skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think people are too quick to dismiss this point of view. I have very little patience for your recent tendency to frame arguments as condemnations of individualism vs. authoritarian communitarianism, but the normalization of prostitution creates a bunch of straightforward externalities that we should be able to talk about, from economic pressure on people disinclined towards sex work to the inevitable screening failures that bring minors into the industry.

Of course, you could make this point effectively just by explaining to the preceding commenter what an externality is, since the idea is fundamentally about the damage consenting counterparties can do to the surrounding community.
It’s hazy. It depends on your need to seat either adults or small children in the third row. The X is in the size class of SUV where regular third row use is viable, but it’s still harder to work with car seats or to climb back there. A minivan’s being boxier allows a full width third row and easier access through the middle row.

Compromises in loading and unloading passengers become tiring with an SUV if your main use is city/highway transportation and you have 5+ family members. Older elementary is the only age where SUVs work fine since they don’t need any help but are small enough to easily squeeze back there (plus they think it’s fun.)

Large SUVs make fewer seating comfort/utility tradeoffs but they’re a lot more expensive than vans, so perhaps economical seating is part of the distinction. The Sienna and Pacifica are the nicest van hybrids and are around $30k less than the X.
This kind of reminds me of the history heavier than air flight and those that thought it wasn't possible along with those that thought it would only be possible by flapping like a bird.

Of course over 100 years later we know it's not only possible but manned flight is far more capable than natural flight in almost every metric.
A thought that came to me recently in the shower: Isn't all knowledge effectively based on previous knowledge, and by extension, experience?

i.e: A programmer knows how to do X, leaves a company to do Y, where Y is in the same field of work as X. Doesn't X still affect the programmer on a subconscious level and henceforth, their thoughts indirectly?
I live in Paris. Just got a 200€ fine coming back from a running session.
Beware, RATP rule enforcers are now dressed as civilians and targets gullible individuals who breaks stupid rules, (mistook my pass with my credit card when i tried to check-in : 50€ for forgetting my pass, and 150€ for entering an quasi-empty bus by the middle door).
I see why RATP resorted to racketeering after all this over-budget fiasco. Hope it's worth it.
Yes, good point, though I suspect shorts are much less common than longs, especially in PE, so on average, the best liars would be raised. Maybe the shorts even have incentive to let the liars go further, so they can get a higher entry.
If he has lived in the country for 20 years, and he’s in his late 40s, what does that make him? Don’t strain yourself too hard.
Well… I guess Number 2 leaves room for discussion here.
Why should you hide your user count?
Sorry, i'm a little lost. I tried thinking about it, but I can't think of any nefarious attacks someone could do with screenX/Y. Why is that such a risk? What could they possibly learn from that other than screen size?
> Reproducibility

That's a very silly objection: CSPRNGs can be seeded just like a PRNG. The "P" in both abbreviations is the key, it stands for "pseudo".
> my boss filled a few shotgun cartridges up with seeds and fired them at the wall.

A friend of mind had a hill in his yard, and hired a guy that knew the local seed mix to hydroseed it. It went well.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hydroseeding

Can't figure a good word would be for what your boss did. It's not quite pyroseeding...
CSPRNGs are not true randomness. They are PRNGs (with a seed and all), but with cryptographic guarantees. That also means, as a corollary, that they are generally good RNGs.

TRNG appliances can get very high throughput, too.
Well, it did kinda work. At least for a while. CZ, SBF, etc gained fabulous wealth and would have gotten away with if not for those darned kids! The reality is lots of people are willing to take extreme risk for extreme reward. Sometimes those risks involve the potential of serious jail time.
I will ignore the potentially false statements and restrictions on arm sales, and answer the high-level question:

Force design is a question of what the force will be used for. A military for a counterinsurgency in Iraq, will look very different from one for a peer-level conflict between superpowers. A military designed for force projection will look very different than one used for domestic defence. Etc.

There is a fairly standard way of doing the analysis for what makes sense for a given country's specific defence needs and wants:

* Most of India's defence needs center around Pakistan, as well as skirmishes of various sorts. I can think of few things an F35 can do which India needs done which can't be accomplished by a much cheaper plane.

* Japan's primary goal issue is China's growing military base. I can think of few uses Japan would have for a much cheaper plane.

India's answer to all-out war with China are nukes. Aside from that, it has no chance for military parity in the next half-century or so.
The issue is people have differing personal definitions of Dunning Kruger. The generally demonstrated effect in the sample of people Dunning and Kruger analyzed was "people tend to estimate the percentile of their own skill as closer to the average than it really is, with a slight bias towards an above-average mean. This leads to overestimation of relative ability by those in lower percentiles, and the opposite for those in higher percentiles"

However when people cite Dunning Kruger in popular culture they mean "below average people think they're above average, and above average people assume they're below average", which was not shown in the original study, and wouldn't show up in an analysis attempting to justify it via a misunderstanding of autocorrelation.

The general point in the rebuttal is correct. A completely noisy graph of people's estimations of their own ability would show a Dunning-Kruger resembling residual graph (x-y vs x). However, one wouldn't expect people in the 1st percentile to have an equal distribution of perceived skill as people in the 50th or 99th percentile. If that were true, it would be worth reporting.
If a model is trained on illegally obtained copyrighted material, are the images it produces stolen?
It was actually hilarious but I don’t think many people here got the irony
I'd love to have a 100 inch hidpi eink wall.
I second this. For some things the search is adequate, for a lot of things it's still quite painful, and it's largely an issue of both coming up with an appropriate structure for the database (which has to represent a huge number of different kinds of components with different parameters and different means of specification) and then actually maintaining the quality of the contents of such database to a level where it is actually useful (it's annoying when an incorrect part shows up because of a typo, misinterpretation of a datasheet, or misclassification of a part, and it's even worse when a part doesn't show up for the same reasons). For another example, noise performance on analog components can be specified in multiple different ways, and different manufacturers or even different parts from the same manufacturer may use different means. Generally these can be converted for a useful comparison, but the people maintaining digikey's database do not have the time or necessarily the skills to actually work this out, and so it's easy to miss the best part when you search because the value isn't even populated.

Finding parts is still the slowest and most critical part of a PCB design, and it's especially difficult for a beginner because it's hard to even know what you might want to look for. Even with years of experience I can find myself spending days just trying to find the right keyword or set of different keywords for some functionality or another, and the search is pretty dang useless for this (maybe it is something which LLMs could help with: parsing and understanding a gigantic database of datasheets which I could query by saying "I want a part that does this that and the other, with specs like so. What part or combination of parts can do this?").
Especially in more rural areas, you're often given directions where to go based on things that aren't addresses that Google Maps would understand. Being able to open a good map and ask questions like "is that the one after Midler Avenue?" helps you drop a pin on the map, and then use the new-school navigation.
I was responding to:

> I really wish we had a universe simulator so you could see how miserably you would fail to survive an environment like that.

So go take up your objections with the guy I was replying to instead of coming at me and moving the goalposts.

I agree that kids these days are weak and coddled and not emotionally resilient enough. And this kind of safetyism is the exact reason why.
Stupidity in this case probably means low level employees cheating for benefits and career

Nvidia can get out of this fairly low cost then

Who knows
Successful to the shareholders, not the users.
It very much depends on the field. Sure there are some where reproduction is a massive time and resource overhead.

But we don't even seem to be picking up the low hanging fruit - I used to work as an algorithm researcher, and reproduction there (for anyone who set up their experiments logically) is as easy as running a script and waiting x hours for the results to land. Yet reproduction studies were still a novel concept in that field, rather than a standard part of the submission workflow.
It was a revolt against accountability, nothing else.
Should not be surprising, since this is already a widely acknowledged historical fact. I recommend Execution by Hunger: The Hidden Holocaust, an autobiographical account of this time, and how it hit common society. Adults hung themselves dressed up in their best clothing besides the recently deceased bodies of their children. A whole population, cities and countryside, condemned to death.
neuroevolution strategies are another approach to games, for what it's worth (since you said 'only').
Nonstandard terminology warning: the author is using "autocorrelation" in a way I've never seen before. There is a much more common usage of "autocorrelation" to refer to the correlation of a timeseries with itself (shifted by some amount).

If you use autocorrelation to refer to the thing in OP, you'll probably confuse people who know statistics, and vice versa.
> I don't understand why there isn't a dedicated line

Obviously, because it would take away capacity for the regular users?

It's among the most heavily used lines in the world and tourists are probably a single digit percent of users, or less, so whatever funds available are better used to increase global capacity than to provide a better experience for a few people taking the plane.
If you focus on the money, yes.

But my point in your quote was about the incentive to continue to promote existing liars. If you've already found someone convincing (lying or not), you're likely to continue betting on them. The alternative would be to find the next promising company and invest in that instead.

Either way, you'd be investing money and hope for the Greater Fool when you need to sell.
7,000 pubs forced to close in last 10 years
The transfer of value is pretty nice. International transfers via crypto are often cheaper than wire fees. Domestic transfers can be faster via cryptocurrency depending on where you are at. ACH is painfully slow. SEPA is a a bit better. That being said there is a tradeoff. You lose clawback mechanisms in favor of independence and control.
> If the Dunning-Kruger effect were present, it would show up in Figure 11 as a downward trend in the data (similar to the trend in Figure 7). Such a trend would indicate that unskilled people overestimate their ability, and that this overestimate decreases with skill. Looking at Figure 11, there is no hint of a trend.

There certainly is a hint of a trend. Why do people, when visualizing data with a distinct trend, say that because the "error bars" from a particular statistical test overlap zero that no trend exists!?

Freshman trend to over-confidence. Grad students trend to under-confidence. Undergrads in general trend to over-confidence (though this trend decreases as year in school increases), and post-graduates, whether grad students or professors, trend to under-confidence.

These "trends" are not statistically significant, but they certainly are a trend!

Also, the random data distribution in figure 9 doesn't show the same trends as Dunning-Kruger's curve in figure 2. Perhaps there is at least one psycho-social mechanism here worth investigating?
The author is a bit too categorical, there are certainly use-cases where both speed and code-size matters a great deal. Others have mentioned Monte Carlo algorithms, but there are others: not very long ago I was doing an effect in a shader that needed a PRNG, it would have been lunacy to use a CSPRNG. High quality statistical properties are not important at all, but speed and instruction size is VERY important. My hunch is that this is often true in game-dev: Minecraft probably should not use a CSPRNG to generate its random world.

However, in general, I basically agree: for MOST tasks where you need a random number generator, a CSPRNG is probably the right choice and it's a reasonable "default" choice if you don't have good reasons why it shouldn't be. It's a continual annoyance to me that PRNG libraries usually don't include any solid CSPRNGs (looking at you, C++ header <random>) when it's often the right choice.
The interesting thing here is you can feasibly measure them all.

Not ahead of time, but as you build.
No one interferes with your ability to exchange money for fruit. However, exchanging money for a hitman's services, financing terrorists, selling illegal substances, etc are very much curtailed and for good reason. Society has determined you don't have the right to exchange money for those purposes. If you want that right, you have to change the society (by ballot or revolution, as may be applicable to your situation).
Let’s see how that software is in 2050. That’s what is stopping me from getting a new car—my current car is a 2001 Pontiac and I think I reasonably have a few years left with it before my maintenance bills eclipse a car payment. What are the chances the next car I get will have that kind of longevity?
It's pretty clear what he means. He means that the managers and executives are ok with stealing code.
Same. I recently bought a Kindle Scribe (would have preferred Kobo, but enh) to see if that would make it easier than constant printing and shuffling papers. It's alright. Better than a monitor, slightly less good than paper.
It's not only related to software. Any tool that "makes the task easier" will render the task harder in the long run.
Modern agriculture got easier for farmers, until so much productivity became the expected norm that it became an extremely hard job. Communication technology made it easy to keep in contact with loved ones, but now jobs expect people to move very far as if it was nothing. Solving a problem through a technical solution only ups the ante.

I'm also interested in the research you mention, but I think it is a special case of this general human behaviour.
You can use your phone with nfc now.
This page knows your battery charge level (unless you're using Firefox)
Thanks for the references. I will check out David Suich and his Youtube interviews!
The question is: is Go a good platform to write big games in? Are there enough libraries and performance to justify using it over C#?
> made hating Star Trek a part of their identity politics...

...The only reason anyone could dislike modern Star Trek: Because they want to 
. No, I actually want to like the new Star Trek. I just found that to be prohibitively difficult.

> They've even started to hate Strange New Worlds, even though it should be everything they wanted.

Except that it wasn't. It feels like a modern Marvel film masquerading as Star Trek. With sassy Mary Sue characters that just quip back and forth sarcastically. The dialogue is honestly terrible.

> In actual objective reality, each of the new Trek series has been highly successful.

On Rotten Tomatoes Picard has an audience score of 57%. Discovery has 37%. About what I expected. Strange New Worlds is doing well though. I'm not upset that other people like it. I'd consider giving SNW another go, but I won't waste any more time with Picard or Discovery.
Weirder still, they were used in pigment until astonishingly late in the last century (and a rather long time after they ran out of actual antiquities to grind). https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mummy_brown
github failed, how?
I have the strongest urge to be pedantic and point out that birthdates are not normally distributed. But I get your point.
that is certainly worse than threads
https://developers.google.com/blogger/docs/1.0/developers_gu...
"Shell scripts" is kinda the domain of newLISP, which I've used before and like.
I like the concept and would really like to have something like this (especially the combination of recipe + shopping list—that’s great), but the ux is a bit off. Having to fill out a form and then click “buy now” before I get a sense of what I’ll actually be getting or even what the pricing is feels wrong. Are the meal plans handmade or AI generated, or pre-generated and just matched to your preferences? What exactly does “personalized” mean in this context? There’s very little that gives me trust (reviews, detailed product information, a free demo or maybe a video example) so you might consider adding at least some of those elements. The background gradient in dark mode also makes the text hard to read when you get to the bottom of the page. Ironically it sort of becomes a light mode theme if you scroll far enough. And at least on mobile, the hamburger menu with only a single link in it is a funny choice. Why have the menu at all? Hope you find this helpful and not too critical because, again, I think the concept is totally awesome and there’s a lot of potential here.
If there is a linear relationship between test score (X, ability) and test score self-assessment (Y, self-perception), then the random variables are modeled as:

$$
Y \sim aX+b+N
$$

Where N is some statistically independent noise, mean zero.

This means the covariance between them is

$$
Cov(Y-X,X) = E[ ((a-1)X+b+N -(a-1)E[X]-b) (X - E[X]) ]
$$

Which is

$$
Cov(Y-X,X) = E[(a-1)(X-E[X])(X-E[X])] + E[N(X-E[X])]= (a-1) Var[X]
$$

To get a "DK effect" we need (a-1) < 0, or a < 1. If a=0, in the case of the blog post, then this is absolutely true. If a=1 (which, along with b=0, is the ideal scenario), then this is barely not true. If a > 1, then we'd have a whole new effect about arrogant experts.

So the only thing that matters from this "auto-correlation perspective" is the rate at which an individual's self-assessment increases with their ability. As long as they underestimate the increase, a "DK effect" will occur.

However, in the above analysis, we ignored the variable b. If a = 0.8 and b=0, we'd never have the so-called "DK effect" even though it matches the "auto-correlation perspective" because everyone would underestimate their ability.

This tells me that the value of b matters. It is sort of like the prior ability everyone assumes they have. What the DK papers shows is that b > .5, which I think is in line with the spirit of the popular interpretation of the "DK effect". People should not be assuming they have, at a minimum, a capacity higher than the average.

At the same time, the value b isn't insanely higher than .5, which also makes me want to cut those unskilled and unaware some slack. It "seems reasonable" to assume your baseline is average. That can't be the case, but it feels intuitive.
In the 20th century this same thinking lead to MADD and massive stocks of nuclear weapons that still present an existential threat to humanity. Depending on the scaling potential of intelligence this just adds further risks at this level, not less or balanced risks.
Powershell is great, but it'd really benefit from a GUI DSL for building UIs and charting data (dotnet is a lot of effort), increased speed (it's pretty slow) and libraries like pandas for data analysis and something like the GNU scientific library available. If those things were all built-in to Powershell/Windows, we'd have something pretty cool and unique, which is the ability to quickly and easily build little apps that don't require installs or anything like that. Just copy your script over for your buddy.

As is the theme in this thread, there's just so much I'd expect Windows to do that it simply can't do. Powershell is basically designed for Devops and not just normal business users unfortunately. It could be so much more.
Had thought recently their role is to squat on space that a would be fearless leader would try to exploit.
>WTF actually prints out documentation?

Probably easier to exfiltrate confidential documents when printed, rather than digitally through the company internet which is logged and points straight to you.

If I print something confidential and take it home there's only the printer logs as proof that I printed it, but no proof that I also took it home (unless there's surveillance footage).

>Let alone pins it to their walls?

The man is proud of his work, wants to see it daily for motivation.
> But I never had the storage space for that, and the bloat in web pages has grown faster than the size of disk I can afford.

Is this really true for you? Seems surprising to me given how cheap large HDD storage is now. I have trouble believing even bloated web pages are that large relatively speaking. I guess I should try to do it and find out, probably I’m wrong and it’s much more data than I’m expecting.

Gemini seems really neat, I should have investigated earlier.

ssh kiosk@gemini.circumlunar.space

Let’s one get a sense of what it is about. 1 bookmarks found me some spaces.
You can bring your expertise in X without the source code that does X. The former is legal, the latter is not.
A meaningful domain name would be good as well.
What advantage does clever shell hacking have over a simple python script?
> The author of this piece both suggests that a key variable is fixed and later admits it varies within the same dataset.

I don't see how that variable changes, here is an example how the error variable can be exactly the same for everyone and reproduce the results:

Lets say the overconfidence is always that you feel 50% of those better than you are actually worse than you. So everyone is equally overconfident, just that the top wont move their own placings as much as the bottom since there are much fewer people that they can mistake being worse than them. Then apply noise to this and you get the graph Dunning-Kruger got.

You could say "But they are better at estimating their rank!", but that is just a mathematical artefact, it isn't a psychological result. Even if everyone always guessed that they are number 1, the better you are the better your guess will be, but in that case it is easy to see that everyone overestimates their skill in the same way instead of the better people having a fundamentally different way of evaluating themselves.
Edit: It is with great sadness, and a heavy heart, that I report the following news: C doesn't let you do this. (Genuinely surprised, considering everything else it lets you do!)
I have a 2021 twin turbo car (Audi RS 5). It runs the radiator and pumps adaptively on engine shut off to bring things down.
GPT has done this for me in one prompt.

I now have a weekly plan along with calories and macros.