skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Precisely. A difference only arises when comparing sets of strings. In our example, the number of elements in the set uniform strings aaaa...a of length L is equal to the number of distinct symbols N, while the number of district strings of length L is N^L. So if you ask "will the string be uniform?" (which is the only reason you thought up aaaa..a in the first place) you find the probability is exponentially small for long strings: N^(1-L). Really if you tend to choose a string for any particular reason other than chance, it can be exploited as long as the reason can be guessed (e.g. the dice rolls 31415 write out the digits of pi.).
this is highly misleading, as YT-DLP downloads by default, not streams
One thing about TSP is that even if you think it's not the best treatment of a game that talks about itself out loud, it is the only game that talks about itself out loud. If you weren't looking for such a game in the first place, then that's another matter.

(Bastion sort of does, but on an object rather than meta level.)
> and how we do

https://langcog.stanford.edu/papers/NF-cogsci2013.pdf

Fun fact: Young Children also don't understand negation. There are some parenting theories claiming that is why one should use avoid negations in commands.
The obvious thing to do is then conduct a physical test on the die, for example trying to spin it on an axis with the 20 face near the top of the axis. An obviously loaded die will not be mass-symmetrical and will not spin well.

In general this is called an independent test for systematic bias and it's something often left out of statistical arguments.
The market is full of ruby developer positions.
Well also because there are other factors that are high. Inflation is a basket of many goods. Just because lumber is up or down doesn’t mean inflation, overall, must be up or down.

It’s not a conspiracy in this case or an official narrative. Inflation is high so reporters try to find examples. Instead of lumber, they now talk about groceries or whatever.
The feeling the tool gives you while performing the task, is what make the task more likely to actually get done (this is Atomic Habits #4 (iirc?), make it rewarding).
Richard Dawkins – Growing up in the Universe (1991)
The business enterprises of these people are being targeted. If some of those happen to be publishing businesses, they are included, but publishing businesses or opinion sites etc are not being singled out. It’s not the content of these sites (those that are content sites) that’s the issue, it’s the business beneficial ownership. It’s their finances that are the target, not their speech.

Publishing businesses are still businesses and subject to the law. If they want to exercise their speech rights in other legal ways, they are free to do so.
Who cares about the liquidity if most users in the world can't even afford it? And it's unsuitable for a large array of applications?

L2s are like a last-ditch effort. If they are the main scaling mechanism, the chain is done.
I'd agree with you if I didn't see first-hand how propaganda starts wars.
And yes, reasonable censorship helps, e.g. YouTube blocking RT is very much positive for the whole world.
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They'll probably be working out for a bit how to explain to you that the cat doesn't take specific commands well.
So a bridge that takes 5 years to build is a scam because the 90–year–olds won’t live to see it built? That’s overly reductionist. In your way of thinking the rewards must be instantly available in order to be worth anything. I say that humanity needs more long–term projects, not more short–term consumerism.
> However, in legal contexts especially, 'probable' could also apply to propositions for which there was good evidence.

That's still the case "Probable cause"
Most public forums have a very narrow window of allowed ideas. Personal websites are the best way to explore new things and not get pigeonholed.

It's weird to hear someone on HN argue against them. Of all the forums I use this is probably the most pro-personal-website one.
Planning to add easy bulk inventory import, integrations with POS software and other inventory management systems, and more metrics.
111111 is just as likely as any other *SEQUENCE* of numbers. This is a little confusing because the "sequential" requirement is somewhat masked by the repeating sequence used by the example. however, the odds of rolling six 1's is 0.00002143347.

considering the non-sequential set of rolls 625631 you have the odds of exactly two 6's at 0.201 and also one 2 5 3 and 1 each at 0.402

0.402^4 * 0.201 = 0.00524928641, or ~244 x more likely.
Oh yeah I meant with a mouse. The one thing I still rely on Windows for is managing and editing my photos (Capture One, Affinity, Topaz).
I do not understand people who buy new cars.
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Dating apps are horrid. Reducing someone to a snippet of text and some photos. Then ofc it’s a competitive game so we’ll assign an internal ELo and punished you for not paying to win.

Unfortunately almost all my friends continue to use them. For some reasons it’s odd to find people irl within a few years of my own age, outside the online world. Meet plenty of people irl but the demographics are always very skewed offline.
Media (backed by ‘science’) keeps telling me that sleeping longer than 8 hours a night ups chances of having heart disease etc. Guess people think it’s unhealthy?
From The Office to Severance: how the fictional workplace went from bad to worse
At a basic level, yes. When you think about things like LaunchDarkly they tend to also be used to conduct A/B tests where logic is used to determine when they should be toggled on/off.
It's common for high performers to get promoted as a "reward" regardless of management ability.
Wouldn't you just need to screenshot on any mouse click/return key event?
...it was more of a crumbling ledge.

-- DoItToMe81 Sun May 1, 2022
My understanding is that he bought $25, then another $9975 when he tried the $10k purchase, then $0 when he tried the $9975 purchase. So he should receive $10k in bonds and $25 + $9975 in refunds.
For sure, but I think it's more helpful to this about "classes" of sequences. Sequences which have a uniform distribution of digits (within some margin of error), sequences which do not have repeating patterns, sequences that do not contain the same digit twice in a row etc... Any single one of these sequence is as likely as any other, but some "classes" are vastly bigger (and therefore, more probable) than others. By deciding which classes of sequence any result belongs to, you can decide if it's likely to have been produced by a fair die or not.

This intersects with the concept of entropy: assuming that you have a box containing a gas whose particles move randomly about the volume of the box, then at some point you take a snapshot of the position of every single particle in the box and you discover that they're all in the right half of the box, the left side being in a vacuum. Would you assume that it's just random chance? It could be. It certainly isn't.

Meanwhile any of the trillions and trillions of snapshots showing particles more or less uniformly distributed within the box are all more "random looking" and are what is expected from such an experiment. These configurations as a group occupy the vast majority of the phase space for the contents of the box.
I am using RP4B 8GB for last one year as a main desktop computer. The OS is Ubuntu Mate (64-bit). The Raspberry Pi OS is too ugly for using as a desktop, in my opinion.

Pros:

1) Chromium with 40 tabs works quite well.

2) MiniDLNA serves 4K HDR videos to my Android TV over 2.4G Wi-Fi quite well.

3) I have an Aluminium Casing with Dual fans, and it works quite good. Noise is reasonably low.

Cons:

1) Some applications (like Jellyfin Server) do not work.
YouTube 1080p is not smooth.

2) 10-bit HEVC encoded 1080p videos don't play quite well.

3) Connection to 5GHz Wi-Fi is not good. So I use 2.4G Wi-Fi.

4) My Logitech mouse stops working sometimes, though keyboard works. I have to remove the USB receiver and re-plug it.
I correctly pointed out that his argument was fallacious. I didn't say that the conclusion of his argument was false because he used a fallacy. Instead I backed my point of view with a coherent argument.
Indeed. I really wonder how the author plans to use UUIds and QR codes.
It's not necessarily will become a great wall. E.g. they already censor child porn.

Yes, propaganda is very capable to start wars and genocide (see Rwanda). I'm all for reasonable censorship, and it will not necessarily grow into bad censorship. You make it sound like white or black.
This move was calculated though. With incoming pay he knew that he'd be fine regardless. Sure, another emergency before the payback might suck but likely not catastrophic given the $10k coming back in a few weeks.
Again, it depends entirely on the contract that you sign with Google when you become an employee. Read it carefully. Have a lawyer review it.
It's about Munger and Buffet who has been rent seeking their whole lives and obviously are against anything changing in the system their are winning.
It's the powerhouse of the cell!

... whatever that means
Sodium in a sodium cooled reactor is not in salt form.
Surveillance cam feeds into Edge-AI-Gadget, tracking your clothes, gait, whatever, saying KTHXBAI subject 08154711! Sorry for the wet nose and face.
I think you'd be better off taking a small pinch of sand, salt, pepper etc., throwing that on a smooth surface, then counting all the grains and then modulo it (just have the number of grains be >> than the range as in your example). This would reduce a lot of inherent biases, although perhaps introduce others.

Reminds me of the Buttered Toast Ig Noble Prize:

https://gizmodo.com/an-experiment-that-solves-the-worlds-mos...
Cool performance enhancement, with an accompanying implementation in a real-world library (https://github.com/lemire/despacer).

Still, what does it signal that vector extensions are required to get better string performance on x86? Wouldn't it be better if Intel invested their AVX transistor budget into simply making existing REPB prefixes a lot faster?
I program in a niche language that makes my life easier at work as a non-programmer. It won't get me any jobs though.
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Huh?! That's not at all what the article is about.

It's about how politicians and the media co-opt her as the main spokesperson when she doesn't want that role.

She's one of the "white, Northern Europeans concerned less about the present than the future." Why focus on her instead of "activists from around the world for whom climate change was real, pressing and immediate"?

> Her parents abused her

As the article points out "In her early teens, Thunberg became sick. She ceased eating and talking. Activism, both Thunberg and her parents have said, was her salvation."

> politicians abused her further by giving her the stage

I think the word you want is "used", not "abused".

> What she wants is her political opponents to stop talking about her.

No. She wants other voices to be heard. Quoting the article:

] Thunberg, now 19, is being driven by a different message: Listen to the most vulnerable — and help them build the fair future they demand.
Thanks for posting - you are the only person whose posted a reason why he does this.
Wow that's weird and feels very "banky." How involved are banks in the LinuxFoundation? Why does Canonical even have a "financial services sector?" It's a Linux distro not an investment bank (or so I thought.)
> I am shocked how often men act as if they have to be someone else

Look at the advice for dating profiles on Reddit. This is apparently the ideal for online dating. Remove any eccentricities, actual hobbies, and create some contrived person with staged pics and hobbies you don’t actually care for but are more socially presentable, etc…
mpv will stream by default, but requires youtube-dl or yt-dlp to be installed separately.
That sounds like the “something must be done, this is something, so this must be done” argument. Seems to be the most common argument pattern for censorship of all kinds - doesn’t matter if the course of action is ineffective or possibly harmful in the medium term.

It boils down to “if we can’t think of any good solutions to a difficult problem, then we should try bad solutions even if they’re counterproductive”.
Outer Wilds--often see it recommended enthusiastically. Same publisher as Edith Finch, also won a bunch of awards.
I have a kindle paper white 2 with KOReader and love it. Has anyone had an issue that whenever you connect to the network KOReader sets the time to UTC? Has anyone figured out a fix. I have to manually set the time every time I do a wireless Calibre sync. Bit of a pain.
My back-of-the-napkin math suggests you are in a high COL area. It's not an indictment of capitalism if you choose to live in a desirable area, have a generous salary, and just can't make it work. That or you are mishandling your finances, but I don't know your situation. For reference, I am debt-free homeowner in a midwest university town and make much less than you.
I guess xfig could be considered modern when twm was young, and I was playing with IBM X Windows thin clients on our university lab.
Not a scientist but perhaps one can help me understand, wouldn’t posting this to a forum with many people interested in software add potential for selection bias. I’m guessing that people like this are more inclined to understand what a “random” sequence might look like and therefore skew the results. If not, why not?
I’ve talked to plenty of women why I get out where I am. They just tend to have 5 to 40 years me.
totally. no woman over 32 cares about this anymore
> Matrix is an open source protocol run by a community interest company, Discord is proprietary software which needs to be monetised. There's a big difference between the two.

When I lumped Matrix and Discord together, I was thinking of them as "modern instant messaging systems" (not sure whether this is generation 3 or 4). You are correct, there is a huge difference between the two, and given the choice, I would always chose Matrix over Discord.

On a user level, my resilience towards Matrix and Discord is generally motivated by the same reasons (powerful protocols compared to IRC), but thinking beyond merely that, Discord's proprietary nature makes it a non-starter for me.
It is utter nonsense, let me show why:

1: Acquire a license for ARM/x86/ISA and patents of your choice, at a license fee of 20,000$ / CPU-sized-die.

2: (Declare bankruptcy), sell the "asset" of being allowed to use the ISA, but not the "liability" of having to pay any fees.

In other words, it would make literally all contracts meaningless, since you're only ever one (shell) company restructuring away from keeping only the parts of the contract you want, and discarding any obligations.
It would be nice if they had a different page where you could see in real time or after you submit a sample of 10 how random their model thought the inputs you were giving were.
I'm not sure that counts as "in your head", though. If such things were allowed, just look at your watch and mod the seconds by 6 (or whatever).
> You should pay them by their time, like you would a doctor. Except it'll cost like $200

I looked into this a couple of months ago. It turns out it costs minimum ~$2,000 here in Australia to get anything that's not "General Advice only".
The article starts at a time in American history where there weren’t campsites at all, and describes times and situations where certain people were either explicitly forbidden or highly discouraged from camping in designated places.
In my personal calculations, I've been comparing the return from I bonds to CDs. Right now, the I bond provides higher interest than CDs have provided since the 80s.

However, since the I bond term readjusts in 6 mo intervals, it's possible for CD rates to catch up in the next two years as interest rates rise.

So if there is anything 'golden' about the situation, it's the opportunity to (perhaps briefly) receive 80s-era guaranteed interest rates.
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The best way to fight enemy propaganda is not letting it get to the point of becoming enemies, defusing it long before the information war. The slow institutional degradation in Russia was nobody's concern - "meh, it's Russians; not my business" - until it suddenly was. To not become enemies, you have to listen and allow the other party change you. Then you can attempt to bring your point and change them.

When the communication becomes "enemy propaganda", you are forced to raise a wall which looks suspiciously like what your "enemy" does and wants from you as well. Mutual coexistence is impossible without two-way communication, and that means they will also going to influence you, whether you want it or not, even if you raise a wall. Communication here not necessarily being words but actions.

Turns out it was your business as well, after all. Think about it today because it might be too late tomorrow.
Yeah, I strongly dislike chess.com, but the fact that it sponsors so many amazing chess content creators makes it more useful existing than not existing. Too bad most players gravitate towards it over the superior platform (lichess).
But then why would it make sense for them to use for private companies, banks etc.

In most cases it doesn't. For the most part, it is a solution in search of a problem.

Blockchain is a horribly inefficient write once database.
It basically trades efficiency for decentralization.

The obvious problem is who pays for this inefficiency. If a central authority pays, any "decentralization" is just a ruse.

The only practical way found thus far to pay and still maintain any real decentralization is by minting money --- crypto. Unless you are or want to be involved with crypto, you probably don't need blockchain.
I suppose it depends on what your pushing over that mountain. Fiat Pandas are awesome mountain cars that handle anything (in the car) at 50-80hp.
I wouldn’t call this “virtue signaling.” If you look at the findings of the report, Harvard faculty and staff enslaved 70 people, and directly benefited from slavery through donors after that: https://legacyofslavery.harvard.edu/report/introduction-and-.... $100 million is probably a drop in the bucket compared to how much of their endowment is directly traceable to donations from slave owners or those involved in the slave trade.

In my view this approach of tracing benefits directly is the way to go about things. It’s far better than when these wealthy white people act like the legacy of slavery is some common inheritance of white people benefitting them all—which is just a way for the real beneficiaries to hide behind other white people. There were fortunes built on slavery. That money didn’t end up in the bank accounts of white people in Appalachia. It ended up in institutions like Harvard, New York banks, etc., where white people continue to benefit from it.

Of course the money should go to reparations for ADOS people instead of whatever silly initiative they got it earmarked for. That seems to me to just move money from one account to another. If the money is ill-gotten, and the report makes a convincing case it is, they should turn over use and power over disposition of the money to someone else. Not say “we’re going to use the money we made from enslaving your ancestors to study how to—in our opinion—help you.” That’s perverse.
> Swap "short guy" for "Jew" in the quotations from those twits that have nothing to do with attraction:

Yes, I can do that for any statement and it has the same impact replace “people who are mean to me” with “Jews” in the sentence “I hate people who are mean to me”.

I don’t actually disagree with your content though.
Not denying that just venting my frustration with the current tech interview ... but the Stoic in me thinks maybe its time I stopped complaining and just accepted it.
More like the interest rate 30y from now has to be higher than 7.12 annualized, since thats the one period that will be different, everything else is just the same but lagged
This. We were taught in school to recognize and analyze propaganda, advertising, and PR. I'm not immune but sometimes it almost seems like it when I talk to other people.
My goodness. People applying wallstreetbets thinking and Robinhood exploits to US treasuries, the safest financial instruments in the land, goes to show there’s just too much money sloshing around in the system.
It applies way harder and more cruelly to women as far as dating goes.

A physically unattractive man with a good personality + social skills can do very well with women. Same cannot really be said of a physically unattractive woman.
Neither the prompt nor statistics told anyone it was independent. The prompt just says a 20-sided die, not a fair one.
You can camp anywhere you want in the national forests.
I've actually thought about that before, and came to the same conclusions :-)

Can even be combined with sunglasses, though I don't like hoodies, basecaps, or other stuff on my head. I guess I'm black wavy ponytail for any recognition algorithms.

shrug
> stop attacking… gave you…

I’d like to find a name for this old fallacy. Something like “motherland fallacy” maybe?
Sort of along the lines of sleeping as a group, I theorize that some of the (modern) human datapoints are due to the gradual isolation of humanity combined with the sleeplessness that comes with the first few years of child rearing.

Historically, child rearing was supported by a tribe of people. Nowadays, we have isolated ourselves to the point of one or two parents and maybe a grandparent or two. Babies can take years to get to consistently sleep through the night. So we have taught ourselves to be more “self sufficient” and just deal with it.

Or maybe I just think this because my 6 month old woke up four times last night and I’m losing my mind.
Saving a click: Generala is an ancestor of Yahtzee.
Anyone have access to DALL-E 2?
Hey hey,

I kinda need an hour to play with it so I could work on brand design for an nft proj.

Would be very appreciative if someone could hook me up, thanks!
That's disappointing, though not unexpected. Boycotting steam would be, uhm, not easy for me
There is also the important argument that all contracts for a % of revenue or profit immediately become meaningless if you allow this. Create any film in a number corporation then transfer the film only to a different corporation. The original shell corporation has all the liabilities but no assets to pay them. Too bad for the creators.
L2s are the PayPals etc that make "the internet" (cryptocurrency) useful for "the normies" (later adopters).

zkEVM and Starknet liquidity sharing between dozens of L2s is what will end up changing the game.

Letting people provide liquidity to each other, all individually transacting with a decentralized app, such as buying a Disney Princess NFT, or notorizing a deed to a property, or trading a gun on a first person shooter on GameStop's network.
As to the answer to the title of this article: the article states that the sleep numbers for primates come from captivity and that when they did a study in the wild the number was far less. So there’s not quite as much mystery here as it first seems. Humans sleep less, but not nearly as much as the numbers would suggest.
At what point do we draw the line and say that these methods are sufficiently random? The task at hand is to come up with a sequence you perceive as random based on the numbers themselves, so adding layers like this seems to go against the concept of the experiment entirely.

How is this different from opening up my JavaScript console and doing Math.random() several times?
Why is a large speedup from vectors surprising? Considering that the energy required for scheduling/dispatching an instruction on OoO cores dwarfs that of the actual operation (add/mul etc), amortizing over multiple elements (=SIMD) is an obvious win.