skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That may be true but a lot of ATC workers do better than grunt software engineers. Five year experience can make $180K+.

It's hard to imagine not having savings if you make that much. It's possible of course just harder than the general population.
Commercial airliners do not take off in non-towered airports.
Vice News is considered "journalism". Let that sink in...
Gettier Problem
Is your point that one side should cave because the numbers are meaningless? If so, I don't agree - they aren't meaningless. No one should be able to hold the American people hostage in order to get what they want - it not democratic. You shouldn't be allowed to undermine democracy by using threatening Americans as hostage - fullstop. Your suggestion is to just cave whenever one side threatens a shutdown is unacceptable

They are acting like children. If your son relentlessly bullied your other baby and in order for your baby to stop crying your son said "give me $5" (a meaningless amount to most adults) - the solution wouldn't be to give him $5 and teach him that whenever he wants money he just has to threaten throw the baby down the stairs.
Do you use any drugs by any chance? and if so do you approach consumption of said drugs with the same gusto. This seems more like a eating to be happy thing rather than eating to be full.
You don't need the president to reopen the government. The spending bill has to be approved by the president. He has 10 days to do so. But if he rejects it, congress can override his decision with a 2/3 vote.

So technically the processes are there for this to never happen. The problem is that the process relies on people not having malevolent intentions.

But the senate majority leader, and other spineless Republicans afraid of angering Trump's base, are exactly that set of malevolent actors that aren't willing to put country over themselves.
Interestingly that’s how the US worked too until the Carter Administration, and the decision to do it the current way is controversial. It seems like there might actually be nothing stopping us from doing it the same way right now.
I believe the idea is that it if congress members could be compelled to accept something they disagree with to end their own personal finance issues, it would cause an inbalance benefiting the richer/better-backed members.
What's the emergency fund for, if not for loss of income?

If there is no condition under which you're expected to use it, it's just stranded money...
Unfortunately, that logical line of thinking can't fuel the new Two Minutes Hate.

It's a shitty situation and I feel sorry for the government workers affected, but there are clearly multiple parties responsible here. If the plight of these workers were a real concern, if it were considered a real crisis, it wouldn't be happening.
>Instead, the employees realize the benefits are worth it and are still trying to stay.

How about we reevaluate this statement after it's all over?
The counterpoint to this is Russell's teapot: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russell%27s_teapot

Yes, technically, I'm agnostic about a teapot orbiting Mars, or an invisible unicorn living on the Moon... but it's a reasonable statement to just say flatly "there's no such thing" until someone presents some pretty solid evidence that's incorrect.

I've also heard folks make a distinction between "weak" and "strong" atheism; weak being "I don't believe there's a God, but I could be convinced with good enough evidence" and strong being "nothing would convince me of a God".
The colour of the send button tells you if it’s an iMessage or a text message.
The judicial branch probably does not have that much control over the budget. (They can hold up parts, but their power is limited)

Either the executive or legislative branch could though.
Unless it was deemed an emergency, how many months does it take a typical case to make it before the USSC?
Why hasn't the FAA been privatized anyway? It looks like most of Europe's air controllers and even airports were long ago privatized.
I personally sat next to my boss in some of our few "classic" job interviews. Questions like the ones mentioned in this article were never brought up, because it would've felt extremely unnatural, even ridiculous. We usually took day-to-day real-world problems that weren't abstract and asked the candidates how they would approach them.

Some of the best software engineers I have seen in my life were not trained computer scientists and would've failed many of the questions presented in this article. Not because they weren't highly intelligent, but because terms like "bubble sort" meant nothing to them.

E: The company had around 10 employees. "Interview" processes often went like this:

1) Establish first mail contact (either because they are applying for a job, or because the company found out about an interesting tool they wrote, or met them somewhere, or...)

2) Discuss skills of candidate, decide whether the skillset fits the companies needs

3) If so, take a programming job fitting their skillset (usually some low-priority ticket) and give it to them as a freelance job

4) If delivered in good quality, pay them and discuss future job options. If delivered in bad quality, pay them and don't discuss job options. If not delivered, ignore.

Which I always thought was a very reasonable approach. Very often, the people weren't even interested in a job, but wanted to continue to work as freelancers.
1. That is only "civil rights lawsuits", probably one of the hardest kinds of cases to win.

2. You left out the 78% "likely settlement" category. Many of those are victories for the employee, just not the maximum possible victory.
The MAGA story wasn't fake news. The kids were there to stir up controversy about abortion rights and wore MAGA hats because they knew it would be inflammatory. They also told the native American that "stealing land is just how it's done" and were very obviously making comments at him. Yes the Black Israelites were terrible people making terrible comments, but let's not hold the kids or especially the school blameless. This is the same school that used to think dressing in blackface, black painted faces with pink or white lips, was okay (there's no problem dressing in all black without the paint). This school knowingly sent kids into a political arena and this is the fallout. Perhaps the school should avoid using children as political props in the future.
Well, I don't think a language barrier is something that doesn't exist in the ST universe. They have the universal translator, and I only remember a couple of episodes where it didn't work. Certainly they ran into completely different life forms, such as silicate based and energy based where presumably communication would be a challenge.

This episode explored the language barrier as the other language was referentially based and unlike our own language. It was difficult for Picard to learn. To make that the basis of an episode was unique, I thought.

My other favorite episode was where Picard got shocked by a probe and lived an entire life in only a few minutes. The probe was a device to teach others about a lost culture.
As in VMS = RSTS + 1
What an embarrassment as a country.
I genuinely thank you for your civility - HN seems to only be cheeky in one direction - it's the kind of thing I usually hope to avoid when reading news / comments from people I would generally think have a better handle on what being decent / civil means :(
> As cruegge has linked the JMAP developers themselves don't consider their API REST.

That wasn't my takeaway. They don't consider it HTTP-based REST, but they do consider it RESTful. The FAQ's question is from the perspective of someone who doesn't make that distinction.

You can model things RESTfully, but the encoding of REST into a carrier protocol (commonly HTTP, but it doesn't have to be) is a separate matter. The "very loose definitions" largely stem from the encoding, not the modeling.
They passed this last budget unanimously which means they that 60% more votes than were needed for a veto override.
>What's baffling is, how can people suppress reason because it feels good?

Humans are not primarily logical beings. Humans are primarily emotional beings for whom logic often serves as a basis to rationalize their emotions.
This seems like a bad news for customers who care about their privacy. Zuckerberg unhinged!
The nice thing about Papers is that you download every pdf and have a local copy. Of course the developers could change how it's done.
Perhaps I'm misunderstanding a lot here?

The article title flat-out says the "social credit score isn't real", and then outlines in a nuanced way exactly how it is real.

Sure, there is plenty of negative rhetoric that surrounds the topic, but at best what I can understand here is that there is no (verified) single aggregate score being leveraged against anyone...?

I'm not sure how this distinction is meaningful?
This has to be BS.
Ericsson's gear works, Nokia's gear works.

Both of those are in use, in prod in Canada right now (for Rogers) as far as I know.

And as for it being "cheap" - let's be real - There's a reason why it's cheap - It's state sponsored.

This entire article is probably sponsored by China.

EDIT: I'm extra salty because of the fall of Nortel - which can easily be attributed to Huawei.
Sorry this just hasn't been updated in a few weeks. I just opened a PR to update the README to clarify that. We actually have all of those done right now. Here's a gif of radio buttons in action from a pull request [1].

[1] https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/21044999/51702694-...
This is something we used to say, but I really feel that since the popularization of the web apps, I'd rather have cross-platform UX working the same or near enough.

I know, for instance, that I'm likely the only person on Hacker News that actually likes the Slack Desktop application, and I'm glad it works very similarly on both my Mac and PC.
Software Teardowns: Console.WriteLine (Part 1: Windows)
Serious questions I have:

* Are senators/house reps being paid? If so - Why?

* If the government is going to shit on people like this - then why are those people required to pay a tax (which is money extracted from the population to pay for services which the government provides - if the government refuses to provide those services, then why would you be obligated to pay a tax - thus the shutdown should be filed as an exemption during tax season)

* How in the fucking world is it that someone can "shutdown" the government in the first place??

* If you had a CEO who was embroiled in this much scandal - wouldn't you question "So, what is it you'd say you actually do around here?"[0] -- What is the actual NORMAL day-to-day expectation of a POTUS which has not been done bythis POTUS in the course of his employment?

* How can you claim to be a country based on rule of law with such shenanigans? Such that it undermines the willingness of the people to follow the rule of law in ever aspect of the spectrum.

https://youtu.be/m4OvQIGDg4I?t=51
What sort of grocery stores offer IOUs
The Democrats have the CR on their side: Continuing Resolution. The Democrats are asking for a simple, clean CR (the proposition to keep the old budget for just 3 or 4 weeks while we debate longer)

If the clean CR fails, then its a terrible future ahead. In 2018, when Democrats were in the opposite situation (they were denying the CR), it was on the onus of the Republicans to push for the CR.

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The only reason why the CR is agreed upon in the past, is because both sides recognize the harm that a shutdown would cause. Unfortunately, one side is willing to shutdown the government and avoid the CR this time.
Hopefully you're able to translate experience to preparedness, if you weren't already, and given California propensity for earthquakes (where the Tubbs fire occurred), that you have enough food and water stockpiled for at least a few days, if not longer. These days an earthquake preparedness kit might also consider including a small solar panel and an old cell-phone.
I don't think it is that it isn't understood that people make different lifestyle and economic decisions and we all pay for our decisions somehow no matter what they are; The sensationalism, victimization blaming, and "woe is me" that a small minority and media raise. No one is entitled to income, a job, or having others pay for their expenses. It is a "take the lump, become stronger, make a plan for now and later, accept it, move on" situation. I feel empathy but can parse the humanity from economic decisions. That said, workers should be paid during a shutdown.
The usual argument goes: consistent user experience means adhering to your users’ expectations, which are shaped by their platforms.
Indeed. Besides, it makes audits and compliance demos so much easier.
"If I need to add a new function and the design does not suit the change, I find it’s quicker to refactor first and then add the function."

https://martinfowler.com/books/refactoring.html
Related article: Maybe it’s time to accept that Huawei is a Chinese intelligence front
https://spectator.us/huawei-chinese-intelligence-front/

It's a good strategy for China to cheaply infiltrate every government and telecommunication networks in the world
Three hours of interviews with Cutler for the Computer History Museum:

Part 1: https://youtu.be/29RkHH-psrY

Part 2: https://youtu.be/SVgSLud50ss
Sure. I'm assuming there's some level of resolution that serves as a transaction. Like maybe a day, or a shift. In your example, I'm talking about your worker not walking out on a flight in final approach, but rather notifying the employer after the shift that she will not be showing up for any future shifts until she is paid.
Agreed! My average day left me with about 10mi range out of about 45mi, which caused some amount of stress if I had to deviate from my normal day to run an errand or something similar. If I had to stop for groceries on the way home, I'd end up limping home in turtle mode, which was nerve wracking.

My wife was driving an 08 prius at the time, which served as our long range car, but her work commute was about 40mi round trip, so if she had to run AC/Heat, she wouldn't make the round trip on the Leaf if I had to swap cars for the day.

Now she drives the Volt, and the 53mi range seems perfect. She usually gets home with 10-15mi range, and the ICE eliminates range anxiety.

Rental is always an option, and was something we considered if we were to get another BEV, but we routinely take 300mi round trips, so it would't economical.
The title on this article was apparently changed; it's now "US shutdown: Flight delays caused by staff shortages"
I would presume electric drive trains are quite complex.

You'd have independent electric motors on at least 2, perhaps all 4 wheels. You have to redesign entire platforms to fit batteries, ensure the batteries and the drivetrain have adequate cooling, ensure that the electric motors have a certain amount of longevity, and so on.
Yea, because the feds were supposed to only handle post roads, the military, and free trade between the states and tariffs on international commerce.

The modern welfare state, where millions of people are immediately hurt by the federal system grinding to a halt and stopping, would have been anathema to the framers. Nevertheless by popular vote such programs have been federalized and now we have a constitution that doesn’t support their smooth operation.
I agree. To be clear, I wasn't arguing against the need for dispassionate analysis. Or arguing that emotional responses can always be trusted. I was arguing only against the claim that these two things are mutually exclusive.

> Or it could look “clean” but have a bad Bug-O.

I think this is possible but in practice rare. I'd be curious to see an example of code you think falls into this bucket.
In a real business, the finance department and the CEO wouldn't be locking horns over what to use company money for and it would never block payroll.
If it's a 1-in-a-million chance of matching a random person, and there are ~7000 million people on the planet, on average this method will finger 7000 people for each crime?

Yeah, the 1-in-a-million number isn't quite right, but there are other reasons why DNA evidence isn't perfect. Twins and chimeras for a start. And then you go on to washing machines, which are great for spreading DNA from multiple sources all over lots of things that tend to get analysed in a forensics lab.
Most democracies run a parliamentary system, where the head of government has to have the support of parliament. There's no separation between government/executive from parliament.

The point being that if a prime minister can't reach an agreement with parliament on some core issue (like annual budgets), they cease being the PM. Usually this means a new election.

The US's checks and balances means that parliament and government can be in opposition to eachother, and prevent eachother from doing what they want. The president/government can veto legislation and parliament can de-fund government.

This current manifestation is an odd one because the President is de-funding government, which is de-funding his own stuff. This is because the convention of "shutdown" already existed.
I came to ask the same question as the parent.

This is an answer, but what are the politics of it?

Eg you could make an argument that government only maintains things (ie property and life) for the public good, therefore all state employees are required lest they endanger life and property.

You could certainly make the case that air traffic controllers are essential to life. Try landing planes at a busy airport without them.
[**STReamING**]-United Arab Emirates vs. Australia Live Streaming
https://qiita.com/Block24/items/5012bf426eed48a35d97

https://qiita.com/rjDon/items/29b00e88bf9e0c1dc73c
They also feed off themselves on Twitter and it becomes the cyclical thing where the only viewpoint they see is their own.
They did pass a CR back in December. Everyone thought the President would sign it. He changed his mind.
Yes, but this country is a country, and countries need continuity, and they can't provide even that. The People ought the install a strikebreaker in the White House.
No, I'm saying the USCG is in a very specific situation that's more akin to conscription than slavery, especially as they're certain to receive back pay when the shutdown lifts.
SuperTuxParty: open-source party game
The lines are grey, to some extent. Many interpreted languages (such as Tcl) compile to bycode, then interpret that. The compilation happens not at the operation level, but at the block (or maybe file) level.
It's time to automate air traffic control.
Congress can write, and rewrite, any law. Congress will virtually never be held responsible for any event, since they control the law itself.

Another thing: Trump issued a veto-threat against the bills that passed the House. Trump refuses for a budget to be passed unless it has his wall. Republicans don't want to betray their leader, so they're holding firm with Trump.
The Wayback Machine box is bordered in black. On first glance I thought the second day of HN had a black banner and I thought damn, we lost someone on day 2?
There's nothing stopping Congress from amending the Antideficiency Act or just passing a law that would provide for an automatic fallback appropriation if there's no new budget.

http://ultimatehistoryproject.com/anti-deficiency-act-histor...
My 2014 with 41,000 miles is about 87% capacity according to leafspy. This puts it at around 73 miles which handles about 80% of our driving.
HPE teams up with Girl Scouts to teach girls about cybersecurity
Deep Reinforcement Learning with TensorFlow 2.0
Not to mention contractors. Plus restaurants and other services near federal buildings that the workers use. If people aren't working they aren't going to dry clean suits or go to lunch for example. Those people aren't getting loans.
Is this targeting the same space as Flutter? That's an enormous amount of work, and can't imagine it being done without a Google-scale level of resources (I'd be happy to be proven wrong, though!).
For Slate.js there's a PR to add Android support, looks like this is very hard to do well: https://github.com/ianstormtaylor/slate/issues/2062
As I've grown older, I've come to this conclusion. It is a moral imperative to be compassionate and have empathy, to be prepared and not surprised whatsoever when those you interact with have neither, and have enough strength and resources (physically, emotionally, financially, politically) when those without are harming others and you must intervene.

You should love your fellow human, but be prepared to punch a bully in the face.
Amazon Architecture
aren't all big telco's state sponsored is a multitude of ways? either by direct funds, tax breaks, support or expensive state contracts that the states have to use because there aren't any alternatives?
No one claims lead is the only factor explaining crime rates.
Does this mean the airports experiencing a crippling loss of federal personnel could simply hire them onto their own payroll (the same people, even)? In such a case, all airports could keep functioning independent of government aid -- theoretically, anyway.
Air traffic controllers are essential to life, which is why they are asked to go to work currently. Not getting paid is a different question entirely.
I second the recommendation for Showstopper!, though I wonder if MS's culture of burning out developers for months contributed to its reputation for buggyness in the early 00s.
I'm pretty sure a recent bill has actually changed the number 2) situation by requiring back pay
for those that didn't work as well: https://edition.cnn.com/2019/01/16/politics/trump-signs-back...

But maybe I'm wrong, the article is actually quite unclear.
No one is entitled to income, a job, or having others pay for their expenses

That is an assertion, not a statement of fact. Christian values actually teach the exact opposite, and that's why Jesus said that one cannot serve God and Mammon at the same time.
On February 7th, myself and my co-workers are supposed to travel half way across the country for a major sales-call/meeting. But if the shutdown is still happening, there is no amount of money that would tempt me to get on that plane. Stuff like this worries me:

"The delays come one day after a stark warning was issued by air industry unions about the risk to public safety. "In our risk averse industry, we cannot even calculate the level of risk currently at play, nor predict the point at which the entire system will break," air traffic, pilot and flight attendant union leaders said in a joint statement."

I can't be the only who feels this way, and the longer the shutdown goes on, the more people are likely to be worried about air travel.

In the short term you might think my company will suffer because of a lost sales opportunity, and that is strictly our loss. But if it happens to enough companies, then it is going to hit the general economy.

Working on major projects means long lead times. The sales that are not being closed this quarter are going to show up as less economic activity in the 2nd and 3rd quarters.

Unless the shut down ends immediately, it seems likely this will have medium-term or long-term consequences.
I technically don't know if there's an invisible unicorn living in a cave on the Moon.

I can state with reasonable certainty that there isn't.

I'm perfectly willing to be convinced by compelling evidence to the contrary, but "it's in the Bible" or "everything needs a beginning EXCEPT THIS ONE THING THAT MAKES MY ARGUMENT WORK" isn't that evidence.
That's why it's often easier to go full GDPR if you have worldwide customers.
I don't have an answer for your question, but I hope someone does. That is one place I have considered retirement. My only apprehension is regarding internet speed. From what I have read, it get's really bad very quickly as you get further away from the city.
The cheapest bug in the world is still a bug.