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I hate to comment on just a headline—thought I did read the article—but it's wrong enough to warrant correcting.

This is not what the Dunning-Kruger effect is. It's lacking metacognitive ability to understand one's own skill level. Overconfidence resulting from ignorance isn't the same thing. Joe Rogan propagated the version of this phenomenon that infiltrated public consciousness, and we've been stuck with it ever since.

Ironically, you can plug this story into your favorite LLM, and it will tell you the same thing. And, also ironically, the LLM will generally know more than you in most contexts, so anyone with a degree epistemic humility is better served taking it at least as seriously as their own thoughts and intuitions, if not at face value.


Ok, I think you are going to need to explain to me why "Overconfidence resulting from ignorance" isn't exactly the same thing as "lacking metacognitive ability to understand one's own skill level". Just worded more simply


Funnily enough, DK is also not real -- just a statistical artifact of a poorly chosen analysis.


They aren’t mutually exclusive. No reason you can’t use both and get the best of both worlds.

Also, future IDEs will have prompts and interfaces to better manage the LLM.


For Claude Code, you pay $20 for pro, then npm -g install @anthropic-ai/claude-code. Then invoke claude on your terminal.

It is a different thing, in a sense, because you can install command line tools that far surpass the Claude client’s tooling. Pandoc, curl, imagemagick, etc. Without these tools, CC will often write ad hoc scripts. The tools you have installed (provided you tell it) will always be better and more efficient.


Network chuck had a great video on gemini cli and claude code. I understand now a lot more about what this is now. cheers. https://youtu.be/MsQACpcuTkU


The ethos of rap music isn’t like the others. It’s not about musicality. I don’t know who it appeals to, but like RMS, I find it repulsive.


The differences between Chrome and Firefox are too minimal to chalk up Chrome's market share to preference. From 2008-2010 maybe, but Chrome established such a lead in that time that its inertia (and Chromebooks) did the rest.


Yep. Real "metaverse" energy.


Republicans, not USA


USA is correct. Joe Biden signed the law, and Democrats didnt roll it back


Isn't this as bipartisan as it gets? Trump wanted China to divest from Tiktok. Congress passed the bill. Biden signed it. The Supreme Court agreed that, yes, this is legal.

Sure, people didn't vote for Larry Ellison to take control. But something like this is what we wanted, right?


It is, if it was Democrats installing a government appointed board seat you'd see a very different response to this event from both sides, but both sides want to do this in the end.


Giving power to the radicals that want division wouldn't have that effect, and it's bizarre to even suggest that it would.


> Board will include one U.S. government–appointed director.

In other words, one's data will now be under the scrutiny of amoral radicals who have decided to target people for political speech.


We are slowly becoming Communist China.

Won't be long until all companies will be required to have a party office.


This is such a funny take. In China corporations operate at the behest of the government. In the US the government operates at the behest of corporations.


That's changing, though. They <are> working together, but the balance is tilting towards the US government and worse, towards individuals controlling it.


The U.S. is moving to state capitalism (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/State_capitalism) which is common in fascist regimes (think Nazi Germany or fascist Italy)


Which should also be deemed very inefficient, if I understand correctly. Germany's growth was unsustainable. A realistic example would be Spain, where 36 years of real-world fascism left the country well behind comparable countries.


All that means is an interchange of definitions: Chinese calls "corporations" what US calls "government" and vice versa. But not fundamental different reality.

On planet Floorp, carpets (organic bipedal tetrapods) use people (machines that suck air) to clean vacuums (woolen floor lining). How quaint - no, not really, that's exactly the same as on Earth but with different words.

There are good arguments to be made that the USA's government is corporations, and the entity we call "the US government" doesn't actually meet the definition of being the government of the US.


Its a nice thought, but this is not at all reflective of reality


That's not true. You won't have state care or education


maybe, but i think what I see here is trump is not interested to beat china, just see what he did with s korea and india.

the only thing may indicate that trump is competing with china is how hard he's trying to please putin, but apparently he needs to work harder to get into the organ harvesting club.


US bought a big stake in Intel; the US is quickly attempting to replicate China's system of State Capitalism. If you can't beat em, join em, I guess.


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Weren't they just reporting to Twitter when they saw posts breaker twitters existing policies?


Is it not problematic that the government is bringing up specific things they’d like censored?


As long as it stays to the level of "Hey, doesn't this violate your rules?" I think the government has the same right to press the report button, or even to write an email equivalent to pressing report a bunch of times, as anyone else does.

I'm not aware that a Democrat government arrested anyone for not complying with these emails.


Are you suggesting it's okay for the government to push for censoring specific content only when it also happens to break the rules of a site?

How is the flag button equivalent to the White House writing emails to Twitter and Meta? It seems the latter would have a lot more priority than my personal measly attempts at pressing the flag button on something I didn't like


Yeah it certainly looked bad. And it gave cover for the new administration to just pretend the first amendment doesn't exist.


I'm just as entitled as Joe Biden to write an email to Elon saying he should ban the following rule-breaking posts.

I've written emails to HN moderators like that before.


Key word here is "asking".


Yes the government asking for content to be censored is censorship. They don’t always ask either, e.g. Julian Assange/Wikileaks


Except nobody chooses M365 Copilot over ChatGPT or Claude, so clearly the usual reasons aren't working. In this case, improving the product via integration is a last resort.


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