skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm still unclear about your point. MIT has claimed for as long as I can remember that they don't accept legacy admissions. Assuming that MIT is telling the truth on this matter, your reasoning seems to imply then that MIT has no purpose at all!

As to whether legacy students would have helped me rise higher on any ladders, I can't say, since I climbed whatever ladders I did via some combination of merit, having a good education, having a prestigious education, and "white male American privilege". I have no idea how things would have turned out if some rich kid had been my roommate.

I have gotten jobs due to connections, though, and more and better connections might have allowed me to get better jobs. Though I pretty much got the jobs that I wanted anyway, so it's not clear if better connections would have made much of a difference.

Personally, my guess would be that legacy admissions exist mostly for a university to increase its stream of loyal donations from the well-to-do.
Yes, this is why I qualified my comment as I did.
> What's to stop research into super-heroin as a product in that world? Just come up with the most psyche-abusive substance possible and enjoy an army of essentially slaves.

Way ahead of you...

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2019/sep/11/purdue-pharm...

$12B to make the cops go away. The adult version of Carlos the Jackal.
What you describe is pretty much exactly one of the schemes by which a fiscal authority might ensure non-modifyability. The fiscal authority would take up the part of the timestamping service in a real world implementation of course (no government ever would just let you freely choose a provider for such a service by yourself).

That is what I meant with “every implementation that shall not just be an elaborate security-by-obscurity scheme needs an authority”.

Note that no one will ever pay for anything like that if it is not mandated by some government under which you want to operate a significant number of POS installations. It is already crazy expensive to implement all these different and mind-numbingly clusterfucked schemes that all the countries with fiscal requirements want to have implemented. The one thing no one wants to do is coming up with just one more of these schemes that the countries in which no such thing is required will not care about anyway (lawyers will not be impressed at all by technical explanations why your records are super protected against manipulation - they will still call in the armies of accountants to run the numbers up and check your books).
This article title is the IT equivalent of click bait.
You are misrepresenting the research. The research is regarding the effect of public policy (making it illegal to bike without a helmet) on bicycle accidents.

> With regard to the use of bicycle helmets, science broadly tries to answer two main questions... “what is the effect of a public health policy that requires or promotes helmets?” and... “what is the effect of wearing a helmet?”

> The linked paper by Dennis and colleagues investigates the policy question and concludes that the effect of Canadian helmet legislation on hospital admission for cycling head injuries “seems to have been minimal
A representative of the government blocking a citizen from seeking redress from that representative is not the same thing as removing "objectionable" content.
Fall detection has been available since Series 4
https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT208944
It seems highly likely to me that the Culture of Fear that pervades affluent western societies will exactly lead to what you predict.

And those of us that do not wear a permanent tracking device will have some sort of financial (insurance rates) and emotional punishments (peer pressure/blackmail) inflicted on us.

Speaking for myself, I'm ready to die when its time. If my body is so weak and knackered that I cannot even go for a bike ride without medical assistance then I reckon it's time to shuffle off this mortal coil and make way for someone else.
I think the Carter administration's incident in the late 1970's is more accurately characterized as an "oil crisis" because there were real shortages, serious enough to alter trends in car purchasing habits, warranting economy automobile redesigns (smaller, lighter, more efficient, no more muscle cars). Gas stations actually ran out of gas, resulting in hours long waits on miles long lines, and theft by siphoning forcing the introduction of keyed locks on gas tanks.

These were real problems people faced, although it wasn't exactly a full panic.

Oil "scares" on the other hand were threats that raised eyebrows, and caused dramatic price fluctuations in anticipation potential problems. Each "scare" really only hit the wallet and bank account, without altering real behavior.

In that sense, yes, there were a few other "scares" between Jimmy Carter and present day. Each grouping came periodically, maybe every ten years. Almost all of them were tied to Iraq.

The first was the invasion of Kuwait in 1991. I think gas prices blew past $2/gallon for the first time.

The second was 9/11, and $4/gallon gas starting late 2001. This one was rough. Pretty much everyone I knew was groaning about gas prices, and with Iraq invasion rumors people started thinking $5 would break them.

The 2003 Iraq invasion actually resulted in a downward trend (due to international theft or spoils), but it's ever been below $2 again, and it's been back up to $4 at the pump, here and there, depending on geographic region and state taxes, here and there.

With the 2008 meltdown, oil prices weren't displaying any gouging, and there wasn't much of a scare at the 2001 decade mark, because as others have mentioned, fracking has buoyed domestic production.
I think its turned off by default if you are under a certain age - 60?
From what I've come to understand its possible to use the Apple Watch cellular without an iPhone but its a severely gimped experience.
Confirmation Bias! Tell me you never make the evidence fit the facts and not the other way around?
Ah, brings back memories. We used NewRelic at Jux circa 2012ish onward. We were happy with it at the time. What year did this all happen?
Maybe there's an idiot filter but the CSS spam filter isn't working at all. Look up anything related to SaaS/PaaS.
Creating a site-to-site VPN with dynamic internet IP addresses with OPNSense
By virtue of creating ill defined, capriciously enforced rules they govern acceptable conduct on an complicated issue with no clear answers.

I’ve said before, while affirmative consent is a great standard to strive for, I’ve had enough relations in my day to know it’s also a standard that doesn’t hold up to reality. By the standard I’ve both been a victim of and committed assault, yet it was all kosher. Neither party would consider it so.
Red Hat bought out CentOS now. They own CentOS. There would be no trademark dillution from a legal standpoint if they used their own trademark for their free version of the distro.
Disbelief?

You get upset when buttons have a 'clicked' state, or something?

It's hard for me to picture how acknowledgment of input isn't a good thing.
Futures can put incredible leverage on your account. Most broker margin requirements are actually quite lenient - you could blow your account in a day if there is some event. Why should the broker take the liability if your account runs out of equity? That's why they auto-liquidate.
Food prices in general tend to follow hydrocarbon prices. Not just because of the tractors and trucks, but also because of fertilizer. The Haber process is essentially a method of turning natural gas into corn and wheat (and then beef, pork, etc.)

Something like 5% of world natural gas consumption is to drive the Haber process to create fertilizer that then drives everything else in modern agriculture. Now, natural gas and oil prices are not as correlated now as they used to be (due to fracking) but there seems to be some residual connection between the two, so that could be something to look out for.
There's a Firefox addon which can temporarily disable Pi-Hole.
The answer is in the article: Title IX requires them to. Specifically, the new federal guidance that was issued during the Obama administration.
Is it low ROI if it allows them to gain nearly all of that segment of the population's market share? But yes, they are very good at accessibility.
You’re stating accusations as facts. How does Google Docs stifle competition? How does YouTube stifle competition? Who is stopping you from creating another YouTube?

Ma Bell literally had sole access or directly owned infrastructure and therefore actually stifled competition. It’s unreasonable to assume someone else could enter the market. I’m not seeing how that’s the case with Google. Their ads business may very well be printing money, but stating they can’t reinvest that to grow their business in other verticals or streams doesn’t make sense.

I assume you’re arguing in good faith, but your post reads less like “Here’s a company actually stifling competition and hurting consumers” and more like “I don’t like tech is so successful. We should break them up.”
It depends on what you mean by planted. For "some Apple PR person called or e-mailed" then, yes, the chance is non-zero. That's part of how journalism works. A story that's both true and interesting should be published, and it also benefitting some company should have as little impact as when it hurts that company, i. e. none.

If you're talking about a Seattle Times journalist or editor literally being bribed into running the story, you've gone off the deep end. Any such attempt by Apple would give some journalist a once-in-a-lifetime chance to expose a major scandal. It would expose Apple, and any journalist and their publications to risks far larger than whatever the value of a positive, but rather minor, story in a second-tier US newspaper is worth, etc.

"question everything" is stupid advise. Do you question if water isn't a deadly poison every time you drink it? Do you verify your spouse's DNA every time you see them, to prevent them being replaced by imposters?

Of course not, because it's impossible (also insane). Try establishing the usefulness of, say, vaccines from first principle: it would require running hundreds of clinical trials, all by yourself (don't trust anyone!), at costs in the billions of dollars, and taking far longer than your life.

And remember that you will also somehow need to convince yourself of the power of whatever statistics you use in those trials. You need to redo everything, all the way back to, at best, "parallel lines don't intersect". Because that Pythagoras wasn't even considered trustworthy by his compatriots, so why should you?

Realistically, you, like everyone, make thousands of decisions every day and need heuristics to get anything done. Most often, those heuristics involve some system of establishing trust by, for example, remembering previous interactions with people or newspapers or other institutions. It just so happens that you think you come across more interesting on the internet by pretending (or actually) trusting a different set of sources than society at large, i. e. conspiracy theorists pseudonymously ranting about the "mainstream media", instead of that media.
If it’s plausibly deniable, how do you know it’s racism?
Not a fan of WeWork, but there actually is something to this. We have two coffee makers in the break room at work, and there's always a line. If they brought in a barista who could work the machines, it's theoretically possible that you'd get better efficiency as there wouldn't be the dance of "who is next in line" or "sorry, gotta block the machine while I get sugar" or "I just want some hot water". I'd love to be able to point building management at some data that says that a barista costs $100/hour for 2 hours, but having them would unlock $1000/hour in lost productivity.
The "\" (which is "\" rather than "/", as already pointed out) is just an ascii approximation of λ (just like "u" is used to approximate μ).
Human Interest (401(k) Provider) Is Hiring Engineers to Help Small Business
> TL: DR - Oil prices are not that important

50% is not very important if you are a software engineer in your average developed country.

50% is more than enough to wreck many countries and get them into chaos. Some countries will see their population go on strike full-retard for 5-10% price increases. Some governments will default because they are subsidizing oil and a 50% increase will wreck their budget.

Such an increase will also cause food prices to skyrocket and some people in some places won't be able to afford food.
His wife may have called him back in response to the text
For starters its a civil vs criminal distinction.
Honestly, the players in this space all abandoned any pretences of "interop" long ago. They are invested in ensuring they remain the gatekeeper.

They won't be the people proving real solutions.
Keep peddling the HN narrative.
Whenever a society adapts a state religion it tends to set up a parallel judicial system alongside it. Christian Europe; the Inquisition. Muslim society; Sharia Law. 21st century Western states; Wrongsex/Wrongthink Tribunals.

The more things change....
A beautifully written piece that brings to mind Alan Kay's statement that a change in perspective is worth 80 IQ points. The world would be much better off if tech could see itself from her vantagepoint.

Appearing on HN on a remarkable day in a remarkable era when notable women are forcing historic change with strength, courage, and a different perspective- it is likely this piece will just be a footnote. I hope it becomes more.
Iran knows how to play this game because the Middle East is somewhat personal....they appear to be a family run oil business. IF we took oil away from the M.E. equation then it would be void..just saying. This game is slated to change becasue of the large oil discoveries taking place in Guyana and it is going to surpass what the Saudi has been touting as their "real production". Perhaps the USA needs to shift it's focus a little more to the Americas. Just adding to your comment
I understand “why,” in that they are required to. What I don’t understand is why this is a thing to begin with. Government end-runs around standard systems of due process is odd.
> If you've entered your age when you set up your Apple Watch or in the Health app and you're age 65 and over, this feature automatically turns on.

https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT208944
There’s only value to the source if someone wants to buy it, regardless of how much money was put in to make it.
Because their survival is not dependent on their career choice. Tech may pay more, but being a nurse is still perfectly fine. There are also more women entering the MD profession than men, and that pays better than tech, so there's even more room for people to move between fields based on a "natural" preference (if such a thing exists).
So they can't sue back.
Yes, but they are not illuminati elite. They are merely individual contributor elite.
Sesame Street is an HBO show now with reruns on PBS.
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ovaries are indeed well known to contract when in close proximity to heavy machinery
Hurricane Ike put most of the oil processing plants in the Houston area offline, which led to a US-wide spike in gas prices. I've been there when it happened and it wasn't pretty.
Normal, which is to say preemptive, threading can pause your execution arbitrarily.

You can wedge a NodeJS interpreter by not yielding, but you also have control over when that yielding happens.
My cousin was 53, vegetarian, biked and ran regularly. This gave him the chance to say goodbye.
Beetle PSX – RetroArch – Dynarec Will Make Accurate PS1 Emulation Much Faster
Buffer bloat is an example of what this manifesto is motivated by. The hardware's capable of being much faster, and has been set up wrong.

A game dev can't fix it, but it should not be taken as a ground truth of the world. It needs to be fixed. Combine that with a smaller amount of prediction, and things come out pretty well.
What scale do you need?

Yeah, I'm "friends" with hundreds of people on Facebook but how many do I really care about?
I'm going to take off my "mature adult" hat here, and say something I think which is probably totally groundless, but I want to talk about it anyways.

A lot of little boys are hyper as fuck, and I don't think that's a social construct. I think that's just how little boy bodies tend to produce energy: in excess.

Also, a good description for most games might be "twitchy." I think these two line up.

But in answer to your question, Nature vs Nurture: the answer is always both, but far more nature than we'd like. When we hit the cyborg/embedded computers line, that's when I think it'll be 50/50.
I don't think I'm following here. The viewer was suicidal, but wasn't anymore when he was berated.

My interpretation from your link is that "watching videos of someone playing games helped a viewer not commit suicide".

How's this evidence for advocating berating people while (not after) they are suicidal?
Passing trivia interview screens is useless, can’t tell you anything useful. You have to dig recursively into technical details about past experience or projects, and for university new grads this would be their education work. What will the self-taught candidate do at this point?
I am not misrepresenting the paper: it attempts to explain why countries with mandatory helmet laws see _no_clearly_measurable_reduction in KSI (Killed, Seriously Injured) rates.

More cyclists wear helmets in those jurisdictions (parts of Canada, all of Australia and N.Z.) and yet ecological studies fail to clearly demonstrate any benefit from helmets. If you sprayed a field with RoundUp and saw no difference in the number of weeds compared to an unsprayed field you would start to wonder about the effects of the treatment.
I'm not sure why my question came off as anti-union.

To me, the benefits seem obvious but I couldn't think of downsides. So I was, in fact, trying to broaden my views, just in the other direction, I suppose.

I've never felt the need to join a union but, fundamentally, I see nothing wrong with someone controlling their own capital (time, labor, and skills) and freely associating others to pool those resources into something that's more than the sum of their parts.

I can see where it might be a problem if a group ended up with a monopoly on some skill, but that's a problem with any kind of pooling of resources and we have tools to deal with such a distortion should it arise.
Arf I want one now
This might help: I frequently leave my iPhone at home, the watch is good enough on its own for messaging, calls, and email. Feels good not carrying a phone around.
aka, virtue signaling.
Presumably you can’t in any one case, but may be able to when looking at them in aggregate.
> The price feels as a bargain

It is a bargain, since the company is operating at a large loss.

> and hope it continues

I'd hope companies would keep giving me free things too. But I can assure you , it won't last!
> few-if-any playable female characters
* Joanna Dark (Perfect Dark)
* Lara Croft (Tomb Raider)
* Sarah Kerrigan (Starcraft)
* Sonya (Command & Conquer)
* Samas Aran (Metroid)
* Sonya Blade (Mortal Kombat)
* Chung-li (Street Fighter)
* Jill (of the Jungle)

Those are ones I can name without Googling from games before 2000. If you think there haven't been female playable characters in video games, you weren't paying attention.
In general! We're applying all sorts of ideas across various fields. Genetic algorithms, artificial intelligence. Mathematical approximations of processes -- applications to societal control. - everywhere you look knowledge is accelerating and it's either going to lead to new enlightenment or a new dark age
I suppose it's not, but it is different from normal JavaScript. I guess in multithreaded languages it's not such a big leap.
If they're surprised by this then that explains a lot.
We got a call recently from my elderly grandmother’s Apple Watch letting us know that she’d fallen. This feature was the main reason we bought the watch for her, and it worked when it mattered. (She’s fine.)
This is a very difficult issue. Most sexual assaults happen in private, so there is rarely any evidence a victim can use to convict the perpetrator. Most accusations are real, but some are questionable as to whether a crime was committed, and some accusations are false. Given there is almost never any evidence, victims are at a severe disadvantage in the innocent until proven guilty paradigm. I can understand why some people want to flip the tables and "believe all women" but it's also clear that such a flipped situation has it's own severe problems, and that IMHO there is no good solution. Knowing this I have more empathy for everybody's view on this topic, rather than being in one camp and demonizing the other.
Your thesis presumes some democratic mechanism, as juries ultimately are.

Unfortunately, an increasing number of the laws we are subjected to in the United States are bureaucratic edicts removed several levels from democratic checks and balances. It appears to me that these are more readily steered by lobbying groups -- which by their nature agglomerate polarized supporters.

How else can you explain this Title IX perversity?
So I kicked the Reddit habit. I pretty much only read HN, BBCNews, ft.com and ArsTechnica at this point. I have stopped looking at my iPad, iPhone, etc. when watching TV, sport or a movie. The need to always look was really unhealthy. I am much happier now. I have like 5 books on my iPad that I have never quite finished over the last 2 years when before all this easy tech I would have read them quite quickly. It really bugs me. I am going back to paper books as it forces focus (no, I do not want a book only reader to carry as well). The only reason I really care about having the phone with me is for the family. Between email, slack, hangouts, AppleIM and Line it is all just to damn much.
Boa: JavaScript Engine Written in Rust
There are more and more valuable locking mechanisms than a bool. Read-write locks, for example, are still sometimes (not often but I've done it on occasion) valuable in NodeJS.
The closest competitor I have found has costs of more than 1.4 million dollars just for one arm.

https://youtu.be/3ldJswGpkjY?t=540
Can anyone recommend some great third-party keyboards that do not depend on the "full access" ability to phone home?
An overview of Spectre/Meltdown style bugs
I make hyperbolic statements like this all the time. I'd personally take that to mean he jumped a few levels on the income ladder from say working poor to middle class. The point is it feels like 10x.
One of the professors quoted in the article suggests otherwise:

> The system promulgated a definition of sexual misconduct so expansive that it “plausibly covers almost all sex students are having today,” as Gersen wrote in an article in the California Law Review.
That's literally how the English language works. It's defined by popular usage. So one person using a word "wrongly" is indeed "wrong", but if most people use a word "wrongly", then it becomes correct.
> I’m still unclear why the contacts DB isn’t class A data (eg wrapped by a key that is only available when the device is actually unlocked), I assume it’s perf related.

It probably has to do with the actual phone part of the device. When you receive a call while locked, you can’t show the contact name associated with that number if the contacts are locked behind the lock screen.
> Non-cumulative line charts.

I suppose. But a chart with 23 different lines is quite difficult to read in my experience.

I.e., visually distinguishing that many lines from each other is not easy.