skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeah, 'We tried to work out the impact of age on randomness, and guessed that people were younger than 99 years old 50% of the time!"
Yeah, I read that part and I can't make sense of it. How are they deciding what is reasonably random?
Suicide bombings are still very in vogue over the world, and this has probably increased in the last 20 years.
Matches my experience too.

I've done battle with the VSCode autocomplete many times over the years, trying to stop things from popping up automatically when I'm typing. My escape key has gotten more of a worked out over the years than a vim user on speed. I've twiddled every option in Settings but it has defeated me every time.

Yesterday was my latest battle and I think I have the upper-hand. I set the "millisecond delay until show" to some very large value and it seems to have worked. I can now typed without stuff flashing and popping up all the time.

I came back late yesterday to the computer. VSCode was still open, and showing one lonely autocomplete pop up on screen. pfff.. Time to add another zero to the delay setting I guess...
,,Although executives and employees at Twitter have agreed with Mr. Musk about changes to its algorithm, that work is in its earliest stages and could take years to complete. ''

This is good enough reason to change the management. TikTok didn't take a few years to get huge. Authenticating users, getting rid of ICO / NFT scams don't take few years with proper engineering.
I also guess that the segment of the population interested in a self-described "digital publication that makes data fun" probably skews even younger than the population. FWIW I was guessed to be over 60 but am not.
I felt the same way, for what it's worth.
Organizations unaffiliated with FIA can do whatever they want. There are not many of them though. Even American motorsport is affiliated with FIA [1] even if I think that the link has been very weak for most of its history.

One problem surfaced as many times as Formula 1 teams threatened to break away from FIA and do their own league is that FIA could ban all FIA seriest to race on circuits that organize races for the break away series. That's bad for circuits because they lose many weekends of income so nobody wants non FIA series.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Automobile_Competition_Committ...
Doesn’t it possibly get inlined by current mechanisms as well?
I think the idea of "make this look random" is kinda like "pretend you're tossing the coin and copy the results"

It's not that the single values sequences are invalid, it's that they're occurring with a greater frequency than by chance

The players are just trying to sound smart basically
When hits were stored on floppy disk and created with an Atari ST (2020)
Love the idea but I do not understand how to make this work. Also, clicking on the repo link on the site takes me to the bot.
> The term... is almost entirely associated

By whom? Who tells you the speaker considers their association(s) relevant? They are not entitled to assume those associations outside their own mind (and even inside it, that does not seem proper mental hygiene nor proper process).

> The people using that term

False. /Some/ people - irregardless of the number - use language that way. Other people do not, and hold that treatment of language in contempt: they do not care about "familiar" language in which a clan of two or two billion decide that they will interpret some term in some way specific to them. (What does 'familiar' mean just a few terms earlier?)
You can, but unless you own that address you won’t be able to use the app as you’re expected to type a code sent to the provided address
No idea. This is the Amazon link: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Pukka-Pad-Jotta-Squared-Notebook/dp...

Though it's more expensive.
I think BGP protocol is an excellent use case for blockchain
We are making really good progress on this and will have a cross-platform prototype in the next month or so. See the Github issues for Linux[1] and Windows[2]

[1] https://github.com/withfig/fig/issues/34

[2] https://github.com/withfig/fig/issues/35
This is brilliant idea, thanks so much!
I don't think Bill Gates, who has been openly against opening up intellectual property on vaccines, might be the person we ought to listen when it comes to global protection from pandemics.

In reality, the participation of private entities with profit-seeking interest in world health is not really something I can support. We already have a pandemic protection organisation which is supposed to be the WHO; but they're not really listened to when they say "hey we need to free the vaccines because the poor people cannot get vaccinated" and so on.

Prevention could be seen as a different game, but I think they are prey to the same short comings. Is Bill Gates really interested in stopping pandemics? Or is he more interested in pandemics playing out in a way that is beneficial to his interests. He was the one telling people in Africa that were dying from aids how it was so important that we keep the intelectual property model intact that was making the price of medicine impossible to access because, well, innovation!

Man, some people might argue against bureaucracy and governments and states "meddling". But that's such a rose-tinted way of viewing the world. States, specially those in most need, have almost no power against the interests of mega corporations and the interests of rich states who, in turn, are doing everything they can to protect their own self interests as well. The world's health problems are not at all about efficiency, the problem is precisely that big corporations are extremely efficient at wielding their influence to make more money.

Profits of big pharma are as good as they have ever been, yet world health is in such a sorrowful state. Hundreds of people are dying in poor countries that have extremely low vaccination rates, whereas people in rich countries get... what, their fourth booster shot?

I think we need to listen more to experts in the field about what to do; rather than tech billionaires with vested interests.
That does look like just what I'm looking for. I'm going to have to give the 7 day trial a shot.

I like that it has investment tracking as well.

Agreed that mint was terrible with syncing. I don't know if it's improved at all in the last several years.
Better today than tomorrow.
> so that if another person is shown your sequence of digits from 1 to 6, he/she should not be able to tell whether these numbers were produced by a real die or just "made up" by somebody

This explanation leads me to think that the decision of what is random in the study is based on human perceptions of randomness, not actual statistical randomness. Although any sequence is equally (un)likely to be rolled, 1111111111 would stand out from the other sequences much more than 3156263441.
"Babylon wages war on Babylon, Babylon vanquishes the evil of Babylon, Babylon falls and Babylon rises, The wars aren't real but the genocides of your people are, How they massacre you like cattle! How God weeps for your misguided souls!

Their merchants did trade, Their leader wore their cross, Are you truly so blinded by the Serpent's propaganda?! Where did their scientists go?! You question where the bodies went, where do we put ours?!

The head bites the tail, in death they are born.

- Sir Lulzington Esq.
My idea of what random actually looks like has been affected a lot by generating random numbers with a computer. They just don’t actually look that random.

I read an anecdote about the iPod shuffle (hey kids - it was a music player with no screen so you could not choose songs directly) - they initially set it to be genuinely random in the way it chose the next song - people didn’t like it. It didn’t _feel_ random to pick a song you only just listened to again. So they had to make an algorithm that was sort-of-random but with some constraints to make it feel how we expect randomness to be.
I’m over 60 apparently.
Original post didn't specify science project, just project.
> What's the business model of this and why I'm not allowed to use it without signing up?

they offer a product for teams

teams can create private completions for Fig

in order to use the private completions, your whole team have to be subscribed to Fig

basically, their business model is vendor lock-in, because the completions you create for Fig don't work outside of Fig
Doesn't save much space or weight - the car will still be larger and heavier.
https://xkcd.com/1725/ .

Those regression lines are absolutely laughable. Point cloud has line going through it, and beforehand I have no clue where the line will be (other than that it will go through the center, presumably). Even if there is a statistically significant effect, its meaning will be a rounding error.
I understood my task as convincing another _human_ that it was randomly generated. Since N was low for each of the tasks, I was deliberate about sometimes having repeated values, and not ensuring that every option was picked an equal number of times, since that looks suspiciously algorithmic. Apparently I'm over 60.
I almost killed my blog like the many other websites I had. Then I realized I could write for my daughters. I will keep my blog for my kids to read. I'm still looking for a way to collect and continue to write a memoir-ish journey of my life for them to read.

I have always been fascinated by -- what stories will you tell your kids.

My first daughter has even started making fun of me, "Dad, how did you go to school in your days?"

She likes other stories and I have repeated the one where I went to an army encampment in the mountains to help fix computers, slept in the wooden bed, peed on the hillside surrounded by the army with guns pointing out. My friend and I returned home hidden in an ambulance with a pregnant woman on her way to deliver in the town's hospital.

I need to write them down.
I'm stuck at step 8. I can't seem to get the ``secret gesture'' to work, and it says `This demonstration device is either missing content or is disconnected from the network | CONFIGURE DEVIE'' and responds to nothing.
No, they're just saying that no person who was following the instructions would produce a sequence of all heads or all tails as a "random" sequence, so they're throwing out those two specific sequences.
> An old poll with 32% US

> There's also a recent poll w/ 47%

Clearly you need one more poll to decide this, as per XKCD 927.
I mean, that makes sense. What I want when putting a music player to "shuffle" is not "give me something unpredictable" -- that's fundamentally what randomness means. What I want is "give me something new". Something new is not something random, it's something _different_ from before, if reasonably possible.
Chat rooms for social programming initiatives like EleutherAI or GoCoder Bomberland are great. You get exposed to new ideas, people discuss state of the art AI papers, and you can team up with others for the next project / next round, thereby finding yourself a mentor.
But if this is about perceived randomness shouldn’t people also guess which sequence was created by a human vs sequences created by some algorithm?

I understand that to score randomness you probably would create n-grams of the characters and look if these would be equally distributed. But for such short sequences it feels hard to do. Maybe a statistician can explain this?

For me, using my right thumb on a smartphone seems enough to skew the randomness. Just by doing it again with my index finger (after writing most of this comment), I raised it from being “more random” than 18% to 84%.
I haven't yet. Thanks for the tip!
x509 entries in the cert don't help if the cert is designed to sign false server certs... they obviously will not add the restriction to the CA.

Browsers definitely are in a position to additionally restrict their trust to certs in their store to specific hostnames. But there doesn't seem to be any UI except explicit global trust and distrust.
Did you get the broom closet ending? The broom closet ending was my favorite!
Same reasoning here, and same result.
Regarding Warp's:

> All cloud features are opt-in. Data is encrypted at rest.

The most generous interpretation is this is misleading (I would consider it outright lie) given they currently also have telemetry which isn't even opt-out, it's always on. See last time this was discussed:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30921231#30922189
Agreed. Preparation to deal with discrimination and bias is essential. Finding mentors who have faced these situations before, and can provide relevant career guidance, should be priority #1.
So basically you want to go to LinkedIn but you really want to have FB (Meta?) in your resume, right? So, if you're already planning on leaving after a year why bother joining on the first place?
'Perceived as random' seems like a pretty junk measure of other humans' efforts at producing randomness. Garbage in, garbage out. Surely analysing this tells you absolutely nothing about anything?

I would understand if the actual measurement is not perceptual but mechanised, i.e. "how small can we compress this stream of random choices using our best known compression methods" or something. (But then a stream of 10 symbols is surely not enough to show you the humans.)
The problem is that many PDF's are simply a bunch of scanned images. And these can't be readily converted to any text based format.

The exception is to put the PDF through an OCR process, but this destroys the formatting and can't deal with images. The whole point of my scanning these old books was to keep the historical information.

I have hundreds of old books I have scanned and converted to PDF, but I cant read these on a Kindle.
I use hstr to get autocomplete suggestions based on my history.
No email or signup needed.
Its like ctrl+r but a selection menu is visbile.
http://dvorka.github.io/hstr/
Please do NOT do this. Walmart+ is awful. Our very first delivery was mixed up with another customer's order and we were refused a refund for the stuff we ordered that they refused to deliver. I had to complain to the BBB and the case was transferred to CA, where Walmart based their delivery division, even though Wal-Mart is based in Arkansas.

We were in a bit of difficulty...only one driver in our house and he wasn't feeling too tasty, our dog was out of food and we needed a few basics. So we tried again...they simply refused to show up and cancelled our order without telling us. It took two weeks to get our money back and a lot of very bad phone calls. Never, never use these people. I'm not sure if the ee's are scamming them and their customers or what the problem is but our experiences have been exceedingly bad.
I was expecting blockchain smart contracts being composed somehow using logical operations. That would have been kind of cool, as someone forced to become a cryptocurrency hater. Silly of me, really, to think they had started paying attention to PLT principles. :)
Are your historical sources describing similar societies, or is the only similarity the "historical" part? Also, meat is often divided into more preferential portions and less, fresh vs. preserved, and legal vs. illegal. Plenty of room for social stratification without significant quantity differences.
I think, fundamentally, I just don’t like the notebook format which is why Rhodia pads are my go to.

I find notebooks to be too scattered when I try flip through them after the fact. Half a page of something here, another half page three pages after, it’s not conducive to actually rereading notes. With the pad I can at least pull the pages out and then sort them in some sort of order before filing away.
> But if this is about perceived randomness shouldn’t people also guess which sequence was created by a human vs sequences created by some algorithm?

It's about what the test person think another human will perceive as random so there's a layer of indirection there. If these guesses you suggest would help the study or not I really can't say.
Used dice, and got very low "randomness" both times (8% and 25%). Hand-rolling got me 70%. Something feels off.
How about trying a different city/country? In Warsaw, Poland, the gender inbalance is like 2 to 1 single women to men around the age of 35. This makes women drop certain criteria, and height may be one of the first to go.

I heard that in NYC in US it’s similar.
My age was guessed as over 60 as a result of this, which I guess is in line with their assumptions but maybe not for the right reason
I think the right choice is to quantify or bound what you mean. "The chance of X is 52%" sounds pretty confident and assertive. If you can't be that precise, then "For reasons X, Y, and Z this is likely, though not certain."

I think "probably" is completely fine though.
Arm China finally boots rogue CEO that's held it hostage with a 'chop' for years
Ask HN: Opinions about the long term reliability of Rust's ecosystem
There're many discussions about language design. I think most of us agree that Rust does many things right in this regard.

Still, a holistic view needs to take other aspects into account. One is the long term reliability of the ecosystem regarding language changes but most importantly regarding the required third party libraries.

Do you have concerns, experiences, opinions about this? Did you chose another language because some of your required third party dependencies are still on version 0.x or depend on a single person or don't seem to get updated frequently?
Personally I like using nice notebooks with ornate covers based on old books, with metallic ink accents.

You must be young. If I used something like that at work, the young yahoos would laugh me out of the building.
I think, that's a common misconception about randomness: It doesn't mean the number has to change with every roll of dice. On the contrary the longer the sequence large clusters of the same number will occur.

It's maybe not so counter-intuitive as the Birthday paradox, but maybe already showing how bad our intuition is at grasping randomness. Initially I had hoped about research on that, which is probably very hard. - Or not? Couldn't you look at the n-gram distributions of the data and look how much that is "random", i.e. are people avoiding clusters harder than they should?
Lots of people have updated_at time stamps on all tables, so you could probably inspect those to find your way back. I’ve never tried to query the history implicitly hidden in Postgres tables so I’m not sure how possible (or sensible) any of this is.
braces could be invasive, but i think only for very badly formed teeth.

And i also think braces makes for better teeth health, since straight teeth is less likely to accumulate plaque and cause gum issues in the future. It's not purely cosmetic.

Teeth whitening, on the other hand, is purely cosmetic and i suspect, entirely unnecessary. I dunno how dangerous it is either, but it can't be healthy to bleach your teeth!
Cool, though the website suspiciously omits the contrast.

Given it's RGB(W?) and not pixel qi or similar - likely at least 2x worse than Dasung eink?

UPD: yes it is. definitely faster though.
https://wz.ax/r/Reflective_LCD/stxqo6
In progress:

* JavaScript

Todo:

* APL or J

* Lisp

* Forth

* Lua
OK, that gesture was really hard to do.
planetscale (if I need rdbms) or firestore or dynamodb (if I need just document).
I checked latency of planetscale and dynamodb from frankfurt,paris,singapore from DO/linode/scaleway to db in same region; these are low latency (mostly single digit).

For single server, I'd just use sqlite.
See, we are no longer in the age of nerds making great software and giving it away for free.

We are in the age of high profit software, be it through sales of product(x$ to use y), sales of extra features (x is free but this specific feature is y$), sales of services(x is free and your life can get easier if you use it with y for only z$/month), land grab(x is free for you because it's paid by y, who hopes to make money later somehow), data grab(x is free for you because we use the data collected here to build y), sales of access to people(x is free but we let other people reach you) or straight up criminals(you pay us x$ or y happens to you).

We can no longer talk about thankless customers of free products. There's even no longer free text on the internet, people write stuff only to show ads or influence your decisions(political or consumerist). The customer must understand how they are paying for it.

To give someone the benefit of doubt, they need an explanation for it. Clearly, contact details are irrelevant for the apps' primary function. They can ask for a license after a trail, I guess(free license obtained by signing up). They can let you use the app and offer you extra functionality(like syncing history between devices) through an online account.

It is not O.K. to make people install your app and only then require this one thing, irrelevant to apps functionality, to let you use the app. That's a known dark pattern.
Not saying not to try but are others pessimistic by the proverbial 'boiling of the frog' when other countries started adopting DMCA type measures in part by US imperialism also pressure from extra-governmental organizations like the WTO?

Hopefully this does not pass and we do not go down this road again...
Do they also work with young people? Does it work? The biggest problem I have with older co-workers is that they are frequently much less flexible -- "stuck in the mud".