skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There's no need to do that with properly designed circuitry and since discharging fully is damaging, encouraging this behavior is probably harmful to battery longevity. Battery University has so much information on this, but this part is a good summary chart (see the lithium-ion column) [1]

[1] http://batteryuniversity.com/learn/article/how_to_charge_whe...
To avoid a nanny state, I'd prefer to see taxation and education be the sole solutions. People should be allowed to eat whatever they want, but they need to pay their own healthcare costs somehow.
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You are wrongly assuming most courses aren't taught by overworked professors or TAs who just speed run through problems with no background on the subject and more or less teach you to pass the exams. Not everyone gets ivy league lectures.
With this and leftpad etc., I think it's time for the tech community to remember Java and Oracle, Sourceforge, etc., or look it up if you are too young to remember. It is beneficial to learn from history instead of making the same mistakes all over again.

Centralized trusted authorities cannot be trusted if they are private companies who don't answer to you. If you aren't paying them and you don't have a management position in said company, things like this will happen.
A big one is the cost of defense against forgery. A capability is essentially an index or pointer into a table in kernel space (much like an FD as another poster mentioned).

The traditional mitigation is to use hardware tagging and permit the tag bits to be set only via a privileged instruction, e.g. Multics. The x86 segmented memory model also allowed this, and I used this to build some experimental SUID memory-mapped the 1990s (you could call into them via special gates, but not read the instruction memory, for example). Although you those memory models are still supported on x86 for back compatibility I don’t believe they are particularly fast any more, unfortunately.

Edit: The lowrisc (RISC v) folks are implementing tagged memory also btw
Underlying driver for this is that an unregulated market favours economies of scale and network effects and therefore trends towards monopolies. This is particularly pronounced and accelerated on digital platforms.
>There are people who have wonderful lives, fulfilling jobs, happy families, who are still depressed.

If someone truly feels and believes they have a "wonderful" life, it would seem they are not suffering from crippling depression.

Though what I think you're trying to say is there are people who are depressed even though they seem to have all of their basic human needs being met.
Yes, We May Have No Bananas, but Monoculture Wasn't So Easy to Avoid
I guess that is why I did not buy Ether.
>The Magic Mouse 2 is one of the worst mice I've ever used, but the charging thing is a non-issue. The battery lasts like a month on one charge. Mine has never gone below 50%.

Worst mice? It's one of the better mouse I've used, if not the best, the touch interaction is fantastic and the accuracy spot on.

I'd only change the stupid location of the charger port.
If you google "finite state machine javascript", you'll see that lots of people have given it some thought, but it never seems to catch on. My theory is that state machines aren't a natural way to think about most problems nor are they a natural solution to most UI/frontend dev problems. Button states are a natural fit for state machines because they have a finite, well defined and well understood number of states. But, because of that, we already have the equivalent state machine built directly into CSS3 in the form of selectors (:hover, :disabled, :focused, etc).
Lying with charts is pretty easy
I did a bit of cursory research and it would appear that flux core solder was invented in around the mid-20th century, so there's a very good chance that they weren't using flux cored solder.
>This would be terrible for me, my battery always dies in the middle of the day, because I do not want to keep track of charging.

Don't keep track of charging, just plug it in once every 15-20 days over the night. If that's difficult, you're making things hard for no reason.
I think that's always the major issue in politics. IMHO:

It's an issue of individuals: People are neither completely altruistic nor completely greedy. A very important factor is, where are the elite on that continuum? My humble hypothesis is that that's the main difference between a banana republic and first-world civilization and society. IMHO, the elite in the U.S. have swung far toward greed; the tax bill is a good example: There is no policy reason for it, not even a figleaf discussion of economics, and even the principles of conservatives (deficit reduction) are thrown by the wayside: They just want more money.

It's also an issue of systems: How do we design a system that marries power, on one hand, to justice and welfare on the other? Then those who seek power also seek justice & welfare, intentionally or not. Democracy is an (incomplete) solution to that problem: Power flows from making the people happy.

Despite the problems, the U.S. and other major democracies work and have worked for generations, and they work better than any other system of government. Somehow, I'm not sure how, that happens.
>Presumably you'd be okay (logically) taxing schools and businesses that have too many whites.

No, I think this is a slight misinterpretation. I personally don't support quotas. On the other hand, I might be in favor of a credit to schools that give a bonus to minority students who apply, but I think that that's a more palatable result in general.

Note that under that equation, you're no longer enforcing equality of outcome, but instead controlling for unequal opportunity.
MacBooks don't support 5K resolutions, so it would be a bit wasteful to buy a 5K monitor for one. Are you sure you're not confusing it with the MacBook Pro?
Great quote and point
Data caps have nothing to do with net neutrality.
> when a master password is set and thus the passwords are encrypted at rest

They are not
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1284343
For the nth time on this thread: TLS does not provide end-to-end encryption for email. End-to-end encryption means you can read your mail, and the person who receives your email can read it, and no system in between can ever see the plaintext.
One simple tweak I wish I could do in google would be to eliminate search results based on broad criteria. For example, no sites that have a product for sale, no sites that repackage contents from other sites, no sites that include a given word, no sites that serve adds.
I know Seneca Systems is vaguely working on ideas that seem related to what youre talking about but more on the social involvement front as opposed to deep analysis of overlapping laws and semantic deconstruction of how they could be abstracted. theres a few legaltech startups working on westlaw/legal database competitor that i know uses ML to build a large graph database of existing laws and their inter-relationships Fwir
What’s the mythology of Thomas Kinkades life?
Time Management: The Pickle Jar Theory (2002)
Good. Sugar is a horribly addictive substance, and the outcomes of it's consumption and abuse are a massive drain on Australia's public health infrastructure. Hopefully however the sugar tax is coupled with some form of subsidy or relief from high prices of healthier alternatives (the groundwork exists with a GST exemption for fruit & veg) because obesity has a disproportionate affect on people in lower income brackets due to how cheap and easy it is to buy some processed garbage.
Kids are little psychopaths when they are young; they will manipulate the shit out of you if you let them. They can bring this behavior into adolescence and adulthood if not corrected. They absolutely need to be told, in no uncertain terms, to cut out the shit every once in a while, that teaches them you aren't going to put up with their manipulation and shows your high expectations for their behavior. It also shows them that there's going to be people in the world (bosses, for example) who are just going to expect something from you. That's not being cold, that's being a damn good parent.

And you know what, they actually do learn over time and their behavior does improve.

Saying "okay darling, I'll take your shoes off," doesn't built respect, quite the opposite, it teaches them to continue to manipulate you and that leads to a massive amount of disrespect.

The person I respect most in life is my grandma and she is the only one who called out the bullshit in me when she saw it. Same with my baby cousin (I'm more than 20 years older than him), he's a teenager now and I'm his favorite person in the world and I was the only person who called him out and let him know I expected him to behave around me, his parents let him walk all over them. He certainly had and still has zero respect for his parents.

Speaking of my baby cousin, his dad once asked me why I correct his grammar. I told him I didn't mind how he talks around his friends, but I wanted him to learn to speak correctly for the times he needs to portray himself professionally, like a job interview.
A wild champion of ethics in video game journalism appears!

The headline you quoted describes the content precisely and succinctly, like a headline should.

Click bait is defined by outrageous headlines which do not brief the reader on the nature of the content. Those headlines and articles are designed to lure a reader in using misdirection and lying: see James Hamblin, “It’s Everywhere, the Clickbait,” The Atlantic, 2014-11-11, https://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2014/11/cl...
Well it sure seems like that’s exactly what they’re proposing, with the fairly narrow (and, IMO, reasonable) exception of banning sugary snacks from hospitals.
Brain-computer interfaces may change what it means to be human
Sugar is not the primary problem. I eat copious amounts of sugar (probably too much). This ranges from refined sugar in sweets, lots of fruits, juices and even soda. I've been vegetarian for over a decade now, and my BMI Is 23.5, my body fat percentage is 14.5% and my blood sugar level is still considered in the good range for preventing diabetes. I don't think the problem is sugar, the problem is living a sedentary life style, and perhaps even eating lots of processed red meats.

My point being, a war on sugar is the wrong way to battle the obesity crisis. Get people to eat more fruits and veggies and to spend more active time outdoors.
WhatsApp crashes when “constructor ” is typed
The Snowball
> does not prevent Comcast, At&t, Verizon et al. from blocking port 25 as they have been for the past decade

Are you really that suprised they block it?
It's an exceedingly effective anti-spam measure.
> Just because I find your arguments uncompelling does not mean that I find all arguments uncompelling.

If when asking for proof of where employers declared that they believed the women before inspecting all evidence and hearing both sides some very prominent examples of that does not convince you, then I do not know what will.

> It appears that you're making a veiled claim that I'm virtue signalling, and I object to that accusation.

I am pretty straightforward and made that direct claim as I feel like I wasted my time, and I tried to understand where you come from or provoke you to think about it.

I rarely go to this step and I am not sure calling you out is the best course of action, but due to the denial of this direct evidence as well as other experiences in these threads I feel like this is justified and I think this kind of discourse deserve a rebuttal for what it is. I know no other way to call out these rhetorical tricks than brutal honesty. I might be wrong, I am not in your head.
Will Ethereum Classic Follow the Success of Bitcoin Cash?
unfortunately while cynical i do believe this comment
captures the reality of the situation. whatshisface, what do you think can be done to take back US society and make it a little closer to what our seemingly more critically-thinking predecessors had lived through?
> the scare quotes around "learn"? I feel that putting the quotes there is rather impolite

When I say I've learned (or learnt) a programming language, I mean more than a 4-hour jump start to basic proficiency level. Perhaps I was letting off some steam over the wild claims many programmers make regarding their PL expertise.

Did you know that Jenkins Pipeline cripples Groovy so all its features aren't available, specifically the Collections-based methods that form the basis of many DSL's?
Many thanks for your generous comment :)
> However, state laws can only restore network neutrality for some Americans, and only a federal rule can ensure that everyone in the country has access to a neutral net.

To accurately reflect the scope of the problem that should read "some Americans some of the time," no?

I doubt California businesses and residents restrict their internet traffic to stay within the state.
There’s more than one way to define what a set is, and many of these definitions always allow you to postulate there exist further collections that cannot meet that definition of a set ad infinitum. Most importantly ZFC (which is at least in theory the formal basis for the vast majority of mathematics) has this property, and so do many extensions like NBG and TG.
I don't get why as humans we like to have "wars on things", can't we just educate people about things and use some self control to tackle these kind of issues.

I mean look what happened to "the war on fat", the sugar war will be no different. I feel that excess consumption of artificial sweeteners, salts or fats will be the next problem.
FWIW Apple does onsite repair service as a part of standard AppleCare, or you can get Enterprise/Premium for next day onsite (there's also mention of a 4 hour option, but im not sure what plan thats a part of)
> It also says a tax on sweetened drinks should be introduced as a "matter of priority".
> I'm curious -- can you name a female politician you consider charismatic?

I hate to say it, but the first example which leaps to mind is Mrs. Palin. There's no there there (as anyone who watched her vice-presidential debate performance would know) but she was, at the time, quite charismatic.

Senator Gillibrand might count, but I've not seen her speak often enough to have an opinion.

Certainly with someone like Baroness Thatcher one knew that she had a brain, and she was keen to use it, but I don't know if she was charismatic. I don't think that's a word anyone would apply to Mrs. Merkel, either. Maybe Indira Gandhi? I don't know enough about her to know.
I agree with you in regards to a nanny state. However, the human mind is a complex beast and saying that "People should be allowed to eat whatever they want" isn't really that simple. A lot of people don't eat what they want, they eat what they're being told/advertised to eat. We're all susceptible to this in one way or another.
I found, over the years of being on HN, that there's a sort of forceful response that always comes to these types of comments about depression, along with downvoting. The responses say basically,

"Don't talk about what you don't know. Many people have real, chemical depression, and your comment that it's a product of life circumstances is not helpful".

I was always a but puzzled about the regularity with which that above formula appeared on HN. Sure, many entrepreneurs and especially developers lead lonely, stressful lives. I am a developer and entrepreneur myself!

But I also felt there is a sort of "groupthink" or "bullying" element to this, because there was hardly much substantive discussion about facts or statistics or science, in effect it was shaming the commenter into shutting up.

This bothers me. I like to see real fact based discussion when there is disagreement. Not just downvoting and vague assertions.

In this case I am sure you were downvoted by that exact same sentiment. Even if you had summarized the article, the content of the summary was enough to trigger the downvote.
I feel like I had that when I first met my boyfriend. I basically was convinced I would marry him and he was not he one from our first interaction, and I’m still on that path. It wasn’t that I fell in love instantly, more like a feeling of destiny.
this author really wants you to know that they're well read and can reference all those obscure literary gems.
Indeed, a capability is like a smart key. But it's more flexible than that; capabilities can run arbitrary code, like a smart card. And since capabilities can manage references to other capabilities, really a capability is like a smart executable contract.

This is precisely where "smart contract" comes from. I should probably write a blog post about this.
Is there a lot of variability in international keyboard layouts? I'd expect the base 26 letters + digits to be pretty consistent, but in countries with a lot of accented or alternate characters I could see touch typing being less attractive as a student.
This reminds me of the popular opinion that all you need to do is recycle to stop global warming. Or don't buy a house you can't afford and there will be no giant credit bubble. Some form of regulation is clearly needed. Despite what the MBA's may have told you, fraud and deception is not good for the economy in the long run.
To a pretty good first approximation zero percent of messaging users care about federation.

It's clear to me why "don't bother encrypting email" upsets nerds on message boards. But if you're going to trade getting the maximum number of messages safely encrypted for a deeply uncertain future in which most email is somehow reliably encrypted, you have priorities other than end-user safety --- and, I would argue (but do accept that I can't do so conclusively) priorities other than security engineering.
Capabilities are either unforgeable or unguessable, depending on your vantage point: https://capability.party/philosophy/2017/07/29/unforgeable-v...
Oh, I remember it full well. But even in those comparatively early days when only :-( and :-) had specific Unicode codepoints [HN filters out emoji, imagine the appropriate codepoints yourself], I preferred to use them to :-) and :-(.

Why do I use all the fancy Unicode things? Because they’re there!
I've noticed patterns quite like these (viz. #5, 11-13) on the surface of beer in a pint glass. I've speculated it's the result of either the different sizes of bubbles or differing rates at carbonation sites, but I hadn't noticed the similarity to Chladni patterns.
> Automation can reduce transparency, by moving open discussions and reasoning into obscure, sometimes proprietary computer code.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0n_Ty_72Qds
> I'd prefer to see taxation and education be the sole solutions

The market is incapable of self-regulation, that much has shown itself to be true. Removal of marketing towards children and easy access to vending machines will go a long way in improving public health in Australia. The days of avoiding a nanny state in Australia are pretty much gone, the government regulates everything, and for the most part it hasn't actually been bad at all.

> but they need to pay their own healthcare costs somehow.

Terrible idea, Medicare is one of Australia's shining institutions (even with all it's bureaucratic flaws). The American healthcare model has literally 0 chance of ever being adopted in Australia. The simple fact is we live in a socialised society, and so when burdens are placed on the public infrastructure from profit hungry corporations, the natural response is to regulate and deal with it. We saw it with cigarettes, hopefully we see it with sugar, and one day with alcohol too.
Seems like you're talking about hardware capabilities, which haven't really been tried seriously since Intel's iAPX 432 processor in the early 80's. It failed miserably due to horrible performance, but some argue that the performance could have been fixed had they been given a second shot at it.

Modern capability systems don't rely on hardware support and performance issues aren't usually cited as a problem with capabilities. In fact, capabilities can often perform better than ACLs since ACLs tend to require performing an expensive access check on every operation.
For most of us depression is something that just comes from different expectations from our life from what we have. For a long time I thought that this is depression until.I got to know a real person who has everything he wants to.have (he's very moderate person with moderate needs, a family supporting him), but he can't control his illness. When he gets depressed, he's not even mentally capable of doing very simple tasks.
There are industry giants who profit from you over-consuming certain things. So that side of the "war" is just built into our markets. Getting people to change their behavior takes active counter-balancing.
Requirements Considered Harmful (2007)
I agree, lawmakers benefit because lay people cannot understand the laws being passed.

That said, this is the secret. We market this to the law writers!

Getting to a point where we have 10x productivity gain will be hard but after that any tool with a 10x productivity win will be adopted. That is a no brainier.

Now we are in a future where all laws are written in this new syntax, but shared as long compiled documents full of redundant legalese English.

In such a future, lawyers can write law and contracts easily but cannot read them efficiently. Imagine writing JavaScript but debugging the assembly...

Lawyers would naturally start asking their peers to share the "source" rather than the compiled "binary", for evaluation. It is just a no brainier.

Now you have a future with a flurishing new syntax dominating the entire ecosystem. Hopefully better languages are created, etc. You even have an entire generation of lawyers who only know these higher level languages.

This isn't an overnight solution but by the time lawmakers realize the trend of higher level syntax is going to hurt their ability to hide truth, the game will already have been changed.
"Cloud computing — outsourcing computational tasks over the Internet — could give home-computer users unprecedented processing power and let small companies launch sophisticated Web services without building massive server farms.

But it also raises privacy concerns. A bank of cloud servers could be running applications for 1,000 customers at once; unbeknownst to the hosting service, one of those applications might have no purpose other than spying on the other 999."