skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> You live in a democracy

> People pretending they are morally superior or lead better lives through ignorance never cease to amaze me.

First of all, we don't have a direct democracy. This concept that everyone has to be 100% engaged (or even 90, or 80, or whatever subjective figure in your head that qualifies good enough is, which is another issue, your concept of being engaged enough doesn't match another) need not apply. Just enough people have to be engaged, which historically speaking has happened.

Second of all, I don't think anyone is claiming a moral high ground here, and if they are you are correct to say shame on them.

Third of all, people who place the same onus of keeping up with whatever the hell is going on in the world as some moral duty never cease to amaze me because it is so easy to flip the script on you and say you don't know enough. There is an endless amount of information out there. "News" as a concept is not even a fraction as old as the concept of government and democracy. We face information overload. How can you blame people for just wanting to live their lives? What if I never signed up for this system? Most people care more about their issues locally (which is in line with human psychology, we weren't meant for these large social networks) but people who sit here and cast stones at people who aren't keeping up with what happens with the Mueller investigation, for example, (which something happens every 2.5 seconds) is what never ceases to amaze me.
The thing is - 'village life' in Europe can be amazing and very fulfilling, often a higher standard of living than those in the cities.

800 Euros is quite a lot for rent.
I could be wrong, but I don't think sandboxed apps on iOS can control the CPU frequency/voltage like this.
The difference is that governments are made up of people who are voted in
This is incorrect, customer funds go to cold storage regardless of whether they're in a vault or wallet. This feature is intended to protect against account takeover, not the Coinbase hot wallet getting hacked.

(I worked at Coinbase a little while back)
Ask HN: Why do we compare ourselves to others? Is this beneficial?
There's at least a forum section dedicated to it, with a few posts containing collections of resources: https://www.raspberrypi.org/forums/viewforum.php?f=72
> “When you start working on something totally crazy, it's good to get data before you tell anybody,” Abrams said.

It's too bad that this seems to be the environment that our up-and-coming generation of scientists operate in.
Loyalty Nearly Killed My Beehive
I don’t get this. You want the news media to give in-depth, accurate and insightful articles about complex issues and topics but you want it summarised into a several paragraph summary once a month.

And you complain about the news media now...
I imagine it is the same thing that drove other acts of genocide, or for that matter, what lead to Heather Heyer's death: the politics of dehumanization and weaponized tribalism.
If you press the "Download" button, you can download the document as an HTML file. Share it through email or any other means, and it'll open in the Franchise web app— with all the queries, the results, and visualizations.
The UK has a press council.
Right, HackRF is not going to cut it if your building a cell phone repeater. But for home/hobby projects it's pretty good. I own a LimeSDR. It's not just the hardware, you also have have good software drivers. Everything open source in RF pretty much uses GNUradio, and there are endless problems trying to get LimeSDR working with GNUradio. Just read the message boards for LimeSDR. The first thing lime tells you do so is install Pothos which has zero support in open source community, so good luck. I wish it were otherwise as I said I've spent a lot of time fiddling with my limesdr
Income Inequality Research, Libertarian vs. Liberal (Podcast)
I really struggled with it. Over a year I’ve been stalled at the start of the third act.

Hearing that others had similar experiences motivates me to give his other novels a chance.
I am not morally superior to you, and I don't even know that such a thing exists because it makes no sense.

I do however have a heightened sense of empathy and awareness of the things going on around me, which means I'm not well suited to caring or paying too much attention to global or even national-level politics, because it would literally make me physically ill.

So I might be superior to you when it comes to caring about local politics, whereas you might be superior to me when it comes to caring about broader scope politics.
There aren't many MicroCenters around, and they still do an escalating price scale. $10 for 1, $15 apiece for 2-5, $20 apiece after that.
> That’s because we are not the customers... but the product.

An increasingly familiar pattern.

The free market is flipping against the people.
Cheers for the comment. And I appreciate the points you made, in all fairness I did mean to reply back and try and actually provide some level of explanation.

And you know man, I do understand that first problem, I actually went around my local city talking to business owners about their lack of understanding/knowledge of Bitcoin a while ago and tbh it struck me entirely as a communication/uptake problem. You are right though, I did come off obnoxious and you're also right in saying that it's not the right way to go about it.

Cheers for the reality check.
apologies.
Of all the conspiratorial editorials and political leanings that actually do go on in the press - this article not one of them.
They should really report on how dangerous our wild speculation is.
I expect either of Citus or Greenplum can deal with that kind of volume. Citus acts as an extension, Greenplum is descended from an earlier fork (now merging its back to mainline as part of overall development).

Citus specifically cite analytics and write throughput as their strengths. I believe them. They do seem to charge for shard rebalancing and some other features.

Greenplum comes with an inbuilt data science toolkit (MADlib) and has a long history of dealing with intensive workloads. I don't know if there is a commercial version with extra features. I don't think so, but I haven't looked closely.

Greenplum also gave birth to HAWQ, which uses the Greenplum distributed/parallel query planner to plan queries over Hadoop.

Disclosure: I work for Pivotal, we do most Greenplum development.
Tiny PocketBeagle Is the RPi Zero of the BeagleBone World
We need a staging/QA Earth so we can run these kinds of experiments.
Wow, at first I was impressed because I have used Coinbase's multi-sig BTC vaults in the past and those were the real deal. As in, they allowed for security and convenience. One key with Coinbase, one key with user, and the third key in your bank vault or somewhere hard to reach. All generated client-side. It protected against Coinbase being hacked, but still offered convenience.

This product is the opposite! One-key. Same security (in terms of Coinbase being hacked) and less convenience than the regular wallet! In fact they even took the multi-sig BTC wallet away. You used to be able to create more than one multi-sig BTC wallet in your Coinbase account. Now I only have one and I don't see an option to create another.

Maybe in practice, the risk of people getting phished is much higher than the risk of Coinbase getting hacked.
With their real estate boom people will eventually live in larger and more modern housing units. The process to get there may be more wasteful than necessary but it can be eventually productive even from a very utilitarian perspective.

During the dotcom boom much more fiber capacity than needed were built but they were eventually absorbed. It was a misallocation of capital at the time and companies went bankrupt for that. But it was eventually not all waste.
MongoDB has filed to go public
Can it be used as a drop-in replacement for JDK 8 or there could be compatibility problems with popular libraries? As I understood, modules are optional and won't affect code which isn't modules-ready yet?
Possible. Or it could just be light as a confounding signal -- they get energy from it, after all, and animals with brains and eyes will spend energy more efficiently during the day.

A much older article on jellyfish sleep suggests this proposed advantage, at least: https://search.proquest.com/openview/c958b584511e462a64623c5...
Given that ocfnash's page never uses the term detonate, never discusses the difference between detonation and deflagration, and doesn't describe the experiments that would distinguish them, I'm pretty sure they were not in fact performed, and the (informal) explosion he witnessed was not a (formal) detonation.

That's not to say it isn't worth a footnote to explain that "doesn't detonate" does not mean "won't go pop and propel burning material everywhere." Even a campfire can do that, but I could understand if someone heard "doesn't detonate" and drew the wrong conclusion.
I do agree that you describe the crux of the issue, I'm point it out because I believe it is the reason UBI will do more harm than good, until we address the problem of education first.

But, consider this: when we say education in the U.S., we imply westernization. Who are you to decide for someone else that their culture of ignorance is inferior to your own?

Life is complicated. I personally feel that, historically, these kinds of interventions do more harm than good. If you really want to solve a problem, you dont need to add regulations, you need to get more people on the same page, in general.
1. Easy to crawl i.e. simple HTML pages

2. Multiple open data formats, including TXT

3. Easy-to-follow organization (CIK), minimal indirection

4. No Javascript required, no gratuitous frameworks*

5. Bulk downloads of quarterly data (FTP up until 2016)

*not to mention gratuitous iframes (BamSEC)

Thanks to #5 anyone not satisified with the "UI/UX" can take the data and go build their own "UI".

When data is tied up in layer upon layer of indirection, Javascript, iframes, enormous overstuffed URLs, binary formats (e.g. PDF, XLS), then others cannot as easily take the data and build their own interfaces.

Not a good approach for public data nor good use of public expenditure, IMO.

I am grateful to Carl Malamud for creating EDGAR.
> First of all, we don't have a direct democracy.

This isn't an argument against being informed, it's a pointless debate over semantics. You and anyone reasonable understood what GP meant, they meant democracy as a "national built on foundations of democratic values, such as freedom of press, freedom of speech (to varying extents), right to assemble, etc" in contrast to "authoritarian regime where those values are not enshrined in the government legislature or cultural values".

> There is an endless amount of information out there. "News" as a concept is not even a fraction as old as the concept of government and democracy. We face information overload

The concept of modern news may not have been a invented at the same time, yet it remains a fundamental core part of many democratic-leaning nation's values.

> How can you blame people for just wanting to live their lives? What if I never signed up for this system?

You're probably free to move to an authoritarian regime if you cared to. No one chose to be born into a government system, but to claim no responsibility in a system that you've benefited from since you were born is passing the buck.
Any XML document that you can address via XPath in a sensible way. If your XML document is a mess, you'll only be able to get out a mess. :)

To get XML from a table, functions already existed in previous releases (XMLELEMENT etc.).
Somewhere I saw "theories" that Russia can simply aim several of those at Yellowstone and then let nature take care of the rest. Or just off East Coast and let tsunamis do the rest. Not sure how credible those are.
This is very interesting as it gives a detailed discussion with data and diverse viewpoints.

Gabriel Zucman collaborated on this research with Piketty. They have a basically liberal perspective.
Russ Roberts is a libertarian with an open mind.
Yes, sea levels are constantly rising -- at exactly the same slow, steady, manageable rate they have been rising for as long as we have been measuring them.

Modifying flood insurance coverage maps isn't anything new, either, but any changes being made should not be blamed on an INCREASE in the rate of rise, because there is no INCREASE in the rate of rise.
NO language enhancements .... I guess they leave that for the Kotlin guys ...
Right, I didn't mean to imply it was settled science, just that it was more than an anecdotal just-so story.

EDIT: Hold on, did you even read the links that you shared? Neither of them dispute the difference in preference/skill at different forms of navigation between genders. They just dispute the point that it's something that's genetically inherent (a point that nobody in this comment thread made). There's no need to immediately map everything you read to the closest political controversy and then draw the battle lines.
There are two kinds of that.

One is "wtf was I thinking", which comments won't help with.

The other is "where did the requirement come from", and that's (1) not a "cock-sure of themselves" sort of thing; and (2) best solved by putting a tracking number on the commit message, rather than traditional code comments.
The Education of Ellen Pao
That's hardly the case.

Firstly, examples of governments that have any people voted in at all are cherry-picked. Around the world, there are governments that are not voted in, or are "voted" in by a sham process which only has the external appearances of democracy.

Secondly, in democracies, a fairly common pattern is that the government consists of some seats that are voted in (parliament) plus some that are appointed (senate). The power is divided accordingly. (A minor point is that it is not uncommon for the leader of the elected party to appoint people for the uppermost staff positions: a so-called "cabinet" or whatever.)

Thirdly, government in the broad sense includes not only the parliament and senate political structure but all of the institutions of the government that actually get various things done throughout the governed region, and all the levels of bureaucracy employing large numbers of people. All of that staff is not elected; they are just people hired into positions and they generally keep those positions across government changes. That bureaucracy has considerable power of its own; not every single decision they make which affects you goes through a parliamentarian that you elected!
What specific misallocation of resources are you referring to? The housing developments? I'm not convinced those are wasteful, yet, even if the developers go under.
If it were simply physical exhaustion, you'd expect to see some sleeping during the day, or be able to induce exhaustion.
This is so awesome. I assume vice is totally on board.
Research like this is dangerous.

> We tentatively plan to randomly select 3,000 individuals across two US states to participate in the study: 1,000 will receive $1,000 per month for up to 5 years, and 2,000 will receive $50 per month and serve as a control group for comparison.

Is this a joke? This may as well read: "We'd like to research the effects of Universal Basic Income. We tentatively plan to select 300 individuals from opposite sides of a freeway: 100 will receive a free roast beef sandwich, and 200 will receive a pack of airline peanuts and serve as a control group for comparison."

UBI costs 1- to 2-million dollars PER HEAD to simulate. You can't cut corners on this and still expect to get relevant data. Not only are you not getting the data you want on how UBI would affect human behavior on the scale of a lifetime, you're also totally ignoring the greater sociological impact and resulting economic impact.

The 5-year span is too short to impact human behavior, the 1000-person headcount is too small to observe any greater sociological or economic impact, and the source of the funding (willing voluntary participants interested in UBI) means we're getting zero data on how the public would feel about being forced to fund this.

This research addresses literally none of the strongest arguments against UBI.

Maybe this is cynical, but I think they might already know all of this. They're just doing it anyway because they know a horn offering 5 years of free money will get their blog a lot of attention, and they know the results of this "research" will be biased toward the pro-UBI result they already want.

I guess we can all look forward to decades of liberal arts majors citing the outcome of this research as if it means anything. It's really unfortunate too, because these are the issues that really matter.

People spend all their energy arguing about race and sex and abortion and gay marriage and cops and who gets to use which bathroom, but nothing impacts human prosperity (and suffering and death and peace and war) the way macroeconomics can. That's when policy gets real and impacts people on a scale with a lot of zeroes on the end, and when enough people are misinformed about something like this, it has the potential to take humanity down a very dark path.
If you truly think that the repeal of ACA won't affect you directly, I suppose there's nothing anyone can do to convince you that the news does matter.
It was more expensive and less heavily marketed as an educational device. And the BBB is much less focused on graphics; a huge part of the Pi community is focused solely on media centers and retro gaming emulation.
Yes, well said. Honestly it's kind of like reading "The Diamond Age" immediately after reading "Snow Crash" and expecting them to be similar since they're set in the same universe.
I remember when Obama when to the UK to voice his support for Macron in the UK elections. Does that not count as a USA-sponsored ad? Because it sure has the same effect and intention as one.

Why the double standard?
I have done that, but the implication isn't serious: My giving up part of my home isn't the same as a nation of 320 million people and $18 trillion in income taking in a few thousand or hundreds of thousands of refugees. Nor is the level of sacrifice a serious question - the U.S., beyond any doubt, can easily afford it.

I also give money and food directly to the needy, and also to organizations who provide for them (they have far more expertise and resources than I do). Several of those organizations are governments, and I advocate for higher taxes in order to provide more of these services.

To truly believe that these actions are somehow extraordinary is to be naive about how the world really works. This is the norm of how communities function; if I didn't do my part, I would be looked down on and rightly so - I would be a parasite on everyone else. Who do you think takes care of your needs - food, shelter, education, healthcare, the arts, solving community challenges and problems, and much more? Some of it you pay for, and without a doubt some was paid for and worked hard on by people of good will (and some enlightened self interest). That hospital you went to is funded to a great extent by donations and tax dollars, for example. If you live in a democracy, it's up to the people to provide these things - they won't just happen for you.
Raco distribute sounds nice, but not sure how it is any different than py2exe or similar tools.
They have MFA at the account level. Serious question: is what you described more secure than that? These vaults mean they take coins offline, so it becomes a physical security task to secure them.
The real story in this mess is not the threat that algorithms pose to Amazon shoppers, but the threat that algorithms pose to journalism. By forcing reporters to optimize every story for clicks, ...

Because newspapers never did this kind of sloppy reporting before the interweb thingy.
Beautiful summary.

Thank you.
> Because the government doesn't want to be seen as xenophobic. One of the major talking points of the prime minister and his government is "diversity is our strength".

That explains the current administration, but what about the 10 years before that?
Debatable. If the address is really unguessable, the address acts like a regular key.

It's still not good practice, since most systems treat addresses with far less care than passwords and often save and/or transmit them unencrypted.
It really does all speed up the older we get.
If we nuke ourselves, I posit that humanity is a failure to be abandoned, maybe even a contagion to be contained.
Vuejs 3.0 Plans
I think Babylon 5 got that right, in the aftermath of, “The Great Burn,” although we’d be in it without outside help. Religion would emerge, but it might get a lot more primitive, and we not might bounce back in a meaningful way.
I see 2 claims:

1. The suggested materials are not for building bombs.
2. No one would be radicalized to build bombs by following shopping recommendations.

Since uncharacteristically, he did not provide very good support to any of the above claims, I feel free to opt-in with my own made-up opinion:

[1] is False. The materials ARE for building bombs. The "bearing balls" ARE what author says they are not (using an extremely unconvincing argument), and Mr idlewords is mistaken wrt how much data is used to build recommendations engines.
[2] is True
I am more interested in actual arguments instead of just names. That being said, since you are so interested in names, here is a list by the FSF that includes whatsapp https://www.gnu.org/proprietary/proprietary-back-doors.en.ht... (I am sure that everyone here has heard of the FSF).

> This is the overwhelming consensus of the cryptography and security community

Yeah, having your client (automatically and without a warning to the user first) let a "trusted" 3rd party make it re-send and re-encrypt a message with another unverified public key is the "overwhelming consensus of the cryptography and security community".

This article did not try to debunk what the original article said at all. Instead its main argument seems to be "Sure, whatsapp resends a message encrypted with a different key when the server demands it without even informing the user but this is not bad (because of "usability concerns") and damn you for even daring to inform the users about it!". Its secondary argument seems to be "b-but users will switch away to less safe applications if you inform them about how much whatsapp sucks - even if you suggest signal afterwards!".

> Here’s a difficult attack that could allow a sophisticated, resourceful adversary willing to invest a good deal of effort, some components of which have never been demonstrated in practice, to read a few messages that had been sent but have not yet been read after events like the intended recipient changing phones or SIM cards

It's not a "difficult attack" if the trusted third party (or anyone who can compromise their servers or force them) can perform it at will.

In any case, even if this backdoor did not exist it would not make whatsapp any better as it still is a proprietary software that might perform shady things in the background (or might be updated at any time to do so).

For anyone else seeing this and wants to read more about the story see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13389935 and https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13394900