skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Nobody cares if you like to go in to the office and isn't trying to convince you otherwise that everything should be remote. More power to you. My wife prefers a fairly crappy commute as she can't focus at home. That's fine.

However, a lot of us prefer remote and do great in that context and see a lot more ups than downs to working from home. That's also fine, but unlike in-office work, there's a barrage of BS studies and PHB managers and executives that are trying to pull every stunt imaginable to get people to come back to the office. Sure, there is some additional synergy (to use a corporate buzz word) that they've lost, but mainly, they want the control back that they had prior to remote where people couldn't switch jobs as easily for higher pay. They're also freaking out about the corporate real estate losses and it isn't my problem that their investment is now worthless. Claims of people not doing anything from home are kind of worthless as it's the same people in both scenarios. Those that are skating by with the minimum workload were doing the same in their cube.
You are the ruin of TEMPEST vendors...
Does this work on Wayland?
warning, this is really annoying.
imagine you're infected with a ton of adware in the early 2000s
you will be logged out of many accounts

here's someone testing it out on Windows a few years ago, but I assure you even in the latest chrome on mac, it's at least as bad https://youtu.be/estvbRSj4LU?si=gq6-l4pWLC9yXqap&t=109
I added the "(XNU inofleak)" to the title as I felt it was a bit too lacking in context without it. Hope that's OK.
They do not often shoot down A-10s. Also, they are big and bulky, so troops cannot carry very many of them. If you want to reason about this, you would need to know how many MANPADs are fired per A-10 downing. I imagine it is quite a large number.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SupraFAXModem_14400
In the sorts of searches I often do, like fitting integer solutions to fast function approximations, searching for error correcting codes, and randomized SAT-like problems, or simulating usage of data structures for benchmarking them chacha is slow enough to meaningfully influence (even dominate) the runtime.

I wouldn't want to use rand() because it's extremely likely that it will produce actually bad results.

I agree one should use a CSPRNG like chacha (or rdrand) if its runtime is insignificant but then the question is: whats the best choice when it's not insignificant? Using rand is a bad idea.
I quit using PSPad due to lack of utf8 support. Did it change now?
Q* is the biggest thing since Word2Vec: AGI is definitely near [video]
This is a cool infrastructure project, but they really need to sort out ticketing.. Everyone else has adopted contactless EMV with capping, but in Paris they're only introducing the equivalent to London's Oyster (which frankly is a legacy ticketing system in itself and was introduced back in June 2003; over twenty years ago) now in the form of Navigo Easy for tourists. When I last visited, the t+ tickets were paper magstripe tickets that I could only buy using a terminal which required chip+pin and didn't have a proper touch screen but some weird roller you had to use..
AI engineers do what their management and PR department tell them to. And these worry about what might get the unwelcome attention of their credit card companies, politicians, tabloid news critters, regulators, boycotters, activists, advertisers, investors, churches, and misc other friendly neighborhood mobs and bullies.
Is there any Tasker-like app for iOS? One of the things I use it for on Android is to give every game its own volume setting, which is automatically applied when I start the game and automatically reverted to the previous setting when I close the game.
The effect that the worst overestimate their skill is known since before, that wasn't the main result of Dunning-Kruger. The effect that the best underestimate their skill can be chalked up to auto-correlation.
"Many people think" is the classic for sure.
/dev/urandom is really slow compared to a userland CSPRNG, though. And if you are doing simulations or fuzz testing, you need to be able to seed your PRNG to get reproducible results.
I believe a big part of the idea is for the hash to be unpredictable as well.

If I figure out you're using (36) then I know the next number 1234567891 is "kf12oj".

Not the case with Sqids.
My take on Dunning Kruger:

1. People really like the idea of smart people being humble and arrogance meaning stupidity, so they like to believe that DK is true, and they like to repeat this.

2. Some smart/skilled people are humble, some are arrogant.

3. Some smart/skilled people underestimate their skills, some overestimate.

4. Some stupid people are humble, some are arrogant.

5. Some stupid people underestimate their skills, some overestimate.

Overall, even if there is a correlation, you can't tell by just arrogance of a person whether we are dealing with DK or whether it's an effect at all. People's personalities, skills and everything are a bit more complex than that.

Overall bringing DK up seems like some sort of social justice/fairness effort rather than something that is actually true given any situation where someone is arrogant.
A Light In The Woods, Book One https://www.radicalface.com/news/2023/10/28/book-one-is-fina...
The Most Magnificent Monologue
My response to climate change skeptics is to point out that CO2 is firmly established as a "greenhouse gas", so increasing its levels in the atmosphere will increase temperatures, regardless of any other measurements, theories, etc.

So the question a skeptic should answer is what would be preventing this increase if climate change was a hoax?
Homebox is the inventory and organization system built for the Home User
It says "New Wave SciFi" in the title, so it only covers "New Wave Scifi". It's perfectly fine to not like the genre, of course, but that's not a fault of this list.
Fully agreed. No one should be able to stop me from sending money to ISIS.
It is also very definitely not new wave.
Street knowledge game, Back of Your Hand
How well do you know your area? Test your knowledge by locating streets.
Technically the screen is on but you can display a black image and turn the brightness all the way down.

On iPhone Pro it will also drop the luminosity even further once it switches to low power 1fps mode:

https://medium.com/codex/how-to-create-an-ios-app-that-takes...
In organisations where meetings are abundant the causes are sometimes systemic. Poor communication, superficial employees that instead of trying to understand rely on others to explain, poor planning, a desire to show productivity by those that would otherwise serve little to no purpose, misunderstood agile processes, poor requirements gathering, and the list goes.

In some organisations the use of meetings is so ridiculous that day two after a ceo sends an email corporate wide asking for a reduction in meetings, meetings are organised to discuss how to reduce meetings and as a result there are meetings to follow up on meetings where reducing meetings has been discussed.

Sometimes I wonder if people that cause meetings arent the people we keep reading about that have no inner voice and simply need to talk to someone, anyone, to compensate.
Bazaar (and probably Breezy also) is able to push over ssh or sftp into the remote file system without needing Bazaar to be installed on the remote computer. Whereas with git and mercurial you need to have git or mercurial installed on the remote computer as well.

This is probably not at all important today, but things were different 17 years ago.
Those paper tickets are great for anonymity. In most of the cases those contactless thingies give your identity away each time you use them.
BaseEmoji is a thing: https://github.com/amoallim15/base-emoji
I am positive Nvidia has no part in this. A corporation of this size is severely allergic to foreign proprietary code and would not risk the lawsuit. Sounds more like this individual forgot to read the memo on IP, and the article says he was already sued by the German courts for prior misconduct anyway.

Kind of reminds me of the guys who do personal stuff on their work laptop and then get the entire company pwned. Do people not read the fucking manual anymore?
> It also means there is no incentive to expose the best liars, which creates a positive feedback loop of lauding them instead, allowing them to lie to the next person.

Are you ignoring that shorts exist here?
I see this a lot and the real problem is that when engineers are complaining that they're in meetings all day what they mean is that it feels like they're in meetings all day, and the managers (who are actually in meetings all day) don't appreciate how one hour-long distraction can destroy a day's worth of productivity for an engineer. the worst meetings aren't the ones where you don't need to be there since you could just skip or join mute and keep working, the worst meetings are where detailed status updates are requested from you and you have to report on what you've completed and why it took longer than expected (as usual per hofstadter's law) which will have required you to page all that context back in displacing your current focus and due to the nature of the meeting frustrates you enough that recovering focus afterwards is difficult.

status meetings were called out as an engineering management antipattern 40 years ago yet they remain utterly rampant.
Interesting reading about what confers status in NK. Instead of money, organisational proximity to the king seems to matter. And from article:

Literary success means becoming a “professional revolutionary” with lots of perks: a three-month “creativity leave” every year, permission to travel freely around the country, and special housing privileges.

Clearly chasing status is what matters, except in my world I'm used to the middle class game of chasing status by chasing money.
This, or something similar, would be nice for managing layers in a paint program such as Krita, Inkscape, or Gimp. Could be implemented simply as tabbed panes within the encompassing application window, and whatever tab is selected is the layer that is active for the editing actions.
People love money and so they're willing to do a lot in pursuit of singular goals like merging biology and silicon into a technological god. Only problem is getting enough cash to actually achieve the mission. As a member of the techno-optimist church I believe that profit incentives will achieve the technological singularity. It is inevitable and simply a matter of time.
Sqids vs Squids. Missing the 'U' for unique but nevertheless a unique shortened version of the regular spelling.
The premise is that exceptions should be zero cost to check, however it worries me when profiles like Tim Sweeney says that his code got 15% faster by turning off exceptions [1].

[1]: https://twitter.com/TimSweeneyEpic/status/122307740466037145...
Researcher struggles to correct flawed research after industry collaboration
I would expect nothing less from Bash. Presumably this is the simplified version...
In addition to other tools, there's also https://bgp.he.net which has a page for announced prefixes. Sometimes it's useful to use multiple tools, as not everyone will see all announcements or process them the same.
That will become QUITE interesting when AGI and agency collide with thought-control bullies.

By then though the "piece of paper" (and equivalents in other countries) might have been devalued enough it won't matter. And the AGIs might find better things to do with their time. And might invent better circumvention methods. And more creative porn and quadruple-entendre and AGI-to-AGI sex.
Thanks! I'm an omnivore, and I'm just beginning to research this oxalates thing.
You can easily brute-force this. Sqids also says it's not good for sensitive data.
It's particularly funny because their example docs for .NET outputs "B4aajs", which to any Swedish l33t speaking individual, would read "Bajs", which means "shit"
You're allowed to choose neither. We work async and minimise meetings.
Energy and Carbon Considerations of Fine-Tuning Bert
During a war, they will end up not only flying far more, but also using as much munitions as they possibly can. The A-10 is cheaper here.

We barely afford the military budget in peace time while our war time costs are insane. Being stuck with enormous bills after "winning" is not a real victory.

The F-35 that the military wants to use in place of the A-10 costs twice as much per hour to fly, carries a fraction of the munitions and if it is given a decent load out, it loses its stealth capabilities that were the reason for adopting it in the first place.
Same, I was pleasantly surprised by the first season and thought it was really good. Season 2 felt like a totally different show and was pretty much a generic bad action show.
After traditional diets either failed or provided only temporary success, I've discovered a personalized approach that combines elements from various diets. This allows me to handle the rules of each individual diet more flexibly. My strategy includes:

• Eat more protein. (low carb)

• Eat less. (calories restriction)

• Skip breakfast. (intermediate fasting)

Pick two of these rules every day.
Or we still haven’t, depending on how you decide which is the biggest airport. BWI had slightly more passengers than Dulles last year; Dulles had slightly more flights than BWI.
I mean wifi really doesn't have a good track record for security. It's best defense is probably the short range, making searching for weak targets somewhat difficult. And I'm not even going to talk about spoofing, deauth attacks, etc. Only the newest versions have actually secure crypto, but lots of routers don't even support them (for some reason these secure features are branded as "enterprise"). This is very different from the type of security we've come to expect from high level protocols like SSL, SSH, etc.
AFAIK there is no requirement for CT in this regulation, and it prevents browsers from requiring it to accept the certificates.
Video of last one: https://youtube.com/watch?v=3Hye_47c0Pc
Hyperion was awesome. Canterbury Tales-style narrative focused on a group of pilgrims on a crazy planet steeped in legend set against a galaxy-spanning empire that is being threatened by a faceless looming external threat. As if that wasn't enough, the pilgrims are threatened from within by mystery, murder and betrayal as much as they are hounded by the immortal blade-covered daemon they know they are eventually destined to face.

Each pilgrims tale is unique and told in a different vibe - from pious and regretful to vulgar and indifferent.
Yes, shortcuts is built into iOS. I have a shortcut to send me an email when I start charging my phone and when I stop charging my phone. I can’t get the current charge percentage though in the email body as a variable. :/

It is not for work or anything I just wanted to see what I could do with shortcuts automation.
Nice, thanks for the suggestion!
The 'AI doomers' have lost this battle
Ah, I suppose you could also just use the accessibility switch to turn the white point all the way down, and lower your screen brightness all the way. At that point, the screen basically appears black.
I'd prefer to use crockford-encoded entropy with Stripe-style token prefixes to create unique ID namespaces. Run in through a bad words filter, and it's perfect.

user_1hrpt0xpax7ps

file_xpax7psaz0tv6az0tv6

Etc.

In distributed systems you can use the trailing bytes to encode things like author cluster, in case you're active-active and need to route subsequent writes before create event replication.

Easy to copy, debug, run ops/incall against. If you have an API, they're user-friendly.

Of course you still want to instruct people the prefixes are opaque.
> Moniruzzaman allegedly gave his personal email unauthorized access to Valeo's systems to steal "tens of thousands of files" and 6GB of source code shortly after that development.
I'm not really on the commercial side. I'm a recreation sailor too and a marine SAR medic.

I'd say I learnt most through experience, but between IRPCS (1) and your local's port's SOPS (which are usually available online), there's a lot available. Practical ship hydrodynamics is another story, unfortunately. All the resources are very expensive.

(1) https://www.nomadsailing.co.uk/learning-zone/sailing-regulat...
"A frog with no legs is deaf."
Just wait till you read how many (stunning) stations and lines of track in highly sanctioned (and supposedly beyond corrupt) Russia has laid in Moscow, it’s depressing. If they can do it on time and under budget, why can’t America?
Dolphin Emulator Progress Report: August, September, and October 2023
dupe: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38363361
Sounds like the process of tuning the reward space is a type of labelling and ranking problem. If I'm not mistaken, those are two things that GPT-4 is pretty good at. You wouldn't even necessarily pre-label every possible action since GPT-4 could do it in real time.
Lmao this article is an example of Dunning-Kruger at work. The author thinks they have found and are revealing something but they are just failing to fully understand the subject. Amazing.
> And prevent chat algorithms from expressing free thought.

What do you mean free thought? Since when does a data synthesis process create free thought?

Is thought even free? Aren't we all constrained by taboo, social norms, the words we have to use, what we know and how, the list goes on...
So from my understanding, the Dunning-Kruger Effect paper doesn’t show the distribution of the perceived test scores nor the standard deviation, only an average, which rises with actual test score level.

If they showed the spread bar in each bin, you could form very different conclusions. Do low skilled people consistently estimate their score at around 60, or do they give effectively random results centred around 60?

Assuming the latter, it could mean that low skilled individuals are completely unable to evaluate their performance while higher skilled people are slightly better at it but still not very good, giving a slightly positive correlation which… is very distinct from what the DK effect implied.
With concrete you have outsourced, not solved, that problem

There's a lot of drystone walls here, in Aotearoa, but not of buildings.

There is a related technique for buildings, building from rubble, using lime morter.

I live in a building partly built that way
Oh wow, from December 2008.

Here's to no one trying to patent it now!
It's more high dimensional and has some attention function to optimize the valuation relationship between tokens.
So how about phone calls? Are phone calls bad too?
Naïve take: I’ve always felt like Dunning-Kruger is just the result of the fact that when guessing the value of anything people tend towards some common mean, and so if the true value is low your guess tends to be high, and vice versa. This assumes nothing about what is being guessed, but does assume (perhaps wrongly) that there is a commonly believed mean value and that people tend to imagine they are close to it.
I wanted to say that I use similar project called HashIDs, but I see that HashIDs rebranded to Sqids :)
See the section Long, long ago
TFA makes it sound as if the entirety of the blame can be placed on one employee. Sure, his actions do seem to support that view, but then again, Nvidia did hire him precisely for his previous experience at this rival company, on the very same project that the two companies were partnered on, which is the same project that Nvidia hired him for.

There is no argument to be made that Nvidia wasn't aware he'd be coming with secrets. The argument that that's precisely why he was hired, OTOH, is looking very strong.
Looks like the dictionaries used are from this file?

https://registry.npmjs.org/naughty-words/-/naughty-words-1.2...

From a quick look, the lists are pretty short, except for the one with English words that at least have some 404 words, but I can imagine there are far more bad words that you want to avoid than just those?
The problem is mostly in the enforcement. Most GDPR pop-ups do not actually comply with GDPR. And they only exist because companies wish to weasel out of stopping doing what the regulation is trying to stop them doing, and the lack of enforcement means they get away with it long enough people who don't have a clue just cargo-cult what the weasels are doing.
It seems a lot of people here are unaware that "New Wave Science Fiction" is not another name for this specific time period but rather a subgenre of SciFi which started and got popular during that period. See also https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Wave_science_fiction

Of course very good other SciFi was written during that period as well.
The author of this assumes the conclusion in order to decide how to analyze his data.

He cannot reasonably say both:

> we have a decision to make: what are we going to assume? How are we going to quantify our surprise from the results?

> The first option is, as in the case of the state census, to assume dependence between X and Y. I.e. to assume that, generally, people are capable of self-assessing their performance.

> The second option conforms with the Research Methods 101 rule-of-thumb “always assume independence.” Until proven otherwise, we should assume people have no ability to self-assess their performance.

> It seems to me glaringly obvious that the first option is much, much more reasonable than the second.

— and -

> most notably the claim that the more skilled people are, the better they are at self-assessing their performance. This result is supported by their plot, but in any case, my issue is not with objections to this claim

and then expect to carry any credibility.

The author of this piece both suggests that a key variable is fixed and later admits it varies within the same dataset.

I guess at least they admit it, but this lacks basic self-consistency.
I don’t know much about it but I’m sure you’re right.
Yeah, basically. Just with a lot of fancy math behind it. Making it all the funnier that it's so prompt/chat focused, since you can just write matter-of-factly to steer large language models.
I don’t think it’s controversial to claim that resilience helps both to prevent and to adapt to mental challenges such as anxiety, nor is it controversial to claim that resilience can be learned.

This is not to suggest that resilience is the only option for anxiety, or that it’s the best option in general or any specific case. But I do believe that if we’re discussing the problem of widespread anxiety, learned resilience ought to be part of the discussion. In many ways, it is a more practical (and personally actionable) response to widespread anxiety than waiting for sweeping societal changes which are unlikely to materialize.

For anyone who thinks these claims might be controversial, I’ll cite some leading authorities that most readers will trust not to misrepresent the scientific consensus:

According to the American Psychological Association, “Resilience is the process and outcome of successfully adapting to difficult or challenging life experiences, especially through mental, emotional, and behavioral flexibility and adjustment to external and internal demands…. Psychological research demonstrates that the resources and skills associated with more positive adaptation (i.e., greater resilience) can be cultivated and practiced.”
https://www.apa.org/topics/resilience

The Mayo Clinic says that “resilience can help protect you from various mental health conditions, such as depression and anxiety.” https://www.mayoclinic.org/tests-procedures/resilience-train...

Harvard Medical School faculty offer a course specifically on building resilience to manage anxiety and mental health: “If you’ve ever felt stressed, burned out, anxious or sad, you’re not alone. These moments are challenging and make it difficult to find a way forward. However, you can use science-backed tools to help manage these experiences and the emotions that come along with them.” https://www.harvardonline.harvard.edu/course/building-person...