jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Well, you're right to criticize the author's post, at least.

Newer research shows that, for easy tasks, the better you are at it, the most likely you are to accurately assess your abilities. For hard tasks, though, it is the least talented who are best able to assess their level of skill.

This conflicts with the original Dunning-Kruger hypothesis which said that the most talented generally would be more accurate overall.

So the example of thinking you're some kind of Street Fighter badass because you're undefeated in your neighborhood is a highly likely scenario, but it's not the Dunning-Kruger effect.

Even less appropriate an example of the Dunning-Kruger effect would be a prize-winning journalist (the author) making some slight errors in a blog post, which is what you claim in your last sentence.

Hypothetically, though, an internet commenter who thinks he is a psychology expert but then goes to make an even worse mistake in his attempt to pedantically correct the original author, might be.
Yeah, the repetitive boilerplate of it all...

This is probably something that many well-paid "XSLT developers" probably figured out early on. Develop your XSLT using ANYTHING except XSLT. ...and then they go on to create the "actual" programs to vomit the crapwads of excessive mark-up, and mystify those who made their own unfortunate beds and chose to consume this... this... XSLT.
I used 123print for mine. I barely need them but 123print let me make a custom card and was the cheapest that I found.
>Once upon a time you could even have a Google Account associated with an e-mail address hosted elsewhere, not through Google Apps.

You still can; that's the only good thing. Earlier Androids required you to have a Gmail account (I just tried a 2.3 Android phone out). So now I have a stupid, half-used Gmail account, and a separate, proper account with my own email. No way to merge them, and then no way to setup older devices without Gmail. And now when I'm in Google Play or their other apps, I've got to switch between accounts -- it's an idiotic mess.

On a side note, Microsoft had functional SSO in the 90s. For all the silly rebranding (and killing and reviving it) at least you could sign in with an email address.
I wonder if some the research going on at nasa right now about FTL transportation can be applied at some point?
Those officers oversaw the intentional mass murder of millions of Jews and Chinese.

That's slightly more serious than the secrets Manning leaked. And by "slightly" I mean "an unguessable number of orders of magnitude."

They only executed those officers for which they could prove this was the case, which is why only a few dozen were executed.
I completely agree. It's not like Facebook didn't pay just because they didn't feel like it. They couldn't pay without rewarding a blatant violation of their ToS. If they paid once, then they would have to start paying any researcher who abused the vulnerability before reporting it.
Unless you're in the EU, you're boned if you want one of the cheap Kimi's. Hetzner and Online.net are the next two "budget brand" hosting providers. Hetzner's server auction [0] is pretty nifty and you can sometimes get some fairly strong servers on the cheap. Online.net is going to have crap peering outside of the EU, but they do use OVH as the main 'international' transit carriers so YMMV.

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I've seen such ironic,self-deprecating media in advertising on TV -- but a SAAS's landing page? Bold.

The stickiness and success could make this a mini-trend which dies out quickly, comes back five years from now, and then lives on forever as paradoxically ironic.
that was the subtext I didn't, I know XNU is not super performant.
CCPA is probably at least part of the reason behind this. It takes effect on Jan 1. The article mentions users not being about to accept their privacy policy.
I would guess (completely based on personal experience) that most in the service class voted for Clinton, while working class is more centered around manufacturing, which does pay better than the service industry.

A big part of the issue is that people have different definitions for all the various social classes, so it's hard to compare things correctly.
Take a look at the username, particularly the last two letters. Might be significant. Might not.
Giving a child a four-function calculator would leave them woefully underprepared for the requirements of more advanced math and science classes.

What math class requires a calculator?

I still remember struggling with my Differential Equations class (got a D on the midterm), and my father said "Why is it so hard? You were always so great at arithmetic, just use a calculator!"

At the time, a simple graphing calculator was high end (and out of my price range), nowadays I probably could do most of that homework with an equation solving smart app)
Awesome results in comparison!

Can I ask what stack? What does the production infrastructure look like? How many years of experience you have? And was it 2 months full-time or the equivalent of or just 2 months calendar time hacking nights and weekends?

I swear some people are really, really fast builders. I'm trying to improve my speed and I keep coming back to the answer of keep it as simple as possible and study your stack to know it backwards.
On the flip side, if you ask nicely I'm usually more than happy to give you some sort of usage information if it seems reasonable. If you don't, you sure aren't going to get anything from me, and I will go out of my way to stop you from collecting that information and tell other people about what you're doing, because you have clearly shown that you cannot responsibly collect usage data.
Oh God yes - remember having to use progressive JPEG's? Now some sites have full screen video in the background!
>And it's not like Wolfram is giving stuff away for free.

I think he is...

http://www.wolfram.com/raspberry-pi/
Even now it is quite easy to retro fit a ship so that it is somewhat pirate proof.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2420071/Husband-wife...
Definitely. I use both and nobody uses ISO Prolog and much less pure R6RS scheme. Here's hoping R7RS will be better although for starters it will be divided in two (small and big). I've been following the process quite closely.

R6RS completely failed to establish itself, to this day R5RS is more popular.

You'd be hard pressed to find a more divided language than Scheme. As for ISO Prolog, it's not even the most popular standard. It might be in America, in Europe it's definitely Edinburgh Prolog and there's where it's used the most.

You guys are giving me great examples of how interpreted languages without a clear spec + reference implementation completely fail to establish a single standard. It can be argued that in the case of Scheme this is a feature, but for something like Wolfram with an existing closed runtime you definitely don't want this.
Yup, strongly agree that having a single iterate-over-collection construct and a nice notation for ranges has big advantages. (I did say that before, but I guess it was buried in among a lot of other stuff.)

The drawback is that the nice terse range notation leaves it unclear whether your ranges are inclusive or exclusive (and I conjecture that if you asked 100 experienced software people to guess which of 1..8 and 1...8 is which, you'd get something close to 50% jumping each way).

What I'd really like is a syntax for ranges that has clarity comparable to "for (0 <= i < n)" but terseness comparable to "0...n", without being too much a special case. Unsurprisingly, I've never yet seen one.

Here's a less-than-half-baked proposal, though. Probably too quirky for Wren.

1. Some syntax like [1 <= i < n] -- inequality operators, delimited in an appropriate way -- indicates a range object and, at least at parse time, carries around an indication of the name of the index variable. (Index variables if we allow fancy stuff like [1 <= i < j < n].)

2. "for <literal-range>" is syntactic sugar for "for (i in <literal-range>)" where i is the name of the variable. (If we allow fancy multi-variable ranges, this only works if your for-loop is able to bind multiple variables as with "for (i,j) in [(1,2),(3,4)]" in Python.)

3. Perhaps "for <literal-range> where <condition>" is likewise syntactic sugar for "for (i in <literal-range>.where(<condition>))" or something.

4. So far, this is less general than your .. and ... operators because it's all special-cased for integers. Except there's no reason why it needs to be. Perhaps, e.g., [a < i < b] invokes a magical method on a, which gets passed the upper bound b and an indication of direction and inclusivity at each end. My fancy multi-variable forms can be implemented in terms of this without any further magic, though not maximally efficiently.

[EDITED to add: It happens that I quite often have use for numeric iteration, and even for the fancy multi-variable forms I've described here. But I'm probably atypical.]
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Windows 7 has security support through January 2020 [1]. What's ending this month is "mainstream support", which seems to mean new features, phone support, etc. [2]

[1] http://windows.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/lifecycle

[2] See point 6 at http://support2.microsoft.com/gp/lifepolicy
another article about Scott Aaronson's comment 171: http://www.newstatesman.com/laurie-penny/on-nerd-entitlement...

and the related HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8809982
It's saddening to hear that your little brother's Christmas was ruined, but I'd argue that it's more of the fault of Microsoft designing a closed and centralized system with extensive DRM than the Lizard Squad's fault for taking down Xbox Live.
C bindings are compatible with Fortran, you mainly have to think about two issues:

* depending on the compiler / setting, the Fortran function names have one or two underlines as well as their module name prepended.

* index order for multidimensional arrays are reversed in Fortran.

Other than that the datatypes basically just work. So as long as you have C bindings this is not what I'm worried about, it's rather the overhead of the Erlang VM when compared to MPI (although for usual HPC loads this probably wouldn't even be an issue as long as it's not an order of magnitude slower, since most of them are not network bound if done right).
The easiest solution might be to simply allow \ as a line-continuation operator. So you'd write:

return \
x;
you're mistakenly associating assistance programs with rent-seeking, and moreover focusing on an entirely irrelevant corner of it. rent-seeking will occur anywhere there is wealth to be extracted, which is basically everywhere else in the economy, so that association is unwarranted. you should be looking at where capital is concentrated and deployed if you're truly concerned about rent-seeking over "big government".
>Apples to oranges comparison: gold actually has a use, and its value is kept in check by that

Is it? According to one source[1], the overwhelming majority of the gold use is for speculation (investment/central banks) or quasi-speculation (jewelry).

[1] https://www.statista.com/statistics/299609/gold-demand-by-in...
If it's not rare then disregard what I'm saying above. I was just presuming that that was the case (no data either way here).
> zio has excellent performance, featuring a hand-optimized, low-level interpreter that achieves zero allocations for right-associated binds, and minimal allocations for left-associated binds.

> The benchmarks [1] project may be used to compare IO with other effect monads, including Future (which is not an effect monad but is included for reference), Monix Task, and Cats IO.

> As of the time of this writing, IO is significantly faster than or at least comparable to all other purely functional solutions.

https://zio.dev/docs/overview/overview_performance

[1] https://github.com/zio/zio/tree/master/benchmarks
I'm curious why this comment has an antagonistic tone — it seems like you and the OP are on the same page?
It's because they use Vimeo to host the videos and use the embedded player there.

Apparently Vimeo can be played inside the VR headset? I am not sure but I get this message everytime I open any website with an embedded Vimeo player.
The article is unfair in its descriptions of DuckDuckGo's search quality. I tried the same searches that are mentioned in the article, namely "best beach Sydney" and "Australia leader". The results were fine. The former returned a list of Sydney beaches plus some reviews, and the latter returned results for the Australian prime minister. Perfect. OK, the ads were off-topic but who cares?

Personally, I switched to DuckDuckGo from Google about 6 months ago and I have never looked back. Its quality is great IMO.
Dyson is about design (art) not practicality. You want a boxy filter that works well, go right ahead. But some people don't want that in their living space.

Ideally they could be beautiful, and clean properly. You can't win them all.
Just happened to be checking out Linux Distro's when this came up, here's are some videos of (IMO) the best looking modern ones I've found:

- Zorin Lite (Xfce) - https://youtu.be/NrC0zTqkvbU?t=96

- Deepin (QT) - https://youtu.be/WlB_1kQL0nQ

- Garuda (KDE) - https://youtu.be/KK280Y0cNmQ

- Manjaro (Gnome) - https://youtu.be/N1xem3UdgB8

- Pop! OS (Gnome) - https://youtu.be/HAHLx9RekW4

Did checkout Solus/Budgie which looks nice & minimal but wouldn't exactly consider it a standout.

Haven't used a Linux Desktop as a daily driver for over a decade so haven't been keeping up to date with the state of the Linux Desktop and was surprised to find these fringe distros looking nicer than some of the larger more mainstream ones I used to run.
You don't have to go down to the bottom of the page - you can still hover over the link and still click it, even though it's not blue and underlined.
I run into people blinded by the idea fallacy every now and then and I can't but shake my head. They'll tell me, I have this great idea for for you, but you'll have to pay me or give some equity. And all I feel like doing is vigorously shaking them.
I thought his assets were just frozen until the divorce was complete?
Good ideas have more room for error -- you can take a great idea and do good work and still be successful. Bad ideas require greatness; you have to get it just right.

I think it's the wiggle room that a good idea affords that people latch onto.
Good detective work, but man, there is a reason the summer is called "the silly season" in the journalism trade. :D
I wonder how I would have done in that interview given that I don't know JS. My overall answers would have been:

- Well, I dont know JS, but in order to process a node, I have to apply the function to the value and recurse for each value in the array. This also handles leafes properly, because they have no children and thus no recursion occurs. Thus, I'd have to grab some web browser now and find some forach-loop and some functio-definition-syntax in JS now.

- In order to sum values up, I'd need some function which adds the value to an accumulator in place and destructively (such that the new value replaces the old value). Should be easy using closures or, in the worst case, a simple small object.

Overall, this took about 3 minutes. If I would search for javascript syntax now, I'd probably need around 10 - 20 additional minutes to get everything working.
My reaction to feeds I subscribe to moving to teaser-only goes in two directions. I either:

a) Unsubscribe. Probably not a bad thing for my productivity anyway; it implies I was remaining subscribed purely because of inertia.

b) Spend five minutes to create a Yahoo Pipe for the feed, which grabs the full content and regurgitates it as a replacement RSS feed. (If possible; the target article is, in many cases, too large for Pipes' maximum file size.)

I've tried making myself "just deal with it", but I simply end up frustrated by the experience, and most content just isn't worth the headache to me.
>Certainly, as this article shows, they've already taken it to an extreme where communicating with the outside world is concerned.

And this is probably the biggest reason why Apple continues to be a minor blip on the enterprise market.
Good point. Depends on your threat model. Most systems can get away without full-blown Byzantine fault tolerance. You're probably right about the 100:1 ratio for production systems.
Again, Signal shows there's some undercurrents going on constantly in the organization and bringing private and ethical messaging solution to the public is not the sole goal. Another affirmation for those who kept on recommending Matrix/GNU Jami/XMPP instead.

At this point, if you really need this broad functionality Signal are aiming to provide, why not Status.im? At least their tech is cool.
FYI, for anyone interested Pettus does consulting work as the founder of https://pgexperts.com/. Highly recommend working with him if you need a postgres DBA.
Then you get something analogous to the PGP problem, where you have so many options that it only takes one misunderstanding to compromise your communications.
Not that DDG is a bad idea, but that seems pretty rash seeing as they're only doing it for today, and you can opt out of it.
Thanks for organising. I shall be there!
Since it hasn't been mentioned here yet, I'll recommend:

http://konigi.com/tools/graph-paper

You may have to print it yourself. They used to sell this:

http://www.amazon.com/Wireframe-Graph-Paper-Notepad/dp/B0026...

Web sites may be digital, but ideas are organic. Paper and pen involve more of your senses when getting ideas into shape.
The reason for the variation is that the actual number doesn't matter, just that it's nominal.
It would make more sense to ask things like "the following situation will occur exactly once in your lifetime. How would you decide? -- 100% chance of getting $1M, or 10% chance of getting $7M?"

By making the amounts small, the expectation is that you could run the bet multiple times, in which case it's just an odds game. The real question is what chances do you take that have such volatility, the deviation dwarfs the expectation for a single lifetime.
I second Thailand. Just don't come here looking fer luv. I'll seriously track you down and smack if you go to boobie bars and then blog about it. Nothing in this world could be lamer than that.

If you're interested in beautiful beaches, great food and young city life, you'd do well here. If you come to Bangkok shoot me an email at mbenjaminsmith [at] gmail [dot] com. My co-founder and I will take you out for a night on the town.
It says Google inc - do they mean through Google Ventures or something different?
Fantastic man, and barbershops have long played an important role in African-American communities.

But as to the comment about MLK, it would be a mistake to comprehend the civil rights movement as being embodied in entrepreneurialism.

This being a startup community of entrepreneurs, it is tempting for us to celebrate the power of individual free enterprise paired with social cause. And that is noble. But the civil rights movement stands for organized action to fight racism at a systemic level. It is the more conservative, privileged sector that focuses on "pull yourself up by your own bootstraps" individual entrepreneurialism as the pathway to racial equality.

The civil rights movement is about organized mass action to address the racism and disadvantages inherent in white-dominated institutions and social relations. That is what MLK stood for: fixing white racism and structural inequality, not merely black role models and self-esteem.
That title was misleading for me - I was under the impression everyone was abandoning it. In this context, exploded is a huge positive.
Here is a fun story. Amazon's RDS services are backed by EBS. They also restart the instances automatically if they encounter issues.

But sure, "Best PracticesTM".
This is basically a rip off of http://www.milliondollarhomepage.com/
Another one not behind paywall: http://gizmodo.com/report-googles-finalizing-a-1-billion-inv...
The photos I saw of an unlocked computer were clearly an entirely different desk than the one shown in the photos that have been identified as being Pelosi's own office. It appears the unlocked computer was most likely for one of her staffers in a different room that may have been part of the Speaker's suite.
AMD is more accurate in their TDP specs than Intel is, they can't really be compared.
A policy that they've been ignoring where Trump is concerned for over 4 years now.
This premise that novelty should be better-rewarded seems odd to me, because I thought a common complaint about scientific journals was overly rewarding novelty instead of robustness? Isn't that considered one of the contributing factors to the replication crisis?

For example:

"Novelty in science – real necessity or distracting obsession?" https://phys.org/news/2018-01-novelty-science-real-necessity...

"Facts Are More Important Than Novelty: Replication in the Education Sciences" https://journals.sagepub.com/stoken/rbtfl/w5mrNxPVD8zSg/full

In the text: "Funding bodies and academic journals that value “novelty” over replication deserve blame too." https://theconversation.com/science-is-in-a-reproducibility-...

Etc.

I haven't made it through the entire 43-page paper yet, but a quick search for "replic" and "repro" suggests they don't address this point at all.
I think working from home can sometimes increase distractions. Do what you can to create a 'workspace' where you can stay focused and comfortable!
What separates some of the new generation racers from the old is that the new generation F1 racers are better at translating between sim and on-track. This was very clear with the Vettel/Hamilton generation, but even more so now.

It isn’t so much a question of realism, but usefulness as preparation and working out a plan and a rythm.
There largest group of “pro users” but not their largest group of users. But realistically, does anything about the Mac Pro seemed like it was designed for development?
I wouldn't expect to see it yet
> until it is BY DEFINITION TOO LATE.

There could surely have been faster responses (testing, movement restrictions...)

But hospitals? They are by definition too late when people die from lack of Hospital capacity. Doesn’t hurt to have some margin, but from what I have heard it doesn’t sound like NY has run out of capacity just yet.