skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I lived there for a couple of years for grad school, and flew out about once a week in my final semester for interviews. The airport is a super well-oiled machine, it doesn;t really feel different from say, San Francisco. IMO it feels way more comfortable than LaGuardia, which is easily one of the worst airports I've been at in the US.
Interesting. Getting quantitative is a great way to put things in perspective. I would love to know that "unplug your stuff" is enough to save it from CME damage.

How extreme would a CME have to be for it to "fry" things that are not connected to any power source, like a disconnected, powered-off computer? Is it even possible?
I think the passion is definitely a force that on average pushes developers to take more punishment to get ahead of their peers. That adds up a lot pretty quickly when it's everyone in the industry. (4 hours a day sounds quite nice)
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The thing that really bothers me about that "They should have savings" logic, is the expectation that they should have to use them.

Yes. They should have savings. EVERYONE should have min 3 months of income in savings. No one should be expected to use it.
This feels like disaster capitalism. They are inflating their image by saving the day when it is a responsibility of the state to ensure this doesn't happen and to not use shutdowns as a negotiation tactic. If anything they are just prolonging people getting angry enough to do something about it.
In DC, I've seen lots of banks and credit unions offering 0% loans to furloughed Feds.
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None of the contractors will be paid, as I understand it, only permanent federal employees.
> There really are no good guys during a government shutdown.

The Canadian air traffic controllers who sent a bunch of pizzas to their American counterparts were pretty good.

Also I would argue that people who keep reporting for work when they aren't getting paid and doing their job to the best of their ability aren't too shabby either, no matter what the pundits say about how prepared they should have been.
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Sometimes tough decisions need to be made. Especially those that are to improve things in the long term, even if it hurts in the short term. That's what being a man is, being able to make hard decisions.
Good point - sincerity is a big if in this process. If the good is genuine, this is an acceptable tradeoff, especially because thinking about positive things often makes the negative more gentle and more constructive.
Just checked my bank website, you are right. Site does not go into specifics as to what the assistance is but optimally it is a bridge loan that can get implemented quickly.

These workers are still going to get hammered by late payments etc. and potential evictions but it is good to know at least something is being done.
This is interesting. Did they give specific reasons for voting Nay (or abstaining)? Is it because it would not pass the Senate regardless?
Many are offering loans of 10%+ APR. That is helpful, but maybe not a great situation for many people that have no savings to need the loan.
I hope not too off topic, but I'm puzzled by shutdowns.

Every other country I can think of has a system where if the finance is not agreed, the previous budget just continues. The budget sets the yearly amount for each department and it runs on until another budget changes how much everyone gets. Sometimes a new department gets created, sometimes something is abolished. Everyone gets their salary and services run on. Even if the finance bill is defeated, or even if they can't agree a government at all.

So how is it so easy for the US to simply run out? It naively seems like something both sides would want to fix pretty quickly. Is there some unseen advantage doing it this way? From news reports it seems to be all downside.

Edit: Thanks for the enlightenment!
Indeed! iMessage should get an honorable mention. Having lived outside of the US for a few years, sometimes I forget it exists, because here even people who both have iPhones use WhatsApp. iMessage deserves an honorable mention, but with some caveats. As I recall and quickly Googled:

There have been some concerns with their security:

https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2016/03/imessage_encr...

https://www.pandasecurity.com/mediacenter/technology/need-kn...

https://www.tomshardware.com/news/imessage-weak-encryption-m...

Additionally, iMessage doesn't have any means of out-of-band key verification, so you actually have to trust Apple to faithfully exchange keys and there's no way to verify that it's done so.

iMessage also tells you after a message is sent (via the color of a bubble) whether the recipient received it using iMessage. That's not very good assurance if, say, you're messaging a journalist in an authoritarian country. Will it go out over SMS or iMessage? You can find out, but even a little bit of doubt about that can have significant consequences.

I'm glad iMessage does do encryption like it does, but it's no replacement for Signal and WhatsApp uses libsignal for its encryption.
The shutdown is a disgrace, but calling it “slavery” trivializes the evil of America’s history of slavery.
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When I'm driving, it's the pedestrians that are idiots. When I'm walking, it's the drivers. Something I've always noted with amusement, how quickly the perspective changes. Like going through a Costco parking lot to find a spot, then parking and walking into the store.
The wall he said Mexico would pay for? Didn't he already lose that face?
I'm still not fully understanding what's going on here, and I'm american. Could someone who is more educated in politics of the US explain to me why this shutdown is allowed to go on for this long, and why there is no law in place for 'if the congress cannot come to an agreement, X shold happen'?
Not if they integrate the messaging infrastructures as described in the article...
Lying to someone for their benefit is treating them as an object because you're not respecting their right to honesty or dignity, you're just treating them as an object that might or might not get run over and deceptive technology as just another input. You're optimizing them without their consent like they're some code you're trying to speed up. In the same way that PUAs is objectifying women because you're not respecting them as sentient humans with a right to honesty, you're treating your interactions with them as arbitrary code to be optimized.

re this century, maybe this has always been the attitude but I think you see it in "nudge" ideas which came about within the last 20 years. Govt/Corp application of applied behavioural psychology combined with (at least the UK and I think Europe) an acceptance of a nanny state to a degree that would have been unthinkable previously.
It was "democratic" but the vast majority of people were not allowed to vote.
At the risk of introducing a political topic into this supposedly apolitical subject, why shouldn't any president simply make demands and then shut down the government until his/her political opponents cave? Seemingly this strategy will not work ever again for either party if proper steps are taken. It seems like a terrible abuse of executive power.
I see. That would presumably still have the problem of multiple spinners, as I mentioned at the end of my original comment?
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This article suggests 125-150k visitors for past Superbowls: http://www.startribune.com/a-million-super-bowl-visitors-est...
Low culture is necessary and perfectly fine. Still, a lot of work went into releasing these free generic illustrations. Also, the more free clip art is available and used everywhere the quicker it will go out of style.
Pros: You save money & reduce jaywalking. Cons: you spread germs and further erode trust and respect for government. The saved money and jaywalking compliance are Pyrrhic victories as citizens sass officers and vote for tax-cutting politicians.
Some banks may be giving out loans, but they aren't going to be for everyone. Not everyone is 100% guaranteed to be able to return to their job after the shutdown. Banks know that.
C doesn't require IEEE754. It's strongly suggested as normative, Appendix F. But not required; after all, C17/18 still does not require two's complement for signed integers. C's model allows for very weird underlying machines.

x86 is extremely popular and 80 bit long doubles using the old FPU model can introduce weirdness on that platform. And yes, reducing the 80 bit long doubles to 64 bits after every operation significantly impacts performance. Or used to.
It's not my favorite analogy. Probably something closer to the government of early modern Poland: so paralyzed by dysfunction that it couldn't effectively govern or respond to novel threats.
You are giving credit where it isn't due. Are these loans conditional on a good credit score?
My argument is that we are in the long term now. The long term is a generational labor shortage as a result.
I don’t think that FB itself is necessary, but many services rely on the ability to have a cheap identity verification. Let’s take three examples.

Dating apps now almost all depend on you connecting either
- a social media account, almost universally Facebook in the West;
- credit card information. Not everyone is comfortable with that one.

If a user doesn’t connect, most services implement some soft-gating to prevent abuses of trust. Uber, for instance, let an established user order a ride without having to input a bank card when their previous card was expired.

A large part of political communication relies on having a reliable proxy for an identity for campaigns. It doesn’t have to be perfect but it can’t have 50% of Russian sock-puppets. Even if Facebook Identity has been disputed, it remains far more reliable than, say, Twitter in that regard.

You might not use any of those services personally but you rely on people who do. A society where people can’t find a partner because dating conventions are broken; where everyone has to own a car; where democracy is at the mercy of press barons -- that would be problematic.

My point was less that Facebook was the best identity, or irreplaceable (which is certainly not true; more than any other message, Mark Z. repeats all the time that Facebook will be replaced sooner rather than later). Google offers one that I think has strong software support, but less social proof. My point was that most people are unaware of the impact of having that option of a “Trust API”, even imperfect. You didn’t seem to.

Some people would prefer to have a government-operated identity or a bank-based one; those are actively developed in Nordic countries. I have used both and I’m in awe of what they unlock.

Some people (quite common on HN) hate the idea of depending on either and would prefer to rely on a system that they built or on have a choice of private solutions around a cluster of standards. OAuth is the best example of that vision. I’d love to see something more mature emerge (if anything so that not every website relies on the broken password authentication). But once again: even if the software works, I think the main benefit is less from token exchange and more from authenticity. I’m not sure that a cluster of service can guarantee that.
The USCG may not be part of DOD, but it's still part of the US Armed Forces.

The US Supreme Court has historically deemed conscription to not constitute involuntary servitude as banned by the 13th Amendment. I suspect the same logic would apply here.
Exactly, once the integration is complete it's all over.

Also, I have been trying to request people to move on to other platforms with no luck for the past many years.
Yes. https://www.govexec.com/pay-benefits/2019/01/federal-workfor... . They've yet to collect from the 2013 shutdown, however.
It's explicitly illegal for Federal Workers to strike, per the Taft-Hartley Act. On top of that, there's not much indication that this administration really cares about what's popular.

Federal workers haven't gotten a paycheck in over a month, suggesting that they should break the law because of the low likelihood of punishment underestimates the lengths to which this administration will go to punish those who oppose them.
Just look at the more than 200 inauguration day protesters who were arrested and charged with felony rioting[0], many of whom are still fighting their cases in court.

[0]: https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation-now/2017/11/06/in...
For some people (not fucking pats fans though), this is a once in a lifetime chance to see THEIR team play in the biggest game . So yeah, people travel, migrate. For some people it feels like a religious journey. All of your kin are migrating across country for this one event... Just being in the city is cool, you will be seeing rams / patriots jerseys all over Atlanta for the whole week!
Those are different engineering problems. I'm pretty sure that they could eventually build a pixel perfect camera and a fast pixel perfect robot mouse. They'll be at least as good as human eyes and hands, probably better. Done that, they'll keep winning.

It's surely interesting technology with positive impacts in a lot of areas but is it that the important part of the experiment? Humans need keyboards and mice to interface with computers, computers don't (lucky them.)

Sorry to insist on that analogy, but it looks to me as if my car should be able to fit my shoes and walk before I admit that it goes to another city quicker than me walking.
First two results returned by searching for "federal shutdown loan" show 0% interest loans:

https://www.navyfederal.org/about/government-shutdown.php
https://www.interiorfcu.org/resources/government-shutdown/

I don't see how is it predatory.

Considering that it costs bank about 2% to borrow money this is borderline charity.
You made a few hypotheses in the post. They sound reasonable to me, but do you plan to do some actual survey to varify them? I am quite interested to hear more about it and I am sure other projects can learn something to attract more female users.
I understand this idea, but it doesn't really address the fundamental issue or what it REALLY MEANS to say you are religious. Can I really make a valid claim to be religious If my actions are not in accordance with the principals of my religion? Sure I can say I "believe", but then If I truly did, why would I not act it out in my life? I don't think the two are really separate concepts at the most fundamental analysis of it. Say one thing but do another just means you are a hypocrite.
You can also block screenshots, scaled, noises, recolored, cropped, occluded images, but you have to send a larger model to the device.

That’s not the point though. The point is that the expectation moving forward with these platforms is that you police yourself, or the machine learning algorithms will do it for you (and also ban you from mortgages, airplanes, employment, etc, if it has to intervene too frequently).

Facebook does (in a very limited way) this by upranking posts it thinks will boost engagement.

LinkedIn is a bit further down the slippery slope, since it’s able to influence hiring decisions (and is joined to the MS Office 365 cloud, presumably).

Amazon Now had some related screwup recently where it redlined minority neighborhoods in a bunch of cities, since it used spending habits to predict they’d be less profitable.
I wouldn't say its a rounding error, it's roughly the budget of the National Science Foundation which seems more sensible than a ...wall
Please say more.

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My current position is that my data is me. Anyone using my data owes me money. To guard my privacy, I get to choose what is publicly known about me.

Being a very simple bear, I envision modern privacy as an extension of property rights, a fundamental human right.

I want to hear more about your (?) ideas of debt, liability. It feels more flexible, but I'm having hard time envisioning the mechanics.

My notion does not cover the decay rate (shelf-life) of data. eg When I die, what happens to my data? Do I really care that anyone knows my autopsy report, my DNA, my lifetime earnings, my favorite sports ball teams, etc?

Nor does it cover (pseudo-)anonymous data. How would my data be included in longitudinal datasets like public health, surveys, traffic, etc?

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I've been chewing on this stuff for a long time. I have direct experience with (in order) electronic medical records, voter privacy, marketing, metrics & analytics. This topic always makes my head hurt.
I don't know if this will fix the underlying problem: people want something else.
Software has existed for grading and primary classrooms since the early 2000s. The software was awful, and expensive. When you look at Microsoft's new Office 365 offerings for schools...it makes me pretty enthusiastic for the future. I don't see this as a race to the bottom at all. Though I can see some problems with ecosystem lock-ins. But, US schools have long been teaching for the past, Microsoft and Google's new offerings should help schools to lift themselves out of that rut. There are trade offs, but I think the benefits outweigh the bad. My first computer courses in school were on an Apple, that doesn't mean I used Apple for the rest of my life.
In no first world country should you be afraid that your child will die because you can't pay your electric bill because you're not getting paid for a job you're forced to work.

> A Kentucky family whose main source of income was lost because of the partial government shutdown worries they will soon loose the ability to care for their 15-month-old daughter who needs special equipment to stay alive.

https://www.cnn.com/videos/politics/2019/01/25/furloughed-fa...
I don't think they committed to anything. It's just vague promises that can be reinterpreted in many ways, most of which can compromise trustworthy e2e encryption while also implementing some form of loophole-ridden e2e encryption.

Yeah, WhatsApp is e2e encrypted by default, but it also automatically backs up all your chat history encrypted using a WhatsApp-owned private key. Sure, you can opt-out of backups, but will your peers do as well? Without a clear spec, I think it's perfectly reasonable to be very skeptical of what will be the final product of this operation.
Yes, that comes with the territory (contract cancellations or delayed/non payments are risks associated with running any business).
Those DNS lookup times for Azure are in fact terrible, no DNS query should take 400ms. You can pre-lookup DNS using html header tags, but nothing fixes a slow DNS query like that, that is a failure of the Azure Edge DNS servers.

I do real browser testing, and have Real User Monitoring setup to prove the results. Page load times from 600ms to 1.2s reported from the clients browser. I measure and test our app on 3g connection including the high packet loss 4g signal I get at my house. The point of my comment was that HTTP2 is not a fix all issues with performance on a site. The Webpagetest result would not have loaded in 2 seconds if they switched to HTTP2. Its 400 resources is what is slowing it down, not http/1.
This is the longest shutdown ever, so we're kinda past the "reasonable expectation" line when you're in uncharted historical waters...
> the broker is now a conversation participant as well.

I don't agree. This is the antithesis of the intent of the term "end to end encryption." Otherwise you could just use TLS to secure each of the {client->broker} connections and then you could call it "end to end".
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There’s also people traveling for work because of the Super Bowl. The city of Atlanta is granting some exceptions to strip clubs due to the sheer influx of potential patrons and there is almost certainly knowledge among the performing community. Certainly not the only kind of business that will boom for the weekend.

https://www.hotnewhiphop.com/atlanta-strip-clubs-are-being-g...
Depressing to think that it's a lost case already!
This is the vector that will be abused the most. There is no way to verify, other than the officer's word, where the DNA sample came from. Plus the fact that we shed DNA constantly, littering our own DNA any place we visit makes random DNA found in a location really just random DNA in the majority of cases.
The recent interpretations of the anti-deficiency act (https://www.gao.gov/legal/appropriations-law-decisions/resou...) means that the government can be shut down unless functions endanger "life" or "property". Congress could amend the anti-deficiency act to fund the government at previous levels, but that would remove the shutdown process as a political cudgel.
Reagan outlawed ATC strikes, after firing all of them during a dispute early in his presidency. Early 80s.
> > Not to excuse it, but he was the product of a different time.

> Well, why say that? Of course it's an attempt at excusing it.

No it isn't. Because there's a difference between excusing something and explaining it. As my post was a recommendation for a book about Feynman's life, I felt was doing the latter not the former.

Just to be clear, then. Sexist behaviour was just as wrong during Feynman's lifetime as it is today. Unfortunately it's a fact that such attitudes were also more prevalent then than they are now. And Feynman's genius didn't, and still doesn't, excuse his sexist behaviour.
In the article they point out that the switches have been removed/deactivated on intersections where there is no benefit. In other words, there is nearly always a pedestrian waiting at that point in the cycle. Some intersections that don't see that same pattern continue to have a working button.
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It sounds like you're describing big bang cosmology rather than a personal god.
What about the federal workers that aren't at work? Will they still get paid?
I agree with you. I have interviewed people who clearly memorized some of these solutions. They just write the algorithm straight down almost without thinking. But completely fail with other simpler problems.They will struggle on any real life situation.
This will never happen.

I'm taking my security certifications and the first lesson on hardening is that you don't secure something if it's worth less than the countermeasure.

This means your data is only worth about $10 of security while your time to fix identity theft can be in the hundreds.

I bet you a law that says $1000 fine paid directly to the data subject for failure to secure data would make US ideals on data change for decades.
Rad. I totally love the concept of the Leaf for in-town and shorter drives. In my opinion, 16k miles is not enough to demonstrate reliability. 160k is when things start falling apart on cars. Then again, with the type of mileage you're putting on that Leaf, it may never see 160. Cool little rig anyway.
Could a situation like this happen in the UK, do you think? Not voting through a budget would normally be a confidence issue, which would bring about the fall of the government, could we have a situation where that went on for a period of time without causing a new election?
Several banks are offering zero percent interest loans. Cheap advertising perhaps, but not predatory loans.

https://www.cnbc.com/2019/01/18/here-are-the-banks-and-credi...
in a similar vein:

https://bustle.github.io/mobiledoc-kit/demo/