skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Finland, but you have to have a job here first to get recidecy and after maybe 5 years of working and living here you can apply for citizenship:
-https://migri.fi/en/working-in-finland
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-https://migri.fi/en/finnish-citizenship
This. Excel democratizes computation in a way that code has yet to do. If something breaks, non-technical people can just jump in and fix it. If they need new functionality, same thing. They don't have to bring in (or retain) a specialist. That's an incredibly powerful proposition.
It's also about information density. The brain can discern so many different shades of color if they're not all washed out by a blinding white background. Or any lighter-than-the-text background.
To add to the list, my favorites are:

* cargo-expand [0]: dumps the expansion of troublesome macros

* cargo-bloat [1]: explains why a package is so huge

* ripgrep [2]: RIP grep

* llvm-tools-preview (via [3]): the LLVM tools with which Rust was compiled (because LLVM versions sometimes don't interoperate)

[0] https://crates.io/crates/cargo-expand
[1] https://crates.io/crates/cargo-bloat
[2] https://crates.io/crates/ripgrep
[3] https://crates.io/crates/cargo-binutils
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The average American produced 16.5 tonnes of CO2e in 2014. The average Briton produced 6.5 tonnes. British people do not live in medieval squalor, nor do they all live in bedsits in central London and travel everywhere by tube.

The only thing stopping American politicians from vastly reducing CO2 emissions is the will of the electorate. The top-down political solution actually comes from the bottom-up - by persuading people to vote for candidates who support decarbonisation. You only have one president, but he was chosen for office by 62,979,636 voters.

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How do they deal with the unquestionable fact that aggression exists?
I tried Catboost when it came out. It should be very popular, as working with categories is where a lot of people seem to fall down in Random Forests.

The 'typical' response is either to make them into numeric variable, so 1-3 for 3 categories, or to make an individual column for each one. The first approach makes sense for ordinals, but not so much for actual categories, and the latter makes it difficult to group categories when a group of two categories together has more predictive capability than any single group. I know that LightGBM did a lot of work in this to optimise testing groups of variables, as testing every possible group in a large set is very intensive.

When I tried Catboost in R, I remember it downloading a large binary to work with, which put me off considerably, and predicting with it was pretty fragile, even for R. I trust Yandex about as much as I'd trust Google, but it seemed 'odd'.
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I'm 39 now, and I have been interested on those since young.

Those news stop some times. I'm not experienced enough to be sure that every stop is a bad news, but it does certainly look like so, and older people seem to agree.
>>First, to bust some myths: there is no global epidemic. It is not growing exponentially. It is not a disease of western capitalism.

>>Second, a warning. Data is remarkably patchy.

Well, if the data is remarkably patchy then don't boldly claim something is or isn't happening. Admit the uncertainty, so we can proceed with due caution.
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The biggest reason to use RFs is that with sufficient trees it's basically impossible to overfit your data. You also don't need to spend days optimizing your hyperparameters. Hence, if you need a quick model where time is tantamount, and you want to err in the side of caution, I feel like an RF is the best choice.
After switching from technical to a product role, I have seen a complete change of perception towards excel/google-sheets. I still observe the passive hate towards excel by developer companions, but for me, it's a goto tool, the same as it was the case with Python, the goto language.

I like to call it a fundamental or building block technology that enables you to develop things on top of it, my favorite being a finite-state-machine we modeled in a sheet. Won't be surprised if we end up talking about Google sheets being one of my favorite products.
From "reeducation" camps straight to Nazi Germany, didn't even need the "concentration camp" exit to get there.

How would you feel if any news about US tech would instantly, and totally, be side-tracked into discussions about still on-going US American war crimes?

Would you consider that relevant or constructive to the topic? Most certainly not.

Yet nearly every discussion about Chinese tech, these days, gets instantly flooded with "reeducation/concentration camps" and "Tiananmen Square" like it's the most normal thing in the world and completely on-topic.
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I think that since industry has boomed, we exposed ourselves to hazardous chemistry.

While testing for toxicity, cancers and other illnesses, I think science is not able to foresee the effect of all the new chemicals we created, especially cocktail effects, endocrine disruptors, and every bit of thing which is a product of industry. If we investigate product per product when something goes wrong, there will be a lot of things that won't be detected.

I'm sure there are many effects of all those products, but we cannot remove those components, because of cost/benefits and all the great things they bring. As long as public health agencies can be happy, things are okay. When we are not able to really make quality studies on how the brain is affected because we cannot measure a brain, things become foggy.

Add this the norm of 9 to 5, lack of sleep, bad diet, sedentary life style, political frustration, it's expected to have mental illness or imbalance.
> how many times does someone have to show you who they are before you believe it?

It's dangerous to anthropomorphise corporations (or nations).
Yes, corporate culture is sticky but you can more easily change a corporate culture by a radical demographics change both at the base and at the top, and redesigning the incentives.

That goes both ways and it's why you cannot have inherently "good" corporations either (no matter what their positive track record is).
As the saying goes, economists have predicted 7 of the last 3 recessions. Same applies to bubbles I think.
Suppose we get solid evidence that reincarnation is real. Or even just imagine that it is.

Being held in stasis for an unknown length of times seems like utter hell compared to moving on to your next life.

In that sense, a clone is preferable, but maybe not for the new consciousness inhabiting it.
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Everyone commenting: Google Sheets is not an exact copy of Excel, but it's the closest (I know of) that exists.

For plain-old Excel with version control, save your Excel files in Dropbox. MSFT might also offer a cloud version with version control but I have no experience with it.
Sometimes you get a group of loud people around celebrating something, like soccer cup or getting married (especially in the connections with Regionals). Also last year there were often delays and problems in the connections between Mannheim or Frankfurt; I wouldn’t just call someone’s comment rubbish.
But still, NN has much more hyperparameters than RF and training good NN model requires far more experience.
Well, yes. Maritime treaties exist to facilitate trade, so that you aren't subject to some absurd law just because that country decided your boat was in that jurisdiction. They obviously don't exist to give folks a place to commit murder without consequences.

Likewise, while starting a country is plausibly a moral good, enabling that is not the purpose of maritime treaties. Countries refuse to recognize other terrestrial countries all the time, even if they have clear borders and obviously-powerful governments internally (e.g. PRC and ROC each refusing to recognize the other, most of the middle east not recognizing Israel). Putting your country on a boat doesn't somehow increase your legitimacy before the international community.
What about GitHub's current privacy policy do you find objectionable?
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David Sacks had a great tweet about this concept a while back:

https://twitter.com/DavidSacks/status/1078755080478715904
Refunding a charge back is / can be a bad idea - you can refund, still lose the charge back, and pay for the chargeback.
For a $100USD transaction you risk losing 230USD as opposed to 130USD if you refund.
It's even written on the dispute page on stripe to avoid refunding charge backs
I used to think this way but I don't know any more. Disinformation is so easy to spread.
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I think you are absolutely right - but the continuation of these structures and conditions that make violence against women ripe, easy and prevalent are due to structures that the government set in place. If natives actually owned the land - they would be able to sell and mortgage it - and use the money to move off reserve or start a business or whatever.

If tribal counsels weren't just puppet governments, people might actually trust them and they might have competence to fix the situation.

Right now Natives are almost under government stewardship - that condition doesn't seem like it will change any time soon and their situation seems to degarde the longer it continues - which will lead to more deaths and victimizations.

I think to connect our points simply, we could say

1. Yes many of these women are victimized at the hands of men from their communities

2. Many of their communities are impoverished and under 3rd world conditions

3. Abuse and victimization are more likely under such conditions

4. Women are less able to escape victimization under such conditions

5. The government created these conditions and propagates these conditions
It's fairly possible though for a non-EU citizens. I moved to Sweden from outside EU when I was 36 with a family (got job as a developer). It took 5 years from work permit to Swedish pasport.
FirstDirect's "digital secure key" Android app, which allows me (or someone else who happens to get hold of my phone while it is unlocked) to transfer a few grand out pretty easily, limits passwords to "between 6 and 9 characters". And offers fingerprint based auth as an alternative, because we all know how infallibly secure that method is.
Your comment reminds me of GreenWave: https://www.greenwave.org/our-work

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Thank God I came across it in kaggle. Definitely amazing and it also gives easy python export of the model so you can put it as an udf in databases!
> ... from their self-reports on ritual it seems to largely just be a lot of ...

I think most religions boil down to this, when applying enough reduction. Doesn't mean that they don't touch people and give them experiences in things that modern society is perhaps lacking in. I think those things can perhaps be difficult to comprehensively be described with words.
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It's hard to predict anything, but India, in my eyes, seems headed to a mix of manufacturing (smaller percentage) and services (much larger percentage).

I see India leveraging its democracy and relative openness plus its large English speaking population to achieve this.
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It's pretty strange to decide upon a name without having a way to pronounce it!?
Amen. 90% of the time, companies build process and automation on top of Excel. Success for SaaS is changing HOW companies use Excel, not IF.
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But how to you deal with the fundamental disconnect of worrying about a twenty year gone policy when Google has successfully already completed the extinguish phase? How many truly open source mobile operating systems have died under the foot of Android, an open source Trojan horse?

I mean, heck, look at the hijinks Google has engaged in with Edge after Microsoft agreed to switch to their open source browser engine! Suddenly it would stop working with modern YouTube, and then Google's like "Oops", and undoes it. But ex-Mozilla devs have pointed out that this is a recurring strategy for Google: https://www.zdnet.com/article/former-mozilla-exec-google-has...

Or the impending death of ad blocking in Chrome with Manifest V3 shortly after Google introduced their own ad blocker that doesn't impede their own ads?

Why obsess about the possibility that a company which hasn't extinguished in a while, when their competitors are actively doing it right now? I'd say if your focus is on Microsoft, you're worrying about the wrong target, at least for the moment. The return of evil Microsoft is certainly possible and given enough time, even likely, but evil Google and evil Facebook and evil Amazon are here today.
You're assuming it works. Where I work we have an intranet-based web app that pushes the new password to all the various corporate systems. We're forced to choose a new password every 90 days. I'd say 1 time out of 3 something doesn't work, and I have to open a support ticket. While I'm waiting for support, I'm not getting emails, or can't log in to some systems, etc. Multiply that by hundreds of users at my company.

Twice, support resolved the issue by resetting my password and telling me the new one... which is my last name plus 4 digits. Then I can live with a very insecure password for 90 days, or try the reset app roulette again.
Excel is not a competitor to our SaaS - it is an interface. Original our service was web and email only (energy market financial data). But we quickly learned our clients want and need that data in CSV so they can build their own tools. So our API integrates well with Excel.

And that is the power of Excel - a client can build their own solution, backed by our service. We do the parts that Excel can’t do or do well.

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It also allows domain experts to program. So while they may not be expert programmers, they are experts in the problem area and will come up with expert solutions.
The first except they continue to use the software after they have done the chargeback.

Also expense fraud, the buyer purchases on their credit card, makes a claim with their employer then does a chargeback to get a refund.

I also get a lot of people buying a single license and using it on multiple computers but that's really a different issue.
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Awesome that this is here on HN - By chance, used this site last week when setting up some fishing gear and commented to some friends how great the site was.

The site does an amazing job at a visual step-by-step guide that's easy to understand w/o always asking.. "did I skip a step?".. "How does that move that way?" .. The makers seem to have separated their steps in just the right way which is always a challenge. The pictures are high-quality too.

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Genuine question: how can this make financial sense for Stripe?

If Stripe charges 0.4% for it... then presumably any business with chargebacks of <0.4% value won't bother to use it (except for rare cases of needing to reduce risk on extreme low volume of high value items), so mostly only businesses with chargebacks of >0.4% value will use it...

...so almost by definition the mean cost will be greater than what Stripe is charging, and Stripe will lose money.

Since Stripe is full of smart people... what am I missing here? How is this a viable product?
You are right! The more trees in the RF the more stable the model is. What is more, you got feature importance for free!