skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Your entire comment is off-topic.

You ignored points #2 and #3 and misrepresented #1. That's a classic straw-man fallacy.

I did not say "it's an OK fallacy", so do not put those words into my mouth. I said authority serves a purpose. It can serve as a signal, used to filter out noise. His arguments must, of course, stand on their own. If you actually read the article, you'll find he makes some good arguments.

In fact, neither this headline nor this article even make the "appeal to authority" fallacy in the first place. So why harp on it?
If the wall is immoral and ineffective, should the United States destruct the existing portions of the wall already built at the US-Mexican border?
> Nonsense. We chopped down most of the forests in the US to make farmland. Literally. My home state of Indiana was _literally_ solid hardwood forest 250 years ago. Take a look at it on Google maps sometime.

That's the only evidentiary argument you tried to make, and it's factually wrong. More of North America is forested now than 250 years ago.

The rest of your comment is argument to absurdity and bare nonsense.

Your beliefs are like a religion.
Negotiating with hostage takers never makes sense.
The title's use of "Harvard" is interesting in that it hints at appeal to authority.

Imagine that the astronomer were based at Lackawanna College. Would that information be worth conveying through the title?

"Lackawanna College Astronomer on the Interstellar Object ‘Oumuamua"

I doubt it. The problem with appeal to authority is that there's no place in science for it. Not only that, appeal to authority undermines science itself.

As Carl Sagan put it in The Demon-Haunted World:

Arguments from authority carry little weight – authorities have made mistakes in the past. They will do so again in the future. Perhaps a better way to say it is that in science there are no authorities; at most, there are experts.

https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/535475-arguments-from-autho...
Point taken. However, saying "X app connects to Y app, that's for sure" when that is NOT the case is wrong. Period. Facts are facts.

"We should do X because things are like Y" when things are like Z, you just have to check the code and show it, that's a hard fact.

Maybe I should have said "remembers facts incorrectly" instead of "opinion". Sorry.

Re: having worked in a famous SV company doesn't mean everybody should get a free pass to say B.S., right? I'm sure your FAANG company isn't made of perfect human beings (or has a perfect hiring process).
There were very fine logos, on both sides.
>> You will always find people who you can argue unfairly benefit from a redistribution scheme.

> A redistribution scheme is inherently unfair.

I would love to see what a strong defense of this looks like, that doesn't wind up having all kinds of weird and probably unintended implications. I can't think of one. Best I can do is to define terms such that it becomes tautological.
You cut a part of my sentence but still.
"Panning a bit" in remote areas where you know that even Fuel Stations are hard to find.
What level of evidence are you willing to accept? And how can we do anything BUT speculate on future events?
Leads will take as much of the round as they can. This is usually at least 51% but often much more.
If you've never explored fasting for a couple days as an adult, it's definitely worth the experience.

Once the body gets into the fat-burning mode and all the pangs of hunger and mild headaches vanish, everything changes and it's like you can go climb a mountain with nothing but water.

Those familiar with atkins/ketogenic diets will have already learned this stuff about themselves. But it's interesting to note that the same operating mode is available without any food at all.

Even if you don't embrace fasting as some kind of healthy practice, being aware that; no, you're not actually starving when you're hungry because you haven't eaten carbs for a few hours, seems like a useful fact to internalize. As long as there's fat on your person, you're not starving, just stop eating long enough to give your body a chance to switch fuel sources.

It's actually a quite different experience to run off fat, the headspace is changed, there's a mental clarity and physical lightness and agility (you're empty). I find it quite pleasant, especially for physical activity.
Only one person veto'd the continuing resolution this time around.

We know who to blame. If both sides walked away from the CR, then maybe you'd have a point. But only ONE side (of the three sides: House, Senate, and President) have walked away from the CR.

Shutdown also started when the House was controlled by Republicans. The shutdown was 10-days old before Pelosi took the gavel and Democrats entered the house. Former speaker Ryan didn't feel like fixing the issue on his way out, so he left it to the Democrats. McConnell, while he's gone into hiding recently, managed to pass a bill in late December which could have prevented the shutdown (so McConnell barely gets a passing grade. A C-, he did something to stop the shutdown at least. But McConnell should show some leadership and rally the Senate to stop the shutdown today, just as he did back in December)

I place the blame mostly on the President (for destroying the CR agreement McConnell passed), and somewhat on Mr. Ryan for walking away from the problem on the last 10 days of his Speakership.
If you're good AND good at interviewing AND have a personality the hiring manager really likes AND have a background the hiring manager really likes AND HR doesn't intervene AND there are few other qualified candidates in your market AND you have literally everything else go your way... getting a new job is easy. Otherwise you're in for some struggle, and definitely financial hardship for the months you'll be unemployed.
We could have also spent 1.7 billion on other forms of security instead!
A man found cameras in his Airbnb rental
I didn't know there were only two branches of the government
It's actually better for the airline, since they actually use less fuel.
https://www.21stcentech.com/climate-change-impact-worlds-maj...

The North Saskatchewan has lost 40% of its volume and continues to decrease.
AirBNB and anything the sharing economy produces is never good for humans. These companies are just proprietary algorithms extracting money on the back of the poor. They should be burned with fire.
Unfortunately that is the stance both sides are taking right now.
Some builders have their in office agent, depending on the state, that agent will represent both sides of the transaction in that case, so you aren't saving any money by not having an agent.
Alan R. Pearlman, Synthesizer Pioneer, Dies at 93
Let’s all remind ourselves that before Newt Gingrich there was no such thing as shutting down the government.
These are sweeping claims to dismiss the suffering of a group of people who kill themselves at a rate ~50x higher than normal. I have no idea what the rate is for those around them, but it's hard to imagine it's any higher. It's true that they rarely seek treatment for a personality disorder but anecdotally, the person I knew was always in treatment for something. BPD is highly comorbid with other disorders:

> 96% of patients with BPD have a mood disorder during their life, and lifetime depression is reported at 71% to 83%. Anxiety disorders are also extremely common: 88% of patients have an anxiety disorder, 34% to 48% have panic disorder, and 47% to 56% have PTSD. Alcohol and substance abuse or dependence are reported by 50% to 65%; eating disorders affect 7% to 26% over a lifetime

http://www.psychiatrictimes.com/borderline-personality/comor...
Thank you, I'll try to read more about ADHD. I just wanted to clarify that I have not determined this person has ADHD or anything else. They have said it. I'm just describing the behavior and mentioned ADHD as maybe that's related but it could very well NOT be. In any case, I appreciate your advice, thanks.
And yet all you are doing here is proving my point.

You take the most catastrophic interpretations as gospel while at the same time admitting we have no idea what the consequences will actually be.

That's exactly the point here.

So instead of jumping to conclusions like you are doing perhaps it would help if you started being concrete.

The quesiton still stands. What scientifically demonstrated problem which will arise over the next 100 years can't we deal with?
Maybe it's because I was lucky to be born into the world of technology and now have a career in it, but I don't see how people can be surprised or annoyed with the amount of information Facebook has of us.

Firstly, in terms of interests, we go and like pages of things that we "like", we talk on Facebook groups that are specific to hobbies/interests we enjoy. Then Facebook shows us a list of our interests and people freak out?

Like we have given them that information, so of course they can generate these types of lists.

And the next thing "while Facebook offers a number of transparency and data control tools, most users are not aware of where they should be looking" well did they even try looking? Or did you simply ask them do you know where to find X off the top of your head and they said no?
Ah, but the question is, are you willing to stand up for that fact, at the total cost of the economy, as well as the individuals directly affected? There is a person with a literal veto who believes that the wall is a good thing, and who seems resistant to persuasion. How long are you willing to risk damaging the economy before you give in to that person?

At this point, it's not really about just how bad or good an idea it is. (And, of course, I agree with you that it's a monumentally bad idea.) It's about perception: how much suffering you can stand (and stand to watch), and how much you're willing to risk being perceived as causing that suffering by failing to knuckle under.

Also take into account the fact that this unpersuadable veto-holder seems to genuinely enjoy watching that suffering, and that his supporters appear to agree with him on that.

In terms of the facts, the choices seem fairly obvious. But our choices are often made primarily not on the facts at hand, but the fact that people disagree despite that.
> I remember the 90's. I think it takes a revisionist to say raising the top marginal rate was what caused the economic boom. I would guess the big drivers were low oil prices and that dot com thing.

But it doesn't take a revisionist to see that shows that raising the top marginal rate won't doom the economy, like many incorrectly claim.
Not very well we haven't.
https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefings-statements/bill-announc...
Schneier on the effectiveness of modern security
I'm not super surprised that RHEL removed Mongo because of the licensing change. I don't completely understand why people getting upset about the licensing, however.

As far as I know, MongoDB is still open source. If you are a hosting provider offering "MongoDB as a Service" the provider then needs to pay a licensing fee to Mongo. This seems ok to me, with the logic that MongoDB is a business that needs to make money.

I am not an expert in licensing, but how is this any different than paying for a license of RHEL vs using CentOS? I'm genuinely curious as to how this is against open source beliefs.
I mean, I'd say yes, but you don't have to think so to not want to spend billions on more of it.
Watched this video from CBS News recently and it looks like portions of the wall in place are sticks with wire: https://youtu.be/5o4d6Wp3u2Q
> But even there, Teles probably outnumber Rickenbackers 100:1 in professional hands.

Only recently.

Rickenbackers were quite popular among the country performers at the start of the guitar era. A Rickenbacker into a Vox is the sound of the British Invasion.

Guitars are fad driven. Strats were "garbage" until Hendrix and Clapton. Les Pauls were "garbage" until Slash. And so it goes ...
And for those not familiar with IRC, the association of "#" with Twitter hashtags says "communication" too.
How can anyone have a project home page without..showing me why I should use the project.

Would it have killed Jonas to include a screenshot in the README?

I'm not going to install something just because someone says it's good. I have to go multiple links deep to get taken to a Flickr gallery, and even then I'm not sure what is so good about it: https://www.flickr.com/photos/jonasfonseca/sets/721576144707...
It looks like a # woven out of thread that changes color when it ducks underneath.
More CO2 = higher crop yields.

Higher temperature = more arable land.

Your beliefs are not scientifically valid.
Which is also the stated reason why Trump isn't negotiating with Democrats. Both Democrats and Republicans have the ability to end the shutdown, so both sides can accuse the other of hostage taking.

Of course, the real problem I see is that the whole budget needs to be renewed by Congress and the Executive, rather than just approving changes in the budget. Makes more sense to me that we vote on the delta. But I guess a lot about US politics doesn't make sense.
Yeah, what are you taking about?
Shouldn't Pelosi be considered the hostage taker by essentially denying funding for the single biggest promise to the electorate made during the 2016 election? It seems more like subversion by Pelosi.
Article written in 2014:

> To date, 450+ million SSNs have been issued, but with just under 1 billion possible number combinations, there has never been a need to recycle numbers, and the SSA notes that it does "not reassign a Social Security number (SSN) after the number holder's death."

https://gizmodo.com/what-happens-to-your-social-security-num...
Again how is the world more unstable?
Which is a bit of an issue isn’t it. Is Shkreli in Cluster B? Probably, and now he has the impact on his life to prove it. So before that, when he was just incredibly successful, had no criminal record, and seemed able to function at a high level did he have the same disorder? If outcomes represent a diagnostic criteria then it reveals a weakness in understanding or even defining the disorder in question.

It’s important to distinguish between diagnostic criteria, and the disorder itself, if they are actually disorders.
I had a crooter approach me about a software position at Elsevier once. I told her no, and that you can't spell Elsevier without E-V-I-L.
With these I always feel like they just made some shitty ones after the job was finished just for the ‘look we did a whole design and thought out of the box’ articles like these
The plan is to build in increments, starting with the areas that see the most traffic.
Not on AWAKE specifically but there's been some exciting progress made using supersonic jets of neutral gas as decent lenses for wakefield accelerated beams. This solves the problem of having a tiny accelerator with a wakefield (not counting the size of the driving laser/beam/whatever) but still requiring large/bulky sections for quadrapole electrostatic lenses and the like.
How so? The populace elected a Democrat majority to the House. They don't want the Wall. They are under zero obligation to fund it, and it is not hostage-taking to do so.
7-8% of our budget deficit is not a small number. $72B would let you triple the NIH's budget, quintuple NASA's...
I've spent a similar amount as you on Airbnb as a hotel replacement over the years. I have the same exact feedback. What started as a great community vibe is now being exploited by slum lords. It's really a shame, the site is a victim of its own success.

I have to believe that with better curation it would have been possible to maintain quality. For example, Lyft still has a great UX with awesome drivers like they did at the beginning, even after they have scaled up to MegaCorp status. It seems Airbnb has made a conscious decision to pursue growth at all costs, including what made them great in the beginning. Time will tell if that was a smart play.
I suspect our Youtube accounts are doppelgangers. o/
This situation brings to mind last year’s Verge article “HOW AN INTERNATIONAL HACKER NETWORK TURNED STOLEN PRESS RELEASES INTO $100 MILLION”
https://www.theverge.com/2018/8/22/17716622/sec-business-wir...

The article include a great line “The [Ukrainian] intelligence agents began running a parallel operation to the Moscovite middlemen, using Turchynov’s access and sourcing their own traders, according to Demedyuk.”
There is scientific consensus that reducing antropogenic CO2 is /the/ mayor contributor to global climate change. There are other factors, but unless we tackle CO2, they don't really matter. Besides; there's very little we can do about volcanic forcing.

The 'obsession' with CO2 you identify is the 'obsession' of a brain surgeon with the aneurysm that's going to kill her patient.
The wall is symbolic. It is completely useless for the proclaimed purpose.
Here's another example, the Journal of Machine Learning Research, where the cost of publishing an article works out to about $10: https://blogs.harvard.edu/pamphlet/2012/03/06/an-efficient-j... (previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15280736)
There is no doubt nobody fully understands the requirements (in our industry?) and that's good advice, being pragmatic. However, even when the requirements are clear, it's a pretty chaotic process which is hard to follow. I wouldn't discard this as simply being a style issue. This person seems pretty nervous when discussing things, so there is some struggle. I can try to clarify the requirements for everybody's sake (including mine). Please don't label this person as the 'ADHD coworker' though.
In my old town, where opiate-related deaths have been doubling annually for years, it's considered second-degree murder to facilitate or participate in drug use that leads to someone overdosing.

And it's pretty common: A friend of mine who wasn't even around the person who overdosed, he had simply split an opiate purchase with him and then parted ways, was just arrested on 2nd degree murder charges within the last few months.

If my friend, who bore no ill will, gets sent to prison for murder, while the people who got him in his position (addicted to opiates after receiving prescribed pain medication) walk free, then that's textbook political corruption.
I mean, if you count Mitch McConnell twice refusing to entertain spending bills that previously passed in the Senate, then yes, both branches are holding the government hostage.
I just powered on my new Pixel phone and noticed that the Slack icon was different. It took me a few minutes to figure out what happened; I thought my phone's screen was messed up! :O
Putin sure got his money's worth.
worked out for Obama in 2013.
I don't envy IT teams responsible for migrating to SAP S/4 HANA. With so many companies running SAP and the need to move to S/4 HANA before the due date, we are going to see more of these types of articles.

For every x number of successful migrations we are ultimately going to see an x number of unsuccessful ones.
9 years _is_ immature when you're talking about systems that will store data and operate for decades, with various components being upgraded over that time.
Telecasters are extremely common among the country artists.
"Citing an unnamed official."

This headline is misleading. It suggests that Trump administration officials are publicly reporting this, when the question of who is saying this cannot be confirmed.
Browsers certainly collect runtime types of variables in hot code paths, but that's pretty different from the whole-program static verification that TypeScript does. TypeScript is designed to have an expressive and flexible type system, and typechecking a large codebase might take tens of seconds or minutes, not something you want running every time any user loads your site.

That said, including types in JS could be useful as a hint for the optimizer, but at least in TypeScript and Flow, the types can always be wrong even if no errors are reported (e.g. from misuse of escape hatches), so the runtime would need to double-check them.
I have thought about this a little bit. If this is something Americans believe in, its time to make it official. Make a legal proceeding where you can "start again", so that nobody from your old life can trace you.
What about the wall at the border by San Diego? That's a much better fortified structure, and if immoral and against the principles of the United States, wouldn't this portion be worth getting rid of?
Anti-Vax Movement Listed by World Health Organization Among Top Threats in 2019
Is "shared inbox" just the new marketing-speak for customer-facing ticketing system? For example, you could consider Zendesk to be a "shared inbox" where incoming emails create tickets that multiple users can view/reply... just with more features like issue status, assignment, etc.
Exactly. If the president vetoes everything unless he gets his way, then you might as well get rid of the other branches of government entirely and have him write/pass all the bills himself.

Otherwise known as a dictatorship.
CFP would have been well loved if it had been set up in such a way as to designate quotas to small fishers etc. As it stands most of the quotas are owned by a few huge players. That's the real reason why there's so much consternation among fishers - because of the people who have accrued fishing rights to squeeze out small producers.
"squirt emoji"? I wish. More like swastika
In a way, quoting Carl Sagan is an appeal to authority in itself. If the same words were said by /u/RandomRedditUser, the quotation would carry less weight.

You could also see the "Harvard Astronomer" and "Carl Sagan" here as appeal to expertise, for which university association is an imperfect proxy.
I think it stinks and prefer the old one.
Spend that money on increasing border patrol personnel, give them pay raises, ask American companies to make cheap drones and give them tax breaks, install motion based security systems. That $5B is going to get a 100 mile worth long wall which is not going to solve the "BIGGER" problem. Trump is a builder and he thinks like one. Sometimes concrete is not the solution.
This kind of makes me want to play KSP again...
>> "The research was conducted using mice, which were subjected to 24-hour periods of fasting."

Nobody fasts for 24 hours. This study lacks to mention if say same affects were observed based on shorter amount of fasting time.
Thanks!

However, this like the 7th time or so that I've tríed to read an latimes.com article linked from the HN front page and they have blocked everyone in Europe from reading it. Enough is enough.
The way I've been thinking about it is that shutdown a couple years ago was really a game of chicken where neither side thought it was actually going to happen.

This time around it's more of a siege tactic where the idea is to hunker down until one side feels enough pain that they will yield. It's really a case of which side's base can tolerate the pain longer without either flipping sides or losing faith in the leadership.

Plus it's Trump's power tactic at letting the Dems know he's the boss even now that they have the House. He has zero problem playing the bad guy to get what he wants and come out on top.
There have been studies on people as well, with encouraging results: http://stm.sciencemag.org/content/9/377/eaai8700

as well as

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S155041311...

Still, more work needs to be done.
The issue is that other people subsidize this luxurious lifestyle.

For example, in Germany it takes 1100 pensioners who are forced to pay "public" television fees to finance the pension and lifestyle of a single ZDF bigshot.

This includes people who are barely above social security level.
IIRC money has already been offered to boosting border security and have been turned down explicitly in desire to a wall. This is an uncomfortable situation that my first impression is to see it as a hostage situation, but I try to avoid such extreme descriptions.

I'm struggling to find other, more neutral depictions of the situation, though.