skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Single example counterpoint: MIT runs a mastodon instance:

https://mastodon.mit.edu/about
AFAIK search engines have the right to determine if a request is 'reasonable' according to some internal criteria. That's not something I'm comfortable with anyone having.
Given your tone, it sounds like you sincerely believe that I am more likely to have positive feelings about doing well in a game than a girl is for reasons that are not cultural / social.
Yes on a desktop browser.
> FCRA actually shields the surveillance bureaus from charges of libel/slander.

That's true, but I was proposing holding the creditor/lender liable for filing a bad report with the credit bureaus, not the bureaus themselves.

The basic problem is that lenders/creditors are not exercising due diligence when extending credit or loaning money to an individual. While this is currently referred to as "identity theft", it's really a problem with the lender/creditor and they should be held accountable if they cause harm to the actual consumer by filing a bad report with the bureaus.
> Not having enough at any price.

No such thing. Prices will always hit a point where demand decreases. Inelastic isn't 100%.
Didn’t BSD implement something like that? The program says: these are the features I need, disable all the others?
The State of Mobile Internet Connectivity 2019 [pdf]
You can serve minified JS, but you should also provide the source code. Doesn't need to be loaded directly, it can be a link on the website.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNU_LibreJS
"What we list for legal purposes" and "what the device actually does" might not be the same thing. I imagine saying "my device detects heart attacks" gets the FDA involved and makes everything ten times more expensive...
Not on iPhone.
The global internet is powered by vast undersea cables. But they're vulnerable
Note that statistics tend to be different if you focus on the top 10 or top 5 systems (not represented in the linked chart).
Ownership, yes.

Physical presence, not completely: https://www.apple.com/watch/cellular/
There are considerable refining costs and transport costs from the refinery to your tank. Especially so because in the UK I don't believe you have considerable refining industry so I assume much of it is imported and then FOREX comes into play. Fuel taxes, at least in the US, are constant per volume and not relative to price and in California make up currently about 15% of the cost.

On top of all of those factors I would only guess that at high prices profit margins fell by ratio which was recovered (or just increased) when prices fell.
Dude Ranch is not as fun as ram ranch!
Thanks! Didn't try that particular combination.
Don't know why you are being downvoted but you your TLDR is pretty much spot on.

I would suggest to any techie who finds this not true to leave the bay area for a couple months then come back. It is amazing how entitled everyone is over here.
"I've fallen and I can't get up!"

edit: its a reference to the ads, you bozos.
It does on mine.
> combining our knowledge from disparate fields and the indicators are truly that it's much more insidious than anyone can possibly imagine

What are you specifically referring to here? QM?
Thankfully, I was finally able to uninstall gboard (google's swipe keyboard). Don't know why it took Apple so long to implement swipe keyboard feature.
It's been a while since I read the paper in detail, but, IIRC, it _is_ using normal graph walking algorithms. They're just implemented in SQL.

That it's implemented on top of a relational database seems like a red herring to me. The relational model just defines operations on sets of tuples. A graph is just a particular kind of thing you can construct with sets and tuples.

From there, the query planner and execution engine take over, and an incumbent RDBMS's query planner and execution engine are supported by decades and decades worth of accumulated dark knowledge on how to optimize execution plans and efficiently traverse large datasets in the presence of a hierarchical memory model.

By contrast, Neo4j (to take an example) has a steeper hill to climb. Both in terms of not having had to spend decades trying to compete with Oracle, and in terms of being implemented in a less-than-ideal language for chasing raw performance.
Mass Rename Files on Gcloud in Place with Gsutil Multiprocessing Parallel
So long as the non-cellular version of the watch has an active bluetooth link with your phone, it will make the same callout.
I hope not, I don't want my smashed head to be ignored just because my heart is still beating.
it is light sweet crude. Likely will rely more and more on trains. Which would be a better buy than picking a oil company, since no one is divesting from train companies.
From what I understand, Apple removed the ability for TB2. In order to use an eGPU, some system files need to be patched [0].

0. https://github.com/mayankk2308/purge-wrangler
Should only be one line, I didn't see the problem this time around because I had installed this plugin the other day.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21020162

https://github.com/corollari/fixedHackerNews/blob/master/ext...
To be fair, almost all in home medical alert systems use a fixed base station. So even if they wore both, the Life Alert bracelet would only save lives in a ditch very near the home.
My condolences, it's always painful losing family. I too lost a cousin about six years ago due to heart failure, he had just about turned 21. I wish he'd had an Apple Watch (or similar device) at the time.
I've been wary of Gatekeeper and SIP as moving Macs towards an iOS-style walled garden, but this is a perfect case of SIP protecting the user from bad software.
Tensorflow is open source so you can build this at anytime and Google won't stand in your say.
In a single-threaded universe, what more do you need to lock the world than a boolean variable?
As with everything, there is some give and take, but one point in favor of something like a watch doing fall detection is a potentially better anti-false-positive detection. Set your life alert pendant down on the dresser a little hard and it may think you've fallen, and maybe you don't hear the callback for verification, so you get a visit from the police in your shower after they've forced the front door open. This happened to my grandfather ;-). The Apple Watch should be able to correctly avoid a false fall detection in that situation because you will have taken it off your wrist (though not strictly necessary since it is waterproof) and it knows that it's not on your wrist.
This is the key thing.

There are many good ideas that exist out there that are "unknown" because the product they are in misses some aspect of how consumers would wish to consume them. My favorite was that the Tesla Roadster wasn't the first electric car, but it was the first that I could see myself buying at some point.

The nice thing about this being a feature of the watch is that the watch brings a bunch of great stuff all on its own. That it can also call emergency services or diagnose Afib is like bonus time.
I was able to ask my doctor to prescribe a halter monitor for 24 hours after similarly having intermittent "irregular heartbeat". I have fantastic insurance and have access to a major cardiac research center so ymmv but may be worth asking for the 24 hour study if you're concerned.

Ultimately what I got back was "yep you do have an irregular heartbeat sometimes. It's nothing threatening and you'll be fine." They additionally did a stress test and found that under exertion my heartbeat returns to normal so it was nice to have the peace of mind.
The IRS has made that extremely difficult for software contractors, and most companies will prefer to avoid the high risk of an individual contractor being reclassified as an employee.
> I received an incredible education from MIT (and I was admitted based on merit), but I took that education and went to work for non-profit research institutes, because making as much money as possible was not my primary objective.

That's a fair criticism if my comment was made in a vacuum. However, my comment was in response to an anecdote that claimed that legacy admissions are good because they offer a way up the social ladder for those who get into the same school through hard work and merit.

While there are certainly ways up the social ladder via non-profits, etc, the fact of the matter is that those at the top of the social ladder -- those making decisions, etc -- are much richer than the rest of the populace, and money typically buys influence. Even Bernie Sanders, critic of capitalism that he is, has a net worth substantially higher than the typical American.

Thus, I'm going to dismiss your critique as perhaps morally right, but realistically irrelevant.
That is just awesome. I really wish as a software engineer that there were more jobs in my field that could make this kind of a difference to people's lives.
Ask HN: Sorry guys. I should've asked at /r/politics.
forgive me.
I also had a hunch that you interest isn't really about saving the planet but in supporting the implementation of your ideological agenda.
I find the "10,000 hour rule" odd (after reading both Ericsson and Gladwell). It's often misinterpreted as "10,000 hours of X will make you an expert in X", but that's not how I interpret the claims by Ericsson or the simpler repackaging by Gladwell.

I read the article you linked and was hoping it contained new research to clarify or refute the work done by Ericsson, but it didn't. The linked article regurgitates two of the key points in The Road To Excellence by Ericsson:

* You need to be engaged in deliberate practice (e.g pushing yourself outside of your current area of expertise). Not mindless work. I'm not an expert driver from my 10,000+ hours of commuting.
* 10,000 hours isn't a set figure. It's an average at best. The premise is claiming that people in the top-tier (2%-5%) spent a lot of time consistently practicing their area before reaching the top-tier.

The "10,000 hour rule" hasn't been debunked. It just doesn't mean what some people assume it means when first hearing it refereed to as the "10,000 hour rule".
Announcing React Native 0.61 with Fast Refresh
Worth a read: Twilight in the Desert: The Coming Saudi Oil Shock and the World Economy by American investment banker Matthew Simmons.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twilight_in_the_Desert
Since it’s all single-threaded, you can write your own locking primitives and they will work correctly.
64ms is still not something you're going to be "waiting" for.

Typical human reaction time is 200ms or so. This effectively means that for 200-264ms you're not priming to repeat the action or wondering whether it "took", because there's an immediate response and the action itself does something useful quickly.
I'd love to get my Mom and Apple Watch but getting her to switch to iPhone is probably a bridge too far. How come no Android watches have this functionality?
With his ending I also implied it was to cure his loneliness:

> If I were lonely today, I would say...
I came here to say that Nurse Practitioners are the ones who can do perscriptions. Not regular Registered Nurses. For anybody who might not already know. And correct it is only a doctor who can prescribe certain types of medications, likely stronger medications.
Ultrafast structural rearrangement dynamics induced by phenoxide photodetachment
Let's not confuse what's in our heads and what's outside of them.

Philosophy doesn't get us out of the gravity well, cure diseases, build computers, or feed the hungry. However, it does motivate people to prioritize those things.
I don't know if you intended to, but it comes across as arrogant and dismissive.

Dealing with asynchrony has been the an issue in JavaScript from the beginning, as the fundamental model is event driven.

There are a number of mechanisms for coordinating work, including mutexes (see Atomics.wait()), but for >99% of code, Promises are a better option.
> Early this year, Sky and NBCUniversal announced that AdSmart would expand to the US with both broadcasters taking the first step toward creating global premium video offering.

It looks like this garbage is coming to the US as well.
This. I feel like the article is a little bit too negative, but I've been something pretty much similar. I moved to SF, worked for about 4 years, loved it, but then moved back to Europe and realised "oh wow, it IS a bubble".

Now I'm excited to eventually go back to the bay, but it was very valuable to take a step back, go away and think about it!
The document completely overlooks Columnar databases, which are focused on analytics and are much faster than (most, not all) general-purpose DBMSes. See:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Column-oriented_DBMS

and

https://www.slideshare.net/arangodb/introduction-to-column-o...

or get:

http://www.nowpublishers.com/article/Details/DBS-024

Examples:

* MonetDB

* SAP Hana

* Actian Vector (formerly Vectorwise)

* Oracle In-Memory
Absolute nonsense.

If someone could make this device and run it cost effectively, what incentive do they have to sell it? Last I checked, the only place to make money on crypto was certain areas in China with very low electricity costs.
> I never had the impression that it was guaranteed to correctly detect all (or even most) life threatening situations

Apple Watch detects falls, not unconsciousness. It doesn't detect heart attacks either.

> Apple Watch cannot detect all falls. The more physically active you are, the more likely you are to trigger fall detection due to high impact activity that can appear to be a fall. [0]

[0] https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT208944
In the future, everyone will wear a smart watch (2015):

https://h4labs.wordpress.com/2015/07/28/in-the-future-everyo...

I’m disappointed that Android Wear didn’t take off.

More competition would greatly increase innovation.
But they do just as well if they hadn't rubbed elbows with legacy students. That's what the study found.

> Entrepreneurs need investors.

Investors also need entrepreneurs to create the mechanisms of wealth creation. Aside from angel investing, most VC money is via institutional funds (perhaps with substantial contributions from individual accredited investors). The VC, as a steward of others money, needs to find entrepreneurs who are able to drive a high enough possibility of a great rate of return.

Actually, given that there are entrepreneurs who were able to make it without large substantial investment, whereas there are no investors able to make it without the involvement of entrepreneurs, I'm going to hazard to say that investors need entrepreneurs more than entrepreneurs need investors, even if marginally.
> Well, I've not seen a language/paradigm that makes in impossible to write good code in, either.

8-bit BASIC.
> People make a lot of noise about union dues, but they're a drop in the bucket compared to the higher wages the union will negotiate for.

My last job had a union and I was being paid 10¢ more per hour than minimum wage. Not exactly a “higher wage”
Tuesday: Reaching Souls
Why not keep a good chunk of cash around? During the 2017 ~ 2018 financial crisis, 1331 out of 1363 midcap+ stocks lost money. It was a great time to buy undervalued stocks that eventually benefitted from the longest recovery period ever, still going strong today. Even AIG, the villain that caused the crash and was bailed out by the government, was one of the top performers during the recovery.

If you're curious, here's the full stock performance dataset I pulled for the last recession: https://shan.io/writing/learnings-from-the-2008-great-recess...
The actual code for it may be more interesting and informative compared to OP's (somewhat sparse) link:

https://github.com/talos-systems/talos
Only the second step "removing obviously incorrect results" involved human annotators.
I call them platonic thinkers. People who reject that concept of integration[0] and in effect reject reality. Rousseau is perhaps the greatest example, in his own words:

"It is reason which breeds pride and reflection which fortifies it; reason which turns man inward into himself; reason which separates him from everything which troubles or affects him. It is philosophy which isolates a man, and prompts him to say in secret at the sight of another suffering: 'Perish if you will; I am safe.'"

[0]http://www.importanceofphilosophy.com/Epistemology_Integrati...
I'm sorry. There's a lot of comedy that seems hurtful or poor quality in parodying people. Maybe I read more into it than others.
If the desire is so strong to make discourse open and unencumbered by individual corporate walls, then this one article could have been placed up outside the paywall. To say, "I think we need an open public forum" on a medium as open and public as the WWW and then to restrict it behind az paywall kind of misses the point of the article itself. It is within a walled garden arguing for an alternative to walled gardens when the party publishing it is the one controlling the walls in this case.
Can confirm, grandfather died from a heart attack when shoveling snow.
Check out this one: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tabulating_machine
Yes, not exactly a computer, definitely not a von Neumann one, but close enough to see how such thing would be useful. Also according to Wikipedia, this is the first thing to ever be called "super computing" device. That's what I mean - there's a long history of continuosly improving practical devices that led to the modern computer. For QC, we don't have that history.
That's true in things like phone calls, but I did read the article looking for cases like that and didn't see any. It is all about post processing, where latency isn't an issue. All you need for that case is an accurate clock embedded in the stream.

It really isn't rocket science, whereas here we have an entire article on keeping latency down in multithreaded code which should tell you it's both time consuming and requires an pretty skill full programmer. The rocket science bit starts after it's been written, and someone who doesn't have the big picture on where all the latencies are starts touching the code. The program doesn't break in an obvious way, or even deterministically. Instead the first symptom you are likely to notice is heisenbugs occurring in production and the frequency is gradually increasing as the code ages. Tracking that down and fixing it is rocket science.

Compared to that the price of adding a buffer plus a clock in the next re-design is less than peanuts. We've been doing this stuff for decades now and gone through plenty of re-designs, which is why I'm amazed it hasn't happened.
I’m on an iPhone, iOS 12, and it does create long, scrolling windows.
IRC is not social media. It is, at best, an instant messaging protocol -- and one which fails to meet most of the modern-day requirements for such a protocol, e.g. first-class support for persistent identities, offline messaging, and chat history; end-to-end encryption; support for non-textual content... etc.
> Can someone fix this?

There is nothing to fix: code blocks do (almost) exactly the right thing for code. (the indentation on the right is unnecessary and counterproductive, though, but that's not the main source of the complaint here.)

They are horrible for quotes, especially on mobile, but that's not what they are for. Admittedly, quotes are vastly more common than code on HN and HN could use a good quote formatting mechanism, but that's a missing feature, not a bug in code formatting.
Can't they be patched once, and then re-patched when system updates change make changes to system files?
It also requires them click "i'm ok" if when it detects the fall, so if the person is not unconscious they can click that to stop the emergency call.
I start bash scripts, by setting the holy trinity:
set -eou

That prevents end-of-the-world scenario like the one above, if the script derails.
I've always hated that "service" (more like malware given this news) like everything else that installs itself into the autolaunch sequence without permission, and remove* it whenever I notice/remember it, but it keeps coming back whenever I touch Google Chrome, which I prefer not to use in favor of Safari/FireFox because of reasons like this.

Things like these (including secretly signing you into Search when you sign into YouTube† or refusing to support PiP on iPadOS/macOS) just solidify Google's image in my mind as a forever scummy, intrusive company that I wish I could leave behind like I did Microsoft, but sadly Google Search and YouTube still don't have good enough alternatives yet.

* (startup items usually reside in the LaunchAgents/ and LaunchDaemons/ folders in your user ~/Library/, the root /Library/ and /System/Library/)

† (you can fix this by deleting all Google cookies after signing into YouTube, on any OS)
> Most hardcore gamers I know (not many to be fair) think it's a gimmick.

They have probably invested a bit in fine mouse motor skills and the like, and would have to essentially start over if VR games become the norm.

It seems that you have not tried VR. Please do try (preferably using a decent headset). The experience is incredible – at least for a while.

The problems are:

- locomotion. If teleportation makes sense in the game, then its fine. If you actually have to walk (really walk, not a vehicle), then yes, it is a problem. Since your playing area is constrained, you can't really move that much. If you move using the joystick, then your brain gets conflicting signals, and you may get motion sickness.

– resolution. If you have to read lots of things, it's not confortable. You can do it, but not for long. Which brings me to

– comfort. The headsets are not really that heavy. But because they basically seal your peripheral vision, they have to be relatively tight, which gets unconfortable. The materials used also mean it may get sweaty. For PC, also have cables you need to worry about, although it's not that big of a deal.

– setup. This is getting better. HTC vive used lighthouses, Rift used cameras. They were finnicky to get working correctly(additionally, the Rift required two extra high speed USB ports). They are both changing tracking technologies so this is already improving.

– price. These things are currently not cheap. Nor is replacing them every generation. For PC, you also need a good system, as it now has to push two images at a higher resolution and way higher refresh rates. If your system is underpowered and the game lags, you will become nauseated.

Problems aside, once we have cheaper and more portable systems, I expect the usage to skyrocket. The tech is far too entertaining for its own good :)
Yes of course, but companies will prefer to work with middlemen rather than directly employing individual contractors because it makes legal and accounting easier. There’s often a lot of hurdles to employ an individual directly, like requiring the contractor to have a million dollar insurance policy say

Seems like a lot of money for that, but companies are willing to pay it
We have stopped pushing the affected version of Keystone, so if your computer has not been broken yet, it won't be.

If it has been broken but not rebooted:

sudo rm -rf /Library/Google/GoogleSoftwareUpdate/GoogleSoftwareUpdate.bundle
sudo ln /private/var /var

should fix it. That deletes Keystone and fixes the symlink. If it has been rebooted, these commands at a recovery console should repair the computer.

Chrome will subsequently ask for admin credentials to reinstall the updater next time you run it. This will not re-break the computer; the version of Keystone bundled with Chrome is older, and we have stopped serving the version affected by this issue.
I am having a hell of a time trying to parse that sentence. Can you rephrase?
Upcoming Samsung Galaxy Watch Active 2 has heart rate, ECG, warnings, and fall detection… but Samsung, so who knows how well any of it will work.
I mean, like, I was happy that I did well and all, but I don't think I was intrinsically excited about that kind of thing as a child.