skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't think random forests are "magical" at all. I think you can walk a non-technical audience from decision trees to bagged and boosted forests on a whiteboard in under an hour. (I don't think you can do this nearly as well for maximum likelihood estimation, honestly.) But there's still a difference between a mathematical function that you're trying to find the optimal values for and something that's defined by an algorithm that there's no single function to optimize.
Anecdotally - I'm at a moderately liberal college for undergrad (what colleges aren't at least this much, I guess) - more than plenty of people are willing to at least intern at Palantir, Facebook, etc., especially with their initiatives for signing more women and poc on board. A lot have even accepted offers, and I haven't noticed any decline in these patterns over the past few years. Many young students still want to work at FANG companies and make sexy bank, everything else be damned.

Not that I necessarily know what my peers' moral integrity and political positions are like...
If there are any large supermarkets in Friedrichstraße, I’ve missed them. Medium and small, sure, but not large or huge — those are elsewhere in the city.

Likewise for commuting, the U-Bahn and the ironically underground S-Bahn is more reliable in that area than the surface traffic (including busses) because there’s too much surface traffic and therefore jams.
As someone who lived next to the main square in Amsterdam

I never understood why people choose to drive with a car on the roads that cross the city (if they don't live there/uber/taxi drivers)

Main streets in cities should be car-free

I'm glad to hear about Berlin decision. For many more to come
> Sure it would get shut down.

You mean it would get shut down if done officially? Otherwise, I don't really see an option of shutting it down once the emails are underway. I doubt that providers will manually kill emails from their users' mailboxes, even if they were allowed to.
Well for one, the article never specified anything about private text chats (unless I missed it?) so I think you're asking a misleading question. Most of the article was about the US government/FBI looking to read public data, which AFAIK has never been protected by wiretapping laws.

Additionally, something that is different is the scale. In the US, an activity may be legal if done once but if done millions of times it may be illegal. Here, there are many times more people plotting, discussing, and celebrating terrorist events online than there are on traditional phone calls. Having phone calls be traditionally 1-1 and private internet chats be 1-many, even 1-1000000 or 1 to 7000000000 if public, is a totally different beast. I'm not sure there is any analogous previous laws, I think we need new laws.
When I read the article my first reaction was "Only a million?" Considering the importance of a bug like this to Apple's business and the size of their cash hoard, this sounds like they don't actually care that much.
Speaking about exploits in general, at least the old method was to go to cracking forums and say you have the crack available. Usually you would then get into discussions via an IM and finally broker a price.

It used to be done via payment services like PayPal, but I imagine BitCoin would play a large part in the modern world.
Got to say this is an impressively dense map, there's plenty of options within 1 mile of my current location. Seems dangerous to use this info though, who knows what kinds of pesticides are sprayed on those fruit trees for example.
I still see some Crown Vics rolling around in El Paso
You are correct. The exact detail of my comment is inaccurate, but the point still stands that it is up to the federal government. The buck has to stop somewhere. Continuously blaming the insurance industry for high costs is popular but there are a lot of other factors too which the media conveniently seem to neglect to mention. It helps no one if brilliant minds would rather go work on a "data analytics" healthcare startup (think fancy wearables) using "machine learning" that is purely dry lab (the bio academia preferred term for data science) without a single bit of wet lab physiology research that contributes to drug cures because commercialisation is too difficult, takes too long, too regulated.
I presume it doesn’t need to be a Raspberry Pi, it could be any host in your LAN?
With Millions of Views per Video, Indian Farmer Is a YouTube Influencer
> The article does say the percentage of people accepting full time offers from Facebook has dropped from 85% to 35-55%. I imagine its far worse for Palantir.

Attributing this to politics seems like a premature conclusion. Another possibility is that there are an increased number of competitors that compensate well. Uber, AirBnb, and others.

Also, it looks like the drop is only across 1 specific year so it's heavily subject to noise:

> the acceptance rate for full-time positions at Facebook from recent graduates of top-tier schools had fallen between 35 and 55 percent as of last December, down from an 85 percent acceptance rate for the 2017–18 school year.

If this were measured as as sliding window and showed consistent decline it'd be more convincing.
Fun fact: I live in a car-free "downtown" area in Europe. I have to walk 15 minutes to reach my car... but just 5 minutes to the train station.

Not complaining though; it's a beautiful walk.
What do you mean the JS is related to LGBT? The rainbow animation? The rainbow animation is done by CSS.
I've long maintained that the only reason that "router", against all convention, is pronounced "rouw-ter", is that nobody is going to stand at the front of a lecture hall or meeting room and discuss a piece of hardware called a "rooter".
In a real emergency situation, there are all sorts of solutions to get a fix out and fast. But that almost never happens, thus it's not something to optimize for.
I may be a bit naive when it comes to international politics but when I look at a world map; I think there is one obvious place for China to get its soybeans: Russia (and other former Soviet republics).

This massive piece of land may not have the effective and modern agriculture industry of USA but with enough investment and stable demand, it could have.
Strikethrough? Where did you see strikethrough in the text? It should be underline, maybe a bug in Medium?
Which device/browser are you using?
Unless Uber keeps its drivers to account, this is unacceptable. Nobody should have to be scared of their own taxi driver.
>What company do you work for that makes more money by causing your app to load twice as slow?

I'm not sure if you are trolling. Can you seriously not parse out that sentence? It is the ad revenue that makes the money. The app loading slow is a side effect. No one (that I know of) is making money by deliberately making slow applications, just think for a second that makes no sense. However a lot of applications make money from ads.
> Back in the late 80s and early 90s climate change was far from settled thing.

I was under the assumption that the basic tennets of climate change were well understood by scientists more than 100 years ago. While the climate models have been developed only recently, enabling more accurate predictions, climate science is centuries old as it relates to understanding human impact on our climate.

Climate science was as "settled" in the 80s and 90s as it is today. Yes, the predictions are more accurate today, but the confidence that we are changing Earth's climate was just as strong then as now.

I remember in 1997-8 being taught in US public schools, in no uncertain terms, that we are changing the climate, warming the atmosphere into a runaway greenhouse effect. This was in the US South in a very red state that mostly denies climate science today. The only way to interpret the idea that climate science was "less settled" in the 80s 90s is political. It has been "settled" for 100+ years in rational scientific discourse.
It's been "not a secret" for a very long time. Scientists were meaningfully speculating on the effect that spilling CO2 into the atmosphere would have since the (very late) 19th century.

Here's an old scientific article talking about it, if you're interested. [PDF] http://www.rsc.org/images/Arrhenius1896_tcm18-173546.pdf

Amazing that we have had so much time to think about this problem.
How does this differ from the traditional hosts file that blocks requests to blacklisted hosts?
Could you make a mirror and torrent of the 170 PDFs as well? They go back to April 2005. You can find them at ljarchive.neverlocate.me/LinuxJournal
The only reason I can think of is if this is something which one very rarely needs. Otherwise, I'd think those who regularly handle JSON files are able to write a one line program.

And the JS console was only an example. Other languages can also pretty print JSON trivially. E.g. python.
i've been told by people in the planning office (in my town, not vancouver) that that's the main purpose of those on-street "temporary" patios - to get people used to the idea that streets are public spaces, not thoroughfares for cars.
Data point of one (school) but I did at University of California, Davis.
Works for devices with hard to access hosts files (IoT garbage, smart TVs)
Yes, it can run on any host in your lan.
Yeah, that's not going to happen in large parts of the world.

Autonomous vehicles will never work in the chaos of Delhi or Jakarta's traffic
My understanding is that it accomplishes the same thing but for every device on your network rather than having to manage host files on each device. It also works for those where editing the host file isn't possible.
I'm using Quora pretty often

The most influential people there are Indian. I guess we gonna see many excellent business influencers from India in the next few years
Not much, except it's on another machine and is a central point of config. Can even be used to hand out DHCP
But, at the end of the day, you can get some easy to understand statistics from building a decision tree. Based on population makeup, you'll know solid numbers on how many will be expected to hit each outcome.

Such that optimizing some other function based on the application of a decision tree is effectively a statistical question. A natural one.

Indeed, I'm not sure I see the difference. One is just explainable based on understandings of distributions and trusting that they hold. One is explainable based on understanding of decisions, and trusting those remain the best decisions.

I used my bike ride as an example earlier. It is made up of many decisions to get home. Knowing what all of those decisions are can help build up a solid range of when I'm likely to get home. For the level of accuracy I typically care about, so does just knowing the rough distribution of how long I typically take.

How are both of those not statistical in nature? One is just more fully exploring a space with ridiculous computational power, whereas the other is generalizing to a much quicker answer. Right?
So not dirty. “Dirty” money in the traditional sense has to be “laundered” because it comes from an illegal activity.
Having migrated from Travis to CircleCI for most of my active projects, I’d say their models are so vastly different it’s pretty much impossible to have an AST of sort that can be translated to both except for the simplest and most well-encapsulated cases (at least not before Travis supposedly improved Docker support, by which point I was already gone).
According to other comments here, the unethical places spread payment over a period of time; payment stops if it gets patched.
It is very much not pedantry. Chrome, Safari etc are proprietary programs. Calling them open source is like calling a peanut an orange.

Foss comes with the requirement that you as the user have certain freedoms. With Chrome etc you do not have those freedoms.
With the exception of frontend developers. There is an expectation that you have a good personal site regardless of how much experience you have if your job is to push HTML, CSS and JS. Its a showcase for what you can do when you're not constrained by a product or a client.
> States ... maintain their own armies navies and air forces

Say what?
Stack is great until it's not. Don't let it be your only card. I was in Taiwan and couldn't load the card as they were having trouble with their Interac processor. Luckily I have a UK Monzo card that kind of saved the day for ATM transfers. My Canadian bank charge a stupid amount on ATM withdrawals.
Yes, one example where overcommit can be better than swap is Redis.

When redis is persisting its state to disk, it temporarily needs 2x the memory because it forks a child that does this in the background. Since fork uses copy-on-write, only the difference between child/parent is actually consumed as extra memory. The rest is "de-duplicated" in a sense.

The choice is then to

1) enable swap, possibly killing performance
2) enable overcommit, possibly killing the redis process

It is sometimes preferable for a service to fail hard and fast than get bogged down with swap. I believe this is the idea behind the "no swap" policy, at least on Linux.

Redis is a good example here because any amount of swapping will kill performance since literally all of its allocated memory is consistently accessed for the purposes of doing a dump. And Linux will always try to swap things out, even with vm.swappiness=1.
Its already happening:
https://www.caixinglobal.com/2019-08-06/chinese-farmers-are-...
yeah its not free exactly, its not being policed.
“What we are facing now is a person whose crime dwarfs all of the crimes ever committed in human history. We were unable to find a single law applicable to his crime. So we recommend that the crime of Extinction of Life on Earth be added to international law, and that Rey Diaz be tried under it.”

— Cixin Liu, The Dark Forest
You don't need to show everything in order to show you're capable. A handful of great components demonstrates ability.
History of Clarus the Dogcow
I think you can get pine nuts from the cones of ponderosa pines, which might be why they're included.

The tree filter does in general seem over-inclusive regarding how practical getting something edible from the trees is though. The most common trees it turns up near me are sugar maples in parks. They do produce edible maple syrup, but you have to drill taps into them to extract the sap, which is probably not a great idea in a public park.
> Buyers from some third country will buy soybeans from the USA

This isn't happening. US farmers are not selling as many soy beans as they used to. The year over year soy bean export decline was in the billions of dollars.
Yes, these are allegedly in some level of production(ish) as the E-type zero [1]. They are absolutely beautiful and the interior looks like the starship enterprise crossed with a bond car. I hope that this becomes an option with more classic cars as electric becomes the preferred propulsion for fun cars.

[1] https://www.jaguar.com/about-jaguar/jaguar-classic/authentic...
Not only did he not mention PiHole (or the similar, but better, Adguard Home), he didn't seem to be aware that network adblocking is a thing—but who can blame him? It's not exactly trivial unless you're comfortable with a terminal. Is there any sort of commercialized solution for this? I'd love to see Adguard/Pihole devices available off the shelf; with a little marketing I think they could really appeal to a lot of people.

(I looked around and the only 'built in' solution I could find for adblocking is in Eero WiFi's paid subscription, which blocks ads on their wifi router)
Telenor Becomes First Network to Launch 5G in Pakistan
Nashville Contra Jaws, 1975
Escape rooms are big business
Great piece of content. First time I read something in krebsonsecurity

Love the combination of investigation and cybersecurity.
I liked the article's info on the background of the moderators.
It was informative if anything.
And made me feel that they are more human than I thought :-).

However, I disagree with these nuance-avoiding characterization of participation and discussion.

Eg, the article makes participants in Boeing crash discussion, seem inhumane and devoid of 'outrage' that the authors of the article were expecting.

On the other hand, the article is not analytical enough (or purposefully avoiding) mentioning the potential causes, that make moderation of a technical forum difficult.

As I had noted somewhere else in my posts, this forum allows a disproportionaly high number of one-sided article submissions.

It is those type of submissions, by often high-karma users

(eg. https://news.ycombinator.com/submitted?id=jbegley )

that continue to create selective-outrage, counter-selective-outrage arguments, and overall high stress, low technical information content discussions.

And cause continuous moderation stress.
Someone should do this for tech meetups with free pizza and beer. I practically lived on those my first year in the bay area. If you're smart you can eat for free every night of the week in exchange for listening to a few boring lightning talks and recruiter pitches.
Yes, of course. A typo. CSS it is. In my mind I was already at the JS part. Specifically the part about disabling "right clicking" ... which I didn't even end up mentioning.
Clip-On Tie
Theoretically they could do that. It depends if the tort laws actually inflict enough damage to force change.

It seems to be the case that a lot of companies instead focus their resources on tort reform bills to neuter the laws.
Compressing 640x64@660 takes exactly the same amount of work as compressing 1280x720@30. You could even use hardware h.264 encoder as long as you can debayer raw 10bit in software fast enough (or convince Broadcom employee 6by9 to make internal Videocore firmware debayering resolution agnostic, its already fast enough keeping up with twice the amount of data when using camera in 1920x1080@25 mode).

But you dont even need fancy compression, at those framerates things change really slowly so simple delta encoding on raw data will do wonders.
Yes, because that is exactly the sort of behavior that a business would engage in. Screwing over their suppliers and demonstrating that they offer no value whatsoever.

How would that make any sense? It is ludicrous.
That law would be the 'Medicare For All' law. The government could then determine the maximum price for life-saving everything. And the predatory bastards could go find an honest job (if they know what that means).
Errata: Replace "mode" with "model"!
If only higher education weren't already perverted by the realities of greed and incompetent bureaucracy leading to our little student debt problem inconveniencing a handful of students in the country /s
It is basically modern servitude and I hope not a model for future education.
This is an unnecessarily aggressive response. That's not how you give good feedback.
Package Management with Go Modules: The Pragmatic Guide
Does Uber really solve the bad neighborhood problem?
Something about this article doesn't add up. According to the article:

1. Brands charge a premium of 10x-20x compared to generics.
2. Brands are offering non-brand versions at about 50% of branded price.
3. Brands pay 50% kickbacks to middle men (so cut = revenue neutral).
4. Offering the cheaper version kills real generic competition.

How can 4 be true when brands haven't done anything to their net margin and the generics are still a factor cheaper than the non-branded "brand" version?

It just sounds like a bit of trickery to shut the politicians up more than something designed to hurt their competitors.
I think what’s new is the rapid fall in the number of CS grads from Stanford (and other top schools) accepting offers from Facebook.

But I doubt it’s just about ethics. I remember when Facebook dethroned Google too.
Google tells SEOs how to continually do well throughout their algorithm changes
If the point is that it's not necessary to have a static website to achieve reasonable simplicity - point taken!

From a graphical point of view, it looks a little off to me (I'm not a designer, so take with a grain of salt). The whole website is flat while the boxes have these little shadows. Too many things are centered: the menu on the left, the boxes on the right. The headers on the right side are too close to the left-hand menu.

Also I can't see where the links are pointing by hovering on them.
Hah, with noscript enabled I simultaneously didn't notice the right click disable, but did notice that an animation was still occurring.
Then I would have to look for a solution for the sites I run that completely block Brave. I don't care if people block ads. But I give a massive fuck if someone/thing swapped out my ads for theirs.
The 8 forms of capital

http://www.appleseedpermaculture.com/8-forms-of-capital/
"The Hong Kong riots? Turns out the CIA is involved."

I would be very interested in seeing any credible evidence that 'the CIA is involved' in the current Hong Kong protests.

And I don't mean HKHermit scratching his stomach, or the hilarious training manual for non-verbal battle communications...
Which Is Good for Functional Consultants, ERP, Oracle, SAP or Microsoft?
Once extracted from the cones, the pine nuts (seeds) are quite delicious.
Who are these individuals that will pay millions of dollars for an exploit? Cyber criminals rely almost exclusively on dead bugs, frequently using exploits from the metasploit framework. That gives then sufficient access to a broad range of victims so they can generate revenue through volume.

0days are used against hardened targets. Think “Iranian nuclear facilities” rather than “grandma’s PC”
I’ve adopted all of these as well. Doing statistics in my undergrad, not understanding what you or someone else wrote was just the worst. The change of style just became an obvious necessity.
No. A ban gave them instant feedback for testing ways around the ban. It also gave them instant gratification if they bypassed the ban.

The shadowban slowed them way down by denying the feedback. A user would have to respond to them for them to even know they did it. If they did, we’d manually shadowban that one too and they wouldn’t realize for awhile.

Lots of work for them. Little for us.
Are you the son of Scott Bakula?
The primary reason Facebook acquires so many patents is because every engineer is incentivized by a $5,000 cash bonus to file for one, and so they shepherd it through.
Same here...but also UCD.
I mean, given how ethically MBAs act, it seems the ethics course isn't really all that effective...
Unregulated markets are not black markets. They are grey markets.
I don't think that would do anything at all. People aren't going to learn ethics from a class. Furthermore, there is absolutely no reason to single out CS students, as many ethical decisions in tech are made by business people anyway.
SpaceX is notorious for chewing up starry-eyed new grads and spitting them out after they burn out from the lack of work life balance.
> surely you would prefer temporal degradation then total system shutdown

Sometimes, but sometimes you want the opposite.

A slow service (e.g. a db server with a failing disk) might still pass health checks but degrade overall system performance.

It is easier/simpler to detect a total outage than a slow/flapping service.
OMG I laid the groundwork for the Falling Fruit mobile app, but I had to step aside and it was all so long ago! It has come along leaps and bounds since then.

The browser app has always been way ahead and the programmers behind the whole idea are super competent.

https://github.com/falling-fruit/falling-fruit-mobile.git
The jailbreak community will not be getting these. They make more money continuing to sell to China than they will make selling to Apple.
Adguard can be used with any router: https://adguard.com/en/adguard-dns/overview.html#instruction

Its not built in per se, but its arguably less complicated than replacing a router (or worse, putting one router behind another, as would be required for the many people who's cable/fiber/etc modem is all in one with their router).