skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
With COBRA, you can keep your health insurance (of course you have to pay for it) even if you quit/get-fired.

I don't know about you, but I've never quit my job just because a situation turned sour. There have been cases where I said "ok, it's time to look for a new job." But never "Take this job and shove it - I quit!"
This argument makes no sense to me. Are police allowed to use discretion?

If Yes - then doing something they're already allowed to do on tape makes no difference.

If No - then either they shouldn't be doing it and tape stops them from doing something wrong. Or they should and laws can be updated to allow it.

Having things float in a legal grey area is terrible for society. If it isn't legal, make it fully legal and cops are now fully covered.
I hate to overplay these things (I'm a stereotypically emotionally repressed Brit of the old school), but it's nice to see a positive story and have something to celebrate.

Bravo guys and girls.
Your experience is standard practice for engineering senior design (sometimes called capstone).
I have my main Mastodon account hosted on a domain I control. Mastodon is based on OStatus/GNUStatus, with bits of ActivityPub/PubSubHubBub/WebSub, so it is "protocol-based tech". For the most part Mastodon is "just" a friendly brand name over some "protocol-based tech".
Okay, not the poster above, but lets get you a more concrete example:

You are the CEO of Bread Inc. You make bread. You sell bread. As the CEO of Bread Inc., you make statements in the public about bread being terrible, that no one should eat it, and how you're only selling it because you like taking money from carb-loving hyper-idiots.

Would you consider removal from your post as justified in that situation?
Regulate that ISPs block the protocols.
Sorry, but I think you should have spent that effort refuting the arguments - instead you just spread some kind of implicit-guilt-by-political-leaning ("look, this a right-wing site - obviously it's not even worth your effort to refute the claims"). That's not productive.

> Sorry you're getting downvoted.

Thanks for that.
EVs have a lot of smaller cells packed together and there is a heavy and capable Battery Management System attached to that, along with heating and cooling elements.

AFAIK, most of the battery degradation on phones can be attributed to heat and suboptimal operating temperatures. An EV will heat up / cool down the battery, treat each cell as an independent unit during cycles etc. They will degrade a lot slower compared to phones. Most EVs even after years of use have decent battery performance and some manufacturers (like Tesla and BMW) even go with 8-10 year battery warranty programs.

I think they don't see much abuse like the tiny phone batteries.
I live in a first world nation. College education is free, allegedly.

If you have kids before your thirties, they will all be +25 when you are 55. They most likely finished college, they probably left the family home.
I've read somewhere, that I can't find at the moment, that Apple expects/promises that Mac batteries will retain 80% capacity after 1000 cycles, and iOS devices will retain 80% after 500 cycles.

The lower cycle number for iOS devices is presumably due to them being exposed to higher temperatures (in pockets e.g.) and not having any active cooling to counter this.
It's based off GNU Social, which is based off Ostatus. It uses an email like identifier. The term 'server' in this case is really domain. You are correct about loosing that identity if the server goes away, but that is pretty much the case with anything you don't directly control. GNU social has a single user mode for this very reason.
Brokerage fees, margin interest, anything related to making those capital gains the government is taxing is deductible. I am not an accountant nor anyone you should be taking tax advice from.
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Can somebody explain something to me... I haven't been participating in the Bitcoin/cryptocurrency movement for better or worse, just following it from afar:

I thought the premise of these currencies was to avoid government and banking oversight/control... but with both the SEC and IRS putting controls around virtual currency (which I think we all expected to happen), how does that change the original inspiration? Do these virtual currencies become relegated to the same fate as all other currencies?

Was seeing this happen part of the experiment of crypto-currency as well? I keep trying to figure out the real motivation behind the basically unknown origins of the inventors (e.g. Satoshi Nakamoto).
You need to talk about monetization, not donations. And what, you, personally find inviting isn't that important. What's important is what works.

I straight up had someone tell me I was "panhandling the internet" to have donate buttons on my site when I was homeless. At that time, people would give me money and leave notes "Here, have something to eat." They very clearly did not see it as paying me for the value of my work. It was charity in their eyes.

All that stopped when I switched to a tip jar and my take went up.

YMMV, of course. But it ended up being an informative experiment.

I like having Patreon plus a tip jar. Patreon is for on going support. A tip jar lets people leave a one time payment.
Absolutely. Then again, code review is never perfect and it is easy to miss hard to see cosequence of something subtle. Especially if I tentionally hidden. So, trust matters. If you have track record of doing such things, then accepting your pull request comes with higher risk.
I would add that none of this applies to social networks: safe spaces are designed for compromised individuals that are temporarily not healthy enough to engage in a few specific aspects of the full gamut of healthy human behavior.
As I approach 40, I'm so scared that nobody would hire me whenever I have to look for work again.
Well, experienced people know how to CYA and let the boss hang themselves when they try to blame someone below them.
Who in the world would run right out and buy a new iPhone if their last one became unusable in one year?

People switch to the iPhone because of their longer usable life compared to the competition. People pay more for old iPhones compared to the competition because of their longer usable life. Not only is it not in Apple's interest to make self-destructing phones, to even accuse them of that requires ignoring the entire history of iPhone adoption and resale value.

Further, there is no "one year" for batteries. Batteries with more charge cycles degrade faster. Batteries that push peak performance more often degrade faster. Batteries that spend time in extreme heat and cold degrade faster. Because of this, a simple anecdote of "throttling after a year" means even less than usual.

No-one has data on how much throttling is going on, but Apple. The best proxy we have is the aggregate purchasing decisions of people who had iPhones, and the prices of used iPhones. And people with iPhones overwhelmingly keep buying iPhones. And the prices of used iPhones aren't going anywhere. This "Apple makes self-destructing phones" theory needs a rest.
If we don't have infinite resources (prosecutorial, for example), it makes sense to concentrate on the most salient loci of crime. If after enough resources are devoted to the most egregious locus, a different locus becomes the focus of crime and in turn gets the attention, that's not a bad thing...

In other words if done decently well, they'd obtain data from all places but focus on the problematic areas till they reach equilibrium and then you redirect to the next hotspot, no?
Gerrymandering: The Role of Technology [video]
"practically giving one group of people money, under the guise of stimulating AN economy."

It wasn't under the guise of anything but saving the US economy from a wicked meltdown of epic proportions.

The dominos were set to all go down, the Fed kept a few of them up by rebalancing wealth.

As you point out - viciously unfair - but better in the long run.

FYI - a 'strict currency' is perhaps worse; crisis will happen. Strict currencies ties our boat to the dock, too much or too little water and we're all smoked. Moreover - outside of crises, the economy is dynamic - growing and shrinking, monetary policy helps manage that.

A strict currency is better than a poorly managed currency, but a well managed currency is better than a strict currency.
https://www.propublica.org/article/machine-bias-risk-assessm...

Food for thought on how incredibly biased these effort can be.
>Why shouldn't they have to deal with the homeless?

They already do, that's my point. The question is why should they deal with the homeless of Portland?

>Or why shouldn't homeless people be able to demand, and receive, free housing wherever they want?

I know you don't believe this, because if they could then they'd just demand housing in Portland.

>Surely some of the homeless in Portland now weren't born there. But even if they were – is there a real right to be able to live wherever one was born, forever, for free?

Perhaps we could widen the scope of the question and then you could answer it: Is there a real right to be able to live anywhere, forever, for free?

>And surely some degree of economic efficiency should be considered. The more cheaply housing or other accommodation can be supplied the more can be helped. Certainly it seems ridiculous to provide free housing in the most expensive places.

I actually don't agree on the economic efficiency. For all the whining about NIMBYs when it comes to real estate costs on HN, everyone's a NIMBY when it comes to the homeless. Besides like I said the point is contact (no matter how expensive that contact might be).

>I suspect there are no good answers, generally. Conflict is inevitable!

Of course - that's the point of contact. Contact -> Conflict -> Resolution. If your resolution is just to remove contact then I think you're failing on a societal level.
Yep, sorry about that ... "Stonyfield" not "Stonybrook". Also, I forgot to link to the podcast: https://www.acast.com/howibuiltthis/stonyfield-yogurt-gary-h...
There are things a government needs, like revenue source and public servants, to exist or do its job.

Government does not need to have its own currency for exist or to do its job.

It's debatable that government having the ability to mess with monetary policy is a good thing. It may be working in US at the moment (and it will be hard to measure if it is helping or not), but there have been a lot of countries economically ruined because of that.
I feel like this is akin to saying amazon wasn't a threat to retailers when it first launched because no one was doing all of their shopping on Amazon at the time. There is certainly a ton of speculation going on in this space at the moment, but it seems foolish to write off the entire concept simply because some people are speculating
Thanks, but all credit goes back to HN for turning me onto cnn.io in the first place.
What is the reasoning your gay associates give for not supporting gay marriage rights?
Yes, I thought of that but probably IE6 will be a CryptoCurrency launched by a big company like Facebook, Apple or other.
I am so tired of people bringing up the Brendan Eich thing as if it was unfair. Let's be clear; he wanted to deny civil rights to LGBT folks. That's not ok for a CEO of a large organization. It's not like he was ousted for wanting to abolish the estate tax.
For 30 Rock and Parks and Rec, weren't those appearances after the people were already prominent and/or in office?

The 30 Rock/Al Gore example in particular happened years after he was done running for public office.

And even Parks and Rec wasn't so much advocating for Joe Biden/Michelle Obama as having a left leaning, political character be excited about the opportunity to meet them. I can also remember John McCain appearing on Parks and Rec.
Oh, look at that. Neither one of those companies service my area, as I suspect most areas. Again, the point being, there are no small ISPs anymore.
Most people will at least know that a share is a tiny fraction of a company, and why it has value. Bitcoin is more of a black box (to many), and thus more prone to hype (it's far easier to make grandiose claims about the future of a currency than it is to pretend a company will grow at nearly the same rate).
I think a combination of it being pre 9/11, me being 15, and expensive lawyers helped things along. I was arrested in February of 2001 and it was done by my birthday in September.
You don't need proof-of-work to achieve a consensus.
Provided that no more than 1/3 of the actors are dishonest and colluding :

Let's say that by some clever way at time t, you have 2/3+epsilon peers which signs the same database hash to certify that this is their immutable view of database at time t. As a client, you can trust a database view for which you are presented with the 2/3+ signature have been gathered.

Regarding the way to reach consensus. Seeing it from a game theory point of view : You play a game where the goal is to reach a common viewpoint by exchanging some signed messages. Whereas Bitcoin is a competitive game, this is a collaborative game.

As a protocol designer you just have to make sure that the game has a winning strategy for supermajority quorum of honest actors.

If you want to make it simple use a synchronous mechanism. The bar is really low if what you are trying to beat is Bitcoin 10 min per block transaction time (you have thousands of communications trips).

The principle is easy : Everyone exchange their info and the info they have received from others, then accept the largest union of info for which they had a supermajority telling them that they have received this union (i.e. the fixed point of function "I have received [set of received blocks]" which communications helped converging to).

If the honest actors win the round (they successfully agreed on the same thing (they can only sign one [set of received blocks] per round) ) the database grow, otherwise they leave the database unchanged and move to the next round.

There are plenty of winning strategies for a two third quorum provided bounded delay in communications ((by finite recurrence) the union of received must grow or converge during a communication trip)

Hashgraph is an asynchronous version of this collaborative game (they call it Gossiping about Gossiping) which makes it faster, needing less messages, but also harder to debug and prove correctness.

Regarding the broadcast cost, if every peer broadcast to every peer it leads to n^^2 messages but you can get around by introducing p dispatchers relaying the messages resulting to 2pn messages if you accept some additional hypothesis on the trustworthiness of these dispatchers.

The problem which still remains is how to guarantee the strong mathematical hypothesis of no more than a 1/3 non-colluding. As a workaround you can add as many verifiers as you like, so you can know when not to trust anymore, so all clients know to switch (i.e. fork) but knowing to which other set of peers but this then require a consensus :)
Fellow alum here, most engineering majors still have a similar design project as a significant chunk of how they spend senior year.

For mine (I was a biomedical engineering undergrad) we built a computational model of the metabolism of HIV drug cocktails are various dosages modulated by factors like age, weight and phase of HIV infection.
A writer pushing their political agenda is one thing and something you can't quantify. Is there a department at ABC whose sole job is getting politicians to pay for guest appearances?
I used to have a desktop that would randomly reboot until I replaced the power supply with a higher wattage one, which is more or less what was happening here afaict.
> Languages like Groovy were an over-reaction against unreadable XML in the Java ecosystem. The correct solution is to switch from an unreadable to a readable declarative language for configuring software.

I somewhat agree with you. Unfortunately Jenkins team seems to have bet in the opposite direction by going full groovy https://github.com/jenkinsci/pipeline-examples
I respectfully disagree. I think this idea is one of the subtle evils at the root of this damned politicizing of everything.

I believe it can come from a good place, but it's at its heart a deliberate agitation step designed to create this friction. That's seen as a good thing, for now, until the prevailing societal winds decide to blow another direction, then we'll all realize it was a bad idea to force neutral parties into the fray.

I think it's perfectly fine to expect a gay man and someone who has antiquated ideas about gay men to be professionals, and equally fine to terminate either one if they can't be.
I don't think it is debatable considering we have had successful governments without it.

Saying every country does it is not a good point, as it could be applied to slavery once upon a time.

But I agree that it's debatable if it is good. Being good and necessary are two different things though.
The limited number of BTC compared with the demand makes it less a commodity but more a collectible.
> Besides, I doubt that shutting down all 400 miles of the network will significantly improve maintenance efficiency. They already severely cut back service to a few trains an hour, and they coordinate with maintenance crews pretty well, and crawl past them at 5mph.

I don't think you're right about this. There's just a lot of maintenance work that needs to be done that can't be done even with slow-moving trains going by a few times an hour. Signals need to be replaced, rail surface need to be smoothed, ballast needs to be cleaned and redistributed, ties break and need to be replaced, signals need to be replaced, etc. London and Hong Kong crews can do something like replace a section of rail overnight. It's very hard to do that in NYC.
I get the newest at the top and have to scroll down to see what I've missed. A client that acts like my Twitter clients do and saves my place, allowing me to scroll up from there to see everything I've missed, would be excellent. Can't seem to find one, though.
And if you need an exit strategy, why bother putting the effort into utilizing the service in the first place. Usefulness of such services is inversely proportional to effort expended getting into and out of them.
its quite simple really, if you are a conservative at a Silicon Valley company, just lie to anyone who tries to reveal your belief system.

real shame we don't have a President Sanders...yes, really, oh yes I agree...
Demo does not work in Firefox 57.0.1
Apple needs to do way better at informing the user when the battery is notably degraded, and when that degradation is leading to notable throttling.

Particularly, when as the throttling is severe (more than 25% or so) and when the user is encountering it with any frequency.
There's lot here, but I'll make it short:

- The fed does not exercise control over Bitcoin directly, so Bitcoin is still fundamentally different than fiat currencies

- All fiat onramps into crypto are controlled by governments, which is one way to regulate it (KYC, AML)

- You still have to follow the rules for your country, and if the government finds out you haven't, it can censure you; with crypto, it can be harder to see if someone followed the rules, but it's not impossible with the pseudonymous approaches used by most cryptocurrencies today
No. Plugging it in makes no difference. The only way performance increases is if you increase the charge in the battery, in my experience.
> If your battery is only reduced by 8% after a couple of years, why does the device have a artificial, significant decrease in performance after just one year?

You call the decrease artificial, but I don't see evidence of that. I'm not sure what your "reduced by 8%" number is -- capacity? -- but in any case, it wouldn't necessarily scale linearly with the amount of CPU throttling needed to make the CPU stable.

Also, I'm not sure where the "significant decrease in performance after just one year" is coming from. The article says performance starts to degrade after a year, which isn't the same thing. The article doesn't even have a cite for that (that I saw), so I wouldn't take that claim seriously yet.

Of course, I'm sure there are batteries out there that are aging prematurely, but that's not the same as a device being designed to degrade after a year. Personally, my iPhone 6 plus began slowing down really noticeably at close to three years old, which is acceptable, IMO.

But I think Apple needs to have iOS alert you that it's slowing your phone down because the battery has degraded.
Then you know what to do:
* If it's less than the normal service life of the battery (2 years, I guess), you should get a free battery replacement.
* If it's later than that you can choose to replace the battery on your own dime.
* Or you can choose to get a new phone after all.

By not telling people what's going on, people with a prematurely degraded battery probably won't know to get it replaced under warranty and people with normally aging batteries are more likely to buy a new phone rather than replace their battery.
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And the next day, those age-based ads will be replaced by other user attributes closely correlated with age.

A US Supreme Court case comes to mind, Batson v Kentucky:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Batson_v._Kentucky

In which it became illegal to dismiss a juror based on race. A simple, sensible fix, which most agree did very little to stop race based discrimination from juries. Doing so just became a bit more complicated.
Ask HN: How do you manage your resumes?
While different companies would have different skill sets that they look for, one may have to tailor multiple resumes. What is your way of do this? Any tools you use?

I currently use multiple folders of latex source files.
> All political movements have real consequences, so you are effectively saying that a person can not have political opinions you disagree with, and if they do they should be fired from their job.

Tons of people think this is acceptable. Look at all the people who said you should be fired for supporting the president. They're nutjobs, at best.
You drew up a bad point of comparison and you keep attempting to shift away from it. To assert they can be the same level of non-violent is also incorrect considering as I brought up, there can be various levels of non-violent opinions that can be highly damaging to a community. Believing that transgender people don't exist is one, or believing that being gay is something that someone can fix.
They’ve had reviews for ages. The problem was that scammers learned how to game them.
Its ability to create/enhance economic crises also becomes very diminished.
I think the dangers of a high sodium diet are pretty well documented, especially in the west where they have very high obesity rates. I would take Dr. DiNicolantonio's advice with a "grain of salt" haha
It is about fitting stereotype. Stereotype of good programmer is young man in formal clothing. Hence companies look for that.
It would be right.
It's not only to make them run longer - they're reducing the peak demand on the batteries to avoid spontaneous shutdown when the aged battery can't handle the load.

This seems like a good idea, and it appears to be well executed (ie it's not apparently based just on age or milage like a crappy car maintenance reminder), but Apple should probably have something in iOS that tells people their phone is running slow because the battery is 2 years old.

[1] https://techcrunch.com/2017/12/20/apple-addresses-why-people...
How about just, you know, addressing the points the article made?