skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> However does anyone here really believe someone making $40 or $50 million a year are not going to find tax shelters for their income and are going to stand paying 70 cents on the dollar in taxes.

You'd think so given how frequently the "it was once 91%!" phrase comes up. Regardless of tax rates, the amount of GDP gathered from taxation revenue has been pretty stable: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hauser%27s_law
That's a pricey oof. Hope they kept the receipt.
Mind going into a little more detail?

The house has passed a CR, last years senate has passed a CR. Mitch McConnell refuses to allow a vote on a CR until the president says he won't veto it.

To me this issue seems like a pretty straightforward case of one branch holding the country hostage.
good riddance!
This is news, not science. The science will come after.

If Linus Torvalds makes a bold prediction about Linux, it carries more weight. Likewise here.
They're not reliably unique: a nontrivial percentage of the population has multiple numbers associated with them, and a nontrivial percentage of the numbers are associated with multiple people.

If you have two systems and you want to correlate data between them, you can use something like the SSN to assist in that process, but usually it will need additional information.

Generally you can't use something someone supplies as a shared identifier. You can't start the process of verifying it, after all, without an identifier. You might think of all sorts of ways around this, but they all boil down to either tolerating errors or making the SSN a secondary attribute rather than a bona fide identifier.
The promise as I recall was that Mexico was paying. In any case the constitution is clear that spending originates from the House not the White House. Several continuing resolutions have passed and the President should sign one.
Why didn't they build it earlier when Republicans was in full control?
Republicans passed a CR while they had the house but it was filibustered by Democrats in the Senate. So TWO sides have walked away actually.
Do you have a link to this please?
You don't have to speculate if you can prove it scientifically.

Yet this discussion is being had AS IF we are debating what is scientifically true when in fact we are debating which interpretation of the science we should prioritize.

If someone can demonstrate scientifically to me that it's a cataclysmic event and that humans have no way of dealing with it you have my attention.

Other than that I prefer to worry about the current generations issues not panicking and rushing to conclusions making absurd political decisions like we are doing today, btw decisions that won't actually solve the very problems they are claiming to deal with.
So, with that out of the way I wonder if they will be able to implement a "dark" theme now. I asked a couple of weeks ago if they had some new themes on their roadmap and they had a vague reply about putting it on the list. :fingers_crossed:
I actually think Government via hostage taking is fine. The Government won't be hurt in the end, it is a non-corporeal entity. The people who work for the government won't be fine.

What I think needs to happen is that the hostage takers have to be brought to justice or made to pay for utilizing such tactics. I think the hardest part is that the people have to remember this transgression at a personal level.
You dismissed mass migration and civil war with a single sentence. You're either being intentionally inflammatory or in denial about how close to home these effects are going to be.

Humanity may survive, yes, but civilisation as we know it will regress to a large degree if the world leaders are as flippant about the issue as you are.

Software will not solve climate change, no matter how many startups you create and sell. Climate Change is a human lifestyle addiction problem that affects the suppliers of the lifestyle more than the consumers - until the number of suppliers start dwindling and then the consumers wonder why their coffee habit starts costing so much. Addictions and habits aren't easy to break even individually, much less for a whole society.

Rising oceans, changing climate zones, less arable land, fewer food resources, civil unrest, mass migration, resource wars, economic collapse.

(edit: the first three are things in the above list are already occurring, the rest are logical extensions).
Not really. I think of my git use case at work pretty simple. I usually stash, pull down, fast-foward and then pop my stash on top. Occasionally I'll need to rebase too. Just to show I'm not a super advanced user or anything.

I'm a JS dev mainly working in React on a web app with a backend team using PHP. Often I'll be working on a branch with maybe 2 or 3 people and I often end up working on a few things at a time. Say I'm working on a feature, and I notice some bug I'll fix that and then get on with my feature. Once I go to commit I pretty much always do a 'git add . -p' and I very rarely want to add all the files I've worked on!

Even things like switching a config file to use a service like apiary where I don't want to commit my change to the config to use apiary.. Or change to my webpack config for testing, etc.

I've used Perforce, SVN and Git and the whole 'staging' area thing always felt very natural to me. Here are the files you've edited, which ones want to be commited? It gives me a second chance to go through and check everything before I've commited, and often that stops me leaving in any odd comments or debug code.
Root Cause Analysis to find front end bugs
The Tele is a strange beast. There's a magic to the Tele that I've never been able to fully understand; a good Tele is more than the sum of its parts. It responds to vibrato and dynamics in a way that is quite unlike any other solid-body guitar. The overwhelming brightness can be difficult to tame, but it can also produce and extraordinarily open and harmonically complex tone if you work at it.

It's worth bearing in mind that the Telecaster was designed for the heavy flatwound or pure nickel strings that were the norm in the 50s. A modern light gauge set of nickel-plated roundwound strings will sound exceptionally bright on a Tele. A plain third string won't intonate properly on a three-saddle bridge either.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8a3qAp81vY8

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fnDZ7yb5g-c
Your comments assume 'FTA' is the key ingredient in the equation - it is not.

The UK is growing financial services exports in almost all of the markets you mentioned, so I don't really see what your point is there. [1]

Third - the UK is not 'leaving' European markets, they are changing the terms of trade. Goods and services will continue to flow.

(Thankfully, 'services' don't face the fundamental challenges that 'goods' do at the border outside of a customs union)

The UK already exports as much financial services to the US as it does to the entire EU [2] and the underlying impetus is fundamentally in the rest of the world.

Similar to your comment about Japan - the UK already exports quite a lot in financial services (3 billion pounds/year and growing).

" Also, trust me, the Chinese have not forgotten the Opium war" No, I don't trust you.

[1] https://colresearch.typepad.com/colresearch/2017/03/trends-a...

[2] https://colresearch.typepad.com/colresearch/2016/08/how-impo...
if I want to convince somebody of something scientific, I point them at a textbook written by an authority (say, Bruce Alberts, who wrote Molecular Biology of the Cell). For each fact in the book, it contains citations to the original scientific publications (most of whom were written by authorities, but some simply by experts).

Probabilistically, it seems like authorities are the least likely to be wrong.
The hardest teacher
Because the human population grows, so concepts such as societies and economies follow. It's that simple. You can run a small business that remains at a steady state but you still need constant customers to remain viable, and even if every company stayed small there would be new ones started, so growth is inherent.

Marketing spend is a proportion of GDP so it'll scale along with it, and is thus not zero-sum. As for regulation, that is needed in the industry and why we have limits on certain categories.
You're absolutely right and I appreciate that very much. On the other hand,
there's an incredible amount of hype around Big Data and deep learning,
exactly because the large corporations are doing it. So now everyone wants to
do it, whether they have the data for it or not, whether it really adds
anything to their products or not.

As to the Big N (good one) what I meant to say is that I don't see them trying
very hard to undo their own advantage, by spending much effort developing
machine learning techniques that rely on, well, little data. That would truly
democratise machine learning- much more so than the release of their tools for
free, etc. But then, if everyone could do machine learning as well as Google
and Facebook et al, where would that leave them?
> NSA has your international traffic logged and timestamped. If you're doing nefarious activity from a non-MLAT country's IP, and you're the only one connecting to it from the US, it's a simple matter of parallel construction for domestic law enforcement to pop you.

Couldn't that be countered by using two foreign IPs for your VPN, one for your inbound connection and another for your outbound traffic? It would make it more difficult to correlate your US IP with the outbound VPN traffic without extra information.
One thing that is not super clear from the blog post, and which may be a surpsise to some, is that Cloud Functions will require you to upload your source code. The compilation happens not on your end but on Google servers.

This is probably not a surprise for folks who have been using Python or Node for cloud functions, but it is something to think about.

Other FaaS providers don't have this requirement, and just take a Linux x86_64 binary.
Did I miss the train or do developers really love Chuck Norris quotes? It's been around 10 years since those were relevant.
Because such things are "necessary" when it provides benefit: access to software/CC stock photography/imagery/fonts.

And less so when it impinges on the ability to make profit from it (leaving aside the argument about "no-one says you can't make money from open source software" - of course you can, but the business model is a little less... convenient... so they fault the license, not anything else).
Yep. NIH granting cycle is totally derailed & it's job interview season in academia.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slippery_slope

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freedom_of_speech

"I may disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it" -Alternatively attributed to Patrick Henry, Voltaire, and Evelyn Beatrice Hall

Besides... who gets to determine what fake news is, what if they're wrong, and what happens when they decide that fake news is real news, and real news is the fake news?

Teaching people critical thinking skills, one by one, while respecting everyone else's right to believe and say what they want, while difficult, is the far more virtuous path...

Also... Freedom of Religion implies Freedom of Belief...

Oh, almost forgot... Asking for criminalization of Fake News is exactly functionally equivalent to Censorship.

Censorship has quite the history... The Roman Empire practiced it, the historic Catholic Church practiced it, and the Chinese Government practices it today.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Censorship#History

If history is to be believed, Censorship is far worse than Fake News...
I'm not sure about that logic. It's just a consequence of the order of operations. If the process went Sentate->President->House for approval, the House would be the only one to not approve a bill that included wall funding.
It's not correct to says that glaciers have "been retreating for 15,000 years or more." It's more accurate to say that there was a major global retreat of glaciers at the beginning of the current interglacial period about 10,000 years ago. But since then, while regions and individual glaciers have experience growth and reduction, the global balance has been relatively stable.

In the absence of human activity, we would not be seeing the glacial retreat that we are seeing now. In fact we would expect relative stability until the onset of the next glacial period--then growth.

And of course, we care about all this because the civilization we've built is deeply integrated with the current climate, and it will be extremely expensive and traumatic to alter or adapt, especially on timelines as short as 50 to 100 years. Cities that rely on glaciers for year-round water are thousands of years old in some cases. Most of India, for example.
When you're buying, a realtor will never tell you that you are overpaying -- it would be less commission for them and greater chance the seller will reject or counter the offer which creates more work for them.

When you're selling, they will always tell you that you are priced too high. They want a quick sale with minimal work.

I've used realtors on the buy and sell side of the first house I owned. I was disappointed both times in that they seemed to do almost nothing except show up at the closing for their take.

I've bought and sold two other homes FSBO since then, and the process was much easier.
based on my experience a corporate rebrand is the US is closer to $500k
MongoDB is a strange company. I've downloaded their Compass software to visualise some throwaway JSON I had loaded in Mongo, gave my real email and here's the emails I was sent before I blocked their marketing account (allegedly someone named Alena)

day 0 "Regarding your interest in MongoDB"

day +1 "Alena with MongoDB in reply to your interest"

day +3 "Alena with MongoDB making sure you're all set"

day +7 "Alena from MongoDB reaching out"

day +10 "Checking in from MongoDB"

At which point I was completely speechless about this dumb spammy marketing attempt and just blocked the sender. Really guys?

"I want to touch base with you again to see if we could provide you with additional information regarding our enterprise edition of MongoDB that you downloaded.

Are you available to set up a call to learn more?"

What the hell is that I never downloaded "enterprise MongoDB", it was Compass.

I will never use anything from MongoDB, thanks Alena.
Same for me! Webpack config changes to cache settings, config changes to hit a different API for testing, using a different database for testing. Most of these live in my staging area and get stashed and popped when I switch branches/rebase.
I'd like to see some data which was collected in a quantifiable, carefully controlled and rigorous way. I'm not trying to be snarky or saying it doesn't exist, I'd just like to see some credible data.

I was able to find this study after banging my head against a bunch of paywalled sites trying to charge money for public domain research:

https://beesystrategy.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/Chris-S...

Working on reading through. Seems like it would be difficult to control an experiment like this, since the subjects know they will be seeing advertisements as part of a study and won't really be purchasing these items. I don't know, I'm looking forward to learning more about the experimental procedure. Also they seem to be measuring somewhat vague self-reported impressions about the ad in context of being targeted / untargeted, not the actual sales they produce. Drawing a line between these impressions and real ad performance seems to be mostly a matter of opinion. As I said it seems like a tough thing to quantify, and I'm hoping that people smarter than myself have found credible methods to truly measure it.

Do you have anything you'd like to recommend?
well, if I have onUpdate trigger, which means my function is going to be triggered for every update on the document (even for the fields that I don't care)
You can say that triggering functions shouldn't cost you much, but thats not the way to do right. Correct me if I am wrong.

My use-case is simple. Want to get my CF triggered if the value of a particular field in a doc changes. Thanks.
opendoor.com appears to be doing quite well
The listing agent should have expertise in the valuation for the ask price. I don't think appraisers are generally involved. Appraisers are primarily working for the mortgage company. My last 4 appraisals have been within a couple thousand of the purchase price.
"here’s why that’s a potential problem."

The important word there is potential.
Fascinating to refer to "loophole-filled licenses", while referencing a license with no legal history of enforcement. Meanwhile, the GPL does have a long history of legal enforcement, and has successfully gotten code released on numerous occasions. What rulings are you referring to that "worked against freedom"?

Apart from that, this is nothing that hasn't been seen in every past "it's hard to make money on Open Source" argument. Meanwhile, people are busy making money on Open Source.

Please don't build random non-open licenses and call them open. If you'd like to call your license open, go get OSI to call it open.
And Republicans look at the same situation, and see Democrats standing in the way of one of 2016's biggest campaign promises.

Opposition to the wall is commendable, but I think we're* playing a hand that is substantially disadvantageous. Republicans generally think less government is better, so they're a lot better equipped to endure a shutdown than Democrats.

\* assuming you're also a Democrat.
Why do you think it will be a waste of money? What are the better solutions?

Walls are typically effective, hence their ubiquity. I have yet to see a counter proposal that would guarantee the long term security in implementation (read: something the next president can't just come in and yank out) that a wall provides.

I'm not a fan of the wall, but it seems to me to be more effective than what most people give it credit.
Then the creepy owners will just add a camera after the inspection happens.
WhatsApp bug can reveal your messages to other users
A game of chicken, but with a wall.
Thinking about 802.1x
:(

Now I can't unsee.
The US Senate needs 60 votes to pass this kind of legislation/funding, and Republicans didn't have 60 votes in the Senate because moderate Democrats were prevented from voting for it by minority leader Chuck Schumer.
As mentioned by the other responses, you are mistaken. Reviews can't be seen until both parties have submit their reviews or the review period expires.

However, as a host I've encountered situations where I probably should have given a lower rating but opted to not submit a review because the guest seemed nice other than some minor poor behavior (had to ask them to be quiet during quiet hours, ignored our house rules, left more mess than usual, etc). I didn't want to affect the guests' ratings because they weren't awful and had otherwise positive reviews, so maybe it was a one-off... I am sure there is some inflation on the guest reviews as well.
Looked at from the deficit, I suppose. Though I'm not persuaded by arguments based on what extra funds could do; there's a lot we could do by just rearranging the already ginormous amount the government collects. It's not going to happen, though.
There is not. Anyone takes care of a person with a PD would tell you that.
And the high functioning people with PDs would explain to you the all the very specific deficits they have to overcome in order to function.

Interviewing people in Cluster B is often an exercise in being lied to. It also requires them to have insight which is generally lacking as a clinical feature. Their caretakers are in a tough position, since they’re often the target of many manipulations gauges to engender sympathy and continued care. All in all it reveals a weakness in diagnosis and formulation of disorders by anecdote.

And the clinical researchers would explain to you as much as we know regarding regarding the developmental and environmental causes of specific PDs.

When they can accurately predict such outcomes from first principles even as well as they do for something like major depressive episode, schizophrenia, etc, I’ll take those claims seriously.
From a big-name shop like Pentagram? I'd expect that to be higher.
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Thanks! Awesome resources! I'll add it to my post as soon as I finish reading all the answers. I'm learning a lot from you!
Isn't riak dead?
Since the dawn of civilization, what equivalent event has nature thrown at us?

Also, it's important to be clear. We are throwing this one at ourselves.
I see how it could be interpreted that way. But my purpose was to credit the author and his book.

Had I left the quote without attribution and claimed it as my own, I'm sure someone would have suggested I should take a refresher on plagiarism. Ditto had I paraphrased Sagan without attribution.

If I had merely given the quote without a link or context, I'd run the risk of perpetuating false quotes.

Had /u/RandomRedditUser written the text instead of Sagan, I would have cited it in the same way.
Scientifically speaking, that it's an asteroid is the default or null hypothesis. That it's an alien artifact is the alternate hypothesis.

The burden of proof is on the latter, this is just SoP in science. Otherwise we end up with a world full of superstition, as it was for most human history.

We have no evidence yet of other intelligent life in the universe. But we know there are quadrillions of asteroids all over the place, some of which pass by us every so often.

Occam's razor, correctly stated, says that, all else equal, the explanation that relies on the fewest assumptions is most likely the true one. Given our lack of evidence for intelligent life, and preponderance of evidence of asteroids, the former explanation requires far more assumptions than the latter.
It changes who makes the decision, which can be really important. Consider, for example, an abused spouse who ends up in the hospital but doesn’t want to press charges. The prosecutor may consider this when making the decision to prosecute, but it’s ultimately not up to the victim.
There was a video I watched years ago about a specialist who studies the flow of pedestrians and redesigns walkways to improve flow of pedestrians. I remember she was working on an airport and there were two hallways joined at a 45 degree angle with a minor outcropping of walkway right at the joint. A lot of people seemed to float around in the outcropping like turbulence, greatly bottlenecking the flow of people. She installed a clever partition to smooth the transition from one hall to the next and the bottle neck was resolved. Still can’t find that video. I always found it interesting.