skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The thing is the ML models don't try to be interpretable. Instead people try to find models that make correct predictions.

AFAICT, that is also the appropriate role for simpler methods like linear regression, unless you have reason to believe your model is robust to any missing "unknown" features and any included "spurious" ones. In that case you are probably dealing with a model based on domain knowledge and not even running a standard linear regression.

People (over-)interpret the coefficients all the time though, I actually think this is a huge problem.
Because there are not enough tomatoes on Earth?
What is bad about the 737 is the circular cross section which makes it feel cramped. A truly modernized 737 would go oval. As it is my neck muscles cramp up just thinking about going into a 737.
I doubt any company would have supported that configuration officially in the past. That it happened to work is another matter entirely.

One of the engineering improvements that (as an armchair viewer) believe needs to be made is better communication of auto-pilot state to the crew. ANY deviation from designated human input needs to be clearly communicated to the pilots so they know what the hell is doing it and if necessary which system(s) to disable to regain full manual control.
So I guess Haiku development isn't going that well if they're struggling to get USB 3 sorted.

Shame, it seemed a promising project.

Edit:
Okay my assessment was based on this, the fact that there only seems to be a beta release for download, and there didn't seem to be a decent web browser at some point fairly recently ( there was a story on HN?).
Are these misunderstandings? Do we have different definitions of 'doing well'?
>One competitor found that the difference between two of the features, specifically f527 — f528

I read through the thread where f527 — f528 was discovered, and mostly the finding was that those two features alone were very predictive. Further research found that the two features are highly correlated, but negative of each other.

See the write-up of the winner here:
https://storage.googleapis.com/kaggle-forum-message-attachme...

>Yasser Tabandeh posted a pair of features, f527 and f528, which can be used to achieve a very high classification accuracy ([1]). Furthermore f527 and f528 are very highly correlated. However, it is not needed to keep both features. Their difference f527 − f528 contains the same amount of information

He also explains his method of finding other pairs of "golden" features in a 2-step iterative process.

Original thread: https://www.kaggle.com/c/loan-default-prediction/discussion/...
This is sad, because what made Docker useful was a full feature set.

We could already build chroot environments. We could already keep remote images. We could already set up app-specific networks. Having the tools wasn't what we needed: it was the confluence of all the features.

If the alternative to Docker becomes learning 50 new tools, we'll have failed as an industry, and shouldn't call ourselves engineers. You don't replace a car with a wheel barrow-lawn mower-hand held radio-portable fan. This obsession with churning out a new tool every year has to stop.
> Yes “computer” here means “digital electronic computer” and yes the storage, retrieval, and processing all happens very differently in the brain than digital computers are capable of.

No, it's incorrect to use "digital computer" here. More correct might be a von Neumann architecture computer. But then that shows that the author is attacking a strawman: people comparing brains to computers aren't limiting themselves to such an architecture.
Downvoting is a spiritual practice and not just a method of selecting a directional arrow?
AFP is reporting that an eyewitness saw the aircraft on fire before the crash. If confirmed, that makes this quite difference circumstances to the Lion Air crash.

> An eyewitness told AFP the plane came down in flames. “The plane was already on fire when it crashed to the ground. The crash caused a big explosion,” Tegegn Dechasa recounted at the site. “I was near the river near the crash site. Shortly after the crash police and a fire crew from a nearby air force camp came and extinguished the plane’s flames on the ground.”

> He added: “The plane was in flames in its rear side shortly before the crash. The plane was swerving erratically before the crash.”

Source: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/mar/10/ethiopian-airl...
As an Indian, I will never ever be able to wrap my head around the concept of an old-age home that seems normal in western societies.

Whenever I find myself feeling a bit envious about the obvious advantages that are there in western countries, the reminder of the existence of this absurdity immediately removes all feelings of jealousy.
Yeah the 787 is a very different plane, and imo a lovely flying experience as a passenger. Less noise, lower cabin altitude, spacious cabin, modern passenger cabin tech...it's great! I hope it's safe, but frankly after whats happened recently, I have my doubts.
If I did that my last day would definitely be coming up a bit quicker.
For me this is the telling part::

"""When I joined Debian, I was still studying, i.e. I had luxurious amounts of spare time."""

OSS has stopped (if it ever truly was) being a part time endeavour. I know from bitter personal experience one cannout up with a lot of bureaucracy and process of it is your day job - you have time to get through the rubbish in order to find the diamonds.

How we (as a society now utterly dependent on OSS) manage this problem is on a par with how we manage journalism - they are bigger questions than I have easy answers to
What are your source on the delayed MCAS software update?
I'd like to pivot to doing more systems / embedded stuff rather than web dev. Any chance you can share your experiences in a blog post or something?
Wow!

This is a long article but I believe it is worth a read to the end: in short, don't dismiss this as yet another "top N evil things that Google has done" article. It is a narrative about anti-trust regulation that happens to pick on Google. In fact, given the paragraphs at the end, I wouldn't even classify this as anti-Google.

The paragraphs detailing the fears of Microsoft in 2000 when they were under public scrutiny were especially insightful - they touch upon aspects that the Wikipedia summary of the Microsoft anti-trust cases [1] do not really highlight.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_v._Microsoft_Cor....
It wouldn't, free will has to be a product of Newtonian cause and effect or quantum randomness, neither of these things i define as 'me'.

Even adding a soul wouldn't help, i imagined a soul existing in another universe affecting this one; same problem, just 1 universe over, cause and effect or random is still not 'me'.

I think the only way to square any version of free will is to radically redefine what the term 'me' means.
I think there’s just fatigue with Indonesian airlines’ spaced out attention and not caring about safety over the years, of course the time it’s due to a different reason then no one believes it. It’s the natural consequence of their past record and ignoring warnings.

If there’s a recent case of an airline with a solid track record of following safety recommendations and Boeing not responding appropriately to a crash then that would be different.
A good example of this is a simple strcpy in C:

while (a++ = b++);
Quoting directly from the manual
"Intel® 64 and IA-32 Architectures
Software Developer’s Manual
Volume 3"

"
9.1.4 First Instruction Executed
The first instruction that is fetched and executed following a hardware reset is located at physical address
FFFFFFF0H. This address is 16 bytes below the processor’s uppermost physical address. The EPROM containing the
software-initialization code must be located at this address.
The address FFFFFFF0H is beyond the 1-MByte addressable range of the processor while in real-address mode. The
processor is initialized to this starting address as follows. The CS register has two parts: the visible segment
selector part and the hidden base address part. In real-address mode, the base address is normally formed by
shifting the 16-bit segment selector value 4 bits to the left to produce a 20-bit base address. However, during a
hardware reset, the segment selector in the CS register is loaded with F000H and the base address is loaded with
FFFF0000H. The starting address is thus formed by adding the base address to the value in the EIP register (that
is, FFFF0000 + FFF0H = FFFFFFF0H).
The first time the CS register is loaded with a new value after a hardware reset, the processor will follow the normal
rule for address translation in real-address mode (that is, [CS base address = CS segment selector * 16]). To
insure that the base address in the CS register remains unchanged until the EPROM based software-initialization
code is completed, the code must not contain a far jump or far call or allow an interrupt to occur (which would
cause the CS selector value to be changed).
"
What's the alternative in India?
Like plant cuttings.
Not to disagree because you're totally correct, but the winning model used GBMs (a non-linear model) and a bunch of subtracted correlated features to great success. When using GBMs, subtracting two features can add a lot of value.

https://storage.googleapis.com/kaggle-forum-message-attachme...
Apple Music doesn't compete against other subscription based music streaming apps in the App Store?

To give one example.
Solid Balance: Improve your health and life
I think because we can't afford to 'break things' with governance so we prefer not to 'move fast'.
Seems like good thinking...
For some of the folks here that are interested in nav, its history, human factors and the development of accurate lat long navigation, the following two books are gems:

Longitude by Dava Sobel
And
Fate is the Hunter by Ernest Gann.
Nailed it. LOL!
This is so important… most airlines are inherently stable by design but the 737 Max requires software to be stable
Is this still needed with CORS?
“Libertarian socialism” in the historical literature is synonymous with “anarchism”, and that is my intended usage. Contrary to popular belief, anarchism is a specific idea for the organization of society that typically advocates for worker control of the means of production, direct democratic control of society, mutual aid between people, care for those that need care (“to each according to their needs”), and disintegration of most of the hierarchies of our current world.

It is difficult to achieve from where we are but by no means impossible. It certainly seems fair and worthwhile, and it is my goal to realize this in the US.

And you’re right! Most people who oppose socialism actually just oppose centralized control, so we have many unknowing allies in the US and that makes it more realistically achievable here.
For folk in the US, please remember right-to-death in your end of life plans. In other countries, look it up and figure out where your suicide switch is installed.

I went through an awful ordeal with my mom in late stage ALS. My mom was always adamant about being kept comfortable and taking an early exit.

But. Her sister convinced her to move to South Carolina instead of Washington with me. This led to a nightmare of her getting eventually moved to a terrible hospice facility, hen getting an airlift so she could be in a better hospice in Washington.

By the time she got to Washington, we were out of time to go through the right-to-death paperwork and self-administration. She had to go out the hard way, which in her case was slowly shutting down over weeks, including ten days of being unable to drink anything and slowly becoming unable to breathe. We watched Gilmore Girls together, slowly waiting for the end, and me torn between wanting her to be released and wanting every second with her.

I’m saying this so people understand, if you want a way out, get to a right-to-death state. It needs to be a priority.
Better have fewer high quality bug reports than more low quality reports. The latter just teaches you to ignore them.
>Sure, and seeing some elecrical patterns in DRAM circuitry will predict changes before they show up on your monitor too.

is it? you should patent and sell it, you could call it fast-forward computing. FPS game players would pay a fortune for computer being able to display events from the future!
IDs on ballots don't make sense. You cannot know your ID without breaking a requirement for good free voting systems: It shall not be possible to prove to others how you voted. This is to prevent forcing or purchasing votes.
When Nainoa Thompson was learning/re-inventing Polynesian navigation one of the techniques he used was too spend time at a planetarium where he could learn what the skies looked like at different latitudes.[1]

[1] http://archive.hokulea.com/index/founder_and_teachers/will_k...
The OCI standards make it so that it doesn't matter if you switch or not. Your images will work anywhere with any tool (aka Cloud Providers, Kubernetes, Podman, Buildah, etc.) Everybody has OCI compliant tools, even Docker - Docker founded the OCI.
Regarding the student privacy pledge:

1 - Has Google always adhered to it since it was written? Have they ever violated it? If they have, in which way, in regards to whom and by whom? How would I get access to this information? Are independent, respected consumer-protection watchdogs auditing Google to make sure they're adhering to their own policy? The same questions apply to all of the companies Google shares this data with.

2 - What measures has Google taken to combat de-anonymization ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/De-anonymization ) of their data?

3 - Google can change their privacy policies at any time, and all this pledge requires is that they provide notice and unspecified "choices" to account holders. Nothing prevents those choices from being effectively meaningless or powerless against future data sharing or use.

4 - Even if Google adheres 100% to the letter and spirit of their student privacy pledge, the data they collect could still be leaked or stolen, in which case the students are screwed. The only real way to prevent that is not to collect data in the first place.
Personal machine - Apple Mail - it's simple and it looks good, I don't need anything else.

At work - Outlook - also used by everyone else at the company for email + sharing calendars and scheduling meetings.

I never use the web UIs.
But it's no longer allowed to automatically continue into year long contracts with a higher price after the first year, so these schemes lost some of their bite.
I would be interested to know the generally-accepted answers to this as well. What are the free/libre OSes which most folks enjoy contributing to?
Well, there’s libertarians and there’s libertarian socialists, and the latter focus hard on how to solve these problems. I’d say first of all that we haven’t solved these problems under capitalism so we only need to beat what we have, and also that I am a robotics engineer and I believe robotics can be used to provide a basic level of material well being to all members of society and free up people like doctors to see whoever needs care without charging them etc.
Bye. PS. You should raise the downvote karma threshold perhaps.
Consider working on legislation then.

Also make sure your power of attorney and DNR guidance is up to date. Also have a frank conversation with those you give emergency power about your true wishes, AFTER you have a long hard think about what those are.

I did this with my mom a few months back and while difficult it was helpful. She assumed we knew what she wanted to do. I know a lot better now.
Human have been thinking about that for as long as they were able to think. A lot of them put their ideas in books, you might find some interesting point of views in work from Seneca, or Alan Watts for example.

No one talks about death in real life, we just kind of go with the flow of "death is bad" yadda yadda. If you deconstruct your view on death and looks at how other societies or cultures sees deaths it can be eye opening. It's only bad if you see it as a bad thing.

"But tell me, do you consider it fairer that you should obey Nature, or that Nature should obey you? And what difference does it make how soon you depart from a place which you must depart from sooner or later? We should strive, not to live long, but to live rightly; for to achieve long life you have need of Fate only, but for right living you need the soul. A life is really long if it is a full life; but fullness is not attained until the soul has rendered to itself its proper Good, that is, until it has assumed control over itself. What benefit does this older man derive from the eighty years he has spent in idleness? A person like him has not lived; he has merely tarried awhile in life. Nor has he died late in life; he has simply been a long time dying. He has lived eighty years, has he? That depends upon the date from which you reckon his death! ... Nay, he has existed eighty years, unless perchance you mean by "he has lived" what we mean when we say that a tree "lives.""

https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Moral_letters_to_Lucilius. (letters 4, 24, 26, 61, 82, 93)

https://terebess.hu/english/AlanWatts-On%20The%20Taboo%20Aga...
So having completely failed at the "muh Russians" approach to US politics, WaPo now wants to try it with UK politics?
The article is a summary, and doesn't go into the details, but navigation was also spiritual practice to the original Polynesian navigators. Skills at modern navigation, which if poor simply result in an emergency beacon to Inmarsat and a pickup by the next passing freighter cannot be compared to those needed by the navigator of a Polynesian ocean-going colonization canoe - whose passengers, most likely part of the same family group, would certainly all die along with the navigator if he failed.
NixOS/nixpkgs is exceptionally friendly and open to new developers, and even just a one-off patch is simple to do.
I actually keep a list of quotes about death because it fascinates me. Here are two that I really like.

The nearer I approach death the more I feel like one who is in sight of land at last and is about to anchor in one's home port after a long voyage. -Cicero

The fear of death is indeed the pretense of wisdom, and not real wisdom, being a pretense of knowing the unknown; and no one knows whether death, which people in their fear apprehend to be the greatest evil, may not be the greatest good. -Plato
”Both Aircraft Were Boeing 737 MAX 8 Aircraft”

I don’t see why that warrants mentioning, in the context of the article, where both planes are 737 MAX. Given that ”More than 320 of the 350 Boeing MAX aircraft delivered through January 31, 2019, are of the MAX 8 variety”, it would be more surprising if they weren’t both a MAX 8 (probability of the latter is about 1:6, if we assume all variants are equally safe)
My opinion in short (nofi): Anyone with decent skills, a love for getting things done and some need for privacy needs to stay as far away from politics as possible. I've tried it when young and naive. The 'thinking for others' part is addictive, plus it's quite the thrill that people actually vote for you. But it comes with quite the cost. No privacy, death threats, the constant bending over backwards stretching your true beliefs for the party line. So many politicians are abusers of substances, prone to corruption and generally mentally unstable that I don't buy the line 'we need different politicians' anymore. We need different politics. I have no clue how to get there though and advocate a quite life for anyone. Not necessarily 9-5, but something with clear boundaries and where one is not the focal point for any lunatic. I'd make the same point of not becoming CEO though.
Ask HN: What are the economics of indie videogames?
If you were to invest money in creating a videogame -let's say a story driven adventure- and you had to hire the whole team (artists, coders, musicians, writers, ...) what do you think would be roughly cost? What kind of team do you think should be hired? What would you outsource? What would be the time to market you would aim for? And what platform(s) would you launch on?
I’d back her as chief science officer, not CEO. Good question
https://twitter.com/samaugustdean/status/1103808790158237696

Why would you hire a science officer that committed fraud? It seemed Holmes ignored data, or made it up, but you want her to do science?
Refined Twitter Lite
I suspect their work optimizes around a relatively narrow band of supported hardware.

The Beta 1 release, when I tried it on my Ryzen-based desktop, wouldn't get past the splash screen, stalling out at things that seemed to revolve around the SATA controller.

Meanwhile, pop the same flash drive in a Thinkpad X230t, and it booted and installed fine, and even Wi-Fi worked without a significant hitch.
For me it depends on the day.

I believe I want to live forever if it's forever in health and non-poverty and freedom.

The fact that I will not live forever really effects my thinking and what I'm willing to do. As just one example, being older I know that I can't go dedicate 10 years to living in another country to learn a language or I could but I've only got at most 2 10yr chunks left, more like 1, before my ability to be free and healthy and non-poverty change. Or similarly to change my career or go back to school. I'm already in my mid-50s.

Conversely I'm lost, isolated, and without direction, have no close friends, no partner, and find it exceedingly hard to fix and so the thought of just calling it quits does pop into my head.
As I see people mentioning Datalog-related software, I'm gonna throw a pebble into the yard as well - Graql (https://github.com/graknlabs/grakn) is a declarative graph-based query language with rule-based reasoning heavily inspired by Datalog and Logic Programming.

Disclaimer: I am one of the maintainers.
It is perfectly common to fly with inoperable equipment. There are equipment lists that define minimum numbers and mitigation. Of course that doesn't mean the advice is followed or flawless.
I definitely want to read the Disposessed as it has come up a few times in discussions lately.

I will say that if you devise a system where no one can become a billionaire but you don’t expressly say that, I think a lot of people would in principle support it. If you say people will live and work in one location, they will own that land and the facilities, and they will cooperate to produce output and they have agreed to share the output as needed between their community members, most Americans I think would say they do not oppose you doing that, and many leftists I think would be interested in joining.
Thanks for the story. I was told (although have not checked) that many euthanasia cases work a bit like this. Doing the planning is important, but most people don't go through with it. Nevertheless their lives are improved by knowing that they have a plan B, by having agency.
Completely agree with everything you are saying. I also immediately have to think about something else to avoid what I feel would be a mental collapse.

One thing that has given me a bit of comfort was an answer I heard when somebody asked one of the great minds of the 21st century, Jennifer Lawrence, "what happens after we die?"

https://youtu.be/5LoBGoQPUNc?t=371
I've been using haiku as my main work os for a couple of months now. Granted, there are issues, but none of them too annoying to prevent me from getting things done... except for xhci.

It would seem like this specification has been a pain point for many other projects before. For a os with only a few contributors doing work on their freetime, I think it is going great. (My opinion, like mouths... everybody has one)
Here’s How We’ll Know an AI Is Conscious