skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Eh? 4 bits minimum to get a uniform 1-16, and each bit requires requires 2 numbers that are not identical. (Ah yeah, I thought that in turn requires a bit more than 4 numbers, but it requires only a bit more than 2 numbers (probability that numbers coincide is not 1/2, as with bits, but 1/10, or a bit more than that due to non-uniformity)).

Thus, I recant "around 20, 40, 60 or more" and replace it by "around 9, 18, 27 or more" numbers. Probability that you have to reject any resulting hex digit is obviously 3/8.
I'm not sure I understand.

Humans aren't like weighted dice. For example, it's certainly conceivable that a few pairs of these humans misunderstand the goal such that they have a 0% chance of ever choosing numbers that change the respective ordering. Add to that the higher probability that many of these pairs of humans will just toggle their orders each round.

Edit: clarification-- the humans don't even have to misunderstand the rule, just the upshot of the process.
The Clover bootloader can basically load a UEFI environment from a BIOS boot. Is there anything stopping you from doing the reverse?
Are most school shootings by fellow students? I was under the impression that was not the case.
The next one in the sequence, anytime you need a new number?
YouTube and Maps are one of the few Google services left which are still available over Tor. You can proxy youtube-dl and retain some of your privacy this way.
https://crypto.stackexchange.com/a/60256
Wikipedia community reacts to an editor being temporarily banned
Nice idea, but you're better off accomplishing it with TLD wildcards or AXFR transfers than a hosts list, since new sub-domains are always being created and rotated.
- library download manager ? -> https://www.quicklisp.org/ (over 1500 libs)
Several decades ago, "without a computer" was the norm, because they were expensive, noninteractive, and/or difficult to access. You had to write your entire program before being given a chance to run it, and if there were any errors, you had to wait possibly a very long time before you could run it again.

Now that computers are ubiquitous and nearly everyone can immediately start writing code, I still think there are many advantages of doing it the "old school" way. Many of the highly-skilled developers I've worked with started learning with no constant access to a computer, so I definitely think this form of teaching is very useful --- without a machine "doing some of the thinking" for you, as it were, it forces you to actually understand the problem more deeply, so that you can tell the machine what to do. Those developers are also the ones who will spend more time whiteboarding or writing with pencil and paper than they do writing or debugging code.

Also, I thought this image depicted students being handed stacks of 5.25" floppies in their protective envelopes:

https://storage.googleapis.com/cs-unplugged.appspot.com/stat...
Schools are not society as a whole, and they are subject to a great many rules and procedures that make cameras very different than those on the street. Schools are already heavily surveilled, by teachers if nobody else. Kids cannot leave, and they are subject to codes of behavior far more restrictive than in wider society. Those codes of behavior are not enforced with jail time. The cameras, in the british model, are also not used to catch behavior. They are used after an incident has been reported by other means. And they are administered very locally, by school staff who know everyone by name, not cops. It is an entirely different paradigm.
You sound like you're on the autistic spectrum, struggling to understand basic human social interactions like some kind of hyper analytical artificial intelligence. The server was being helpful, not bossy. That was a great example of customer service going beyond reasonable expectations.

The OP could have said "no thanks" and continued with his original order. Simple as that. It seems that your social cognitive circuitry is overloaded by someone acting like an actual person instead of a simple robot.
And illustrates one of my core problems with Apple stuff: so much is hidden in gestures I'll never naturally discover unless someone tells you. Likely where Snapchat got the idea
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This is pretty dope, get more tunes on it.
As a massive theme park fan, this has been especially pronounced lately (if you want an example about how bad it's gotten, check out Fast and the Furious Supercharged at Universal Studios Florida) but there have been rides since the 90s that mix physical sets and screens really well. If you want to check those out, my two favorites are The Amazing Adventures of Spiderman and Harry Potter and the Forbidden Journey, both at Islands of Adventure in Orlando.
Yes. I've looked into them for a project. They are very expensive. Like in the low 7 figures. They're high maintenance and the packaging for at least some foods required is relatively expensive too.

They're pretty much as this point only for large production facilities/copackers. They're useful basically for products where heat-based pasteurization has noticeable downsides.
HTTPS would be overkill. TLS would require certificates and nobody's going to put up with that for simple network transparency. It already works over SSH and that's pretty much optimal as far as most of us are concerned...
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https://www.ionos.com/community/question/ngannou-vs-dos-santos-livestream-5/

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https://www.philadelphiaweekly.com/ufc-on-espn-ngannou-vs-dos-santos-live-stream-reddit/article_df1f5ef4-9ad7-11e9-9317-5cb9017b3638.html

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https://www.ionos.com/community/question/reddit-stream-ufc-on-espn-3-ngannou-vs-dos-santos-live-streams/

https://www.ionos.com/community/question/ufc-on-espn-3-live-stream-on-tv/

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> Someone who became one of the world’s richest men for only a few years of work

The shorter time it took to make his wealth the better it looks because less time means better efficiency.

It's not like you're entitled to wealth because of how long you've worked. This is an idea that has lead few to financial success I imagine. Privileges and salary based on time keeping a seat warm somewhere is a union/government thing, not a common private business policy. In private business it's about the value you create, and Paul Allen and the early Microsoft team ended up creating quite a bit and did so relatively quickly.
As someone who wants to be financially independent, how did you make so much such that household income > mortgage? Do u just live in a crappy neighborhood? Even on Midwest states tech yearly salary is about half of a decent house?
Rejection sampling isn't the best way to go.

With b bits you are subdividing the (0,1) interval into 2^b regions, and only need more bits if one of the 9 multiples of 0.1 land in the interval you've picked. As b increases this probability drops exponentially.

It's a fair point that the number of "numbers" depends on how low the entropy of the source is, but in the link the probability of collision wasn't massive.
A few years ago I was stumped by a similar question about generating uniformly random numbers with less than ideal constraints. The helpful minds at MathOverflow solved it [0] but it wasn't something that you could guarantee would always work. (The question explains in more detail... Due to the miniscule probability of a never ending sequence of less than ideal random integers.)

I'm curious whether this technique could be applied to my original problem!

[0]: https://math.stackexchange.com/q/1273214/196899
You could use the biased distribution to build a lookup table for a less biased distribution.

Build a 10^n lookup table with an entry for each of the possible (ordered) n-tuples of values, give each entry a weight of the product of the probabilities of each of the n values making the entry.

Create a set of probabilities for each output and initialise to zero, run through each of the generated tuples in descending order of weight, set the lookup value to the output with the current lowest probability (or the first, or feed in another PRNG - but you have to stop somewhere) and increase the probability according to the weight associated with the tuple.

At the end of this process you'll have a PRNG that's at least as good as the input (and generally better) - although you'll need to query the seed PRNG n times per result.
The higher the value of n the better the output (Although the lookup table will become quite large).
Yes this sounds bad, but (a) it absolutely does not say you're expected to comment on each other, much less negatively, just that it's a regular opportunity to do so if needed, and (b) given you have a negative opinion of a coworker, all of the alternatives are worse. Just doing nothing and letting the problem go unaddressed (whether the problem is that your perception is wrong or that the employee is under-performing, both should get fixed), waiting until the next performance review when the damage has been done, assuming the boss will notice the problem anyway. These are all worse than knowing you can bring it to your manager's atention within a few days of deciding it's time to escalate the problem and let him / her deal with it.

If you have a problem with someone, speak up and get it addressed. That doesn't mean you have to sit and bitch and gossip about people. But don't let a problem fester. It's worse for the employee who might eventually get fired and have developed a terrible reputation for not fixing their problem, it's worse for the company who may be paying for sub-par work, and it's worse for you for having to compensate for their poor performance without proper recognition.

If everyone developed the people skills to give and take this feedback freely from peers that would be great, but in reality that just won't happen at every job and sometimes you need to escalate. When you do, sooner and more direct is better than later and via some 360 review form.
He’s had 20-30 years to make mortgage payments.
so there's lead raining down on us from piston powered planes?
Laws also change the other way around. For the longest time it was not illegal to be Jewish, or a Roma. Or an intellectual or an activist.

I suggest seeing The Lives of Others, a beautiful film about East Germany’s surveillance and it’s influence on people.
Tim is also a great lecturer (I had him as my lecturer many years ago), and one of the authors of Managing Gigabytes, - which for many years was apparently basically required reading at google - which is a great intro to all the normal compression systems, as well as large scale text search
Singapore's airport also does right-before-gate screenings at 3 of its 4 terminals.

Unlike Tegel, though, the gate area and the screening areas are open spaces, with glass to separate. Tegel always feels a bit claustrophobic, and as a jet-lagged traveller my first time departing, I admit it took awhile for me to figure out where the hell I needed to go.

source: https://www.changiairport.com/en/airport-guide/departing/sec...
Sounds like you know what you are saying...
Headline doesn't match story: toxic but productive editor get ban, community in uproar
> We've been eating heat cooked food for millennia.

"We" have been eating raw food for millions of years, far longer than cooked foods, which are a relatively new phenomenon in our biochemical evolutionary history.
I refuse to pay for most sites since they tend to offer little value and/or use dark patterns such as barely disclosed trial periods. Even high value sites like NYT, I refuse to pay for because of their semi-deceptive trial periods but just as importantly their remarkably high pricing after the trial.

After using up the few trial articles for a given month I just don't read from that site. Maybe two or three times a year total I might go to extremes like firing up a different browser to try to load a story with a fresh session, if it's something I really want to read.

I do pay decent money for some valuable sites that offer good content. And I end up paying even in months when I don't consume their content, and I don't mind, because I like supporting the site and I can go back any time with full access (as long as I am subscribed) and get any content I missed. This tends to be more tech how-to stuff, as opposed to news. Like NSScreenCast and objc.io, which are both great in different ways. And their pricing is not insane for what they offer. It's fair.

Unlike the news sites, which have utterly crazy pricing if you do a quick calculation of how much it would cost you to subscribe to a dozen or so of them. I dip into way more than several dozen news sites that want me to pay. No way I could make the budget fit even a small subset of them, at the prices they want.
Talk to a kid who has been hospitalized by other students and still has to sit beside those persons every day because there wasn't enough evidence to punish them. Talk to the teachers who now wear body armor (not a joke) to protect themselves from violent students. Documentation of attacks is the first step in their eventual mitigation.

https://ottawacitizen.com/news/local-news/ottawa-educators-o...
Exactly. It’s true not because a particular authority said it; it’s true because it is true.
US Navy ship to be outfitted with a 150kw LaWS directed-energy laser weapon
Wow, kudos to them - I tried to write a Dicom parser many years ago (trying to look at an mri) and just gave up. The standard seemed to be one of those obtuse “standards” that just defined wrappers around proprietary blobs
I can relate to most of that as well.

Often I wonder if I choose the wrong race on character creation or a few eras too early to spawn. Humans are certainly capable of dabbling in many domains simultaneously, but our current social structures (and limited lifespans) generally require us to specialize in basically one or two fields in order to be significantly successful.
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America, where the legal fees hurt worse than the punishment.
The joke is that they had enough U if the different groups put it all together, but each wanted to work alone.
This solution gives no consideration to security only the distribution of outputs.
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I doubt that. Nobody seemed to care that he really shat the bed.
But the original post described rejection sampling (once you got your bits from the larger/smaller trick).
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Maybe have them write their numbers down and put them in a hat? Or hey, this is 2019, have them connect to a website or bluetooth beacon and enter a number on their phone?

Ooh, or I bet you could make a 10-digit keypad that wirelessly reports to a nearby Raspberry Pi for $2-5 in parts, sort of like those 'clickers' that universities use to quiz large lecture classes.

It's too bad that most cheap radio modules are so short-range, because it would be interesting to make something like that and nail them to telephone poles with notes asking people to press a button. You'd have to control for people doing things like hammering the same button repeatedly for a laugh, but it would be fun to see what happened.

Would you be allowed to use HAM bands in the US for that sort of thing if you made them like beacons which sent a callsign after the number value and device ID?
Foreign ownership main culprit for unaffordable housing in Vancouver
> Are those kids somehow missing out?

According to my children who went from not celebrating birthdays to celebrating them - yes.
I tried out a 6" screen for my last phone, and when it broke, I got a Moto x4 precisely because it wasn't huge (it's still a little larger than I prefer). I have pretty big hands, but the 6" screen was never comfortable and it didn't fit nicely in my (also rather large) pockets, so the smaller phone was a better fit for me.

My main annoyance is that I'm essentially stuck with "budget" phones since all of the top of the line phones have a larger form factor. I think 5" is ideal, but it's hard to find anything under 5.5" these days, much less something with decent specs.
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Having lunch together is the most overlooked things ever in team building aspect.

It sounds so insignificant, so silly, but it is the natural way to build camaraderie between team member. People lower their guard, and have nothing to 'prove', unlike...uh, work.
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For DOS, DOSBox has special support for sound and video that you don't get in a VM (e.g. VirtualBox), unless you have some sort of plugin of course to emulate a SoundBlaster, Gravis UltraSound or other peripheral (the world of DOS is mostly ISA).

On the other hand, if you have e.g. Windows 98 running in a VirtualBox VM (which is actually surprisingly difficult), then you have a driver layer for VirtualBox's virtual hardware and Windows 98 would use it as it would use any other hardware (the early Windows world is mostly PCI).
The Raspberry Pi is so powerful, you don't feel the process isolation in practice. If Xorg is sucking too many resources, you can use KMS/DRM directly. If you insist on having no protection, you can build your code as a kernel module.
There are some passive income subreddits where lot of folks are very into this. You might get an idea there.
I read the comments on HN. Usually I can glean enough of an outline of the article that I don't feel like I have to read it. If I am compelled to check it out anyway (most likely because there are few comments and the title is very baitey) I'll try incognito mode or occasionally check the web link/google cache. But if it's not easy I just move on.
Why not turn them into houses before putting them in a landfill?
how come this seems to only work with ".google.com" tld?

I tried .apple.com, .yahoo.com, etc. and got nothing.
I'm in exactly the same boat. 6" was too big, and my current phone (Moto x4) is just slightly too big at 5.2". I just want a 5" phone with decent specs, but it seems that phone manufacturers want me to buy a huge screen.

I have pretty big hands (L men's gloves are usually just perfect, maybe a little small), and I just can't figure out how all of these small handed people are using phones bigger than mine. I refuse to buy one of those add-on grips since they essentially double the size of the phone, and I don't want to have to use two hands to type.
Windows 3.1 needs to manipulate the MS-DOS System File Table (the table that keeps track of open file handles) in order to facilitate multitasking applications. This is fine.

However, Windows 3.1 relies on an utterly absurd hack to determine size of entries in the MS-DOS System File Table, despite the fact that MS-DOS and Windows are both under control of the same company.

It scans raw memory looking for three instances of the string "CON", assumes this is the location the SFT, and uses the distance between the first two CONs as the size of a SFT entry.

The hack breaks if the SFT has been moved to high memory, which prevents Windows from running. The workaround is to put three CON instances in conventional memory, correctly spaced, before starting Windows.
> The church staff drafted a blueprint for the replacement, calling for a long, rectangular shape to allow for natural lighting, with a curve in order to preserve an oak tree to the south of the church.

Sorry, I don't see how that story is relevant to your position.

An architect not delivering on some basic requirements is one thing, not necessarily because they are artists, because art will always only be a part of architecture. Delivering that is completely disconnected from it's use case is simply bad architecture.

Making a major change to a plan half way through is a good way to piss off any designer or engineer though. Especially one as massive and all-encompasing as a huge airport, railway, and hotel complex + retail shopping center. I'm curious how much that had to do with them dragging their feet, in a huff, out of ego or whatever. I doubt the architects simply 'hates' shopping, or maybe they do and didn't know that was a requirement before going in deep into a project.

But somewhere the communication broke down and relationships deteriorated.
How exactly did his actions hurt the shareholders?
I agree he and the Gates Foundation do wonderful things, but I will Never be entirely comfortable with one person sitting on that much money. He is worth in the range of 100 billion dollars. 100 billion dollars.

He has promised to give half of it away but as far as I can tell is no closer to doing that since he first made the pledge. I really wonder sometimes if that pledge was just PR for the absurdly wealthy. No need to tax us! We will be giving it away! But when?

He is doing good things but there is no way I can look up to someone who sits on such an obscene amount of wealth.
Depends on how much of it they give you, on the flip side with a half-life of 244 days you'd better be using your kit soon after purchase, and better hope it didn't sit on the shelves long.
> as does health insurance

Hmm.... I'm getting that same spidy-sense feeling I got the first time I learned about recursive functions. :)
On what kind of hardware do you have these kind of projects? Any links?
Used to mountain bike a lot. Got into CrossFit and lifting. Need to get some more focus back on lifting again. Got into home DIY/repair, but have backed off with my new place. Getting into oarchery, handgun/shotgun/rifle target shooting, kayaking, and ATVs now. Looking at learning more about fishing. Enjoy boardgames though no one near me plays. And trying to get my kids into any of the above. Time is hard to find between work and chores for any/all of that, but I try to squeeze in some of it weekly. You asked non-tech, but I also enjoy some Zelda Breath of the Wild from time to time; not much other time available for video games. And my wife and I enjoy a couple TV series and I enjoy audio books. Not sure what defines leisure activity vs hobby, but I think they would be similar.
Just use the unlicensed ISM bands.
The Windscale nuclear power plant was spewing out radiation years before it caught fire
Pasteurization is one of the great lifesavers of the modern age, akin to the initial use of fire to cook food. We in the west can afford to be obsessed with "fresh" because, thanks to modern scientific agriculture, we don't have to deal with so many pathogens. But the bugs are still out there. Cook your food properly. I would be extremely cautious about any new sterilization tech. I want it tested not just on clean food from clean farms, but on the horrible stuff not normally seen in our food chains.

I like my steak overcooked, cooked to the point of wrecking it, because where I grew up eating under-cooked meat was a serious health hazard. We used to wash our vegetables in water with a bit of bleach. Whenever I see someone eating a bloody steak, or vegetables rinsed only in tapwater, I shudder a little.

Does it kill pork tapeworms?

https://www.cbc.ca/radio/asithappens/as-it-happens-friday-ed...

"Some people get it by ingesting microscopic tapeworm eggs found in raw or undercooked pork, or unwashed fruits and vegetables from overseas. But Palma has never travelled outside the U.S."
I'd love to see something written up about how quickly this converges, assuming the variables are i.i.d and distributed according to the distribution in the article.