skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> The "I can open up excel and start working on my problem now, or I can submit a ticket and wait two weeks" attitude is a real thing.

Yes, one of the major problems for which Excel is a popular solution (and perhaps the biggest in enterprise environments) is IT service request friction.

If you really want to displace Excel, you don't need alternative software (I mean you do, but not anything novel), you need IT to not be an isolated distant mystery group which can only be invoked by time consuming, arcane rituals to which they give unreliable and untimely responses.
Nope, only AMD.

Source: https://everymac.com/systems/apple/mac_pro/mac-pro-cylinder-...
Based on the downvotes, it seems people think reducing variance is the same as reducing overfitting.

Think of the bias/variance tradeoff as a spotlight, and we are shining the spotlight on a bunch of cats, who reflect back the spotlight when their eyes are open. Eyes are open or closed randomly. Cat eyes are either green or brown. We want to know the distribution of cat eyes in parts of the population, which in general is an even 50/50 split. We determine the distribution in a certain location by taking the average of the eyes we see.

If variance is large, then the spotlight is very large, and we don't learn anything because we just average the entire population.

If the spotlight is small, then we can learn something, but only if there are enough samples in the region we shine the light.

So, what if we start with a large spotlight, and then when we see a region with a large number of open eyes of one color, we narrow the light down to just that region? Won't that allow us to avoid overfitting, while maximizing our ability to learn?

It unfortunately does not, because with a large enough population that is evenly distributed, there will always be pockets that exhibit what appear to be a pattern, but is just an accident of which cats happened to open their eyes.

This scenario of starting with the spotlight large and then zooming into a patterned region is the same as reducing variance with the training data. With a large enough dataset it is always possible to find these accidental patterns and then zoom into them by reducing variance.
> Driving in Switzerland or Austria is in general more relaxing and needs much less fuel

Nobody is forcing you to drive that fast ;)
The Pakistani ten rupee note's parody, while current, is half done. It reads ۱۰ which is 10 in Urdu, and literally says "ten rupees" in Urdu on the top.

I'm assuming it was done by an English speaking individual that didn't know how to do it right. I'd love to contribute.
I wonder how similar bribery culture is to tip culture. In the US where we tip restaurant workers, restaurant wages are often much lower than comparable positions in industries that don't have tipping, so much so that the difference is often explicitly included in minimum wage laws. Do countries with more bribery experience a similar effect, where the wages of police officers and other bribery-prone worker are much lower than they would otherwise be?

If so, that creates a pretty tricky equilibrium problem. Even if I think bribery is ethically wrong, I don't want to be in a position where I'm asking someone else to accept less than their "fair"/expected/equilibrium wage. Higher wages might be a prerequisite for getting rid of a culture of bribery, but at the same time, raising wages per se probably doesn't do much to reduce bribery in the short term?
I'm not asking for much, but the code should be runnable at least.

This is why I think jupyter notebook and things alike are so important as the future publishing media. Reproducibility is very important.
"People here are amazed when I tell that story, 120 in a Honda? Is that safe?"

Just watch out for the crummy all season tires cars in the US have. I don't trust those.

Otherwise no problem.
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Raytracing, rendering, certain kinds of vector operations, physical simulations.

CUDA/OpenCL is all about writing super parallelism code to be run on the GPU instead of CPU, so many trivially parallel problems are usually outsourced to it.
Good catch. Reading between the lines I took this to mean that lab information was not leaked:

> The system contained sensitive data, including credit card numbers, bank account information, medical information and Social Security numbers, Quest said. Lab results were not provided to AMCA and were not exposed in the breach. AMCA thinks 11.9 million Quest patients were affected as of May 31, 2019, Quest said.

But it only says lab results were not leaked with the extremely generic label of medical information as being leaked. I wonder if "medical information" includes lab codes or what exactly it consists of?
But we are merging hundreds of trees each of which has been handicapped by removal of multiple features and a fraction of the data. Sounds to me like overfitting is not easy (no single data point or feature contributes to every tree so it can't be represented all the time).

False claims as they maybe, these are claims I've seen in at least two of the most commonly studied statistical learning text books, so given that it makes sense and that it's in the text books, it seems reasonably not false to me. Someone else posted that if too many features or data points are very similar then it will overfit, and that totally makes sense. Whatever you say doesnt. Clarification would be useful.
Not for all configurations, and especially not when using 3rd party expansion and customization options.
In the critical path many things can matter that ordinarily don't. When working on perf improvements for Storm 1.0 release, profiling revealed hotspots in Clojure code. Adding type hints to avoid dynamic typing fixed some of these hotspots. In other places, Clojure primitives showed up as a bottleneck. These required rewriting some code in Java and invoking it from Clojure.

This was mentioned briefly here:
https://hortonworks.com/blog/microbenchmarking-storm-1-0-per...

The Clojure based core has served the community well for some time. It was still powered by Disruptor (a fast Java messaging library). So there was always some back and forth between Java and Clojure.

For Storm 2.0, the Java rewrite happened first. The re-architecture work might have not happened without it (at least for the foreseeable near future)... primarily due to Java expertise being more easily available.
I still do some work on my 2010 iMac. It costed me 3400 EUR. It will be its 10th aniversary soon. That's 28,3 EUR /mo for 10 years in costs for a piece of hardware that helped me to get a lot of money. This new Mac Pro, the base one, will cost me around 57,6 EUR/mo over 10 years. No monitor included, but if we include the new one, it will be around 106,9 EUR /mo over 10 years. I don't know if it is too much but I see this new Mac Pro too expensive and I am not chosing hard upgrades, but if you go a bit crazy yo can easily calculate 200€/mo over 10y.
Why do you say the laws, the judges, the elections, are controlled by DPP?
It's not only cylinders. A 2.5L 4cyl diesel 4WD is more than a 2.5L 4cyl petrol sedan.
Yeah, at a certain point it's just playing 20 questions with your data.
Great, hopefully this'll get us past the halting problem.
A lot of things fell through the cracks with Google Sheets and Zapier handling everything. I eventually just moved to building a personal dashboard using Next.js and connected with the APIs directly.
I actually think this article is late and we’re already seeing the next evolution of this trend: flexible SaaS.

Right now SaaS products are mostly single-purpose workflows and aren’t super customizable (until the start-up ages and enters a few enterprises who demand customizations). This is a step-up from Excel which was general purpose but didn’t facilitate workflows seamlessly.

However what Airtable is finding is almost any specific SaaS can be recreated with general purpose spreadsheet-like products. Essentially they merged the ease of use of Excel with additional shared workflows of SaaS.
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> Is a recession a food supply halting catastrophe?

It can very easily turn into one, look at what is happening in Venezuela or in Russia. Or what may happen with Britain and the Brexit, with the additional difficulty there that warehouses have been replaced by trucks which means that food supply is endangered in case of unplanned border controls.
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I tried dealing with Quest recently and gave up. They don't answer their phone or do and hang up. The more I see these breeches, the more it seems like it mostly comes down to someone either implicitly or explicitly making the decision that the costs of customer service (which includes data privacy) aren't worth it.
> Microsoft would have to be doing anticompetitive behavior

You mean like when they actually did and got caught? I'm not sure I understand your take.
WWDC Announced Jira Client for Mac
How the Quantum Eraser Rewrites the Past
I am German and I have no problems with the Autobahn but it always takes me a while to get used to the speed when I am back. I can easily see how it's frightening for people.
A more sadistic Zuckerberg could play some preemptive hardball and spontaneously take Facebook completely offline in the US for 24 hours replaced with a message directing users to contact their state and local representatives. How much pull does FB still have with Americans and do most Americans like FB the way it is now ?
I guess that's why you'll have to read the book then...
Offsetting flights does not work. Of course, it is nice to protect woodland and jungles. But you just can't plant so many trees that it could replace a single, hour-long flight.

When a tree grows, it extracts some CO2 from the atmoaphere and stores it in its biomass. When it dies, this CO2 goes back into the atmosphere. When we use fuel for flying, we release hundreds of kilograms of CO2 into the atmosphere (for a short flight of a single person!), which have been stored over the course of hundreds of millions of years. A tiny bit of a tree that you plant today might become fossilized, but even if that happens it will only store an incredibly small amount of the carbon that is consumed.
It is quantitatively completely impossible to undo that by planting trees.

The only solution is, if at all possible, to stop flying, and use other means of transport, like electrical trains and buses. We can't have both mass air transportation and an alive planet.
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I don't want an overpriced, glued shut Mac Mini. I don't have issues with physical space. I've tried the Thunderbolt / USB3 chaining solution when I had a iMac. I didn't like it. I want a reasonably price Mac desktop like the ones from years ago, but that's not going to happen.

Anyways I found my solution: iCloud for Windows https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT204301

This is going to make my transition back to Windows much easier. Maybe the people at Apple have failed to realized that Windows has gotten a lot better under Nadella?

There's the Windows Subsystem for Linux as well: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/wsl/about Not to mention stuff like docker also made working on Windows less of an issue and I think Ubuntu will be shipping on Windows by default in the future.

This release was the last straw.
I think you meant 'For me, Google'.
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My office is on Google docs completely. No point in shelling out the $ for office when you get Google docs as part of enterprise gmail. Bear in mind that just because it has near 100% market share in specific fields doesn't mean it's got 100% market share in aggregate.
You mean the 'idea of' zero 'in recorded history'was invented in India. =)
You can tell them it's a valuable category of service that they should want an analog of.
I don't think this will do anything to help with the "crappy iPhone [app] ports to the iPad", at least not for a while. Those apps will still be there, and they'll likely still be approved in the future.

From my understanding, "iPadOS" is essentially just a marketing signal that the iPad-version of the OS will have more features unique to iPad. For developers, Xcode will still have the option to compile the same codebase for iOS and iPadOS. It's up to the developer to take advantage of more screen real estate when available, though SwiftUI will probably make that easier on the developer (i.e., more likely to show up in the apps you use).
Jackson's face is fitting -- He fought against corruption, and he particularly hated central banking and other banker interests.
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I tried to make use of some public audio research and it was pretty bad. There was an audio comprehensibility competition a few years ago. Some of the papers submitted are still around, as well as the summary paper describing the results. But many papers are hard to find, and those that claimed to have source code available are hard to find --- i was able to get matlab sources for a few algorithms, but they somehow work on the example files, but mostly crash on my files.

It's a shame because I understand the idea of the paper, and have an excellent place to apply it, but I lack the DSP background, so I can't really rebuild the code from scratch -- so the work is not able to be used.
Not necessarily that much faster. What people mostly paid for was not the hardware itself, but the whole package, including the operating system.

Which is exactly what people pay for when getting Macs, especially on the high end. You can get an Intel CPU in a box for cheap, if that's what you're looking for.
Reminds me of this quote from Billy Madison:

"At no point in your rambling, incoherent response were you even close to anything that could be considered a rational thought. Everyone in this room is now dumber for having listened to it. I award you no points, and may God have mercy on your soul."

Wonder if it feels as good to give zero rupees as it does to give zero points, or zero fucks.
Yes. Policemen are getting pretty low wages. But there are always a lot of people who want to work there, because they can get bribes. And they actually paying percentage of those bribes to their higher-ups and so on, so it's like a pyramid. And a lot of people want things to stay that way. Policemen are getting good income. Their masters are getting huge income. Ordinary people can pay much less to policeman, than they would pay in fines. It's that terrible win-win to everyone situation and that makes it very hard to destroy.
We're talking about now, not 20 years ago when they were fined and forced to change their practices.
I assume they're talking about my 1.5 litre / 52 oz cups.
https://www.reddit.com/r/The_Donald/search/?q=net%20neutrali...

So is that anecdotal or QED proof that republicans hate net neutrality?
> you've gone to lengths to dig up and present one

No I didn't, I have been subscribed to her Youtube channel for years, actually. I didn't dig up anything. Even if I had, that wouldn't detract even from iota from it.

Naomi Wu is a similar case: https://hn.algolia.com/?query=naomi%20wu&sort=byDate&prefix&...

I've also had my FB account suspended after 9 years of use, 100+ RL friends, using my real name all along, plenty of photos of me and being in tagged in photos, because apparently, people who wanted me off FB reported my profile as not being a real person. I didn't scan my ID and send it to FB out of principle. Mind you, nothing I posted or commented violated the rules, I never got any "trouble" until I flat out couldn't log in because, I guess, "typically" several accounts reporting a profile means it's fake, and the people who act on those reports probably don't get paid enough to actually take an in-depth look at the profiles they kill.

I'll admit, I'm glad, it was the best thing FB ever did for me. But I'm not all people, for some people that would be terrible, and terribly unfair. I know first hand that there is no process worth a fuck, and people just tend to assume "they wouldn't be treated this way unless there was a good reason for it". It's as old as cowardice and selfishness are.

If "false positives" are just a thing you would accept as long as you aren't hit, then I'll just act as if you were removed in this way. Another unfortunate false positive, nothing to see, really. Then there is also nothing I would have to to "nitpick to death" [by making a single comment with questions you ignore, no less] either, very tidy. If you don't care for due process for others, no due process for you.

> How do you even know that Anti-Media was banned for their speech anyways? According to them they never received a reason.

I take this as the answer "nobody to my knowledge" to the question of who she harmed, and "nope" to the question whether you have actual knowledge of the actual individual cases. "there's going to be outliers" isn't enough, that you resort to saying I "went to lengths to dig up an example" just shows you don't necessarily shy from making authoritative statements about things you don't actually know.

The fact is that the speech was curtailed, if no reason is offered that doesn't mean "maybe there's a good reason, so let's just assume that and move along". You wouldn't want to be treated that way.
If you ever fill 3 lanes than you need to seriously invest in public transport. More than 3 lanes is never a sane idea. 9 lanes is an absolute atrocity.
Great, so it changed recently. Before that, the silence was deafening for a long time. Can't wait for my future Threadripper system.
With a really ugly round cursor though
According to the App Store review guidelines update posted today, Sign In with Apple will be required for any iOS app that implements a single-sign in button.

"Sign In with Apple will be available for beta testing this summer. It will be required as an option for users in apps that support third-party sign-in when it is commercially available later this year."

https://developer.apple.com/news/?id=06032019j
Not yet but it wouldn't surprise me if Mazda is cooking up a hybrid version...point still remains, Telsa doesn't have much of moat left vis-a-vis other auto makers.
I think the Google Play Services ploy was pretty obvious very early on - it started about when they stopped updating the AOSP apps (alarm, keyboard, etc.) and moved the GPS/IMU sensor fusion stuff into Play Services.
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if by current administration you are implying trump and republican party then I have to remind you that its actually the house democrats who announced it,
Is Trump coming down this way?
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256 is not enough for a serious main drive in a DAW. Sample libraries should all be on the fastest drive. There are single instruments that take up 50GB. And consider that most studios are recording in 24 or 32 bits at higher frequencies than 44.1Khz. 1TB is probably enough for a music production system although I'd personally prefer larger so that I don't have to be swapping things around all the time.
Comments/posts of little substance are evidence of manufactured propaganda.

A highly upvoted informed view, on the other hand, that gets removed, is evidence of censorship by those in charge.
As someone who works on compiler optimisations, I'd love to get a link the Rice compiler's source code --- do you happen to have a link?
Someone has gone to prison for trying to pass off one-sided copies of actual currency? Seems pretty unlikely to me. Would be interested in reading about an actual case of this happening.
It’s patented BTW — https://patents.google.com/patent/US9037464B1/en
Bork made the argument. But as with all ideologies, that was then embraced and, with the aid of monopoly-money billions (the real kind), reamplified throughout the "public" (monopoly-fed) discourse and corridors of policy definition (legislatures, regulators, academe). Jane Mayer's Dark Money tells much of that story.

Some who find themselves so embraced shun the contact. Bork reveled in it.
I saw the US one has Andrew Jackson. Pretty fitting, but I can't tell if it was chosen because of his questionable legacy or just because the 20 dollar bill is common.
> antitrust enforcement in the US doesn't care about whiny competitors but if the enduser and customer is harmed and it doesn't appear to be the case when it comes to any of these corporations

One, the House Judiciary Committee is also investigating. That not only makes the investigations bipartisan (though the DoJ is technically nonpartisan). It also introduces the potential for new legislation.

Two, there has been consumer harm. It's just not dollar-denominated harm. From a recent New York Times article:

"In 2007, for example, Facebook introduced a program that recorded users’ activity on third-party sites and inserted it into the News Feed. Following public outrage and a class-action lawsuit, Facebook ended the program. 'We’ve made a lot of mistakes building this feature, but we’ve made even more with how we’ve handled them,' Facebook’s chief executive, Mark Zuckerberg, wrote in a public apology.

This sort of thing happened regularly for years. Facebook would try something sneaky, users would object and Facebook would back off.

But then Facebook’s competition began to disappear. Facebook acquired Instagram in 2012 and WhatsApp in 2014. Later in 2014, Google announced that it would fold its social network Orkut. Emboldened by the decline of market threats, Facebook revoked its users’ ability to vote on changes to its privacy policies and then (almost simultaneously with Google’s exit from the social media market) changed its privacy pact with users.

This is how Facebook usurped our privacy: with the help of its market dominance. The price of using Facebook has stayed the same over the years (it’s free to join and use), but the cost of using it, calculated in terms of the amount of data that users now must provide, is an order of magnitude above what it was when Facebook faced real competition" [1].

[1] https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/28/opinion/privacy-antitrust...
Hah. I wonder if everyone else in the neighborhood had already paid the crow their "protection" money.
So, basically JavaScript.

Again.