen this go the other way. Many larger tech companies like Google effectively enforce a one-size-fits-all set of company policies across all their locations. Effectively, the political culture of their headquarters is forced on all the satellite offices, squashing any potential for ideological diversity that may result from geographical diversity. In the end, I think it comes down to having the right leaders who genuinely value true diversity instead of just skin-deep diversity that is popular today.
I’m not sure why you’re getting downvoted. Why shouldn’t we hear what he has to say?

That being said, he’s already said he’s not going to be saying much on the matter.
The article notes that 2-8% of rape cases are PROVEN false. The real number is definitely higher than that as people do go to prison under wrongful conviction. Bottom line is if you don’t have compelling evidence for a crime you don’t have a case. That’s a good thing as it protects us from unjust punishment most of the time. It’s real sad that victims that can’t prove their case don’t have justice but it’s much more important that the innocent are not wrongfully punished.
Have they installed ropes in the wreck or anything like that?
When my wife was working in the tutoring center during grad school, they were told that telling a minority student to write in "proper english" is racist. So there's clearly a double standard where you're advised that telling a black student to stop using slang and write in "proper english" is racist, but it's fine to tell a white southern student that if they had talked with an accent and used a southern vocabulary, that it's acceptable to assume they're stupid.