skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"What native communities need to do is stop playing ball declare war and start stockpiling munitions. "

The aboriginal women dying, are doing so at the hands of aboriginal men unfortunately.

While historical social structures are obviously relevant, the $100M political show actually tried to move away form what the government already knows (i.e. intra familial violence) so as to somehow point the blame at external causes, which is shameful.

We should have invested the $100M in practical programs to help communities move on.

From Gov. Canada's own web site concerning victimization surveys [1] have a gander:

"Research reveals that Aboriginal women experience dramatically higher rates of violent victimization than non-Aboriginal women do (Proulx and Perrault 2000; Hylton 2002; Brzozowski et al. 2006). Violence within the domestic context is the most pervasive form of victimization experienced by Aboriginal women. Nearly one-quarter (24%) of Aboriginal women in Canada reported having been assaulted by a current or former spouse, compared to 7% of non-Aboriginal women (Brzozowski et al. 2006). Results from other studies suggest that this figure may be as high as 90% in some Aboriginal communities (Ontario Native Women’s Association 2007).

The literature shows that Aboriginal women consistently report a rate of partner violence much higher than their non-Aboriginal counterparts, even after controlling for relevant social variables. For instance, while living common law is associated with a 13 percent greater risk of victimization for non-Aboriginal women, the associated risk for Aboriginal women is 217 percent higher (Brownridge 2008).

Sexual assault against women is particularly prevalent in Northern Canada where there is a much higher proportion of Aboriginal people in each of the territories than in the provinces. In 2002, the rate of sexual assault in Nunavut was 96.1 for every 10,000 people compared to the overall rate in Canada of 7.8 in every 10,000 people (Levan 2001). Aboriginal women have also been found to be greatly over-represented as sex trade workers compared to non-Aboriginal women (Oxman-Martinez et al. 2005; Royal Canadian Mounted Police 2006). In one study of the Vancouver sex trade, 52 of 101 women interviewed were Aboriginal (Farley et al. 2005). The overwhelming majority of these women reported both a history of childhood sexual abuse by multiple perpetrators and a history of rape and other assaults while working as prostitutes."

[1] https://www.justice.gc.ca/eng/rp-pr/cj-jp/victim/rd3-rr3/p3....
You're making excuses in order to ignore my data. I've presented both current growth rates and long-term per capita growth for periods of over 50 years. You're just lying to yourself in order to avoid acknowledging that former colonies are now growing economically faster than former colonizers. Face facts.

Why is Libya at the top of the list? Probably due to the growth response to the cessation (or at least reduction) of civil war. That happens. And no, this doesn't take into account raw materials vs advanced production, which is a long-term growth concern for many countries. On the other hand, many former colonies are developing advanced manufacturing, particularly in Asia.

Military power and the ability to influence global affairs via violence is becoming increasingly irrelevant. Exploitation at gunpoint is no longer a viable economic model, and hasn't really been since WWII, which is why colonization ended in the first place.

Believe it or not, former colonies are independent nations with independent economies and independent goals, who don't just exist at the tolerance of great powers anymore. Your attitude towards them pretends to be supportive, but is actually utterly condescending. Really, please stop and think about that point.

I'm well aware of the role of trans-national corporations in this system (I use the phrase "neoliberal hegemony" pretty freely). But the simple fact is, when those corporations invest in former colonial economies, they're creating jobs and growth there, and there's a lot more opportunity there than in the fully developed economies of former colonial powers. That's why those economies are growing so fast. China in particular (a former colony itself) has invested heavily in its "Belt and Road" approach to investing in infrastructure to create mutually beneficial trade opportunities - building ports, factories, communications, etc.

And yes, I'm aware of the racial wealth gap in the US (which is a special case in many ways) and other countries. Been studying it for decades, actually.

Of course you think it's obnoxious. You're getting told that your condescending attitude towards former colonies and reactionary attitude toward their "oppressors" is wrong, that things are much better than you think they are. Being wrong is a bitter pill to swallow. But which is better... feeling good about being wrong, or being right?
My first coding was done on paper: printing out the code, hand marking it up. Drafting a few new lines and then inputting them and re-running.

I still miss that way of doing development, probably more out of nostalgia than actual productivity.
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How would that work? Future technology, no matter how advanced, would still require the information in your brain to simulate you. The point of cronics is to preserve that information.
“you’re going to leave excel in the dust pretty quick”

no. this does not happen. everyone uses excel.
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The US exports Freedom Gas while China makes Oppression Cars and Phones.
This 1 GW claim is nearly useless information. They should share the number of gigawatt hours instead.
All of that is forgivable because Excel has done something very few other tools have ever done; which is allow 'non-programmers' to effectively program their computers. Excel is empowering software that lets normal users solve novel problems. With excel, a non-technical small business owner can create software(a spreadsheet) that automates the solution to a problem nobody has ever had before. Solutions to programs the creators of excel never even considered.

A lot of software is like single-use kitchen gadgets. So called "unitaskers". It has one purpose envisioned by it's inventors, and you'll be lucky if you ever figure out something else it's good at. Sometimes they're pretty slick, but still limited. My mother has a device that skins, slices and cores an apple all at once. With that device, you can process enough apples to make a pie in a minute or two... but the chances of you ever finding anything else that tool can do are slim. Maybe you could use it to slice curly french fries out of a potato, but that's about it. It saves your time if you're operating in the narrow problem space envisioned by the inventor, otherwise it doesn't have much of anything to offer you.

Programmers love creating unitasker software, particularly for end users, frankly because it takes much less thought. And when they do create powerful general purpose highly flexible software, their target audience is most often other programmers. Excel (and a handful of others like hypercard) are proof that this status quo can be broken.
The issue isn't about whether you have floating available, it's about whether you have the batteries-included of a full DE. Bars, Settings, Networking, volume control etc. You can set all of these up with individual programs if you're a dogmatic adherent of the unix philosophy. But, it doesn't make for a very cohesive experience, and getting it all set up can be an enormous timesink. Different people have different levels of tolerance for that kind of incidental complexity.
> I want to automatically refund every chargeback attempt without it affecting my ability to charge credit cards.

That is just not how chargebacks work, sorry. I do think there is merrit to urge issuers and card brands to change the chargeback behaviour or rules, i.e. to always give the merchant the opportunity to refund first. Essentially to make the retrievals or inquiries flow mandatory for all disputes. There you are given the opportunity to refund and respond before escalation.

Stripe and others cannot do much here except for lobbying.
Great approach, and a smart minister. Living in Taipei I can only congratulate the country for this lively and young democracy. If you consider moving to Asia, Taiwan is the most forward, fair and open society.
I mean.... not really. This whole project is ridiculous -- a saw one of those "THE INTERNET IS DYING AND THE MILLIONDOLLARHOMEPAGE IS A LEADING INDICATOR" articles and was like, "Oh. I should automate a system to see how it's doing."

Because... uh... I have no idea. It seemed like a good idea at the time. Anyway, somewhere along the line, I decided to monetize it and create a site from a perspective of a guy who thinks that The MillionDollarHomepage is, like, still an amazing thing.
Dupe: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20076814
Okay, seems I misunderstood what the project is about, but I'll still check it out.
Regulations like the GDPR together with consumer outrage will prevent companies using risk scores for too many things that materially affect the customer.
I've been working remotely for years, since before I had kids and now when I do, and it works great for me.

I get to have breakfast and lunch with my family every day, which also means I can help out with the kids.

I get more sleep, since I don't need to spend half an hour in the car (and when I do go into the office, I have to get up earlier, because traffic).

I think the key to having this work well, especially when you have kids, is to have a separate room setup as a home office, so you can close the door and be in work mode. I know it might be a luxury that not everyone can afford, but personally I wouldn't work remotely without it.
I think the dangers of gene editing are similar to another form of risk all of us take regularly - pharmaceutical drugs. We all take varying levels of drugs (from antibiotics to painkillers to caffeine to alcohol). I recently had an antibiotic regimen that wiped out my gut bacteria and now I can no longer eat the spicy food I love... who knows if there was other important gut cultures that affected the way I think or live? Even alcohol, humankind's oldest form of drug is very poorly understood. Many conflicting studies on alcohol show some benefits and some downsides.
I understand wanting to have your own style. I am not opposed to the casual tone. You were complaining that some customers don't take you up on the offer, and instead contact their banks to request a charge back. I was suggesting that changing that one word (but not necessarily the casual tone) might make a difference in encouraging some of those people. But it is your business, you can try the suggestion or not, I apologize if my comment came across as pushy or anything like that.
You are comparing a flexible train ticket against an inflexible plane ticket.

The flexible plane ticket is probably 3-10x the price, depending on the airline.
> Meanwhile trillions of investment dollars available in the US are busy chasing Juiceros.

Amusing attempt. For one example, Silicon Valley is embarrassing most of the rest of the world when it comes to artificial intelligence and autonomous tech. China is at least five years behind on autonomous, by their own admission - which is why all of their tech giants had to set up shop in SV to work on autonomous.

"The talent needed to give Chinese startups an edge in autonomous vehicles can’t be found in Beijing or Shanghai."

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-09-24/to-find-c...

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-tencent-holdings-autonomo...
I bank with Monzo and they send a push notification to my phone with an "Approve" button. No way to fake that.
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"I’m not understanding why it’s a genocide"

The term is entirely politicized unfortunately.

It's a word used to put the 'blame' so to speak on external entities, effectively the Canadian government, historically.

Given that the vast majority of the violence is perpetuated within the community itself, and the nature of the crimes ... of course it doesn't remotely fit the term 'genocide'. Obviously historical factors are relevant, but the situation is being weaponized for political reasons.

Even call out the governments officials maligned use of the term will get you in trouble, as the previous governments MP for Aboriginal affairs faced pillorying after he did the same, literally today.

The real tragedy is that $100M can go a long way to helping communities move forward and address root causes, as opposed to being used in international political fights over words and ideology.
I made that a lot in Germany and it is worth if you value also the quality of the travel.

There are regular offers between capitals and big cities across countries, travels I did from Stuttgart: Stuttgart-Paris 40€, Copenhagen-Stuttgart 80€ (the train got in a Ferry and then the travel continued until Hamburg!), Stuttgart Amsterdam 80€. Sometimes traveling to far places like Spain must go over Paris, and each country has their own train network with more or less adaptation.

The quality of the public train got worse in Germany during the last 10 years and it is not an infrastructure thought to be run as a business with profits, but it is still one of the best transportation services for long distance.

The only problems with the train is visiting remote areas where it is necessary doing to or three train changes, which increases the chance of delays.
Every crash ever has recovered.
I've usually heard nitrogen narcosis referred to as "rapture of the deep"
We're at the point where the only way to have a real impact on warming is large, global changes in the industrial economy. To pretend that anyone's individual behavior matters only obscures this already difficult-to-discuss issue even further. Aviation is not a significant contributor to global warming (at most 4.9% of the impact according to the ICCC), and if everyone stopped traveling to conferences tomorrow, I suspect it would have a minimal impact on airline schedules.

I get that people want to have a sense of agency, but framing the problem as a question of individual choice is counterproductive.
Because I prefer it rather than commuting. On the other hand, I believe that my effective working hour shall be unchanged (ex: 4 hours a day for usual programmer). The rest (additional hour) shall be filled with analysis, discussion or chit chat beside taking short breaks during working hours. Don't know though, haven't done any remote working.
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With virtually no tech companies offering private offices any more, this isn't surprising. Companies won't give employees what they need, so employees are hacking the system to find a way to get it anyway.

One of the first steps given here for remote work is to "set-up or find a space that lets you stay productive", which will enable you to "Stay focused on tasks and be able to fully disconnect whenever required". Sound familiar?

That's what private office advocates have been saying for years. The only difference is that companies refuse to allow this within the walls of the company. I'm surprised the companies aren't also pushing to have these people reclassified as independent contractors and not employees.
You are right, CatBoost is an amazing algorithm. However, you will be shocked when you will talk with many older senior data scientist, that never heard of Xgboost or LightGBM. CatBoost for them is far too new.
> Have we forgotten about Nazi technical excellence, Werner von Braun, and the Soviet space program?

One could argue that both the Nazi and the Soviet programs had roots in pre-existing system setup up before the totally authoritarian ones took over. For Germany, Imperial Germany + the Weimar Republic (both flawed democracies, but still, democracies) and for the USSR, Imperial Russia, which ok, might have not have been democratic in any modern sense, but was pretty liberal from a scientific and artistic point of view. Way more so than the USSR.

If anything, both the Nazis and Soviets drained their scientific communities so much that by the end of the regimes they almost destroyed them.
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