skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Okay well in that case the article is deficient (I skimmed it, assuming it was making the same case I already knew about[1] -- my bad). You can actually reproduce the DK graph without supposing that estimation bias depends on skill. There is an interactive visualization here[2] that does precisely that (click on the "line plot w/ centiles" tab). You can adjust the parameters to see how it behaves.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31038386

[2] http://emilkirkegaard.dk/understanding_statistics/?app=Dunni...
I feel like I must be the only one who has found a small pleasurecraft to be less work than a car. The fibreglass ones basically last forever. And if you get one with a popular car engine as the onboard motor, they’re very accessible and easy to maintain.

Just don’t sink it.
Except the ancient folks forgot to do controlled trials.
Ask HN: Best way to include LaTeX math in presentation slides?
For my work I often have to present scientific topics to an audience. This includes a fair amount of notation in form of LaTeX math that has to go into the presentation slides.

So far, I have not found a good solution to efficiently include LaTeX in any presentation software.

There are plugins, but they rely on a local LaTeX distribution which, let's be honest, is always a pain to manage.

These days, I find myself using a browser app to render equations, then download and import the math as SVG or PNG. This somewhat works: The problem is that I have yet to find a web app that supports both, a wide range of commands (like https://katex.org/) or
the export to SVG (like https://viereck.ch/latex-to-svg/).

Any suggestions how to optimize my workflow?
I also theorize that 5G will drive down the overhead enough to make that more prevalent.
Fossilized jackasses.
But I think the whole point is that we don't just need it. The trend towards remote (or at least remote-friendly) work which was dramatically accelerated by the pandemic means that office space should be viewed as a discretionary expense. If you already are locked into a long-term lease and that money is already a sunk cost, then that's one thing. But if you are starting a new company or at a point where you need to renew an office lease, you have to ask yourself whether there really is an ROI on office rent. It's a lot of money after all and you can still get a lot of the benefits of in person team bonding at a fraction of the cost through regular offsites and team building events.

I'll just throw in that "fully remote but with regular company off sites" is actually a really attractive proposition to an employee. Instead of commuting every day to some dreary office I get to work from my very comfortable home and still meet my coworkers at some nice destination a few times a year. I actually feel like I have a better bond with remote coworkers in that situation because when we meet in person it is in a "vacation" atmosphere and being time limited means we really focus on hanging out together and doing group activities.
It's all context specific.

When you say "people don't care", I think you have a specific, but not explicitly defined, set of "people" and "organizations" you are presuming.

Proprietary Unixes are still common enough in large traditional organizations to stay profitable and developed. They get purchased or bundled by non-hands-on people likely using different criteria than average hacker news hacker might consider.

(Source or disclaimer - probably half the projects I've been on in ERP space are on proprietary Unix. My problems are very different [not implying better or worse] than those typically discussed here)
My company is remote only and the money saved on office space has been reallocated to additional team outings and a longer runway. Constant outings sounds a bit overwhelming, personally.
You probably are. Everyone wants to spin things for there own benefit. However I think it's mostly in the interest of the aggressor to keep people lost in arm-chair debating about global powers by manufacturing suspicion of critical voices and fueling competing narratives, as it leaves them free to reshape the world through violence. As a European who campaigned against the Iraq and other wars, whatever the propoganda we are being sold is, for me it doesn't change the reality that millions of Ukraines are now refugees fleeing to my country and 10,000s have been murdered in cold blood.
Monitors are now starting to go smart. Not just the Apple one.

And you no longer always have the option to prevent a net connection unless you live in a faraday cage.

The only way they won't all be smart eventually is if there is a market for dumb monitors that outweighs what the manufacturers make from putting remote agents into them.

I doubt that will happen. The people that even know or care at all are few, and even fewer of those vocal.
What, you have a CRT? And you play VHS movies? Mind if I ask why x)
We already have a multipolar world. Effectively there are now two superpowers left, the US and China, each with their own approach to politics and leadership.

What this war has mostly done is laid bare the illusion that if we interconnect the world strongly by trade that we can avoid war. This is what will cause a massive re-drawing of the lines in the near future and that is what was at stake in Ukraine. Putin pulled away the curtain in a way that leaves no doubt about this and the aftereffects of that are far larger than Ukraine itself.
This is a “razors in candy” kind of problem.
Using Language Models to (Probably) Read Faster
Why Russians Support Putin
It matters because the adopter may highlight only 3 out of 20 exercises and if you did not know the original source, you may never learn about the other 17. Not that you may need the others, but maybe if you were aware, you could explore further and use the variations that are already well known to slice and dice when one kind of breathing may make sense as compared to the other.

Someone posted this link, so I am just repeating it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rdCmB8Tnvmw. This is an hour long video focusing on different kinds of breathing as part of yoga. Do look at the top comment (as of now) as it provides time-links to 12 different kinds of breathing - bhastrika, kapal bhati, bahya pranayama, agnisaar kriya, anuloma viloma, bhramari, udgeeth, ujjai, shitali, sikkari.

If someone develops 3 of the practices on their own, sure, they can describe only what they know.
But if they sourced (and productized) 3 of them from a known source, they should refer to the main source, no? Kinda like open source - use but credit.
I sold an old 42" LCD on Craigslist this week. The person who bought it was getting it for her kid's apartment. She did not know much about televisions and had a lot of questions. One of the first questions she asked was, "Does it have apps for Netflix and stuff like that, or will I need a Roku or Fire stick?"

If you only use one or two hardware inputs and one's not an OTT box, it's a lot easier to just use the TV's apps. People don't want to have to buy extra gadgets just to have another TV for their kids or in another room.
> Much as NATO wages a proxy war upon Russia via Ukraine

I'm not sure if I understand you right but it was my impression that it was Russia waging war on Ukraine.
I wish I could agree with this. But I absolutely cannot. My goodness
I want to like Barnes and Noble and made a huge effort to work with
them. There aren't many big companies that I ever want to work with
these days, but B&N put forth this very "authentic" and literary
face. Their PR is all about book loving, supporting small publishers
and new authors. So I fell for it...

For authors, their customer service is, to put it as politely as I
can, a festering turd. They arbitrarily removed my title, ignored my
emails for months, lied about responding to my concerns, then spammed
me so that I had to block them. It was truly awful experience dealing
with them.

Unfortunately we read about this day after day here on HN. Why can't
these companies spend the paltry amount necessary to drag themselves
up to at least the level of pseudo-humanity?
>"shared background" has certainly been the cause of a lot of harm

Do you have an example?
See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31037273
Ask HN: How would you keep in touch with a group of people for 10 years?
I graduate high school this year, and I'd like to keep in touch with my classmates. Since just 15 of us spent almost every class together because of the program we took, we're very tight-knit and I'd like to think we want to keep in touch with each other in the next few years, even if we don't communicate regularly.

There is a convenient 5-letter .com domain that aptly describes the program at our school specifically, so it would cost maybe $100 to register it for the next 10 years and toss a comment section and photo album onto it. I don't want to have to teach everyone how to make an account, etc on another service (plus I can't guarantee everyone will remember their password, or that it will still be running) so a comment section might be ideal.

If I don't act quickly, someone's gonna make a Facebook group..

Can you think of a better way to allow a group of people to stay in contact with each other, planning for the long-term future?

Other things I've considered: Social media group (not long term), email thread (push notification style might stop people from updating it), group chat (ditto).
> It sounds like you are out of touch with the average consumer. They absolutely love smart TVs and would consider a TV without apps and streaming to be broken.

The gp never said anything about what consumers want, it's talking about the motives behind development direction. Features are not added because consumers ask for them: demand comes later.
Because it's what they are doing all along.

Example:

> Vladimir Putin invaded Ukraine to force it to renounce the West and to submit to the Kremlin

I wonder what's their source, based on Putin's declarations this should be:

> Vladimir Putin invaded Ukraine to force it to renounce the West and to remain neutral because it's located between the west and russia and because the west promised it

https://www.spiegel.de/international/world/nato-s-eastward-e...
If that's the case, you can do this with cargo vendor, as many other threads have mentioned
There are multiple reasons, first that 2 years would still be a very optimistic time frame. The energy companies got a huge reimbursement for the shutdowns and are therefore not interested in prolonging, because it would actually cost them more money than investing in other technologies. But the biggest reason is sadly the German publics prolific anti-nuclear views. There is basically zero public support behind the idea.
The fact that the statistical artifact is seen in completely uncorrelated data is only shown as a demonstration that it is not itself evidence of the claimed effect. To gather evidence that the effect doesn't actually exist you need a new experiment, not just a new analysis of the same data, because the the different levels of actual skill need to be established separately from establishing the error in skill self-assessment. In the original experiment the test results were used to establish both, which is not sufficient.

But the article presents the results from just such a new experiment. In this one they used university education level (sophomore through to professor) and measured skill self-assessment level within those groups. Higher education level (a good proxy for skill on the test used, which was about science literacy) was found to be associated with more accurate skill self-assessment but the bias of lower-skilled people overestimating their skills was not observed.

That's just one study of course, but it sounds like a much better designed one than the original and does constitute actual evidence that the Dunning-Kruger effect doesn't exist.
"to achieve global success", it's unfortunate that that is often the goal indeed.

Globalization kills a lot, look at Khao San Road in Bangkok, in 20 years it changed from small street stalls to big global chains. And the great homogenization will continue. In the first Ringworld, this process is also described, transport booths (in a flash you walk to any destination on earth) made every city the same. The internet and cheap flights have already started this process.

Edit I also remember this being posted here once: "The same damn avocado toast" or something (can't find it anymore), about a traveler that got the same damn avocado toast everywhere he went.
> So we are actually paying more

We are actually paying less, because all these sponsors and ads pay the manufacturer, which in turn lowers the purchase price. So if you don't use the smart features, it is actually a good deal, and if you do, well it is still a good deal. The one who pay for your discount are those who pay for the advertised services (ex: Netflix) without buying the TV. Probably the best thing to do is to buy a smart TV you can use dumbly (offline).

Big monitors tend to be much more expensive than similarly specced TVs. You may still want it for things like gaming-related features (g-sync, etc...).
Aside from the fact that image quality and motion handling are the two most important factors in a TV for me—and therefore I would never settle for less unless I couldn’t afford it—the barebones offerings today are likely to be even worse. Even super cheap TVs are smart now, except they have even worse CPUs and even less effort is put into making the software anything close to good.
As I understand it the crucial rationale for drivers is that drivers were anyway necessarily platform dependent which undoes one argument against Rust.

Today Rust does not overlap Linux in terms of platform support. There are (small but very much alive) communities doing Linux on architectures that Rust has no support for and in some cases has no plans ever to support. So this makes drivers the only case where choosing Rust doesn't mean some people lose out, as a platform e.g. with no PCI bus doesn't get to run PCI drivers even if they were written in C.

I expect that over the next say, five to ten years, two things will happen to greatly improve this, maybe to the point where you absolutely could rewrite core Linux code in Rust if you wanted to. Firstly, Rust will get more platform support. Linux doesn't really need Rust's "Tier 1" (Linus doesn't check every kernel release passes tests on all real Linux target hardware as I understand it) but clearly you want Rust to at least build and take patches for every Linux platform some day. Secondly, some older platforms will "rust out". If your community is nursing 30+ year old hardware and increasingly more maintenance work is shared between fewer shoulders at some point "Linux-next" is not a priority and your platform will stop being supported while effort moves to exciting new hardware.
I don’t understand the hate for w3schools. I found this site super useful when I was first learning web development.
This probably means it tries to do the “device detection” when you switch inputs or plug in a new device. Tbh this is the worst feature for me, it’s exceptionally hard to get rid of even with access to the factory menu. I can blackhole my TV all day on the network, but this problem is persistent.

Also as a note, it’s become increasingly difficult to root TVs. Even getting firmware can be a chore, and forget getting anything other than a bootlog over RS232.
I meant "fixed" just in the sense that there is a set amount you are contractually obligated to pay regularly, as opposed to discretionary costs of something like team offsite. If everyone is on vacation for the month of July then you can't just decide to not pay office rent for the month, whereas you could decide not to have your July team offsite.

But calling it "fixed" in the sense that you just have to pay it is begging the question. The whole point is that you don't need an office in all situations. Or at least you don't need a dedicated desk for every employee. So you shouldn't look at office rent as a cost of doing business thing. You have to really look at whether the ROI is there. Maybe it is, maybe it's not based on your particular circumstances but it IS a choice.
The middle and lower class is quickly outpriced of that liveable city or state experience. It would be better to spread our resources to more areas, instead of concentrating it to a few. We already know what wealth concentration, inequality looks like.

When you give all opportunities to a few, they don't tend to use it to everyone's benefit. People who are robbed of the consequences of their actions tend to lose sight of reality.
The average consumer is no more a fan of privacy invading TVs than they are fans of ads which they watch a lot of nor the shopping channel which they always end up subscribing to.

You're mistaking TV producers' desire to capture more of the market pie and invade our privacy with actual consumer demand.
I wasn't being dismissive, just inquisitive. Are denser bones able to preserve DNA better from decay? We don't typically need DNA to be able to tell the sex of a fossil skeleton, the size and shape of the fossils alone give that away. Perhaps it is the case that the bones themselves survive better as fossils as a result of the added density. But then, I'm also curious about the conditions necessary for a fossil to be preserved at all, as the vast majority of dead creatures gets reabsorbed indistinguishably back into the soil.
How? The site is so slow and unresponsive, as for threads it hand-picks like 3 comments at best, you have to click to see all and it still won't show all. How and why do people put up?
Maybe because they are more likely to die younger—and the younger, stronger body preserves better?
On a broad scope, you could solve this at compile time. The source simply does not compile when filesystem or networking crates/builtins are not defined.

If you want to have more fine grained white listing, like only grant access to a certain directory, this could get really messy quick, trying to solve this at compile time.
I don't think you'll find a Lisp that would be anywhere near things like IPython (which I'd consider an example of "far REPL", with context-sensitive completions, inline documentation, rich history with searching and filtering, magic commands (eg. %timeit), ability to call shell commands, ability to mix code and shell (eg. for x in range(10): !echo $x - for lack of better example), ability to load and reload modules, ability to place breakpoints & integrated debugger, etc.). Racket with xrepl enabled is nice and offers some of the features, but far from all of them. You might want to take a look at rash[1], but the project is still experimental and some parts of it are not finalized. Common Lisp implementations coupled with SLIME are nice, and with some utility libraries you can go a long way, but then you're basically tied to Emacs. I'm not sure about Clojure - I didn't investigate that much due to startup time making it not very well suited for my use case (that's also a reason why I ruled out Elixir, even though it's also a very nice language). Other Lisps all have REPLs, but they tend to be really bare-bones compared to more advanced implementations. I used Chicken Scheme for scripting, making use of its ability to compile to native executables, and it's quite nice with a lot of eggs (packages) available, but the REPL is also pretty standard, with just the default readline functionality.

> maybe it's my Ruby heritage

Definitely :-) My Python-only colleagues screamed in horror after seeing that line...

[1] https://rash-lang.org/ - I have a similar project running on GNU Smalltalk, but didn't get to work on it in half a year :(
Great power competition begins long before battle does.
Ukrainian Marine POW pleads for Instagram to unban his account
A British national who has been a legal member of the Ukrainian marines for 5 years recently had his account terminated for unstated reasons. Now captured, family is begging to have his account unbanned to curb misinformation stating that he’s a mercenary & not an actual marine. Posting here in hopes somebody from Instagram may see.
OK but SpaceX and Tesla and are all significant software shops in their own right.
This article is just wrong. The premise is:

* About 35% of Germany’s gas is used to generate electricity.

* Eliminating German electricity from gas would thus nearly eliminate Germany’s purchase of Russian gas.

But Germany only uses 12% of gas for electricity: https://www.bdew.de/service/daten-und-grafiken/entwicklung-d... this usage has gone down another 15% in January/February 2022 before the war even started: https://www.bdew.de/service/daten-und-grafiken/stromerzeugun...

The author seems to have taken the 35% figure from https://oilprice.com/Energy/Natural-Gas/Germanys-Growing-Gas... where is is labeled "Power" in the chart. Whatever that is supposed to mean. But it is not electricity. I could not find any public information about this on: https://www.rystadenergy.com/energy-themes/commodity-markets....

Also some gas plants are used for electricity/heat co-generation so you cannot simply replace them with nuclear. Gas peaker plants have a completely different usage from nuclear plants.
One of the often missed features of religions is that of cultural critic and cultivator. A group of people who find works of art that at least don't offend their sensibilities and which align with their didactic goals (child rearing, conversion, etc...) Having an explicit standard for judging art gives a means of determining what is that thick and thin: which pieces of entertainment are just that and which are meant to be shared, reenjoyed, and such.

Not endorsing a specific religion or philosophy here, but how is one to aspire to something more meaningful and deeper when they cannot even distinguish what that is?
You omit the fact to some people _anything_ is important and for some nearly _nothing_ is. That would lead to a de facto master/slave-like relationship.

People's desire to shape the relationship (and hence their partner's) is asymmetrical.

In your example, you don't mention what _you_ made her change to compromise with something _you_ felt was important (and i don't want any answer, as it's something private). It just that it sounded like the classic "married with children"/"the simpsons" premise...
All the sony tvs that I have owned, I just connect HDMI inputs. The TV works as intended. If I use sony's remote and go to the home menu it is still waiting for a connection but it works just fine as a tv panel.
Other than the usual arguments [1], I just said that it causes contamination of other APIs.
That's a big problem because string is a "vocabulary type". It is passed around across various libraries within a given process constantly. There should be a lot of convergence on vocabulary types to avoid copying string data around incessantly.

Null terminated strings are a poor choice to converge on for high level application code in particular. It's just an inefficient (expensive substrings, redundant length calculation, unclear ownership) and unsafe default for too many use cases.

I don't mind certain performance sensitive applications using C strings to avoid extra registers, though even that is a premature optimization in certain situations.

[1] See Limitations: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Null-terminated_string
They're not cheap or large, but broadcast monitors can be an option. Very expensive unless used though. Lots of lesser known manufacturers in the space, and some great deals can be found. The largest size most manufacturers will do is around 32 inches.