skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That article seems to be an anecdotal story from a single person. Sad, but hard to point at it as support for or against legalization without being able to show that similar cases are more common under one system than the other.

Sadly, people with mental health issues and difficult families being preyed upon by abusers is common, even here in the US.
When you say he was "sloshed" do you mean he was drunk? Or do you mean he was very pleased with your praise?
> The author says that lots of measures were taken not to wake people up in the middle of the night, but that despite those efforts 3 people were.

It's pretty presumptuous to assume calling in the middle of the night is a problem as opposed to calling when people are asleep. Which could be any hour of the day.

>Wouldn't the most obvious method have been not to dial numbers at night local time?

There's a super obvious method to avoid all the issues. Don't robocall people at all. This person placed about 20k phone calls between 10pm and 6am. Whether someone answered or not, a ringing phone waking a person a significant intrusion. They also called people and recorded them without their consent.

Here's an easy rule of thumb: in the absence of explicit informed consent don't experiment with other people's stuff. It's amazing that there are adults who don't understand this.

Also, a brief search on the internet suggests Finland is a two party consent state for recording phone calls.
Knowing the "actual" numerical likelihood is not necessary to deem something "likely" or not.

I will likely take a shit tomorrow, but cannot say so with certainty and lack the "actual numerical likelihood."

MacAfee fled the country after his neighbor was shot, and was wanted by police for questioning. Let's not get cute with metaphysical discussions about hedging bets and "actual numerical likehoods" lol.
That was my impression as well. The eng residency program is intended as an entry point for those who aren't yet qualified for Google's entry level engineering positions. It's a kind of apprenticeship. I have heard (but can't confirm) that folks are sometimes invited to apply for residency after not passing an ordinary engineering interview. I also got the impression that there are strong incentives to always convert residents at the end of their residency. I have had limited experience with residents on the job so I can't really comment on their qualifications.
"Radical Feminist" is the only part of the term that everyone agrees is not pejorative.

It is a real branch inside feminism, which lots of women identify with, and it doesn't mean what most people think it does.

Here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radical_feminism
Coke's make-your-own label fail
McAfee is an interesting person but I believe absolutely nothing that he says.
> Personally I don't think this is very important compared to other topics. There are more blind people than trans people. There are more people with Alzheimer's than trans people. There are more people in the US who have lost a limb than trans people.

It's not impactful in terms of the number of people, but its a civil rights issue for those on the left. And for those on the right its just one more group trying to change things from the status quo.

It's also a complex issue. I sit pretty far on the left, but the various issues related to trans policy I find to often not have a clear solution -- most notably around sports and fairness. Sigh.
I am hoping it's a case of people just being ignorant of his life after exiting the software world. The guy left a pretty horrible path of destruction. Hope his victims have some small amount of closure from this, because they won't be getting it from the legal system anymore.
He hadn't been one of the richest people on the planet in more than a decade.

Definitely did not have enough money for literally any lifestyle, especially seeing as it appears he owed a lot of money in back taxes.
Kind of an XY problem to me. The backend and frontend should be in the same repo unless you have an excellent reason for one to be in a separate source repository. The rifts are more numerous than just ticketing on GitHub issues, imo.
That’s also not my business, but point of order: I know several businesses that do exactly this, where the price on DoorDash is about 15-20% higher than what I pay ordering in the restaurant.
> Turns out prison sucks after a while.

Sounds like it sucks at the beginning, too.
I enjoyed following the guy's adventures (if/when it didn't involve killing people), but what on earth might attract powerful authorities that would go as far as killing him in a Western jail? He's not Epstein and mostly posted fantasies and various minor scams.
>you're putting a whole lot of assumptions on me

Not at all, I promise.

If you reread, you'll surely notice the qualifier "seems". I used it precisely because I can't be sure what you actually think, and can therefore only talk about surface-level appearances. Please be assured that I am doing my best to interpret your comments charitably, and assuming the best of your character :)

>But we live in an authoritarian system which limits the rights of transgender people by various means.

I believe you are confusing authoritarianism with something else. Authoritarianism is roughly the idea that institutions (government, businesses, etc.) should exert more control over individuals. The presence of inequities don't qualify as authoritarianism on their own, and neither does outright discrimination. To illustrate: discriminating against a group doesn't imply that government should have more control over individuals. It's definitely bad, but it's something else.

I would urge you not to conflate the two, as this is precisely what prevents the majority of liberals from adhering to CRT et al.

>They want the government to decide your gender, and segregate transgender people from cisgender people.

I don't know if you're talking about the US, the UK or Saudi Arabia here, but in the US and UK -- two countries in which I have, incidentally, lived for quite some time -- this is not what the majority of CRT-critics want. The majority are attached to liberal values, and are concerned that the confusion of ideas that permeates CRT discourse (of which your earlier conflation is an example) lead its proponents to the conclusion that authoritarian measures are desirable.
Then perhaps you can provide some clarity rather than alluding to hidden knowledge that you won't show people? Otherwise what the public has to go on would be John McAfee's YT and Twitter.
Even here on HN I've seen "looking to hire" posts where they basically come out and say they will only consider people from elite colleges and universities. It's hard to see stuff like that, so blatant, and not conclude there's a signaling-networking phenomenon going on. It comes up in other things I've seen too, where I know some idea has been floated over and over again by various groups, and then some deal is announced in the news where some institution (university or corporation) is given the grant or funding or whatever, for the same thing as all the other proposals, and it's obvious it's a rich get richer phenomenon.

These issues are always so complicated because they don't operate in any of the ways that people assume stereotypically. One person will be hit by circumstance positively or negatively in a way that's idiosyncratic to them, and privilege operates in subtle ways sometimes.

As for your question, a few years ago there was a blog post making the rounds showing that across colleges, students improve across their undergrad years on standardized testing, but it's pretty much uniform across colleges. More selective colleges have higher means (and in some studies lower variance) but the rate of learning isn't any different, and there's huge overlaps in distributions between institutions. I've tried to find it but haven't been able to from where I'm at at the moment.
And the mechanism of this oscillation is people joining and leaving a movement.

In the beginning the radical idea is a basic kind of equality where some kind of person shouldn't be disadvantaged for some characteristic.

There is then a growth phase where many people join and small specific victories turn into general victories.

There is then a shrinking phase where people leave the movement or lose zeal as general victories are had.

The movement keeps much of its ideology capital and with the more moderate people losing interest, the median ideology moves towards special privileges for hyper-specific characteristics defended by a very real "the problem still exists".

The end stage is a movement that tries to conflate its extreme views as being equally as beyond question and equally morally right as the views during the growth phase, and you get conflict when people have a hard time sorting out the complexities of which is right and which is too far... and you get the backlash where the basic right is threatened by the connection with the extreme views... and so it goes.

The 21st century is the century of complexity, the basic problems are often solved and the complex ones need more nuance than the basic ones took... and the struggle is getting this point across that things aren't as simple as they were before.
I think a lot of these problems would be solved by just adding an "Issues" tab alongside the "Projects" tab at the organization level - with all the features that go along with that (Milestones, labels). Then you could have issues at the organizational level, separate from repositories, and that would allow you to better deal with stories spanning multiple repositories. Especially since these updates (which are fantastic by the way) seem to be adding support epics and the like, it wouldn't be unreasonable at all for epics to span multiple repositories (Frontend, backend, infrastructure or multiple microservices in a multi-repo setup). Conceptually, putting those issues on one of those repositories feels wrong. Putting them on the organization is much clearer.
It is absurd to apply that to individual, or even social, judgement. We don't actually pretend to be ignorant and blind of a person's probable or apparent misdeeds if they haven't been proven in a court of law, nor should we. If, for instance, I notice a couple small, expensive items go missing each time my cousin visits, I'm not going to say "oh well, better not tell anyone else he's probably a thief and I'd better keep inviting him over and leaving him unattended, innocent until proven guilty in a court of law after all". That'd be silly, and acting that way to such an absolute adherence to that principle would be downright anti-social. If he's later convicted and my family finds out I'd noticed years ago, but not warned them because he hadn't been convicted yet, and so he stole things from them because I didn't warn them, they'd justly be pissed off at me.

Or, what, are we suddenly not allowed to judge people's apparent behavior & deeds as soon as they're criminal, but free to before that? That doesn't make much sense either. But clearly we can form and share judgements about behavior that's not criminal, and that's fine. If it gets too serious, though, then we have to stop unless a conviction occurs? Huh?
Is this going to be perverted as a way to grow DRM on the device and have it owned by the vendor instead of the user?
Yup, came here to say the same. https://www.barrons.com/articles/nancy-pelosi-husband-bought...
"So obviously in that case there was foul play."

Correct, and the events that user described is exactly what happened to Jeffery Epstein, and yet somehow we have no public information about who is responsible, and the official story is suicide.
> Regulation will never work to create better working condition.

Regulations do already create better working conditions, including making workplaces safer and things like overtime pay for wage earners. Why do you think that more regulations can’t improve the conditions further?
No, but the market will price an NFT of the Mona Lisa minted by John Doe much less than an NFT of the Mona Lisa minted by Michelangelo.
A him is someone who was born with a penis.

A her is someone who was born with a vagina.

The very, very few people who don't fit clearly into either of these categories (intersex) are exceptions and can be handled on a case-by-case basis.

They are immutable because their reproductive role is immutable. A her can never impregnate. A him can never gestate.

(Either can choose not to perform their particular ability, or lose the ability to do so, but that doesn't change the meaning of these words.)
Everybody has their own bugbears. Bad words, head scarves...
Funniest stuff I've read in years. Lit up my mood a bit after the bad news.
Not a dumb question, very much appreciate you keeping an eye out for your password security. It uses an OAuth flow so you're actually entering your credentials on accounts.spotify.com (Spotify-owned) and then Spotify gives this developer a token (rather than a username+password) to access your data (usually a very limited subset of data outlined on the login page).
> To make the claim that trans people are disproportionately affected by crime/violence is simply not true.

It's well-known that many trans hate crimes go unreported or misreported (as the victim is misgendered). So unless you really think it was highly unlikely for there to be >= 19 unreported/misreported trans deaths (19 + 44 / 1_254_000 > 0.005%), then trans death rates are probably higher.

At least one source which mentions it: https://www.out.com/crime/2020/7/02/these-are-trans-people-k...
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Just like many of our founding fathers!
The plight of the Uyghurs does not relate to the political oppression of trans people. Political oppression of trans people is inextricable from the discussion of anti trans ideology on college campuses. To make an analogy, this article is like writing about the Uyghur genocide, but instead of discussing concentration campus or the Chinese government, focusing instead on one individual who wasnt allowed to speak because they said "China has done nothing wrong." Do you see the problem? Instead of focusing on actual tragedy, I have derailed the conversation by framing the plight of this poor pro China individual as the real issue. Now the comments are debating the subjects of academic free speech and cancel culture instead of the real issue at hand.
So people don't have to look that up, some women claimed he liked seemingly consensual scat. Not really comparable to alleged murder.
The prison debate is a red herring

People who run prisons are often sadists.

In double bunked men's prisons rapists get to ply their trade. Get double bunked along with the rest.
I don't think I'm exactly right about this, but consider three sets of words:

- man/woman

- male/female

- masculine/feminine

There is a concept of grammatical gender, where words can be masculine or feminine (or neuter in some cases, and there are other systems as well with different words). You don't talk about man words or male words, it's masculine. So, I tend to think of gender as masculine or feminine. That covers most people (although not all: nonbinary, gender fluid, genderqueer, etc. are all real).

I tend to think of sex as male or female. At least for human beings, that covers most people (not all, intersex is a real thing, and there are other unusual but 'natural' configurations as well)

So one way to look at this - which again, is probably not exactly correct, but it's how I think - male/masculine and female/feminine are what we've traditionally thought of as man and woman. But, I think it's pretty clear now that we need to account for the other combinations, i.e. male/feminine and female/masculine. That's where cis- and trans- come in: male/masculine is a cis male, female/masculine is a trans male, both are subsets in the set of all men. Same with women.

We've got nonbinary, genderqueer, etc. as well. I don't really understand the latter, but the former is pretty easy to explain: imagine being told you had to be masculine or feminine, and your response was "No, I don't. I prefer or reject some of each."

Overall, to me, gender is about what you like and how you behave, while sex is more biology (i.e., what's in your pants). It's easier to understand the arguments if you completely separate gender from sex, and don't make assumptions about one based on the other. In fact, I think the assumptions - e.g. gender roles - are the entire problem, and if people would just stop with that, a lot of things would get better.
Do the past statements of a clearly unhinged individual need to be taken seriously?
i really enjoy job newsletters for some weird reason. guess it helps to get stuff in inbox instead of actively searching just so i can see what co's are doing re tech stacks etc.. just wondering about "compiles all the positive impact job offers on the web, thanks to some bots and a bit of AI" can u elaborate on how you're using AI?? where are you scraping job postings from? also, q not about your product, but how was your experience with umso.com?
Check out his instagram
Doesn't type hinting in 3.5 solve this, assuming one was to use it?
> Well. There are two proposals. If we go with the subkey proposal, we'd not implement the simple protocol, solving that issue.

Avoiding that concrete exploit.

The lack of domain separation design flaw remains. :)

As typical for design flaws it may not be meaningfully exploitable at any given time. Doesn't mean it isn't a design flaw.
54 percent of Americans believe "whether a person is a man or a woman is determined at birth". There is a wide partisan divide with 80 percent of Republicans agreeing (so probably not radical feminists) and only 34 percent of democrats agreeing.

https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2017/11/08/transgender...
I wouldn't know a browser that would still support it. Because of said issues, it didn't see any significant use (apart from a few enthusiastic experiments early on.)
This is not uncommon when you are both a notorious asshole and wealthy enough to make it a problem for everyone else
We are doing the same, and are quite happy with it.
This means that very often, implementing a new feature can be done exclusively on the frontend, as opposed to spending time on both the frontend and the backend as we would with the old-school approach.
At least one of those rape accusations was made on camera, by Allison Adonizio. It's not a fuzzy Twitter rumor thing. She accuses him of drugging and raping her.
The Olympics has been dealing with the question of womanhood for a very long time. For a while they were literally stripping and groping female athletes. Later they did chromosome testing, until they discovered intersex individuals who confound that theory.

Even their current testosterone-levels theory is imperfect, since some people have obviously female bodies but inordinately high testosterone levels.

So they seem to be muddling along about as well as they can. If they want to have a separate women's category, it's a question they're going to have to answer.
There's a difference between legally paying no taxes despite being rich and illegally paying no taxes. The tax laws need to be reformed, but that's a separate issue.
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Tenure and firing protections and procedures are negotiated with the union. Unreasonable protections can be a concession to union bargainers in lieu of pay, and are common in union shops for that reason.
lol soooo cool. takes me back
I personally keep display functions away from business objects. You could do with a mixin, or a helper class.
> what do FTP servers even do with this?

Pretty sure CWD by itself isn't even valid (at least RFC959 assumes it has an argument), and therefore // isn't valid in FTP URLs.

The %2Ffoo/bar is needed because of the fact that FTP CWD and RETR paths are system dependent (with, theoretically, system dependent path separators), but URLs are not, so the FTP client breaks the URL on / and sequentially executes CWD down the tree so that it doesn't need to know what it's connected to.

In other words: URL paths are not system paths, and it's a mistake to think of them as such.

(Alternate in other words: FTP is awful)
That makes him a monster?
Perhaps, but I doubt those secrets were secrets that "they don't want you to hear". He's never been in a position to get any governmental secrets and, AFAIK, he's not really known to have connections with anyone really important in government (ala Epstein).

It also makes little sense that the US government would kill him before extradition and not after when they have a lot more control over narrative and investigations. Killing him on foreign soil makes everything needlessly harder for the US.
> As the next paradigm of human-computer interaction, the emerging AR Cloud will fundamentally change the way we live, play, learn, and work.

Tangent: why is AR so attractive to people?

I've had VR since the first Oculus Quest came out, so I definitely understand the value in a good spatial experience. I've never had the desire for that immersion to lessen so I can start working with holographic oversight. Much like transparent displays, I think the idea of AR is a lot cooler than it will work in practice. It's fitting function to form, which is the wrong way to approach a problem like this.
I've seen people mistakenly assert the backronym "comfortable in skin". I'm not sure why else it would be so common.
My entire instruction was to do everything to avoid court. I didn’t want to get tied up in court.
She said bad things about the cheerleading team. The team decided to not have her as a cheerleader anymore. The school is a sideshow to all this. She wasn't punished by being put in detention or any other school related activity. Not sure how this is "punishing children".
Mostly towards the end of his life it would appear. I don't recall hearing anything about him prior to 2016 and the run-up in crypto.
Windows 10 pro let’s you bring up fresh sandbox with one click and about 5 seconds to boot, it’s really not such a burden.

Or maybe people just have temp VMs running anyway, and like others have said, if you’re browsing hacker news on your work machine you should probably do so with a healthy dose of paranoia.
I'm in a similar boat coming from a Rails mishmash and looking at our next product, particularly debating JS vs Kotlin. While the upsides of static typing are pretty clear, here's my problem. All our app really does is receive a JSON request, read some data from a database, do some computation (this is the step where static would be nice), write some data to a database, and then respond with more JSON. So the inputs and outputs of the system are collections of heterogeneous maps that static typing systems don't handle well. So if I want those nice static guarantees in my code, I need to write layers of ORM and serializer code to get data in and out of my system. I'm not sure the static benefits are worth the advantages of not having to maintain this additional layer of data transformation.
What he knows is immaterial though.

Whatever McAfee would "reveal" would just be his word. Which isn't great. Unless he knows how to obtain evidence of things, what he "knows" is just rambling.

Movies have instilled in us this notion that simply knowing something is good enough. It's not. Let's pretend for a second that McAfee knew that certain public figures were, without a doubt, 100%, Satanic pedophile lizard people or whatever the flavor of the month panic is.

If his only proof of this is that he saw Person X devour a live baby while molesting children in the basement of a pizza parlor, it's kind of meaningless. It's not much better than just saying you know it because you believe it really strongly.

The information he would have to know would be specific to uncover something in a way that people could actually act on that information.

Otherwise, it's like what Bill Murray whispered in my ear after he painted my house last night, "No one will ever believe you".