skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
At the risk of sounding like a complete idiot, isn't the hypothesis of the original paper still true? Let's assume self assessment score is perfectly random between 0% and 100%, so on average every group will always estimate themselves to be 50% correct

Then by definition that means people who are unskilled and often incorrect will overestimate themselves, while people who are often correct will underestimate themselves. Take a complete idiot for example. You always get 0% test score. Yet your self-assessment is random between 0% and 100%. Hence you overestimate yourself much more often than people who always get 100% test score.

In fact, if the two are uncorrelated, then that still means that

1) Idiots don't recognize they're idiots

2) Skilled people don't recognize they're skilled
I actually used sqids algo for something very different where I had to encode arbitrary sized byte arrays. And with Ruby it was very simple to remove limit - I think it was matter of monkey-patching https://github.com/sqids/sqids-ruby/blob/main/lib/sqids.rb#L... to return infinity.

The reason for the limit is most likely to ensure interoperability with libraries in other languages where working with bignums is much more complicated.
The most fun I had with TXT records was that putting an an XSS payload and chuckle at those "online DNS lookup" tools popping up my alert() calls.
Since I had to click through to see what's meant by "chronic" (ugh), they mean 200mg per day. That works out to a little over three espressos / instant coffees, or nearly seven sodas.
I only occasionally drink coffee (or tea) and have found that 1-2 days of consecutive consumption are fine, but any more will trigger the withdrawal you mentioned. YMMV probably.
Well sometimes studies show coffee is good for your brain so I’m relieved to find this outcome because I don’t drink coffee and try to avoid caffeine daily.
Discovery of a safe adjuvant to Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy
The most powerful cosmic ray since the oh-my-god particle puzzles scientists
Even with n=1 you can get something useful. IIRC "on average" if you have ID x than the best population estimation is 2*x. Of course the error margin is immense, but it's still better than nothing.
Opinion of course, but I couldn’t agree less. Taken as a whole, I think the whole work is beautiful, and I re read all of them occasionally. The way it all spreads out and then ties together is wonderful.
Sure, the more information you give the model the better.

While our current models generate imperfect code, GPT4 code is much more usable out of the box than GPT3.5 code. If that trend continues we will absolutely get to the point where mistakes are the exception not the rule.
> Not really.

*sight*

Okay, let's dot the i's and cross the t's then, shall we, and include languages used long long before software development became the industry behemoth it is today.

You're right. There, I said it. You are absolutely right.

Many of the concepts of functional programming were indeed pioneered in LISP, and it was indeed specified in 1960, 7 years before Simula.

But hey, let's dot another "i" and correct my statement. Because, FP isn't in contrast to OOP so much as it is in contrast to imperative programming, and all it's mutable state, right?

So, is there an imperative programming language, older than LISP, and still in use today? And the answer is: Of course there is ;-)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fortran
And it lets you avoid getting banned for having prompts that "don't comply with our content policy".
An SAP changeover is already an existential risk for some companies.

The old processes with less software were probably more fault-tolerant and could implement new requirements more easily.

Overall, however, I don't see a major problem, it's ultimately not that difficult to pay your bills or maintain the supply chain.
Reading the actual article this was based on, the main takeaway is that they now have a hypothesis they want to test.
Idea for a password manager: alternative DoH server (with own root, it solves DNSSEC issues) with proper authentication that returns the username and password for each site as TXT records.

So you can `dig` to retrieve passwords:

`
dig example.com @my.crazy.password.manager.tld
`

`
example.com. TXT "username=myuser;password=hunter2"

You can now use tools like rsync, ssh, irc, browsers,next to piggy back in DNS to resolve passwords and private keys, even TOTPs
Will the plasticity return when one stops consuming coffein or is it gone for good?
Seems like schools should opt-in by submitting their IP address/range
mDNS (<http://www.multicastdns.org/>) is just the mechanism, it’s DNS Service Discovery which uses the TXT records: <http://dns-sd.org/>
Everybody breathes 70% of nitrogen mixture. Nitrogen at elevated pressures has narcoleptic effect. It's common sense that even at atmospheric pressure nitrogen also has some narcoleptic effect. That is in fact true, as breathing helium mixture at atmospheric pressure improves reaction times.

People don't necessarily do what common sense would say if they have to do something else for other reasons.

Caffeine doesn't stimulate you, it just makes you unaware of how tired you are. You are still tired with many of the downsides of being tired like the negative impact on learning. People who drink coffee routinely have to do it to mask how tiring their lives are.
> Sorry but your mom is about my age (nearly 50 that is). "At this stage in life" is reserved for 30 years from now, someone has to break this to her.

What does your or her age have to do with what stage of life someone else is in and what they are looking for? There are so many other factors that go into what stage of life we feel we are in. Nor are our personal benchmarks or "age thresholds" necessarily relevant for others.

> On the other hand some people are just not cutoff for the level of workload in the private sector (not just programming, try sales or stacking shelves at Target for a change) and are just professional complainers.

There are many, many other situations and lifestyle choices between "cutoff for level of workload in the private sector" and "professional complainer". It reads as though you have some anecdotal experiences that might be coloring your view of situations that are likely not as transferable as you might think.
Okay, so what kind of event does this term relate to?
Vital is a wavetable synth, Helm a "traditional" subtractive synth.
This looks great and I’ll definitely give it a spin when I get a chance. What I’d really like though is the ability to save the pages locally, I often revisit bookmarks from years ago only to find that the page no longer exists.
This seems so so extremely unlikely for an auto parking feature vs the huge legal risk and the certainty of getting caught: at any time Valeo can see that an algorithm is tuned similarly, sue and find their source code at Nvidia. The AV department at Nvidia is huge and it is not like they don't know what they are doing.
What’s your favourite MCMC method/technique atm? I know this can be quite domain dependent, but curious. From my experience, it can seem more of an art than a science at times.
Depends on how you view it: Only a felt 50% of my train journeys in Germany are on time these days, for those with tight connections proably even less. But basically all of the delayed/rerouted ones are still faster / more convenient than any public transportation you find in 99% of the US.
Yes, by all means, let's implement malloc(3) in a way it should never have been implemented after the VAX/11 architecture, and using much less readable code and worse examples than in the Old Testament ?

Hint: Storing the free-list in the free space means that to free even more memory, you have to page in otherwise unused VM pages.

See also: https://papers.freebsd.org/1998/phk-malloc/
Does FF finally have a good tree style plugin? I remember when Firefox broke it because of droping support of old style plugins. So, now it finally works?

Sorry for ignorance, some moves from Mozilla like unblockable ads on page about VPN, constant redesign of GUI without clear aim, removing/dropping support of settings that I use forced me to change browser from Firefox to Vivaldi.
I suppose it returns when you stop coffeine, notice how tired you were and sleep properly for a week or so. Then you should be back to normal.
Good article. But I do wonder. She is so confident about how she raised the dog, so angry at her father's suggestion that some method of asserting herself was necessary, yet she failed to reform his behaviour, and everything seemed to get worse the longer things went on.

I hate to say it, as it was a heartfelt piece that ended with weight and sincerity, but I do implore people; find a way to make clear to your animal what behaviour is unacceptable.

Every animal I know that's indulged in this way has turned out poorly. You don't only owe it to yourself to not get mauled by your own pet, you simply owe it to others.

The anecdote about the party was nice, but could have easily ended with a dog inflicting permanent cosmetic damage to a party-goer's face or limbs, and that situation would have absolutely been the author's fault.

When we took in a rescue animal it wouldn't stop barking at me, quite aggressively. My father's partner at the time kept patting it because it was scared and she needed to calm him down. When I pointed out that patting him every time he barked at me would encourage him to bark more, she protested loudly and unreasonably over and over. But once my father put his foot down after a few of these incidents and insisted that I was right, the dog in question was firmly scolded every time he barked and within a week he had completely ceased aggression toward me, but any others as well, and he developed a wonderful friendly nature.

Dogs have limited feedback mechanisms. You have carrots and sticks, and there's no real carrot you can offer for "not barking" or "not biting". Unfortunately, with such behaviours there needs to be some sort of stick, chosen appropriately, or what is communicated is that this behaviour is totally acceptable. It would be nice to make the animals understand.some other way, but these are the tools available to us.

It feels a little meanspirited to point this out, but the conclusion of the story is exactly what I would have predicted in a situation like this, where the main carer takes pride in failing to find a way to train the animal.
I disagree, it’s too soon to tell whether the prediction is accurate. Maybe it’s obvious to you, but I’d at least like to see that prediction justified. I don’t see how accepting an unjustified opinion is thinking.
>He complains about Docker being used as a software distribution method, that is as a replacement for say Debian package, pip package, npm package etc.

If that is a valid complaint, why does he choose two examples where that is not the case? Nextcloud AIO is just one option among many and certainly not the "standard way" of hosting your nextcloud instance. Coincidentally I came from hosting nextcloud the "standard way" and I'm really glad AIO exists and I don't have to manage nonsense like nextcloud ending support for the latest Debian php version. And Home Assistant is mainly distributed as the OS variant with the docker version being the step child afterthought that barely functions.
piggybacking on this, due to the ease of getting a cert for a subdomain, basically one cert per app ... just have one cert per "compose stack"

and it's perfect acceptable to run them with rootless docker-in-docker or on separate VMs to get security. the one true sacred nginx in front of everything is nice, but also has access to everything.

of course, the lack of public IPv4 addresses in many homelab/selfhosted/hobbyist situations is the true forcing factor. (an gettting a wildcard cert is very easy with certbot nowdays, so I understand the lure.)
Scambling the source alphabet should have an effect similar to a monoalphabetic substitution cypher. This is not strong cryptography. If the attacker has any ability to generate IDs quickly, like by creating user accounts or other resources they can create many IDs with known ordering. Likely effective against non-serious attempts.
I have a hard time with news outlets taking articles, in which the authors highlight the need for further research, and suggest the findings as fact. I know it says “may”, but that’s not how people read it.
yet it is undoubtedly true that trust in institutions in Guardian endorsed countries is declining year on year. The crisis which the Edelman barometer points to is very real - and won't be recovered by old media attempts to censor unfavoured opinions
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Is there "small claims court" in France? I know people who have successfully used one on the UK. You pay a fixed fee and fill in a form.
> Good luck with getting 6k out of a foreign country of an unresponsive company

Foreign for whom? Award 6k to someone in that country and perhaps they have a legal claim.
When will global greenhouse gas emissions peak?
I read that other union members (dock workers, postal workers, etc) are working as per normal save for any services to Tesla which they are refusing to touch - no Tesla trade handling, no Tesla mail, etc.

I read that Tesla is accused of offering workers lower wages and inferior conditions compared to those guaranteed by a collective agreement.

IF Metall have stated they're only taking action amd being backed by other unions as Tesla has refused to discuss a collective agreement on pay and decent and safe working conditions for five years.

https://www.ifmetall.se/aktuellt/tesla/background-informatio...
Don’t tell this guy about Helm-charts.

Oboy, if you thought docker images overriding default configuration options was bad. Wait until you add yet another layer of new config parameters on top, that do absolutely nothing at all, just translate down into an environment variable that the docker image translates into the application config. The ever increasingly popular ones from bitnami are the worst in this regard.

I always get questioned for reinventing the wheel when writing my own Dockerfiles. In the end it always end up more maintainable. The problem is these premade charts put a wheel inside a wheel inside a wheel. If you get a flat tire, you have to open up all of them at once to understand what is going on.
What irks me the most with Firefox is the silent removal of the features they don't want to support. "We changed tab styles, so now its hard to see a separator between tabs, and no, there no way to revert it, deal with it". And this happens every time. I remember times when Firefox was popular because of customability, now I don't know what the major vision of Firefox is.
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Generative AI is a game-changer for DevOps and incident response (IR) teams, automating tasks and boosting collaboration. In DevOps, it streamlines code generation, testing, and deployment, freeing up engineers for more strategic work. For IR, it accelerates incident analysis, root cause identification, and playbook generation.
Sweet Jesus, Pooh That's Not Honey – You're Eating Recursion
This list of failed SAP projects is quite outdated:

https://www.wiwo.de/unternehmen/it/haribo-lidl-deutsche-post...
Browser bookmarks were always ignored. Now I just save them to Pocket (getpocket.com).
Great, so given a chance of danger, not releasing a network keeps your options open. You can make an API available, and if there turns out to be a problem you can close it again, or ban a specific user, or implement hotfixes. None of those can be done with a publically released network.

edit: You know what, let's take a concrete issue that could happen today. You've made a generative image network. Five weeks after releasing it on Huggingface, you discover to your chagrin that the dataset that you used to train it contains an astonishing amount of child pornography, something like 1%. Your spot checks didn't find this because it's all in a subfolder that you forgot to check. Who knew it wasn't a good idea to download datasets from 4chan? As a result, this network is now extremely good at generating images of children in sexual situations, and because of mode collapse, it's creating fake images of real children, something which all but the most libertarian consider morally abhorrent. At any rate, you consider this morally abhorrent, and you'd love to work with the police to prevent any further misuse. Unfortunately, your network has been downloaded at least ten thousand times and it has already been fine-tuned to be even better at child porn by the nice folks at <insert dubious discord here>. Now you have an appointment with a senator in three days, and you have to explain to her why you thought it was a good idea to publish this network for open download, even though you could have made way more money by keeping it closed. Good luck?

Now of course you can argue that in this case all the material was already out there. But that doesn't change the fact that you were the one who did the training run, and released the network, and you're the reason why perceptual hashes now won't find collisions on the generated pictures anymore. If there was a limited amount of generated images in circulation, you could just take the API down, apologize profusely, donate 10k to RAINN or whatever and restart your project under a new name. But as it is, that option is no longer available. The point is, we don't know what a network is doing, and so we don't know what it's going to do in the wild. We cannot prove the absence of capability, so we should hedge our bets.
> I don't worry about side effects because in practice they don't cause me many problems

You've selected for the work that you already do.

If you wanted to use transactions, you'd find them impossible, give up and go back to not having transactions.

And once you give up on the impossible dream of transactions, you're back to no problems in practice.
>normal people don't care about things tech nerds care about and aren't going to make even minor sacrifices to gain an advantage over the institutions subjugating them.

I've seen more and more laypeople variously complaining about google and meta doing not-great stuff with their personal info and undue societal influence. Frequently they say 'no one saw this coming' and I always try to rub it in that 'yes the linux[0] guys have been absolutely screaming about this since the 90s but you ignored them because they're geeky and uncool'.

[0]FOSS guys is more correct, but normal people don't know that term, nor would they understand it.
It's basically a meeting between writers, directors and producers, to come out with the story structure and main points. The UK Writers Union's "Showrunning in the UK" guide defines it as a "brainstorming session where non-writing producers will ultimately make the creative decisions [...]. In the UK, it’s commonly used in
producer-led continuing drama."

I honestly don't know how common it is to record it, rather than just having minutes of it written down by some assistant.
I wish there was a way to donate anonymously. Like a BTC(bitcoin) and/or XMR(monero) address, if you're open to figuring that part out and/or locate a forwardee who is.
Where does it save the data to? How is it persisted?

Is there any limitation to this? Does it work with text 500-1000 words? Does it work well with text that aren’t full sentences? Ie. Are just a collection of phrases?
"spending time in somebody else’s mind"

Really interesting concept
but it is much easier to test something in a container, and even to update everything in a container "fearlessly".

simply considering that we had untouchable, unreproducible and totally undocumented servers running for years in basements/cabinets as a meme (classic anecdote, common experience) can allow us to infer that laziness is not inherent to containerization
>Well sometimes studies show coffee is good for your brain

Why can't it be both good and bad for you? Water is also good for you but you can also die from drinking too much. Same with oxygen. Anything that's good for you in moderation, can kill you when consumed in excess.

The article doesn't say that any amount of coffee is bad for you, it says "chronic caffeine consumption is bad for you" which again, should be common sense. Chronic consumption of anything is generally bad for you.

It may very well be that light to moderate consumption could be beneficial at the same time as chronic being bad.
I meant backing up volumes.
It WILL vary a lot. I do two weeks of "zero coffee" every year and never had any withdrawal symptoms, the rest of the year I drink a lot of coffee (4 big cups a day). Only sometimes I drink it to be more alert, typically I need it only to code. No coffee - no programming or any creative work for me. I try to mantain constant amount of caffeine in organism by sipping those 4 cups for whole day.
That's a fair point. From the point of view of the taxpayer, though, it's still a net positive.
makes me wonder how no one has tried to offer this. How did Carvana fail?
"Among those drinking coffee daily, almost 80 percent drank two or more cups while at home on a weekday."

https://www.statista.com/chart/19524/cups-of-coffee-drunk-by...

"The average American coffee drinker drinks just over 3 cups per day."

https://www.ncausa.org/newsroom/nca-releases-atlas-of-americ...

200 mg is about two cups of coffee.

https://www.healthline.com/nutrition/how-much-caffeine-in-co...
History search is not an option when my browser is mostly in private window.

For me, Google has a mind of its own and has not been reliable in giving out related links even when I search with the exact page title from memory. Happened a lot with stackoverflow type sites.

I use Firefox bookmarks and think it has a reasonably good bookmark manager with support for tags and custom keyword searches etc.

Tip: In Firefox you can search bookmarks directly by prefixing searches with a * . It can even search bookmark tags.
Not true. As a Linux user I have many times been forced to give them money for software I delete as my first step on a new PC.
Wonder why Crystal was not used.
it didn't embed them into the wall but in cracks and spaces where they could germinate.
I think you're referring to Llama2.

Try Mistral 7B.
Those benefits have eroded a bit over time. Rail vehicles have become pretty good at acceleration and deceleration, with acceleration often being limited due to passenger comfort.
Similarly high(er) grades of 8%-10% are now quite possible with high-performing vehicles.
To me it seems that every task done by humans will be supported or even replaced by AI. I already see it happening, just 2 years into the new LLM area: Programming, designing, writing, research, driving. How could that not result in a doubling in software use?

I did not assume that one player is going to capture all value. I stated the number for 10% and 90% market share. Today, AWS has 30% market share of cloud computing and Google has 90% market share of search. Assuming the market leader in AI will achieve between 10 and 90 percent market share seems reasonable to me.
>The idea is that the secret key material is never compromised as it is assumed in all security cases.

That's not true, we have (perfect) forward secrecy, backwards secrecy and key rotation mechanisms because we often care what happened after the key is inevitably compromised. In this case the problem makes it hard to "rotate" the keys in a meaningful way, but I'm yet to see a proof it's impossible.
What I'd recommend is the standard Latin text book in the USA, the Wheelock.