skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It isn't massively distinct, but another way the observed differences could still be due to nurture rather than nature is that the connectome of the subjects could literally be shaped by how we raise and socialized the genders. This is more like an expanded version of the parent argument--these experiences play a role in structuring the eventual-participants brains, and the study is (unknowingly) measuring past-exprience rather than biological destiny.
Wework Symptoms: Are Big Investment Banks Morally Broken?
Ask HN: What is a good Graph DB technology to start out with?
Lately, I've become fascinated with Graph Databases. I'm looking to spin one up just so I can tinker with it.

I know there are several technologies out there to chose from (Neo4j, DGraph, etc) but does anybody have a particular one that they would recommend for this use case?

I'd love something that plays well with Python/AWS, and scales well but is cheap to run in the cloud.

Any tips/advice you might have would be greatly appreciated. Thanks!
I share a very similar experience to the author, though somehow even a little more extreme, including working in an entry level role for a certain tech mafia, living through maybe half of the events detailed in the new Uber book, working for the family of the president’s son in law, and then working at an absolute dumpster fire of a crypto company.

Should probably write a book about it one day!
It sounds like Harvard deals in merit and not egalitarianism, where merit considers the power you bring to the table and not merely your academic skill.
I think it's worth stopping to think in terms of "sequential lines of code". Even at CPU level, "sequential" instructions aren't, for a decade or so, to say nothing of xplicitly async code.

One should think in terms of a dataflow graph, where data-independent nodes can run in any order, or in parallel. One should explicitly think about ordering of effects, and be explicit about effects in general. (Hence the rise of popularity of FP.)
Can you at least consider yourself outside of the camp that considers it to be "rape whenever a woman has sex and feels violated”, and feels no need for standard due process measures in campus sexual assault judgments?

What would be the equivalent extremities of the opposite camp? I'm not hearing from many opponents that sexual assault should be tolerated. It's more common to hear that they should be immediately escalated to law enforcement.
If you get pulled over driving a friend's car and the cop asks you to prove that your friend loaned it to you, it's relatively parallel.
LifeAlert definitely has accelerometer based fall detection, not just a button press. It doesn't have a cell radio though, so it isn't useful when it's away from its base station.
Impressive.

Will you share more information about the specific details (i.e. hardware and configuration) for the set up you're running with?
> If you don't push the line on consent you have nothing to worry about.

The issue with this position is that it assumes a defined line of consent which is generally shared by both parties. However, one of the main theses of the article was that the very definition of consent itself can been so radically altered as to make this a strong assumption. For example, one definition of rape presented in the article ("Politically, I call it rape whenever a woman has sex and feels violated") doesn't care at all about whether the woman consented, verbally or otherwise.

Anyways, that doesn't matter. The reform described by the article is for the purposes of a more fair investigative process. Not one tilted towards the accuser, not one tilted towards the victim, but a fair process. Would you not also agree that a fair process is a desirable goal for any society?
The Internet and the www?

It's given humanity somewhat of a global consciousness, but not everything that comes out of that is benign or benevolent.
Agree. With social media it’s amplified and even opinions can have detrimental effects on people’s standing.

Asking whether it has gone too far is like asking if someone died too much. This problem currently has no good solution -barring a true “lie detector”, but even that is insufficient because people can believe things that didn’t happen as they recall, etc., you’d need something more like a “reconstruct the scenario do we the jury can interpret”
I just had no marketing, no partner for that, but I could rebuild that a similar time frame if only I had a plan to make profit out of it. Made it into a local newspapers but that's was the beginning and the end.
It's from the times where I was finding musicians in the streets to pay me 50 bucks per website and hosted them on grsecurity hardened gentoo ... which I don't practice at that cost anymore of course.
https://www.charentelibre.fr/2010/02/09/article-5-internet-a...
I've been thinking about migrating away from GMail for a while now. Are you self hosting your email now, or are you using a provider like ProtonMail? Just curious
Hi. I am writing up a response now :)
"Innocent until proven guilty" and the need for evidence prior to an assumption of being guilty are not difficult issues.
Nope, they have been excused from legal liability as well. The regulatory capture runs deep.

https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/15/1681h (e).

I wouldn't be surprised if this immunity were the primary cause of the current situation. Getting immunity from negligence means it makes sense to take advantage of being negligent.
It's turning into the abyss that gazes back at us --
Learning Dense Representations for Entity Retrieval
Speaking of car seats, Steven Levitt did this talk eleven years ago.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=um5gMZcZWm0

The gist of it is that car seats do not help nearly as much as we hope. I got the impression that there ought to be a car with a built-in, non-removable car seat would work better. I'd imagine this would be an instant hit in the SUV market. However, no automaker seems to take up on the challenge. Is there a legislative obstacle that prevents automakers from doing this?
Please don't take HN threads on generic ideological tangents. There's no curiosity in them.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
The standard at my college was any alcoholic consumption meant you could no longer consent. If I had a beer and had sex with my girlfriend it was considered sexual misconduct under the definition of consent the school provided.
Damn, just when you think you know what strange is, you read something like this. Can't imagine being one of these simple village folks and seeing a burning spent rocket tumbling down from space and exploding in your yard. Kind of reminds me of ancient astronauts where they always claim myths and fables were inspired by ancient spacefarers.
If anything, iOS is moving in the direction of being less walled off.
i find it hard to believe that 10mg would do that to me, but that's mostly because I've taken a ~50mg edible (about 1/3 of a 150mg brownie) on an empty stomach and didn't particularly feel super anxious. i certainly was effected, but all in all i ended up finishing that whole brownie and just felt really nice. but i had a fairly strong tolerance at the time and i am a fairly overweight person with a slow metabolism so those things probably contributed. ill have to try again at some point in the future when I'm in better shape and have little-to-no tolerance because that genuinely sounds like a fun time to me.

kinda weird but i find experiencing anxiogenic effects and then calming my mind and letting them go to be an extremely enjoyable experience with mind altering substances. huge part of why i used to abuse diphenhydramine regularly, other than seeing my friends the shadow people!
Synecdoche:

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/synecdoche

See also: Hollywood. Nashville. Foggy Bottom. Quantico. Denim.
There are and will always be considerations not taken into account. Raising them is thus a fully general counterargument, and as such is best ignored. If you don't want your potential confounders be ignored, the burden of proof is on you to provide evidence that these confounders actually matter.
Seems like you should be able to build a lock mechanism fairly simply with async/await, but I agree, it would be nice if it was a built in primitive. It does feel a little silly to implement a lock function when the engine much be using one to support its async functionality in the first place, so you're introducing a lot of inefficiency.
+1 for everything Aneesh said, but I also wanted to add that the public cloud offers opportunities in data sharing that academia hasn't yet provided, specifically the ability for collaborators to bring their code to the data. I posted a quote from Jed Sundwall, Global Open Data Lead at AWS in another thread. I think he really nails it when he says that
the cloud "completely changes the dynamic for sharing data."

There certainly have been efforts in academia to provide shared computing resources. Cyverse (https://www.cyverse.org/about) comes to mind. At Wisconsin many researchers shared clusters using Condor. But, none to my knowledge come close to the scale, reliability and features of AWS and the other major cloud providers.
Vista Equity Partners Buys Acquia for $1B
White Paper**the Social Credit Score Isn't Coming, It Is Already Here
Yes, and TFA also quotes this from her:

> "Lots of people disagree about where to draw the line. But most people would want to draw a line so there is such a thing as consensual sex."

Also this amazing quote from some activist:

> As Catharine Mackinnon, the progenitor of the school of feminism from which this movement proceeds, once put it, "Politically, I call it rape whenever a woman has sex and feels violated."

So basically, there is no sex (no matter how consensual it seems) that might not, at some indefinite future time, become rape.

So damn, if I were a college student, I wouldn't be having any sex. Maybe just with other guys. Or maybe just porn.
I don't think it really makes sense to essentially say "Javascript is rife with race conditions like any other language" just because yes, you still need to use transactions when using a database.
How Should Progressives Approach the Trade War?
Yes, it wasn’t clear from my post, but once Chrome got this feature I switched.
We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21065975.
He's probably implying a correlation with the 2008 recession.
I don't want to wade into the specifics of campus tribunals, but the broad mechanism here is very commonplace and uncontroversial, no? Eg if I work for an NSF grant recipient and I spit on my boss, and I get fired with no court ruling, would you find it confusing/objectionable?
> when you use async/await instead of promises or callbacks, things do change because two sequential lines of code are no longer two truly sequential instructions

I thought async/await was just syntactic sugar for promises?
Cars are only a part of oil consumption. Also, it's going to take decades to switch rich countries to electric cars, if that is even economically possible...
Every game I have ever played required voice chat. But I only play board games.
This comment breaks the site guidelines. Would you mind reviewing them and sticking to the rules when posting to HN? We'd be grateful.

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Leaving aside the hot-button topic of sexual assault, there are plenty of sub-criminal or borderline actions that can occur that the college needs to deal with. Not all violations of a code of conduct are criminal violations. They'd much rather "sentence" an underage drinker to an alcohol education session than have all such students arrested. A lot of this is mission-driven: Schools honestly believe their role is to turn some of these types of things into a learning experience.

Now, you might disagree with this approach to any/all of the above, but this is the reason that answers your question.

Source: I work in higher ed technology, at times very closely with some of the disciplinary groups.
+1 on Garmin watches. The "smartwatch" functionality leaves something to be desired, but the watch itself is great, with helpful training features, a great screen, and good battery life. I have the fr645 Music, and can bluetooth to wireless buds for a run.

The new Fenix 6 series is awesome, but they're a little bulky for my wrist.
Well I personally would use a synchronous method rather than async for something like that where the next code path depends on the return data; if you can't get the file contents then you want to throw an error straight away.
Am I the only one still disappointed that with a dedicated pseudo-desktop experience we still don’t have Xcode? The iPad Pro will truly be a pro portable device when it can make its own apps.
Say it with me,

EOL,

Eunuchs (Operating System).
The producers deliberately pick interesting robots (and teams) instead of the most likely to win.
Top level await does more than remove a main function. If you import modules that use top level await, they will be resolved before the imports finish.

To me this is most important in node where it's not uncommon to do async operations during initialization. Currently you either have to export a promise or an async function.
so i guess the watch made it?
My org was constantly behind the “business” deadlines, leaving developers to work nights and weekends often. Bad personal growth (boring C#, tightly coupled, extremely complex enterprise app) due to doing the most lame bug fixes, and copying code to add a new UI. No fun! Tired of making pennies - needed to get out on my own!
Exactly. For example Thomas Jefferson fathered 6 children with a slave of his. The millions of men who believed their wives had no right to vote, that it wasn't their place. The parents who shame their kids for their sexuality or gender identity. Prejudice and love can co-exist.
Couple on tonight after canoe polo. You need a lift?
i do that sometimes, but i do my best to acknowledge that im going to be doing so before doing it, rather than after :)
We'll look into that for sure!
This is wonderful.

Now - I just want that hydration sensor that was teased a while back. So many health conditions that accurate information about hydration could assist.
This is much less irrelevant to HN's core purpose than the plethora of other random articles that can be found at any given time.

Personally, I fail to see how the article was inflammatory. The author clearly took pains to avoid demonizing either side of the discussion that was being highlighted, something which is markedly rarer in the current day and age.
It seems that already having a mortgage means you're much less beholden than someone who intends to apply for one in the future...
StackOverflow was built as a free alternative to Experts Exchange.
Promises are just objects which represent an asynchronous value.

Async/await are coroutines: they have a shared context, stack, etc. They can be paused and resumed.

The implementation of async/await depends on the engine, but I'm pretty sure they use the same generator backend.

Babel and other transpilers convert async functions actual generator functions. By contrast, promises are a fairly simple runtime library.
Well yes but the Soviets developed and created their own belief system/philosophy around manufacturing modernity and a new human being that would serve the comintern ideals.
Crypto Exchanges Step Up Customer Bounties as Volume Falls
Forgive what may be a dumb question (I'm not a C++ user), but why should dothing() accept a reference to struct? Why is this better than just making it accept a struct like

void dothing(const dothingArgs args);

and then just passing it an anonymous struct that only briefly sits on the stack when you call

dothing({ .arg1 = 1, .arg2 = someOtherThing });

A reference would make sense if you already have a struct sitting somewhere else in your program, but if you're putting together the struct at the time you call the function, wouldn't it make more sense to just pass by value?
There isn't as much of a legal risk, but it's definitely mitigated.

In addition, the feedback they gave is now written. What if the founder lacks social etiquette and tweets "VC Y said my idea sucks because Z [some charged topic]"? If you look at the missed out on investment X/Y/Z emails that VCs sometimes release (anti-portfolios), you'll notice almost aways the releasers asks for permission first. VCs network effects largely need to be polished and appear to be knowledgeable about sectors -- giving feedback to a random startup that might be horribly wrong would hurt that reputation.

It makes sense as to why many VCs don't give feedback.

That being said, the answer is to never ask for direct feedback. Instead, you should have a middleman and backchannel. Ask the middleman to find out why they didn't like X -- this generally works. The middleman is impartial and can be objective (versus the founder who is often defensive) and is able to extract truth.
Firefox calls BS on Google's full-page privacy ads in the Washington Post
> When Labour wins an election the entire Tory party doesn't switch over to their side of things.

Losers consent in the case you mentioned is that Labour accept the Tory government as legitimate. The difference is a referendum is supposed to be final (and it was indeed sold as so), but with an election the opposition will get elected again someday. The proper thing for Labour to do right now is push for the best deal they can to minimise what they believe is a bad decision. It should not be to try as hard as possible to do anything but Brexit.

> What law established this? This is particularly disingenuous given the explicitly non-binding nature of the first referendum.

No law established this, but given our unwritten constitution, can we really be certain that it's legal to ignore a referendum without court scrutiny (which has a divided opinion here btw)? The ballet paper literally said "The government will implement your decision" - I think it's fair to say if it has all the features/promises/legitimacy of a vote, it's a vote.

> You were perfectly happy to cite current opinion polls when you thought they supported your will of the people argument.

I was responding to your argument that a referendum is basically a poll (which I disagreed with anyway).

> A second referendum can absolutely be done with hindsight. "Gee, that didn't go well."

I'm not a fan of second referendum. I'm asking you honestly here, if it was remain won by 4%, and leavers were complaining for 3 years, would you call it legitimate to have another referendum so soon? Of course not, they'd be accused of being undemocratic and I believe they're right.
Not quite sure about that, nowadays I require a couple of 20 bucks/month servers to have one CI/staging and one training/production deployments. I'm at the point where I practice CD as in "deploy each git-push to branchname.ci.example.com and run cypress on it" and still am able to deliver in half a day what the customer would expect to happen in two weeks.

And of course, baremetal provides a much better ROI than VMs/VPS/<insert glorified chroot/jail here>.
Ongoing Google Cloud Incident – Sep 24 2019
Is there an advantage to using "await fs.readFile" over "fs.readFileSync"?
You need an iPhone to set it up, update it, and otherwise manage it. To whatever degree it works without the phone there you’re still going to need one.
Why would they fix something that's not a bug?

Prepending a line with two spaces is not intended for quoting people. It is intended for posting code in a comment.

If you're quoting someone, stick to the well-established standard of prepending with a > symbol.
It is basically a Linux distribution which only supports running a single app (k8s). It has a custom init process which only supports running k8s-related processes, with no support for directly running any other services.

It is an "operating system" in the same sense that any other user space combined with the Linux kernel constitutes an operating system, so in the same sense that Android, Debian, RHEL, Ubuntu, etc., are "operating systems".
It sucks for the audience. Sadly RoboGames didn't do a show this year, they are a ton of fun to watch. I hope they come back.
I thought that was Google's keyboard has done since it was released. Correct?
My theory is that we've thrown out a large part of our humanity along with the bath water and technology of today is akin to the fire granted us by the mythical Prometheus. We're so busy dancing amongst the flames in our rags we don't notice that it's our humanity burning
You mean like the over lap between what is now Azure Devops and Github? They both offer free git hosting but former offers private free repos, hosted builds, and deployments.
The response was specifically to somebody who is unsure why white collar workers can have a severe mental health crisis and that it is orthogonal to survival or financial well being or "being hard". Do you really think anyone on this site would claim blue collar workers don't confront suicide?
Yeah, sure, no recession whatsoever...
> It is a story with which the rise of Donald Trump is fatally intertwined, but it is in fact a story that takes precedence—both temporal and logical—over the anarchic and pathological rise of the demagogue occupying the White House.

All of the elements of this story were in full flower during the Obama administration. Trump's role has been to politically capitalize on the resulting resentments. This is a "this is how you got Trump" story, if just another straw on the camel.
Why would a different accelerometer surprise you? The entire SiP is different between the Series 3 and Series 4. One source say the accelerometer in S4 has higher dynamic range. [0]

[0] https://www.anandtech.com/show/13364/apple-announces-the-app...
Why is it that you believe these companies can suddenly raise prices and make money? We've been hearing about "economies of scale" in companies like Uber and Tesla for years, yet no sign of it yet. Price cuts and investor subsidization abound.

And no competition in the real estate market? Please.
Tell your WeWork employed office manager (there is one in every office right?) to look at the line every morning when they're getting their coffee for two weeks. If the line is too long buy another 2 or 3 espresso machines, or supplement them with a few keurigs.

I just saved you $20M per year in sensors, IoT platform subscription, and data scientist salaries for an investment of $5k. Pretty insane how much money is wasted on dumb BS just because there's so much money to waste and it's a trendy way to waste money

Or more likely they wanted an innocuous reason to track all their office users at all times for other reasons
Personal attacks, which you leapt into there, are not allowed on HN. Please don't post like this again. Please don't break this guideline either: "Eschew flamebait. Don't introduce flamewar topics unless you have something genuinely new to say. Avoid unrelated controversies and generic tangents."

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Why do carbon taxes fall short?
Because otherwise the struct will be copied when the function is called.

Though your question is kind of getting at r-values and move semantics, which is a solution to prevent copying the temp value both when calling the function and in its execution. You can read about it because it will take too long to explain it here.
Right. The other day I accidentally slammed my watch into the wall and it started asking me if I was OK. You have a chance to say that everything is fine and that you don’t need help before it starts calling emergency services and telling people you’re in trouble.