skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So if someone makes an honest mistake and types and extra number, it's OK to both 1) don't process any amount and 2) hold the money for two months. That doesn't feel right to me.

E.g. I buy shares and mistype the ticker or buy extra. It processes but then I notice my mistake and I can either fix it by selling, or decide ir doesn't matter and keep the shares. What doesn't make any sense is the broker keeping the money for two months and not giving me any share.
FWIW, I'm happy to sponsor both, they innovate in different ways. Chess.com with their content sponsorship and deep player pools, lichess with ad-free, open source and unique UI features.
For those who haven’t been following, Pakistan has been in dire financial straights for some time. This will help them a lot and as a former Indian ambassador said - “No one wants to see a nuclear somalia”.
They are not, these are the instructions from the reproduction

> Tap a sequence of 10 dice rolls. Make it look as random as possible; another person should not be able to tell if you made it up or if it was from real dice rolls.

And this is the excerpt from the study they mention

> Click on a number between one and six as randomly as possible to produce the kind of sequence you'd get if you really rolled a die [...]

I made the same mistake as thombles, the new instructions make it sound like the objective is to trick a human. The original clearly states the objective is to be random.

They are not the same objective, as humans are terrible at recognizing randomness.
Exercising is doing physical exercise for the sake of it (health). Training involves planification to reach an objective: some personal record, a competition or aesthetic.
I mean it’s safe to say if the government is going to default on a 10k loan there are bigger issues.
Just my 2c

I don't know why you are 'a regular' if you have such a toxic opinion of and attitude towards HN.

Also although this is not going to sway you, I at least want to mention it as I found it interesting when I came across this - see the response and embedded search link in the FAQ question "Are negative stories about YC suppressed on HN?" here [1]

Edit: also want to note that I'm thankful for you and others who bring up the privacy issues because I likely would have looked at the fig.io page, thought 'hey this looks cool' and upvoted the post without thinking much further... which is likely where a lot of the upvotes come from. So IMO putting things more lightly (even in your original response 9 days ago) would have sufficed. Perhaps if you had qualified what you meant by fig relying on "free labour" (it just sounds like a hectic accusation) your comment would have stayed at the top. Though overall I agree it doesn't seem like the kind of comment that should have been suppressed and it's good to push back against that a bit.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html
I have a Thinkpad x220 and modern lenovo laptop. The latter has a metal frame, and is quite nicely built by modern standards; and of course it's far more powerful than the thinkpad, which is from 2011.

But I like the thinkpad way more. It's sturdier, the keyboard has real keys that stick up and not these horrible chiclet macbook-style keys that every single laptop has now, it has the thinkpad nipple, you can remove/replace the battery by flipping two latches, you can access/replace the hard drive/ssd, ram, wifi card etc. By undoing 6 screws or so, and I just prefer the old thinkpad aesthetic.

I never want to "upgrade" to the modern form factor; I think it's worse in every way. When I work on the modern laptop, and then take out my thinkpad for personal computing, I feel relief at how nice it is to type on the thinkpad! It's crazy.
It's very annoying to me that nobody's making laptops like that anymore. I use DWM and other lightweight tools, so the 2011 laptop is snappier than the 2022 one (programmers get worse at their jobs/adbicate any responsibility for performance faster than hardware gets better), but at some point it might be nice to have a faster processor.
Whilst I appreciate the comparison, it makes no sense for there to be a difference in the level of alerting, stability, security, safety, etc of a free/paid tier and a full production tier.

You can bet your bottom dollar I trial things on lower tiers, and much later on I may very well take the things I learned into production. My production budget isn't as big as some, but its still a tidy 6 figure sum each year just for cloud hosted services, with no licences or wages in that figure. If my trial on your platform goes tips up without notice, I'm going to likely conclude you're not a particularly safe place for my production stack for whatever it is I'm working on. You should also count on me telling my contemporaries about my experience too.
I find the video rather disappointing. It feels less like an analysis of the Ultra Deluxe edition and more like a plot summary. It should only be watched if you are more interested in knowing what it's about than interested in playing it.
As a Canadian who’s (very) thankfully becoming American I can guarantee you that American government is very incompetent. At least in comparison to a Commonwealth one. The wait times, the level of uncaring, the general attitude was jarring when I first moved here.

I even worked as for a few years for the gov, and the bureaucracy is even worse inside!
I am so tired of these hipster terminal apps for mac only.

As soon as I thought "hey a cool-ish terminal app" I was already sure that it would be macOS only. So I searched on the landing page, documentation and FAQ but couldn't find any info about platform support, which gave me some hope.

Only once I subscribed to the mailing list and got to the download page, I was told that Linux and Windows users are on a "waiting list".

I'm going to refrain from using any app that settles on macOS only as a first target, even if they plan to support other platforms in "the future".

Like the ecosystem wasn't already a walled garden without deliberately excluding viable platforms for no reason other than being "cool".
Conserving the Lunar Roving Vehicle
Just not in the places where you can actually make six figures!
how common? the mods refuse to answer that

maybe it’s just 5 people, who knows?
There are now Quantum Random Number Generators on the market. I've seen hardware ones that use PCIe.

Here's a university that apparently is now providing a qrng service for free with live streaming: https://qrng.anu.edu.au/
But why immediately do it again?!
The semantics aren't that sound - a lot of the bikes have the seat at the very back, too far from the handlebars.
What makes you think a network like this would be PoW in the first place? It could just be PoA.
Confounding factor - I'm using a trackpad, so I'm more likely to click things next to the things I just clicked. My randomness is mitigated by my laziness.
I've worked for small (< 100 employees, and mostly < 20) startups for more or less my entire career, and one thing that's been helpful for me is to never try and think about EVERYTHING you need to do, and aggressively try to eliminate any effort to do so.

If you have any influence over a backlog, roadmap, or list of stories, advocate eliminating anything that's not an immediate concern (bugs are an exception - sometimes it makes sense to purge outdated bugs, but it shouldn't be done lightly). Delete the stories, take things off your roadmap. Almost without exception, they do nothing but generate stress about an insurmountable amount of things to do, more than half of the things won't ever be worked on (which is good! it means you learned something else was more important), and will just lead to people, both internal and external, getting frustrated that "things aren't getting done" even when they are.
Not intelligent - maybe. Not art? How do you conclude that? The output looks like art to me.
Came back specially to say I agree with both of you and many others - there's a huge difference between playing music and programming music. I prefer another way, when possible: record sheet live (midi, or it, xm, etc) and then edit things a bit. Mainly because I'm an idealist and a programmer. It's very important to me to have music in "vector (vs. raster)" - notes instead of stream format. So, requirement to have hardware instrument is always bugging me.
It honestly sounds like you have zero idea how any of this works, saw some ad about 8% and without reading anything else decided to go all in. And then you decided you wanted to try and break the software while playing around $20k to the US treasury. And now you’re shocked you have to wait 2 months for a refund that’s technically your fault.
Ok, we agree then. Models may or may not represent a physical reality. They may be in conflict with reality - as in "the moon made of cheese". They may be incomplete - as in "the fish is 0.01% mercury". Those inaccuracies may or may not have practical relevance. Fundamentally it makes a difference though. In principle, someone with a better model of the die can consistently win bets contradicting the predictions of the "fair die" model and someone with a better model of the gas can do things forbidden by the "entropy is a measure of the energy unavailable for doing useful work" interpretation.

To reconcile those views in the context of your first comment: "Entropy is not a function of knowledge."

Entropy is a function of the macrostate. The macrostate is defined by state variables (the constraints on the system). Those state variables represent what is known about the system. Given P1, T1 we calculate S(P1, T1). Given P2, T2 we calculate S(P2, T2). The entropy obviously change with our knowledge in the sense that if we know that the pressure is P1 and the temperature is T1 we calculate one value and if we know that the pressure is P2 and the temperature is T2 we calculate a different value. If we don't know P and T we cannot calculate _one_ "entropy value" for the system at all because the corresponding macrostate is not defined.

"Two people with varying and different levels of knowledge of a system does not mean the system has two different entropy values."

What is the “entropy value of the system”?

Imagine that the system is composed of two containers with equal volumes of an ideal gas at the same temperature and pressure that are then put together - the volume is now the sum of the volumes, the pressure and temperature don’t change.

Alice can calculate S1 and S2 and the final entropy is SA=S1+S2.

Bob knows something that Alice ignores: that it was hydrogen in one container and helium in the other. They will mix and he can calculate that in the end SB>S1+S2.

What is the “entropy value of the system”? It seems to be more a property of the description of the system than of the system itself.

I'll say more about that in a reply to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31201129
(somehow I've missed that comment until now)
Thank you for your clarification. A small portal under an URL, say removal.google.com or google.com/removal featuring this content and links there - that would be a great start.
Out of curiosity, are these actions visible in any way for a normal (non-mod/admin) user?

I don't have a bone to pick here -- HN is one of the better moderated sites ive seen for good discussion.
> 14 days without pagers

There’s an interpretation of that where life is great
It is my full-time occupation, but I'm not getting paid to do it.
Only if you ignore the risk of missed opportunities because its not like holding cash its like owning cash but someone else holds it and you can not do anything with it.

Beside that its a loan to the gov not the currency issuer which is the Federal Reserve Bank (In the US).
> If you fundamentally don’t understand where it’s coming from that’s a different question altogether.

I think what you bring into the piece of art you are looking at/into (or rather immersing yourself into) matters as much as what the author put into it. So I do agree with you, "where it's coming from" is always interesting to follow. Sometimes it doesn't click on the level we want to click but that's okay, maybe it'll click later (sometimes you need to experience some things IRL to really understand what was going on with a piece of art that didn't click and sometimes what you experienced in real life will make it unbearable to look at some art evoking it).

Regarding Gris: yeah, the hype didn't help. But I poured 3-4 hours into the game on 2 different occasions and the game did bore me and I didn't find what I was looking at interesting, at least not enough to keep me playing.
I had to jailbreak my kindle to fix the system time.

My kindle 2 (~2009) only has cellular connectivity (which doesn't work anymore) and even if it did the API it used for clock synchronization no longer exists.

Occasionally my kindle crashes or requires a hard reset and this resets my system time to epoch. So any new books I add via USB (or even any existing books I read) have their added/last read time in the past and it messes up book sorting.

Some day I'll write an init script to check if the system time is bogus and set some reasonable value from a log file's last access time or something. Until then I manually update it when it breaks via usbnetwork.
Well, the buttons didn't do anything on my phone.

Okay, it opened in Fennec. A great example!
This is intetesting: I posted here a link to what S.P. Novikov writes about Fomenko's "history", which I think to be quite informative. It got quickly eliminated.

My question to whoever edits yc comments sections: what were your considerations for eliminating this post?
You can’t downvotes submissions at any karma level[1].

> There are no down arrows on stories. They appear on comments after users reach a certain karma threshold, but never on direct replies.

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html
As common as everyone who ever worked on any software or IT system.

holy cow
I really liked Firewatch ! This is the game that made me remember to look into "walker simulation" every now and then.
The copyright law, as it currently exists in the US[0], is an unholy mess created by dozens of interest groups with more or less lobbying power.

It has nothing whatsoever to do with promoting creativity, arts, or making sure artists can live off their work. It has everything to do with how much muscle somebody had in negotiations and lobbying.

If you have doubts, read "How to suceed in the music business" and weep. (Film is worse, and for books, just read the OP)

[0] And most other countries I'm aware of, to a different/lesser extent.
Is Bitcoin a Shitcoin? Bitcoin vs. Monero Debate
In some countries, such as the U.K., whistleblowing for illegal activity is protected in law. Not too naive if this is the case.
> This pseudo-security measure actually only slows down humans, not bots, because you can still edit the value of the text field using Javascript (and in fact it's easier to do it that way if you know how).

Surely this is to prevent keyloggers, no slowing down bots. With that said it is questionable if it is worth it. People would probably pick less secure password as a result.
I just checked for status bar icon packs, and while I can change the icons themselves (and probably the foreground/background color), there's no way to get rid of mono color....the color feature has gone forever.
I wonder if it'd be worthwhile, given it'd be difficult to control the light input - would it be possible to get accurate colour reproduction without intensely controlled light sources?
Edgar – Apache Log File Data Set
Thanks, I own the game but haven't played it yet :(.
> This pseudo-security measure actually only slows down humans, not bots, because you can still edit the value of the text field using Javascript

I don't think this is a defense against bots. Virtual keyboards were created primarily as a defense against keyloggers, IMHO.
Hm, interesting. I suppose it does prevent mass bot downvotes, but it also stops the community from pre-emptively removing posts such as this one that just stir up rage. Reddit would probably be unreadable without post downvotes.
> They require you to enter your password by clicking on a virtual keyboard. This pseudo-security measure actually only slows down humans, not bots, because you can still edit the value of the text field using Javascript.

I don't think this is generally worth it as a security measure, but the goal is not to protect against automation. Instead, custom on-screen keyboards are attempts to thwart keyloggers.
The Ability to Distill the Truth
I do a bit of screening at the outset. If a company even mentions "cultural fit" it ends there. We all know what "cultural fit" really means.
Initially when I read your comment (having read only the title) I felt that an ADHD diagnosis might be a bit extreme on its own.

After reading the first half of the article I agreed that there are some ADHD signs.

Well... apparently the author did mention ADHD below... did I mention I'm too impatient?

I wonder if medications/therapy helps with choice paralysis though.
You can save and live like a king all around the world, Silicon Valley programmers are the infamous %1 in the eyes of world.
I enjoyed learning your perspective. This could only have happened because you wrote about it in your comment.
Are keyloggers that can’t capture screenshots still prevalent? I’d expect any software that can log keys to also be able to take screenshots, so the only thing this could potentially thwart is hardware keyloggers but they’d be a very small minority.

TLDR: this is indeed BS security theatre along the same lines of blocking password managers.
>The government forced Native children to attend boarding school and subjected adults to dehumanizing reëducation projects.

This isn't morally right by the standards of modern western neo-liberal culture, but with the alternative it is imperative that we accept that these different cultures are not likely able to achieve collective equity in a society of equal opportunity. And that's ok, because we have no right to impose our cultures onto others, even if we believe our practices to be better suited for success in the modern world.

>In June, 2020, in Forks, Washington, residents mistook a mixed-race family for members of Antifa. The family, unemployed because of the pandemic, had been living in a modified school bus...

The race of the family is completely irrelevant and serves only to race bait. Also there's no indication that they weren't involved in a little protesting on the side, especially when covering up such a fact would make their story far more sympathetic.

The fact that racist policies were once common and sanctioned in the US does not imply that all modern inequities are due solely or significantly to discrimination, past or present, but that seems to be the consistent angle of material from high brow outlets like the New Yorker and NPR, exponentially so as of the last few years.

If we cut out the race and political baiting and clearly define camping in the typical modern sense of a sleeping bag, tent, and/or trailer in an outdoor setting surrounded by nature then the confoundedness disappears. It's borderline disingenuous to treat a nature escape and a tent on a city street as conceptually the same activity just because both involve sleeping outside, and betrays an agenda.
Very, VERY few apps let you choose the emoji set to use.
That's the thing, a lot of things bundle their own emoji "fonts" and allow no way to override. Your (custom) system font will only be displayed when the "raw" emoji is displayed as text without any modifications.
when post downvote feature is unlocked?
As someone likely with ADHD myself, the answer is no, likely not okay. This is likely just one of the many coping techniques the author uses to manage their life.
It's not a surprise to anybody playing cs:go. Valve loves Russian players and their blatant propaganda is ignored, including names, avatars, flags etc. Put ukrainian flag in your avatar, russians will collectively report you, and after you are blocked, steam support will tell you to stop doing things that 'upset comunity'.

It's not even a secret on whose side Valve stands. They are not even pretending to be neutral, and their argument of keeping comunication channels open to provide Russian players with alternative information is deeply flawed, as they do active steps to stop such flow of information.

Easy solution is a boycott, gaming providers market became quite saturated in a last couple of years, there is plenty to choose from.
If I understand you correctly, I think you missed my point. You're explaining how with true randomness, you get different stuff most of the time and the same stuff some of the time. That is true. But it's not what people want when they press shuffle. What people want is something _different_, and giving the same song twice is not something different. As another commenter wrote, giving multiple (different) songs after each other from the same album would even be undesirable, even if that could occur perfectly well with random shuffling.

A human pressing "shuffle" usually doesn't want randomness. They want pleasing _variation_. See e.g. the "Comparison" heading here: https://blog.demofox.org/2017/10/20/generating-blue-noise-sa...
I really like those websites that are so greatly integrated with javascript trackers that when I purposely block all of them on all lists I could find, the website appears for a fraction of a second and quickly disappears afterwards. The web is amazing!
"...most of the department knew he'd been cooking his data for years."

This is the depressing part of it. Systemic corruption and people turning a blind eye. If one's just a cog in the system and not the top brass it's much easier to ignore the problem and plod on regardless. If it's too much for one's conscience and one turns whistleblower one's status within the organization usually changes and one is usually perceived to be a 'leper' by coworkers - even by those who are not engaged in any nefarious activity. In effect, the whole organization coalesces together and acts like a single organism trying to protect itself, the wistleblower being perceived as an internal threat. I know, I've been in that situation and it's not very nice. Moreover, it's certainly not the best career move.

In many organizations the top brass as well as branch/departmental managers etc. arrive at their positions via the Peter Principle, and those who are promoted this way are usually smart enough to know it. Even if they aren't corrupt they know that a wistleblower stands to disrupt the organization in a way that could likely threaten their position, hence their ambivalence about fixing the problem. (Presumably something similar happened at Bell.)

Unfortunately, wistleblowing often doesn't cure the problem in the long run. There is however one unexpected side effect, which is one quickly learns who one's true friends are and those who have real integrity. What's surprising is that they often turn out to be those who one would least expect.

"lab notebook discipline is very poor among the fraudsters, they 'lose samples' and so on"

I have little doubt about that, especially if documentation is written up long after the event. There's a word of caution here though, I've sometimes rewritten notes after the event because my scrawl is almost illegible. As a result rewrites can look too good and thus appear suss. My solution is to always keep the scrawl no matter how bad it looks.
My ex-wife's little brother had one of these, and man it was a pain to use - Reverse Polish combined with some weired ways of entering numbers. Poor little guy (dead now, sadly) never got to grips with it, and to be honest neither did I - I was not into computing much in the early 1970s. But it impressed some of his school-mates, so not an entire loss.
You’re going to love this: https://mitxela.com/projects/melting_kicad