skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>There should be absolutely nothing wrong with people deciding that they do not wish to handover any more of their wealth. If your opinion is that the "system" is the culprit and these people are being squashed by bad laws, policies, etc., the proper recourse is not to legally rob others to help those people - the solution is to fix the bad laws and policies that may benefit the rich unfairly.

How do we fix bad laws when the wealthy are paying good money for those bad laws?

>Every piece of the pie picked up by the 0.1 percent, in relative terms, had to come from the people below. But not everyone in the 99.9 percent gave up a slice. Only those in the bottom 90 percent did. At their peak, in the mid-1980s, people in this group held 35 percent of the nation’s wealth. Three decades later that had fallen 12 points—exactly as much as the wealth of the 0.1 percent rose.

https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2018/06/the-bir...

http://blogs.lse.ac.uk/politicsandpolicy/without-the-right-p...

https://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2018/01/amazon-...
Oh wow. I never see my Alma Mater on HN. I didn't know a Cal Poly professor was involved in developing Jupyter. Very cool.
Kroger has an offering in at least 1 store as a pilot here like like what you described called one-step meal kits. There's definitely an upcharge but they're pretty good, very easy, healthier than TV dinners, and cheaper than getting takeout delivered.

They also have a new offering that's a bunch of containers of frozen things like shrimp and potatoes where you can pay one price by the lb and mix and match across 10-15 different options. It's nice if you want a flexible portion size, just cooking for 1-2, etc.
Yes to the former, pretty much for the latter - the "training" I recall was less than a minute long and consisted of repeating one or two example sentences, hardly anything that would be an adoption impediment to devices like an Echo. The resulting voice recognition worked, in my experience, better than that on modern Android phones.
Moved to Montreal from Vancouver and this is exactly what I noticed. There's something the seeps into the people that live in regions with a proper 4-seasons that doesn't happen elsewhere.
It's okay because they take privacy seriously.
Not sure this is a fair comparative metric. One could argue that filtering on theme (crime dramas, docs, etc.) are effectively channels. More accurate comparison would be content count or hours of programming. I've not had cable in 3 years and between HBO, Netflix, and Amazon I don't ever feel like I'm at a loss for content.
Costco has teamed up with Blue Apron.
I'd rather say that free will is given to those who claim it.
> PostgreSQL 11 introduces SQL stored procedures that allow users to use embedded transactions (i.e. BEGIN, COMMIT/ROLLBACK) within a procedure. Procedures can be created using the CREATE PROCEDURE command and executed using the CALL command.

I'm pretty sure this is going to be my favorite feature in v11 as it will facilitate conditional DDL for the few remaining things at aren't already allowed in transactions, in particular add values to enums.

Prior to v11 you could create new enums in a transaction but could not add values to an existing one. IIUC how this v11 feature works, you could now have a stored procedure check the current value list of the enum and decide to issue an ALTER TYPE ... ADD VALUE ... at runtime, optionally discarding any concurrency error. All of that could run from a SQL command, no external program needed.

> Prior to PostgreSQL 11, one such feature was using the ALTER TABLE .. ADD COLUMN command where the newly created column had a DEFAULT value that was not NULL. Prior to PostgreSQL 11, when executing aforementioned statement, PostgreSQL would rewrite the whole table, which on larger tables in active systems could cause a cascade of problems. PostgreSQL 11 removes the need to rewrite the table in most cases, and as such running ALTER TABLE .. ADD COLUMN .. DEFAULT .. will execute extremely quickly.

... and this is a close second favorite. Having NOT NULL constraints on columns makes schemas much more pleasant to work with, but for schema migrations that means requiring DEFAULT clause to populate existing data. While there are ways to slowly migrate to a NOT NULL / DEFAULT config for a new column (e.g. add column without constraint, migrate data piecemeal, likely in batches of N records, then enable constraint), having it for free in core without rewriting the table at all is simply awesome.
Double the bandwidth?
The first half of this title sounds terrible ... until you see the second half. "Court Case Alleges" Well, this is the COURT we're talking about, so maybe this is legitimate information. Until you realize that this actually reduces to: "Some guy says (because he think it will get him money)".
As someone who also sort-of idolized these groups in the past, I think it's more about what they used to represent instead of just who they actually were.

When I was still discovering the computer and internet world, they were already "giants" in the space, so of course they would seem like the epitome of what I wanted to achieve.

"I want to be like them and be able to do the stuff they do", i.e your standard role model feeling.

Which of course sounds silly once you grow older and realize you can be like them if you study and put the hours on it, but at the time, being so much younger, it just seemed magical.

I compare them to what the movie "Hackers" made me feel. I knew it was a completely fantastical representation of what hackers actually were (and you could even argue it was a bad-ish movie), but the fact that I could imagine myself being able to break into a TV network and putting the show of my choosing felt like magic. I guess it's the analogue to what Dungeons and Dragons was for a lot of people, imagining being a wizard and killing dragons.

So while I agree with you that they were just a group of people that got together to share knowledge and explore this new frontier, it was so ahead of what I could achieve at the time that it was hard not to look up to them.

Kind of how I (and I would guess, a lot of other HNers) look up to what you (and e.g. Project Zero engineers) can do with security and cryptography stuff :)

It's not that I think I'm not capable or competent enough to do it, just that I haven't walked the thousand miles you have. But of course, I'm now an adult that can rationalize these things, instead of an impressionable kid with dreams of grandeur :).
They do return values:

https://www.postgresql.org/docs/devel/static/sql-call.html

CALL executes a procedure.

If the procedure has output arguments, then a result row will be returned.

and from https://www.postgresql.org/docs/devel/static/sql-createproce...

argmode

The mode of an argument: IN, INOUT, or VARIADIC. If omitted, the default is IN. (OUT arguments are currently not supported for procedures. Use INOUT instead.)
This right here is why I'm a large proponent of using ML/AI for computer assisted diagnosis. Unlike a doctor, a computer won't forget about a possible diagnosis.

I'm not saying to replace doctors with ML, but it seems like a great opportunity to provide a list of potential illnesses with associated confidence %s for the doctor to then follow up as potential leads.
Are you saying that because Kroger isn't cheaper than discount grocery stores, it's a scam?
Oops, no idea what my fingers were doing there.
I'm pretty skeptical of this. Apple has a pretty good commitment to privacy, one that is costing them on the AI front, and as far as I can tell they still upload Siri audio to the cloud for processing. If this was easy to do 10 years ago, I think Apple would at least offer as an option.
Android has per-app microphone permissions that you can disable, if you want. At least in theory, Google apps honor these permissions, and on LineageOS, you can verify that this is the case - while with the Alexa, not only is there no way to audit any of the code running on the device, but it's explicitly marketed as being always listening.
Or just a bug.
Its really interesting that they can get up to the efficiency of led acid batteries in applications for rural areas. I wonder if maintaining that large air tank is more difficult / costly than maintaining the batteries.

Its also interesting that we're only talking about 116 PSI - I'm guessing CFM is more important.

> A simulation for a stand-alone CAES aimed at unpowered rural areas, and which is connected to a solar PV system and used for lighting only, operates at a relatively low air pressure of 8 bar and obtains a round-trip efficiency of 60% -- comparable to the efficiency of lead-acid batteries. [7]
However, to store 360 Wh of potential electrical energy, the system requires a storage reservoir of 18 m3, the size of a small room measuring 3x3x2 metres. The authors note that “although the tank size appears very large, it still makes sense for applications in rural areas”.
Your comment sounds belittling to me. The OP isn't a "conspiracy story", it simply says what happened. Yes, it tells the story from the couple's point of view. Shouldn't it? Sure, they "got excited". Who wouldn't?
You're not wrong; it's stateless components I'm talking about.

I should have been clearer: it'd be okay if `true` were simply the default, but the crux of the issue is that you can't even implement your own `shouldUpdate` as the function doesn't provide the previous props (like it does in React), so you have nothing to compare against – unless you laboriously store them yourself as state.
Inclusive. It used to be cheaper to have TV than to not have TV because of the bundle discount (which is why I had initially gotten it, despite never watching TV on the actual box), particularly before I upgraded to HD. The broadcast and regional sports fees are really what brought it up to costing an extra $20 or so, they raised those fees a lot in the last couple years.

(Insert pet peeve about paying a regional sports fee if I don't watch sports here.)
Best article I've read about the topic....

http://cdixon.org/2012/07/08/how-bundling-benefits-sellers-a...
I don't disagree, but the light ring is also important to know that it actually heard your command. Having it on all the time would make the UX much worse. Unless it was a separate light.
For now. If you want to use one for long term energy storage, though, you're going to need to invent some kind of room temperature superconductor and frictionless surfaces. Who knows whether those would be noxious or not.
At the time IE6 was released it was easily best browser and many many of the standards that we now take for granted (DOM events on every tag, AJAX, etc) were started with IE. Now what followed that was years of stagnation just like we're starting to see with Safari.

Safari is the exclusive platform browser for iOS; even Microsoft didn't prevent you from installing alternative browsers! So in that way, Mobile Safari is even worse. From there, everything else follows: developers simply cannot afford to ignore Safari, despite its flaws, just like they couldn't afford to ignore IE despite its flaws.
It is indeed a piss-poor store of value for people who have high time preference, but unmatched for those with low time preference.
The problem with public contracts imho. is the mechanical decision making leading to selection of a bid that is not economical. The shortfall is then made up by the selected contractor via delays, changes and substandard delivery. An alternative scenario is collusion by contractors increasing the lowest bid. Unless transparency across the whole lifecycle of projects is increased and with it accountability for in-time and up-to-standards delivery not much will change.
Yes but this is just a further expression of our unaddressed ever-increasing social inequities. Even among the basic primates there is a great variety present in their visible social hierarchies. The shape that our reconstituted tribes take is for us now to choose.
Stored procedures can return values. See https://www.postgresql.org/docs/devel/static/sql-call.html
No, you misunderstand; the law doesn't say anything about covering your face, it just says "you can't display your religious affiliation in public." A hijab happens to cover your face, but it's illegal to wear in public only because it's a religious telltale, not because of its function.

You can't wear the cross necklace, or have the bumper-sticker; they signal religion. And you can wear the halloween mask, or the welding mask; they don't signal religion. There's nothing more to it than that, and there's no complex interaction.

If you can still see the hijab under the welding mask (and you can; the welding mask doesn't cover the back of your head, or your neck) then the hijab has gotta go. (And, to be extra clear, it's a unilateral rule: nuns and priests can't wear their vestments in public either! They've gotta change into them at the church/nunnery, and change back before they leave.)

On the other hand, if you wear a cross necklace under your clothes where nobody can see it, that's perfectly fine. Because, again, the point is that you can't signal your religion. The symbols aren't against the law; displaying them is.

And so, actually, wearing a hijab would be fine if you wear, say, a motorcycle helmet over your head, and a bandana over the lower half of your face. You're covering all the same area—but, because nobody can tell that you're wearing a hijab, and because neither a motorcycle helmet nor a bandana signal religious affiliation, you're fine. The symbol is hidden, like the cross under your clothes is hidden.

(Interestingly, since the point of the hijab tradition is to cover these areas, not to look a specific way, anything that covers these areas is "functionally" still a hijab as far as Islamic social norms are concerned. So wearing just the motorcycle helmet + bandana would actually be a perfectly legitimate way to cohere to your religious beliefs, without [legibly] signalling your religion. ...until, that is, every Muslim woman started doing it; then it'd become a legible religious symbol, and so be banned as well.)
Truth in an age of truthiness: when bot-fueled PsyOps meet internet spam
Could somebody help me understand the criticism in this article of companies like Instapaper blocking EU users? When you face fines of up to 20M EUR, you’re not going to take on that liability if you have a choice.

Most companies outside the EU will eventually block EU traffic. GDPR is just too big of a liability. It has nothing to do with “selling user data” or bad intentions with user privacy. I won’t take EU traffic for the same reason that I don’t drive at 140mph in a 25mph zone - it’s irresponsibly dangerous.
Hello from Cincinnati :)

This sounds like the Newport Kroger I frequent as well. I've been really happy with the pilots they've done there too as far as the one-step kits and the frozen case.

What's your take on the Prep+Pared meal kits?
Thanks for your post. This makes a lot of sense, as I've done this myself for other topics for the same reason. The account I normally post from grew out of a situation just like that. It makes perfect sense and could really account for a lot of that.
When you return the chips it is called "cashing out". The casino doesn't let you buy in with a duffle bag of $250,000 and cash out for a cheque from the casino for $250,000 in the same transaction. You have to go play a low variance game like Baccarat and play your money through like 200%. Then you cash out $240,000 and get a cheque from the casino that you can easily deposit into a Canadian bank. Gambling winnings in Canada are also tax free.
I just pushed to github.

Here's the functor: https://github.com/tonyhb/reasonable-native-budget/blob/mast...

Here's the functor being applied: https://github.com/tonyhb/reasonable-native-budget/blob/1f69...

Caveats: haven't committed some time and it was my first ReasonML/React Native app.
Siri does speech recognition on Apple’s servers, but commands are performed on the device. The server doesn’t know who you are.
And there's nothing wrong with that! If people find that "far preferable", that's up to them, not you.
Nordic Death Metal
Small coins can use merge mining if they really want to, most don't because they have some far-fetched idea on how PoW should work (like "ASIC resistance" and other tarpits)
A Bitter Guide to Open Source
Yay, Cal Poly!

Alum, BSEL 1977
The UK system of benefit conditionality forces people into these shitty jobs. The don't have a choice. They need to take the work or lose their benefit. There's an assumption from the Department for Work and Pensions that any work offered in the UK is legal. That's a reasonable assumption, but they could do with being a bit more proactive at protecting workers at the scummier end of the market.

https://www.theguardian.com/society/2018/may/22/benefit-sanc...

> For those people interviewed for the study who did obtain work, the most common outcome was a series of short-term, insecure jobs, interspersed with periods of unemployment, rather than a shift into sustained, well-paid work.
I imagine this service would appeal to people who want to remain anonymous to local law enforcement. Pornhub realises there is a huge untapped market in eg Islamic countries, for example.

Regarding the coffee shop thing: I was walking past a place some time back and I saw a woman staring thoughtfully at her laptop. She was sitting with her back to the wall. Behind her was a glass-covered painting, allowing me to see a reflection of her laptop screen. She was browsing porn. I guess it's not that uncommon.
Worse, under Uber's regime the one human had to deal with both emergency situations (without warnings from the system) and instrumentation feedback (without a HUD), so the intended operation of this test was that the safety driver spends half the time looking down and away from the road.
OP says Google and Amazon are selling personal data though, that's the thing there's no citation for. I don't dispute the part about selling tech.
> Could there be a less powerful subset of C

You probably meant minimal superset of C (as C doesn't have nontrivial or similarly performant memory-safe subset). And probably, although its niche would be smaller. Either you have complexity in language or in code. Systems software is more often larger and more complex so it less often makes sense to choose language that's easier to learn that is then harder to write in.
I've made plans for essentially this, but using infrared sensors to track occupants rather than cameras.

There are many methods for occupancy tracking without cameras. IR sensors, antennas in the walls, NFC (bleh), proximity sensors.
From what I gather, if you need fine-grained location information in a building, you can do this without cameras and just a handful of strategically placed wireless access points.

Less likely to be seen as creepy and such systems already exist.

If you just need 'is a person in this room' or 'how many people are in this room' levels of data, solutions to this problem have existed for decades. No need to over complicate a solved problem.
Why not alert to the driver????

BMW has collision detection system that makes a loud beep when it determines an imminent collision. The beep alerts the driver regardless of false positives or false negatives. Its a simple solution which many cars have had for over 10 years.

Why Uber engineers chose to not alert the driver is beyond me.
>If hash capacity were traded on a perfectly competitive market, then it would always make sense to rent 51% of the capacity at market rates, earn the transaction fees, and also perform a double-spending attack.

Lenin was right: "When it comes time to hang the capitalists, they will vie with each other for the rope contract."[0]

[0] https://quoteinvestigator.com/2018/02/22/rope/
Such a system would be a huge GDPR nightmare. You'd need consent from every visitor to your house to collect data on them, and also you have to delete it if they ever request you to. Best not to even try.
They should feel more comfortable than an equivalent system built by a company that is looking to profit off of your data - and additionally, you can give the guest stronger guarantees that when you say that the system is "off", it actually is.
This is a great story.

It's been submitted to HN 18 times.

Also, it's written by Andy Weir, who wrote The Martian.
Of all Facebook tech, this is the least "Facebook" of them all. ReasonML is a thin layer on top of OCaml, a language that's been around for decades. If Facebook one day abandons Reason, it would their loss more than anyone else's.
Maybe the light could be tied to network activity? The light is on if the WiFi chip is powered.
I used it quite a bit, and wrote some applications in it that are still in use a decade later. The "write-only" aspect of Perl is real -- it enables many styles and idioms, and as a result, tends to requires reading knowledge of all of them. It also has some unusual design decisions (list vs. scalar context) and some hacks ("bless") that do not contribute to readability, especially for people who do not get to use Perl all day long. Python is a lot more readable, and does most of the same stuff.

What Perl did that was amazing was bring regular expressions "to the masses", and Perl-compatible regular expressions (pcre) are still the defacto standard that most subsequent libraries have used (more or less).

"The internet" is an abstraction and doesn't hate (or love) anything. That itself is the kind of gross generalization you are criticizing. And one can criticize a language and still have respect for it.
Lots of phone can be set to not listen all the time. iPhone for instance.

Yes, it’s ultimately trust in the device maker, the compiler, the chip manufacturer, etc, and those can and have been verified to some extent.

But that’s not the point. A phone can listen or not, where you have no doubt with the cylinder. It’s its raison d'etre.
Tether will just be replaced by other stable coins if it turns out that Bitfinex can't back them if there were a run on Tethers (the only scenario we would find if this were actually true). There are alternative stable coins which will rise to compete with Tether and balance out the market, including Circle's USDC (https://blog.circle.com/2018/05/15/circle-announces-usd-coin...) and the ETH/Gold-backed MakerDAI: (https://makerdao.com/).
Does the GDPR even apply to private individuals like that?
The driver was also in charge of monitoring and classifying/tagging instruments messages appearing on monitors on the center stack.
Notice the special routines required for reading and writing from segments. A true 16-bit DOS compiler handles this for you.
With perl's use cases, I would be a bit surprised to see a job specifically for programming in perl. It's a tool that you use to support your other infrastructure. It's not a tool that you generally use to build up that infrastructure.

Similarly, I don't expect to see many jobs openings for wrenchers, but I fully expect a mechanic being hired someplace to be able to use a wrench.
If you have nothing to hide, you have nothing to fear!
Mostly soft music without lyrics.

- Luv letter / Flower Dance
- Sakuya2/3
- REBORN -Dr.ミンチに会いましょ
- 失, 焚梦 |A Chinese musician 十指流玉
- A Little Story
(etc...)

some Japanese Team Shanghai Alice soft musics