skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's a very good question.

You're right that the way we typically train Tree Ensembles creates a massive number of rules, the walk through Random Forest has more than 100,000 leaves per Decision Tree. Once we start grafting it the number of rules starts to vastly outnumber the amount of training data.

I have some follow up articles planned that will cover this in more detail, but the short answer is that I feel that we often jump to overly complex models up front without fully considering whether the accuracy/complexity tradeoff it worth it. Using Amalgamate I showed how I could have the number of rules without significantly increasing validation error (+5%). I believe that if we're careful using model sophisticated techniques (i.e. Boosting and dense/fully connected/tabular neural networks) then we should be able to create reasonably accurate models that are reasonably straight forward to explain.
And historically (and even today) most of the tech jobs aren't downtown in Boston anyway. Yes, if you want to pay a premium for urban living in Boston/Cambridge, you can do so. But you can escape it pretty easily if you don't want to pay a stiff premium for a personal preference to live in the city.
Does this work with transparency? Would be nice with a watermark indicating sleep state, but still being able to see the content.
How so? git handles binary files at least as well as any other VCS from what I’ve seen.
Totally agree with this. A good starting point might have been some of the looks on reddit's malefashionadvice (or something similar). The basic bastard, for instance, is a a great capsule wardrobe https://amp.reddit.com/r/malefashionadvice/comments/5da1dc/t...

That said, excellent idea and well done on executing and making it look pretty!
>You also see betting markets are generally more Republican-leaning in ways that were ultimately born out

I think the first half of this is the money quote. The markets are definitely more Republican (or maybe just Trump?) leaning. I'm not convinced that the second half being true isn't just a coincidence.

IMO the analysis about how PredictIt bettors followed 2016 polling trends seems to be ascribing them an excess of rationality. I think if you mirror that S-curve diagonally you can see that: The betting markets put really high odds for Trump in states like New Hampshire and Minnesota(which went 55% to Biden but still had 25% odds of going blue). If you look at the mirroring red states which went 55% to Trump, there were no bettors expecting a blue wave (Missouri and South Carolina had ~5% odds of going blue).

When you look at markets like "Who Will Win California" or "Who Will Win the Popular Vote", I'm convinced that many people making bets are delusional.
Quite apart from this type of attack breaking the site guidelines and not being allowed on HN (about which see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25130908)... that was 9 years ago. Imagine being publicly shamed for the worst thing you've done in the past decade. I don't think anyone is going to pass that test.

Is this the kind of world you (or any of us) really want to be part of? Surely not. Therefore please don't help to create it here.
There's bstr, I've come across that a few times.
Bring back link rings :)
I meant LLVM monoculture, not Clang monoculture. All the new languages use LLVM for a backend. (There are, of course, exceptions, but the point stands.)
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The major downside of these “fleets” is that they will be able to be used to harass others but subsequently hide the evidence of that automatically after 24h.
Check out the book "The Long Fix". It goes into detail on this quite a bit, and yes, the government does a better job by a longshot.
I would agree it's overused and often a sign the writer lacks clarity into what they are trying to communicate (aside from the more nefarious uses to obfuscate).

But I think it helps to understand it's purpose instead of to say it's just bad.
The only way to get non-partisan would be elect panel to oversee the administration of an office, and let each major party with 30% or more in office have equal # of votes. Like picking teams for school sports. It'll end up 50/50. Let the speaker of the house be the deciding vote for ties.

Judges shouldn't be appointed by the fed but be randomized by computers for a database of vetted lawyers/judges who could assume the role, and all federal judges only serve for the case they're called in for (basically reverse jury duty).
There's a silicon user on HN, but no idea if they are/identify as a GPT-3. They have some training particular to HN

But here is a outed Reddit user -

https://www.theregister.com/2020/10/09/reddit_gpt3_bot/

https://www.reddit.com/user/thegentlemetre/
It is also a problem of scale.

New Zealand has really 2 truly international airports (Auckland and Christchurch). The United States has over 50. In 2017, the United States saw over ~70,000,000, tourists through her ports of entry, while New Zealand saw 3,700,000 . These statistics are for tourist entries, so they don't even include repatriating citizens who traveled internationally. To institute the same quarantine rules in the United States would be untenable. Furthermore, inbound travelers to the United States _are_ supposed to quarantine for 14 days, there is just no enforcement mechanism.

And regarding the per capita infections, the most important figure is tests/1M population. We both know that testing doesn't cause infections, and tests only tell you what already exists. However, it is equally as true that absence of evidence is not evidence of absence. So just as some nations may be reporting lower per capita infection rates, they also have a lower per capita test rate. You can't, with a straight face, say that India, which has performed 91,359 tests per 1m has fewer cases than the United States, which has performed 516,656 tests per 1M population. Put another way, 50% of Americans have been tested at one point in the past year, whereas only 9% of Indians have been tested.

Before just shitting on everything and having strongly held opinions strongly held, actually research the data and understand the tectonics underlying the world's response. It is not nearly as black and white as you and others seem to think it is.

Tourism data from Wikipedia* (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tourism_in_New_Zealand and (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tourism_in_the_United_States#2...)

Test data from https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/

* It seems that the "Total" row for New Zealand may only be the top 12 countries, but the difference is so large that it hardly matters.
Even though naming the commands might be arbitrary choices, they can be practiced upon. One doesn't always have to fall in the semantic trap.

The main problem that I see with using git is that when you are part of a team, what kind of release and branching strategy should you use.

It's comparatively easy with one person team but becomes complicated with a team and even more if it's an open source project and now you have individual devs contributing their changes.
so it uses more memory but not more battery?
I really really disagree that you need all of those. I have been using git for several years and never used blame. I use built in IDE tools to view revision history. I occasionally use stash, never use cherry, never use log.

It depends on your team's workflow, probably, but if you find yourself needing all of those daily, it seems to me like your workflow has some extra complexity that most people won't have.
They finally have official[1] Maven packages[2] now! I have no idea what the version numbers are supposed to mean though. Or what's a good way to choose the correct platform-specific JAR in your build.

[1] Links under "Maven Artifacts": https://www.eclipse.org/swt/

[2] https://mvnrepository.com/artifact/org.eclipse.platform/org....
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Tons of interesting pieces get sent here everyday, and I'm wondering, where do the posters find their articles?

I've been using Findka [0] as a pretty neat little content recommender that has an HN-similar crowd, and I sent some stuff from there, but where do you guys find the articles you send?

[0]: https://findka.com
I agree, except for the heatwave-smoke thing. I welcome the rain despite the pandemic risks.
This appears again and again from time to time on ycombinator.
I've been recommended a green zip-up hoodie, white corduroy jacket and yellow drawstring shorts. This wouldn't be my first pick.
there are many other things you have to remember when interpreting prediction market data. first, the rules of the contract may be slightly different than your intuitive interpretation based on the market title. second, you need to consider how long to expiry and overall market volume- lots of times the shares will sit at otherwise strange odds because no one wants to park their money somewhere for so long, or because there isn't liquidity. third, you have to consider the nature of the market itself- any gambling outfit can tell you how what people want to happen will bias the wagers. and fourth, your are looking at a very restricted view- for instance, right now donald trump has a 13% chance of winning the electoral college on predictit. a study over a longer period of time would tell us more. i've followed predictit for us politics for about 5 years fairly closely, and there are certainly lots of spurious prices. but its also true that polls can be wild outliers. since both methodologies are at least in the same ballpark as far as accuracy, i think you need a bigger more rigorous dataset to make any kind of claim. i believe someone did with the iowa electronic markets back in the day, but i havent read it
I didn't say they couldn't be observed, I said they weren't observed, to the best of my knowledge.

I didn't say I can prove anything about reality, because I decidedly cannot; I simply don't know the axioms.
The reason we burn fossil fuels is because we can pull the oil out of the ground and utilize the stored energy. This seems like a different situation than is being described with using iron oxide as a sort of "battery", that will have to later be recharged (reduced away from iron oxide). Thus it seems more like a mechanism for utilizing previously stored energy than as a readily available energy source waiting for exploitation.
>Luckily, this is an action that doesn't make many local friends, so it's much easier to combat politically.

I'm totally in favor of a carbon tax (even as a leftist it's a no-brainer market solution) but to claim that the corporations won't outsource to tax havens because of the "political" cost is totally laughable and just doesn't bear out in reality.
I think the truth is these topics are ones people have a lot of personal investment in and as a result aren't able to objectively reason about very well. Betting markets on the night of the election reflect this as well.
>Walmart ended the partnership because it found different, sometimes simpler solutions that proved just as useful, said people familiar with the situation. As more shoppers flock to online delivery and pickup because of Covid-19 concerns, Walmart has more workers walking the aisles frequently to collect online orders, gleaning new data on inventory problems, said some of these people. The retailer is pursuing ways to use those workers to monitor product amounts and locations, as well as other automation technology, according to the people familiar with the situation.

A simpler solution is often the best one.
None, yet. I do consider that I know myself well enough but we'll see in a bunch of years :-))
And did you before you were established and successful?

Do you have experience where you succeeded as an employee without compromising on your principles as well?
I believe that remains to be seen. I'm not sure if they were able to effectively take advantage of the new process right away, perhaps not. It looks impressive, but it's hard to say until we have some kind of more direct comparison.
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Well, yes, we can. Just use Google with non-Chrome browser with built-in ad-blocking, like Edge or Brave.
Yeah, with just a few splits/nestings, it can go either way. It's only when you get a whole bunch that it gets difficult. I think I came up with a poor, lazy example.
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IIRC, on many PinePhones, you'll need to break out the soldering iron first.

[1]: https://wiki.pine64.org/index.php?title=PinePhone_v1.1_-_Bra...
Honestly, if they mean "owned machine in colo" they should say that rather than "bare metal". Those are orthogonal concepts. (You can have VM instances on a private cloud on owned machines as well)

If you're actually interested in buying servers this is not a pedantic difference.
Maybe it's time to accept that sufficiently scaled companies need to hire more specialized roles, rather than having a single job title responsible for an array of technical specializations?
You're probably searching for English language articles and are being explicit about what you want.

For example, you might search for `vue js on show` whereas `vue on show` will show you (in the UK) results for what is on at Vue cinemas.

With Google, I expect it would understand that you are probably searching for JS related vue questions and rank those higher.
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Does it actually not work or did you not give it enough time to warm up? It's a lava lamp!
This comment irks me in a strange way. I've found very little software where what you care about doesn't build upon the fact that you trust your program's memory safety. You can use C or any other language, but if your tools can't free you from that worry, memory safety should be something that your programs "absolutely" have.
Reselling Mullvad, last I heard... Has that changed?
Thanks :)

I've been trying to work out where to put updates, so far I've been using GitHub & Twitter (both @wagtaillabs). I'll keep posting to HN as well (I just had two orders of magnitude more traffic than any other day).

I'd be more than happy for any suggestions on places where people could follow (I've thought about an email list, but I'm not sure how many people actually read emails any more).
I guess, but I think somebody using dired would be using Emacs anyway, and dired is unlikely to be the straw that breaks the camel's back.
Amplifying this because nail->head.

Also adding to the FAE angle, we have to consider what a potentially "bad" action looks like not just outside of context, but in aggregate, because in these systems you're probably looking for outliers, unusual sentiment, not just key terms.

This has a chilling effect on any extra-normal behavior.

If it was implicit that context leading up to and afterwards were required to interpret the outlier, one would see it's probably not an outlier after all, but that requires a lot of people's time and potentially your involvement.

Even if that context could be supplied with tons of surveillance and people/AI, I'd wager people would rather not be hauled in front of the internet police to explain every non-obvious, out-of-the-ordinary thing they directly or indirectly associated with.
And that's often to the detriment of the consumer.
Prediction markets ain't that great either: https://thezvi.wordpress.com/2020/10/18/predictit-presidenti...
> The C++ ABI situation is famously unstable.

is a couple ABI breaks for std::string between C++98 and C++20 that unstable ?
You can write code that uses std::string today and links against a .so built a long time ago (modulo compiler bugs of course, thus the various versions here: https://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/C_002b_002b-Dialect-Optio...). GCC & libstdc++ go to great lengths to preserve ABI compatibility.
Terrible suggestion.

From [1]

"On 17 March 2017, OpenBSD removed ELinks from its ports tree, citing concerns with security issues and lack of responsiveness from the developers.[5]"

Last stable is from 2009. Last development release 2012. Elinks is dead. Realize it uses an old version of Spidermonkey (JS). Elinks should not be used in a production environment, period.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elinks
> I don’t think they’ve done things right; they were granted access to the global trade network and had wages at pennies on the dollar from other countries. It would be almost impossible not to grow under those circumstances.

I’m guessing you don’t know that this was also true of America in the 18th and 19th centuries and a large part of how it became so wealthy. Especially when they kept using slaves long after it was banned elsewhere.
I've deleted it now.
I wasn't aware you could just give someone oxytocin via a nasal spray. That seems like it would be a pretty effective antidepressant. Sometimes I really feel like I just need a hug... Why don't they sell that stuff over the counter?
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Oeh look forward to read this
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Perl and Raku can probably use them; they've long supported all possible paired quoting characters.
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No, unless it's getting info from somewhere I'm not thinking of, it has no way of knowing what terminal you're using. In principle, I think the "accept" header is the right place to put that info?
I created a new repo to try this out the other night and haven't opened emacs since (I work in a windows environment so I just use week emacs for personal org mode based stuff now, plus any mundane editing on my Linux workstation).

I love that I CAN go back any time and could just clone the repo to get into some heavy lifting with org-agenda or whatever. But so far, no need.

Frankly, I'm blown away with logseq. I tried Roam Research when I discovered it, dropped it because of the fact that I like to maintain my own data (and the price, frankly), but missed it. This just checks every box for me.
> AlO2 is HARD

Where can I read more about AlO2?

A quick Google search is unhelpful. Is it also called "alluminum peroxide oxide"?
Does it? Apple's documentation seems to disagree [1]:

"A weak memory ordering model, like the one in Apple silicon, gives the processor more flexibility to reorder memory instructions and improve performance, but doesn’t add implicit memory barriers."

[1] https://developer.apple.com/documentation/apple_silicon/addr...
A social network where you rate other people from left to right. You also rank articles with truthyness and quality.

Let the people become the judge of truth, but in a more transparent way.

If i comment on an article in a socialist way, you'd mark me leftist. So my comments then are highlighted in shades of blue depending on how far left my ranking is by other community members. Likewise for Trump supporters.

Articles could also be ranked / flagged as dangerous (inciting hate, violence, etc) and be removed or at least boldened, or as hackernews does greyed out, so it's less prominent without complete dismissal, yet let the person not see the greying or know they've been greyed. Something along those lines, I'm sure other tweaks could be made to make a platform like twitter that's more democratically policed - that keeps as much content as possible, but is very transparent on where that content lie in truth / political slant.
No worries, I thought I was ok because the post links to the GitHub repo but I'll make the link more explicit in future.

Yep, I've added an email address now :)
I am the same age as you. I believe faith is the most central question of life. My best friend who is a scientist is uncomfortable using the word faith to describe his worldview. That is, he will believe the scientific evidence until new evidence comes to light. Whichever word you want to use I believe everyone makes a choice on why we are here and has to live with the not yet known. Will there be life after death? We can't all be correct. I hope you make progress on your journey as I find it bizarre that anyone would not care deeply about this matter.
This is lacks a strong causal analysis. We still don't understand why polls are consistently undershooting Trump support. Given the performance of polls in 2018, it seems highly correlated to Trump's presence on the ballot, and unclear if it will recur in a future presidential election. Ascribing better analysis to markets than polls requires us to ask "how?", and there isn't a clear mechanism.
I think betting markets past the night of the election reflect it even better. Trump bottomed out at 8c but grew again to 15c as the result was becoming ever more obvious and indisputable: https://www.predictit.org/markets/detail/3698
Elinks should not be used in a production environment as I argued here [1]

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25131204
Yep, all the code is in there. I do have another piece of code that has all the algorithms in a single class (which makes it much easier to use), I'll double check that it's up to date and post that tonight.
Why does this provide such a speed up on modern CPUs?
You get the experience you curate for self. If the people you followed were toxic, it’s not Twitter’s fault you didn’t unfollow them!
I’ve met several of the Unicode standard committee - They’re nerds. The kind of nerds for whom “Astral Plane” is a multilayered joke. It’s not not about the general usage, but nor is it not about the D&D term.
That has been found to be empirically not true. As always, there is a distribution (see Homicide by Daly and Wilson, for example). Now, if we know by instinct, smell, or just because we know...
In my opinion Nothing has been able to beat good old fashioned:

for i in $(cat listofips);do ssh $i “some linuxy thing” ;done
Because Apple (theoretically at least) should start increasing their market share.

Don't assume that they only downside for Intel is losing Apple as a customer... That could end up being the least of their worries.
Alcohol and vaping for me mostly.
I believe some of Apple's laptops have gotten thicker since Ive left.

https://www.cnbc.com/2019/11/13/apple-is-finally-willing-to-...
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I'll bite sure.

Covid is not that bad. Statistically unless you are very sick and/or very elderly, you are extremely likely to not die.

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-020-73777-8

Deaths were almost entirely in the 60-80+ years old range. When your that old dying is sad, but inevitable.

I'm extremely glad that we don't have an actually dangerous pandemic that effects a wider span of the population.
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