skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I am definitely not a trained ethicist, philosopher, etc...but my personal view is that morality in a society largely comes down to whether and how power is shared. The weak and vulnerable will stay that way without some help, and the powerful will grow more powerful without either rules or morals to check them.

So in this case, I personally would say it's more ethical to favor those born with ability rather than connections because it rewards the behavior you're ostensibly trying to instill (hard work, overcoming odds, etc.). But again, I'm not surprised by these sorts of admissions policies, and I think swinging the other way so radically that they self-destruct is probably more ill-advised than the status quo.
I'm not sure the scenarios "some of my best friends are of the opposite sex" or "some of my best friends are of another race" have much bearing on sexism or racism. Loving someone from a different category doesn't automatically dissolve all antagonism or prejudice—it might just override it in a specific case. Relationships are multidimensional. You would need to provide evidence that these bonds of love/affection somehow erode prejudice toward a given 'other' in general. There are many historic cases of celebrities who have been widely accepted despite massive ongoing prejudice against the group of which they are a member. Affection for celebrities is not the same as familial love, but I do think this suggests that the way people feel about individuals doesn't translate in a simple way to their attitudes to whole groups.
Well, asking CS trivia isn’t going to tell you they have skills to do the job. What do you propose?

In my decade+ of experience building engineering teams, the only useful signal has been probing technical details of education and past work experience.

If a candidate has neither, they simply cannot emit any signal you could possibly use to decide if they can do the job. Quizzing them on sorting algorithms or devops buzzwords is not going to tell you anything.
The supply chain wasn't the problem with British cars, the problem was the engineering was terrible. They were renowned for being extremely unreliable.
The commenter was describing what actually happens in unions. It’s technically correct to say unions are democratically led thus possible to change for the better, but it is incorrect to imply they are democratic so are likely to change. And so to point to union voting rules as a way to assuage concerns about common union practices is misleading.
> Then his helmeted head hit the ground so hard it knocked him unconscious — hard enough for his Apple Watch to feel it.

> “A hit that hard could have killed me if I weren’t wearing it,” Burdett said. He had to replace the helmet.

Letter to the editor: the last sentence is a non-sequitur.
You have to replace a bike helmet any time it takes an impact, even if it isn't "so hard," because even if it doesn't look damaged the foam may be compressed and useless for a future crash.
Agreed with you 100% - I also hate the nonstandard window GUI interface elements (tabs in the title bar, fuck outta here!) and the really horrific preferences pane. Chrome is a dumpster fire.
Hopefully, but I usually go to http://reddit.com/r/politics to discuss such things
Ideally that makes sense to me, but unfortunately courts take a long of time and don't always pursue cases thoroughly. Given that reality, I don't know how an institution is supposed to handle the following scenario without their own tribunal system:

Student A and Student B have a class together. Their dorms are next door to each other. Student A rapes Student B. Is Student B expected to attend class every day with their rapist? To live next door to them? How could one expect Student B to maintain their academic performance in that sort of environment?
You forgot the IIFE
I was looking into Prisma + Apollo, can you expand more on your problems with it? To be it seemed really magical at first, but I don't know how it really works in production.
LifeAlert makes you press a button, it is designed for people who might fall off the toilet, not someone who might fall off a mountain bike in the wilderness and be unconscious for hours.

OnStar is part of an entire car.

This is a watch with greater capability than both put together. Let it be awesome.
They sit in judgment of "collegiate sex" to determine which acts are "sexual assault".

Remember presumption of innocence?
How difficult is an HA cluster? Because that’s more of a fair test. Setting up a dev-only instance of anything ought to be easy.
Yea, I’m aware of the XY problem. It is still irritating when someone presumes to know your problem statement better than you and insists on having you change your question. Sometimes I simply want to learn the answer to this very specific question and not keep restating my problem until I find one the answerer knows the answer to.

A better way to respond would be: “Here is how to do precisely what you’re asking, but there may be a better way if you more clearly stated your end goal.”
Doesn't Regus own Spaces, in the co-working space?
Apple watches have audible and haptic alerts and a delay before calling emergency services.
Not necessarily, no... There are costs to false positives (money, time, stress, etc).
I don’t think anyone is disagreeing with you. The “inflammatory” comments reach the same conclusion, that telemedicine is a cost saving tactic to save money, which is true.

I think this just serve as another reason why employer-based healthcare insurance is a weird anomaly that should be done away with. If you work at a large company then your health plan will almost certainly be self-insured, and now not only are you a worker for said company you’re now this risk that is being watched and managed by your company that knows every healthcare interaction you have. It’s creepy.
RE: drag and drop, works on my machine

https://imgur.com/NRNCrzq

Taking it one step further, the screen recording was uploaded by drag and drop from Photos to Imgur (the webpage in Safari, not an app).

You just need to get used to the fact that “press and hold” is an action now, just like we’ve all come to accept tap, swipe, and pinch. Sure, it’s not as much of a direct physical metaphor as those, but fundamentally there’s only so much room for functionality with a finger on a piece glass. If people want more advanced features than the copy/paste from iPhone OS 3, I think it’s fair to expect them to learn one new thing.
Yeah. I'd expect to pay some sort of cost.
But in recent history, aren't there plenty of cases that do seriously warrant use of the term "propaganda"? If, as twitter says, the Chinese government was running swarms of accounts tweeting about the current HK situation, is that not propaganda? When the Internet Research Agency was posting from fake accounts to influence the US election, is that not propaganda?

Yes we should be wary of hyperbole, but we can also recognize the real deal when we encounter it.
It's curious that RHEL/CentOS 8 is using nftables instead of iptables by default and yet the next release of Fedora will continue to use iptables.
> two sequential lines of code are no longer two truly sequential instructions

I've done a lot of async/await and I really can't think of any situations where this has been a concern for me. If you're mutating state in method calls without explicitly passing it around, that might be an issue but that's a deeper design issue IMHO.
Thankyou. Plenty of good advice there.
No magic is rich — they swallow errors, for one. In any case, I don't think anything I said precludes the creation of promises outside of async functions, in fact quite the opposite. The difference is that the runtime would implicitly await the resolution of a promise returned from a function (any function, there'd be no such thing as an "async function") and if you actually wanted things to progress asyncronously you'd simply add `async` before the statement and it'd return a promise (for keeps) of the value of the statement, which could be the return value of a function, or even something as simple as:

const val = async (1 + 2)
await val // 3

Maybe it's a genuinely dumb idea, for reasons I can't fathom, but it seems to me this would make working with async code much simpler than it is now, where if you forget an await you've probably introduced a bug, and the only way to know if you need await is to peruse docs (hoping that they're accurate) or judiciously sprinkle it everywhere.
Agreed - some of the best communication, interviews, and offers I've got came from SO jobs. It's the first place I look as well.
The fact that the baseline rate is so low is why this sort of widespread testing isn't really helpful, and can do more harm than good. The wider the net you cast, and the more rare the target condition, the lest useful the test becomes.
i have horrible adhd (diagnosed, both as a child and as an adult) and i think i already don't have very many filters... And I liked the small amount of shrooms i've had... but I do worry if i try it more then i'll end up without any filters!
I agree, especially for signage.

Although don't most university's encourage the opposite?

Also short comments seem unconstructive online.
Maybe the Elasticsearch cluster would help you here. Because all the datasets (and files within datasets) are indexed along with their metadata, you could write elastic queries to find the datasets you want--as long as the dataset creators are including the relevant metadata in the dataset annotations.
Flagged as irrelevant to Hacker News' core purpose, and somewhat inflammatory to boot for those not marinating in campus culture wars all the time.
Great! Done. I'm on the mainland the rest of this month but would love to chat sometime in October.
Web search? Because it requires scraping websites and redistributing their content in the form of text excerpts and images on search result pages. I mean, isn't that technically against copyright?
"As for transfer speeds, they can reach 300MBps"

I am getting over 500MBps on my setup
What kind of IC do you have in mind for that kind of lifetime? While signaling, say, twice a minute on average, 2 hours a day?
fucking Indians taking over the world.

..another brown dude
> two kids under the age of 10

I think puberty might have more of a splitting effect on the human mind than anyone is saying.

Also, food for thought, humanity as a whole is probably still way too primitive to have a greater nurture than nature ratio. If you look back, primitive people appear to be more nature than people now. Looking forwards, it's probably going to continue. Therefor, we must be somewhere in between, and I get the feeling we're still pretty green.
> The most shocking number in the paper is this: Of the white students admitted to Harvard, more than 43% are in the so-called ALDC category

For perspective, the demographics of all Harvard students, not just ALDC [1,2]:

Asian American: 25.3%
Jewish: 25%
non-Jewish white: 22%
African American: 14.3%
Hispanic or Latino: 12.2%
Native American: 1.8%
Native Hawaiian: 0.6%

[1] https://college.harvard.edu/admissions/admissions-statistics

[2] https://www.jpost.com/Diaspora/The-most-heavily-Jewish-US-co...
Thank you for pointing that out. This is not common knowledge to many people.
Also, smaller, regional real estate companies are doing this (generic co-working spaces) with empty office space, often on the ground floor. I visited a startup at one such location and was impressed with it. It's a strategy to capitalize on unused assets.
Life alert & OnStar are fairly singular function devices. Life alert is marketed pretty much exclusively to the elderly and does not have the ability to automatically call 911 in this way. OnStar is available in a single manufacturer's vehicles only, and you can't take it with you when you step onto the sidewalk. A device that monitors vitals as well as other potential situations and automatically gets an ambulance brought to your locations is quite a bit different than either of these.

I'm not claiming Apple has done something revolutionary. It's an evolution that builds on and combines various capabilities in a novel way. It's the sort of thing I could imagine seeing growing up watching "future" tv shows (Beyond 2000 ftw) and I love when technology produces something like that.
white-space: pre-wrap;
At this point, I would just bite the bullet, break out a new user_id column and run a migration to populate the column.
You know BattleBots has been on a new run since 2015? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BattleBots#Season_6_(2015)

I cannot vouch for this being high quality TV but the spinning meta was broken somehow. There are still a number of spinners, but other designs do OK (drums, flippers, combinations of these things, even some flamethrower bots).

On that note I can vouch for this being highly entertaining low quality TV, and with all the sponsorships and kids you see in the stands, I do hope it's helping to inspire a new generation of roboticists :)
Keep it contained. Keep it within your control or within the control of your cronies, and then you'll always get the outcome you want.

The people pushing this aren't in it for fairness or due process.
so, finding out that the currently-sufficient production quantity doesn't have as high of a ceiling as previously expected would result in a crisis so big that there would be problems with oil supply for the 2 years needed to complete the required infrastructure build out?

I don't see how this negates the parent w/r/t the parents-parent.
That was an interesting read. It would seem that Roscosmos has more incentive to re-use booster stages than Tesla does, both from a cost savings and a future cleanup problem savings.

For some reason I find the idea of a chicken coop with a (possibly) titanium metal roof fairly amusing.
"SDK" should not be in the submitted title. It's not in the article title.
Following this logic Spring never would have been invented in the Java world because Java EE does everything you need it to even though you don't need all of those features. Frameworks and tool chains become bloated and convoluted over time. I'm not super well versed in react/js/etc web development, but given the regularity that you see and hear about these sorts of posts, a not insignificant minority feels like the toolchain is overly complex for lots of use cases. If it wasn't then the post wouldn't have made it to the front page. It wouldn't have been upvoted just like our comments in this discussion :) Just because you find the toolchain an easy to understand time saver that's pretty DRY doesn't mean everyone else does. Who knows? Maybe complexity in React will continue to increase and someone somewhere will invent the Spring equivalent for React. Why would they? Because they didn't need all of those features. (Also thought of Vue.js spinoff from AngularJS)
What you're describing are combined side effects of the lack of demand, and the current regulatory climate, which is particularly ridiculous in your state.

In the 90's (!) much of the taxi fleet (and a good number of trucks) in Moscow, Russia was powered by CNG. Everything worked fine, in spite of a much lower level of technological advancement. If gasoline were to permanently go to $6+/gal, and the industry was deregulated a little, you'd see CNG retrofits that cost sub $1K and last for the lifetime of the car in basically no time at all. All the tech has been in place for decades, it's just a matter of demand now.
Oil prices were 50% cheaper not too long ago, and the food wasn't significantly cheaper, so I can't see how more expensive oil will make the food prices "skyrocket".
Could you share some examples of that occurring? To my knowledge, a lockup period is almost always a standard requirement from the underwriter (on any larger IPO), and in some states is even required as part of their Blue Sky Laws.

If a founder/VC wants to get out before the IPO, they usually just do so on the secondary market. Example: Benchmark cashing out a portion of their Uber stake to SoftBank pre-IPO.

https://www.sec.gov/fast-answers/answerslockuphtm.html
"Self-aware pile of cash" is actually quite an intriguing descriptor for corporations. Piles of cash with personhood rights.
Sure thing. But my point is that, if I steal a car and get caught we're not "adjudicating cars".

I'm presumed innocent, but the crime of stealing cars isn't ever conflated with regular driving around.
Am I the only one concerned about the possible repercussions (to the wearer, I mean) of triggering a law enforcement response?

There have been multiple cases now where (American, obviously) Law Enforcement have brutalized and injured people experiencing diabetic shock.

And what if the fall and unconsciousness is the result of illicit drug use? Surely the wearer doesn't want a call to 911 to be the default behavior in that case.

Does Apple act with greater discretion in jurisdictions where law enforcement are known to be criminally brutal or corrupt? I suspect that the answer is "no."

Since people of color experience a greater proportion of negative outcomes from law enforcement contact, I surmise this feature is far more useful for white people.

Don't get me wrong - it's a cool feature for sure. But until we untangle law enforcement (and state brutality) from medical and fire response, it's potentially a dangerous one for some users.
This is so amazing. Serious kudos to the apple watch team for this.
I have crash detection on my Garmin watch. It texted my wife zero seconds after I rode up a steep drainage ditch. I had not crashed.
The correct answer (per the docs) is "over 65".
Maybe in the wonderful HN bubble, where everyone has $40K+ to plop down for an EV every 4-5 years, not in the real world.
I remember as a kid in Sydney watching Cliff Young on the TV news each night shuffling his way to Melbourne throughout the day and into the night to win the race.
Relevant book: Eats, shoots and leaves

Amazon: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Eats-Shoots-Leaves-Lynne-Truss/dp/0...

Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eats,_Shoots_%26_Leaves
It does detect if you aren't moving after a fall event, which can be a reasonable proxy for unconsciousness.
Is single-player at all relevant to the "in-game communication" topic? That's not entirely rhetorical, since it's possible I'm missing something, but this seems like a complete non sequitur.
> "It is much more efficient to move algorithms to where the data is, than to move the data to where the algorithms are"

I love this quote, thanks. I do try to do things in the cloud as much as possible, but often times it's more practical for TCO reasons to do things locally.

This quote makes me wonder if in the future we'll see some sort of external SSDs with a RasberyPi-like portable GPU hooked up. Some sort of dedicated Storage+Computer USB hybrid.

What I like about our schema/anonymization solution, is you can put fake data and real code online, and then people can make changes to the real code on the cloud, and you can run those reliably on data locally.
don't have an opinion either way, but:

> tanks are supposed to be inspected every 3 years, and they expire 20-30 years after manufacture (and the tanks may have been manufactured much earlier than your vehicle). Some fuel stations (notably, PG&E's) require proof of recent inspection. And, replacing the tanks when they expire isn't economically feasible, leaving you with a lump of coal.

wouldn't all of these problems be addressed more adequately by a larger potential customer base & supporting infrastructure? (e.g. annual car inspection==tank inspection, cost decreasing due to bigger market, etc)
MessagEase.

When I switched to it I felt so liberated from the tyranny of autocorrect mistakes.
For a moment, I read that as controlling minds with the computer, and thought: Wait, Facebook does that already!
Spinners won because they were the only thing left that could damage the typical armor, and most robots ended up with self-righting mechanisms to defeat flippers.

IIRC good pushers could still compete with spinners though.
It automatically calls if the wearer doesn't move for a minute after the fall.
The independent devices do exist. There are a few products designed for the elderly that have automatic fall detection. Usually they are a necklace type product connected to a call center. I’m not sure whether they rely on a cell network or WiFi.

So if you don’t want to buy a watch, then get a standalone product. But if you already have an Apple Watch, then this is a cool feature to have.

Here is an article discussing them: https://www.medicalalertadvice.com/fall-detection/
I've been using async/await especially for file access.

const fs = require('fs').promises
const path = require('path')

const filePath = path.join(__dirname, 'package.json')
const fileContents = await fs.readFile(filePath, 'utf8')

console.log(fileContents)
I guess it's a good thing that the judicial system is able to deliver many different kinds of judgement rather than just locking people in a cage, then.
Good point! I hadn't thought of it this way since it often doesn't come up as often in my experiences with front end stuff.

To lay out one example as clearly as I can: suppose you had two calls to transfer with the same args.

* The 2nd call to `await acc1.balance()` was very quick beating the 1st call

* The `current_balance` is greater than `amount` and so it runs `await acct1.sub(amount)`

* Before that can finish, the 1st call to `balance()` returns with the old balance before subtraction begins.

* Now another transfer is initiated with the incorrect amount.

If `amount` is larger than `current balance` you've got an issue on your hand.

I believe one could implement a mechanism around this using a set of booleans/ints for each account and managing the call to `transfer` with each one of those. But that's the point - we could have primitives to do that.

By the way, there is a particular issue with this specific example. The `transfer` function signature must be marked as `async`. You would need to add this to make it run properly.
Like others have said, this oil would probably be run to refineries by train. This is inefficient, but until new pipelines are built, it's the best way to get oil from the field to the refinery.
Sometimes an organization needs to act with less power to punish, but also less standard of proof. For example, NFL player Ray Rice was caught on video punching his girlfriend unconscious. The NFL can’t put him in prison, but they did suspend him from the league, because he was a toxic brand even though his girlfriend did not press criminal or civil charges. These universities are government organizations, but also like to think of themselves as independent, so I can see the jam they are in.
Because attending Harvard is a privilege, walking down a public sidewalk is a right.
You’re getting something you value (video, article, etc.) in exchange for looking at ads instead of paying money. If you don’t want to look at ads, don’t look at the content. Don’t hide behind server requests and technicalities.
> Apple is undoubtedly a contentious company

Not by any vaguely reasonable metric when compared to other companies its size
My degree is in Econ and I work as a software engineer.
I have not seen that mentioned anywhere. Is there a reference for that?
One use case I often find is a caching layer between JS and a HTTP call. If there are 2 calls to a non cached endpoint, the HTTP will fire off twice before caching the result. You can work around this by returning the first promise from the cache, but this is essentially a mutex. Having locking primitives would solve this and require less boilerplate code.
You probably won't enable this feature then...
> newrelic

Seems they're trading at 2x their IPO, and they were at 3x a few months ago... Did something happen in 2018 that made them huge for a bit? or was it just the rest of the world discovering cloud?