skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It is... complicated, but if a sober person takes advantage of the apparent willingness of a very intoxicated person, they have done something wrong.

In general regardless of your state of mind, you should be deciding if somebody is actually capable of giving consent in their state of mind regardless of how they act.

A drop of alcohol does not remove all ability to give consent but there is a point where it is no longer possible and so you’re left with a situation where there isn’t right and wrong absolutely but a grey area of many degrees... which as a decent person you should always err on the side of caution.
I have no interest in Scala and never heard of Jon Pretty nor his accuser but the accusations are of a criminal nature (either rape or slander) and it feels like as a society we've long developed more reliable tools and systems to deal with such matters.
I used to work at Cycorp, a holdover from the AI world of the 80s and to this day a classical (CL-like) Lisp shop. They have an old Symbolics box in their entryway, positioned by a couch as a small coffee table :)

I find the whole idea of hardware that's specifically optimized for a totally different programming paradigm than what we're used to just fascinating. It's not hard to imagine why we haven't seen more of it: it's really expensive to iterate on a branch in the computing hardware tree, and you're probably better off just writing a runtime for mainline systems. But still, it's fun to think about.

I am a little surprised though that nobody's written an operating system like this for standard hardware. Still a big task, but an order of magnitude less ambitious than custom hardware and with many of the benefits people would've gotten from a Lisp machine.
Wow, they are generating ~$1.5M/employee ($220B annualized / 140k employees).

Their efficiency at that kind of scale is insane.
I'm not familiar with how content creators get paid by YouTube. If it's by views or view duration, does NewPipe not increase those on YouTube when a video is viewed via NewPipe?

And there are other ways to support creators if someone were to insist on it. A lot of channels that I support have moved to Nebula, other channels have Patreons, or push their own products.
Being taken advantage of while intoxicated and while there was a significant power imbalance between the two. She was not in a position to give consent there -- being intoxicated, being in a place that was being rented Pretty (and she could risk being out on the street if she refused), having no money and luggage on hand, being the mentee of Pretty (or believing she could be), etc.

She ended up crying and panicking. That generally isn't the outcome of a consensual relationship.
This seems international though, this is not simple. As a victim doubly so, since you also have to combat your damaged pyche. In the end there needs to be an investigation, but sadly some uproar is needed for something to happen in cases like these.
is this legal? (without a genera license?)
It’s the modern day equivalent of being accused of witchcraft. You get a trial but good luck getting your reputation back. People are trained not to doubt this sort of thing end assume guilt, then when confronted they rattle off some supposed statistical fact that it’s virtually impossible for the accuser to be lying.
And how is it going? Are people using it out in the wild?
This is the same story that HN readers have read hundreds of times over the past couple of years, just with different subjects.

Independent developer/small organization gets their app/YouTube channel/Google account shut down overnight because of false positives triggered by their system.

It takes weeks and insistence with bots to just get to speak to a human.

When you get to speak to a human, they usually respond with template responses and refuse to provide further information.

Rinse and repeat the same kafkanian process again and again.

In all honesty, what the hell is everyone waiting to get off Google? Gmail accounts, app stores, YouTube, ad networks... Alternatives exist nowadays for all of the products developed by a shapeless and faceless corporation that listens to nobody.

I wish a long and successful journey for the Droidscript guys on F-Droid or any alternative store. Time for Google to understand that without the content uploaded by us (users, creators and developers) they are nothing but a useless empty box.
A person that is in an incapacitated state is not able to consent, in that situation the burden is entirely on the other person. Just because someone is not able to say no doesn't meant they did consent.

I'm talking about close to blackout drunk, heavily incapacitated, not slightly tipsy.
Maybe people are “enjoying” the Web in the way they consume $30-50/mo products, as if it is some fine movies or books, justifying the price.
Nike.

Hell, I'd do anything for a downvote.
I was not a great student but at one point in college I realized that I wasn't listening while taking notes. I was just mindlessly copying everything exactly as was written on the white board missing out on what my teachers said.

I stopped taking notes at this point and started paying attention instead. My grades improved. This might not work for everyone but something to try if you struggle retaining lecture content even as you take a bunch of notes.
Shipping prices are extremely elastic is my understanding, so no. If you own a ship you always want to be running it near full capacity, so once the demand surge subsides prices will also fall.

Inflation requires their not to be a way for prices to reduce.
IANAL, but if the story is true, would it be reasonable to sue that coworker for defamation/slander and for lost wages?
> who use their status within programming communities as a tool to target women

In general I don't like it as well because it could lead to abuse as we just read - but that's also not always black or white. In some cases it could be real romance or attraction between two adults, even if one has a higher status than the other (that's of course not what happened in this story! I'm just saying it could be consensual, even if the "high status" person uses his status just to get sex. Movie stars and rock stars do the same thing.
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See I can tell that you're snidely implying that I'm falsely equating rape with "being an asshole", which I explicitly did not do.

The phenomenon behind why these people get a pass is the same, even if their behavior is different.
Seems like your brother can probably sue for damages if this is the whole story
Submitting known buggy Linux patches 'ethical, noble and brave'
The crimes were mostly committed in foreign countries of which neither party is a resident and which the parties were only visiting for a short duration of time. Countries whose language the victim may not speak fluently or at all. The chance of getting the local police to care is low and even if they did the cost of flights to testify at trials would be beyond the means of the victim.
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> Imagine a letter like this targeted at you one day, except unlike Mr. Pretty, you are innocent.

“Imagine that you were convicted of murder but, unlike John Wayne Gacy, you were innocent.”

Seriously what is the point of comments like this? False convictions are real and very very bad, but I know very few social justice advocates who are opposed to locking up serial killers. Likewise, the existence of unscrupulous people who make false accusations of sexual assault/etc is a real problem. But that’s a very shitty excuse to trash every public accusation - especially when in practice it is the public accusation that leads to more victims speaking out.

More to the point: Jon Pretty is a notable public figure who has been credibly accused of extremely toxic and disgusting behavior towards large portions of the Scala community. At least some of this behavior is clearly not illegal, merely dangerous and profoundly unethical[1]. Therefore the court of public opinion is the only court that has solid jurisdiction, so to speak.

[1] That said: some of the accusations and the large number of alleged victims merit a criminal investigation.
I can imagine that sooner or later reply to threats like this would be a Tomahawk or two.
Why would you use a browser to visualize 1m nodes?
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Excalidraw is a gem. I discovered it weeks ago, and cannot but praise it. The online instance is free and works really well, plus you have the possibility of hosting your own copy and be completely independent.

I also saw that there is the possibility of doing collaborative real time drawing, but still did not try it.

I have seen that the exported SVGs could be simplified (lots of repeated markup), and I am thinking about giving a try to do a PR.

Excalidraw is superb.
I personally don't have 200+ tabs, so I can't speak to this problem, but I don't think you are going to make much inroads telling people to change how they work. So rather focusing on hypotheticals, I'm glad that Mighty provides a solution that doesn't require much friction or behavior change.

Why is $5 an acceptable price? Why not $10, $50, $500?

Edit: You agree that having 200+ tabs is a problem right? Why haven't the people with 200+ tabs adopted the solutions you speak of? Perhaps those solutions aren't good enough, or perhaps they don't want to change the way they work. Either way, if those solutions really "solved" the problem, we wouldn't be observing people with 200+ tabs in the world.
This is generally a good idea and the right thing to do, but cancel culture still exists for some reason. Probably it's because people do not trust conventional justice and do not believe in law enforcement?
I've already got them organized. At this point some of these PDFs and CHM and LIT files could get drafted, they're so old.
> It sounds like people knew about him and didn't do anything. If the community is allowing it to happen, then the community is as much at fault as the sick individual doing the abuse.

well around 2017-2019 I was active in scala aswell (more on the playframework side tough) and I dind't even knew about him until I read the blog.
you know just because there are members from scalacenter and lightbend does not mean that the community as a whole wanted to have something to do with somebody like him.
You know there are thousands of people going to ScalaDays every year, it's highly unlikely that the majority of the scala community would be happy about the guys behavior and it's also highly unlikely that the majority of people in the scala community knew about the guys behavior.
The top comment on this thread is a "what about the MEN?" exercise.

HN is incredibly pro-sexual harasser and anti-victim, along with the broader tech community, sadly.
It would be easier to judge if she said that she did not give consent.

You may be right, but you also have to agree that 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, not mentioning she did not give consent, feeling bad afterwards. From that description it's really difficult to pass rape judgement - maybe it was, maybe not, what we know is that it was creepy at least for her.
I must be going to the wrong conferences!
My point is that these are not that analogous. The linked account is one of many accusations against John Pretty. What the comment is referring to is an accusation that sounds like it's one person's word against another and primarily a conflict confined to one HR department. It isn't really "mob justice" then, it's HR siding with one party.
> Yes, hackers care about their communities.

The number of creep defenders in this thread suggests otherwise. See also: any discussion about codes of conduct.
Behavior like this should be punished within the framework of the civil and criminal court system. The court of public opinion has no rules as to the validity of evidence introduced, and relies on informal enforcement mechanisms as well, which are prone to abuse.

The court of public opinion still thinks that the riots in Kenosha were justified (the actual courts heard and saw real evidence that determined that Mr. Blake was indeed sexually assualting his ex and was indeed reaching for a knife when he was shot). The court of public opinion thought that the invasion of Iraq in 2003 was justified because they thought Saddam helped OBL. The recent case of the teenage girl shot in Columbus featured the Court of Public Opinion weighing in that the girl should have been allowed to stab the other girl pinned against that car, and the cop should have "shot her in the leg", which any expert on use of force would immediately explain would not have worked. Why? Because the public as a whole is filled with smart individuals, but an an aggregate level are a bunch of moronic lemmings, like all large groups of people are.
Yes, but you can also word it in two other ways that make the redundancy more apparent at the cost of a tiny bit of inaccuracy:

A:

`git reset --hard` checks out the HEAD version of your worktree.

`git checkout -- <file>` checks out the HEAD version of a given file.

B:

`git reset --hard` resets your worktree to the HEAD state.

`git checkout -- <file>` resets a file to the HEAD state.

I don't think a newbie could even grok the difference between these three descriptions.
What did you buy exactly? This sounds interesting but I have never heard of this.
Have you ever been in an abusive relationship? Or seen one firsthand? People can be made to believe all sorts of things that aren't true by charismatic or powerful people. It may take them some time to realize they are being tricked or abused.

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.
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My experience with conferences is in a different field, but a senior participant proposing to share an AirBnB with a junior participant like a student would be extremely weird.

If you want to support the student, you either organize another student for them to share accomodations, or connect them to one of the travel grants for that conference.
Responsibility is the wrong word. There is a difference between good advice and victim blaming. Just because the victim was careless doesn't make them in any form responsible for the crime. Nevertheless, I would certainly advise my daughter against getting drunk in such a situation.
There are some huge UI warts, so I only use it to convert e-books.

1. I can't figure out how to change the styling of the book viewer.
2. Whenever I search, then try to hit backspace to modify my search terms, it tries to delete the first search result.
The author of the video works for Symbolics (or rather, for what's left of Symbolics today).
It's because the 5K monitor is actually two monitors taped together ("multi-stream transport").
git-reset - Reset current HEAD to the specified state
git-checkout - Switch branches or restore working tree files

reset works primarily to modify HEAD, and when you include `--hard` it's like saying: oh and btw also update the working tree.

checkout works primarily (in the case of checkout <pathspec>) to copy file from somewhere (commit, index) into the working tree. You can use checkout to mimic a hard reset: `git reset --hard` is pretty much equivalent to `git checkout HEAD .`
A fear I had about winding down industry, shipping, and services for COVID-19 was that getting it all up and running harmoniously would be unmanageable. The incredible interconnectedness of all industry would cause problems. Say one node wants to start again, but it depends on 5 other input nodes that also want to start again. Those 5 cannot begin without their own connected nodes. And so like an apocalyptic version of trying to restart a global power grid you would have cascades of failures, rubber-banding demand and supply, and so on.
Podcast dicussing data compliance in the US
My first podcast episode where I hosted Tatiana an Attorney with experience in data compliance.
Realistically 10k ads employees are earning $30M each and the other 130k employees are losing $600k each.
Which is, of course, bollocks, because the first thing anybody does when working on a hotfix is to create a new directory and create a new tree there. The only difference between git and perforce is that in perforce, the concept of directory<->branch is built into the system, but with git, git knows nothing about it and its all manual. Instead, git is one of the VCS that says "you can have only one working copy on disk" and when you switch branches we'll believe that you want to throw away what you were just working on.

I used to think the "one directory" for everything was the way to go. In a startup around 2001, I tried ten different VCS systems, including looking for ones I'd never heard of (e.g. AccuRev), and I initially vetoed perforce because it wanted to put different branches in different folders. When all was said and done, I selected perforce for precisely that reason.

But git goes further than simply not having "multiple checked out branches" as a concept. Instead, its conceptual model for why I have branches and what I want to do with them is fundamentally wrong, as this article points out.
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> I just don't want to be tracked, ever, for any reason, by anyone.

Curious what this means to you in practice? I'm trying to imagine what zero tracking looks like... and wondering if I misunderstand what you mean by "ever, for any reason, by anyone." or if you're really serious about your wish and mean it as literally as it sounds.

You don't want your doctor to have records of your previous visits? (Prefer to be offered the Covid Vaccine every time from now on?) You don't want the ability to have any personal bank / investment accounts? Our HN account & posts are being "tracked", what's an alternative to this discussion? How should governments manage the basics of things like social security or driver's licenses? How would anyone even contact you or employ you without some kind of telephone number or internet address that can be tracked? How would you find gainful employment, and do you want to re-negotiate your compensation daily?

Framing all information storage as "tracking" and all information retrieval as "surveillance" seems to turn a blind eye to the many benefits we enjoy, while stoking a general and vague fear. I think I'm more privacy conscious than most, and I think we have some massive privacy issues at the moment, but I have to recognize the benefits I enjoy at the same time and seek to find a reasonable and practical balance. So, I accept some tracking, and what I want is always opt-in by default and control over who tracks what.
> I'd be curious to read your thoughts on mitigating risk with general aviation.

It seems like one of the big ones is simply: "Don't go up in shitty weather."

Too many people are dead because they just had to fly in crap weather.
It was not meant to be an insult, i simply think framing higher education against economic gain at all misses a lot of the value people derive from attending.

> Schools should only be paid if their education yielded economic gain for students but students should be permitted escape valves if possible.

This sentence reads (to me) as if "schools should only get paid if it leads to students making money" and the "escape valve" part seems like "students have an escape from paying when its not profitable" not "they can pay when its not profitable".

Under your new wording, I think that i still disagree. I think schools should charge however they want and instead of regulating how private institutions receive income, we should ensure that there are affordable options focused on vocational outcomes (state-run schools) that are so affordable that they are always economically gainful.

Some taxes are already based on income, so maybe in a profit-sharing model, attending state school is free but you share X% of income in taxes per credit-hour or per-semester until a certain cost is repaid to the state. (eg. a 100 credit hour degree costs 10% income at 0.1% per credit hour until $50k is repaid while a drop-out who attended for a single 15 credit hour semester pays 1.5%, while Harvard can charge 50k per semester up front to any one willing, regardless of outcome)
>I don't want to victim blame here because this guy sounds like a grade A creep and predator. 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. The idea that being around a member of the opposite sex (and does this apply to members of the same sex? e.g. men raping men, and women raping women?) in a private space while being intoxicated levies some kind of 'responsibility' to be on the lookout for rape is absolutely victim blaming. It's insisting that her non-sexual actions of literally just being around someone confers a responsibility of any kind pertaining to a sexual act on her.
For me, checkout is easy to remember because I'm literally checking out an older version of the file.
At a guess, for the same reasons visual ads are - they've got some kind of targeting logic that needs to pick from a pool of ads and send them to the viewer. Though of course if YT started serving them all from indistinguishable sources, or composited them together on the fly, or ... I'd be sad.
Ghost for landing page, air table, stripe checkout (although it’s using a single aws lambda endpoint), Zapuer
It's not AutoCAD. Revit linking is (or was when I last looked 3 years ago) an unmitigated toxic hell stew!

Autodesk are an absolute blight on the architecture and engineering worlds. While there is hand wringing going on around Apple/Google being investigated for antitrust, one of the biggest offenders goes unnoticed because it is 'niche'. Architectural firms don't make much money at the best of time, these parasites suck the life out of them.
> Imagine a letter like this targeted at you one day, except unlike Mr. Pretty, you are innocent.

You already assume he is guilty ?
This is actually a serious theory called anarcho-capitalism.
Why would someone want to do all that instead of paying this company $30/month? There are lots of people who's jobs are spent in a web browser. Your examples aren't selling a solution to a problem–they are just tools. Which is fine and great for people who need them, but I simply wanted a faster browser, I'd rather use a service that is dedicated to that purpose.
It might be because men unfortunately, as a group, disproportionately misbehave in these situations. Sending unwelcome dick pics, sending aggressive messages to people who don’t show any interest in them etc. I’ve wondered myself if charging us to send messages might rein in the antisocial behaviour a bit.