skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I didn't see it mentioned in the quick search of the article so a quick reminder that federally managed BLM land has the best use in camping options. You can usually go anywhere at your own risk of death and stay in any one place for up to two weeks for free
Do you please mind giving some info on how to build a balanced arm?
If X=2 I'm afraid my brain will have a pretty good idea about what number it's picking. Also people perceive odd numbers to be more random.
We Went from 'The Office' to 'Severance'
I was actually expecting to see more Erlang work available. I knew it wasn’t a big language, but nowadays I feel like I’d have a better chance landing a job working on Haskell than Erlang.
What if you really like that niche? That said, with Clojure I can do React.js, Node.js, JVM and, as of recently, even Dart/Flutter development. Within each of those there's a vast array of things that can be done as well, so it really should not get boring anytime soon.
There is no more low-level. Rust and zig can express the exact same programs. Rust just catches a few more erroneous ones at compile time, but you have to manage memory explicitly in both.
> Whatever, I thought, I still have a little over $10k left in my bank, and my next paycheck will come soon.

I don't know, but I don't have a good feeling about that...
"For 40 years, corporations benefited from the Reagan-era doctrine of "consumer welfare," an antitrust theory that embraces monopoly as "efficient" and explicitly excludes the effect of monopoly on worker pay from consideration."

Don't forget to also thank Diane Feinstein for her roles as a life-long Disney shill and a staunch defender of the unholy mess that is copyright law in defense of big media.

Consider this strange comment for a US Senator to make about a corporate CEO change:

https://www.feinstein.senate.gov/public/index.cfm/press-rele...
I was diagnosed age 37. The difference pre/post-medication was so massive I struggle to comprehend how I survived without it. It has also changed my perspective of what I could achieve, both immediately and long-term career wise.
> would be

this is a joke, right? He almost certainly did some of this.
Ask HN: Do you see value in a social cooking product?
I was checking my notes (project ideas) and saw this one:

Social cooking like cooking with friends and family by trying new recipes while video chatting etc. step by steps like a guided experience.

Have you ever encountered the need for cooking with someone while FaceTiming?

What have you used for this?

Was there any pain in doing so?

Thanks in advance y’all
I didn't see it mentioned in the quick search of the article so a quick reminder that federally managed BLM land has the best use in camping options. You can usually go anywhere at your own risk of death and stay in any one place for up to two weeks for free. National Forest are one step behind, rarely requiring permits with lots of free camping opportunities
I honestly think a lot of men just don't like women, or at least don't respect them.

Maybe it's because I was exposed to a lot of sexism in my CS undergrad (and even some jobs I've had), but it really does seem like some men think of women as inferior.
To the electoral policy nerds, that method is known as sortition: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sortition a.k.a. selection by lots.

It has consistently had its advocates over the centuries. I too feel it's underrated as a method. Plato was basically right all those years ago; those who actively seek power generally don't deserve it. I seriously wonder if we'd be better off with a legislature selected of random citizens, and an executive council selected the same way.

It did work for the Ancient Athenians for some 300+ years. Democracy in ancient Greece meant selection by lottery and most offices in the Athenian democracy were picked that way. Following selection there was a public interview during which any citizen could pose questions and the candidate could at that point be disqualified for a legally established reason by a vote of the previously-elected archons. (The main exception was military generals, who were elected by popular vote. Competence and respect were considered more important than incorruptibility for that particular office.)
Helps to think of it in binary, 11111111 (bin) == 255 (dec). Also helps to define the space of possible outcomes, 00000000 -> 11111111. Then ask, is this a discrete event or a sequence of discrete events? I.e. if we have a roulette wheel with 256 slots, and throw a ball in, then the chance of the ball falling in any slot is 1/256.

But what if we say, we're going to generate that binary sequence by 8 successive flips of a coin, and we are aiming for 11111111 specifically? Then we have to multiply eight times. (0.5)^8 == .00390625 == 1/256

Where it gets a bit tricky is if we ask people to place bets after each successive flip of the coin. For example, starting with no flips, ask players to bet on the likelihood of 8 heads in a row. Next round, bet on the likelihood of 7 heads in a row, knowing the first was a head, etc. What minimal odds should the house give after each flip in order to reliably turn a profit on this game? Does it matter how many players are at the table when it comes to calculating those odds?
It’s bad English. The unambiguous terminology would be simply “excess” or “excess part of the purchase”. The term “excess purchase” sounds like the entire purchase is excess i.e. the adjective “excess” is modifying the noun “purchase” [the purchase was excess]. But they intended it as a noun adjunct where the noun “purchase” is modifying the noun “excess” [the excess was a purchase]. But this parse is not at all preferably taken syntactically, only the semantics clue you into it.

Very sloppy for a consumer financial communication, but I guess that governments can get away with it.
Agreed, I deliberately used the linux RNG, and it generated T T T T T T T H H H H H

Probably why I got an "age" of 60.
Well. There's a new one, and it does a ton more.

There deserves to be a distinction — put forth a suggestion?
Interesting and fun. I did the test myself and then I wrote a program on OpenBSD to read /dev/urandom and used that in the test. I got similar results to what I picked manually.

So I do not know what they think about the test, I would have expected the utility I wrote to come up with different results than I did.
I've heard many good things about Mint, but my problem with it is that it's US only... Or at least I from EU am unable to use it...
booooooooooooooooooooooooooooo.

no further comment.
Read up on Permaculture. Have a look at Geoff Lawton’s work in ‘Greening the Desert’ for inspiration.

https://permies.com/wiki/2584/Greening-Desert-updates-Geoff-...
It's atrocious that you have to jump through such hoops just to get control over a device you own.
+ 1 for stealth camping. Just be respectful of the land and others using it
> It's not an indictment of capitalism if you choose to live in a desirable area, have a generous salary, and just can't make it work.

It's an indictment of any system that people making twice the median household income cannot afford to buy housing within a reasonable distance of wherever their labor generates that income. It's a terrible situation - communities in which at least half of the necessary jobs do not pay enough for the people who do those jobs to live in the community - and it isn't good for anyone in or around those communities, and probably not for the nation as a whole.

The fact that, yes, yes of course there are other communities where the economics are different doesn't in any way mitigate the fucked-up ness of the situation the GP is describing.
I’d say so. My gut says it’s running in 4th place for data analysis behind Python, R and MATLAB. I think it’s strong enough to grow beyond that on the merits, but Mathworks won’t go quietly and both R and Python have strong ecosystems.
For those who want text:

> This article forms the basis for this episode: “How Confirmation Bias Reduces Business Profits” by Dr. Gleb Tsipursky: https://disasteravoidanceexperts.com/how-confirmation-bias-r...

Edit: While I’m sure there’s a lot of confirmation bias in individual organizations, I wonder if that really matters in the aggregate, i.e. does the risk of confirmation bias outweigh, say, failure to act swiftly and boldly when an opportunity arises?
Yeah. 18-20 was absolutely miserable for me. My arrogant ass chose to go directly bro industry (good decision, bad reasons) and I spent those years absolutely isolated. Social venues for people that age not geared towards university populations feel non existent.

When I tired 21 the situation improved a bit, but I still feel the lasting effects of that early isolation. Oddly I still don’t meet people are my age group. I go out and I see all sorts of people from teenagers to people well into their 80s-90s but almost never find myself in a conversation with a peer. Most of my current social group is with people who have 5-10 years in me. It’s particularly interesting as since I’ve been five years old, I’ve always made friends with “older kids” with about that gap.
The only person who can confidently say Yes/No is a solicitor who reviews the contract.
I don't know (probably personally), but some doesn't really matter when most of the Russian central bank assets have been ,,cancelled'' (stolen).
‘Troll factory’ spreading Russian pro-war lies online, says UK
Incentive Flipping
Yes, while I like the article, it kind of distorts the evaluation in the original paper, where they don't only show the trend line but also it's 95% confidence interval (which very obviously significantly widens with age).
+1 for ynab.

I’ve been using it for 3-4 years now and happily pay for it. It makes tracking our family expenses manageable in a way that I can’t imagine with many other systems. It is especially helpful during times when your expenses suddenly skyrocket (buying a house, wedding, etc). The reports / graphing features are pretty useful too when you’re trying to understand how to shift your spending habits.

It’s essentially a “cash envelope” budgeting system made digital. The idea is to take all of your available cash and distribute it into categories with specific purposes. When you find there is extra money that needs to be distributed, you pay down some debt or maybe start saving for that vacation you’ve been needing. It really helps you get ahead of your spending and to act responsibly with money.
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I'm not really a gambling man, but I'd expect a crooked 20-sided die to produce a biased sequence, not a running straight. I don't know if it's possible to make a die that always rolls the same, and I'd expect any such die to fail a superficial inspection (all sides but one bulge; one side is larger than the others; the die has a weird magnetic field; the die is heavily weighted on one side).

So I'd still expect a running straight to be rare, even with a crooked die.

Of course, if I watched the die produce 7 20s in a row, and was then asked to bet on the next roll NOT being 20, I'd be stupid to assume the die was fair without inspecting it.

All this is beside the point; the instructions invite the subject to produce a sequence that they think will convince people it was produced by a roll of dice. But there is no sequence that SHOULD have that power to convince.
I always find the term "community" to be a bit of a stretch here. I don't think I've ever seen anybody say "the telephone community" or "the e-mail community" (not to mention the socio-racial variations).
You are talking about “a patriarchy”, they are talking about “the patriarchy”. In other words this particular one we are living in with it’s built in assumed gender roles.
You're wrong. Mathematically. Here's why.

When you throw a coin 100 times, each sequence you get is equally likely. However. You can look at properties of the sequence which are more likely to be one way than the other. For instance, it's more likely that the number of heads and tails are about equal than not. The reason is that there are more sequences, in general, where that is true, than those where heads or tails strongly prevail.

With the right property, you can make statements such as: This sequence is statistically likelier to be human made than random.

One such property is for instance the number of changes from heads to tails, or vice versa. In expectation, random sequences change heads to tails about 50% of all flips. For humans, the expectation is much higher. Hence, if you compare two sequences where one has 51% changes and one 63%, it is mathematically (/statistically) accurate to say that the latter one is likelier human made.
> I realise I'm an old fart for being extremely hesitant about Matrix and Discord

These are different hesitations! Please keep being old, someone has to keep us from straying too far.
Somewhat. Permits are required in some places, especially Wilderness Areas and other heavily-used places. There may also be maximum length of stay restrictions. (And actual campgrounds typically charge and have set spots.) National forests may also lease land for non-recreational use, e.g. lumber.
Exactly. This is admitting that Ethereum is not designed to scale at all for anything on-chain such that it needs half-baked "Layer 2" contraption like Polygon, zkEVM, zkSync, Optimism, etc to be remotely useful for people who are not millionaires wasting >$100k in fees to send $100.

Even so. If the service is not on a layer 2, then you have go through the bridging process of moving your ETH to and from layers which is more complicated than directly using a layer 1 blockchain.

These 'solutions' are telling everyone that Ethereum is never going to fix these issues and the duck-taped layer 2 contraptions are now making it even harder for 'normies' to just 'use it'.
Almost. Got to be 1/4 mile from the nearest paved road.
100%
My company is in the process of switching from niche language to Python.
The problem is that niche language was a good proxy for "people who have been in the industry / have a lot of domain knowledge / etc".

So our hit rate with the Python dev interviews is like 1/10th of what we had with "niche language" so yes mainstream devs are easier to find, but they are 10x as hard to filter. Further the original excuse was that niche language devs were expensive, but by the time we find a python dev who actually has any domain knowledge & experience, we are paying the same.
I'm certainly no expert in randomness generators but the notion has been floating around for awhile that quantum indeterminancy is the best option. Here's a paper on it:

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-021-95388-7

> "The presented above examples clearly show that classic random number generators may be exposed to various attacks, or may have the so-called backdoors. This justifies the need to develop alternative technologies that could replace the classic generators on a large scale. The most promising, because they have a fundamental justification for the randomness in the formalism of quantum mechanics, are quantum random number generators."
I did not say they bought land in a mobile home park.
This is somewhat of a Noble native fallacy. Native American culture was diverse and a mixed bag. Some exercised extreme territorial claims and had very hierarchical societies. Some practice slavery and cannibalism.
Sure, and if Elon Musk gave me all his money, it would alleviate my resentment toward him. But he doesn't owe me anything, and my demand is not reasonable.
> IRC is an IETF standard

v1?

v2?

v3?
Thank you for sharing this. I have been fascinated by the idea of Zettelkasten for quite some time and read a lot of blogs, but I am yet to find a resource which explains it well how to organize/store/categories the notes well. The core concept of how to take notes with a that system is well documented but organizing them is not really well discussed anywhere. Hope the video you shared answers that well.

I currently in the battle of using OneNote and a notebook because of that. I often want to quickly just note things down as writing really helps me with retention but I find it really difficult to find it when I need it so I end up transferring important notes every few weeks in my OneNote notebooks with the system based on Zettelkasten.

The digital solution oblivion notes looks interesting but I feel currently OneNote provides the same freedom to organize in any chaotic method you want.
I think it's miss leading to think optimization is about cut a Ms or two. The only realistically important optimization is bring you big O down. That and understanding when big O doesn't matter for your problem size.

As a c dev one of the biggest mistakes I see is some optimizing to get better instruction generation but using shifts instead of divides or things of that sort. If you optimizing like that you probably spent more compute time optimizing than your optimization will ever safe. Plus like the complier in C at least handles that for you.
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No, it is not. On average you expect equal number of 1s and 0s. All 1s won't be "equally as likely" .
I like the lichess story a lot. Last time I read an interview with the guy running it, and I really appreciated his attitude towards his service and to what it represents to people.
“Or maybe I just think this because my 6 month old woke up four times last night and I’m losing my mind”

It gets better, of course - but I also lost my mind.

I had to return to work after three weeks, and I distinctly remember a moment where I thought, “I really should not be driving right now”.
I don't do this and likely would never do this not because in itself it sounds like a bad idea but it's a personal preference of really disliking the ideas of FaceTime video chatting things.

Now on the other hand socialized cooking is something that I actually do but in person. Prior to covid it was actually a weekly thing friends and family would get together and we would cook together. Sometimes it would just be cooking together various dishes to form a meal but sometimes it would be what we call cooking challenges. And in that respect we would all make the same or a very similar dish or the core idea was the same and then we will try it and decide which we liked best.

So overall I don't think this would be a bad idea and a lot of people would probably enjoy it.
Pandas may be OK for people who need to do a little data processing in their Python project, but I still recommend R and the tidyverse to those who need a serious tool of thought for analytics. Everything is so much more tidy and concise and intuitive and flexible. You can usually write code that directly expresses your high-level intent with a minimum of syntactic cruft.

Full disclosure - the downside of modern R is the stack traces have been getting worse for a while.
> My parents recently bought a plot of land in a mobile home development

Did you forget what you wrote?
This whole experiment has more to do with defining what humans perceive as randomness. Of course, different humans are different. Ramunijan and his 1729 taxi, or a cryptographer studying some (apparently) random string, will keep going when others would not. Interestingly, the same is true for source code, or in the physical realm, looking at the innards of a modern car. It looks random to the layman! But of course it isn't at all.

"Cracking the code" can have quite high stakes, and so some of the smartest humans who ever lived have thought about it. See, for example, this article on Shannon entropy https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Entropy_(information_theory)
My point is that vector instructions are fundamentally necessary and thus "what does it signal" evaluates to "nothing surprising".

Sure, REP STOSB/MOVSB make for a very compact memset/memcpy, but their performance varies depending on CPU feature flags, so you're going to want multiple codepaths anyway.
And vector instructions are vastly more flexible than just those two.

Also, I have not met developers who expect AVX-512 to be discontinued (the regrettable ADL situation notwithstanding; that's not a server CPU). AMD is actually adding AVX-512.
"if you forget it you didn't need it" isn't true for people with ADHD.
> L2s are the PayPals etc that make "the internet" (cryptocurrency) useful for "the normies" (later adopters).

That's a lie people tell themselves to justify Ethereum's platform.

The reality is that I can build scalable L1 dapps on Algorand that "normal" users can use at extremely low cost.
I learnt today that the distress phrase "Mayday mayday mayday" has nothing to do with May Day and instead it is supposedly a phonetic equivalent of the French maidez (help)
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> That sounds very dogmatic to me, "you cannot", "they are necessary", "you just have to", "an attack on democracy".

There is no dogmatism necessary, it's a logical proposition. If people are not allowed to decide for themselves what is true, they are not self-governed. Unfortunately, we can see from the ample historical record that people will frequently believe things that aren't true, or lack context, and will decide on courses of actions that appear to be foolish, reckless, or wicked. But the reason we live in a democratic society is because we decided this was better than oligarchs or monarchs choosing for us, even if a given set of oligarchs or monarchs may have been better and wiser. And we also have an ample historical record showing us that governments and other power-systems, given the power, will censor true things as well as false ones for various reasons, usually self-interested, but not always in a direct sense.

You can argue that some kind of managerial technocracy with arbiters of truth is a better system of government, but it isn't really a democratic one, in the usual sense. Perhaps in the "you are allowed to choose from these pre-approved opinions, held by the earl and the duke, respectively" sense.

> with the refusal to Trump at al to accept the result of last year's election. But that is not down to censorship.

I am personally more worried about CIA directors torturing people, murdering people, spying on the Senate, and leading the attacks on democratically elected officials as a threat to democracy than this, which is not a new problem at all in America. But even in the latter case, censorship certainly played a major role: the Biden laptop story was censored because intelligence agencies said it was the sort of thing the Russians might do (not that they had any evidence they did it - but because they would have done it if they could), and this certainly aggravated the sense of aggrievement and persecution held by these people, even though I personally doubt the "revelation" that Hunter got jobs because of who his dad was and had to pay his dad some of the money would have swayed anyone, considering how common it is in DC.
I think it's very clear to follow. Here is why:

Since Disney is not facing legal threat, there is no requirement for legal argument. Only PR statements suffice. There is no need to say something legally valid.

From the corporate viewpoint contracts only matter if there is credible threat of enforcing the contract. If there is none, they can brush it off.

Shaming game tries to attack reputation, but big corporations like Disney have deals with them for decades and they know masses don't turn against them.
I also use cat `which !!` every once in a while
There is a common way to solve this kind of setup, just run IRC client on a server within screen, and then log from these devices to the server and re-attach screen.
Yup. Blue light was/is a recent fad "cure" for sleep issues. The impacts are negligible outside test centers. I have a red-light setting on my phone for 10pm. In practice it is nothing more than a silent alarm that tells me to stop watching youtube.