skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Dude, over 90% of incumbents were reelected. This is what the people want.

https://www.opensecrets.org/overview/reelect.php

That's a 91% reelection rate for the 2018 election. People like their Representatives and Senators. I dunno what kind of fantasy world you're living in. But house members and senate members have overwhelming support in the districts they represent.

We all hate EVERYONE ELSE's senator or representative. But that opinion holds no bearing. We only can elect our local representative.

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As I said earlier: this is democracy in action. This is the reality of our system of government.

The Democrats were elected to stop the wall. The Republicans were elected to build the wall. The people have spoken, and we've entered a contradiction / deadlock situation. This is what people wanted and what people voted for.

It annoys me to no end with people saying "Vote them all out". You have to recognize that people actually like their local Representatives. What people don't like is the Representatives from other parts of the country (ie: The part where you have to make concessions and work with someone different from you)
Historically rare. There have been 10 shutdowns in the history of the US government (there have been other funding gaps, but none of those had furloughed employees). 3 of those shutdowns in this decade. 4 in the 80s and 3 in the 90s. The shutdowns in the 80s were one day each. The 90s were 3, 5, and 21 days each.
Remember, this is the federal government and thus the government can change the laws through legislation or via presidential order.
I think most of the metros in the US can handle this quite well. The last mile is far easier to solve in a city than a suburb.
I would love to get the details on your comment.
Please stop telling us what Steve wanted or not wanted? He is dead for Christ’s sake. Let him rest
Hold up. We already have to pay through the nose for medical care, so where is all this money going that these hospitals need to ask for more? Is non-profit a different class that is somehow left out of the con that is the US healthcare system?
Deep Learning for Natural Language Processing (NLP) – using RNNs and CNNs
Importance and Use of GDS, NDC, PNR and CRS in the Air Travel Industry
waste of money.

Now, funding a free clinic in a poor area for 50 years is a great idea.
More "Shouting" and hot takes for sure. But the bias driven inaccuracies were commonplace. As well as plenty of malice driven inaccuracies.
Read where the article starts at "The problems with 2PC"
I really like DPReview's recommendations: https://www.dpreview.com/reviews/buying-guide-best-cameras-f...

Photography is one of my top hobbies. Some people will tell you to just buy any decent cheap camera and start taking photos. But to me the research is one of the most important and enjoyable part. I love reading various reviews and watching YouTube videos. Also I follow some photographers like Von Wong (https://www.vonwong.com/) and learn a lot from them.

Now photography can be very expensive hobby, there was a time when I was buying every single lens, gadget, gizmo recommended/used by these amazing photographers. But the good news is that it is very easy to sell and buy used photography gear. Sometimes I even made money when I sold used gear after trying it out for a few months.

Lately, I use x100f which is a mirrorless camera. My previous camera was a dslr, D750. Professional reviews will show D750 is way better camera than x100f. To me the best feature of x100f is all the knobs and handling. Sometimes you have to try out camera for a few days to see how you feel about it.

Image quality is almost indistinguishable between modern cameras. Autofocus speed and low light performance is where you will notice huge differences between entry level and high-end cameras.

I say read a lot, borrow your friends' cameras, try them out in stores, watch videos like: https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=fujifilm+x100f Finally, when you buy a camera from store, don't feel shy about returning it if it doesn't click with you :) If you buy used, sell it if you don't like it. Also kit lens is usually not that good. First lens I would recommend on any camera system would be fast lens like 35mm/50mm/85mm f/1.8.
The biggest question here is whether this means they lose the patents when they sue something that's not covered by Derivative Works as defined in Apache 2.0?

Looks like an implementation of a compiler not from Apple (that is, not a fork, or one that diverged too much from the original) or different languages that overlap with the patent would be infringing even if they used Apache 2.0 as well.
Yet there is no precedent for this. Nor should there be.

I would be entirely unsurprised if this caused many professionals to leave public service, since the risk of not being able to make rent is now known. Why would anyone knowingly take a job that could suddenly and unexpectedly stop paying them a salary for unreasonable periods of time?
So put them in a cohort and treat them differently than the rest of the users? Personalised key exchange? Possibilites are endless.
If you don't trust the closed source operator here, then that end to end encryption should mean nothing for you.
How to Use Grin Wallet713 to Send and Receive Grin Coin – Step by Step Guide
Huh. I didn't realize Oslo hadn't done this yet. All (or most) European City centers are car free.
The recommendations determine what people see. People in this thread are asking youtube remove content from their feed that does not tailor to their worldview. The problem is that the worldview many young people have is highly dictated by the government and any serious accusations toward the government are labeled as conspiracy. Conspiracy is auotomatically associated with insanity. The reason I use an extreme word like brainwashing is because many people have been given such a strong bias that it is impossible for them to accept the possibility of serious criminal immoral activities by their government.
I banned thousands of channels in Russian language, but Youtube never stop attempts to convince me to watch an another video about Putin or mighty Russia.

How to ban all videos per country of origin or/and per language?

edit:

Moreover, how to bless my native language in Youtube and Google?
I lost a few teeth because of lack of dental insurance in Canada. Some companies provide it as a benefit, but they're far and few in between.

It's not too surprising, either: since you have universal healthcare, a lot more companies don't provide insurance (which would be complementary). In the US, it's definitely not the norm to have dental insurance, but it is to have insurance as a benefit, at which point dental is just an add-on for companies to provide (I'm obviously oversimplifying).

I've never worked for a company in the US that didn't provide dental (even though I know it is common-ish), but in Canada I only worked for a few in the same field who did provide it.
Next thing you know they will have a patreon.
How many billions the US will spend on nuclear weapons over the next decade
Agreed! What I have found is that most legitimate popular YT kids content (Blippi, Pinkfong, etc.) is also available repackaged and included in Amazon Prime. I've been using that for most kids content instead, as it's not just sponsored toy unboxing crap and I don't need to worry about weird auto-playing recommendations or commercials.
Distributed Throttling with Nginx and Lua and Redis Cluster
You have to wonder how many of the remaining people are dedicating their time to updating their LinkedIn profile and searching for a new job...
In a Hot Labor Market, Some Employees Are 'Ghosting' Bad Bosses
One possible motivation for the administration holding out on the shutdown is it encourages people to leave the civil service; they've been fairly open previously about wanting to purge he federal civil service of those not loyal to Trump, either leaving holes or backfilling with loyalists. Civil service rules make this difficult, but driving people off with no pay (and publicly characterizing staying in that situation as a noble gesture of loyalty to the President, as some admin figures have done) is one way to do some.of that in a way which avoids civil service protections.
Conspiracy theories are, for the most part, a right-wing thing.

Unless you can give me examples of conspiracy theories and their peddlers on level of Alex Jones for the far left.
Jaguar Developing System to Help Autonomous Cars Communicate with Human
>The government provides basically tuition-free education. “When we get out of school, we have to pay the government, but we do it by one year of free service, and that’s it,” Miguel Ibarreche of the Sani Dental Group...

Can anyone speak about this as a model for college tuition?
except it would have an opposite effect right ? wouldn't the really good people who can find another job leave and those that remain are not as good?
As a Canadian Expat living in the USA I have never had to wait for any kind of Medical attention. I could get an MRI or Ultrasound in 30 minutes in DFW. My doctor can call ahead to the hospital and by the time I arrive they will be ready for me.

When I lived in Canada I waited 8 months to see a Neurologist for a slipped disk in my neck. During my visit he asked how long I waited because it had healed on its own, I told him 8 months and he shook his head and apologized.
For this to work as easily as portrayed in the article it would imply that distributed consensus must be possible in the presence of failures. But such consensus is unsolvable [0] so it seems that this approach is just moving the problem to another place.

It's difficult from reading this article to understand exactly what that place is. I would guess that it must at least in part involve limitation on the behavior of applications to eliminate category 1 application generated aborts. If so what do those applications look like?

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Consensus_(computer_science)
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Interesting and amusing. Thank you for posting this.
I should have made this point clearer in the post. 2PC requires 2 round trip messages per worker (i.e. 4 total messages per worker), of which the 3rd message cannot be sent until there is a global synchronization point. The proposal replaces the 2 round trip messages with a half a round trip, which is overlapped with transaction processing. And there is no global synchronization point.
Oslo is still heavily lacking in bike accessibility, more so than the article presents.

New bike paths are around the periphery of the center. In the city center, there are close to zero bike parking spots. Everyone who wants to take the bike to work, must have parking in the workplace. In addition the tram tracks on many streets are a hazard to taking the bike. But things are improving here slowly

Public transport though is probably the best in the world per capita, with subway, buses or trams going every couple of minutes. So this compensates (as the article states). Overall the reduction of cars is a great improvement overall.
Yes, I am currently working on a provisional with him. To be clear, he does not work for the USPTO. He helps companies file patents and has taken a test to prove that he is capable of doing so.
It solved a chronic lethargy problem that resulted in me falling asleep randomly at inappropriate hours at home.

Literally -- not figuratively -- changed my life.
if that's actually the case, how about put a small sign by the button? but is it really that hard to remove or disable the button?

do people really need another data point that interactions with government services are filled with pointless exercises and things that may or may not matter?

and it isn't negligible. what about people in wheel chairs or other handicapped situations? and how many times are people wasting time, energy, and conversation discussing traffic light buttons? it's wasteful and disrespectful.
There wasn’t much mentioned in the way of mitigation, which is somewhat disappointing. If we are to accept that globalization and technology favor massive champions (FAANG/Alibaba/Wall St) then by lacking any circumvention of monopsony power we are collectively signing away our current and future pay and bargaining power to executives and shareholders.
It works sort of like this in Sweden (we just got a proper government after the election in September). It led to interesting things like some extra millions for celebrating Ingmar Bergman's 101 anniversary, carried over from the 100 year anniversary last year. But at least people got their salaries.
Women aren't impressed by programmers, yet at the same time they believe they are being unfairly excluded from the field. There isn't much social prestige associated with being a programmer but there is a lot of capital in the field now. Women want all the money while doing almost none of the actual work. Unfortunately companies reward them for their propaganda. I've met multiple senior female PMs and engineers, especially at places like FAANG, who can barely write fizzbuzz. The best "female" engineers are often insane men dressed up as women.
I am so thankful for the NHS when I see things like this.
HIG is Human Interface Guidelines [1]

Electron apps often enjoy many of the things in the list for free because it's essentially a browser window disguising itself as an app. And browsers get a lot of stuff "for free" from the OS (not without issues, of course).

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_interface_guidelines
Getting back pay isn't sufficient (and not guaranteed). If you have a job, you should get paid. Full stop. Being a government job shouldn't mean you can't pay your bills. Back pay doesn't stop you from becoming homeless.
Great to know. Thanks!
Looking at the net worth of people in Congress, they may be inconvenienced, but they wouldn’t starve if they didn’t receive their pay.

https://bigthink.com/news/heres-how-much-senators-and-congre...
> "pay what you want"
In this case what determines what you get?
With all that AI fuss and widespread video surveillance, would it be that hard to mix the two, then count the number of cars and optimize traffic/pedestrian lights accordingly?
> All (or most) European City centers are car free.

I don't know how someone can say something so obviously and demonstrably false with a straight face.
LOL at the NYT taking Steve Jobs' marketing tactics as his actual normative views. News flash: Steve Jobs was the best in the history of capitalism at "it's not a bug, it's a feature." The iPhone was perfect without 3rd party apps because it didn't have 3rd party apps! Once there were 3rd party apps, it was perfect with 3rd party apps. It was perfect with a 3 inch screen because it had a 3 inch screen. When he increased it then it was perfect then. When it had a bad radio it wasn't the phone that was imperfect, it was you and your stupid fucking hand!

Notice how many times Apple has used the motto "the best iStuff since iStuff." It worked better several years ago, but they always claim their current thing is the Platonic ideal of its category.
Through legislation, yes. Presidential order, no. It is very, very unlikely that Congress would pass a law saying the government doesn't have to pay its employees like every other employer.

Even if they did, such a law would be unconstitutional because slavery is explicitly illegal under the 13th Amendment. They would have to amend the constitution to make that law work and something that wildly unpopular is not going to happen.

In fact Congress passed a law stating the opposite, that even Federal employees who are not required to work will receive back pay for the time the government was shutdown.
To me, the system-induced abort scenario is the more difficult to address, and this article hasn't really addressed the problem. It sounds like he's saying "just don't give workers the option to abort", as if the workers were deliberately causing issues.

One can say "just don't give the spaceship the option to go slower than the speed of light" but saying so doesn't change anything about the underlying physical constraints.
I'm sure they'd be very happy to set up a recurring donation.
The author is arguing that we can always rewrite the txn logic such that (at least in the deterministic case) if one worker decides to commit, all others will do so too. So a worker can proceed independently without other workers needing to finish their share of work and entering the commit protocol. The article doesn't go into exactly how this could work in the case of non-deterministic txns, but the linked papers may have an answer.
I think this is exactly what is happening, and why the GOP senators are complicit with the shutdown.
I did a huge deep dive of rich text editors for web HTML recently when I was building Polar

https://getpolarized.io/

Polar is a document management platform which support rich annotations around your documents including reading progress.

Comments, flashcards, etc.

Rich text / HTML was a big requirement.

I also wanted advanced features like mathematics / latex and pasting of HTML from your existing tools.

I actually ended up using Summernote:

https://summernote.org/

which was interesting as it's a bit older and not actively developed as much as the alternatives.

I think the big deciding factor for me was that it handled rich pasting better than all other platforms. I can copy from my editor (IntelliJ) and paste into it and the format is preserved perfectly.

With other systems this didn't work.

The BIG downside though is the size. It's huge and requires jquery (which is also huge).

I think what I'm going to do is bifurcate my app into two parts. The basic app is setup to load quickly and then the resources for the annotation come 1-2 seconds later.

Most people read for a bit before they're ready to start working with the document.

This give me time to download things in the background.

I just tested the above scenario (copy from my editor) and pasted into prosemirror and it couldn't handle it. In fact nothing happened.

I wish there was a CLEARLY obvious winner here but we're still all over the map in terms of functionality and feature set.
How do you envision "pay what you want" healthcare working?
How does one report videos to Youtube that violate their policies and actually get them to do something about it. It appears one can talk about the Holocaust not being real / that people don't get killed in mass shootings in the United States all they want and keep their monitization / Superchats.
OK so lets assume people ARE going to do this. Would you want those people to also have unilateral rights to use violence?
My only issue with unDraw (and Unsplash) is that the license isn't conclusively a free software license due to the "don't scrape our site and run a competing service" clause(s). I'd be more comfortable with it if they more clearly separated the license into one for the assets themselves (preferably something like CC0 or an ISC-like license) v. one for the site itself (which would be the right place for a "no scraping" rule).

The impact's minimal, but it still rubs me a smidge wrongly.
I figured most people could come up with their own examples easily enough.

Take social media. I know so many people in business and media who did perfectly fine before it. Now that it's table stakes, we all have to waste time on it. Great for Twitter and FB, but just a cost for the rest of us.

Or youtube and the porn sites. If they infringe, what are you going to do about it? They take it down, someone else re-uploads--a full-time job to keep it off, and they're purely on the honor system when it comes to royalties. It's not like you can sic your auditors on Google's server room.

Or ed-tech. So many school districts spending millions on VMs and tablets for every child, yet the academic performance is as mediocre as ever.

And it's like people have no concept of just how dangerous information is--like cracking the enigma machine in WWII. Google is probably sitting on enough info to ruin most of our politicians. What if they were inclined to action?
They can be fired and laid off just like everyone else.

The difference is they work for the oldest, singularly largest organization in the country and should, as part of that, expect some job stability.

The pay is usually marginal compared to private sector. The advantage you usually get is the government won't go bankrupt or get bought up and downsized.
That's literally what this case is about, the tag names on functions. The appeals court already threw out one de mininis argument.
Pretty career

Google
HP Labs (Researcher, Research Manager)
SGI (Software Engineer)
Xerox PARC (Researcher)
Haha. I try to be upfront that I work for FusionAuth. I mentioned it in my other comments in the thread but forgot to mention it here. Thanks for keeping me honest. ;)
I do not believe this to be true at all. The App Store opened in July 2008, just over a year after the initial iPhone was released. That means that likely had to at least be on the Apple product roadmap well before the iPhone was even released.
This is awesome, many thanks.

Jeremy, I know you're a fellow fan of J -- is it possible to do modern ML with J? It seems like numpy is just a worse version of the array paradigm from J/APL, but I'm guessing all the specialized ML packages are the real value of python here? Any idea of anyone has done similar work in J?
Social media giants 'merely paying lip service' to changing behaviour
The vast majority of Americans don't get a choice of who to vote for as districts are extremely gerrymandered nowadays. The only politicians I had a chance to vote for last election was local ones like the school board. Congress was just one name that I had to fill in the oval for.
I now understand the appeal of clojure (or FP concurrency):

- can't mutate

- except for automatically synchronized entities

have fun
When will we start treating american politicians and lobbyists for what they are: criminals.
The key "innovation" that Apple seems to be claiming is that multiple languages are intended to be compiled down to a single p-code (in this case, LLVM). .Net does this in two ways:

* Projects in different languages (originally, C#, VB and curiously Eiffel) compile to the same p-code/IR and are dynamically linked into an application.

* A single project contains multiple languages (C#, ASPX, Razor) compile to the same p-code/IR and are statically linked into an application.

.Net may not be the first that did this intentionally, but it does cover all the scenarios.
I want this so bad. My hatred for the automobile grows every day. The cost, the noise, the time wasted in traffic, the pollution, the ridiculous space wasted on parking. When you really add up the costs, both individual and to society, it’s absolutely insane. I wish the cost of gasoline was high enough to internalize all the costs and change behavior. Like really high. A dollar a mile. We are slaves to the automobile in so many ways.

I’d love to see a major metro area in the US do this. San Francisco would actually be a decent candidate for this. Market St + 4 blocks in each direction.

Cities existed before without cars and I suspect they will exist again after they leave. Sucks that I had to live in the time period with them.

Life is more than just figuring out how quickly and cheaply you can go from one place to another. I feel like a lot of you are missing that.