skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> The whole article is based on the assumption that once basic necessities are covered, huge numbers of people are going to call it a day and cease economically profitable activity. I think the opposite will happen...

I would assume the burden of proof to be on you (and supporters of UBI) to prove that opposite will happen and people won't just slack off once their basic necessities are covered.
To be fair, modern fencing does have pressure requirements in Foil and Epee categeories. It is not enough to simply make a circuit. While the game has obviously drifted from its sources, the "light attack" problem was solved outside of the Sabre form of the sport.
The story of the $29 chicken dish that should actually be $40 because of its preparation cost...why pour your own money down the drain? There has to be a market fit, and this is deliberately ignoring that. He writes that he didn't want anything but to stay open, break even, etc. This indicates a major blind spot to even attempting to implement that approach. Sounds rather like someone who loved the idea of being a "startup" restauranteur without really having any vision for what he actually wanted to do.
Packaging and Forestry [pdf]
I think I was reacting to my parent use of the word 'trivial' and 'keeping your house in order'. Its not that I believe that circle-ci has no value in any circumstance.

you can say that they are 'doing it wrong', but without execption the shops I've been in that use CI tools

o have one guy, maybe no longer with the group, that set up the CI deployment and no one else knows how to deal with it
o dont have a firm control of their development build and dependencies and the different CI environment is a constant source of shear
o are running a service with its own deployment chain, which differs in environment from the CI server and should arguable be used for tests
o dont have a decent way of running the tests outside the CI environment at all, which makes debugging CI failures pretty problematic
o because of the single maintainer issue, new tests often dont get integrated into the CI, which is really conterproductive
o for distributed services and services with runtime dependencies, the CI isn't really providing the whole picture (meaning we should really be using the delopment tools to spin up transient test instances anyways)
o the state in the CI often tool doesn't get packaged up with the repo, so it doesn't transition easily to other development teams

focussing on the 'keeping your house in order', CI is often providing a solution to a small part of the overall test and development problem and creating artifical boundaries.

I'm very sympathetic to avoiding wasting time on home grown solutions (even if they are as trivial as 'run these 50 tests and collect status). but if the development effort is sufficiently small, or sufficiently complex, I think external CI is actually costing more than its worth, or giving people a false sense of comfort about their testing and dependency management. thats all without considering any trust issues.
Dow Jones reported a fake story about Google buying Apple
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Beautiful.
Someone should do the same for all the Javascript-framework-driven web apps clogging the web.
> I'm advocating changing education so it works for "the other 70%". You seem to advocate just giving up on them because they can't be reached. This is our disagreement.

That's a fairly pedantic stance to take.

Would you still hold this belief if you talked to the students and parents and they basically said "we don't want this"?

I have asked this question to many people, and that is what they said. When asked what they do want, they said they wanted things that will get them (basically) money, power, and/or social currency (with an element of stability/consistency thrown in for each of these).

FWIW, I do not advocate giving up on anyone. That said, I don't agree with force-feeding them certain types of education because those are the types of learning that upper middle class people value. The short summary of the research in this area is that it doesn't work particularly well.

> Your position seems to be that education should identify strengths and build on them at the exclusion of weaknesses. My position is that education should fill in gaps and make everyone more balanced. These are fundamentally different positions.

Maybe at an abstract level, but I don't really see that in what I have said so far. My actual beliefs are quite the opposite -- fill the gaps. The issue is what is considered a "gap". What many educated folks call "gaps", less educated folks call "features" (e.g., creationism).

> Also, made up numbers like "70% of people don't care about education" raise red flags for me.

Meh, it's a little hand-wavy, but it's not far off from a literal perspective or from an eyeballing it perspective.

About 32% of any given cohort of high school aged people will graduate from college before they are 24. That's the source of my number. There are definitely arguments to be made around the periphery, but that's the target audience I refer to. I think the total college attending % is 50-something (stats say 66% of high school grads, but they leave out the 18% high school dropouts in their counts, so it's off by a bit), so feel free to use that if you like. I personally consider most of those folks who did not finish to be not a good fit for college from the get go (and that's totally ok for them not to be a good fit).

My overall point is that the modern high school curriculum was designed at a time when most of the folks who went to high school went to college or worked with people who did. For example, in 1900, only ~6% of the population graduated from high school, ~2% finished college, and a few more got "letters of instruction" after two years of higher ed. Basically, high school education was for the elite. Yet that curriculum oriented towards the elite is still used in practice today. Why?

I really encourage you to go to a school (probably inner city or rural) that has a very low college-attendance rate. Talk to the students. Talk to the teachers. Talk to the parents. Their perspectives are fairly valid -- they just want a good life for the students. The tricky question is what constitutes "good life" and what is the best way to get there. I personally don't think that our current system answers either question particularly well.
Here's a somewhat less biased (IMO) take on the same thing:

https://www.theatlantic.com/education/archive/2014/04/tradit...

I'm genuinely curious what people think about this:

"On March 24, 2014 at the Cross Examination Debate Association (CEDA) Championships at Indiana University, two Towson University students, Ameena Ruffin and Korey Johnson, became the first African-American women to win a national college debate tournament, for which the resolution asked whether the U.S. president’s war powers should be restricted. Rather than address the resolution straight on, Ruffin and Johnson, along with other teams of African-Americans, attacked its premise. The more pressing issue, they argued, is how the U.S. government is at war with poor black communities.

In the final round, Ruffin and Johnson squared off against Rashid Campbell and George Lee from the University of Oklahoma, two highly accomplished African-American debaters with distinctive dreadlocks and dashikis. Over four hours, the two teams engaged in a heated discussion of concepts like “nigga authenticity” and performed hip-hop and spoken-word poetry in the traditional timed format. At one point during Lee’s rebuttal, the clock ran out but he refused to yield the floor. “Fuck the time!” he yelled."
I suggest reporting a bug to Bugzilla. The positive side effect will be you will see how efficiently they handle such reports. And you will get it fixed.
Great idea. Except, I'm not sure if the average user would benefit from this. Would they be aware of this feature?

(Of course, no question that for us hackers this would be a very useful improvement!)
By mobile GPU do you mean like Intel? Or even NVIDIA?
Using SWIFT, Attackers Routed $60M to Sri Lanka, Cambodia, United States
This is what did it for me. The hours were too much and I was getting burned out. I was in IT consulting (fortune 100 companies) but on the finance side. The company was also pulling me over to join the consulting team but I knew that I needed more than a different role, I needed a different lifestyle. I took a pay cut and now work for small businesses handling webdev and internal tools. This allowed me to stretch some creative legs and navigate into a bit of advertising as well. Beyond that, I now get to spend more time with my wife, learning new skills, and growing in ways that I am more passionate about.

The transition doesn't come without heartache though, there are risks including job security and potential growth. No one has a crystal ball. I made a choice that felt more fulfilling in the present. Whether that was a smart choice or not 50 years from now - you'll have to ask me then.
there is also HERE map app. it started in nokia, microsoft, and now under new management. Don't know if it is going to get better or worse because of that.
The counter to a move like this is trivial, but they are banking on surprise and that you won't have any Popper to actually pull it off in your evidence on-hand.

(I haven't paid attention to policy debate in 15 years and now I wonder what kind of impact smartphones have had, or could have assuming they're not currently allowed.)
How high do you gotta get for this to happen?
Qi Wireless Charger for iPhone and Android Phones
Ack, what is "hermeneutics"!? I know it's a field of study and I get a little what it's about (though I'd need to see some more concrete examples to really get it I think)—but what baffles me is why people use 'hermeneutic' as an adjective when they could just say 'interpretation' or something simpler like that. Is there a legitimate reason to use that word? (aside from referring to the field of study.)
Except your graph is symbolic, and good luck getting a breakpoint to fire when the calculation is happening ... Or if you don't like debugging, the problem manifests itself with merely printing values too.
Indeed. I helped a relatively un-technical friend get a smartphone at MetroPCS and was blown away at the hardware you can get for $99 or less. Obviously I assumed it's very subsidized, but I found the $99 phones were only about $179 full cost, and we're talking phones not too far off spec from an iPhone 7 Plus or a Galaxy S8.
Those pictures can easily be proxies by a spoofer, so I don't see the point of them.
Judges already have ultimate discretion; see my sibling comment.
App Security – Defensive Middleware in Motion
No, he's correct.

Ctrl-Alt-Delete on windows is a privileged hotkey that goes directly to the kernel. A phishing program can't intercept it once it has been pressed. If you know that Ctrl-Alt-Delete has been pressed, you are already privileged as the kernel and would be able to compromise a hypothetical protected screen buffer anyways.

https://i.imgur.com/BE0xN3i.png

The Windows login screen here doesn't allow you to type in the password until you press the magical keys that only the kernel can access. This significantly increases security, since any phishing program that puts up a fake static image doesn't know when to present the login dialog.
Nobody addresses the topic of inflation because it is not real. It's just some FUD somebody though about and survives due to disinformation.

Government deficits¹ generate inflation, what is a completely orthogonal concept to UBI.

1 - Among a few other factors, but the deficits are the one relevant here.
I do! I uploaded it here: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1b9lWFHuUf4FfCRZ51mAOSuzz...
Sure, but that's a 256-bit value that does not have to be present at the use point. So it's a lightweight anchor ! It's extremely heavy when someone else tries to move it, and yet when you move it yourself, it easily fits in your wallet on the tiniest of sd cards, or even on a scrap of paper.
> Got a cite for this?

I'm mainly responding to OP who accepts this assumption.

> That is one of the biggest problems with UBI - how do you keep it universal?

That's basically what I'm saying; UBI is not 'universal' because it will create polarization & tribalism.
The URL would be better without the query string "time_continue=1813", which starts the video at the end.

Here's the link that starts at the beginning:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FZw1j_tTSag
I bet you that the next generation of Intel processors will have patched this workaround from working, and maybe go as far removing the ability to kill IME unless you use some kind of rotating encryption dongle. Unfortunately for consumers, there's no way to escape this as even AMD has their own IME.
I would focus on discreet video card for your work load. IIRC, none of the 13 inch MacBook Pros have it.
I haven't heard any rumors, but Oculus Connect 4 is tomorrow. If there's going to be new hardware, that'll probably be when they'll announce it.
Partial unique-constraint indexes are useful too
Addgene is a wonderful and necessary service. Sort of like an open source wetware repo. Great place to work too.
A string comparison would not catch my next attack, a bitmap-based imitation.
Why the 7th line contains 3 sentences?
Minimalism requires consistency.
Debate is good at teaching you that truth-seeking is not exclusively or primarily the outcome of a speech act. Not even the ones which make truth some kind of goal (as a stellar example, you might consider that this is not even what publishing as an academic accomplishes, either). From a pitch meeting to even, say, a presidential debate: it's usually about getting someone or some group to an understanding. Probably one that could be said to have a desired impact on your audience -- it is, in other words, strategic.

Even then the funny thing about this article is that, in indicting what it considers a decay in critical thinking, the article misses a lot. Spot the error:

> in recent years its speed has increased markedly, as have the mountains of evidence. The emphasis on logic and critical thinking has waned.

Disclosure: did this activity, was ranked #1 for my class year, etc etc. (Note that doesn't mean I think the activity's perfect, either.) One of the coolest outcomes is that - since it attracts people who want to become lawyers - you end up building a really, really deep legal bench:, fed and appellate clerks, m&a/whiteshoe types, litigators, etc.
Would it make sense for BackBlaze to offer a tool which automatically split restores into 10 zips if over a certain size?
I don't run browser extensions
The End of Moe’s Meat Market
Dell Bets $1B on ‘Internet of Things’
People make mistakes. You might be able to get away with it or you might not.

Reporters reveal their sources all the time. For example, when they quote someone. Maybe they'd think to protect you or maybe they will make a mistake.

Enforcement doesn't have to be 100% for it to be an effective deterrent. Maybe they have access to your IP logs and can track your viewing history down. You don't know what tools they do or do not have.

And even if it truly IS completely unenforceable, well who says that the average user even knows that? They might just play it safe because they don't want to get banned. That's how rules and enforcement works.
Mali. Not sure about the others.
Fake Crypto: Microsoft Outlook S/MIME Cleartext Disclosure (CVE-2017-11776)
I think he means Mali and such.
What caught my eye was "removes (...) Java VM" - I had imagined the ME to be some kind of very basic maintenance task runner, not a full-blown dynamic app environment.
I don't think BM itself would last, for sure; the scale of the vent is already greater than many people can hold up to.

That said, I think the gift economy element itself can be separated from all the rest and would stand up.

Maybe the TLDR for my optimism is,

Give humans a competition they can take seriously, e.g. because the social status accrued wins real rewards of various kinds–and we will be happy productive and competitive.

The part of the UBI skepticism I am eager to see tested pragmatically is that this competition must necessarily be for "that amount of money needed to lead a dignified healthy productive life worth living."

IMO the value proposition of the UBI is that we can do have it both ways. Free people from _fear_ first and foremost; then give them a motivation as well.

Maybe another way to put this is: keep the carrot, remove the stick. We've learned from evolutions in parenting that sparing the rod leads to better emotionally adjusted [and productive] kids.
and The Atlantic, right? Usually insightful, though
Agreed. Declarative pipelines coupled with pipeline shared libraries and BlueOcean have completely changed the Jenkins game. Pair that with the EC2 plugin and you have an auto-scaling build cluster!
Wouldn't it be possible to isolate the processor from the network interface? E.g. by using a network card that requires special access codes? I imagine you could build such network interface using an FPGA module.
Click the 'web' link under the main link then clickthrough via google.
That's interesting. What did they do so wrong to drive everyone out of business?

In Seoul I grew up watching subway construction all the time. Yes the local traffic suffers for many years, but the underground construction is covered with iron roofs that allow overground traffic, and people get used to it. After all, a street is likely to have subway construction because it had a large number of people using it: these people don't suddenly go away. (If they did, it would be a major blunder on the part of subway planners!)
Thank for the kind words. As Neil noted below, we would like to lock things down even further by proxing all data that is sent to Google Analytics. And, as a bonus, it would remove the last destination host for content exfil attacks that we know of. Our strict CSP policy has been a nice win, but the strictness has made it that much more clear that allowing nearly any third party sites, even for innocuous things such as images/xhr, isn't ideal. And, we are always on the lookout for more bypasses: https://bounty.github.com/targets/csp.html.
Yep. I do that too. Along the same lines I always do an 'echo' before I 'find -exec' anything.
This only works when malware already has root privileges.
How complete is the Rust library and complementing open source projects comparing with golang?
Very, but you have to be patient. It seems to take around 18 months for the market to catch up with reality. It is really hard to pick when the market will turn, so I just buy and hold until it does.
My experience of high school debate was dramatically different from that of the author, though I also did policy + engaged in spreading.

I learned a ton about research, writing, and effective argumentation.
It's basically a tiny computer, with its own OS. Seeing JVM is used on it through, yea, that's surprising. I guess it was cheaper to beef up the IME to run Java than it was to hire someone to re-code whatever functionality the java app(s) provide.

(Edit, in response to all of the comments in reply to this) Wow, I had no idea so many tiny devices ran java..
The source I am remembering is specifically about catering, not restaurants per se:

The energy used in catering facilities typically accounts for 4-6% of operating costs. Many caterers work on a profit margin that is within this range, so it is obvious that saving energy can directly increase revenue and profitability without the need to increase sales.

https://www.carbontrust.com/media/138492/j7895_ctv066_food_p...
To add to this, there's also a slow transition towards safe frames [1] that allows for better protection than friendly frames by restricting all page-iframe communication to a specific API.

[1] https://www.iab.com/guidelines/safeframe/
Same here. I was like "what, there's a JVM in there?". But then again, apparently there's a JVM in most (all?) SIM cards (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Java_Card)
> Beautiful. Our APK weighs in at approximately 1.5Mb.

WTF? This Hello World app is 1.5 MB, but MS Paint, a program with much richer functionality, is not even a third of that! I know that MS Paint is ancient, but if it takes 1.5 MB by default to put text on a screen, multiple levels of something have failed, especially when it can squeeze down to <100 KB without too much trouble.
Maybe we shouldn't be teaching our kids to do so in sanctioned debate competition.

When did it become socially acceptable to behave in this manner?
It's no stranger than paying them with the use of your room, utensils, plates, tables, etc. to eat your food. The different menu items are fungible just like all the other costs.
> When people are depraved of all other kinds of achievement, they are likely to use breeding as a substitute.

What? How does this follow? This makes no sense.
Yeah, I wasn't referring to Core -- last time I checked, it wasn't quite there yet. I don't think it ought to be much longer, though.
And here I thought this would be about a rat issuing shell commands.

http://l7.alamy.com/zooms/67715421b1524d9eba22ebc217d99967/f...
Hash Power – An Audio Documentary on Blockchains and Cryptocurrencices
This is exactly the kind of experience i base my initial argument on.

Its a pain to get Windows running. Even trying to create a bootable Windows medium without having a prior windows machine is like some kind of freakish experiment whereas Linux (and everything else essentially) usually is fine with a `dd` transfer on a USB medium. (None of my machines has a CD drive.)

More often than not i would find missing drivers after the install. Not everyone has only 100% typical gamer hardware, everything a little more "unique" can be expected to not work properly out of the box if the machine is older than a few years, or newer, and will require manual driver installation.

New Windows versions always introduce the possibility to introduce new driver pains. And dont get me started with updating (drivers, software, libs, OS, ...) generally.

As it is, my mum can install and maintain a Ubuntu, she can however not keep a Windows machine alive for longer than a year. Same thing i've seen with many other non technical users in and around my family. Even thought that is anecdotal again.
Thank you for your insight. My team uses both Tableau and Redshift but we don't do a lot of frequently updating dashboards.

This sounds like a major limitation of these query tools. Are these arbitrary queries written by users or created by the tools programmatically? Since dist keys are ideally join keys why do these tools (or users) not understand the join keys? Can the queries be identified via WLM and triaged for optimization?

I am skeptical of any solution that promises to be magic and do the hard work for us. I think the "big data" industry does itself a disservice by perpetuating the myth that hard problems can be solved with mouse clicks.
Steven Spielberg Signs Deal with Apple to Bring Back Amazing Stories
I think they already did: https://github.com/corna/me_cleaner/wiki/Intel-Boot-Guard
There's very real advantages to long-haul trucking over rail. Shipping time costs logistics operations real money in terms of inventory costs, flexibility, and responsiveness to market conditions. Cargo ships are even cheaper than rail, but shipping costs aren't always the dominant concern. Similarly, some goods get air shipped even with the higher cost of doing so.
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Porsche will begin an app-based subscription service next month