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What struck me in particular from these numbers is the dislike of IRC versus the dislike of Matrix. Unfortunately, the data doesn't seem to differentiate between the people who use IRC regularly and those who don't for the question of whether they like IRC. The question I'm wondering; is it the people who use Matrix who dislike IRC or is it evenly split between those who use IRC or Matrix? (I have a suspicion, but that would be speculating without evidence.)

Reasonable people will disagree, but I think IRC's lack of features is actually an advantage and not a disadvantage. My opinion is that the Matrix protocol is too powerful. That being said, for a project like GNOME, it's extremely important that one maintains a form of communication that those engaged are willing to use.

I realise I'm an old fart for being extremely hesitant about Matrix and Discord, but fortunately, I am also not in charge of deciding any community's lines of communication.
“Sequence looks random” is not nonsensical. The authors say your sequence should be indistinguishable from e.g. 12 coin tosses. This would have a uniform distribution.

One approach would be estimate the probability distribution from the input sequence and calculate the KL-divergence [1] of that to the uniform distribution. This gives one objective measure of randomness. There are many others!

TL;DR: There are definitions of randomness that can be tested against.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kullback–Leibler_divergence
I agree 100%, based on my own experience both as having been a kid and being a parent.

Like a lot of other folks have already posted, I was also the weird sort of kid that spent time "playing on the computer" and talking about what I'd learned and asking about "modems" and "BBSs" or "the Internet". My parents would listen, supported getting an extra phone line to run my own BBS, would drive me places to support my hardware and books habits--and that all was important to continuing to explore this niche.

As a parent, well, I have an interesting mirror experience. My oldest daughter got really into basketball. This is absolutely inexplicable to me, because neither I nor my wife ever played, nor did we ever watch a basketball game at home before her interest developed. (Schools these days, exposing children to strange new ideas!) I knew the basics (orange sphere through orange ring = points; double dribbling and traveling are bad; no tackling) but really had no interest. But we've enabled her interest: let her join the school team, signed her up for summer camps or 3-on-3 leagues, encouraged her to practice in the driveway (oh, yeah, bought a hoop for the driveway), have watched or taken her to college women's games.

She still knows more about the game than I do. Even with years of watching, "volunteering" for scorebook duty at some of her home games, talking with coaches and refs, there are still a lot of subtleties of the game that escape me. But it's okay. She plays, she enjoys it, and she knows her parents support her strange, strange interest.

Even if you don't really, completely "get it" as a parent, supporting and enabling ("enabler" is such a good word here) is worth a lot.
Never let a good opportunity pass by, I guess. Information should be free imo, though I do not know how to deal with people who believe even the most obvious bs.

Can DNS level blocks be bypassed using other DNS services? Google and Cloudflare are by far not the only ones, pretty much every ISP has their own.
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The game was called Passage; I still remember it very clearly. If you chose to form a couple, you wouldn't be able to squeeze into certain spaces to get certain treasure chests. The "message" of that mechanic, that being part of a couple means you have to forego some opportunities in life, isn't particularly controversial or novel, but "feeling" it through the mechanic was really impactful. (And that was just one aspect of that tiny little game!)

Similarly, there was a game called Brothers that delivered its punchline through its mechanics in a powerful way. (I don't want to spoil it for anyone!) I'm not sure if it's art or whatever, but it's something interesting and distinct from what you get in other forms of media.

Meanwhile, I enjoyed both Gris and Celeste, but purely on a mechanical and/or aesthetic level, and not really a connection to any deeper message.
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Yep, that's the truly impressive part with DALL-E2. If you take those sentences and paste them into Google Images, the results will always be much worse. Even if you find a query for which there do exist closely matching images, they will still look worse.

Meanwhile if you do it in reverse, take an exist image and try to recreate it in DALL-E2, you can get extremely closer. Over on Reddit they did a experiment:

https://old.reddit.com/r/dalle2/comments/ub0sfg/dalle_2_imit...
I bought it and refunded it. Just felt too much like the first game and ended up getting bored pretty quickly from walking around and hearing the same thing.
No different than the government mandating equipment (such as airbags) be running on your car.
Well I wouldn't say several minutes long. Indy car has 4 people out, 1 for each tire and their pit stops are still only seconds.

In terms of quick charging, teams get to design their own bank of supercaps that dump as much power into the car as fast as possible.

I dont know, I really want to watch formula e over f1 but sure doesnt make it for me.
It was posted on reddit, that's why me and many others got redirected to this page.
hackernews is a joke, why do you downvote this?

Censorship is bad, is as simple as killing is bad. that's something that should be learned during childhood and be a common ground for a modern society.
Buffet also famously sat out the DotCom bubble in the late 90s.
To be honest, I find it hard to be sympathetic to authors or other royalty paid workers collectively, since they are often complicit in creating this situation, see Sonny Bono Copyright Extension Act.

It's similar to all the BS about patents that focus on the little inventor.

I'm much more interested in

a) popular culture not being owned and monopolised by anyone, including the original author(s)

b) giant corporations abusing laws generally

Having said that, Cory Doctorow is usually right about most things. I just find it hard to get excited about George R Martin getting his copyright back so he can sell it again.
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Wordle with Arabic script reshaping, something I noticed alot of other Wordle translations miss out.
But if there's a keylogger installed, why would the same keylogger not take regular screenshots ?
The fact it’s equally likely as any other sequence means it should be very unlikely to appear in the study’s 3429 samples, and extremely unlikely to show up more than once.
You use Java constructs to implement the interpreter, but that doesn't mean the language itself has to be mapped to Java constructs, any more than writing an interpreter in C means your language has to be mapped to C semantics.

Sulong uses a standard C-style heap in the open source version. In EE they (can) trap malloc/free and re-point it towards the GCd heap. They also do bounds checking on pointer de-references. It's actually amazingly cool but unfortunately, EE is expensive enough in dollar terms that it gets ignored. I don't know of anything that uses it for real.
Unfortunately it's not always the case - at least not with Ruby (which I consider somewhat nichy). My experience is the Ruby job interview is just like any other algo/Leetcode type interview - in 90% of interviews they don't bother testing my Ruby knowledge (very likely the interviewer doesn't really know Ruby that well). Maybe 2 companies out of 15 had actual Ruby questions.

So maybe Ruby is not niche enough or the hiring company thinks it's no problem teaching someone Ruby, idk. But I'm surprised again and again how little companies care about my actual experience. It's all algo questions or something about deployments/Kubernetes.
To be charitable to the GP, you could imagine that physical indicators that correlated/anticorrelated with success in the ancestral environment no longer did today, such that if you were picking between the 6'5 and 4'2 guys, the 4'2 guy has a highler likelihood of being a tech millionaire/programmer and resistant to microplastic-based infertility, and thus can provide/reproduce better than the 6'5 guy. I.e. the average woman's attractions aren't calibrated to the modern environment, much how most other instincts aren't calibrated to the modern environment.

So, over time, the rare woman who prefers short obese kings would outcompete the rest. I don't think this particular example is the case, but I do think something like this dynamic is happening.
(In the other direction, actually.)
> 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.

That instruction is a flaw in the experiment. It's always impossible to tell, for any given sequence, whether it was produced by a fair die. There's nothing an experimental subject can do to make the impossible more impossible.

> the kind of sequence you’d get if you really rolled a die

Well, there is no such sequence. The instruction is incoherent.

You could take it as meaning "Construct a sequence that you think will convince others that it came from a random source". That would be coherent. And then it would be legitimate to eliminate responses that were all-heads ("clearly didn't even try"). But then what are you measuring? The comparative understanding of older and youger people concerning random sources, or the Gambler's Paradox? Their comparative expertise in human psychology? Their comparative willingness to move the mouse-pointer over the screen?
Unless I missed it in that RFC document blockchain adds a shared ledger, as thebeastie mentioned. Aka an unalterable shared record of what changed, when, and by whom.
It looked vintage even in the nineties
You can estimate the probability distribution that generates this sequence as 0: 0, 1: 1. This is as far from 0: 0.5, 1: 0.5 (a fair coin toss) as you can get.

Comparing mean and std dev can be used to estimate the distance between two distributions. See also, statistical testing.
The startup I worked for had essentially 0 attrition for many years. Attrition didn't really pick up until years later after the company was acquired.

Not sure I buy that high turnover is inevitable
That's exactly how it started in Russia, yes.
Very sneaky, whoever marked this as a dupe (but only after the product received many negative comments).
This happens more often then you think. I’ve seen basically every minority group imaginable get told to develop thick skin and get over their “imaginary problems” (black, asian, indian, gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender, asexual, straight, poor, rich etc), even on more liberal corners of the internet.
(source if you want)

https://www.reddit.com/r/ukraine/comments/ufvjmj/does_valve_...
It’s not a hack, it’s part of the moderation system, an answer to the million-dollar question: how do you scale dang?
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Can you tell me more about the proprietary part?
Why do they take the money before checking if they should take the money?

If they waited a week they wouldn’t get the 8.5% (I believe)
> The announcements have to live somewhere

As opposed to living nowhere?
I once bought a Moleskine notebook, it was so precious i never used it. I then gave it to my niece, she didn't use it either, last time I heard she gave to somebody else too.

Long story short you buy these things as jewellery and not as tools.

Plain old notebook available in any nearby store works for me. And yeah any pen works too.
People pushing for these laws could be same as the commenter you’re replying to.

The US is a 2 party system so there’s not gonna be lots of choices around.

Refusing the law because of the people pushing is ideological.
Not if it’s a physical keylogger, which I think was the primary concern.
I'm not going to believe someone that says the "legacy financial system", seems to me you are too interested in the other one.
Do any faang still pay in options still? Google is mostly RSUs these days.
That's what technical crypto skeptics always do, it's one of the most common reductionist comments you can find on technical forums:

- Blockchain is just an inefficient linked list/database

- Merkle Trees have existed since the 70s

- Distributed systems have existed since the 80s

- ZK proofs have existed since the 80s

Completely disregarding any advances in cryptography or consensus. Usually they throw in a reference to some other unrelated consensus algorithm like Paxos or Raft to seem smart.

And if you attempt to highlight some advances in the DLT space, you will be accused of "spouting buzzwords". There's literally no way to communicate with a person who has already decided they don't care.
Oh cmon. The money of regular taxpayers was the first in and the quality of life for them was the last out.

The investment only started paying real dividends in terms of generalized quality of life in the 2010s.

You want to say it was 35 years and not 40? Fine. If you are a guy who was in his 50/60 back in the 1970s then 40-35-30 or even if I give you 20 years if you consider that the investment totally repaid itself when the early adopters started buying GPS (which is a very bad way to calculate it )....it's all the same. You didn't see improvements in your quality of life because given life expectancy back then chances are you'd not be having a life at all (and this includes when the very early adopters bought it)
For some years now, I've been a big proponent of the idea that, as a community, we should write about startups with more realism and with less hype. Especially for the sake of more junior people, we should try to illustrate what euphemisms like "very fluid" or “fast paced” actually mean. I know some readers of Hacker News have read my book, How To Destroy A Tech Startup In Three Easy Steps, and I really wish more people would do what I did and write with real honesty about how chaotic and frustrating early stage startups can be. Yes, they can be exciting, but also they can be stressful. And mind you, I work at a startup right now, so it's not as if one bad experience scared me away from startups forever. But I do think we should have more truthful writing, so that people who decide to work at a startup have a better idea of what they are getting into.

(Also, some people worry that writing honestly about a startup will hurt their career, but my book only helped my career. As it became more and more popular, I got more and more offers to consult with various entrepreneurs.)
I remember the voting process in the EU about something similar.

Ambiguously formulated paper where apparently half the voters didn't know what they were voting for. And despite that the vote wasn't repeated. And that's supposed to be a democracy?

The youth protested, for the 1st time in decades many young people went to the streets and demonstrated all throughout Europe.

But they were called bots, yeah bots wrote the officials, not real people. The conservatives made up lies against the young people. But not just young people.

Article 13. Then they changed it to be Article 17. Dirty tricks. Just like they formulated the vote sentence ambiguously.

Beware and do EVERYTHING you can that this doesn't pass and make sure it will never pass, not even in 20 or 40 years or longer next and next generations.

This is a systematic, worldwide attempt of censorship and removal of freedom. Do NOT allow this to happen!
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> “Whether it goes up or down in the next year, or five or 10 years, I don’t know. But the one thing I’m pretty sure of is that it doesn’t produce anything,” Buffett said. “It’s got a magic to it and people have attached magics to lots of things.”

Bitcoin has a lot of baggage, from energy consumption to the toxic community. But if you look at it on the protocol level, it is incredibly valuable. You can transfer and verify ownership of a finite amount of some numbers. It's a technology. How much is double entry book keeping worth? Now you can say the technology is already out, so obviously no one would pay to "buy" double entry book keeping because anyone could continue using it for free.

Similarly the Bitcoin technology can be repurposed and used in other tokens, and it has. But Bitcoin is unique in that it came along with a unique set of circumstances. For one, its original proceeds are fairly distributed (no pre-mine). It also helps that the creator is still miraculously anonymous. Other shitcoins, even Ethereum has a relatively concentrated ownership and centralized control. Bitcoin is also more battle tested and has a history the suggests the community would be immune to arbitrary changes (e.g. increasing number of tokens). Another coin could come along with a benevolent dictator, not hoard tokens for personal gain, take all Bitcoin's greatest ideas and add to them, create a community and trust over a decade or so, and overtake bitcoin as a de-facto leader in digital cash, but that's becoming increasingly less likely every year.
Options? Or RSUs?
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> Now if you told me you own all of the bitcoin in the world and you offered it to me for $25 I wouldn’t take it because what would I do with it?

lol, yeah right
Flagging would be an abuse of another feature. I don't think the original post is quite wrong as in illegal or harmful or off topic.

The commenter here's upvote counted, my downvote did not count.

And I won't just use any other available form of attack like falsely accusing the post of some wrongdoing just because I want to criticise something and that's the only way to do it.

I did leave a critical comment but that is a seperate issue because you can leave a positive comment and upvote. So the ability to comment nulls out.
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Maybe, but she absolutely plays the to the HN-style "know enough to be sceptical but maybe not enough to make their own conclusions" crowd deliberately. She's toned it down a little bit but I recall her being a bit more egregious a while ago but I might be misremembering because I don't read her blog regularly.
Tracking via Bluetooth would be much less trivial than "Ok, I'll fly toward that smiling face until I see a hand in bottom camera, then I'll just start descending until it looks close enough to shut down my motors".
I like

- Monty Python

- Stanley Parable

- The Witness

out of your list so I'm not sure what that makes me. Never heard of Gris or the last one in your other list.

Also, how do you get that formatting on hacker news? What formatting is allowed?
I fail to see the link between the budget of CERN and the cost of the Iraq war.
You took one for the team. If the world ran on good software, you'd not cautiously deposit only $25 first and you'd not be tempted to stress-test the system with the $10k deposit. If the world ran on good software, the second $9.975k deposit wouldn't have bounced. Don't worry, I'll get back at them in my work by making the users suffer until they understand what good software is!
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I share some of your sensibilities regarding the lack of features being a possible advantage. But I don't think the Gnome Project is one that values minimalism in software design that much. And I think it's valid to for there to be projects that choose to sacrifice minimalism for other advantages. I think Gnome is one of those projects, so I think Matrix is a good fit for it.
Maybe I was primed by the author because I was reading their article, but I understood it the same way they did - the entire $10k was rejected because it put them over the limit. I probably would have tried the same $9975 transaction they did.
Don't fish in the sewers nor scoff at people whose flaws are no deeper than your own.
I just used Xfig to make a diagram yesterday. There are other things out there but it was easy to learn and seems to work well enough. I just export to SVG when I am done.
How did you install syncrhing. Granted im not deep into likebook but i love my mars reader. Syncthing would make it great.
Many things, most of which have already been said here by others, and myself in another comment too.

But this comment was about exactly what it says.

I'd leave some other comment about Fig itself but it's mostly all been said well enough already and I see no value in being redundant.

For the record, a reply where I added a few points
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31223471
Anecdotal, but a friend of mine who wrote for Marvel comics in the 80s and 90s told me that she (and all the other Marvel writers) has a few % royalties for the characters and stories they wrote, and that neither she nor her peers from back then have received anything after some corporate restructuring that happened before the Disney days (I think they declared bankruptcy to get out of those)?
The courses look brilliant, definitely a strong advantage to gain a reference from a Cambridge postdoc. I'd take part if the £2.5k for online or £5k for residential was much lower, but it's understandable why the fees are so high.
'Discrimination bad' is simpler than what's happening in your head, I think
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Exactly, it's impotant to chose a definition of randomness first.
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I like this last advice:

“ think of your company as a child:

When a kid is healthy, and growing, they outgrow their shoes. You don’t blame the kid. You just find new shoes.”
Early on in the war, I wondered why Valve didn't completely block russian users - no one was interested in listening. I'm disappointed in Valve.
Ok, thanks I guess - but for my purposes that's moot. It's easy to import the rm2 "pages" into my Obsidian vault. And Obsidian's search and metadata features are extraordinarily powerful.
> Off the top of my head, Euler, Gauss, Newton, Leibniz, Euclid pretty much cover an undergraduate curriculum and all the math most people would know, and those are just five people.

Who just happened to be around at the right time to a certain extent. The fact that these particular people are the famous ones may be an accident of history and someone else would have come along and and produce the same results.

Newton and Leibniz (and de Fermat, etc) famously both invented/discovered calculus at the same time:

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_multiple_discoveries#1...

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multiple_discovery

At least when it comes to mathematics, and perhaps 'mechanical' discoveries/inventions; lots of folks fiddling around with boiling water over the course of history, for example:

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_steam_engine

Other aspects of human thought may be different: I think Aristotle (and later Thomas Aquinas) were unique and we'd be in a very different place, world-view-wise, if they hadn't been around.
What is right and wrong?

US killed millions of Iraqis and Afghans, yet Europeans still support the US, is it because Europeans are slaves and the US is master or is it because brown lives are worth less than white lives?
So that's a fail, then; the broken calc stayed broken, and the working calc worked.