skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'll admit to being a semi-frequent "no" person and I'm fortunate to work for someone that values that.

I've learned some people can take personal offense to having their ideas challenged, particularly when...ahem... There are some glaring holes in them they frankly should have caught. So over time I've found ways to try and take the people out of it, and also to be enthusiastic about the act of having ideas, because I'd rather have people have a bunch of ideas that mostly don't work, with occasional nuggets of gold than people who aren't capable of or engaged enough to think of new things.

Personally, I start considering most ideas, particularly my own, from the standpoint of "why will this NOT work?" It helps me sift through things quicker by identifying potential deal breakers earlier in the process, and helps me make sure I've done my due diligence on important decisions.

The net result is that I kind of enjoy poking holes in things all day, even if others see it as "not optimistic enough."
Turkey does the electricity bill thing too.
Which is a reference to the way in which some kinds of military special forces are trained to operate without the logistics support that regular infantry rely on.
Ah, cheers, forgot about that one. I'm not saying the word "cyber" is generally stupid but the use as a pop culture prefix is... problematic and misleading in my view if you'd prefer other terms. It's just used as theatrics from the type of people that classify getting hit by ransomware due to unpatched systems as some APT, at least everywhere I see it.
Two things. First, military security is entirely dependent on economic security. The productive capacity of a country's economy places a hard upper limit on its ability to produce materiel and thus effectively wage war. For obvious reasons trade can't be relied on when at war with the former trading partner.

Second, this administration has been promising a trade war with China since before the election. It's not as if this is some kind of surprise. "CHYNA!" was a major campaign issue.

For background: in the Nixon era, the USA decided that it would start a Marshall plan style trade deficit funded "investment" in China, with the belief that increasing the economic prosperity of the PRC would lead it to greater openness and generally becoming a tame satrapy of the US empire, much as Germany and Japan did. Now that it's clear that plan was a complete failure and the Chinese played the Americans for fools, some Americans, most notable among them the President, are looking to reset to a less inequitable trade relationship. Pretty much all major economic and political news from the pacific region is a consequence of this process. The Hong Kong riots? Turns out the CIA is involved[1]. North Korean missile launches? Yeah, how much real autonomy does the DPRK have when China decides to call shots?

Edit:
[1] https://www.reuters.com/video/2019/08/08/us-calls-china-thug... (Obviously this is a pro-US outlet and frames it as innocuously as possible, but anyone who knows anything about tradecraft knows that "diplomat" in this context is a polite word for operative).
Inferential statistics is about explaining an observed outcome in terms of its causing factors. Once we have explained it, then we can make predictions. Machine learning skips the explaining part and goes straight to making predictions, without attempting to understand the underlying process that led to the particular outcome. This would be the main difference, in my opinion.
I'm 3 days late to respond to this because I was out of action for a few days.

For the great majority of people $30,000 is a non-trivial investment, one they must live with for years. Other than buying a house or having children, it is the most expensive thing most people will buy.

(ignore the exact dollar figures below .. I'm not car literate, but hopefully you'll get the idea).

Say someone bought a Mazda Miata, did the paperwork, and the dealer then sent them home in a Prius. What are the odds they would shrug and say, "Oh, ok, one $30K car is the same as any other $30K car." Zero. If the had wanted a Prius he would have bought the Prius, but he valued the Miata higher. In your scenario, the Prius buyer really wanted a different car, but was willing to buy the Prius because they wanted the world to think they were green. Fine ... but then they gave up something of value to make the statement: they will not to get to drive the car they really desired.

Is it really so impossible to imagine that someone would truly prefer to buy a Prius on its merits and not because it is making a statement?
I don't know if that's actually traditionally true of fixed-width fonts. Courier, for example, is pretty bad, and widely used by people who aren't using a fixed-width font because they're programming.
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> So it's not that they've endangered the public, or maybe even the environment.

And they haven't. You did. (Plural You if that wasn't obvious.)
Bupropion is also an antidepressant and fatigue is a symptom of depression.
My experience is that they're interested in politics somewhat orthogonal to the mainstream discourse.
I think what you're saying is orthogonal to what I'm saying.

Yes, ZIP codes can be a proxy for race in models dealing with credit scores (and recidivism, which is also a really bad place to put racial bias), as an example. But if I put it in a mixed-effects model, it shows the same bias, and a mixed-effects model is just an extended version of linear regression. Both statistical and ML models suffer from the problem you're stating.

What you have not made any assumptions about in a random forest is about the distribution of the data you're looking at. One example of a case where the assumptions that bog-standard OLS makes about your data can cause you problems is zero-dominated data -- data with a lot of zeros in it. Basically any time you're trying to make predictions about things that are rare in your measured population.

OLS does a bad job on zero-dominated data. If you throw a zero-dominated dataset into a random forest, you will get back better answers than if you use OLS on zero-dominated data.

To be clear: there are strategies for dealing with zero-dominated data using statistical inference. You don't have to resort to non-inferential learning just because you have data that doesn't look like a bell curve. But machine learning is a powerful way to get pretty good results on a lot of problem spaces without having to understand the probability function involved (or in cases where the probability function is too complicated to be tractable computationally, like the probability function that determines the color of pixels in a dataset where you're classifying dogs versus cats).
>seL4 is more than an order of magnitude faster than even other microkernels, much less FreeBSD, Linux, or Microsoft Windows

Seems to be a pretty broad claim without anything to back it up.
I am rarely in the same country very long and use https://www.aa.net.uk/ in the UK for a UK 07 number that can retrieve SMS and that I can use a VOIP phone with. As far as I'm aware they're the only service in the UK allowing this with 07 numbers.
Especially if nobody listens anyway.
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>White men are around 35%, so it's weird that this very vocal and pearl-clutching portion of the population commits so many murders per capita.

Men commit more murders than women (in all places and times).

In America, whites commit less murders than their population percentage. This is true overall, and amongst men only.

You seem to support holding suspicion of entire identity groups on the basis of crime statistics. If so, you must really hate young black men; they're 4% of the population and commit >50% of American murders. Do you? If not, why the obsessive focus on 'white men'?

>Do you feel like if the brave men and women of the American military were ordered to take your guns, they'd do so?

I asked you to make your point and you insist again on rhetorical questions with some kind of implied but unspoken point behind them. But sure, I'll answer: Given that I'm not American and I don't own any guns, it's kind of a bizarre question. If they were ordered to invade my country, I think they would. But that'd be a very different world.

>What have you specifically said that you think I'm not thinking about?

Redefining safety as freedom is absurd.
Or maybe we should REMOVE the laws that give companies a monopoly on producing drugs?
Please please do this in the US too.
Or maybe they just want to come to work, write some code, get a paycheck, and go home. I don't know what any of my coworker's political stances are and I kind of like it that way.
Thank you for posting. It is very important to put into context how badly fossil fuel companies may have knowingly screwed us.
Should say (2018)
Thanks for posting this.

"Laughy-ette" ...pretty much.

Man I miss good boudin.

So, he said, "This is most closely associated with the Atchafalaya basin..."

Said in that way, you don't notice the "uh" sound preceding it. I'm guessing that's what I'm remembering.

He covered Herbert as a last name, but not Richard.
Couldn’t you have IP banned them instead of shadow IP banning them and achieved the same thing?
Big daddy T will be invading your skulls for many years to come.
Counterpoint: I think most people would gladly pay a bit more to not have to deal with the annoyance of only being able to use strangers' cars, of variable cleanliness, only after waiting several minutes for them to show up, and not being able to store anything in them during multi-stop trips.
>Parking in most cities is pain. Driving to restaurants or bars is a no-go with your own vehicle.

I'm not sure whether you're referring to driving under the influence or merely about parking. If the latter: In most cities in the US, these are mostly non-issues. So I disagree with your use of "most". Although I've used Lyft in the last few years for various reasons, only once did I use it because I was worried about not finding parking. For other occasions, I used public transit. But seriously - probably less than once a year do I need to find alternate transportation because I'm worried about parking.

(BTW, I forgot to add parking to the above estimate. I spent on average $6.03 a month on it).
So the idea is the bank gave you a loan then forgave it, so it’s now income? That’s a big leap in logic and sounds evil considering you never consider that when getting a loan, you only expect the internet to accrue.
"Unfortunately, our website is currently unavailable in most European countries.".

Really!?
It is now, but this was not always true.
Machine Learning = Heuristics + Statistics
Have fun thinking about Trump daddy til 2024.
In Boston there's a pedestrian only area downtown. Commercial vehicles, taxis, and cops are still allowed to drive into the area. They go very slowly.
2009: Are you smart enough to be a Facebook engineer?

2019: Are you scummy enough to be a Facebook engineer?
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Okay, I'll retract "Nobody was ever against Katie" since clearly some individuals, somewhere, were. Of course there were people who were awful to her. In any controversy, some Internet weirdos are awful to everyone involved. That's how the Internet works today. It means absolutely nothing; it's not significant.

99+% of the people who were critical of that situation, including me, never did anything against Katie. I don't have numbers but I suspect 99% also had nothing against Katie opinion-wise either. It's entirely against the notion that one person should be selected for media celebration entirely based on their genetics. That's wrong, wrong, wrong and I'll argue against it proudly any day.

What's disgusting is the media's taking this insignificant background noise 1% and making the entire story about it, specifically in order to distract from the criticisms leveled against them.

It's about the constant refusal to even address the media's choice when they elevated her. A refusal that is still going on in this thread.

Was it right to elevate her like that solely because of her gender? Or did the media do a wrong?
No, just that the investors are the first victims to sue.
You're right. It would've been more correct for me to say the part that works well is employed and non-political, while the dysfunctional part is composed of mostly elected officials and their appointees.
I saw nothing here about actually selling open source software, only selling proprietary systems layered on top of OSS, and on selling services.

It probably doesn't help that analogy has a few issues. There are few "eskimos" in Canada because the term "Inuit" is preferred - see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Native_American_name_controver... . Nor are there penguin invasion issues as wild penguins are not present in the Arctic. I also suspect it would be easier to cut and transport sea ice than use the method described.

> customers can build out the proprietary ‘paid’ version of OSS.

Sure, but that's not really selling OSS, since parts of it are proprietary.

> Does the Eskimo want to build his house? or just live in it?

I believe this is supposed to be a reference to an igloo, which is made from compacted snow, not ice. Leaving aside the fact that few live in igloos, another dimension to this question is, how reliant to you want to be on others?

> a reason why Software-as-a-Service offerings have become very popular

Note that "SaaS" isn't "selling OSS", it's selling a service.

For what it's worth, I have sold OSS. There was no $0 "free" version. When you paid $30,000 for the software, you got the source code under the MIT license.
Most likely the relevant rule against perpetuities has a limit of X years or death of a named person + 20 years. And the X is known, but likely to be less than the longest life + 20 years.
I’m not that sure that’s actually a euphemism that is used in the student loan industry.
I find a car to give more flexability than it takes. Its simple to pickup friends, do errands, with no scheduling or waiting. This doubtlessly depends on your area. Most people here assume everyone is in urban california fauxtopia.
This business will get out of hand. It will get out of hand, and we’ll be lucky to live through it.
But it's a tricky thing because we don't wanna remove the incentive to invent new drugs.
...well that’s pretty offensive framing. Are time and tool acquisition free too? Because frankly you’re going to have trouble eating possum without both.

I’m all for kids eating blackberries off wild bushes, but let’s not pretend this is free to anyone except those that can already afford as much food as they need.
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> Men commit more murders than women (in all places and times).

I know, 90-95% in fact! Which makes it interesting that so often people focus on racial issues, like the plight of white south african farmers, when there's a wayyyy larger correlation with violence of all kinds, and gender. An individual gun owner's reason for owning a gun may focus on some abstract interracial political violence, when they're much more likely to be murderer by a young, poor, man.

> Redefining safety as freedom is absurd.

If some level of safety is required in order to live, freedom is contingent on safety. When you're dead you can't own any guns.
What are you asking?

I said browser engines initially so I meant the browser engines. I also brought up Electron. Which doesn’t depend on Chrome. But the browser engine.

So I could’ve for a third time repeated WebKit, Edge’s open source Blink, and Blink/Chromium. I’m not sure if that’s the only point of your comment? Based on another comment it seems like being pedantic is your only point.

So what does it matter if the browser itself or as it is now, the engines are open source? Since that is still my question. What difference does it make?

The pedantry doesn’t change anything.
Yes it did but it lost earlier. But still wasted a lot of resources which could have gone in something of real value to nature or humanity.

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/220290418_Amazon's_...
Tom Lehrer performing "Wernher von Braun " live (1967):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QEJ9HrZq7Ro

His amazing wit is just as biting today as it was when he originally composed most of his songs over half a century ago.
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Pharma is disgusting. Outsource as much as possible and charge as much as possible. Thanks FDA!
This seems perfectly fair. And I think that historically there was plenty of use for statistics where people didn't care about the formal understanding, so they were doing crude machine learning before the term became widespread.

I've sat through lengthy discussions of machine learning exercises, and could not silence the voice in my head, saying: "This is just curve fitting." Fitting data to an arbitrary curve, and then extrapolating the fitting function, is as old as the hills.
Brave works. Lots of propaganda on here against Brave for some reason. It's open source based on chromium with all the Google bits taken out, and it has built in ad blocking. So there's an opt-in crypto coin, so what.
“i’m raising polecats for peace!”
We did something similar for a browser-based RPG game 15ish years ago.

Shadow banning is way more effective. IP bans don't work because even tech illiterate users can figure out what's going on and get a proxy working.

We ended up going with normal account-level banning after experimenting with IP-based shadow banning. The game was popular with kids, who would tell their siblings/school friends about it. So lots of IPs were associated, and at the time teasing apart different traffic streams from the same IP was sci-fi level stuff.

But, we did learn that normal banning was way less effective. If it weren't for the collateral damage, we would've kept shadow banning with IP account association.
Car-sharing apps will eventually prove to be a better solution than Uber and its peers. Having a private driver at your disposal, even for a short time, is expensive and always will be. And right now, thanks to subsidies, Uber can compete with mass transit in many cities.
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It’s getting your taxi driver to take your card in the first place that can be an issue. I guess they’re high risk merchants and pay high rates?

The only place I've seen acceptance be a problem is San Francisco (although I've certainly heard it's a problem in other American cities). I can't speak to other cities but in San Francisco the cabbies are required to pay pretty hefty fees for credit card usage. But Uber and Lyft take a big chunk of the pie and leave no cash option so there's that.

I've been to a couple cities where credit cards were not accepted as a general rule (cabbies didn't even have the equipment). But in cities where I've used a card I've asked and generally been told they'd never do anything that ridiculous. Of course I typically have a strong preference for public transit so cab rides are the exception rather than the rule for me.

As for accounting, merchants already get a category assigned to them by their credit card processor. Generally there's enough specificity that something like a few cab rides shouldn't need much more clarification (although receipts may be required if you cross a threshold or exhibit some suspicious pattern).
You may be getting downvoted for applying a derogatory term commonly used to dismiss anyone with a conscience, and the privilege to actually exercise it.
JP Morgan using machine learning to hedge
Swap, swap, swap, and bad places to work
I travel across Asia Pacific for work. The global nature of ride hailing apps are convenient in this context in a similar way to MacDonalds (fast, convenient and you kind of know what you’re going to get).

Try hailing a cab in Thailand, Indonesia or Malaysia. They will ask your destination and quote you 5-10x meter fare. Use a ride hailing app and you get approximately the meter fare.
How about saving lives for an incentive? Pharmas don't exactly have a good track record for doing the right thing with the current incentive of becoming filthy rich.

This argument is so worn out it has become a cargo cult parroted response.
Which is a very different thing and will set you back ~1m, not a few hundred.
They might not be the greatest victims but they certainly are some of the victims. They invested money in a company whose business model was unsustainable. The company knew that the business model was unsustainable but did not tell them.

In the US publicly traded companies have a duty to let their shareholders know all material risks to the company that the company is aware of.

The response to this is usually “but everyone knows about climate change”. But that is not the case. By now everyone has heard of climate change but many still don't believe it/dispute it. You can call these people stupid and uneducated but they are entitled to the same protections under the law which means that they have a right to be alerted to the potential danger to their investments posed by climate change. I am sure even the more ignorant would pay more attention if the climate change warnings came directly from an oil company they are thinking of investing in.

Furthermore, the NYAG says he has evidence that Exxon knew it was happening as long as 30 years ago. Back in the late 80s and early 90s climate change was far from settled thing.
#2 Already happened:

"Hundreds of Bounty Hunters Had Access to AT&T, T-Mobile, and Sprint Customer Location Data for Years"

https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/43z3dn/hundreds-bounty-hu...
AFAIK these cases often force companies to stop their misbehavior and offer concessions. For example, have you ever felt that it's not an accident that you don't get advertised speeds from your ISP? https://www.theverge.com/2018/12/18/18146210/charter-spectru...
Super cool project! I was interested in something similar!! Glad to see they open sourced the data as well!!!
Just don't use his cookbook!
It actually DOES happen like this. When the entire working set for actively used apps fits in memory swap lets the system page out things that are little used. This works perfectly fine.

This is to say that swapping out little used stuff delays the point where you are actually out of memory and performance goes straight to hell.

This means the optimal arrangement for desktop use is some swap and low swappiness.

One could imagine that perhaps something like

https://github.com/rfjakob/earlyoom

Might be an easier route to better behavior especially as you can more easily tell it what it ought to kill.

The behavior of the kernel could probably be improved but it is probably inherently lacking the data required to make a truly optimal choice along with a gui to communicate with users. Going forward possibly desktop oriented distros should probably come with some out of the box gui to handle this situation built into their graphical environments before it gets to the point of dysfunction.
So the manufacturer is getting paid the same amount, these “authorized generics” are just screwing over the PBMs?

Or is the “negotiated” price of the brand name basically equal to the list price of the first-party generic?

I am missing some piece to arrive at “this is not taking money out of the system”.

I can see how the pharma company perhaps could make out the same in the end... but is the consumer actually paying less?

One very interesting thing is that my insurance company has not tried to switch my kids’ Humalog for the equivalent sold as “Lispro” which was very curious to me, implying it doesn’t save them any money. I’m long past the out-of-pocket maximum anyway, so I pay $0 at this point in any case.
You're going to rip some refugee family apart to invisibly spite some trust fund kid protester who is fully insulated from any negative externalities of Palantir?