skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have increasingly noticed people categorize competing political or social opinions as racist or disparaging. Many of my co-workers label support for enforcing existing border controls as racist, opposition to affirmative action or racial reparations as white supremacist. This memo seems to do the same:

> “These protestors aren’t going to solve anything, ” she said. ”Like, what are those people even trying to
do? Seriously. What are they trying to do? Make people mad about getting stuck in traffic? Piss people
off because they can’t get to Grand Central? It’s annoying . I just can’t stand it.” She rattled off a couple of other disparaging comments about the peaceful protestors I was preparing to join, repeatedly referring to them as those people before a chorus of my team’s nodding heads, each bobbing affirmingly behind their desks. With each nod, my co-workers validated my irate teammate’s frustration — and her disgust. How could the team I’d grown to trust and respect care so little about an innocent man who’d lost his life?

The fact that one's co-worker does not approve of protestor and thinks their tactics are ineffective or counterproductive is not disparagement. Diversity means there is going to be a diversity of viewpoints and opinions on controversial topics. Lack of diversity is not the root of this employee's distress. Quite the opposite, the fact that the author encountered people with different viewpoints is the cause of this. The author later states that, "Over the last 5 years, I’ve heard co-workers spew hateful words about immigrants, boast unabashedly about gentrifying neighborhoods, mockingly imitate people who speak different
languages, reject candidates of color without evidence because of 'fit,' and so much more." But in the absence of sharing the details of those events, we're left to wonder whether this "hateful words" about immigrants and "boasting unabashedly about gentrification" amount to genuine harassment or differences of opinion that the author finds intolerable.

I think it's great that the industry is making efforts to become more diverse. But that comes with creating an environment in which people are going to come into contact with co-workers with very different views on controversial topics. It seems to me that the solution isn't more diversity (although more diversity is welcome in its own right), it's either curtailing discussions of these topics in the office or establishing a set of approved viewpoints and forbidding espousing or sharing views outside this set. The last solution is to cultivate an environment where people respect each other regardless of differences and do not treat encountering an opinion they find harmful or bad as a personal attack - but this last solution seems increasingly difficult to achieve.
Congrats on shipping!!!

Been doing Rails for the past year coming from a C# and ColdFusion background. God I love what you can accomplish in a short amount of time with Rails.

ColdFusion became a nightmare since there is NOTHING for it any more.

C#, though awesome, is just too verbose.

Rails and Ruby are a God send.
There certainly is a penalty for missing time slots (especially if you're trying to overpower the other transmitter). There are two reasons for this: (1) the victim device will have hit the time slot and the pairing process will move into the next stage and (2) packet counters will prevent you from using the same packet in the wrong slot.

Trying to overpower the transmission of the BT peer is certainly the technique to take (although I was hoping not to broadcast that publicly in my original post). You will still have a tough time, however, because you're probably trying to overpower the transmission of two collocated devices (e.g. keyboard+computer) while you are 5-50feet away. In many cases you'll probably end up saturating the receiving antenna. It will be largely a trial-and-error technique, but it will work eventually.
Yes I was wondering about what the net effect of a field of panels might have on the soils beneath them. Whether we'll see animals take shelter there, birds nest, etc. Whether parched soils might recover moisture easier under shade, and so on.

I'm sure there's been studies on this, would be interesting to see them.
Have you read any of the comments in this thread? We are talking about take-home tasks that take 5 to 10 hours or more, not fizzbuzz.

You are naive if you think you solved cheating by checking technical skills on the onsite. What if I'm a 7/10 candidate, and someone else is a 9/10, but I cheat and submit the solution of my friend who is a 10/10. I'll get the flight ticket to the onsite, the better qualified guy will not, and you will have to choose from a smaller pool of candidates, in which I might be the best one.
If it's rendered in your editor as spaces and committed to your repository as spaces, then spaces.

I doubt many space users actually type spaces by hand (a common pseudo-counterargument against spaces).
The specific issues the OP referenced were police brutality in the US against blacks, so I would assume he specifically meant African American.
wasn't the us involved with the vietnam conflict for the better part of 20 years? i was actually under the impression that the vietnam protests, while at times quite noticeable, weren't all that impactful in-and-of themselves.

i think that, insofar as one might be inclined to point at "successful" protests, it's often really an issue of achieving a consensus amongst a plurality of those in power.

perhaps protests can work toward that (i'm not sure); but if so, they could also work against it. i sadly doubt the protests in hong kong, despite their scope and intensity, will change much at all when the powers-that-be neither care, nor (seemingly) can ever be made to care.
>you can hop along with them

The hopping sequence is determined pesudorandomly (not sequentially) using the link key, so you can't exactly "hop along" once you find the right channel.
Maybe Black is a better choice in this case? Sorry, I'm a bit ignorant as to the precise nuances of identity that this person felt were important here.
The trick with falsetto is to transition flawlessly to and from. Singers have to work on extending it downward. If you stay in falsetto while reaching for low notes, that's when things can awkwardly falter. There has to be decent overlap with the regular voice ("modal voce"), for easy transitioning.

Singing with too much falsetto is annoying; it should just be used to reach a few high notes, IMHO. If someone has to falsetto the whole song, it's in the wrong key or register for them.

In the 1970's, supposedly, radio stations used to advertize "Bee-Gee-free weekends", ha.
Plus their infrastructure lead is literally gargantuan. Charging stations are everywhere, without them you might as well not have roads they can drive on.
I'm guessing this is because DES was also 7 bytes. And DES is laughably insecure, even 3DES was retired years ago.

Op is correct, this is not a solution.
I thought about this a bit, and here's how I imagine it would work (based on how my state works currently):

1. You turn 16. You drive on the simulator - if you pass, you do a real drive with a human tester.

2. In 5 years when you renew your license, you go on the simulator again. If you pass, you get to renew your license. No human-in-car test required.

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The advantages:

- This covers things we can't currently test for:

- Marijuana
- Spice and unknown drugs
- Sleep deprivation
- Deterioration due to age (afraid to bring this up, but it's an issue)

- It's exact - there is no interpretation by a person.

- It's an actual impairment/ability test. Rather than putting a number on how much {x} you consumed - it measures what matters.

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For accessibility issues, traditional driving tests (and blood tests for impairment) would have to be used. If your vision doesn't allow you to test on the simulator - you take a physical driving test with a person. Simulator tests can't be used for impairment.

Other interesting ideas:

- Insurance rates based on your score in the simulator (not sure if this would be fair, or could be abused - but thought it was an interesting idea).

- We could have data for how your driving ability degrades with age.

- It should maybe be codified that equipment changes (new simulators, etc.) are not allowed between a test and impairment test. So the state would need to keep old equipment around for 5 years for migration.

> Any reasonable device of this kind would fail a nonzero perccentage of sober drivers and pass a nonzero percentage of intoxicated drivers. And not just because of noise -- some people drive worse sober than others do high. So don't hold your breath waiting for laws to allow it.

Yeah I agree that people will take issue with that. I personally don't care what someone did 15 minutes before getting into their car, so long as they can safely drive.

Anyway, I thought this was fun to think about. It seems like a really nice solution. I'd love to hear some more reasons why it wouldn't work!
It may be off the mark to compare to a Civic, but I've spent some quality time in a Model 3, and the only folks who think it compares favorably to a BMW/Merc/Audi are diehard fans.

Is there a single competitor to the Model 3 on the market yet? They should be doing really good with the lack of competition.
The homicide rate in the US is about 10x that of Norway. The rate of killings by the policy is about 10,000x higher.

Also, guns aren't illegal in Norway, there are 31 per 100 inhabitants.
Started a new project with Rails 6.0.0.rc2 the other day. Great experience, up and running quickly and enjoyed all the new little touches (object allocations in the logs is great). The multi database[1] thing is also great to have built in - the new app has an analytics database and a web app database that it needs to query, so it is great to be able to use the new functionality for that!

[1] https://edgeguides.rubyonrails.org/active_record_multiple_da...
The guy may be a class A Ahole, but I really like that message. Like, really like it. He's essentially saying "yes, I know the shenanigans you play, and I'm not going there."

Though, I doubt it's a business that will "scale to tens of thousands of employees around the world". That seems like a reach.
Given there are countless substances that are hard/impossible to test for that could affect someone's ability to drive, the solution to this issue seems not to invent a new device for each substance but to come up with a more generalized test to measure someones level of impairment — reaction times are a good proxy.
Can you share a reference for this statement ?

"... a similarly impairing dose of cannabis results in 0.00001 ppm of the drug in breath."
> I wish the culture would be more willing to engage in conflict resolution type conversation and learn how to do it.

It's rather difficult to engage in conflict resolution when the other side refused to listen for at least the past 22 years...

I do agree with you, but it takes two to tango.
People need guns so the police gets trained to use deadly force anytime they feel "threatened".
One question: with such varying cannabis tolerances, how one reason about impairment levels at a given concentration? I think it’s well-intentioned, but expect this to primarily overestimate impairment of chronic users and underestimate that of naive users.
You do need to trust and have a rapport with the counselor, though. While it's true that counseling is more about fixing yourself than having someone fix you, the process doesn't work if you aren't willing to open up in the first place.
If breathalyzers were inaccurate, uncalibrated, or unmaintained it would be trivial to get any conviction relying on their measurements thrown out.
That is an old post (June 2017). I thought it was now accepted that people should use tabs, until I read the comments here. From a recent post, Nobody talks about the real reason to use tabs over spaces, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20341354; if you're visually impared, using spaces make for poor accessibility. Don't be a dick, use tabs!
That doesn't sound plausible. Bluetooth still needs to run the radio, even at low power.
Delta Sues Chatbot Provider over 2017 Breach
But it is ironic that someone would seek therapy to cope with a racist world, and but refuse service based on the race of the therapist.
>A person who makes a good wage and carves out a life for themselves is successful by any metric.

Just not by the metrics discussed in TFA, which is the whole point. It's not like everybody agrees that "a good wage" is success.
The yield curve inverted over 2 years before the 2008 recession [1], that's not the most timely indicator.

[1] https://money.cnn.com/2005/12/27/news/economy/inverted_yield...
This is a good point. Maybe at some distant point in the future we will softly decouple formatting from code by delegating it all to finely tuned autoformatters, or totally decouple it by storing code in a slightly more abstract form such that whitespace rendering becomes largely a presentation preference.
Ask HN: How do you do mobile app developement and CI/CD without Apple Hardware
the field units are garbage. the big thing back at the station that's what will be used to provide data for the trial can be just fine if properly maintained.
Blue-green algae poses blooming danger to paddling pets
Would police be looking to use this as a pre-screen, and then take a blood test if your device reported impairment, or would they be directly using your test in court? Would it simply output the concentration, or would you provide added value via some sort of research/conversion chart that prosecutors can use in court to link the breath concentration to actual impairment, since most states don't have a statutory concentration set for marijuana?
You are indeed confused. I was simply replying to the very generic statement "silence on a matter means either "I am happy with the status quo" or "I am too afraid to express opposition to the status quo.""

This is simply not true. I never talk politics at work, simply because it's nobody's business. My silence is not motivated by fear, and I'm often not happy with the status quo. I just don't want to talk about these topics at work.
I don't see how Sam's Choice is deceptive. Private label product programs are created by retail organizations, often at the behest of the founders/top management (usually the same in family run retail organizations). This is how I imagine it went down:

-Sam Walton said "We should have a private label soda program. Loblaw in Canada has President's Choice."
-Category manager of Soda floats this to potential suppliers.
-Cott Beverage says "Hey, we'll do it. How 'bout we call it 'Sam's Choice'?"
-Category manager of Soda says "Great! I'll tell Sam." (or more likely, the VP of Grocery/Merchandising)
-Sam Walton says "Great Job! Sam's Choice, nice touch. That's my name!"
Indeed. One of my favourite anti-anthropocentric Strugatsky stories is "Wanderers and Travellers" [1], from 1968. It's a very short story, almost a vignette, about a scientist ("stro-archaeologist") who returns from space. He happens to talk to a marine biologist whose project involves putting tracking transmitters on a newly discovered species of cephalopod that seems to have become partly land-dwelling. The scientist then tunes the biologist's radio receiver to a certain wavelength, and reveals, sadly, that the signal they're hearing is coming from himself. He has no idea how, but ever since he and some other scientists visited a certain planet, he's been emitting radio waves. He's been living, powerless and in fear, knowing that, apparently, something out there has "tagged" him with a tracker, just like the biologist with his cephalopods.

The story ties in with the Strugatsky's "Noon universe" explored in several other books, such as Beetle in the Anthill [2], which explores the same purported aliens, the Wanderers, which seem to operate invisibly behind the scenes, subtly manipulating humankind. The aliens may or may not be same ones that caused the Zone in their masterpiece Roadside Picnic.

[1] https://archive.org/details/WanderersAndTravellers

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beetle_in_the_Anthill
Amazon’s Creepy Twitter PR Army Is Growing
So it looks like this vulnerability is here to stay. They just raise the bar from "trivially breakable" to "you need a bit of cloudcomputing effort to break a connection".

You don't even need that, you can crack 56 bits on a home machine.

Keep in mind, DES was 56 bits, and it was brute forced in 56 hours in 1997.

http://cs-exhibitions.uni-klu.ac.at/index.php?id=263
3 looks pretty nice in a lot of code...
This is what happens when the founder is the company.
Exactly, it's a lot like religion, except that at least with politics you can at least attempt to bring facts and data into the discussion in an attempt to disprove the other side's points. But people still treat it like a religion so it generally just isn't productive to discuss it, unless you're among people who are generally like-minded, and you're only hashing out finer points (e.g., would policy A or policy B be more fruitful for reducing global warming? Rather than arguing over whether global warming is real or not).
No, all the published articles I've read come from testing people who've been in a MVC, who were also at fault. With plenty of confounding variables as well.

I'm specifically looking for a dose dependent study that shows level of THC intoxication has positive correlation with driving impairment. With a large sample size. Hopefully from some group not looking to prove something.
As a Brit I could point out many idiotic brain dead things that the political class of this country does. But the switch from coal is quite frankly astonishing, and then you take a look at the biggest offshore wind farms [1] and you see what's replacing it, and then you look at the size of the planned wind farms [also 1] and you start to believe maybe our carbon reduction targets can be met.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_offshore_wind_farms
It's still paywalled, FYI.
In my experience, if the patient does not have a certain level of rapport with the counselor, the effectiveness is greatly reduced because neither party can be confident that they're effectively communicating. Communicating across cultural barriers is more difficult and lower bandwidth.
I can't understand why anyone would think unlocking with a smartphone up to the doorhandle is an improvement. Plenty of cars have had proximity authentication and touchless door unlocking for years. Granted, with a fob rather than a phone, but I'm not sure I see that as a negative.
I think it's the opposite. Sex, politics, and religion used to be verboten in any professional context. There's good reason for that: you're going to have to get along with people who believe different things than you do, and the best way to do that is to focus on your work instead of your beliefs.

Google created a culture where employees are supposed to personally identify with their beliefs and now they're paying the price.
I think this is what the other poster was getting at: for some reason Tesla boosters think other people are copying the design of their keyless entry system, but even a base-model Honda Civic comes with keyless, touchless entry with walk-away automatic locking. This has not been a premium feature, or even a novelty, for years.
Framework that works. If you are building a business - use it. If you are into developers masturbation - use something that was released a month ago and got lots of GitHub stars/HN upvotes.
Yes, dealing with assholes is an important life skill, and it takes time to learn.

I don't see how that relates to my point. They have to be dealt with one way or another, I don't think we should just accept their presence as inescapable. Assholes should be confronted, not tolerated as inevitable.
Legalization does take that ability away, and to some extent this sort of enables it. The simple solution is don't drive under the influence and you will have no issues, but the arbitrary nature of these tests and what happens in real life leave me feeling less than confident this would play out fairly.
I get that breathalyzers give you a nice simple, relatively objective number to point at, but shouldn't we be testing for actual impairment rather than the presence of chemicals which may or may not be an indicator of impairment?
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Yes. :-) The right answer depends on the project. I really appreciate it when projects have .editorconfig files so that indentation just works.

https://editorconfig.org/
> You can't reach any of the area codes you mentioned by dialing a number starting with the area code, because you have to start with 1, the US country code.

You absolutely can. 443, and 445 allow for 10 digit dialing. 442 requires a 1 prefix.

https://nationalnanpa.com/enas/npasRequiring10DigitReport.do

In the USA you need to dial 011 (the exit code) before dialing a country code. You can't just pickup the phone and dial any countries country code and expect it to work. If you're on a phone system that supports it, you can dial +[country code] where the phone system will translate + into your countries exit code.

> Outside the US, you can use the more unambiguous country code 001 to reach the US. (e.g. I had difficulty calling the US from China because normal American 11-digit numbers starting with 1 are processed by Chinese carriers as 11-digit Chinese cell phone numbers. But there, like here, there was no "international call prefix". You just start right off with the country code.)

Only in countries where the exit code is 00. The Country Code for the USA is 1, so in a country where the exit code is 00 that would translate to 001.

In Hong Kong, the exit code is 001, so if you wanted to reach the US you would dial 001 1 then the US area code and number.
Agreed, robot cars when?
It seems to me that the core of this post is that the tweet was left up for nine years and then the account was suspended.

If someone made this tweet now and had their account suspended or the tweet in question was deleted but the account was not suspended, I doubt that we would be discussing this.
A good example is Tibet.
In a nutshell, everyone is oppressed, in some way.

You can be oppressed and be an oppressor. There's something to be said for how and why, but weighing them against each other is nebulous. This has been true throughout history. re: israel-palestinian, hmong-vienamese, english-scottish, etc.

> If you are not the oppressed, you cannot objectively be part of the discussion about _whether or not_ ...

I don't find this assertion is sound. There's an element of ideology in there, which I appreciate, but I do not agree on this practical tenet. If it was rephrased or attenuated to a more specific decisioning system (ie the latter part of the statement, is more palatable, albeit also something I don't fully agree to), I would re-examine it.
We've been doing this for years on a Rails 3 app. We yield from a `slave` method, with the connection pointing to the replica DB until yield returns. It's just a short method. It's great if Rails now supports this directly, but a shame if people have been waiting for it.
No, but I'm also not the one selling breathalyzers either. I was merely offering a hypothetical product that people could work on that would both meet the need this company identified and satisfy most of the complaints from the community here.
>A similarly impairing dose of cannabis results in 0.00001 ppm

Yeah this isn't going to work. The detection threshold is so low it's gonna go off if someone is smoking weed within 500 feet. There will be so many false positives it will practically be a divining rod.

Police already abuse sniffer dogs frequently, we shouldn't allow them to use another unreliable tool to arrest people.
Well, yes. Mature, boring technology. I meant it in the sense of this essay[1].

[1] https://mcfunley.com/choose-boring-technology