skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
About a year ago, we embarked on a quest to answer one of the most intriguing questions:

If you flip a fair coin and catch it in hand, what's the probability it lands on the same side it started?

Today, we are finally ready to share the results. Thanks to my friends, collaborators, and even strangers from the internet, we collected flippin 350,757 coin flips. We ran several "Coin Tossing Marathons" (e.g., https://youtu.be/3xNg51mv-fk?si=o2E3hKa-ReXodOmc) and spent countless hours flipping coins.

In short, we found overwhelming evidence for a "same-side" bias predicted by Diaconis, Holmes, and Montgomery 2007: If you start heads-up, the coin is more likely to land heads-up and vice versa. How large is the bias? In our sample, the mean estimate is 50.8%, CI [50.6%, 50.9%].

We also found considerable variance in the same-side bias between our 48 tossers. The bias varied with a standard deviation of 1.6%, CI [1.2%, 2.0%], in our sample. The variation could be explained by a different degree of "wobbliness" between our tossers.

If you bet a dollar on the outcome of a coin toss 1000 times, knowing the starting position of the coin toss would earn you 19$ on average. This is more than the casino advantage for 6-deck blackjack against an optimal player (5$) but less than that for single-zero roulette (27$).

The manuscript is at arXiv: https://arxiv.org/abs/2310.04153
And the open data, code, and video recordings at OSF: https://osf.io/pxu6r/.

Diaconis, P., Holmes, S., & Montgomery, R. (2007). Dynamical bias in the coin toss. SIAM Review, 49(2), 211-235. https://doi.org/10.1137/S0036144504446436
Quoting from the article:

> Vietnamese government agents tried to plant spyware on the phones of members of Congress, American policy experts and U.S. journalists this year in a brazen campaign that underscores the rapid proliferation of state-of-the-art hacking tools, according to forensic examination of links posted to Twitter and documents uncovered by a consortium of news outlets that includes The Washington Post.

and a second report by amnesty international about hacking tools/targets:
https://archive.ph/n9BQ0

so, its not likely that someone looked the source IP being from Vietnam and made the conclusion, it seems there is more analysis and evidence behind this article.
Fair. I apologize. My point remains though.

If he wants to lock work down to unions, the exact-opposite mirror comment... is to say 'as your peer and equal, I'm not going to work with unionists'.

Individual freedom is severly curtailed by unions.

Bad management is a cost worth paying to have individual freedom, sorry.
Really useful information! Thanks!
Awesome, perfect with tablet
It's the same thing with games - whenever a game from a studio known for "broken" titles comes out, people post compilations of strange things happening, and it just never happens on my end. Natural bug resistance, perhaps.

However, I do frequently get an innocent bug, where opening my bookmark toolbar's extension (the >> icon in the top right) results in it displaying all the bookmarks in a drop-down list, instead of the ones not appearing on the toolbar.
Dark mode is a weird phenomenon, I think. It kind of came out of nowhere and suddenly everything in existence started adding a dark mode and prominently listing it as a top features. That is not a complaint or anything like that, just an observation that dark mode seems to have spread in an unusual way compared to other technologies. But might of course also be just my perception.
True. But you could install the Sponsorblock extension. And if you are on Android you could also use the Revanced YouTube.

I pay for YouTube Premium because my mum uses an old Android phone and Revanced YouTube doesn't work on it. Also, my sister's kids watch YouTube on TV and they start crying rather loudly whenever an ad comes on.
Assuming you're using African stones and not European stones to maintain air-speed velocity. Though African stones are non migratory.
Rent-seeking is a cancer, it has to be abolished. There is an alternative to all of that, but you won't like its name.
Ask HN: Did you use ADHD medication?
What's your experience?

Did you get more focus and became more productive, or felt nothing? What type of meds, maybe you even can compare them?
Software engineering at it's best. And surprisingly nicely written up.

One of my favourite reads! Would read again.
Its already here with some stuff, look at the sheer amount of cruft built into web browsers. You can't break existing sites, allegedly, but that just means that some things are set in stone never to be fixed.

In the year 2323, browsers will still have to say "like Gecko" to maintain compatibility with websites that won't exist and no one would miss even if they remembered they existed.
Is it metal? Can it lead to a short circuit?
The same tech could probably be used to calculate a Land Value Tax.
- It's a small and simple language.

Small yes, simple no.
Creative Writing Systems for Esperanto
I can't believe stuff like this is still difficult.

In the late 00s I wrote a frontend for a very popular open-source web project that many here would have encountered. Unlike many web projects these days, it is considered de rigueur for each instance to implement its own stylesheet. Most instances will also allow each user to select their own stylesheet.

This is trivial because the frontend was written HTML first. The HTML contains absolutely no hint at how the style should be. The navigation is just the navigation, the content is the content etc. The nav could be at the top, bottom, side, whatever you can come up. And people did all of them.

And, of course, some of those stylesheets were dark mode.

Print stylesheets were also common, which would hide all the web nav stuff when printing the document.

How did all the layers of crap added since then seem to forget this and make this quite simple concept difficult? You can't tell me it's difficult to build two stylesheets, one dark, one light, and have them both as options. And what about other accessibility options? Low contrast? High contrast? It's not just about dark and light...
Yes because you’re being served the Portugal catalog. English is simply a localization setting that can be applied to any region.
Do you make over 20k a month?
You have a rosery view of the board. I on the hand believe that the it was the intention of the board to sell that ridiculous plan. The CEO was a scapegoat, or rather, he was going to leave anyway, so he took the blame in place of the others.
This left me wondering if there might be a deterministic parallel algorithm for union find :)

I did find this arxiv paper from April which claims to have one: https://arxiv.org/abs/2304.09331

My understanding is that they process batches of edges at a time. If they "conflict" (meaning they want to do different things to the data structure) then they're processed in serial, otherwise all edges in the batch are handled sequentially. They provide a bound on how often edges should conflict, and use that to show the complexity.
To free memory. Also, 20% increase is not 20% in total.
It's 20% when you go from 10 to 12 cpu usage, or from 50 to 60, for instance.
Lol, really some random thug with a bit of technical skills?

Given that extensive rap sheet on wikipedia, I highly doubt this is the kind of guy with the self control to sit on his bitcoin while it was worth north of 8 figures.
Right, this is how I have my ESPHome-based switches wired. I thought you were referring to the mechanical state of the actual switch on the wall - I've gone with retrofit switch modules since I wanted to retain the tactile switch flip (just now they all work like dual-switches).
Also I have to say that the situation of USB-C is much better now than in the past.

At the beginning of USB-C you had devices that were not implementing the standard correctly, and using the wrong cable could fry a device.

Now the devices are better protected, you can charge any device with any charger. Of course the charger needs to be powerful enough but if it's too powerful it's still safe to use.
> Rent-seeking is a cancer, it has to be abolished. There is an alternative to all of that, but you won't like its name.

As someone who was born in USSR I can venture a guess that OP won't also like its implementation.
At my primary school there were twin boys, with 3 older brothers, 1 younger and no other siblings so they were damn close!
How does the artwork explain that? Wouldn't they just need to call the artwork service with your current language preference instead of the default language of your current geolocation?
The solution is called up-zoning and building fast transit to expand the supply of well-located housing.

If you flood the zone with supply, the power of landlords will diminish.

In the 90s, if you came to Berlin and wanted to rent and apartment, the landlord would hand you 3 keys with three addresses, and tell you to "have a look at them and choose one". The rent was minimal and the landlords had no power.

Your proposed solution of making renting an apartment illegal will create A LOT of friction when people want to move.
It will make it impossible for people with bad credit to live in the city. It will expose a lot of people to a lot of interested rate risk. Not everybody wants to be a real estate investor.

It will also not solve the main suffering here, which is that a lot of people want to move into the city, but they cannot, because there isn't enough space.
Spring Boot and Spring cloud for backend & graphql for the win. ;-)
Far-Right Extremist Exploitation of AI and Alt-Tech
What's the approx. price tag for one of those? (I'm not going to buy one, just curious)
which country? which source?
Deep Thought, Deep Learning and the Total Computing Resources
Tried Medikinet 20mg twice (out of curiousity). Felt nothing. Coffee works just fine.
Karaniya Metta Sutta: The Buddha's Words on Loving-Kindness
What autogenerated French text? The only two languages offered seem to be English and German.
Bill maher mentioned recently that it’s everything. Everyone has too much money to buy too little shit, and also the money is being inflated away.
> Bakker provided a retrospective of their JDK 17 upgrade that provided performance benefits, especially since they were running JDK 8 as recently as this year. Netflix observed a 20% increase of CPU usage

Seems like it's exactly that, OP cropped out the relevant bit where they list it having an overall performance benefit for that extra CPU time. Otherwise it could be assumed that it just hogs more CPU to get the same result.
You really can't "secretly" give away 100m dollars. You just hope they don't dig deep enough and try to uncover you. But 100m gives a lot of attention to muck rackers.

>Charity should also hurt.

I'm not sure I agree. "the voluntary giving of help, typically in the form of money, to those in need." I don't see the philiophical argument for significant sacrifice to be required. Charity isn't altruism. And if we're being pragmatic, 0.1% of a billionaire's riches means a lot more than half the riches of 1000 minimum wage workers. Even if the latter is much more altruistic.

Most religions that ask for tithes and offerings work in a similar vein. Tithe literally means "tenth" after all (as in,10% your wealth).
Good, Now turn those empty offices into housing
Switzerland has an imperfect system with some good features. Landlords can't raise the rent without cause. The cause can be that the variable mortgage interest rate went up (and the tenant can reverse the increase if it goes down), or that the unit has been remodeled.

The government can also apply a global increase or decrease to rents in a city, based on study of the market conditions.

The tenant can object within X days of signing that the previous tenant's rent was less. That rent has to be made available for comparison. That makes it hard to raise rents by kicking people out.

There are many additional parts that the Swiss get wrong, but the above is a good start.
> Anyone know any actual solutions?

This is not some uncharted territory. Western societies just need to stop treating residential property as an investment. Japan would be a great example of such approach.
The thing is that property letting is a useful service to society. If you intend to live somewhere for more than 3 months but less than 3 years, it makes a lot of sense to rent somewhere. I guess you could still have live-in landlords, but that's quite awkward if the tenants are a family or group of friends.
It's lovely to see active development on Box2D. Thank you for your efforts.
$13,900

https://unitreerobotics.net/
Designated rental vs owned properties is one way to do it, although you're not exactly going to reduce the rental costs by doing that, probably the opposite, but you would decrease property prices.
Heavily taxing empty properties would encourage landlords to reduce rent rather than let them sit empty.

Otherwise the solution is to just build more. High property prices and rent is fundamentally an issue of supply vs demand, no?
> its not likely that someone looked the source IP being from Vietnam and made the conclusion

Yes it's not likely simply because the phrasing of the article suggested that. My point is that we should stop trusting such phrasing. The article also mentions that it started with social engineering on Twitter, so do Twitter have some sort of tool that somehow allows them to conclusively identify government hackers?
It's pretty easy to see why this behavior can come from programs that's don't use any standard OS toolkits, but go for custom or cross-platform solutions:

- show the tooltip
- rely on move events on the main window to hide it

the move events are usually received only when the window is visible (and focused depending on the os), unless you take extra measures to grab the pointer and/or listen on global events, which involves more trickery to work right.

It's the classic scenario where a decent system toolkit has this figured out and solved for you, while doing the same by hand looks somewhat easy and normally works 95% of the time, but fails in odd ways and drives your power users crazy.

Driving UIs heavily by keyboard and shortcut is the sure-way to hit that remaining 5% all the damn time nowdays...
> If you wanted to actually solve theming, what you should work for is not a constrained helper function like light-dark(), but instead a shared token schema. Today nearly every company has their own token schema and different ways of naming things in the semantic token layer. If we had a shard language here, not only would it be trivial to add light/dark theming (just redefine a few variables that are already provided for you), code could be shared between sites and inherit the theming/branding.

Isn't that the idea behind https://open-props.style/ (and https://theme-ui.com/ in JS land)?

I think it's a great idea, but hampered by the lack of adoption incentives for the very people that need to adopt it for it to become successful (design system/component library authors). It introduces constraints, but the promised interoperability is not really beneficial to the people who need to work within those constraints.
Can anybody give me a TLDR; on the "Unity crisis"? It is mentioned in several comments but as I don't work in games I'm out of the loop.
> When people say “It’s a matter of principle!” they are usually doing something self-destructive.

Ah, one of these deep thoughts... [citation needed].

"Self-destructive" is an emotionally-loaded term. Did you literally destruct yourself by using FOSS? How about an alternate phrasing: when people say “It’s a matter of principle!” they are usually sacrificing something. Mundane, eh?
and the way to do that is to up-zone
That's a false dichotomy. If research conclusively showed that banning CSAM leads to an increase in actual sexual assaults against children, it wouldn't mean we should permit CSAM. Rather, it would suggest that the strategy needs to be reconsidered. F.i. shifting focus to the root cause instead of focusing solely on the media distribution.
A motherboard can accept ECC RAM and function but not correct single bit errors or halt on multibit errors a you would expect.

Some motherboards list ECC RAM support as a feature and have ECC RAM on their QVL for memory. Be warned ECC UDIMMS are expensive.

For checking if ECC RAM is working in linux use the dmidecode command.

For monitoring ECC errors use rasdaemon.

Asrock isn't the only brand that reliably supports ECC memory. See below.

https://www.reddit.com/r/homelab/comments/15zuj70/ecc_udimm_...
Relative size of leaps doesn't seem to be a particularly useful metric for assessing the NN performance anyway, since in the absence of the human constraint of fear it's really limited only by the mechanics of its legs and its weight.

More impressive would be adaptation to obstacles without clearly delineated edges, sticking landings on uneven/moving landing sites, and especially avoidance of landing sites which appear incapable of supporting its weight properly, particularly if it could do it well enough to generalise to novel courses.

The video hints the model may be able to do this to some extent (the high jump does show some apparently necessary compensating movement to avoid slipping off), but doesn't really demonstrate it.
The robot that they used is 14k, down from boston Dynamics 75k, and they also have another which is available for 5k which you possibly might be able to do the same thing with it too.

Outragously expensive is not correct if you ask me.
Blood biomarker profiles and exceptional longevity: comparison of centenarians
2 cores?
To be perfectly frank: The world has an extremely short memory, and Israel is the only country that seems concerned about placating it. Three days after 260 unarmed people were murdered tree-to-tree in a festival, the dominant headline in the West is that some bad things might happen to the people who committed the massacre. Yet: The "west" is already willing to make terms with the Taliban or the Assad regime or China while they still massacre civilians in Xinjian. Or send $6Bn to Iran days after it slaughtered protesters. It's not precisely that Israel is too timid, it's that Israel does actually care about human rights more than the supposed human rights champions who they can never possible please. That is what Hamas has interpreted to be Israel's weakness, and they are right.

I don't want to see any deaths of civilians in Gaza. But Israel needs to accept the reality that the world will never like them. The world found plenty of reasons to hate Jews before Israel existed, and they will always find reasons. To survive, you don't need to ask permission. The only course of action is to terminate Hamas completely, regardless of civilian cost, while trying to maintain whatever level of humanity is possible. You cannot respond to this with anything less than obliteration of the regime that authorized it; and if that extends to Iran, then so be it.
As someone whose (some) relatives were born in the old Yugoslavian Republic, they miss its implementation.
I think it’s pretty simple. What aspects do you see as complex?
That was Elop. I used to for Nokia and (fun fact) have been in meetings with Stephen in person. He made no impression on me other than his amazing memory.
Meta pays AI chatbot celebrities up to $5M for just 6 hours of work, says report
does it just mean that "System Tray" and "Notification Area" have become synonyms?
> Anyone know any actual solutions?

The only real factor here is supply/demand. There are no good ways to control demand, so the only solution is to increase supply. Here are some ideas:

* Get rid of anti-dorm laws. There are laws in a lot of places that limit dorm style living by limiting the number of unrelated adults who can live in the same residence. However, this is the most economically efficient living situation.

* Change zoning. A lot of cities have most of their residential land zoned for single family only. Just change everything to multi-family. Remove requirements like having to conform to the character of the neighborhood, having to build parking spots per residence, having to have increased height based setbacks, needing to have a certain amount of land reserved for green space, etc.

* Remove construction limits. A lot of places have a building plan where they only approve so much building over a period of time. Just say yes. Change to a "shall issue" model, where the government needs an affirmative reason to deny a permit and has to do it within a certain time period for certain well-recognized reasons.

I'm not saying that all of these are good ideas. There are problems with all of them. And all of them will be unpopular.

But they should all increase the supply of housing. Which is the same thing as decreasing property values. Which is why they're all un-popular.
It's scary how common it is even though you never hear about it on HN. We get so incredibly many 'versioned zips' via wetransfer, no password/encryption of vital company/gov/healthcare/etc systems...
Shares do not imply ownership but participation. That participation can take different shapes, depending on the type of shares and the bylaws of the company: some will be entitled to dividends, some will be entitled to voting on decisions, some will entitle to a form of ownership, etc etc.
"In general, the appraisal of generative AI among the UK far right is negative and there is no serious or sustained engagement with the idea of harnessing AI to achieve their goals – besides a few podcasts, blogs and AI-image generation attempts (see below) – on public-facing channels and platforms."

"Rather than focusing on their own use of AI, much of these groups’ online discourse surrounding these technologies revolves around the intentions of mainstream actors in their adoption and deployment of AI."

"In contrast to the far-right’s adept use of social media, their use of AI in propaganda, recruitment and attacks is still in its infancy."

Contra:

https://www.bellingcat.com/news/2023/10/06/the-folly-of-dall...
nope but surely a fan of the same comic.
Rental flats can totally be a thing without private landlords in the picture - rental companies that are either government owned or follow strict government guidelines for example.
i always struggle with this. i usually end up with code changes first because i want to test code before committing, which means i can't commit a whitespace change before i know the code change works.

and every time i think about the problem i stumble over python where the two can't be separated.

i believe in the end a better solution would be to mark whitespace changes in a different color. or even better mark each character that changed, not just the line.

in other words: we want better diff tools
What are you on about? When has price fixing put a downward pressure on the price?
With price fixing, it's as though all the landlords in on the fixing are operating as a single business, effectively becoming a monopoly - it's not like potential tenants can pick a cheaper or a more expensive apartment, since the price is roughly the same across all of them anyway - so market forces can't really adjust prices.
look at this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6AsGgR9oZak

Back then the focus puller would use a remote connected by a cable, which is why you see a focus puller running behind the steadicam op in that video.

That's why while you've got A/B points set and marks set on the focus control, you still need a human.
I've no deeper knowledge on this matter, but couldn't acted, edited, and/or generated? If CSAM truly did help reduce crime rates then wouldn't you use it.

On the other hand, it might be that consuming CSAM triggers borderline people to seek it in real life.
200 years ago fusion was completely unknown. We only learned where the sun gets its power at the beginning of the 20th century.
Your reasoning is not quite correct (rust’s nightly has no relevance here), but you are right in that Java seen an unprecedented growth, and probably no other language will ever demonstrate anything like that due to the “market” being so saturated since. Even if it would be the silver bullet language.