skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Hey said this about proof of work.. is it wrong? It sounded good to me, but I never got into blockchain stuff.

>What is proof-of-work?
Proof-of-work is a system for establishing “decentralized consensus.”

Agreeing about the order of events is very difficult in computer networks, especially if you can’t trust the other computers involved. Unfortunately, it’s also very hard to establish trust in a global network which aims to provide open participation. So, we need a way to agree on the order of events without establishing trust.

Proof-of-work solves that problem by putting the network on a trustworthy clock. It’s a kind of computation which takes a predictable amount of time to run, and which can’t be forged by a bad actor.

With proof-of-work, you can have multiple computers make additions to a blockchain without having them trust each other. That’s decentralized consensus.

Decentralized consensus is intended to mean that one entity can’t control the blockchain network. Any newcomer can participate, and ownership is equally distributed among the participants.
Plan ahead next year by taking the day off or get approval for coming in late, taking a long lunch or leaving early.

I think most polls open early and stay open late for people who have to work that day. I find early has shorter lines and have always been able to vote outside my typical work hours.
I wrote about this a while back and think it's still valid:

https://journal.dedasys.com/2014/12/29/people-places-and-job...
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Maybe we're not aligned in what I'm trying to communicate. You can create a simple MVC abstraction without a framework. It's just separation of modules and their appropriate concern.
If the wages weren't complete shit I'd move back tomorrow.
Change "buzz" to "scream" or "whisper", and this would be a great horror story...
Mail regularly crashed for me whenever I opened it. Deleted all my mail accounts and switched to the GMail app. Madness.
No, this is does not always happen. This is why we're here discussing this. Why are so many HN commenters so quick to just flatly ignore the fact that the very reason you're seeing this conversation in the first place is because lots of people agree with the OP, or believe it to be an important discussion? Your comment could be summed up as "Bah, humbug."
Good news they’re nerfing disruptor hard pretty soon and removing seeker missiles too.
What they have so far produced has been underwhelming with some unsuccessful forays into hydrogen.

Without Tesla's competition incenting them to compete, we'd be at least 10 years behind.

It reminds me of the stories of the half arsed efforts by American car MFGs to make compact gas economic cars during the 70s gas crisis. They could make them, did they give it a good effort? No, and it took them decades to reorient that ship.
Isn't the work culture pretty bad, though?
Per the Vox article linked in a sibling comment, 95% of black women who voted in 2016 voted for Hillary.
How many high priceed senior staff are needed?
This is such an interesting topic that is extremely difficult to discuss as people on both sides rapidly devolve to name calling. There's this[0] episode of This American Life which discusses some of this, but I haven't found many others.

The point of linking that is only to question whether there are people who want their culture to change more slowly for reasons other than prejudice. Should "obviously wrong" dramatic cultural shifts like gay marriage somehow be slowed so people can get used to the idea? Even in the linked example, there are clearly other forces at work (anti-Muslim propaganda) which seem to exist purely to make it appear that the culture itself is changing entirely, when in reality it's just becoming more mixed race.

[0] https://www.thisamericanlife.org/radio-archives/episode/600/...
I’m in my current role because a recruiter found me on LinkedIn. I would’ve never gone looking for the particular role. Highly recommend LinkedIn regardless of what you might think of the platform.
Oh please. The US is laughably poor in every aspect of education besides US top universities. Don't reframe things, he never said the top institutions of the US were worse.
Apple Maps will not even tell me their is a DMV on the reservation. It points to the one in a neighboring town. Of course Apple Maps still mislabels the town I am in, so I guess it is part of a larger problem.
You can do anything with physical access anyway.
All valid points.

Personally I find that iOS recently has really fallen behind, the hardware coming from Apple is still best in class, software is terrible. Notifications are abysmal, the UI in places feels pieced together, some of the UI just doesn't make sense, functionality is lacking in a number of areas. That doesn't even start on the bugs.

To be honest the software and the software alone is pushing me more and more to Android as I'm really disliking the lack of traction from Apple on improving iOS.
There is no education problem in the US. The observed differences in academic performance are the result of sociological challenges that other countries don’t have (disparities resulting from slavery and segregation of 1/8 of the population, large-scale immigration from countries that speak a different language).

Skimming the cream from other countries doesn’t really ameliorate those problems.
Are there any situations where this would be a vulnerability but using a USB device as a HID would not?
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I can't help it... the fact that it was a person named 'devops199' that did this is too delicious. In true devops style, breaking things in production.
It already is. H1B visa holders are required to be paid more than the prevailing wage for citizens working the same SOC job classification in the same region.
Good questions.

- In the past month and a half or so since we’ve launched, about 20% of published profiles have had a reveal request. That varies heavily based on profile quality, some have gotten 4 in a row.

That said, even though it’ll be pretty low volume it should be very high signal. Our accept rate is around 70% right now. This is primarily because people have to pay outright to contact you (excepting the first free one), so only folks with pretty good matches should be reaching out.

- Tech only right now and also heavily biased towards US, probably 95% US. Startups and Agencies have been the primary target and market. You’re less likely to find a Facebook on Limbo and more likely to find a small team that is a pretty precise match for you. There are a couple larger companies on there though, like Mozilla.
L5 is L5 - if the system can't tell, then it ain't L5 - and the driver 'connecting' won't work - it's basically 'please doze for three hours and then deal with a crisis within the blink of an eye' Pilots have enough trouble with this and they have 6DOF in a mostly isolated space - I do believe, but all my fun comes from learning about the spectacular levels of failure and hubris in much smaller systems :-) Think of it this way - if it's AZ, OK, I pick Flagstaff when the snows have just started to come and grease the road
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> I can't recall a new Android release ever being this buggy for this long.

It has been what, 2 months?
Yes. Another problem is that back then it used Kinect. Not sure what it uses now. It's not perfect but it worked, at least a few years back.
Since installing iOS 11 some things that keep happening:

1) I turn off wifi only to notice internet stuff not working later, only to realize wifi has turned itself back on and connected to a random open network.

2) Almost any time I try to update any app(s), all apps freeze and won't function until I force restart my phone.

3) Random freezes and crashes all the time.

4) Much worse battery life on iPhone 7
I'm still waiting for​ a decent men's soccer team...
this is a very good post. I wish every voter in CA and SF would read this.
What about professions that just pay lower? If 100k is well above market for a profession it's still not particularly high for a software dev.
Blockchain Could Regulate Marijuana Sales in Canada: IBM
Not just that, the alternative is outsourcing to India/another country. The companies that bring in the TCS/Infosys employees are typically looking to cut cost any which way possible. While I hate the gaming by TCS/Infosys and think it needs to be fixed, making H1B unnecessarily hard is not going to help fix that. A H1B employee living in the US, pays the taxes here and spends the money here. An outsourced job is an expenditure written off for tax.
What phones have you owned?
How about GTFO of Northern California?

High quality housing in my city is about $120/ft.
Hitting airplane mode drops connected bluetooth devices, until you reenable it while in airplane mode. It then remembers that you want bluetooth to remain on in airplane mode.
I returned it and bought a macbook pro.
There’s a reasonable claim that once you live somewhere, you’re entitled to an affordable way to remain there.

Providing this entitlement requires eliminating everyone else’s freedom to move there. Obviously CA can’t directly enact an immigration policy, but affordable housing activists are focused on moving from market to lottery/waiting list allocation of housing, where longtime locals are prioritized. “Affordable housing.” Trouble is, they are only succeeding at this for new buildings; outsiders are still able to outbid locals for old buildings, which are most of the market. But stronger rent control could stop that.
But do you get rollover miles?
> I can't figure out why we couldn't have miners just sign a growing dag of transactions and once a subset of the dag is accepted by 51% of the stake that network can prune the excess data (all the signatures)

Because of Sybil attacks.

> So in your example, if Alice signs both transactions and she doesn't have the funds to fulfil both of them the transaction causes Alice to lose 100% of her money.

Remember, the goal isn't to punish Alice. She's losing 100% of the bitcoin no matter what happens. The goal is to assure Bob (or Charles) that the transaction they receive will be recognized as valid by the rest of the world.

If you're Bob, and you know that Alice can invalidate the transaction (e.g., burn the bitcoin you just received) by signing a second transaction in the future, why would you ever accept Bitcoin?

Don't punish Alice. Assure Bob.
Yeah, I suspect the liability issues arising from trying to take the person to the hospital would prove too steep. Ambulance + EMT assistance is a safer bet, even with the initial delay.
Same story here. I never would have known about my company if their internal recruiter hadn't reached out to me on LinkedIn. I blew him off the first time he reached out, saying 'not now, check back next year' and when he called a year later I was ready for a move.
Or 6+ Valkyries to immediately clear Carriers' Interceptors. Then it's just shooting fish in a barrel ;).
I use the iPhone 6s. It was responsive, and battery would last at least half the day just fine. Right after the upgrade, batter would last for maybe 1 hour, tops, 30 minutes on average. No minor upgrade fixed the problem, and apparently its a widespread one too. I am getting either the 8+ or the X, but I still think this is ridiculous at best.
This is definitely a known issue on 2012/14 the Mac Minis (USB 3.0).
https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT203729

https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/usb-3-causing-interfere...

Apple's article mentions USB 3 devices, but the issue is very much with Mac Mini's ports. Moving the devices further away doesn't help much.

I have a pair of cheap Bluetooth earbuds. They have a range of about 30 feet with when paired with an iPhone and about 4 feet when paired with the Mini. Apple's Magic Mouse needs to be within about 4 feet to work as well.
So go to community college for 2 years and then transfer to a state school.

I went to a pretty meh public university. Didn't hold me back.
What exactly is the point of a having a country at all, if not to accrue unfair advantages to its citizens? And I assume you have a problem with all other countries unfairly "opportunity hoarding" for their own people too, not just the US?
Good plan for your own sanity. Is there a way to disable the signup and just load users?
Having spent a long time with Java I believe I understand the limits of this style of coding; in my considered opinion, composition is almost always better than inheritance. This is true regardless of the type of inheritance, be it prototypal or class-based (in appearance or reality). Therefore, adding features to JS to make class-like inheritance slightly better is not a trade-off I would make, favoring a simpler language over a feature who's use shouldn't be encouraged.
I merely stated you need to do, act, work for choices and for freedom. Expecting freedom of choice for granted is spoilt belief.
Funny, I thought the same thing, but I thought "Gotta just be me, maybe I forgot how it used to work" it's like everything I used to do is gone and/or buried. The default behaviors are all totally opposite of what I want.
I'm on a phone - maybe the 'double the size of everything' changes work better on an iPad?
For the iPhone 8, the screen does not dim or turn off at all when any app is open. This has been reported on Apple's support forums and one of the solutions that worked for several devices, including my spouse's device, is - restart the phone.

My first thought was that "iOS is the new Windows where the primary recommended solution to a problem is to restart the device."
Infosys and TCS together received 7,504 approved H1B visas in 2014-15, which is only 8.8% of the total approved H1B visas, says Nasscom

http://www.livemint.com/Industry/pHkRcTtIoKd8MkTkBNdtSN/Info...
That's because 64% of people currently coming into the US get in because they are relatives or family of another person who was given a green card. Only 15% of people come in due to skill or a job.

The bill would change the system to be more about skill/merit rather than the fact you are related by blood to someone who has skill.

The reduction in numbers is a side effect of the current ratios of the existing system. So ideally they will boost the maximum number on the other end to increase the total number of skilled visas, instead of just cutting the relatives portion (as the bill proposed in August). To me that's the best of both worlds. It's possible it will may be tweaked as it goes through congress or it may have to wait for a future bill, but at least the basic framework is being laid out for a better system similar to Canada/Australia.
Incidentally, I think there may be a product here that could be sold to financial institutions. Check out

https://www.hyperledger.org/
https://www.r3.com/

There are lots of other 'private blockchain' distributed ledgers being pitched right now to financial institutions and to me the distributed aspect of them seems like a bit of an inconvenient and unnecessary complication for those use cases.
No. Been a couple years but I usually just toss my resume on Dice, wait for a flood of calls/emails and filter through the trash. I guess I have a "network" because they certainly contact me when in need but personally I don't feel comfortable reaching out to people I haven't talked to in a couple of years just for leads.
It's interesting how simple and understandable now these concepts are with JS. I couldn't imagine a language written in 7 days ending up with ability to handle all this.
For example: the discovery of the structure and function of DNA was absolutely going to happen in the decade or so when it did happen. Somebody had to go and do it, but the environment of tools, techniques, and general motivation were all there making it possible.

You find all sorts of examples of people independently discovering things at the same time, and this isn't just coincidence. Maybe most famously is Leibniz vs Newton creating calculus. The pieces were all in place for the mathematical study of change. The outcome wasn't predestined, each man's creation was quite different in ways, but they accomplished something that was ready to be accomplished.

Whether it's physics or technology, nature abhors a vacuum. Unexploited niches get filled. Sometimes in significantly different directions, but very often the outcome is strongly influenced by the opportunity.

In biology, this is a bit like convergent evolution. The implementation details aren't predestined, but general solutions to environmental problems _are_. Eyes and legs are very useful things to have, and they're nearly ubiquitous.

With Tesla, the deal is that we know we're going to run out of oil, and pollution sucks. Developing an alternative has been a big talking point since the 90s, and there are a whole lot of players in the game. Lots of companies are making lots of attempts and have been trying many different technologies. Lithium batteries are winning the technology race, they developed because of other consumer electronics and the environment is best for them. It's just evolution. Many other companies are trying different things and the same thing, it's not driven by copying Tesla (the competition helps though) it's driven by the niche need for a solution expanding and becoming more and more possible.

The variables are implementation details (fuel cells? lithium batteries? something else?) and timing. There can be quite a lot of uncertainty with "how" and "when" but quite a lot less with "if".
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If the wages weren't complete shit they wouldn't set up offices in Canada(well and the tax breaks help too).
It is Summon only, no ownership.

when I said $200/month SUBSCRIPTION for 1000 miles, no Per RIDE pay
Only for really big things like Instagram that have a network effect helping them, and as such threaten the incumbent.

For smaller features / ideas, it's much less risky to copy than to buy a company (for, say, 10-100M) and hope the acquisition goes well. Most acquisitions don't go all that well.
> We just came off an 8-year period of significant unemployment.

https://www.thebalance.com/unemployment-rate-by-year-3305506

Peak unemployment during that period just after the 2008 financial crisis was still just under 10%, and it has been steadily decreasing since then.

It's not exactly nothing and it sucks if you are one of the unemployed but an unemployment ratio between 5 and 10% is actually not all that bad.

Significant unemployment were 2009, 2010 and before that 1982. By 2013 unemployment in the US was already back down below 7%, historically speaking nothing special, somewhere between 3 and 7% is fairly normal.
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It’s not about “expensive parts”. How well would it scale to the volume that Apple has? Why would you think that you would have more manufacturing expertise than Apple?
Unfortunately it has the same download bugs. Often when you press the download button, a podcast is marked again as not downloaded after downloading has completed.

Overcast, on the other hand, works fine.
Given final say on any bill rests with Trump himself (signature/veto when it reaches his desk etc), I'm not sure this distinction matters all that much.

At any rate, the president is entirely free to propose a bill, and assuming he can find a congress person to back it (I'm guessing he knows a guy who knows a guy...), can have introduced in Congress. Even if Trump's team doesn't draft a new bill, the lobbying power of the Whitehouse alone on legislation in congress is huge - the threat of a veto alone is a compelling stick.

I think its absurd to think Trump/the executive wouldn't influence the shape of any proposed legislation in this area, when its been such a public part of his campaign.
Careful; even Mike has cautioned against that comparison (in, I think his second Q&A episode).
YouTube Kids spammers rack up billions of views on disturbing algorithmic videos
This. When Apple devices reach two generations old, they need to be forcibly removed from your environment, or they will quickly become gaping security holes. For a company that prides itself on its image of protecting users' privacy, it sure is behind the curve on software maintenance.
White males. Laugh, disregard it - but it's true. If you're a poor white male, you don't really get a lot of assistance. I don't get special grants for being white, I don't get a padded SAT score, I don't get preferential treatment - in fact, it's the opposite. Not all white males are born with a silver spoon, and they're certainly not all given an 'equal opportunity' when a "diverse" person of lesser intellect can get financial and logistic support and lauded for being born a different race.

Frankly, over time the average white American family is going to find it more and more difficult to afford higher education, as if by design, to push them out of the middle class. Meanwhile, poor non-whites will be granted scholarships based on non-whiteness.
I've tried to brand myself online so work finds me.
Thanks for posting this! Whenever I plug my backup hard drive into my laptop (it connects over USB 3), my wifi connection drops. I guess I'll have to try switching to 5GHz during backups…
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Hours are long and the commutes are (often) long. Culture is hierarchical and often seniority based. Groupthink, consensus, backroom deal making (rather than open argumentation which is the norm in the states), and not rocking the boat are priorities.

But you're basically never going to be fired and generally speaking companies do genuinely seek to "take care of" their people in ways that US companies no longer do (but used to, many decades ago). It's a highly frustrating environment for a restless high performer, but for the mediocre college grad I don't think it's a bad deal at all.

They grew up there, know the culture, and have been trained/educated to navigate its waters.
I may be an exception and my experience may be anecdotal, but as someone on an H1-B I think I'm seeing this as a good change. My immigrant peers working at consultancies are seeing more RFEs, and those I know to be working as direct employees are not (as often compared to consultant employees). But there's been a net increase in site visits and verifications along with RFEs to even legit applicants.

For those who dont know the process here's how and when one can get an RFE:

1) Missed a key point in the application or Immigration attorney goofed up (this happens way often)

2) Position doesn't look like it needs a high skilled engineer with skills mentioned in application

3) Grossly underpaying the H1b employee

Getting an RFE by itself is not the nightmare scenario. Its a problem if the employer is doing things using shady loopholes.

What needs to be seen is by what %age RFEs have increased at companies like Apple, Facebook, Intel, Google etc. The bigger companies use boutique immigration law firms and its rare but not impossible for them to mess up on the immigration application process.

I'm not sure what has Trump's administration done to reform the H1b system, its still as crappy as it has been. If anything certain employers were abusing the loopholes. Now its going to get tougher to abuse the loopholes.
Nope! They just leak a lot of hydraulic fluid.
Stackoverflow careers[1] is my favorite. Lots of interesting jobs there!

[1] https://stackoverflow.com/jobs/remote-developer-jobs
I find tables far easier in md than anywhere else. You can distill them down to:

Head | Head
---|---
Row | row
Row | row

Etc.
> Why did you put scare quotes around "their own"? Is it not their own country?

I think the quotes are to suggest that those voters habitually overestimate their share of ownership, compared to everyone else in the country.

For clearer and not-political example, consider the average cat and "their house". It is true that they are a legitimate and valued member of the household... But the quotes suggest something about the way the cat sees the world.
Take Wisconsin's 10 EC votes and give them to Clinton and she would still lose. As a side note, I find it interesting how one man's voter suppression laws are another man's voter integrity laws.
Smart. I know what I'll be doing the rest of the day