skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Probably not; the 13th, per Supreme Court precedent, only applies to physical coercion/threat of force.

Work for free or you won't have a job around when we get authority to pay you again isn't physical coercion.

OTOH, FLSA would guarantee most federal civilian employees some back pay, though not necessarily their full normal pay.
I like that you assume a reasonable person would only lose a single cycle.

Once I walked up to a pedestrian scramble intersection with several people standing at it and it went around the cycle once in front of me and I realized none of them had pressed the button. I clarified aloud to them that you have to press the button as I pressed it. They exclaimed that they thought something was wrong with it as they had been waiting for 2 cycles already and didn't realize you needed to press the button.
> How do you consider this flattering?

Because it went on after that to blame Trump for it. "We live in these dangerous times so expect people to do more of this, don't blame them...". Then something to the effect of "let's not judge too much their verbal assaults as it's just their preaching style".

I think that's the kind of spin people complain about and call NYT "Fake News". They narrate a story based on an agenda. Try doing a mental experiment and switch sides. Imagine it was the kids with the red hats yelling things these people were yelling at passers by. Take your pick between homophobic rants, c*unt, the n-word etc, and then imagine NYT covering it and saying. "This is a hate group however these are dangerous times we live in and it's just a way for these groups to express their frustration. They use an unorthodox style, and the community doesn't mind it too much, there are far worse things to worry about".

Would you call that a "flattering" report of red hat wearing teenagers? Yeah, I would too. That's the point I think the OP was making here.
Time to move on? Let's not jump the gun here and conclude that before we're sure everybody is ready.
You say "a single platform" as though there is another viable platform.

Someone tried to set one up. It's called BitChute. All the payment processors blocked it.

The reality is that YouTube is not just "a single platform", it's THE platform. It's owned by a megacorporation with extreme political leanings. It's incredibly influential on votes and opinions globally. It's run with zero transparency, by a small unidentified unelected group of wealthy and powerful people.

You're just comfortable wtih this because you think they're on your side politically. Most people are comfortable with moderate levels of tyranny as long as they think it's their tribe that holds the levers of power.

But if Google was owned and run by evangelical Christians, and they were shifting their recommendations to discourage "immoral" videos of gay pride, pro-trans-rights arguments, sex worker rights, etc, you'd be incensed.
Maybe so, but it now enables global reach at the speed of light.
You can't argue that the danger from a stick of dynamite is the same as the danger from a nuclear bomb. You might not care about the difference if you're standing next to it, but they are bit the same thing
Nice deceptive picture of the traffic trying to get into the US.
Google, Facebook, Microsoft Sponsored Conference Promoting Climate Change Denial
We see the same situation publicly play out in business whenever a large or powerful newcomer moves into an already entrenched industry--like Sony did with Hollywood, Netflix did with TV production, Amazon and Apple did with music and book distribution, etc. Maybe this is less a shock if you consider that our politicians are working for separate competing "businesses" with competing goals, instead of, as one may have assumed, for a single business that has a single set of goals.
Have you investigated their rabbit hole for children? YT for Kids simply needs to die. They are evil.
If you copyright the magic numbers and xml tag names, how can anyone write a competing implementation?
The Chinese government and the university affiliated with He Jiankiu have condemned/severed ties.

Meanwhile on your cultural moral high ground:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tuskegee_syphilis_experiment

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internment_of_Japanese_Ameri...

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Penn_State_child_sex_abuse_s...
“The Patriot-News of Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, was the first to report on the grand jury investigation, in March 2011.[96] The story did not receive much attention outside of the immediate area,[97] and many readers at the time assailed the newspaper for impugning Sandusky's and Penn State's reputations.”

Yeah some morally superior culture you got there, you retarded fuckstick.
There's a big difference between criticizing of the government and believing that the government is poisoning us with chemtrails. Hardcore conspiracy theorists are severally mentally ill and these conspiracy channels on Youtube only serve as an echo chamber for crazy people to validate each other.
I'm really interested in learning the math basics for deep learning. Is there an online guide that you can point us to if we want to learn the basics of calculus, linear algebra, probability theory? In other words is there a "fast.ai" version of "math for deep learning" out there?
Did you try Reddit? I got there some gigs quickly
No, poor form can lead to injury.

Poor form is sometimes caused by fatigue, but that's about knowing your limitations.

Parent's point stands. Anything - in a reasonable sense - is better than nothing. If you do handstand push-ups day one, you deserve what you get.
Hrm, if only the republicans could control all three branches of the government, surely they'd be able to allocate funds if that were the case?

I suspect that a lot of republican higher ups specifically avoided funding the border wall until they lost control of the house so they could manufacture this crisis (especially as the potential to fund the border wall was offered by democrats earlier and declined by republicans, and the senate passed a "just keep it open" bill before going on winter recess).
They can force them to un-integrate it and then sell it.
That's fair, I should have been nicer. I am sorry.

I do still highly recommend picking up a book specifically about coding interviews as I have found them helpful
Super options!
I am a Canadian and I have traveled to Mexico for dental care multiple times. It worked out way cheaper cheaper, and I got some nice vacations out of it. I have heard horror stories but my experience has been great.

For those unaware, Canadians do not have universal dental care. It can be very expensive here, when the Canadian dollar was stronger I knew people traveling to the USA.
>Can't you make a pretty similar argument about all types of patents?

Yes, yes you can.

While I'm sure that you can find examples of software patents that have patented a specific implementation of a given idea, you can also find mechanical patents that claim a broad concept. These patents exist for two main reasons: 1) They discourage competitors from attempting anything within the broad concept. Even if a judge would probably rule a patent unenforceable, the risk of litigation is enough to make legal departments recommend against doing things that are covered by the patent. 2) They give companies ammo when they do get to litigation. If Company A sues Company B for infringement on one of its patents, Company B can come back and countersue because it holds a large war chest of other broad patents. Even if most of them are unenforceable, each one poses its own risk that some part of it is held up and the infringing party is liable for damages. The quantity of patents involved (and the legal costs for litigating such a case) help push companies into a quicker out-of-court settlement.

The problem as I see it is not with software patents versus mechanical patents. It's with broad patents versus specific patents. There needs to be a mechanism for easily challenging the validity of a patent after it is issued.

Edit: For context, I'm a mechanical engineer who's worked on design & development of technical consumer products.
Facebook already has all the data it needs. What this change would do, is make an average person more aware of this.

It would also help to increase the protection of the single "Facebook Account" to those, who will decide that they still want to have it.

There were many questions such as "Did you quit Facebook in 2018?" in the media. Yet, the question should have really been "Did you quit Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp in 2018?".

This update would make it much easier to do.
In Kitchener (just west of Toronto), we have a bunch of intersections where there are two possible changes. For a car-triggered change (from the inductive loop in the pavement), the light just changes for a few seconds, to get the car through. If you push the beg button, you get the pedestrian change, where there's a momentary walk signal followed by a countdown.

I get why this exists in terms of not having cars on the busy street waiting for a countdown when there's no actual person there, but I find it very frustrating that there's basically zero chance that I will just "get a green" crossing the busy street, since it's such a narrow window now. And because I can't trigger the road sensor with my bicycle, it also means I have to ride up on the sidewalk to get to the button.

I would really rather it was just a timer.
Makes sense but it selects against people with high opportunity costs, who are often the best ones.

For instance if someone with kids is already in a job, it might be tricky to find those extra hours.
While working on an embedded team, the basic CS questions were incredibly relevant.

No libraries meant we had to manage our own data structures.
We had our own UI system, so understanding how to walk trees and manipulate them efficiently was crucial. Removing duplicates from an array in an efficient manner, important.

Linked list stuff? Oh yeah, very important. Linked Lists underlay a lot of basic OS data structures.

We did have real world problems in the interview mix as well. We'd give an underlying low level API and ask how it could be used to construct a more user friendly wrapper API. We'd give examples of in memory layout of objects and ask how that layout could be improved.

At the end of the day, we wanted to hire people who could solve problems, but also sit down and have a good discussion about how to solve problems.

FWIW it was always possible to tell, with junior employees, the engineers who had gone through CS and those who hadn't.

A good decade of self study of course bridges the gap, but right out of college? I've seen very smart people, good coders, who didn't realize they were working with relational data, and over-complicated solutions.

I also saw people trained as game programmers write mind blowingly fast code that computer scientists would be hard pressed to understand without a fair bit of study.

I had to spend a fair bit of time explaining isomorphic tranforms of code/data structures/concepts though. Game programmers pick up on that one quick, "like a matrix, but instead provable facts about software."
Does your definition of "coders" include those of us with at most middle school mathematics knowledge? I've tried some machine learning courses before, but couldn't make sense of the vast majority of information.
But... Mexicans are Americans. Do they mean Millions of Citizens of the USA Flood into Mexico for Health Care?
Always have to throw this in there when I see articles about lead exposure:

Tetraethyl lead (TEL) is still being manufactured in the UK, and being sold in a handful of countries for consumer gasoline use. One company in the world manufactures the material. It's an easy lookup. They've openly said they won't stop manufacturing the material until they're forced to by government intervention.

Leaded fuel is still being used in aviation as well, even in countries where it has been banned for road use. The primary aircraft that require leaded fuel are small, personal use aircraft. You're being poisoned so some rich bastards can play in their toys.
If I'm suing you and I file a motion for summary judgement in my favor, do you need to respond to it? How much is your attorney going to be charging for the time required for that response?

Now imagine that I'm filing multiple motions per week some of which may require a fair amount of time to respond to, so you're getting billed for 10-40 hours of attorney time per week. How long can you sustain that burn rate?

This ties into SLAPP (Strategic Lawsuit Against Public Participation, aka "I may not be able to win my suit, but I can make you spend hundreds of thousands of dollars to defend against it anyway") and the saying "You can beat the rap, but you can't beat the ride" ("we may not be able to convict you, but we can drag a court case out for years and ruin your life").
The way the system is supposed to work is that simply publishing should be sufficient to prevent anyone else from registering future patents on anything that you've published. After all, publishing creates prior art which should invalidate any future patents covering your technology.
If the government labelled BuzzFeed a designated hate organization, would you still want YouTube to show your videos?
> I can't think of any real-world situation in which the developer couldn't solve this problem better by ensuring it never needs solving at all.

That's assuming a lot already. The array might have come in externally, with no control over the cadence and format it arrives in, so no way to "keep track" until you are handed the final state.
Decentralization/federation and the existence of third-party brokers don't really come into play here. What is required is

a. a cryptographically secure protocol
b. an UI that is strict about checking that the keys and signatures match and is loud about notifying the user when they don't
c. an open source client
It just means that two (or n) keys will need to be able to decrypt the message database. The web client doesn't have to behave any differently than the native client.

If Facebook is storing your encrypted message database on their servers then the problem gets significantly easier.
Actually my family (rather liberal) were discussing over the winter break that it wouldn't be terrible to see a WPA sort of resolution to this wall business, using hired unskilled labour under the direction of the army corps of engineers would likely give our economy a nice booster shot.
You can enable a notification in the settings when a person keys changes.
Hainan is the latest Chinese free-trade zone with tech hub ambitions
What application would you say has "real" e2e encryption? Signal and all the other apps have exactly the same problem right? If you don't compare your keys offline, you're always at risk for this attack. You can't build cryptography out of sand.
The responses they got from Google, Facebook and Microsoft were unacceptable.
it changed from being “users who watched this video watched X next” to “You would like Y videos based on your watch history” (somewhat biasing the first 2 or 3 to be related to current video)
> On the other hand, he thinks an average individual’s response to missing paychecks should be to seek a low interest loan against a government guarantee.

Uh, if that's what he thinks it is deluded in a way you omit: there is no government guarantee. There is a tradition of backpay after a shutdown, not a legal guarantee. The commitment to pay is the budget, whose absence is the entire reason there is a shutdown.
Anatomy of a malicious script: how a website can take over the browser
90% of the article is a satisfying analysis of problems two-phase commit. The remaining 10% of the article gives me no confidence that some alternative system is around the corner. Two-phase commit has the nice property that we know it's "correct", and there is a long history of alternative proposals that either aren't based on reasonable assumptions (e.g. we can make the network ordered), don't provide properties that make it easy to build systems on top of them (e.g. don't provide consistency), or aren't correct.

So I'm not holding my breath until someone writes a paper about it. And even then, I would like to see someone build a system with it.
The mobile web existed. I used to read quite a bit on my Treo and even before that many people had been back-buttoning for years away from that "Java loading..." splash screen that brought up whatever Nokia or Vertu browser was installed. Sure it sucked, but that's what iPhone/iPod Touch broke open.
I am shocked this hasn't happened sooner. It speaks to the lack of agency the average person has even in a government job. Politics and money grant agency for people, but most Americans have limited access to either.
Well don't look too hard at the UK right now. :) We have a government and PM that is effectively stuck there (thanks to the coalition's broken Fixed Term Parliaments Act) but unable to bring legislation through. They even lost a vote on the last finance bill, and the huge Brexit defeat. Either would normally have brought the government down.

Belgium famously managed with no government for well over a year, without apparently making big decisions like finance or defence changes.
That the idea that "things must have a beginning" may not be the case when talking about physics outside the known universe.

Sure, that's hard to wrap your head around, but so's quantum entanglement and the double slit experiment. Doesn't change the fact that the universe works in very, very weird ways sometimes.

Here's Stephen Hawking on the weirdness of all of this: http://www.hawking.org.uk/the-beginning-of-time.html

> Quantum theory introduces a new idea, that of imaginary time. Imaginary time may sound like science fiction, and it has been brought into Doctor Who. But nevertheless, it is a genuine scientific concept. One can picture it in the following way. One can think of ordinary, real, time as a horizontal line. On the left, one has the past, and on the right, the future. But there's another kind of time in the vertical direction. This is called imaginary time, because it is not the kind of time we normally experience. But in a sense, it is just as real, as what we call real time.
> What right do they have to have such low-risk jobs at the expense of people ...

Wow, if this isn't straight-up communism, I don't know what is.
It's not really comparable to a private sector company. Anything the IRS employees formed by themselves would not have the authority to collect tax revenue on the behalf of the US government.

Sure, they could make something that would compete with Intuit and H&R Block, etc, but it wouldn't be the IRS, and we would still need the IRS.
Think of it this way: category (1) are transaction aborts that are dependent on the state of the data. If so, you can explicitly include conditional logic on that data state. The mechanism for accomplishing category (2) is described in the section entitled: "Removing system-induced aborts". I agree it is non-trivial, but we've done it multiple times in my lab.
Indeed.

Don't forget that you now have to come up with a distrbuted atomicity protocol that avoids deadlocks. That's a lot of handwaving.
Time to move on? What do we really have issues with the current situation? I d like to hear that
If asking about a bubble sort during an interview I'm giving, I'd much prefer to hear questions come back about sorting bubbles rather than some person who's memorized popular algorithms and blindly gives me back some recreation of cookie-cutter algorithms that can be looked up from any source.

Here's what questions I'd love to hear be asked of me if I'd ask the candidate "create a bubble sort algorithm".

1. How many bubbles are there? (collection size and knowledge of collection data structures)

2. What sizes, and how many or percent of each size? (constants, basic math, possibly low-level statistics knowledge)

3. Do new bubbles appear/disappear, and if so do I know what size they appear as, and do bubbles change size? (new inputs to an existing set of data)

4. Since I'm sorting, would you prefer a particular end result? (2d or 3d structure or something similar things)
I call bs. It was a very clever entry to the market with lots of opportunity for product improvement. 3G chip? Reason to upgrade. App Store? Another.
The Mac doesn't provide a device to read from? Because beyond that, it should be pretty similar (posix-ish and golang)?
I've wondered if public dialog about societal change might be improved by having a richer set of exemplars, to serve as context and landmarks in discussion.

When exploring design objectives with a client, one often provides a set of proposals, whose differences then serve as a vocabulary for discussion. Almost a basis vector set. Public dialog often leaves me with the impression of a client with an inadequate set, an impoverished vocabulary, struggling to both clearly understand and express their opportunities and desires.

For governance and society, even just current US States are variously diverse. So we might discuss whether we want aspect X of the federal government or national society, to look more like those of this state or that state, with a bit from some other. Current countries and societies provide even larger breath, and history even more.

But the goal here isn't models, merely vocabulary. Not "if we do this, then these experiences suggest these results". Such extrapolations between highly complex systems are almost silly. Though experiences can suggest possibilities. But my focus here is more on creating vocabulary. For example, I recall a story of "you don't call the police in <city in Brazil>, because they will just show up in force, smash things and people unrelated to the problem, and then leave, having done nothing but additional harm". For vocabulary, it doesn't matter whether that's true, or typical, or happens only under specific conditions, or is different now, or whatever. It's merely a tag, to facilitate discussion and reflection like "Hmm, it seems there are a few situations of that in the US too! What is the shape of such cases? Does it vary among municipalities? Why? What does the space of shapes look like? What are the class, cultural, political, and professional contexts?", etc.
Just please, for the love of god stop trying to show me Jordan Peterson videos!
What exactly is deceptive about it?

From the article: "According to Mayor Christian Camacho, up to 6,000 dental refugees make their way to Los Algodones every day in the temperate season between Thanksgiving and March."

That is just one border town in Mexico...
Replaced by new ones? Who's going to apply for a job with no prospect of getting paid, and where you'll be asked to perform not only your work but that of an increasing number of missing colleagues?
The linked list cycle problem was an open question for many years in the mid 20th century.

You may have discovered why: it's not actually as easy as it seems when you know the answer.

There's a blog post about this somewhere, how it's not actually a great question to ask.
This essay absurdly treats humans and their beliefs as immutable objects. There is no justifiable reason to think this, even as much as Jobs may have likened himself to a deity.