skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There's a way to generate these super efficiently (presumably, since these were made in the 90s): https://selfreferentialsentences.blogspot.com/

The author claims they used binary decision diagrams, but I haven't figured out how they were able to apply them to this problem. I'd be interested to know if anyone knows how you might approach this.

The space of possible solutions is truly astronomical. I was able to write a program (https://github.com/jimrybarski/autogram) that I estimate could exhaustively enumerate all solutions for a given "prefix" in about a month (all other solutions I found do a probabilistic search). After 12 hours it found what I would argue is the best possible bar trivia team name:

"This bar trivia team name has seven a's, two b's, one c, two d's, thirty-two e's, five f's, one g, five h's, ten i's, one j, one k, two l's, three m's, twenty-two n's, seventeen o's, one p, one q, five r's, twenty-two s's, twenty-two t's, one u, nine v's, eleven w's, one x, five y's and one z."
*One member of congress

https://thehill.com/blogs/floor-action/426668-mcconnell-bloc...
I don't think it's true anymore than Linux is constrained by POSIX. POSIX is dead; Linux has been adding new non-POSIX APIs for probably decades.
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NSA mass surveillance was considered conspiracy before PRISM.

Worse, people that said it was a conspiracy are now calling other things conspiracy, without any consideration for their past errors.
Did you accidentally comment on the wrong story? Or is this a joke that I'm not getting?
I never said they didn't. Commercial flights must fly IFR, which means they must receive an IFR clearance prior to takeoff.
There's very little competition because Huawei spent the 1990's and 2000's stealing IP and driving competitors out of the Wireless business. In the 3G competitions there were over a doze vendors of equipment, today there are 3 of any real size. With rest either dead, merged because they couldn't compete with the theft of their IP or just not stepping into game.

When Huawei got caught the Chinese government would "delay" certification in china of the companies suing them for infringement. This would ultimately end with an "understanding" that "no infringement" took place and that it was a misunderstanding. Problem is that misunderstanding always included Huawei and always western telecom vendors. Cisco, Lucent, Alcatel, Seimens all sued Huawei at some point - and all settled. Nortel's old headquarters was so riddled with bugs that IP Thieves left in their network the Canadian Department of Defense when they took over the building ultimately delayed moving in because of what they found:

https://www.ctvnews.ca/canada/dnd-may-abandon-1b-move-to-for...

Huawei has spent the past half dozen years trying to clean up their brand by building consumer products, massive advertising sponsorships, free and paid for "next generation trials" and colocating research centres in the cities and countries where they drove the local competitors into the ground. They're now the only partner local research institutions can turn to for funding. They think they're like Cisco..

The Chinese governments IP transfer rules for international companies wishing to do local sales provide their industries a chance to Learn, coerce, steal and ultimately live within a protected market for these ill gotten gains. Is China buying Western competitors Mobile network infrastructure? Hells no. Why they're shocked that other governments are reacting in protectionist stance and ultimately questioning the interaction between the company and the government should become no surprise.
It's a system in dire need of reform, no doubt. I don't agree with the way it works either.
>What about their work or documentation gives you an idea on their intention?

I want to get in to this tarpit less than anybody else on earth, but after trying to come up with another explanation, I wasn't able to. The artist depicted a skin tone balance that is significantly different from what they're used to seeing, and the only reason for that that I can think of is if they were consciously attracted to the political side.

Does it really matter in the grand scheme of things? No, of course not. In fact, I think the artist has a right to make a political statement if they want to. I might even agree with it. I'm just trying to take the discussion from 99% truth to 99.9% truth.

I might be wrong (and although it would sting my ego, in the long rung I would be happier if I was wrong), but I feel like this is one of those "everyone sees it but nobody is allowed to mention it" social things that is the bane of humanity. This project is definitely noteworthy because of the skin tone distribution of its front page, that's clear enough from observation.
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They should introduce some features that allow better search or a hierarchical directory for ppl who like to pick and choose. Perhaps allow a more descriptive presentation of the creators themselves. Not everything needs to be a flat feed.
I'm not suggesting that anyone call in sick. That would be a lie. And I'm not suggesting that the stopping of work is permanent like quitting. This situation is one in which the employer is temporarily not paying, therefore there shouldn't be any problem with the employee temporarily not working.
The 2013 government shutdown cost 0.1%-0.2% of the annualized GDP growth rate per week [1]. If I'm understanding correctly and doing my math right, with a GDP of about 20t $usd and a 3.5% growth rate, that's a 350b-700b $usd reduction in GDP.

[1] https://www.economist.com/united-states/2013/10/03/closed-un...
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What is the best way to make license keys for an application? (C ++)
IANAL, but those claims seem to describe .Net (multiple languages targeting a common IR?), so there's prior art.
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There are multiple layers in this shutdown:

1. This is a "partial government shutdown", so only some agencies (homeland security, state, SEC, etc) are affected. Some agencies like the Department of Defense are not affected and funded at previous levels.

And

2. There are different levels of "federal workers":

- "Essential" employees: government workers whose job are deemed to endanger "life" or "property", so they are working without pay and told to report to work. These people will (very likely receive back pay once the shutdown ends)

- "Nonessential" government employees: people who are not currently working and not receiving paychecks. These people will also most likely receive backpay once the shutdown ends.

- Federal contractors: janitors, drivers, caterers, temporary staff, part time staff, paid interns, etc are not currently working and will most likely not receive backpay once the shutdown ends.

Note that with very few exceptions (like congressmen/congresswomen/senators, etc) most people in the federal government who are affected by the shutdown are not getting paid currently at all, even if they are told to show up to work.
Orwell's 1984.

"The world of Nineteen Eighty-Four exists in a state of perpetual war among the three major powers. Two of the three states are aligned against the third: Oceania and Eurasia against Eastasia or Eurasia and Eastasia against Oceania. However, as Goldstein's book points out, each superstate is so powerful that even an alliance of the other two cannot destroy it, which results in a continuing stalemate. From time to time, one of the states betrays its ally and sides with its former enemy. In Oceania, when that occurs, the Ministry of Truth rewrites history to make it appear that the current state of affairs is the way it has always been, and documents with contradictory information are destroyed in the memory hole." [0]

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nations_of_Nineteen_Eighty-Fou...
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I don't know who Ben Shapiro is so I'm just using him as an example and maybe he is noteworthy, but if the system tells everyone to watch Ben Shapiro videos of course everyone is gonna know who he is. Maybe he wouldn't be 'required knowledge' if youtube didn't force it and reinforce it on everyone.

The current system doesn't tell you what people are interested in, it tells you what the system made the people pay interest to.
I can't really comment about mentions on the I/O model or the early instability.

We should give credit to the early architectural decisions made by Cutler which allow for niceties like the Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) that came about recently.

I third the recommendation for "Show Stopper" as well. :-)
Honestly the last thing I want when we reach a budget impasse is for a full roster of rookie congressmen managing it. Thats ripe for abuse and you'd be getting rid of a lot of well seasoned people who know how to work around red tape to get things done and make deals.
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While yes, there is a negotiation between two perspectives going on, imo the fault for the shutdown is independent and wholly owned by Trump and McConnell with the republican senators as accessories for not ousting McConnell.

The House and the Senate passed a bill in December to keep the government open. From what I read, the Senate bill passed with a veto-proof majority. Trump vetoed but McConnell refused to get this through despite Trump.
who is behind OpticsML, cant find anything about them
Classic Apple hoarding software patents. Even if they don't use them, this looks like a threat move. Patenting programming language features is just sick.

Questions in that thread:

> 1. If a separate open-source programming language under Apache 2.0 license implements an optional chaining feature, would it be a violation of the patent then?

> 2. What if there's a separate implementation of a Swift compiler developed from scratch independently from Apple, does mean that it's not able to implement optional chaining without licensing the patent?

> 3. Here's the most interesting part: let's say there's a fork of a Swift compiler that significantly diverged and is developed independently from Apple. It seems to me that forks like these still don't violate the patent, otherwise any GitHub fork with unmerged PRs would be a violation. But let's say Google's fork no longer wishes to contribute its changes upstream, at what point does this separate development could trigger a patent violation? Does amount of divergence have any impact, let's say 90% of the codebase changes? Does the name of project matter, if someone names their fork as "Sparrow", not "Swift" is it considered a patent violation at this point if there's no license and royalties paid for optional chaining?
I'm not a lawyer so I'm wondering: how feasible would it be for government employees to sue the president in small claims court and get a default judgement since there's no way he'll how up all over the country? Kinda like how people did this in the Equifax data leak...
It's reasonable to think that the Universe came into existence without some sort of creator, that it wasn't intelligently designed in some capacity, and that it came from nothing out of randomness and for no reason?

That you came from your father's penis as a drop of fluid, to be formed into some living thing, and ultimately be given birth from your mother's vagina into this world for no reason, out of randomness, and with no sort of intelligent force behind all of this?
Agreed, and having the button there allows for more flexibility in the future. I know some buttons that went from doing something, then nothing, then something again.

Like they now will make sound when its your turn to cross for people with impaired sight, but only if the button is pressed so people living nearby don't have loud crossing sounds going off all the time.

Also some now activate flashing lights surrounding the crosswalk to alert drivers.
They could just work-to-rule.
Don't worry. Apple-toddlers will defend this anyway.
So... mortgage holders are just going to say "oh, you're on furlough... ok, we'll hold your payment schedule and just rewrite the terms once you have pay again."

WTF is the disconnect here? Defaults are going to spike and I can't imagine that any significant percentage of them would be forgiven.

And I haven't seen a grocery store run 'personal credit' since maybe before the 50s at best? Pre-Depression?

Somebody is breathing that Washington nitrous oxide again.
>Electric drivetrains are just so simple compared to ICE that it seems hard to fuck up.

You would think so, but Tesla had a lot of problems with their electric motors and had to replace lots of them.
Good point about people confusing geomagnetic storms and flare ionizing light. To add to the last point about a CME that knocks out the power grid, I heard a presentation while I worked 2 summers ago at the frontier development lab, (https://frontierdevelopmentlab.org/fdl-2017/). I was on the solar-terrestrial interactions team.

One of the points in the presentation is that there are only one or two companies in the world that makes these transformers and there aren't a lot of these transformers just siting around waiting for a Carrington level event.

One of our goals for the summer was to use a LSTM neural network to forecast what would happen and possibly give warning when a CME slams into the earth. We could forecast a little bit into the future using geomag data. One of the subgoals of this work was to bring awareness and potentially help warn parties involved with the world's infrastructure.

A key point out of this is that there are dedicated researchers in both the public and private sectors that study sun. They are busily trying to understand how the sun works and help create systems that help warn satellite and power grid operators.

Two presentations from that year worth taking a look at might be of interest.

Solar-Storm Prediction:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2T_lHUwxTes

Solar-Terrestrial Interactions
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n5QQnZLjSBE

Applications for this year's FDL summer program can be found at.
https://frontierdevelopmentlab.org/apply/
>That is an assertion, not a statement of fact.

Pfft, according to you? Calling it an assertion suggests the statement lacks some form of support from reality. As opposed to the very clear fact that humans in the world are not entitled to income, a job, or having other pay for their expense.

Christian values having nothing to do with this and bringing religion into the mix won't help the discussion.
The democrats have introduced a bill to automatically pass CRs to prevent this. They also haven’t had enough votes to force such legislation through since 2010 - 15 years after the previous shutdown.

Don’t throw that both sides crap in here.
Depends. Sometimes things work that way, sometimes they do not. It depends on how much attention the extras would bring.
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$5/user/month with a custom domain. It's the same pricing as GSuite. Just doesn't reflect the right price point for me.

By the way, how is Fastmail's spam filtering? Gmail/GSuite is probably the best, and one of my concerns would be going back to the days of seeing enlargement products in my inbox.
Not to mention, if having months of savings in the bank in case of shutdowns is a requirement for holding a government job, working for the government just got a lot less appealing.

This whole event is going to lead to long term loss of talent.
My point is it's the knob equivalent of a touchscreen fader.
Uh oh...lots of security bug bounty ahead!
Again, I'd have to respectfully disagree here.

The US Treasury Department is most analogous to the finance department of most corporations. Which, incidentally, is also shutdown right now because the board and the ceo told them to close. (Just as an additional point of fact, the finance department of many organizations does not set departmental budgets. That's not how it works. One of the reasons they exist is to, "finance", projects. Which could involve the use of any number of financial vehicles.)
This is not universally true of all of Huawei's products relative to competition in terms of cost. Huawei's enterprise storage products, for instance, are significantly more expensive than alternatives from companies in the West.
They're making a reference to the novel 1984, in which governments routinely recast history such that the current status quo "has always been this way".
In this debate of Huawei vs. rest , i feel both the parties have valid assertions. Although the Chinese online propaganda army is strong.

Just the other day as i was watching a video about a bridge being constructed in India, the top rated Youtube comment was a snarky remark suggesting that India talks first, builds later while it is opposite for China.A host of similar comments made an otherwise fine video undigestible.

Welcome to the post truth era.
I’m sorry how does this comment help us right now? They aren’t privatized. And people aren’t getting paid.
Yes...but what does this mean?
Depending on how big your company is, you might need already one month saving alone for any hickup on payment.

I'm not assuming that i will lose that money.

But yes in general if i have emergency money, its out of scope and it doesn't 'hurt' directly when i actuall have to lose it. Thats the point of it. But still when i lose it, i have to replace it later right?
May I know why you deleted your reply ? Should I also be careful around here ? :)
>Plus, they can default in a way that's technically legal (inflate away the debt).

Oh yes, along with my purchasing power. Amazing.
If they could simply make the "Not interested" feature work that would be great.
An emergency fund is for an actual emergency. Not a manufactured political crisis.
Nokia works - good joke ;-) disclaimer - I work in that circus.

Huawei is far more technologically advanced than Nokia and E///.
Their stuff is cheap and well thought.

Let's take massive-MIMO (it's key for 5G)- Nokia is about 5 years behind Hua, E/// is at least year behind Hua.

Nokia HW for 5G baseband costs several times more than Hua equivalent.
Huawei has nothing to learn from Nokia - beside how not to do stuff ;-)

USA is pissed off on Huawei because every telco vendor tied to US failed miserably - Motorola & ALU. They have nothing and must rely on E/// & Nokia on their strategic infra. US operators have no options than take E/// and NOK - they are not in position to negotiate prices because you need to have at least 2 telco vendors.
“Flights were halted at New York's LaGuardia airport - the 20th busiest in the country - shortly before 10:00 local time (15:00 GMT).
The US Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) has now confirmed the temporary ground stop has been lifted.”

The headline is fake news.
to me all this end-to-end business sounds too much like marketing. As long as you have to use the clients provided by facebook, it doesn't matter that the chats are end-to-end encrypted.

Facebook controls the clients and as such can do whatever it likes with your chats (or whatever you agreed to)
Not all ATCs work at airports. What do you think will happen when the folks at New York Center stop showing up to work?
Just a heads up: Facebook already does this. You don't need to have a Facebook account for them to know who you are.
Actual headline: "US shutdown: Flight delays caused by staff shortages"

HN headline: "US shutdown: Flights halted into New York airport"

These two headlines suggest very different mental pictures of the situation. HN should stick to general policy and use the article's headline.
Has there been a thorough, independent and transparent audit of Huawei components ?

How would a layman even start making up their mind about this ?
> It's cheap because they save on R&D via utilizing the Chinese military to hack into competitors and steal their R&D

I doubt there’s that much cloak-and-dagger involved. Every multinational company with offices in China or with Chinese nationals working in other countries are basically handing over their proprietary information voluntarily.
Paying for informants is one of the most efficient uses of government money. It's not a large sum.
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Civilian employees can just walk. But Coast Guard uniformed personnel don't have that option, and they aren't being paid either.
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Really, every other country? Even Somalia, North Korea, or Venezuela?

I find that often when people criticize the US by saying "no other country has this problem!" they are mainly thinking of parliamentary democracies in Western Europe.

It's true that the US system doesn't function as well as most European countries. It functions better than most countries in the world.

Countries are on a spectrum of institutional competence from roughly Venezuela to Iceland. The US is somewhere in the interior of this spectrum, and not on one of its endpoints. I'm not sure why people find this so incredibly surprising. Do people just think that because the US is wealthy and powerful, it somehow "ought to" rival Western Europe on every other index of development?

That simply isn't the case -- the US is deeply dysfunctional in many ways and should be thought of in comparison with other deeply dysfunctional countries. Somebody can't "just" decide to fix its problems overnight.
There's some kind of light but I've never quite understood what the light means.
Well, I assume it recommends what other people that watched similar videos watched as well.

I doubt Ben Shapiro is 'required knowledge', nor that he became popular only through youtube. Those people usually have an IRL crowd. They have IRL impacts.

But I see your point.
Let us not forget his Common Lisp work or his winning JS1K entry:

https://marijnhaverbeke.nl/
Congressional appropriations bills are exactly how projects get financed in government. All this does it make it all the more clear to me that you don't know how this process works.

You still have provided zero justification for Congress being the "board" even though it is a terrible metaphor.
Good point. Actually that makes me think that it will magically get resolved just in time so that it doesn't interfere with wealthy-people's Super Bowl Plans.