skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> The D-K hypothesis is that self assessment and actual performance are less correlated for weaker than higher performing individuals.

I’m not sure that’s an accurate summary. The correlation of the perceived ability is effectively the slope of the line, and the slope is more or less constant. The paper suggests that the bias of the bottom quartile is higher than the bias of the upper quartile, not that the correlation is any different.

But it’s strange that the DK paper makes an example of the lower performers, since the bias of the scores appears to be constant; it appears the high performers have pretty much the same bias as the low performers — it’s a straightish line that goes through 65% in the middle rather than the expected straight line that goes through 50% in the middle. If the ‘high performers’ had a different bias, then the line wouldn’t be so straight.
This has a great auxiliary use for those of us who don't know about all the tools, and/or don't know the names of the tools. It's going to make me sound a lot less stupid at the hardware store!
That's a great suggestion, thank you. I'll definitely work on implementing it
Is this something that could be automated?
I guess it's more "my precious marketing".

General consensus in marketing seems to be that people can't memorize anything more than domain names, and maybe also a "www." or a single word path behind the domain - but the scheme seems to be universally seen as "technical cruft that non-technical users can't be expected to deal with". (with the one exception that "http:// = bad and https:// = good")

So I guess companies don't want a situations in which they suddenly have to teach their users that, no, it's not "awesomecorp.com", it's actually "https3://awesomecorp.com" (but NOT https://3awesomecorp.com, that's a scammer) etc etc
The irony is that cows have a sweet nature too and she likely ate the slaughtered flesh of several while taking care of her dog.

Her father is being rational. And as much as she tries to do good for that dog, she's still eating the flesh of slaughtered animals.

I feel a lot of women have a tendency to get deep into this. It's the strong maternal instinct.
Neuralink Raises an Additional $43M
> capacity of the NPPs has long since been replaced by renewables

All while Germany continues burning Russian oil and coal [1].

Anti-nuclear pro-climate is oxymoronic. It’s also destructive in introducing irrelevant preferences into an important debate; if you get nukes then someone else gets solar panels and windmills ruining their view.

[1] https://emlab.ucsb.edu/blog/out-phase-costs-and-benefits-ger...
I enjoyed thoroughly this short exploring concepts of time perception between host and child simulated reality entities: https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/5wMcKNAwB6X4mp9og/that-alien...
Is there any kind of comaprison of the different vector DBs? What would you choose for different use cases? How do they differ?
Really cool experience! :)

Having been cheerfully awarded the sleuth-o-matic rank of Barely Conscious (the murderer was was clear, the precise weapon+time wasn’t) I was wondering: is the mystery generator implemented in such a way that there’s enough “metagaming cues” in the clues to allow someone clever to get a good score on ALL generated mysteries?

For context: my partner correctly solved today’s mystery seven clues earlier than I did, and she explained that her answer was based on the fact that that 1. In literature certain weapons are predominantly associated with killers of particular genders, and 2. Killers will try to minimize their time spent at crime scenes to reduce the risk of detection, so if the murderer was found there, it’s probable that the murder was recent.

I was suitably impressed, but I’d be curious to know if human psychology and behavior patterns in literature are actually taken into account for the mysteries.
Linux being insecure is also a misconception, because its so damn fragmented. Only when a Linux flavor matures does it become a target for hackers.
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I wonder if you could get around this by penalising obviously modern words.
Maybe with a substantial investment into ML. I'm looking into this possibility myself, with a Django backend and a zillion possible fields to fill out.
I find myself unreasonably frustrated by this arrangement. "Screwdriver Bits" are not the base level of the screwdriver column -- "Screwdrivers" are. And the second column from left is just a mess: stampers are similar to rivets are similar to nail guns... how?

I'm sure this is a personal preference thing but (to me) the columns should be thematically similar, off the top of my head (I am not skilled at manufacturing nor construction):

1. Things that pound things into other things (hammers)
2. Things that twist things into other things (screwdrivers)
3. Things that join things (staples, rivets, etc. -- yes, I get that this covers both nails and screws)
4. Things that shape things
5. Things that split things
6. Things that cut things
7. Things that break things down
8. Things that mix things
9. Things that contain things
10. Things that move single things
11. Things that move aggregate things
12. Things that etch things
13. Things that measure the size of things
14. Things that measure the mass of things
15. Things that measure force
16. Things that measure other attributes?

I'm sure there are more.
these are the functions mentioned in the repo readme.

seems theses can be done without gpt ?

~~~

Right now, NewsNerd HackerBot is able to:

- Get you the top, best, new, best, ask, show and job stories of Hacker News.

- Gets you filter the stories by any keyword / keywords you want (e.g. Give me 20 stories about Sam Altman and OpenAI)

~~~
Neat but... how do I use it? (Currently I'm clicking random things until something interesting happens.)

edit: found a guide on the GitHub repo: https://github.com/Whisky-App/Whisky/wiki/A-Hitchhiker's-Gui...
>You're not from Bavaria, I take it? Here, to this day hunters and shroom gatherers have to scan their produce for radioactivity because of the aftereffect of Chernobyl.

“I read about a train derailment that killed people so I’ll never take public transit”

>The capacity of the NPPs has long since been replaced by renewables.

The two sources aren’t fungible unless the renewables are dams. Nuclear provides a reliable base load. Neither solar nor wind can do that. You need storage to make them reliable and that’s not even close to a solved problem.
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It's more like when you prompt the model with "be an assistant from the time of Shakespeare", you don't know if it'll imitate actual Shakespearean data in its training, or the sea of modern human imitations or "fan fiction".

There are various ways modern knowledge may have "snuck in" through data contamination. If we really want to know what a Shakespearean chatbot would have looked like, we need to cap the training data.

Maybe in the future, using better mechanistic interpretability we can get around this, but not right now.
Not that simple. This article demonstrates why enforcing bounds results in the changes in slope that you see in the expected grades (figure 2 and 4): https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2022.8401...
Don't remake an old game (2020)
This or anyone suggest some other db/lib for local QnA like testing on Mac?
It's https://animotion.dev or https://www.animotion.dev now
Isn't it all just based upon Wing Commander?

(Without this bracketed addendum, this would be a troll comment rank 16 mega-trolls)
> Those three don't belong together in any way. Yet here we are.

The difference here is degree of humanization of an animal. Recent Andrew Huberman podcast with a former FBI hostage negotiator[1] touched upon the topic.

In animal research labs, the researchers are disallowed to name the animal subjects, only to assign numbers or codes.

In a hostage situation, simply letting your captor know your name increases the chances of your survival. Conversely, having your face covered reduces the chances.

Humanization and dehumanization of things, living beings, other humans and ourselves is something that we generally tend to do. A lot of cruelty in the world can be traced to this observation.

1. https://podcasts.google.com/feed/aHR0cHM6Ly9mZWVkcy5tZWdhcGh...
Games from over 20 years ago that work well with Wine on other platforms:

- Morrowind doesn't start after the launcher.

- Manhunt runs at 5 FPS. Five!

- Oddworld: Abe's Odyssey doesn't start

- Deus Ex is too slow to be playable

- Jet Set Radio doesn't start

- Half-Life Blue Shift works well
It feels like they were perhaps hindered by wanting to conform to the chemical periodic table format.
Lane Keep Assist and Adaptive Cruise Control on Honda vehicles has never been marketed as "self-driving".
This thread from a few months ago is a good read - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36943318
Mathematicians Have Found the Ninth Dedekind Number, After 32 Years of Searching
Neat!

https://github.com/vim/vim/blob/ee17b6f70d382ec6c5d8d27b56c4...
I'm unsure that they'd actually do this. As I recall, the original Rosetta required Apple to pay royalties to IBM and it was basically only useful for Mac OS X binary compatibility. Being able to translate x86 binaries is somewhat more general in application and I don't think Apple is paying royalties on Rosetta 2.
I would say F# or OCaml, or Flix as we see here--this language may not be for you.
I'm not criticizing you for this, obviously, but "heavier" is a silly attribute to increase as you go down the table. It makes sense for the actual periodic table, but here something like "complexity" "modernity" or "scale" would have made much more sense (to me, obviously).
”mutates IO”? Anything is better than /{}. I don’t know, maybe one gets accustomed to it after a while? It would be rather verbose to write “returns Foo” everywhere. I’m just looking at this with fresh eyes and this aspect of the language is a token-soup. Other parts look neat though.
I’ve debugged project Dockerfiles to discover that they were pulling dependencies from URLS with “LATEST” in them. A Dockerfile isn’t really proof that anything currently works.
Yes, if you spend time in SMTP land you will see lots of domains with multiple TXT records for things like SPF and DKIM. Also, services like Barracuda, Gsuite, O365, etc that use a TXT record to verify you control the domain. Let's Encrypt uses that mechanism as well.
If the entire focus is on structuring the economy for rentier capitalists, this is to be expected. It will get worse as private equity starts owning a lot of single family homes with worse experience for renters[5]. They just started getting their feet wet [2]. This will rapidly increase [3].

Singapore, Japan and Austria[1] (maybe some other countries too!) seem to have solved housing. In contrast, we have Canada, Australia and US.

[1] https://www.politico.eu/article/vienna-social-housing-archit...

[2] https://www.blackstone.com/housing/our-track-record-in-housi...

[3]Bezos-Backed Company Surpasses $100M In Single-Family Home Acquisitions While U.S. Housing Shortage Worsens: https://finance.yahoo.com/news/bezos-backed-company-surpasse...

[5] Google: blackstone owned homes complaints
https://bionic-gpt.com/blog/you-dont-need-a-vector-database/
I have no dislike of Microsoft as a company. But its products and its ability to execute suck. We deployed Office 365 at work and all the rewritten apps are total crap (Outlook, Teams, etc.) They can’t even manage to maintain their own browser engine, which is pathetic for such a large company. I have a surface Duo 2, which is a promising device that’s just a total disaster in execution. The Surface line is sometimes good, but the execution is so bad. They have no ability to sync up with Intel release cycles, so the hardware is perpetually six months to a year old when new surface models are released.
Only if we ignore facts. Chrome only has a 64% market share, not 90%. Nobody has ever dominated a consumer tech market in the same way that Microsoft dominated the 90s.

https://gs.statcounter.com/browser-market-share/

On top of that, YouTube is only one choice of many for user created videos. Sites like TikTok, Instagram, Facebook and Reddit are all top 20 sites that host user created videos. A number of YouTube creators mirror their content to Nebula and other creator platforms. Twitch is yet another alternative and is likely more popular than YouTube’s live feature.

We also have to count every streaming video service from the legacy media companies and Netflix/Amazon/Apple as competition as well.

In the 90s you couldn’t complete basic computing tasks without Internet Explorer and Office. Even while fully admitting to YouTube’s relative dominance of its niche, the situation is not the same.
Great demo and great music taste!
Just posted this thread that gives an in-depth look at LLM frameworks (local ones included) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38422264
I distribute server-side software and it was a pain to provide the infra requirements. At higher level users easily miss what is yours and what's another tech, they just don't care to tell the difference. Is not a matter of documenting, is just not their concern.

That drives many issues and it becomes a snowball soon as inexperienced users start to vent bad practices. In a effort to help other users they often spread more damage.

With Docker I was able to take charge of the infra, which erased all the uncertainties on my next layer but it spawned the uncomfortable need of learning Docker to use my stuff, which users took very reluctant.

The best distribution method is to pack a binary release. Not only the package is lightweight, it doesn't need any fancy instruction. You can keep Docker for your internal use, don't ship it to end users.
Nuclear economies of scale, in the very best cases, have been very low. See for example:

> The costs of the French nuclear scale-up: A case of negative learning by doing

> Drawing on largely unknown public records, the paper reveals for the first time both absolute as well as yearly and specific reactor costs and their evolution over time. Its most significant finding is that even this most successful nuclear scale-up was characterized by a substantial escalation of real-term construction costs.

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S03014...

There's a more exhaustive paper (by Lovering, maybe?) where it finds a few cases of economies of scale, e.g. South Korea, but the savings are really tiny compared to a tech with a real learning curve, like battery storage.

If you have any numbers showing that US military reactors have economies of scale, I would love to see it. Not that we could use HEU in civilian reactors, but the construction lessons might be useful. I have never found a fan of US military reactors that could cite the cost numbers, and I have not been successful finding them either.

As for China, I don't know anybody that trusts their cost numbers. I prefer to look at where they are actually spending their money, and their planned nuclear build is absolutely a tiny tiny fraction of what their solar and wind numbers. And the plans for wind and solar are increasing year after year, whereas nuclear plans are staying steady.
“In court Thursday, Lehman said his best guess is that search engines will shift largely from relying on user data to relying on machine learning.”

This is a good point. Foundational/Frontier models already pack lots of contextual knowledge that makes user behaviour data collection less relevant.

Whilst building AskPandi, I have only found user’s location to be the only major signal that would greatly improve search results and answers.
> This is a different issue than D-K.

No, its literally the D-K finding.

> The D-K hypothesis is that self assessment and actual performance are less correlated for weaker than higher performing individuals

That may have been a hypothesis Dunning and Kruger had at some point, its not the effect they actually identified from their research. But I don't think its even that, its an “effect” people have associated with D-K because they heard discussion of the D-K research that got dustorted at multiple steps from the original work, and then that misunderstanding, because it made a nice taunt, replicated widely and became popular.
Steam games are sadly very hit and miss. In my case more misses than hits.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electricity_sector_in_China#/m...
Ah yes, seems they did. I'm still on a Quadro RTX 4000 (Turing) so I thought they just slapped RTX on there after Quadro.
It's an inflection point, not a zero point. GP's emphasis on the word "acceleration" above is to distinguish the two.

Rallying is an inflection point, turning the tide is a zero point. Rallies suffer from survivorship bias -- you don't hear praises and songs for the rallies that failed. It's not enough to assume blind hope, we have to recognize the forces stacked against us and be very strategic going forward. This requires massive sacrifice, including those comfortably sitting in the war rooms and atop guarded positions.
Been there. It's very expensive and crowded but it's really nice being like 15 minutes from some of the nicest hiking trails in the country.
Writing in the Computer Age: Word Processing Skills for Every Writer (1984)
> btw phone calls are still cool.

Not to large corporations. Have you called one lately?

It's a minimum of five minutes of bartering, begging and pleading with the IVR to let you speak to a human, and even then a successful outcome is anything but guaranteed.
It's the opposite to me. Guile is an exercise in pain and suffering to read. While nix is definitely not perfect it's essentially json with some cherries on top.
Anyone have a link to examples?
Well I didn’t think of it that way. I admit im sentimental about it but it’s not sounding too bad too sell now either

I’m in Austin, so my house went up in value quite a lot.
Big Heads – Generate avatars for your projects
Why don't we ever get the opposite? I want this but a MacOS emulator (really a library implementing the MacOS apis), so Mine, not Wine. Allowing me to e.g. run Safari on Linux.
Problem with any non-mass-produced camera seems currently the availability of image sensors. It seems that the only small-batch available sensors are for machine-vision and accordingly priced :/ The CMV12000 used here costs $2000-$2200 per sensor - more than many full-frame mirrorless cameras.

Another problem is that there are no development boards as far as I'm aware. That's why this imo could be huge for anyone else interested in making an open camera, the apertus project seems to have a modular architecture and breakout board for components!

That said, the sensor does have a globoal shutter which would be huge for cinema but not sure at what tradeoffs in dynamic range or color-depth eg.
On a side note, "Sqids ... is an open-source library that lets you generate YouTube-looking IDs from numbers.", "The main use of Sqids is purely visual."

If the purpose of it is to give a friendlier url / id, who not use something like friendly_id instead? (http://norman.github.io/friendly_id).

The url is readable and searchable through the history.

I would much rather prefer people using "www.website.com/channel/video/a-dog-walking" instead of "www.website.com/channel/video/3cXv8c".
Huh? Maybe Rolf Landauer.

But this is really just conservation of energy or the first law of thermodynamics, and those predate Planck.
so should we all switch to whonix ?
I would agree with that if most of the costs of YouTube were paying the creators, but my guess is they're not. If YouTube gives, for example, Vimeo the chance to become big enough and they just happen to be more efficient than YouTube and also decide to pay the creators just a little bit more than YouTube, isn't it even a tiny bit reasonable that maybe Vimeo could gradually replace YouTube in the future?

Of course Vimeo would have to fight off adblockers too to compete in money extraction with YouTube but that's not my point, my point is that YouTube now has a monopoly and any actions that threaten that, such as strongarming people into watching 3 preroll unskippable ads, are in my opinion silly and self-defeating.

They're just too greedy. If they made the price of YouTube Premium something reasonable ($1 or $2 a month instead of $14 or whatever it is) they would get a lot more subscribers and probably even get more revenue. $1 or $2 is not worth spending even 10 minutes digging in obfuscated JavaScript to fix an adblocker, so this whole thing would go a lot smoother for them if they charged that. Even if $14 is not a lot people just don't want to pay that much.
> nix is off - I can't work out what parameters are needed for any one function call they all appear to be in a global namespace.

If you are talking about something you saw in the nixpkgs repo, then that is probably the callPackage design pattern [0], which is basically a form of automatic dependency injection.

It definitely made it hard for me to grok how nixpkgs package definitions worked at first - there was so much stuff getting injected dynamically, without any trace of where those dependencies lived.

The callPackage pattern is an important piece that allows you to override a dependency with a different version, though, which is essential when customizing existing packages for your own needs.

[0]: https://nixos.org/guides/nix-pills/callpackage-design-patter...
"This reads like a rant in lawsuit form."

Well... welcome to Texas.
English is my native language. "I have to call out" is a perfectly fine (and polite) way to express doubt of veracity.
Interesting! Any link?
Back when renewables weren't cheap, I was cheering on nuclear, back in the 2000s. I was cheering on renewables to get cheaper, but I didn't think we should deploy a ton of renewables if nuclear could achieve the same carbon neutrality cheaper.

Now, in the year 2023, when batteries plus solar are cheaper than new nuclear, IMHO the only same thing to do is to deploy massive amounts of solar wind and batteries, and cheer on nuclear trying to get cheaper.

Demanding that we deploy a ton of expensive nuclear when we can't even reliably complete construction in the US is a fool's game. We don't have time to waste on nuclear, today.

Which is to say, there is definitely some tribalism, but nuclear advocates are the most tribal people I encounter in energy discussions. There doesn't even seem to be much understanding of current and past projects among nuclear's advocates.
his non-extradition-treaty home.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_United_States_extradit...
This is exactly what I'm talking about. Yes, 4000 becquerels of Cesium 137 per kg of mushroom sure does sound scary, especially if you're raised in the German media environment that constantly plays up the nuclear boogeyman.

Cesium 137 is a beta emitter and doesn't bioaccumulate in humans. Potassium in bananas has a similar radiological and chemical properties to cesium. A kilogram of bananas is around 250 Bq of naturally occurring radioactive potassium. I'd be a lot more worried about industrial chemicals that leeched into my wild mushrooms than I would about such low levels of cesium

If you ate 80,000 Bq worth of those mushrooms (i.e. you found and ate 20kg worth of the most radioactive mushrooms these people were able to find), you'd get a 1 millisievert radiation dose which is less than half of a normal person's yearly ambient radiation dose.

20kg is a *lot* of mushrooms.
Some people complained that CoPilot outputted their rare code almost verbatim so I have no reason to trust whatever GitHub/Microsoft state.
https://www.darlinghq.org/

Needs people to contribute to get to the point of running Safari, but the foundation is there.