skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Nope, RF works very different to boosting. RF trees give unbiased fits, but they're high variance. Bootstrapping is used to reduce the variance of the parallel tree fits.

Boosting is sequential, and relies on early stopping to control the magnitude of bias.
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Nation lines get redrawn frequently in major wars.

We are certainly not beyond having another major, cataclysmic war.
I work at Stripe. That’s right! Nothing changes in the way we handle disputes for businesses that are not on Chargeback Protection. Your dispute fees are still waived if you win the dispute.
I've worked in Cambridge MA for 10ish years and lived in JP and/or Somerville for as long, not sure what you mean by unsupported? Do you mean "long commutes"?
A bunch of rich people want UBI for some reason. It's very simple unlike say healthcare so it is harder to stealthily undermine, which is the main tactic of unpopular lobbying. So it has probably more of a chance than other stuff at the same scale.
Big difference. If you're tweeting stream of consciousness, it's one thought at a time, published and quickly beyond reach of editing, and you move on to the next thought. One could spend hours re-reading and editing a blog post.
Every email client does this. Go into any Gmail message and click on "Show Original." That's exactly what your email would look like if it wasn't scanned, parsed, and analyzed.

The fact that Gmail is reasonably good at this is literally why people use it.
Yes, this is the right answer. See https://haveibeenpwned.com/Passwords
And how would this tackle the problem that these tech companies trend towards monopolies? It doesn't really solve anything. You're never going to have 5 social networks with fairly equal market share because the value of a social network comes from the fact that everyone uses it.

I think what we need is regulation to ensure these companies use their power responsibly and operate in the interest of the public first.
I looked into the site but I didn't see how CatBoost actually accomplishes its goals compared to other gradient boosting algorithms. Is there a summary somewhere?
This sounds interesting. Would you consider Unreal rather than Unity?
These guys are just like every other group that wants to setup their own society "free" of government. But look closely at their plans. They don't want to get rid of nation states. They just want to setup their own nation states under their own legal structure

So, basically following the precedent of human beings across all of recorded human history and almost certainly for much longer.

Ask them their opinions on the big crimes (murder/rape/arson etc). Will they allow me to keep slaves on my seastead? Of course not.

In 2019, savvy humans should look askance at everyone who proposes new governments or changes to existing governments without prioritizing a first-principles approach to preserving fundamental human rights. As far as we know, such a principles based approach -- which disperses power and takes into account people's natural tendency towards groupthink/tribalism, bias, and corruption -- does the best job of preserving human rights and increasing the general welfare. It's not perfect. It will have problems, but it's a lot better than everything else we've tried.

There isn't something magic in people that suddenly changes them to angels, if we'd only make some deep, profound realization. That's some of the oldest ideological snake oil there is. It's no more valid now in 2019 than when stone buildings were the technological marvel of the day and mythologies were the best societal and epistemological proposals going around. The best we have ever done is a set of rules that keeps individual people from being treated unfairly like garbage and acts to disperse power.

These are nothing more than rich randians complaining about their tax bracket.

Everyone is "nothing more" than _insert reductive term here_. History shall judge them by their works.
Yesterday I did a search for "drunk pelosi" videos on duckduckgo and it reported "Sorry, no results here!" (Replacing "pelosi" any other name yields a page full.)
Today they have results -- properly vetted, I presume.
Well yes, the other model is India where they tolerate certain problems and let them go on forever, but people can bitch about it. Analogous to the phenomenon of adults peeing and doing drugs on the streets of downtown SF.

Not saying it's better or worse in the end but at the least, the experiment goes on.
What evidence do you have of that? Google just uses this data on your behalf to make their services more useful. Purchase analysis was a core launch feature of Google Inbox and now that Inbox is gone the feature is rolled into Gmail. I personally get a lot of value from this feature. I like getting notifications on my mobile when my orders ship and when they are delivered. It also helps me re-order consumable items, which I did just yesterday when the igniters in my gas oven failed (again). I bought them last in 2016 but it was trivial to find the receipt in my purchase history on Google.
The stock market reacts accordingly, FB is down 8% at the moment. Considering that Facebook should probably (from my naive standpoint) have not been allowed to buy Instagram nor WhatsApp back in the day, it will be interesting to see how this turns out.
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I love the roomba that screams in pain when it hit objects:

https://www.google.com/url?q=https://m.youtube.com/watch%3Fv...

Everybody find it funny, kids can record their own voice, you see programming (with python) and sensors (with raspi).

With a raspi, you can also make a big red button to make the sound of nuke on another computer, or a nerf dart gun attracted by sound.

With a computer, you can make a youtube video downloader, a password generator, or just a joke windows stating you have a virus.
Urban/Suburban infill development is a terrific idea. It's being accomplished at a far faster clip than a lot of people realize, but there could be better incentives at the federal level (US).

Fuel taxes are pretty high already. Increasing them will hurt a lot of people very badly.
Is Kelp the New Kale? It Was Supposed to Be
A bigger concern in the US is probably attempts to regulate "fake news". The US Constitution has strong protections for expressing opinions, even hateful ones so long as they don't promote imminent lawless action. Knowingly making false statements of fact has not been given anywhere near the same level of protection.

Any such regulation would be enforced by a part of the government that answers to the president. The current president has a habit of calling mainstream media outlets that are critical of him "fake news". Having to prove the truth of a large portion of the news stories published in a newspaper in court would be prohibitively expensive.
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Some of the unique team qualities include being egoless, driven via self-ownership, intellectually honest, and supportive of each other. These are exhibited daily and not aspirational values.

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Until humans stop providing free input to their machine (AI) adversary, e.g. because of new business models that pay some humans for high quality feedback. That will leave parasitic AIs competing for low quality signals.
But on the other hand you have to wonder about the greater social implications down the line. The invention of the car was great at first. It allowed people to get where they wanted to go faster. But as it was adopted more and more heavily, we ended up with traffic and sprawl that mean people have to spend more of their time commuting than before.

I wonder if something analogous would happen with remote work. If more companies go the remote route, wouldn't we expect them to favor employees in cheap locations that will accept less pay for the same work? And if that's the case, wouldn't more and more families be forced out of more expensive locations, even those who could afford to live there before? In other words, remote work has the possibility to exacerbate the very problems that it seeks to fix.
thanks, I try to fix that soon
> I’m exhausted.

Your answer makes a lot of sense to me. I too am exhausted by the number of creeping privacy violations I can do nothing about. (But switching email providers is something I do have control over.)
MSDN is still pretty damned expensive... That is a significant profit center. They've also had a lot of free and/or open tools over the years.

I learned C# with a big not MS book, and the command line compiler alone. In late 2001-2002, I was unemployed and it was nearly impossible to find work as a developer. I spent my free time learning the ins and outs of C#, and by mid 2002 was working FT again. By comparison, I also tried to get into Java, and it was painful. Not the Java language, but the tools. Getting a simple hello world in Java wasn't fun at all, getting anything more complex outright painful.

I didn't pay MS a single dime. Through the early 2000's I did a lot of ASP.Net development. Both in, and out of MS's sphere. I used Castle Monrail on Mono in Suse Linux. I also used .Net in Windows. I built a standalone kiosk system on Suse that used an embedded browser for the UI via Mono and a Mono backend.

I also worked in MS shops, where the Windows and MSDN licenses were paid by the company. I'm generally skeptical of MS. I was hugely skeptical of Silverlight. I don't like that MS doesn't have an official client for MS Team in Linux (despite MS basically having the best cross platform Electron tools) and generally falling short on Linux all around these days.

MS tends to make their money when developers using their tools makes money. Historically off of Windows licenses, today probably as much or more so from Azure. Not counting Windows and o365.

And while I would prefer to be on a Linux desktop/laptop at work, I do appreciate the work they've done with Docker and the WSL teams to make development for non-MS better overall.

As to installers, there's InstallShield, NSIS, Inno Setup, Wix and a lot of others that have come up over the years. I think there was a light version of Install Shield with VSTS. I don't think MS has been nearly as bad on developers as you seem to feel.

At least MS doesn't force you to turn over 30% of your income to them like Apple does.
> Openreach owns and is obligated to maintain service to every home in the country

Except Hull [0]

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KCOM_Group
Yeah, I’m aware. I wouldn’t really care if the watch itself died, but leaking oil would be a bit annoying and making things that should fall apart last longer is often a fun challenge.
What do people who boycott Chick-Fil-A have to do with this? By definition, they're not participating in either end of this.
> but we are competing with people from countries where a good paying job is more rare than a vacation getaway so we can't stop making concessions.

In my experience, this is the source of our trouble: we want a middle class life. We want Netflix and a TV subscription and the fastest internet service, we want two cars for our families, we want to be able to eat at restaurants once or twice a month, we want to just buy a new thing if the old one breaks instead of fixing it, we want our house to look the best on the inside and out, we want to take an exotic vacation almost every year.

These are living outside of our means. We can afford these things, but at significant cost to our mental health, to our family and societal obligations, in a word, to our happiness and joy in this life.

I'm convinced that a significant number of us should start living like we're poor, getting rid of all those aforementioned things that have enslaved us, and we'll be significantly happier in life, finally see a way out of our insurmountable debt, finally have the free time we need to do this or that chore we accidentally put off for a few years straight, finally have time to read to our children every single night without the guilt we feel over not using that time to work.
1. Everyone already has my Gmail address
2. I actually like those features (e.g. adding flights to calendar)
3. I don't see it as much of a privacy problem
- Voxatron & Pico-8 video game platforms
- kinect
So Google is "much much better overall" for multiple users, as long as you can dumb what you're working on down enough to fit Docs significant limitations. That's totally fair, but isn't a trade off everyone can make.
The people who write code do not comprise a community. The behavior the author cites does not represent anything more than some extreme generalizations. In 35 years programming I have not known more than a handful of assholes matching the author’s descriptions.
I really loved the Courier idea; even if all it was going to be was a voice-enabled two-screen OneNote w/ UI refresh I was going to get one.

As it stands, I dare not hope for this to actually become a shipping product given Microsoft's past history of hyping up cool ideas on hardware (Courier) and software (WinFS) that often don't quite get to the market.
Yup, this was the wake-up call for me. I know everyone here is like "duh of course they look at everything," but sometimes it takes a concrete case to really feel what that means.

I switched to Protonmail soon after that, and honestly I barely miss Gmail at all now. I just changed my workflow to not use email as a catchall for everything that I needed to be able to search.
You really should never use the square knot as a bend (joining two lines together) as it can spill/capsize.

"But under no circumstances should it ever be tied as a bend, for if tied with two ends of unequal size, or if one end is stiffer or smoother than the other, the knot is almost bound to spill. Except for its true purpose of binding it is a knot to be shunned." To quote from Ashley.

Others refer to it as the most dangerous knot because of the number of people killed by relying on it as a bend.
Totally. It's not easy to mix on-site and remote, and most places that do mix have some pain points like you describe.

When I worked remote it was at all-remote jobs. My office jobs have typically had a pretty "standard" policy around how much remote / work from home people can do, and that makes it viable. You definitely do miss out on some things on the days you work from home, though, so it's one of those things you kind of have to decide how much you can afford to take.
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Unlimited lobbying bleeds into corruption. I really don't think clamping down on campaign finance makes things worse.
Yeah, it's hard to say. Back then you really couldn't use a computer without knowing programming, but he's also implying that we'll learn programming in school because our only job will be to take care of the robots that are doing the real work.
My comment wasn't as precise/nuanced as it should have been but was meant as an add-on of the parent's comment. What I meant is that the ownership restriction doesn't just apply to car companies but other industries as well -- although I do see now how that could have been read differently.

WFOE cannot sell directly to Chinese consumers. The way WFOE sell to the Chinese domestic is essentially by "exporting" and "importing" its own products again, thus subject to taxes on such activities ( https://www.set-up-company.com/joint-venture-vs.-wfoe:-which... -- "Scope of Business" Wish I could find a better source on this). A friend of mine interned at one of these firms that basically specializes in these creative "re-import" businesses but I don't know what these firms are called.

Not sure why my comments generates such a reaction from you that you accuse me of FUD or being political. It's certainly not intended as such. I study Chinese history as a hobby, especially modern history. I have friends and family who do business in China (and own businesses in China). My comments were intended to add more information and background to the original comment by combining what I've read and what I've heard. But sometimes intentions and outcomes don't match up. Apologies if my comments injected too much of my own perspective on the subject.
No, my electricity produce 22 gCO2eq/kWh for the last 12 months, it wont do much.
It is an opportunity, but not an easy one.

Spreadsheets are good and fine until they're not (fine-grained permissions, collaboration, referential integrity and validation enforcement, multiple data source aggregation and ingestion, easy visibility into history and auditing, features that Excel has but people don't want to learn, etc).

You have to convince customers that what they have going is not actually working, which requires having a discussion about how just because poor data management practices have thus far failed to completely destroy your company, they are wasting tons of time and money. Many of them will have in the back of their mind that they can always go back to how things were before.

So the behavioral change/change management aspect of a product that really does directly compete against Excel is very challenging.
Pico-8, discuss programming/gamedesign, agree on a simple design, allow them to each create a couple art or music music assets. Game can be simple. Complete game in school or shortly after. Make it available publicly so they can easily access it and show their parents and friends. I did this for a game design activity for cub scouts den and it was a hit.
Downloading the database is best, but you can also safely use their range API [1]. This can be run either client-side or server-side.

I built a toy webpage using the API [2], and you can see how straightforward the API is to use by checking the script [3].

[1] https://haveibeenpwned.com/API/v2#SearchingPwnedPasswordsByR...

[2] https://safepasswordchecker.hashbase.io/

[3] https://safepasswordchecker.hashbase.io/script.js
In God We Trust. After a fashion that is, because if you told your doctor you just met god, they'd lock you up for being delusional or at the minimum prescribe anti-psychotic medication. Yet Billions of people claim to believe in a "magic man in the sky", think of it; some parents are Actually Proud that their children blew themselves up to kill other who disbelieved.

Perhaps the crisis is far, far worse than even the pill pushers proclaim. Just a thought.
It has always intrigued me that in the U.S. hate modifies the category of a crime.

It's one thing to assualt somebody; it's another thing to assault them out of hate.

It's one thing to kill somebody; it's another thing to kill them out of hate. If you can somehow prove that you didn't hate the person you intentionally killed, you face a lesser penalty.

Also, under fascism, speech may be protected in government contexts, but if the government turns over large swaths to corporations, and the corporations aren't required to protect speech, that's not the government's problem.