skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I’m not asking if they’re republicans or democrats, I’m asking what their motives are, what they’re aiming for.

> Refusing the law because of the people pushing is ideological

Of course the people pushing for a certain law makes a difference. Imagine a push to set the term for abortion to 20 weeks or whatever. If it’s being pushed by the AMA based on medical concerns, the issue can be discussed seriously. If it’s being pushed by religious groups based on their interpretation of an old folk story, it can be discussed in a completely different way.
I make six figures and can afford only a modest 1-bedroom in a rural area well outside of an east coast university town. I will probably not be able to afford a house without parental help.
Also recommended: Everybody’s Gone to the Rapture.
[presented without commentary] my device displays each variation identically
> Can you roll a fair die a thousand times and only get 6s?

Anecdote time:

A few years ago with my friends we were discussing how easy is to roll 5 dices simultaneously and get the same result in all of them. This is a possible way to win a popular game here https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Generala We estimated how often you can roll the dices and the probability, and we estimated that you must try during 2 or 3 hours to get that result.

We were young, had a lot of free time, so one of my friend started rolling 5 dices while he was talking with us and eating. After about 2 hour he got the 5 equal dices in a roll. (IIRC he tried again, with a similar result.)

(Note that 2 or 3 hours is consistent with how this outcome is used in the game to win automatically. It's possible to get this in a normal game, but it's not super common.)

Also, each time you add a dice, the time increase exponentially. With 6 dice it's 14-21 hours, like a day. With 7 dice it's like a week. With 9 dice is like a month. With 10 dice is half a year. 1000 dice will take longer (and x6 if you want to get only 6s instead of any repeated number).

(Note that parallelizing this to all humans only adds 14 dices. If everyone on Earth start rolling 24 dices, it will take like half a year until one of us get 24 equal dices.)
(speaker here) Photon is not an object mapper, we do not have an N+1 problem and in fact that is the exact topic of this talk.

Photon is designed to scale in complexity without loss of performance or ability to reason. The computational structure that achieves this is single directional dataflow with pure functions; the abstraction is “referentially transparent” which means it composes mathematically the way pure functions compose.

Strong composition as a basis for abstraction scalability (in the domain of UI) is the core innovation here.
Deleuze and Pokemon
Is she academically ready for a tech field? Visit some universities where she might end up and talk to faculty and TAs there.

If she need to get more up-to-speed, a community college may be the way to go before heading to university.

Also investigate co-op and intern programs available through the university. These provide valuable breaks from academics where you can use what you have learned.
Macchiato – ClojureScript on the server
> It seems to be niche enough that small companies can't afford it.

That's going overboard - tons of small companies use Ruby, but yes its way easier to find someone who already knows Python than it is Ruby.
The opener of this article references the 7 hours of sleep figure for hunter gatherers which is from a quality study using sleep tracking devices [1]. But please note that’s actual sleep: you may need to be in bed for 8-9 hours to get 7 hours of sleep. When I used the Oura ring to track sleep I realized I usually overestimated my sleep time by discounting time to fall asleep and any time from being woke up at night.

The article states:

> By contrast, a 2016 study of almost 500 people in Chicago found they spent nearly all of their time in bed actually asleep

I think this is a poor summary: when I look at the study cited, it looks like the participants are awake in bed for an average of 50 minutes.

[1] https://www.cell.com/current-biology/fulltext/S0960-9822(15)...
Valve needs some attention on this. I would like to see a run ban
111111 is just as likely as any other number. However, in practice, humans are far more likely to think of 111111 than other numbers, so we exploit the difference between the probability a human guesses a number vs. the probability of rolling a number on a fair dice. "Did I just roll a sequence X or am I lying?" vs. "What is the probability I roll sequence X next?" are quite different questions, if by "lying" you mean you are not drawing the sequence from a fair, random source.
Truth and transparency?
I-Bonds have rules. For example, you have to hold the bond for five years or you must pay back three months interest. I expect in about 12 months there will be a horde of people upset when they find that out.
So you want to build an application platform with Kubernetes?
It's not niche like Clojure but nowhere near as mainstream as Java/Python. It's somewhere in the middle - maybe about the same adoption as Kotlin/Swift or something like that. I guess you can define it as semi-popular?
I believe this is conflating distribution with randomness.

Having played too many games and rolled too many real and pseudorandom dice, i know streaks are the rule not the exception, and that completely missed rolls likewise expectable.

Using this model of randomness, i tried to create sequences that matched. The result is it says i have 60 year old brain. I did the prompt again, but simply /ensured there were no missed rolls/ and i have an under 60 brain?

In reality, i believe the odds of rolling all 6 sides using 10 dice rolls are relatively low... but in order to be "random" enough that seems like a prerequisite??
Ask HN: How to test effectiveness of IAPs in game beta without using real money?
Any ideas?
Yes, I'm also convinced that dating apps aren't a good way to match-make. I've had some experience of them, and there are clear problems for both men and women on it. Men struggle to get matches, women struggle to get good quality matches. The environment is artificial. A few words on your profile, a few photos that probably don't represent you in real-life, and then an artificial 'date' where it's hard for people to be natural. I met my wife in person at work. Not saying that is great either, but I find my attraction to someone is based far more on who they are in real-life than the 2D representation that a photo or some text messages can represent.
Demanding an email address for "sync" makes me feel really uneasy. That was almost enough to make me back out of completing the installation, but I've given a throwaway email, disabled launch on startup, and disabled auto-launch to try this out.

The terminal auto-completion is nice looking. I want to like this, however for me I'm not seeing enough value to justify having a third party potentially snooping my terminal.
How is it logically groundless? Where is the logic?
It can still be a fair die.

The context implies it's not, but it's only unlikely, not impossible.

See https://youtu.be/8Ko3TdPy0TU

It introduces a 10 billion human second century i.e. 3.1 x 10^19.
If your chance times it is greater than 1 then it's definitely plausible to be done by someone, somewhere.
> How might we describe this nascent identity? Twist and McArthur ask. How can we protect those who inhabit it from stigma or persecution?

Wait, wait... before we go inventing and protecting new perversions, we should fully celebrate the ones we already have. Up with Zoophilia!

Honestly the "sex robots" thing feels like someone trying to kick a waterbed uphill. Those that enjoy intamacy with the inanimate don't really need the "looks human" part of "robot", and those who don't enjoy that which is not alive will not get over that to the point of finding a machine enjoyable, i think.

The VR people aren't even working towards the kind of soft robotics actuator technology we need for good sexual experiences with machines. They're closer than anyone else, however they only admit to trying to interface with the "politer" body parts.
I poked it, and decided I preferred kMyMoney. The latter has some quirks/bugs (some ledger entries lose the payee, but the relational data is still there - haven’t found a repro to report with), but is generally all I need to track something like 14 asset accounts in multiple currencies.
The New Space Race: What Took So Long (2021)
> Finally, the variable Paranormal Belief was included as it has been related to RIG performance in previous studies.
I would; would you? The Gambler's Paradox says you shouldn't (I'm assuming your 20-sided die isn't crooked).

Incidentally, you haven't made your case that you can ever tell whether a given sequence was produced by a fair die. You've just asserted it, and then suggested a game that doesn't illuminate anything.
Your network operator might use blocks of numbers where many share the first or last digits.
Let’s admit it, the ‘West’ is in a state of war with Russia, and in a time of war censorship, propaganda, and disinformation are weapons.
I do this with a Shelly 1L configured to use MQTT
It has 2 sensors and a switch (that is used to control 5 absolutely awesome Ansell batten lights).
The Shelly can fire and timer the lights natively, or use HA to do it and more.
HA sends 2 push notifications with the 2 camera images if the door opens and we’re away.
Author asked about mental ways to come up with random numbers. A "QRNG" is obviously not purely mental.
B-but statistics taught me that the events are independent! Take my 10!
If you're forced to pick random numbers between 1 and X in your head, pick instead from a wider range of numbers and then modulo X. Your brain will legitimately have no idea what number you're picking.

e.g. for a range 1-6, pick from 100-250 instead and modulo 6 plus 1.

There are of course brand new biases at play (is your new range cleanly divisible by X?) But it's enough to tamp down the original biases you're worried about
how do you effectively ban a region these days? Won't those users just utilize a vpn they likely already have? I mean preventing purchase of new content using the Ruble makes sense. But I am not sure you could ban users from logging in to steam really.
Super cool. My 11yo son has become a speed cuber. Will point him this way.
> Are you implying that every internet draft eventually becomes an RFC?

No. I am saying even one of the worst designed specifications with tons of flaws and hype around it somehow made its way into being an RFC and still being used all over the internet for sessions [0] with many reasons why it is a critically flawed RFC. [1]

[0] https://apibakery.com/blog/no-jwt/

[1] https://paragonie.com/blog/2021/08/paseto-is-even-more-secur...
But are there pseudo zero order kinetics in atmospheric chemistry? smirks
We have a Relational API in addition to SQL! Here are some examples for the Python Relational API client:

https://github.com/duckdb/duckdb/blob/master/examples/python...

Plus, if you are working in Python, you can use DuckDB as the engine underneath Ibis, Fugue, Siuba, or anything that works with SQLAlchemy (using the DuckDB-engine driver)! In R, you can use dplyr or dbplyr.

DuckDB's file format is one way to persist data (it uses a single file), but you can also write out to Parquet, or write out to Apache Arrow and then parquet (in a partitioned format I believe).

Disclaimer - I write docs for DuckDB!
Unfortunately, for this particular type of bond, a Series I US Savings Bond, they can only be purchased through TreasuryDirect or by way of a tax refund. Since 2012, they are no longer sold through banks [1]. For regular Treasury Bills, Notes, and Bonds, buying through a broker is an option.

But separately, it is a miracle that the author didn't hit the physical identity verification path [2] when signing up for the TreasuryDirect account.

[1] https://treasurydirect.gov/timeline.htm?src=td&med=banner&lo...

[2] https://money.stackexchange.com/questions/46840/treasury-dir...
I think design of search is still sort of stuck in 1998.

The problem is that an empty search box does nothing to tell you what could fruitfully be typed into it. Good type-ahead suggestions can help assist the query formulation a bit, but that's a band-aid at best.

You could reformulate basically any incidence of a search engine returning bad results as the visitor entering a bad query. The emphasis has been almost entirely on improving the capabilities of the search engine to interpret bad queries, rather than working with the interface design to offer the user an intuition for what is a good one.

Realistically you need to approach it from both ends, but I think the work has been fairly lopsided in search and discovery.
The Future of Banking Is Open
And somehow, because you feel uneasy with Russian propaganda, you feel entitled to deny my right to consume and analyse it?
Could you share what parts of corporate planning would work well in a start-up environment?

I find year long plans in a start-up environment difficult mainly as the plan needs to adapt more than in a corporate environment.
The prompt told you it was independent. Not statistics.
Was it, though? What if there was an outage when you wanted to watch?
I never was a fan of how long it takes ink to dry on Tomoe. Too, for work I require a spiral binding since it lays flat for reference and folds under itself for a small footprint, and as far as I know there is no spiral notebook made with Tomoe River paper. (Or if there is, no one seemed to import it last I checked, at least.)
I read somewhere that Freud and psychoanalysis became an issue only after electric lighting was a thing. Before that, it was argued, people got a lot more sleep.

(In fact, in the time before artificial lighting, it was common to speak of your “first sleep“ and your “second sleep“: People essentially slept two times a night. They went to bed at sunset. Then, they woke up for an hour or two around midnight, which apparently was used, everything being dark, for sex and contemplation. And then they fell asleep for a second time, until sunrise.)
> My opinion is that the Matrix protocol is too powerful.

It's going to turn out like TheWeb(tm), where there are only one and a half clients to choose from and instead of a protocol with real standards you just get pseudocode documenting whatever the current version of the dominant client does.

IRC is an IETF standard. Matrix has gone the WHATWG route.
Heh. Well alright then.
When the book is revised, I guess they should take all pandas features from 1.0 or some later 1.x release for granted.
Thanks to this post, was able to jailbreak my oasis 3, struggling in understanding jargons to get koreader working.
My understanding is that it's because extrapolation is difficult in general. Extrapolating the behavior of a periodic function like sine is one thing, but extrapolating the behavior of a 1d function that tends to infinity is another challenge altogether. I happen to be very familiar with the implementation of the inverse CDF of the normal distribution though. My plan is to cook a lot of prior knowledge into the NN. Even if I get it working, the end result will likely seem more like sleight of hand than something truly impressive.
It's not just old people. All people are helped by color clues.

Before Jon Ive banned color, Mac and iPhone apps were full of colors. You could easily distinguish toolbar buttons by little colorful icons. It made it really easy to use the app, since locating the button with the yellow icon was really easy.

Then came the decolorisation, and suddenly all color was gone and all the distinctive icons were replaced with monochrome glyphs that all look exactly the same. The abstract design makes for a very clean design, but every time I open Mail I have to consciously look at the buttons to figure out which one is trash vs. archive vs. spam.
And those people will have gotten all their advice from a page that humorously details just how hard it is to use the website and warning them to be careful.

Hard to put that on anyone but the purchasers.
IMHO, Irccloud is a very convenient solution for this. Not open source though.
they're also dealing with the restrictions on switching fabrics (that were shoe horned in with the 5G hardware restrictions)
I think a textbook example of that is what Chevron did to Steven Donziger.
The irony of these ibonds is that the payments will contribute to even more inflation.
Where is that student stat from? Is that of all undergrads and grad students combined? The incoming College class is 15.5% African American or Black and the percentage has been like that for a number of years; it’s comparable to the U.S. population.

https://www.thecrimson.com/article/2022/4/1/admissions-class...
Hell, Canadians usually correct me by saying ‘Canada is in America too’ when I tell them I’m ‘Mercian.
That's great, but also means I can't make full use of the device without going through some probably ssh-based sync process with a laptop and a tool I don't currently use. That's the kind of limitation I find very frustrating by comparison with paper notebooks, which I just have to look at to find things in.
It's not really golden. It' just i-bond inflation rates are high at the moment.

The bond rates are set per 6 month window - but you get it relative to the purchase date. So if you buy before the last possible day before the rate change date you would get 7.12% (annualized) for 6 months then 9.6% (annualized) for 6 months. If you buy after the rate change, you would get 9.6% (annualized) followed by some yet to be determined yield for 6 months.
I hope that DuckDB can help here! You can use the CLI or Python client to read a parquet file, but my favorite for quick exploration is popping open DBeaver (a SQL IDE) and using the DuckDB JDBC driver. That way you can see some column metadata, and even open multiple files, etc. I wrote a short guide for that here:
https://duckdb.org/docs/guides/sql_editors/dbeaver
As a dev, you build on mainnet because that’s where the liquidity is. Your project will get less trade volume on any other chain (even compared to an EVM compatible chain like polygon, where transaction times are faster and gas fees are lower.)

The story may be different on Solana but it’s not really my area of expertise. My guess is many ethereum devs haven’t moved to solana because of its lesser decentralization.

Anecdotally I know a lot of ethereum devs are excited about building on layer 2s like zksync / arbitrum but there’s a learning curve and relatively little liquidity there too
My parents recently bought a plot of land in a mobile home development in order to house my uncle with mental health issues. They have the exact same requirements you mention above - no travel trailers as permanent housing and permanent housing must meet square footage requirements. In a place named $X Mobile Home Estates. And in supposedly low-tax, freedom-loving Texas; not California.
I agree with this.

I think 1 1 2 3 4 looks more real than 1 2 3 4 5

In that a draw of 5 numbers is likely to include at least one number twice and one number zero times.

But is that the goal? Is it communicable to the audience
Do the same thing one does with software: setup a dev environment

Either create an LLC or a child. Both can have a tax identifier. Not sure which is cheaper in the long run but the child is definitely more fun.
Have better propaganda of your own? Both the delivery mechanism and the payload.
> I’ve been playing with the idea of making my own notebook. With a UUID for every notebook, page numbers, and a QR code that will let me jump from the page to some digital system.

This sounds a lot like Rocketbook. https://getrocketbook.com/
This tool has been very helpful for me in situations where I need to create professional-looking diagrams for papers yet I have no access to OmniGraffle or Visio, especially during my student days when I couldn't afford licenses for those tools.
Closing a book shop or newspaper because it was funded by criminals isn’t censorship. That’s hysterical hyperbole.

Anyway this isn’t really about reading websites particularly, it’s mainly about accessing commercial internet services like search or commercial sites. It just happens that internet publishers are also businesses so they can be affected too. However there’s nothing in this targets speech and that doesn’t seem to be the intention.
Foreign propaganda should be exposed, documented, and contextualized instead of given more power by banning and removing it.

https://scottberkun.com/2013/banning-things-makes-them-power...
cen·sorship
/ˈsensərSHip/

noun
1.The suppression or prohibition of any parts of books, films, news, etc. that are considered obscene, politically unacceptable, or a threat to security.

Does this fit that definition? I would argue no it does not but I’m open to be convinced otherwise.
>Can you roll a fair die a thousand times and only get 6s? Well yes of course. It'll never happen though.

Somewhat related, but humans are also REALLY bad at generating randomness and one of our big tells is an aversion to repeats. If you ask someone to pick 0-9 randomly, repeatedly, they will rarely repeat numbers. But in a truly random sample a repeat is likely 10% of the time, and a three-peat will happen roughly once every 100 numbers. An average person will rarely if ever repeat a number and sure as heck won't ever come up with it three times in a row.
RisingWave: The next-generation streaming database in the cloud
Not so easy in practice, let's say a company has to make a big investment (acquisition/enter a new market/new product), employees are generally more risk averse and care about consistent year to year income, maybe they have an average tenure of 3-4 years. In this example, employees may not be incentivised to take bonus hits now for income 5+ years down the road, especially if bonus is a high proportion of total comp.
I wouldn't be surprised if the process is intertwined with a paper one as well. That adds significant complication, but it still shouldn't take it.
> Maybe it's the sunk cost fallacy.

Indeed it is. It is precisely a sunken cost fallacy for Ethereum holders and the chain itself to be useful for anything if one has to spend $150k in fees just to send $300, which is hilariously inefficient and has been so for years after promising for a reduction in fees since the problems first surfaced.

Like the creators of CryptoKittes which is one of the first NFT projects on Ethereum have complained about this and built their own blockchain, now the creators of Bored Ape Yacht Club (BAYC) has also realised that Ethereum cannot globally scale and are considering building their own blockchain.

Ethereum after all these years hasn't improved, and is still unsuitable for even for basic payments. Everyone was hyping for 'The Merge' to happen next month or so, but was delayed again.

Why would anyone tell businesses, clients and partners to 'Wait 7+ years for the bugs to be fixed and optimised first' only for it to be delayed again? They'll just give up and look elsewhere.
Awesome that Xfig still around. I used Xfig for the illustrations to my master's thesis back in the day when Inkscape was new, because it felt like Inkscape is trying to make precise alignment difficult on purpose. It still feels the same.
Do doctors even want the Apple Watch's health features?
I agree that acquisitions tend to cause larger departures of talent.

> Not sure I buy that high turnover is inevitable

I guess it also depends on the context, e.g. labour market, geography, culture, etc. In my case, my first two were based in Europe, and many hires found the risk/pace to reward ratio unacceptable.

It’s also a matter of how good you are at hiring. I obviously wasn’t, if we look at the results.
May I add The Swapper to the list