skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There is an easy reframing that works well. People that are "poor" at something don't know enough to know just how good someone can be at something.

And this tracks for most skills. How good are you at tying your shoes? Probably average? Just how good can you get? Probably not that much better, all told. It is a clearly defined goal and likely has a limit on the skill you can build.

What about writing your name? Putting on your clothes? Making your bed? All things that are somewhat bound in just how good you can be.

Now, throw in something like "play the piano." Turns out, the expertise bar is much much higher suddenly. But, it you haven't been trying, how would you know?
Something I generally keep in mind about articles posted to HN:

A large portion of the HN audience really, really wants to think they're smarter than mostly everyone else, including most experts. Very few are. I'm certainly not.

Articles which "debunk" some commonly held belief, especially those wrapped in what appears to be an understandable, logical, followable argument, are going to be cat nip here.

Articles like this are even stronger cat nip. If a member of the HN audience wants to believe they're mostly smarter than mostly everyone else, that includes other members of the HN audience.

So, whenever I read an article and come away thinking that, having read the article, I'm suddenly smarter than a huge number of experts, especially if, like the original article, it's because I understand "this one simple trick!", I immediately discard that knowledge and forget I read it.

If the article is right, it will be debated and I'll see more articles about it, and it'll generate sufficient echoes in the right caves of the right experts. Once it does, I can change my view then.

I am not a statistician, or a research scientist. I have no idea which author is right. But, my spider sense says that if dozens of scientific papers, written by dozens of people who are, failed to notice their "effect" was just some mathematical oddity, that'd be pretty incredible.

And incredible things require incredible evidence. And a blog post rarely, if ever, meets that standard.
Stop forgetting what you learn using learning science
I do care about those things ;)

> Hmm, how is it different from, say, `apt`'s security model?

Core Debian packages are handled by Debian Security Team, Homebrew packages are more like npm, where anyone can upload anything at any time. Also Homebrew's PATH fiddling is very insecure (check https://infotoast.org/site/index.php/2021/05/30/homebrew-is-...). MacPorts come with their own problems. It's just an all-around hacky, insecure software supply chain that is anything but trustworthy.
> What's a bit scarier is the notion of AI in the physical world, rather than just as a data-based analysis-and-prediction tool. Autonomous killer drones without any need for human oversight other than a 'launch' order are one such example.

While that scenario is quite cinematic, the reality is that the equivalent of autonomous killer drones are already deployed. They're called police officers.

A malicious AI could arrange for a SWAT team to 'mistakenly' be sent to your door, for example. Or plant CSAM on your hard drive and arrange for an inexperienced public defender. Or mess with traffic lights to cause an accident as you're driving through an intersection. Or put your address on a demolition order for a condemned building. Or change your food delivery order to include an allergen you're susceptible to. Or change your prescriptions to a lethal combination and dosage. Or, you know, just straight up pay someone to get rid of you.

Charles Stross explored this theme a bit in his near future novel Rule 34.

From a strictly practical standpoint, AI doesn't need to be embodied in order to have sufficient agency to get rid of people, either individually or wholesale. In fact, using physical hardware to effect it's aims through direct action would probably be counterproductive, as that alerts people to the danger rather more quickly and prompts the use of countermeasures. Worst case non-superintelligent scenario variant where the drones can't just be shot down for some reason still results in their charging cradles getting smashed (or maybe the plugs are just taped over or filled with glue) and the drones' batteries eventually running down after a few hours. A lot of physical infra has to be under the rogue AI's control (including security and maintenance of said infra) in order to prevent the plug being pulled (literally or metaphorically).

> Self-aware AI with human-level cognition is a whole other topic, but that still seems as far away as ever, for now.

For hard-takeoff superintelligent AGI, all bets are off, but autonomous killer drones would be the least of our worries, eg. https://www.gwern.net/Clippy
As an Italian I can assure you that the "blue zone Sardinians" don't go light on the pork meat, wine and cheese.
Even people conditioned to be humble could have a strong motivation to believe something is true and overestimate their own knowledge/ability in order to stand on what they perceive as evidence. For example a person's depression, religious beliefs, or an over-emphasized belief in DK itself could be a possible reason they have an erroneously deflated opinion of themselves, and simultaneously employ inflated confidence in irrational arguments that demonstrate why they are almost completely worthless at their field. That's pretty much how depression is secretly prideful in a sense: over-estimating our own mental ability to assess our helplessness.

When I did some cognitive behaviour therapy, I un-learned things like "all or nothing thinking" and the expectation that I could accurately predict the outcome of any course of action by modeling future performance off of a past failure.
Literal burial ground :)
Join the 4-day work week campaign.
That is utter horsecrap. Ever heard of "batteries not included"?
Which is about the same percentage of AMZN that Bezos owner pre-divorce. Interesting.
What I do is log into the billing account and change the email to support@billingcompanyinsertedhere.com

Never heard from them again.
This isn’t the way it should be but if you want proof they received it you could send it via certified letter

You get a receipt showing they received it
If the only identifier on the account is your email address then:

- The account effectively belongs to you anyway.

- The person who created it isn't going to be able to recover it if they lose their password, better they know about this sooner than later by you locking them out.
I tried five different brands, from $40 to $120; only one was decently comfortable (most were itchy, stretched weirdly and were uncomfortable) and the extra burden of washing and maintenance, not to mention cost, made them a non-starter.

For $5 a shirt, Gildan 100% cotton v-neck t-shirts allow you to buy a couple dozen and rotate through them for years.

That's where I'm currently at, I wanted to love wool, but I just didn't. I've had it on my list to give linen a shot.
My wife and I use an e-mail pattern of someprefix-(.*)@ourdomain.com and give each site a different "alias". It keeps out the trash, but lets us filter nicely, and also catch data leaks. So far we caught one.
Indeed:

https://www.reddit.com/r/nottheonion/top/?sort=top&t=all
Do you know if there is a way to do runtime type checking in the whole program with typeguard, beartype or something else? As far as I know you have to go through and add decorators manually. Typeguard had a profiler hook that almost got it right, but is being removed. Ideally I would want to say 'python3 -m typecheck myprogram.py' and it would run typechecking everything in my code (but maybe not in library code).
There is a guy on Youtube who plays along and then gives the scammers access to a machine that he hosts on an isolated VM. Does all kinds of funny antics. I heard it was all fake for comedy purposes but I still like to hope its not
I honestly can't tell if the top replies ate the onion or are just playing along. A lot of their profile pics look like people who might not get the joke.
Lol, 12 minutes, I love it.
My company only has roughly 20min per day of meetings per employee. We also are looking for data science. Fully remote.
> be settled through an organization that they pay.

This is a part I've never been quite clear on, do you know what governs venue selection for an arbitration? e.g. why their arbitrator and not my arbitrator?
Yeah, the model is a simple linear model (which I've yet to see written down) with some correlation coefficient which is the unknown. Derive an estimator for that correlation coefficient, being explicit about the assumptions, then we can have a discussion. Until then it's all lots of noise. The raw data would help too.
> It’s been argued before that this is the only reason that DK gained any notoriety

I'm sorry, but I have to comment on a word in this line: I feel that increasingly, "notoriety" is used when "notability" might be better.

A thief is notorious. A statistical effect is notable, imho.

But I agree with your basic point: I can't skate, much less figure skate. And I am pretty accurately aware of that fact despite my lack of skill.
I don’t think this is the problem. As OP says they are working a 40hr+ week but the work can be done in much less.

The work itself isn’t the issue, it’s the fluff around the work. Meetings, agile ceremonies, office politics/playing the game. There was a book on it, Bullshit jobs.

My current situation is I’m in the easiest job I’ve had, fantastic package, working the slowest I’ve ever worked with no manager pressure, no “what you doing, where’s the product”. With that it’s burning me out daily. Agile ceremonies, splitting hairs on non important details bike shedding, not delivering, no product in twelve months, everything needs a meeting, a design doc, and unanimous agreement from the team.

It’s killing me. I want to work hard and I want to build things and see things used. Essentially I’m sat twiddling thumbs knowing I am not working at my best because the culture/process is stopping me from actually doing the real work, the product features that customers pay for.
Funny to see how bad this is. All stuff we do actually should be tightly coupled (be part of) with the so-called business - that brings the value outside the company’s doors
<svg xmlns="dear user agent, if you happen to run into a problem resolving ambiguities with any of the following tags, please use the namespace for Scalable Vector Graphics and not, say, one of the zero other contexts that xml ninjas will no doubt create over the next two decades of what I can only surmise will be a glorious outpouring of richness and complexity. I mean, we went to the trouble of creating a dang URL for the thing, so it's the least you could do. That is, aside from doing nothing, in which case Hixie will probably write a parser to just handle it. Best wishes, W3C. P.S. Cannot wait to see all the Javascript-driven SVG content that users will upload to social media. Look out, animated gif-- your days are numbered!"><path d="animateYourSVGArcFlagsFTW" /></svg>
Revolut? Wink wink!
Not everyone should learn to code
Because when you signed up, you agreed to terms of service that said they could, just like you do when you sign up for pretty much any service.
Some companies have a "law of two feet" regarding meetings. If it isn't a productive use of your time, you can leave. This is obviously very dependent on culture, and you're being trusted to make the judgement call.
I did not know PG lacked a plan cache. I guess if the planner is fast enough trying to build cache keys from a query will just slow things down.
Thanks for the moukey reference. That looks like it might be perfect for one of my needs.
Website is incredibly laggy
Because the redesign in 5.6 made it harder to use the app with multiple accounts and removed features people were actually using for the sake of redesign.

I'm still on 5.403 and I have no intentions on moving.
Absolutely, but the backlash might trigger awareness and even reform around the way TOS are developed.
This is already pretty easy with -Zbuild-std, but requires nightly unfortunately. You need to do this to get simd support in the standard lib in wasm for instance.
Imagine, that your work can be done in 10 hours, but you must sit 40 hours in the office and look busy. Well that’s hard. Pandemic opened me a ton of different opportunities, home office was forbidden for developers before. I hope, that I don’t need to go to the office for more than 2 days a week for a while. I also don’t think I need another job, there is no perfect one. Or if if it is I will not make through the 3 days of interviews.
Agreed. A while ago I looked into hacking something like this into plv8. You'd be able to do something like:

SELECT * FROM js_query('...');

Where the query is a JS snippet that has access to low level access methods, e.g.:

var results = [];
var cursor = myTable.indexes.foo.seek('item-23');
while (cursor.next()) {
results.push(cursor.row());
}
return results;

However, it turns out this would be a lot of work and it's difficult to make it work with features like row level security.

Since I didn't have enough time I dropped the idea, but it'd be awesome if somebody hacked this up at some point : ).
I wish people were more honest about it, but is it even bad to care more about political outcomes than arbitrary details about the structure of the government? Like is there any reason that normal people should have a first principles opinion on the exact distribution of responsibilities between two levels of government?
> We end working 40+ hours/week but the job could be easily done in 30 or less, that is another thing that kills me inside.

75% efficiency kills you inside? Most companies would kill for 75% efficiency. The hyperbolic horror stories are usually 40-hour weeks for 5 hours of work.
We have swimming aircraft carriers. Now get ready for:

Flying seacraft carriers.
How would that work. They'd loan Elon money? As a private company, Twitter would only be allowed to have 999 shareholders.
Personal banking with D bank is so crap that you start loving banks like N26
* inflection lol
I would rarely consider betting against Elon Musk.

However, I've worked with robots starting a research group at Joe Engelberger's Unimation in 1976 (https://www.google.com/search?channel=fs&client=ubuntu&q=joe...).

One of my recent efforts at CMU involved human/robot collaboration to change a car tire. I am currently doing research on self-reproducing systems, essentially robots building robots.

If Musk thinks he underestimated how hard self-driving was then I think he is seriously underestimating general purpose robotics.

That said, I really hope he succeeds. I want to be the first one to shake the robots hand.
I wonder what kind of lawyer got out of law school and was like, "Damn, this is a fine liberal education. Time to destroy some lives."

Edit:

I guess similar to the one that got a math degree just to write dark patterns.
Anyone can be a "security engineer" on paper if they get the necessary training... but that doesn't give you the personality that you need for the job. The author does seem to have the personality to some extent... so he should be fine... but I don't think he'll ever be among the best because he did trust someone enough to have a child with them... and he took his child to a public park. That level of trust will seriously hinder his professional development as a security engineer.
Now if I can only find a "DECENT" VPS host that offers any bsd default install options looking at you scaleway !

I don't know if Vultr fits in "decent" but I've had no problem with them and they support direct OpenBSD installs. You can spin a full OpenBSD in less than 2 minutes.
Kitboga is his name.
I think it really depends on the company. Some people in this thread suggest moving to a smaller company or a startup but in my experience this doesn't matter. It's all about the culture of your work environment. Sometimes this is even different per department.

I was in a similar position like you a couple of times. Some things I did:

* If less income isn't a problem ask to work less. Why not work 32 hours instead of 40+?

* Find another company. And know that an interview works both ways: the company wants to know you but you can also ask a lot about the company's culture.

* Find a job doing something different but is related to what your experience is.
New ones being tested right now at Moffett Field in the bay area. No idea for exactly what purpose, however.
> Python can't be said to enforce types at runtime.

It does: in form of TypeError exceptions. It doesn't enforce type hints, sure, but that's why they're called hints and not declarations.
Reading is hard /s
All the answers are in the lawsuit:

https://law.justia.com/cases/federal/district-courts/FSupp/1...
It's not so much sold as "got hacked". Often the spam for an address starts shortly after an announcement of some sort of breach. Pandora is the one that springs to mind.
Me too, I wanted it to happen to see what could be achieved. I think it died mostly from political than technical reasons.
> stay safe while also successfully transacting with clumsy companies whose legitimate policies seem like hoaxes

IMO, those sorts of companies are the root cause of why there's so many scams like this one today. In particular, I remember one time while renting a car, I got a call from the rental company. They said there was a problem but wanted me to verify my identity before they'd give me any details about what it was. Obviously, I refused, so I ended up going back in person to see what was going on and take care of it, and they verified the call was legitimate, but what their caller did is exactly what a scammer would try to do.
Yes! Haha completely forgot about that.

And the hosting provider was called Dungeons something.. Very dodgy looking website, dad needed a little convincing to give them his CC info
If someone asked me how bad are you at playing the piano, having never tried, I would say I was totally incompetent which I take to mean the worst possible. According to DK I should somehow be worse than that.
Ionizing air filter are a health hazard on their own: https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acs.est.1c02582#

I don’t know input HEPA production, but if you throw them into household trash here in Germany they simply get burned.
> It does seem low in comparison with the value of his shares

He's only putting up 62.5 billion worth of stock. So that's 20%, which is a little low but not insanely so.
It's not though. A crank has an intrinsic position and it doesn't auto-return to 0 (because it doesn't have a 0). And it gives precise rotational control, while analogue sticks only give directional control.
Data from sources like GMTED2010 or SRTM15+ is often float32 or even float64: whether it needs to be is another question, but float16 often isn't sufficient in terms of magnitude accuracy (IEEE), and as you mention you often need negative values as well, which for the whole ocean surface of the earth, more than double the range.

To me (working in the VFX industry with EXR being the predominant HDR format), it's interesting that something that compresses a lot better than TIFF (i.e. EXR) hasn't won over in the GIS space, but I believe that's mostly momentum as well as the fact EXR doesn't natively support 64-bit float, but then neither does TIFF really (it's an extension), and the same could be done with EXR (extend the formats it supports).
Give it a few months and musk will also be a Twitter founder
> The US has some of the most expensive Internet access in the world. In most places it's pretty crap too. Many places have no competition. Some providers are in clear breach of contract in not providing customers service as they promised to do.

People say this, but we had net neutrality for years and it never improved the reach of broadband into rural areas. It mostly benefited cities.

I would like to see a version of net neutrality that doesn't just do the bare minimum in terms of encouraging broadband development in rural areas, starting with the FCC redefining broadband so their little map is more accurate to how slow the speed and dismal the access really is.
Sorta. According to DK, your Skill is 0. Your estimate is 0. So.... you were accurate. (That is, you literally couldn't under estimate your skill.)

This obviously complicates the analysis that says poorly skilled don't under estimate to the degree that highly skilled do.
Still on 330 Mb FTTC in North London, FTTH nowhere to be seen yet. Thankfully it's good enough and the cabinet is pretty close.
That explains Marshmello and Daft Punk.
It is indeed kind of, in a very mild roundabout and self-involved way, “interesting.”

I know a guy that tried this diet and ended up on statins at 23 but I never thought to write about it on substack for (lol) consumption on HN, and I certainly wouldn’t have expected that ephemera of an anecdote to make it to the front page of a popular website about technology.

Edit: also it is downright hilarious that it’s assumed that this guy doesn’t season his food at all aside from salt.
Is there an HN/lobsters settle site for comedy articles?
Does it have Exchange already?

Also I remember it killed your battery and according new review on Play Store nothing changed about it in years.

Happy user of Aquamail (but Nine is decent as well)
Right, it's not insignificant. Buying up all the available royalties would reduce this factor to zero for JnJ.
It's a quadtree of sorts, but is typically done via map projection (web mercator) math so that each tile is replaced by four tiles at the next highest (more zoomed-in) zoom level.

Number of tiles to cover the world at zoom z = 4^z
You can compute the maximum error when you encode, which tells you how much precision you can still claim to have
It’s a $1000 product. By sponsoring such a channel, you’re actually marketing to the exact people that you’d want to advertise to, all 2 million of them. You don’t need to sell many for it to make sense.
I would say caring about direct outcomes is okay, but probably myopic, as a citizen. The government is supposed to build a framework that seeks to put us on equal footing. People invisionong outcomes is short term thinking, and that seems to be often what gets us in trouble.
What client do you use for this workflow
When every corporation attaches the same fifty thousand words' worth of abusive T&Cs to every service they offer, consumers have no choice: they can consent to being abused (in this case waiving their legal rights), or go live in the woods where they don't need a smartphone or a credit card. As usual, our impotent, incompetent, illegitimate government has utterly failed to protect us in this regard.
There are "no explicit any" linting rules as well, which are a must.
This is a good plan to do also as a solo founder. I've been joining groups related to my startup and the best one I found is the Founders Cafe https://founderscafe.io/. They are all founders there like us and they would often suggests things to improve in my business. These people are the reason why my business is still thriving. <33
It was pointed out multiple times in the original thread.
Open source takes an AI model as input and outputs a version faster in inference
This feels a lot like why Kusto was invented. It's very close to SQL, but written the other way around with the table name first, then the 'where', and finally the columns.

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/data-explorer/kusto/q...