skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The system you described reminds me of astronomic navigation used in SR-71:
https://theaviationgeekclub.com/the-sr-71-astroinertial-navi...
Thank you for your sound advice. I'll definitely consider what you said and will think carefully about it.
As I understood it, their entire point is that younger people are not better at generating random sequences than older people, so guessing someone's age based on their complexity (randomness) score is completely unreliable.

Towards the bottom of the page they said they've only guessed age correctly 51% of the time, which lines up with there being no correlation between age and ability to generate random sequences
Weird that people are promoting such data collecting tool.. ohh it's

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27277819 - Launch HN: Fig (YC S20)

oh they haven't removed the tracking thing in the url: https://fig.io/?ref=hn

i would love to see what's the algorithm of hackernews, do they give a little boost when it is about their products?
The problem here isn't "bonuses are important" it's "the total bonus pot is fixed, so you getting more means your co-workers get less".

Reward people for adding value. If everyone has added value then reward all of them.
Let me guess, they were probably not Javascript developers trying to convince thier boss to use Svelte over Vue or Angular.
> or randomized from a collection of images. Amazon added something similar recently

Just to be clear, you still can't do that (without jailbreak), right? You can set it to the cover of the book you're currently reading, but not to a collection of images of your choice.
> My brain isn't as elastic as a younger programmer's.

The book Memory Craft by Lynne Kelly proposes that cultures that value and practice mnemonics, like storytelling, has less incidence of this and even often lack the idea that growing old means becoming duller. I've found that my memory is actually very lazy and practicing mnemonics has taken a lot of work, but I've also seen noticeable differences in my trained memory and recall in other areas of life.
Thanks for an interesting comment. I wouldn't say that the website states specifically about 'all engineering problems' but more a 'salesy' statement (also sounded several times by NASA while explaining their Artemis mission - 'https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_T8cn2J13-4&t=22s').

But like everything else, there is some truth to this that without a base on the Moon, the possibility of facing unpleasant surprises on Mars is even more. Additional to the experiments in 'Mars-like' places on the Earth, it would add more value by making similar experiences in outer space such as on the Moon.

Agree with you that Mars introduces technical challenges (like the atmospheric ones you mentioned) that are not specific to the Moon.

IMO, also the spacecraft aiming to travel to Mars (such as 'Starship') should prove their reliability to the distances that have already been traveled (like ISS, Moon) before sending them to unknown territories.
Forgetting about the problem of memory
I suppose it's a spectrum of risk and motivation. On one side low risk modifications motivated by vanity such as hair dyes, on the other getting your legs sawn off because you think you're not good enough to find a woman.

Perhaps some nose jobs end up closer to the hair dyes and teeth straightening end of the spectrum, but I can't help but see a clear distinction when you start cutting flesh and breaking bone.
Over 60 according to something, but I’m not.

Hypothesis: the older a person is, the more likely they are to understand that HHHHHHHHH is a statistically likely outcome from true randomness.
I also repeated a lot, and left out options, etc. It rated me as more random than 84% and under 60 shrug
Why do I use Next.js in my projects
Yeah it makes sense but it's folk level logic so I was curious if it was mentioned in classes too.

Personally, even wounds heal faster now that I took biking again. Digestion too.. we're really made to move on a regular basis.
Eliding the (at this point frankly tiresome) arguments over cryptocurrency:

Like most BGP security proposals, it suggests that you could validate that BGP announcements come from the owner of the prefix. Unlike most BGP security proposals, it lacks any specific mechanism to do so ('store it in a blockchain so ISPs can get the data' is insufficient - where is the description of the data format, the mining incentives, initial chain seeding, etc).

Blockchain solves the problem of distributed consensus in the presence of unknown actors. However, no ISP is peering with an unknown actor, and distributed consensus between mutually trusting parties can be solved far more simply than a blockchain.

BGP absolutely needs a mechanism to validate ownership of the prefix you are announcing. At its core, that means a list of prefixes and the public key of the owning institution, plus a signature field in the BGP packet. The interesting bit of any BGP enhancement is the governance of changes to the list of prefixes and keys.
After reading this article I think the author just wanted to trigger everyone or that this is all some strange form of sarcasm/irony. No need to give it a second thought I guess...
yea i prefer squared over lines, but rhodia's dot patterns give you the best of both and it's a bit more subtle as well

https://rhodiapads.com/images/dot_pad_detail.jpg
I'm very confused by this particular angle. If someone doesn't have a second or two to see what tools someone else is using, they're crazy overworked.
Heh, I also had the same result. Remembered the comic:

https://www.incibe-cert.es/sites/default/files/blog/comproba...
The internet basically only works because small entities have as much standing and control as large entities. This is also why things like RPKI are required, to prevent small (and large!) actors causing disruption through malicious or accidental configuration of e.g. BGP.

Whereas in a blockchain, if you assume the participants are the same set of actors - which would make sense - then it would be very easy for a majority of network control to be held by a Google, an AT&T, a China Telecom, etc.

Introducing third-parties who are not neccesarily involved in the operation of networks to said blockchain also opens up BGP operators to a whole new raft of attacks. Want to blackhole an ASN? If you can convince a smart contract that the routing policy for that ASN is "drop all traffic" then you don't even need to compromise people's routers or muck around with all that messy DDoS stuff.

Bad, bad idea. Just like 99% of stuff with the word "blockchain" in it.
Show HN: Userscript to make HN @usernames clickable
On startup they send request to versions.withfig.com, tel.withfig.com, VS marketplace, Sentry, AWS Cognito and a couple more.
My firewall blocked all of these and I couldn't use the app. It needs api.withfig.com, app.withfig.com and AWS Congnito to work. After signup I blocked all these and I saw they ping their servers every few seconds.
Removing it permanently.
It's weird to me how there are things I really dislike but everyone else do like and they wonder why I don't like it even though I seem to be the targeted audience. From the top of my head:

- Monty python
- Mister Bean
- Stanley Parable
- Gris

And I enjoy these:

- Rick and Morty
- Star Trek lower deck
- The Witness
- Knytt/What happened to Edith Finch/Dear Esther

I played a bit of Stanley Parable on 3 occasions but found it empty and pretentious (same opinion on Gris). To each its own but there are some preferences I can't precisely tell why it clicks or not yet.
I love to chisel.
> The original paper authors' claim that 'HHHHHHHHHH' is as equally probabilistic as any other sequence is irrelevant.

Agree with your post, but don't believe that the authors paper made this claim unless I am missing something?
Thought i'd like to share a quick userscript i made that does pretty much what the title says. It's a simple regex that replaces usernames prefixed with an "@" character (for example, @byhemechi) with a link to that user's HN profile page, prefixed with an avatar generated by https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30668137

screenshot: https://i.byhemechi.com/2022/05/firefox_fOgy4OCOwF.png
"the @ACLU took a big donation from Amber Heard and then wrote and pitched her op-ed about being a victim of domestic abuse and then she reneged on the payment."

https://twitter.com/kittypurrzog/status/1520105811753639936
Sure it affects it, but you don't need to be tall or even fit (within reason) to find a mate. There is no need for alternative solutions because the problem has been misstated from the beginning.
> What do I think about the future of AI, which programming languages will remain relevant etc.

I've been in the industry for some 30 years now - and I have become very careful, even reluctant making specific predictions like these, especially over long stretches of time. I would recommend to read a bit, sure, but stay away from opinion pieces ("AI is racist" or "Why Cariboo is the language of the future") and rather nourish a solution-oriented way of thinking ("Which problems can we solve with technology?")

Programming languages change all the time - and yet, they don't really. We're still mostly working in C-like languages, and that one's been around for half a century. Practical applications of math haven't changed in centuries. What changes are societal requirements that technology may be able to solve.

Get your daughter to have interests outside of technology. Talk politics with her. Interest her in the arts, and in business trends. The larger the palette she has, the easier she will find an interesting problem to solve.

And - I want to stress this is regardless of which gender your child has - prepare for your child to choose a different path halfway through. Support them if they choose to do so. In the end, what matters is if you spent your life in a worthwhile way, which does not necessarily mean 'in a good job'.
Very interesting, and I think this part sums up the crux:

“The researchers believe that you can only analyze the raw responses because, statistically, any sequence is equally likely to occur, so where do you draw the line?”

I’d say that, as it is a psychological study, making claims about a human behavior, treating humans as pure random number generators without considering _intent_ is a mistake.

It is entirely possible that older people fill in more “questionable” responses because they can’t be bothered with the study, and that this causes the “decline” in ability as people age.

But we don’t know for sure, because it was never investigated. Thus, the biggest problem is the original study not even bringing this into light, even though it appears the original authors were aware of it.
Talking about fun for the community with respect to a product discussion on a YC-backed company on a YC forum has complicated implications, as opposed intellectual curiosity on the matter of Go or Rust.

I'm all for keeping Rust discussions fun and curious.
This! I am shocked how often men act as if they have to be someone else and then wonder why their dating life went nowhere.
> I’ve never heard of DAG, yet it’s used as if it’s commonplace.

DAG, as in direct acyclic graph, is indeed a basic concept of computer science.

But indeed the author could do a better job with the text. One of the very basic principles of technical writing is to always introduce the definition when an acronym is first presented, something like "blablabla a direct acyclic graph (DAG)".
I'll look at Ada closely. After a quick glance, the activity done in Ada seems concerning but I'll take a good look at it. Thank you for your recommendation.
Not yet, you can add your comments here! https://github.com/frappe/books/issues/183
I had a suspicion that this was Mac-only from the looks of the site and docs, but after some clicks I gave up trying to find out; reading comments on HackerNews was faster.
Thanks. Prolog doesn't have a native string type- indeed. And so atoms must be converted into lists. That's were trouble begins, I fear. Split the atom, and what do you get? Fallout.

I'll get my coat.
When I was 25 I could scan a 5000 line file in a few minutes and start making changes. I’m now a lot older than that. It takes me a few days to get completely happy with a file of that size and start making changes.

When I was 25, I had a small number of heuristics and gotchas to look for, now I have thousands, it takes longer to consider them. Also, when I was 25 I would make the smallest change I could, now I tidy up the file and do a bit of light refactoring where I can make the code simpler. I serve a different purpose in the code now and I think it’s a more valuable one.
Showing how real-world AI projects that can master higher-level tasks sometimes discover the biggest challenge is low-level factors, like inertia and torque. The aimbot was very successful, but still burned out a motor before it could beat the performance of a highly-skilled human
How do you found out those blogs? Is it generally exploring some topic on the web and you made a bookmark?
Small software company in the UK. I was interviewing for a junior programmer position (no devs back then). There was a short technical test first - done in the company's office rather than at home. A small project set up that accepted an input string, and I had to write the code to count the number of words in the string. Most applicants failed.

This was followed by a harmless chat type of interview. In retrospect, I can see that the chat was to see how we got along - the small coding test was the 'is he capable' part of the interview.

This was 1998. I didn't encounter the online test nonsense until 2021 in Dublin. Not Leetcode, but 100 gotcha questions in a row.
Single straight men
I'm 5'8.5 and I have to get all my clothes tailored, yet every mens shop is happy to have a "big (overweight) and tall" section.

Go to any mens fashion site, check a small or medium size t-shirt, the model will be 6'1 to 6'2.
I think they're saying over or under 60 is completely arbitrary when judging only from 'random' answers. It could be over or under a month, or 1000 years, the result would still be 50/50 because the ability to create a sequence that appears random has no link to age.
Author of polars here. What would you say the docs is lacking? Quite curious how we should fill the gap. I understand the gap is large due to 12 years of being the standard for python. There is ton of materials for pandas.

We hope to have such a clear API that once the expression language clicks, it is less needed to have the docs open constantly as it should feel natural.
That's fair, you convinced me.
Seriously. Every once in awhile I see things on the front page and I'm like there's no reason this is supposed to be here
> elites

I don't think this is the proper use of the word. These are just people with vested interest in making a product more popular - it has nothing to do with any "elite."
Yeah it helps to get hired, HR likes it, but the team hates you because they think you are a goody two-shoes who is ruining the party by turning down donuts and beer, and making people feel bad about being unfit.

The average IT office is really not a sporty place, and people also really don't like if you dress well either. It makes people feel threatened and annoyed.

What people like is for you to be a partner in crime in neglecting your health, having no self control, making self deprecating jokes and join them in unhealthy activities so they can feel less responsible for it.

People save their best self for free time and social life, where it actually scores some points, and show their less positive side in the workplace, and that's a bit of an unspoken rule that you're supposed to really relax at work.
No. Rust may provide some small async runtime for tutorials etc., but it'll never provide a rich async runtime like tokio because different people have different requirements from their runtime and Rust wants to satisfy them all.

What is planned is to standardize the API: that is, provide common traits for IO, tasks, etc. so libraries can be runtime-agnostic and you can change your runtime by only touching Cargo.toml (hopefully).
How do they plan to make money? And why do i need to register with my mail?
I went in this fully expecting you to be correct but drastically pessimistic in terms of hard numbers. Instead you were exactly wrong on the easiest point to check divorce rate. Short men tend to marry later on average but divorce at a substantially lower rate.

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/link-between-mens-height-divo...

The part about 200x the matches is both obviously pulled out of the air and grossly exaggerated. It looks like on average women tend to prefer men who are taller but not hugely different in height from themselves.

https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal...

If you are 5'6" you are most apt to be most attractive to women who are 5'4" or shorter which is helpfully 43% of women in the US.

You say you are very likely to die alone based entirely on a malarkey stat you pulled from thin air. You don't need hundreds of matches in a dating app to find one person you want to spend your life with. You need to instead cultivate qualities that would inspire ONE of many potentially worthwhile mates out there to make time with you and then work on enriching your life and relationship.

The problem with this fatalistic attitude is twofold. Firstly it spoils all hope of success to believe in yourself not one whit and second it holds that somehow MEN or at least yourself are rational whole mental and emotional creatures while somehow women are irrational animals who somehow cannot even see you. It's degrading to you and to hypothetical mates.
The measure of randomness chosen in this particular paper appears to be an approximation of the Kolmogorov-Chaitin complexity adapted for small integer/binary sequences.

This effectively looks at how easy it would theoretically be to compress/describe the data, for instance HHHHHHHHHH would be low complexity as it could be encoded as '10 H's'.

If something is truly random, it shouldn't be possible to encode it due to the pigeon-hole principle.

See http://www.scholarpedia.org/article/Algorithmic_complexity
Recently I've been watching Severance on Apple TV+ and it reminded me of The Stanley Parable all the time. It's a pleasant surprise to see they made a new edition.
It looks like the technology became less invasive and less painful.

When I saw the title I expected to see Ilizarov apparatus (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ilizarov_apparatus).
Seems to have changed a bit...

"As for our initial idea to make an age-guessing game, we have guessed right NaN% of the time. Not as good as we had expected ."
Thanks. I was thinking about switching to VS Code from IDEA (because VS Code has evolved a lot, to my surprise), but looks like I need to wait a little more.
OSQP is fast, but is only for QP, not LP.

The "benchmarks" (https://github.com/osqp/osqp_benchmarks) include some important problem classes but are random so, for general QP, are not valid. On the industry standard benchmarks (http://plato.asu.edu/ftp/qpbench.html) OSQP doesn't look so good, and it's not even tested against commercial solvers (http://plato.asu.edu/ftp/cconvex.html).

Our experience with it on general benchmarking problems is that it can struggle to get sufficiently accurate dual values to the extent that it fails to solve them.

For certain classes of important QP problems, and when optimization to small tolerances is not required, it's undoubtedly a great solver - but it's not a general solver.
Seems like this is breach of contract. What’s preventing the authors from selling the creative works to Netflix? If Disney tries to pull them into court, they can’t really show a contract where they’ve kept up their obligation to the creator.
Does that mean that there is a link between age and participants who "misunderstood the instructions, or intentionally subverted the experiment"?
+1 for understanding that "stateless" doesn't necessarily mean better OR more performant. There's too much reductionist thinking based on not enough evidence. I'm not building a twitter clone, i'm building something that needs to frequently re-evaluate business rules at each step of a lengthy workflow. Reactivity is a natural fit. And there's state that exists there. Where do you want it to stay? (please don't say 'in a jwt')

There's room for so many different solutions to so many different problems. Shooting something down because its "stateful" well, okay if you know your problem domain well and that's significant to you then so be it, but that smells to me like "I have nothing valuable to contribute so I'm going to throw out a meaningless non-sequitur". I'll happily prioritize developer productivity first when user experience is not meaningfully impacted. I suspect that ~95% of web developers are in that same position.
I would just back up @mjlbach here, and provide my datapoint as a neovim user: I have no complaints with regards to neovim's builtin LSP client, especially with regards speed.
Sounds like https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_dilation by moving at high relativistic speeds close to the speed of light?

Even more fascinating for me is the concept of a https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_lightbulb in the context of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vimana s

Imagine they had a https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metamaterial which would have enabled that. I mean withstanding 22.000°C while being transparent to hard ultraviolet. And some sort of 'ultravoltaic' cells behind that...

...while at least some texts speak of those things as full of crystals and mirrors as part of their engines and on board power plants.
Have you checked this, i.e. checked your network traffic for 24 hours after installing and registering Fig?
You can still use other formats on your Kindle. That restriction is for publishing new books on Amazon store.

If you want to publish a new book on Amazon, you have to use EPUB instead of MOBI. That's the only change afaik.
Try me! I'd be happy to hear your advice. I'm sure it's more relevant than we both think
I agree with you that using a GPU accelerated API has many more benefits. I was trying to learn Xlib and Cairo to learn the 'nuts and bolts' of rendering and also because they didn't require other libraries. I will look both at C# and GPU accelerated APIs. My only concern with C# is the cross compatibility. Thank you for your recommendations.
If already running your shell from Emacs, some tinkering can give ya some of these completion goodies

https://xenodium.com/eshell-pcomplete-company-completion

https://xenodium.com/yasnippet-in-emacs-eshell
Do I understand correctly it all happened after you explicitly opted out of telemetry?
Haskell is such a language. You can enable strict evaluation on a per module basis, or for an entire package.
As a relatively new GnuCash user id love to hear how you made that coffee report. I'm struggling to customize reports right now so I'm really curious how you'd do something like that.

Also for Fidelity I've been struggling to track all the dividend and various random automatic transactions that happen (incl. ESPP, Stock Awards, etc). How do you manage that so it feels easy? I'm sure I'm just missing the right way to import or something. Id love to learn
I don't think those hiring should make any such assumptions.

I have lots of experience. I'd like to get paid accordingly, but

* my mortgage is long-since paid off

* my kids are grown and independant (no more school fees, university costs)

* my car is paid for

With lower expenses I can afford to accept less money, provided it means an interesting work opportunity.

So don't just assume that I'd demand more money. Ask. Maybe there's some middle ground where we can meet. Are you flexible enough?