skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
One time as a highschool delinquent I realised a lot of the girls in my class would leave Instagram's location tagging thing on. Not sure if its still a feature - but you could literally see a map of where their posts were taken. I figured some of the "clumps" of posts on the map were significant locations like their house or their friends house, etc.

I never did anything with that information but it boggles my mind why people leave that on/turn it on themselves. Pereaps they didn't even know it was on, but I'm not sure.
> Basically this means that in modern dating, if you are short, you are very likely to die alone and this trend will only get worse in the future.

Maybe in America. Plenty of countries where the average height is lower than what the article mentions. Not to mention that most European countries are "ahead" regarding respect than America.
> E-Mail to download

Don't think I'll do that.
But how can you go from a random sequence to the intent of a subject? I don’t think you really can.
I don't like the word pretentious. Pretending to be what? What I would agree to is that it isn't as deep as everyone recommending it making it out to be (I'm talking about the original, I haven't played the new version).
Some red flags for me:

* needs email to download

* needs email to start

* spammy email subject with unicode fire in front (lost in HN): " You've been invited to Fig!"

* using trackers in email and app

* macOS only
Devboxes
Meta announces plans to build an AI-powered ‘universal speech translator’
Thanks for your valuable feedback.

Yeah you’re right, my landing page is not very good at the moment. I’m in the process of improving it :-)
How Has the MFA Changed the Contemporary Novel?
Long ago, I wrote a program called Overseer, which helped prompt and record the inspections of Fire Protection equipment. It helped make generating electricity safer in the small, and the process of extending and revising it lead me to quite a number of friendships. I wrote the whole thing in Turbo Pascal, back in the days of MS-DOS. I had databases, reports, and a handheld computer to talk to via a weird HDLC controller card. It was an interesting mix of technologies. In the end, we adapted it to a few other areas of application. It was quite rewarding to be able to help people actually keep the world going.

Once I wrote a Forth for OS/2 in Assembler out of spite... because it was Impossible to do so, you were supposed to only be able to write for OS/2 in C (which I hated). Brian Mathewson came along and wrote a manual for it after I open sourced it. Much fun was had by all.

One day, I was working away, and heard my co-worker talking to the owner of a light bulb company... and he was describing the need to "season" halogen lamps, and was wondering how to keep the filament from sagging while it was heated the very first time. I suggested they levitate the filament, and set up a demo with a thin wire the next day. I learned a lot about the manufacture of bulbs, and helped light the world. (The technology wasn't invented by me, GE had done something similar decades ago, but how was a trade secret)
Tight collaboration doesn't scale all that well though. From what I've seen, once a team has built a product/service they now start to put up red tape around it and make changes harder and harder the longer it exists. In other words, teams starts accumulating bureaucratic debt, it is very similar to technical debt. It is great to have that for the sake of stability, but the agility/creativity from more individual work is also great.

There is no reason you can just have one or the other, if you already have a lot of tight collaboration then you probably miss out on many potential changes that are too disruptive to be politically feasible. But you are right that you can't have only individual work, organizations needs tightly collaborating teams to be an organization.
I have thoughts about this and I’m not sure how to phrase them, so I’ll hope you forgive if I’m inelegant.

The tech industry can be strange for women. I’ve often been the only woman in a meeting, for example. And as an interviewer at one company it was disheartening to see how few women applied for dev jobs. (That wasn’t a problem at my previous job, which was a startup with an education focus and attracted many female dev candidates.)

Some women find being in that minority hard, I think. I’ve never particularly minded, though I still notice it sometimes. E.g. I was in a meeting where someone made a very mildly risqué joke about a sunbathing neighbour and was obviously embarrassed when he looked at me and thought through the fact a woman was in the room. But it was mildly risqué, quite funny, gentle humour and not bothersome at all.

I have been careful when looking for jobs to emphasise that culture is important to me. I don’t want to work places where people play silly, back stabbing games. The closest I’ve come to a bad experience was working with a recruiter, who I liked a lot, who told me about a company and then hesitated. I prodded gently because he’d been excited about this company and thought I’d find the work interesting, but seemed reluctant to send me. After a while, he told me that he didn’t want to send me because the last two women he’d sent had a bad time and he didn’t want that to happen again. It was horrible to realise there was a local company treating female devs so badly, but it was also kind of the recruiter to have that awkward conversation with me. And, frankly, I’m happy to avoid the unpleasant bits of the industry.

Overall, I find I have a lot in common with the men I work with and have rarely felt like I was treated differently because of being a woman. But I have also made an effort to work in smaller companies and prioritised things like a collaborative company culture. There are icky companies in the industry still and I’m glad that I haven’t ended up in one of them.

I do think there’s value in thinking through (and discussing) strategies to use when facing discrimination or harassment. That’s something young women struggle with, because having your bum grabbed in public is just so bizarre. It’s hard to know what to do. But I would be sad if those discussions left young women feeling worried and reluctant to do things. I feel much the same about cautioning girls about the tech industry — we can spend too much time talking about the companies that are awful, when there are many welcoming companies that are wonderful places to work.

Apologies for the wall of text. As the thread is about young women going into tech, it seemed worth presenting a different experience and perspective. Hopefully it will prove useful (or even encouraging) to someone.

Best of luck to your children and to the OP’s daughter.
I never thought about the a11y implications of flat design for people not being able to translate 3d/physical aspects of the world like buttons onto flat colored (or b/w) elements.

Thanks for pointing these out.
I wonder if people's fabricated online lives actually become real to them. The brain is capable of all manner of reality distortions. Perhaps such instagram fakery becomes a sort of virtual reality for these people.
Disney is relying on the fact these people don’t have resources to handle legal threats. The person who raised the alarm first had to reach out to writer guild type organizations, because he needed his money to pay for his cancer treatment.

Also, many of these authors are writing under existing franchises. (The kickoff incident is a bestselling author of Star Wars novels.) They couldn’t sell their work elsewhere even if they wanted to, because the franchise they wrote for is still owned by Disney and the organization that would buy that work would need to negotiate for some kind of licensing agreement.
I'm curious. Can I ask how you encountered these compounds and what made you try them? Articles/Research, credible recommendations from trusted sources? That kind of thing.
"Racially biased" works, racist just gets more clicks
I am over 60 and it was correct in my case.
Makes me feel really old now :)
How does fig compare to fzf's fuzzy completion for bash/zsh? Fzf is already used in many TUI apps for search/find/list autocompletions.

https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/fzf-a-command-line-fuzzy-f...
How is Gris empty and pretentious? Empty-ish, sure, mechanically it's a rather simple game, but pretentious?
It's just an aesthetically beautiful and simple indie game, it's not something that tries to portray itself as being much "deeper" or more intelligent than it actually is.
I really don't understand who are the people that solve all their computing needs with drag-n-dropping. I would just paste the URLs instead. Plus, currently the site can't be used on a phone, even though it vaguely has a phone-optimized design.
I've had to deal with a similar issue for a product. We ended up summarising it in a fuzzy way that people's minds have a notion of 'micro' and 'macro' randomness.

In the case the coin flip, all heads or all tails is perfectly fine and will happen in macro random, ie if you took macro to mean > 1 million rolls let's say. But in micro random (the 12 rod we experience in real time) if that were to happen we'd feel uncomfortable and immediately assume it was cheated even if it was a product of true randomness because macro random suffers the same problems as very large numbers of slices of time
Intellisense in a terminal is such a good idea i can't believe it has not been done before
The Women in Data Science conferences, https://www.widsconference.org/, have a lot of really engaging talks.
> Honeypot ships with both Go binaries and a Docker image. This results in minimal artifacts to deploy, maintain, and monitor, and an entirely cloud-agnostic deployment model.

I'm not quite clear what the single container/package is. Is Honeypot the event collection and validation component with transport/routing being separate installations of Redpanda, and observability being a separate installation of Kowl. Likewise for the data persistence.
> How many compiled languages can you be on any of Mac, Windows, or Linux, and compile a binary for all 3 instantly

A little tongue in cheek answer, but Java and it does so in a single go as well :D
They've always been, but historically we didn't care, why care now?
> If something is truly random, it shouldn't be possible to encode it due to the pigeon-hole principle.

This statement is obviously untrue.

“Random numbers” don’t really exists. The original authors were right about that. Every number/sequence is equally likely to occur. There’s even an XKCD about this [0].

I guess what you mean is: If you have a process that generates sequences randomly, most of those sequences are expected to compress badly.

[0]: https://xkcd.com/221/
Yeah, it must be satire, or maybe someone straight out of uni and still waiting for the reality check.
I don't understand this criticism in relation with this new "black and white" font. All (non-emoji) fonts are monochrome, and the designer will change the colour as they see fit. Most emoji fonts OTOH were always the same colour regardless of the surrounding text, making designs harder. This font allows it to be coloured and bolded, making it easier to use in a cohesive design.

Colour is a key affordance, and this font only makes it easier to achieve a good UX.
Doesn't that already exist?
The example on that page just reminds me why Emacs is always open on my machine with a Bash shell in at least one frame.
San Jose is worse. They call it “Man Jose”. Plenty of profiles on dating sites won’t even consider someone outside of SF / Oakland since it’s so much trouble if the city person doesn’t have a car.
Is there a way to check whether the jailbreak was successful? I followed all the steps, I think, but see no indication of success.
They explicitly say the data is de-anonymised because otherwise they wouldn't be able to directly contact users.
I’m not affiliated with YC in any way, I sometimes mock YC companies, and I can tell you with certainty that a comment can be downranked out of human discretion to the bottom without the involvement of a “super-mod” or anyone affiliated with YC. Not sure if I can disclose further than that.

Also, I tried fig the first time round and was not impressed.
Look at the graph of responses. There are a few clear clusters and lines outside of the main, statistically random cluster. Those other ones can be dropped.
Apparently you use it with iterm2 or whatever terminal you want...on a mac.

And I think it's an interesting idea to move the autocomplete out of band where it doesn't write to the same window where my work is (if I were on a mac), especially if it's still keyboard driven as they say.

But I still wouldn't touch this for other reasons.

I don't see any justification for this being proprietary.

There are already decades old autocoplete in most shells and the enhacement concept that this brings is just not that special that it deserves putting up with having to install proprietary binaries, being limited to their mac-only platform support, tolerating their data collection, and of course whatever their licensing arrangement is or will be.

It's not a bad enhancement idea, it just seems like it's barely a little spiff-up over ordinary bash completions.

Ordinary completions are already a flexible system that you can customize to do quite fancy things if you wanted. They already execute commands to generate output. It's a trivial addition, conceptually, to feed that output into any of the many xdialog-alikes instead of directly to stderr. This is a little slicker that literally just that, but not by much.

And the existing shells are already on all platforms not just mac, and fully open source, and don't have any telemetry or client/server architecture, and so are the xdialog-alikes, and so are the autocomplete definitions.
There's absolutely no reason you couldn't provide that automated testing for non-store APKs too.

Edit: Sorry, didn't read to the end of your comment. Yeah doing it on-device would be good but I'd guess there's some stuff they want to keep secret.
> Um, yes. I've been trying to talk the "async" crowd down from making libraries async only.

There's no such thing as "async only" in Rust. You can always run tasks synchronously using block_on. Rust uses a principled approach to resolve the "function color" issue for async.
All B&W on Chrome (Windows & Android).
On Windows + Firefox I see a mix, so it may be a browser specific issue.
I was trying to find a mental way to do a true coin toss. Anyone has ideas for how to truly dig into some randomness? Maybe most would think it's impossible, but aren't we at least better placed to do this better than deterministic machines (or maybe we are not - the true free will debate :)?
Wouldn't it be hard to argue when it's explicitly stated that it's "de-anonymized"?
Typically people mean something that people engage with it not for its own merit, but to cultivate an image. So, people acting like Stanley Parable is great to look like they have depth of taste because on the surface it's not that great a game.

Of course it could be that you genuinely enjoy artsy comedic narrative games, which I'm sure is usually the case.
On chess.com everything is locked except for the ability to play a guest game. Even by signing up you hit a paywall at every turn.
It's colour on Chromium on Linux for me!
Because besides being significantly slower and inferior in almost every conceivable way Formula E cars would run out of power after 1/3 of an F1 race (Formula E races are under 90 km while the minimum required distance for an F1 race is 305km).
They are not equivalent and I disagree with the OP's example. Racism is significantly worse. That doesn't mean heightism/lookism is not an injustice worth examining and discussing however
You can switch the GC implementation only globally. In languages like C++ or Rust you can have different parts of program using different memory management strategy, from carefully hand-crafted region allocation through refcounting to even tracing GC (rarely needed though).
>> Its struggles with negation is also fascinating because that has been a thorn since the early days of GOFAI.

Well, ish. Negation (specifically, negation-as-failure, i.e. failure to prove) in logic programming introduces non-monotonicity, but reasoning remains sound and even completeness is guaranteed under conditions.

John McCarthy (father of AI and also LISP) was very enthusiastic about nonmonotonic reasoning because he considered it the obvious way to represent common sense which was, for him, the one thing missing from AI systems. In plain words, nonmonotonic reasoning means that you can change your mind as new information becomes available.

But, you have a point that DALL-E's (and other similar systems') inability to deal with negation is reminiscent of older issues with expressing negation. In particular, it reminds me of datalog, a subset of Prolog that does not allow negation as failure. The motivation for that is to guarantee termination. This guarantee comes at the cost of completeness, so there are programs that cannot be expressed in datalog (but can in Prolog).

There might be something similar going on with DALL-E, or maybe it's just a simpler case of not being able to derive negation from correlations, as I point out in another comment.
If anyone is interested I highly recommend the review video by Leadhead. It fully covers the experience of playing, from a narrative evolution standpoint. It’s relatively short, <20 minutes, and since it’s about the actual analysis of the narrative escalation of the game and it’s ties back to the previous game it does contain spoilers. But it made me really excited to play it myself.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gJxSssx5PqM
Why would someone go to all the trouble of producing all those illustrations for an article about "yak" jargon?

I wonder if the author does more of that for important writing, like documentation.
> Sure, a probability of having many tails continously is low but how is it not random?

Randomness is never about the output; it is a property of the source.

So what is not random, is that the frequency of people that output repeating sequences is higher than the quotient of that sequence among all possible sequences of the same size.

The issue of the initial paper is that it claims to conclude that people aged > 60 are less random, when they simply output a fully-repeating sequence with a slightly higher rate (which is not surprising taking into consideration that there are much, much fewer of them).
Your previous comment had stated that hues are electromagnetic frequency and parent comment showed a counterexample. Color is a complex phenomenon that cannot be reduced to electromagnetic frequencies and their composition. For an example, see impossible colors [0].

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Impossible_color
Even optionals with bad 'is null / get' assessors are better than nulls, because they come with nullsafe operators like map / flatMap and the 'get' call usually always errors or panics on failure.
It seems to me if you correct/don't correct for people who didn't follow the directions, what you've actually come up with is a graph of how well people follow directions, which peaks at age 30. I don't feel bad for being 57% random at age 58. 8)

I guess my ability to follow directions is about to nosedive.
It feels this way for everyone, some people just pretend to be geniuses and cover up their mistakes.

Just use a normal structured note-taking process in a text file, and review it periodically (start of day, end of day), and you will have a superhero memory better than anyone on the team.

I review the scrum board before daily, and I review the backlog before planning meetings, and people are super impressed with how I remember every detail about everything.
I just so don’t get the comparison of a high level language like Go to a goddamn system programming language like Rust. They are nowhere in the same league.

Rust’s solution has to account for the true variability and complexity of the underlying platform, as otherwise it would be a bad low level language, while go can/could easily hide it behind a supposedly clever abstraction.
May Day
Same reasoning and I got under 60, more random than 74% of the responses.
It's mostly just silly, there are some British cultural references but it's not classics except Holy Grail being a long reference to the Arthurian legend.
Exactly, and I guess my days are numbered.
I am not aware of the previous Fedora stewardship, but I am a fan of the work Matthew Miller has done as Fedora project leader.

It's transformed from a niche, business-focused distribution, to a forward-facing, top-shelf distro I see more and more recommended. After a decade on Arch Linux, a foray into macOS and Windows, I'm back to Linux and this time Fedora is the perfect distro for me.

Killer features:

* Upstream first. Why I originally went with Arch Linux. Maintainers should only patch iff software is unusable unpatched. In general, upstream knows what they're doing better than any distro maintainer.

* Sane and pragmatic defaults for people that have things to do. This is not a build-your-own-distro package, it's ready from day one to get on with your day.

* Standard, open technologies, instead of home-grown, NIH software. cough Canonical cough.

* Free software only, but not to ultraorthodox levels. It gives us a choice to enable third-party and non free repository at first boot.

* Spins instead of community-maintained derivatives distros. Fedora spins are exactly like the base Fedora Workstation, but with a different set of pre-installed packages.

* Forward facing. BTRFS by default, Pipewire by default, Wayland by default, have all started here. Fedora Silverblue is a look at the future of Linux OS with first-party support. OpenSUSE has explored this space, pretty much nobody else is.

--

With Fedora the year of the Linux desktop feels a little closer. To many more years of success!
You've not yak shaved until you've Yacc shaved.

Oh, god; I just added this simple little variant of this phrase, and now there are 33 reduce/reduce conflicts and 6 shift/reduce ...
If you have a paid developer account you have to reinstall every year. If you’re using a free account I think you have to do it every week. Not great, but also not harder than connecting your phone and pressing the Run button in Xcode.
May I ask which Android e-ink reader you switched to?
I completely agree with everything you said :).
That's the kind of nepotism I like. Elders passing on arcane knowledge that would be lost otherwise.
It is generally a weird attitude to required "societal progress" from scientists. Neither the term "progress" is clearly defined and does not need to be, nor does science at all work on such principle.

It is like asking artists what the benefit on society is, it does not make sense to ask that question in that context, because it is not about exploiting something for a moment in time for some purpose which is supposedly "progress".

I think Sabine is way overdoing her position for marketing purposes and everyone is biting..
Long-awaited accelerator ready to explore origins of elements