skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Most states used to have per-axle weight tests and taxes that reflected that. Most of the carve outs for "light truck" that consumer vehicles were able to sneak through were often implemented as carve outs meaning that the weight taxes are still on the books, the states could reduce or eliminate the carve outs and actually try enforcing those taxes again.

I'm still surprised California hasn't tried enforcing weight taxes again given many residential streets even still have weight limits posted but not enforced. I'm not surprised that so far no other state currently has the political willpower to upset consumers like that (or to deal with federal complications against a congressional atmosphere and regulatory capture that thinks such taxes are unfair to inter-state commerce).
Common usage doesn't typically meet that specific definition:

“If you are really, really stupid, then it’s impossible for you to know you are really, really stupid.”

Typically it is used to describe when people who don't have complete knowledge about the nuances of a problem or have opinions based on bad information or bad assumptions confidently or aggressively state positions and that confidence is confused with competency.

LLMs are a good example of the colloquial use. They are confident, superficially competent but almost always wrong in specific domains.

It is a problem when people underestimate their blind spots.

Building culture that allows all coworkers to safely raise consent and learning to depersonalize feedback helps with that.

It may not have as popular of a label, but it is well documented in fields like human factors.
The Dunning-Kruger effect is something you have to be very careful with. It's come out of social science, so, you have to keep up a high level of skepticism.

The first problem is the "effect" can be discovered in purely random data, because it's basically just a statistical artefact. There's a description of what went wrong here [1] and a paper from 2017 here [2] ("Our data show that peoples' self-assessments of competence, in general, reflect a genuine competence that they can demonstrate. That finding contradicts the current consensus about the nature of self-assessment"). In other words it doesn't replicate when the data is handled correctly. By itself that problem means DK should not really be cited for anything.

But even if you ignore that:

• The original study does the usual pop psychology thing of extrapolating from a tiny self-selecting sample of American college students to all of humanity.

• It has a stupid design in which the students are asked to rate how funny jokes are, with some local comedians being the "experts", and this is presented as a measure of social skills i.e. simple disagreement on what's funny is sufficient to get you dinged as incompetent-but-doesn't-know-it in DK's research.

• It also has a problem with circular logic where they found that one of their hand-picked joke experts disagreed with the others on what's funny, meaning that comedian would have been considered one of those idiots who thinks they're an expert, but they were picked by Dunning & Kruger specifically because they were an expert. This shows that the nature of many tasks is subjective and certainly the one they'd chosen is subjective, but instead of fixing their definition of expertise they just tossed the guy out of the expert pool.

(the study does have two other tasks, but there's not enough detail in the descriptions to know if they had similar problems)

Dunning wrote an attempted rebuttal in 2022 [3], but it is unable to directly attack the statistical claims and instead argues that because there have been replications, the effect is real. But this doesn't make sense because if you replicate an invalid methodology you'll get the same results; this doesn't make them correct. He also argues for it by presenting examples of "skills" that are simply brain teasers/well known gotchas, rather than actual skills one might practice.

[1] https://fortune.com/2023/05/08/what-is-dunning-kruger-effect...

[2] https://digitalcommons.usf.edu/numeracy/vol10/iss1/art4/

[3] https://www.bps.org.uk/psychologist/dunning-kruger-effect-an...
humans have the innate hunter-gatherer sense that generosity and sharing are good for us, and selfishness is bad. And that ethical should be legal and unethical should not be.

Open source is generous sharing, and ethical. Start to nibble away at those ideals and at what point do you slip into unethical? IMDB was a crowd-sourced database put together by a wide community pitching in small efforts which one guy was maintaining like an FAQ. Then the guy maintaining it said, "It's worth money, I own it, screw all of you." How would people react if this happened to wikipedia? But wikipedia is safe because it's a non-profit... you know, like OpenAI, right?
Structured programming was a life saver. Lack of its discipline was literally life-threatening. You can not know how grim things were for me before it came along.

Object Oriented Programming was nearly as life changing. Learning OOP was damn near a religious experience.

Learning these two things were among the high points in my life.
You've got an interesting point I haven't thought too much about.

A threat to capitalists could also be that there could become too many of them. That would increase competition.

I wonder how public traded companies should be regarded in this manner. Do capitalists have enough of an edge in voting power to not be threatened by pleb owners? Or maybe is it easier to make us hold the bag with better access to gossip and insider knowledge?
Checkbox is nearest in equivalence.
Nice, i've been hoping this would be possible for a while. I'll have to do a new fine-tune of Inkbot on top of one of the 70b models.

What are the max context lengths / batch sizes you can train at with this method for 2x24gb? What about 4x24gb?
Solar panels in your eyeballs? This engineer is looking into it
Maybe the author was an accountant?
90% of my projects are failures, and the 10% which are successes would have never happened if I was too afraid to start them. The successes looked just as likely to be failures as the actual failures from the outset.

I disagree that "failure is bad and should be avoided". The degree to which failure is bad and should be avoided depends entirely on the gravity of the consequences. When taking on an ambitious programming project, "failure" is just an unfinished project and a loss of time. It's clearly a different world than something like quitting your job to try to become a professional actor.

Judgement shouldn't be based on whether somebody is failing at something or how many mistakes they are making, but the comparison of the positive vs the negative consequences. When learning something new, you will always make many more mistakes.

The problem with both the pithy quotes and your response (which is, I think, largely reasonable) is that neither one actually defines any criteria for success or failure, or what is an "unreasonable" number of mistakes. It just ends up being a semantic disagreement over what they meant by "failure" and what you understand by "failure", and I think you'd probably end up largely agreeing in the end if you broke down and actually explicitly defined the meanings of the words used.
AIConfig Extension for VS Code
Thank you Paul! I noticed the diff editing format mentioned. Does Opus perform better with whole formatting like GPT-4?
https://archive.is/KtTeA
Because the last time the government futzed around in the housing market with financial incentives for home buyers it worked out so well for everyone. Are people's memories really this short? The last thing we need is the government dumping money into the housing market in the form of incentives for buying. Unless this is their plan to simply bankrupt more people.

A better plan would be to put incentives on the building of a new housing. To actually increase the house inventory especially these starter home house inventory. Allow supply to increase so home prices will level off maybe even reduce in some idiotically priced areas. This way we don't get into another pump and dump cycle by sticking people into homes that they can't afford through some sort of incentive plan. Because if $10,000 is going to incentivize you to buy a home in this market you can't afford that home already.
I agree with your comment, and feel that in a software engineering context, the quote

> To find the sweet spot between impostor syndrome and overconfidence, you first need to understand that you can make mistakes without it reflecting on your competence.

is incomplete without describing the environment and people you are around when you make these mistakes. The teams I have worked with until now have all been extremely kind in dealing with other engineers making mistakes and focused on how we could reduce such mistakes as part of a team. It helped me build a mental checklist on dealing with such a situation and when/how to take the risk and when to bring in additional help. I never really noticed the impact of this until I worked with a colleague who seemed to have trouble releasing their work to production and always kept delaying things out.
I wonder what's the interest compared to the Framework 16 with its repairable and evolution qualities.
Nope. People are being asked to give a bunch of deep access to their system, it's not enough for the author to have pure intensions and explain why they asked. The user should understand the risks, many of which are non-obvious (like the extension being sold).
Developers and many other content creators have. I held onto a 4:3 aspect ratio laptop as long as I could when 16:9 was becoming a thing. I'm typing this on a 16:10 (2560 x 1600) ThinkBook. 3:2 (2256 x 1504) is also common for smaller laptops like the Framework 13.

It might not seem like much but the additional vertical space make development easier.

The only time I'll accept something wider than 16:10 is an ultrawide external monitor that ends up functioning as two side by side monitors.

For primarly gaming or media consumption devices I'm still fine with 16:9.
Yeah, the lack of FMA in some contexts is a serious bummer. It would be great if every popular CPU platform would figure out a way to get FMA implemented, and if programming languages would figure out better ways to help programmers use it explicitly without making their code too ugly.
Not sure about you but I got options for higher bitrate streams this year and honestly for the sheer amount of content available it is still significantly cheaper than other media I pay for.

There is a point it will stop making sense to pay for YouTube but at the current prices it isn't there, if it gets there then there will be a different conversation to be had.

The issue I see with people who are able to pay but wont pay is that Google will decide it isn't worth the overhead and we end up back with ads only and significantly more aggressive adblocker prevention mechanisms.

If you watch any significant amount of content pay for it, if you don't then an ad or two really shouldn't be an issue but then likely neither is your adblocker usage so go for it.
And a huge win that it makes it so easy to have distributed storage. Ceph is built-in and works well. Being able to add disks as needed is bliss (no RAID planning up front). And the rebuild situation is better than any RAID. Performance is adequate for homelab even on a 1gbps network. I have about 10 SSDs mixed 1TB and 2TB across 5 hosts (old Optiplex units).
> I think it's quite fair to demand basic security compliance for implementing an E2EE messenger.

That's really a decision you should make, and not WhatsApp – "do I trust this arp242 guy and his GitHub repo?"

And some auditing isn't necessarily too bad, I guess, but a lot of this goes far beyond "basic security"; it's the type of "corporate checkbox security" that we all know works so well.
Most people don't buy "new" hardware. Power efficiency has changed drastically to a point anything before ~2016 is not worth plugging into the wall, and sata to NVME drastically improve responsiveness which didn't become the base standard until 2018ish. Most people use an old desktop or buy old server equipment on ebay.
Many states had such taxes for decades for exactly that reason. Some of those laws are even still on the books, just not enforced.
> Okay, but why does the artists have to make Spotify multibillionaires with their art?

ghaff already covered why: because Spotify is the distribution channel.

40 years ago, they would've put their music on the radio. Today, they put it on Spotify. Why? Because if they don't, very few people are ever going to even know they exist.

And if you think the fact that Spotify is giving them a terrible deal means they shouldn't engage with them, then I'll point to any of a dozen other examples today of massive corporations profiting excessively off of people who have very little choice but to engage with them. Being able to choose to do otherwise, and remain in the music business, is a very privileged position to be in.
Generating graphs from the marcel command line
Marcel is one of the pipe-objects-instead-of-strings shells (https://marceltheshell.org).

Here's a blog post showing how to use marcel to generate graphs directly from the command line.

https://www.marceltheshell.org/post/generating-graphs-from-t...
Cool idea, but the Poem[1] is extremely underwhelming.

[1] https://www.loc.gov/programs/poetry-and-literature/poet-laur...
How can a top scientist be so confidently wrong? (2022)
>Students say that Dias gave them an ultimatum: remove their names, or let him send the draft. Despite their worries, the students say they had no choice but to acquiesce. “I just remember being very intimidated,” one student says. The student says they regret not speaking up more to Dias. “But it’s scary at the time. What if I do and he makes the rest of my life miserable?”

Indeed it is scary, because as a student your PI can in fact ruin your life and ruin your career, without much recourse in most cases. This behind-the-scenes is a good insight into the bad incentives and lack of accountability for PIs in academic research. I suspect this kind of thing happens all the time in smaller fields, and never gets discovered because it's not a headline-grabbing topic like room-temp superconductivity.

I had a bioengineering PhD friend who said she spotted obviously fraudulent papers all the time in her field--publications claiming they grew such-and-such bacteria in so-and-so medium, when she knew damn well that said bacteria cannot grow in said medium.
Aren't there any regulations regarding maximum length? In Europe, the maximum allowed length seems to be 740/835 meters.
> Since you have to account for network partitions, you have to choose between consistency and availability if and when a partition occurs. In other words, the CAP divides the world into CP and AP systems.

No, it's two out of three. CA systems don't use a network. Consider a database and a work queue which communicates with the database, where they run on the same server. You can achieve consistency and availability in such a system, but only by eliminating partitioning, and there's only the one way to do that: don't run the systems on a network. Nor is this an unrealistic architecture! Far from it, it is in fact the one you should choose if you need both consistency and availability.

The parts of the article about the CAP theorem and its consequences are on fairly solid ground as I see it. But the observation about the CAP conjecture is bootless, the conjecture that CAP is "pick two" holds up to scrutiny. Not that it proves the conjecture, just that all three of the "pick two" options describe meaningful systems.
Yet another article most likely paid for by CRE interests crying for people to stop devaluing the investments of those same interests by taking back a small amount of control over their lives.
Love NASA, but didn't they see 2010?

"ALL THESE WORLDS ARE YOURS – EXCEPT EUROPA. ATTEMPT NO LANDING THERE."
> The obvious fix is to stop animating when the step gets below some threshold, but that's inelegant.

Why? It's simple, easy to implement and validate, and provides the desired visual impact. Seems perfectly elegant to me.
Where did I say I'd hop off and continue my day?

Where did I say I'd be rolling gently over the vehicle?

I'd much rather have the chance of rolling, flying, or at least something that will allow my body the chance to lose momentum. Rather than within 1 second find my skull under the wheel of a 9,000 lb vehicle.
In recent times I prefer Xmake[0] to CMake.

[0] https://xmake.io
A musician fails to perform a piece hundreds or thousands of times while learning it. A programmer fails to apply a concept many times until they fully understand it. To imply that failure is not normal and not alright is to imply that everybody should be able to perfectly do anything in their life without any prior practice.

Clearly, the word "failure" in this context is insufficient, because we all would agree that some failures are unreasonable and some are an absolutely normal and necessary part of personal growth.
You could use this built-in OEM license from a Windows VM in Proxmox. Just search for that on Proxmox forum.

Hyper-V is very limited in hardware support, you won't be able to pass-through stuff. And you always pay for VM layer, while in Proxmox you could use containers which give almost the host performance.
True. Though it is worth noting some small success stories like the decline of whaling: https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/whale-catch
I've looked at it before. Looking at the system I'm writing this comment on, my dotfiles from my repo are ~/.config/alacritty/alacritty.toml, ~/.config/nushell/{config.nu,env.nu}, ~/.tmux.conf, and ~/.gitconfig. I'm not sure if I just use far fewer dotfiles than average, and I know this is a matter of personal taste, but it's just not obvious to me why I'd want to add a tool to symlink five things once. Moreover, most of the jobs I've had give me a Macbook to work on rather than Linux, so that also would require me to either manually install `stow` or move getting homebrew set up to _before _setting_ up my dotfiles, which seems a bit backwards to me given that my my shell config is where I store any configuration for stuff like that.

I'm starting to wonder if I just have a very vanilla dotfile workflow compared to what some other people use. This would surprise me a bit, given how I tend to go overboard in custom configuration for most things, but it definitely feels like my experience isn't enough for me to understand why specialized tooling for dotfiles is needed.
How would you propose a method of limiting the downvoting of comments that are salient and relevant but otherwise elicit a knee-jerk emotionally disagreeable response? Or do you consider that ability a feature? It seems to me to erode curious debate.
So an open plan office?
Here's American health care:

• I needed refills for two prescriptions that I've been taking for years. This time, for opaque reasons, I needed to talk to a doctor first.

• Fine, but I couldn't accommodate an in-person check-in. I chose a "video visit" that, due to logistics, I had to do while away from home. Because they were a half-hour late, I was effectively forced to do this from the couch of a Costco floor display so I could still pick up my kid on time.

• The appointment was 8m, at an out-of-pocket cost of $160+. I was not warned that I'd be forced to pay $20/minute for the privilege of being blessed with refills.

Land of the fee, baby.
Usually not. For me, it's an “autonomous search engine on steroids, i.e., its huge dataset”. (I.e., it's just another tool you use.)

Before LLMs, you would cobble a bunch of disjoint information via a search engine like Google.
Now, LLMs do this for you, and it certainly helps me to get a lot quicker with using libraries or APIs I am not familiar with (e.g., PyGame, Flask, Django).
However, you might find that code from the LLM might need some fixing (subtle bugs or redundancies) or a better use of resources.

The other issue is the LLM's dataset bias towards the most used technologies or concepts.
So you might have a hard time with an LLM trying to make Clojure/Racket code or telling the LLM to specifically do the point-in-triangle test with the wedge product only.

Hence, there is still some leeway or reason to use your thing between the ears.

You might as well ask: Are you referencing Stack Overflow or the Microsoft Developer Reference (e.g., in your developer notes/comments)?

My answer: usually, yes.
I've never had a problem across several doctors on getting a direct reply to my message. For me, there is an SLA. They explicitly state I'll receive a reply within 24 hours. That has been true across multiple health systems I've used.

Edit: In no way am I saying "American healthcare is just fine!" only that I actually have had a really good experience using messaging to communicate with my care teams.
>I'm waiting for a touchpad with buttons module for the Framework laptop, then I could buy that laptop.

Why don't you look into making that yourself, or finding other people who want that kind of touchpad and then contracting with someone/a company who could then make that?
Shitty pop-psychology is shitty pop-psychology.

A more realistic "impostor syndrome" is the IT idea of 'fake it till you make it'. In other words, its a tacit admission you dont know shit and you're googling for ideas until you get something that sticks. And yeah, most IT is like this. Even Stack Overflow is a meme - search here and copy/paste regardless the quality.

And, well, it's not impostor syndrome if you're a know-nothing idiot.

And the crap about Dunning-Kruger.. It just serves a way to shut experts up and dismiss their experiences and knowledge. Its basically the pseudo-science crap way of saying "My quiet ignorance is better than your direct assurances".

Then again, business types also believe in shit like forcing all employees in Myers–Briggs Type Indicator crap, and then comparing that across everyone. And if you know anything about psychology, you don't do longitudinal comparisons of this sort of crap.
El Salvador is not currently on a widespread financial crisis... I mean by Latin American Standards of course. But some things are of concern.

First the country's access to international financing is still limited.

Right now International bondholders are being paid, but two major local debts have been renegotiated.

Last year the national banking association "voluntarily renegotiated" its short term with the government from 1 to 7 years. For context, the banks liquidity requirement has been lowered since 2020 and banks can buy more government issued bonds.

Also last year the ruling party changed the Retirement Fund law. And there have been changes to the individual and collective retirement savings accounts.

One of the changes on the collective accounts was that the old financial instruments that were interest paying were changed for new ones that include a four year 0% interest rate paid back to the account owners.

Information regarding this has been limited to a couple of paragraphs by foreign credit risk rating agencies and a tweet by the Retirement Savings management companies.

There is no publicly available prospectus for that new government debt, and the Retirement Fund statistics and reports haven't been updated for months.

Like if you go to check for a recent report on the regulatory government agency you get literally 404 errors.
...which will further drive up demand... Which further drives up prices. In the end it's a wash, or less. The winners are the banks as the interest on the $10k over 30 yrs adds up nicely.

When are we going to learn that such political-based manipulations don't solve problems, they exasperate them.

We need to fix the (lack of) supply side. Unfortunately, those in a position to do so are the ones owning so much of the current inventory and they're not about to act in ways that ultimately lowers the value of their current investments.
ALL THESE WORLDS ARE YOURS, EXCEPT EUROPA.

ATTEMPT NO LANDING THERE.

USE THEM TOGETHER. USE THEM IN PEACE.