skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>Author's take on Dunning-Kruger is a strawman. I haven't seen that version be a "meme".

The latter doesn't make it a strawman. Perhaps you've just haven't read the same posts/comments the author has read -- or as many.

Here:

1) Top voted definition from the urbandictionary: "A phenomenon where people with little knowledge or skill think they know more or have more skill than they do."

2) Article on OpenCulture website, titled "John Cleese on How “Stupid People Have No Idea How Stupid They Are” (a.k.a. the Dunning-Kruger Effect)".

3) Article in the online outlet unbiased.co.uk: "This behavioural concept (the discovery of which won the Ig Nobel Prize in 2000) describes the tendency of people who know very little to believe they know a lot. "

4) LinkedIn post: "Charles Darwin once said that ignorance tends to beget more confidence than knowledge. In a nutshell, it explains the Dunning-Kruger effect, which is a cognitive bias where incompetent individuals tend to overestimate their skill, cannot perceive the magnitude of their own inadequacy and will admit to their lack of ability only when they are trained in that particular skill."

5) Another popular blog: "The Dunning-Kruger Effect: Are the Stupid Too Stupid to Realize They’re Stupid?"

6) The Dunning-Kruger effect represents a cognitive bias under the influence of which relatively unskilled individuals suffer from illusory superiority, mistakenly assessing their ability to be much higher than it really is.

I could go on for ages...

>I feel like most people that I've seen bring DK up understand what the implications of it are.

You'd be surprised.

I actually don't get your comment, it's like you feel defensive and try to defend a psychological finding from being called a "meme".

First, it's not like the DK effect is a person and will feel bad.

Second, the internet is rampant with people who casually mention the DK effect in comments and posts and articles while not understanding fully what it is about.

>In one sentence he's declaring someone else's opinion on it as pop-sci than offers his own similarly silly take on it. Oh wait he showed some charts.

Some charts based on the original research, and more faithful to its conclusions and reportings than the pop-sci adaptation the author talks against. So?
Yes, if you factor in things like student loans, vacation, housing costs, working conditions, transportation etc. you'll make about the same in northen europe as in SV. Not including more management level positions at large tech companies.
it's actually simple logic, money comes first.

If the guilty rich enough, get money
else, jail time

If there are public anger, then give minimal/luxurious jail time

continue to next public issue
Do you enjoy Verizon press releases? "Miles ran", "houses passed". Industry doublespeak. NYC residents invested those billions via rate hikes the PUC granted to Verizon!! It was subsidized even though Verizon claims otherwise. And they didn't deliver.

http://www1.nyc.gov/assets/doitt/downloads/pdf/verizon-audit...

https://www3.dps.ny.gov/pscweb/WebFileRoom.nsf/Web/B849A0203...

http://www1.nyc.gov/office-of-the-mayor/news/415-15/de-blasi...
Disagree. Maybe for small projects with small teams and simpler workflows but I've found the exact opposite.

I love GitHub, and it's issues system is great for specific issue management for specific projects/modules. It could be better, but it's pretty solid.

However - once you get into wider project management which has multiple modules/repos under it then it's functionally useless for managing issues. No visibility across repos.

Nor should there be - it's not what it's trying to solve.

Take my companies case: we use GitHub a lot but we also use Jira, and they work really well together. We use a (forked) version of GitFlow to create branches and link them to the JIRA task and when we create a PR (to be reviewed via Github) it notes what issue it's related to.

Github's diffing, commenting, and so on, still used as normal. It's great.

For for bug tracking, story breakdowns, burn down, spring planning, etc etc - this is Jira's bread and butter (after you configure it at least). And these are not things GitHub is going to be good at - and it shouldn't try!

Different use cases. Using one to do what the other does would be horrible.

Compare with some OSS projects I run that don't need all I mentioned above and yes, obviously, I use GitHub exclusively... because it's the best tool for the job.
"That stuff"?

Partying definitely loses it's luster (at least for me) but the opportunity for meetups, learning about new tech, etc. hopefully doesn't. Clearly it's a balancing act but everything in life is. How much time do you want to spend with a spouse, kid, hobby, exercise, work, meetups, relaxation, sleep, etc. People are here because they want to have access to all these options. I'm 41 and still excited about all that is available here. So maybe I don't want to grow up. :-)
Outlook gratis
> My dear amass of eukaryotic cells, you non super-intelligent consumer of oxygen and precious resources, polluter of the environment, when you choose to emphasise in an unusual way some perfectly normal aspects of an object (* ), you do it to provoke an emotional response. And I like rational discourses, not emotional ones.

Or you do it simply because you think it more clearly expresses your opinion if you don't follow the narrative that you are trying to argue against.

> You can just ask people if they like to use Facebook, if they get any value from it. Most of those who use it regularly will say they do. End of the proof.

All you have proved is that people claim and maybe think that they do, not that they actually do get an advantage.

> Of course it is like that. You aren't aware yourself that there are many better things to do than roaming the forums of YCombinator, and yet I bet you find some value in the action, and the (sure) existence of unexplored alternatives is not per se sufficient to negate this value.

Your point being? That it is impossible that me roaming HN is actually a net negative for me and that therefore anyone arguing otherwise is obviously mistaken, regardless what argument they have to offer?
Unfortunately the problem reduces to qualia. Poems that have a theme evoke the experience of that theme. Likewise for generative music and art.

If you have no model for experience (it doesn't have to be metaphysical - something mechanical would do) you can't include that element in the output.

Except by accident - which is how Deep Dream works. The designers found a model that was good at mimicking a certain kind of experience - partly through luck, and partly through analogy.

But Deep Dream is limited to that one kind of trippy experience. It's very good at it, but a competent human artist has a much wider range. [1]

Real AI creativity needs a system that can mimic that much wider range - so you'll never be sure what kind of human experience you'll get from it.

[1] Sometimes. A surprising proportion of professional artists repeat the same theme, style, or imagery over and over. But that's sometimes because of commercial pressure - when you find a formula that sells, experimenting with a formula that might not isn't always wise.
Call me vindictive but punitive is good. I tire of million dollar crimes punished with thousand dollar fines.
The investors lose. The companies are liquidated and the assets bought by new investors. This actually happened to GM, to a degree. The workers don't have to lose out.
Lyft Is Said to Hire Qatalyst as Uber’s Rival Explores Deals
Well if we go to war with another country, there are a lot of people working for that government who did not commit the atrocities. I'm sure the accountant or janitor didn't necessarily know or approve of the war crimes, they just needed a job and didn't hurt anyone. That doesn't mean we shouldn't fight the war, you just recognize that sometimes innocent people are impacted. The blame lies with the leaders who did the bad thing. If they hadn't done the bad thing, their lower ranking innocent workers wouldn't have been impacted.

Every business decision comes with a cost/benefit analysis. Hurting your employees goes into the "cost" side, and if you do the bad thing anyway, obviously the "benefits" outweighed the "cost" of potentially hurting your employees.
Actually most minor streets in Tokyo have no sidewalk. You can just walk on the street.

Cars drive through slowly, of course.
A competitive rental market is something that rarely exists. In most of the cases I've heard of, the demand is much greater than supply, so the landlords are free to charge whatever and if you don't accept, there are 100 other people in line for the same apartment.
Sorry to have made assumptions. My understanding is that there was no pre-existing infrastructure suitable to cars. The dirt and cobblestone roads that existed were inadequate, to put it nicely. I have read up a good bit on such things and drawn a very different conclusion from you.

In the US, personally owned vehicles are critical for sprawling suburbs and rural life. It is a big country with low density. Cars should not be necessary in the big city. Those that are designed well make it possible to live without a car. In much of America, it is quite challenging to live without a car. This is partly due to choices we have made, not because it had to be that way.
All cabinet members have a dual role, as they are also their constituent's MP. Furthermore, if they do a bad job in either role, they can be voted out at the next election. The same type of democratic accountability does not exist for EU Commissioners, as the general public can't vote for someone to replace them.

> "I don't see how the interest of the EU would not be the interest of the member countries."

Perhaps it's worth considering other groups they can be serving, namely themselves and big business. In terms of serving themselves, changes that expand the influence of the EU over member states can be of interest to the Commission even if they didn't serve the individual member states, as the goal could be to create a European super state (there are signs that this is what's planned for the EU, especially the Eurozone countries). As for serving big business, there are over 30,000 lobbyists in Brussels, that number wouldn't be so high if they weren't having some success. I could point out examples of the European Commission pushing forward proposals from big business if you're interested?
The most profound thing I know about cities + public policy:

Google hosted a talk in 2014 by MIT Professor Sandy Pentland called "Social Physics: How Good Ideas Spread". His research concludes that our connectivity - free and fast flow of data on networks, people on roads, goods and services, etc. - is our greatest economic and social virtue. His models show - "like a law" - that the more connected we are, the wealthier we are as a society.

Check it out:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HMBl0ttu-Ow

And good luck to everyone behind this.
Maybe it's just all their fault.
> You will have double the increase in energy by adding mass to the wheel.

Is this always true regardless of wheel radius? At first I was thinking it has to depend on radius, but then thought about how the ground contact point has a zero velocity, and the exact other side of the wheel is always double the velocity of the bike frame relative to the ground, regardless of wheel radius. I'm not sure if this is a reasonable intuition. Maybe it makes sense that a gram added to the rim is always double the difference in effort that a gram added to the axle or frame or rider is.
Guilty as charged deletes tweets and learns lesson
Optimizing Python generally means using numpy, cython, or the C FFI. Or numba. Or theano. Or pypy. Unless you farm out what you're doing to another code generator or compiled library, Python can't be made fast. Try making matrix multiplication fast without passing through the FFI at all in cpython.
The rules don't come about because someone wants to stop a corner store from being built in their neighborhood. They want to stop the Walmart or the Lowe's or the strip mall. In addition to added traffic, you're now encouraging people from outside the neighborhood to come in, with the attendant risks.

The net often gets cast too widely though - so that the corners stores can't be built either.

I live in a quiet mostly rural neighborhood. I wouldn't object to a corner store replacing the nearest house. I would object to the house and all of its land getting cleared to drop a home depot in.

Unfortunately, zoning regulations prohibit both - as if there were no difference between them.
Arresting based on what? There are unfortunately no hard evidences against upper management at the moment.
Well the VW drivers got to drive a car, so they did get some benefit out of owning it even if it wasn't exactly as advertised. Meanwhile the rest of us got to breathe their pollution and die sooner. It's not "they're lower emissions than other vehicles", it's that they aren't as low emissions as they said they were. If people were in the market for a LEV and they bought a VW over a car that actually produced the emissions that the VW claimed to, that's an insane amount more pollution than the alternative car.

It's not just VW owners who were lied to. It's everyone who had to breathe the air around them.
>This raises the question "Why are we still programming in monospace fonts?"

Because we want to quickly see patterns in the code, and all characters being the same width helps with that.

>If you need a table or an image in a program, why can't it be in the code?

Because we've found that while nice for casual stuff, it's less flexible than when it's outside.
> Apparently, there’s a dollar value which not only makes you happy, it makes you as happy as it is possible for humans to be.

> If people rebound from both bad events and good, how is it that making more money causes people to be happier?

I saw graphs that proved happiness causes money. What did you see?

disclaimer: I am trying to be snide on the internet. What I mean to say is that I was confused by the use of the word "cause".
In addition to coldtea's examples, DK is particularly thrown around in competitive gaming communities, such as Reddit/Twitch around Dota 2 and League of Legends. I admit that it may not be as prevalent in the mainstream as other popular memes, but it's definitely there.
I have a feeling these ideas won't be popular but ...

On top of wanting an exciting city with affordable housing and good public transportation. I want to live in a city where I feel safe. Safe from physical harm, safe from theft, safe from bad police, safe from being spied on, safe to participate in "quirky" things.

Tokyo is partly that city. I can go to strange fetish clubs, burlesque, punk rock, cosplay, etc and no one bats an eye. But I'm unlikely to get stabbed, unlikely to be pick pocketed, if I drop my wallet I'm likely to get it back with all my money. If I go to a cafe/coffee-shop I can leave my wallet/computer on a table for 10-15 minutes and expect to to be there when I get back.

Why does it feel like every other city outside Japan except maybe Singapore I can't do that?

I'm in Berlin right now and I love the variety of things going on but I hate that a high percentage of people destroy the commons. Street Art Yay! Tagging Boo! Broken glass everywhere where people threw their beer bottles. Pick pockets all over. People trying to steal your bags right out from under you.

In LA/SF/NYC and Berlin almost all public restrooms for men are some level of destroyed.

How do you get people to care about the commons and stop destroying things just to be dicks?

Please figure out how to design that kind of city.
I think simply banning private car ownership in cities might be a good idea. It'd change the entire incentive system to focus more on building strong public transportation. We'd still have taxis / Uber / on-demand self-driving cars for when that's the most convenient option, of course.
Syntax highlighting is nothing like that. It's one-size-fits-all. All types/keywords/whatever get the same color. It doesn't support font changes.

If I was to hack this into say Neovim, I'd leave color alone and focus on just wysiwyg markup for font size/style. Imagine being able to bold the key call inside a function that does all the important work.
The world police allow themselves to do this to countries, so why not corporations? And at what deaths/corporation employee number does killing the corporation become ok? Presumably there is a value? I don't know it.
It would be nice if Haskell could figure out (-) functions; as it is, it always consider things like (- 2) to be a number, not a function (even when only a function would typecheck).
Would love to hear an opinion on this one from a legal mind, the case does not seem strong for Airbnb from my laymen's couch.
You build housing and commercial stores at time. Have one major transit line into some major city.

The stores, you get department stores and the like. Lower rent than downtown but relatively easy access. Maybe one parking silo for people who come via car. Make it nice.

The housing will slowly fill because of the transit line, rent could be much cheaper than downtown.

Office developers will at one point just put the offices in the nice area.

This is the strategy used by rail companies in the greater Tokyo area since the beginning of time and it works great. Giant shopping centers with good mass transit connections will get a lot of people on weekends (even if it's at the end of a line). Walkable housing nearby. Etc
I think it's a subtle (OK, maybe not so subtle) jab at Trump and his supporters. He uses this kind of language all the time -- calling people he doesn't like "losers".

The author here is attempting to be clever by turning around and using the same trick against them. I wonder if it had the desired effect...
https://signalvnoise.com/posts/3106-all-or-something

https://signalvnoise.com/posts/1078-it-doesnt-have-to-be-all...

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=214930

https://twitter.com/dhh/status/286532709533229056
Road bike nerds have known this for a while. If you ride a lot you will immediately feel the acceleration difference in a wheelset that totals around 1450g front and rear with hubs, spokes, nipples and rims (example: White Industries road hubs, Sapim CX-Ray spokes, medium profile high quality aluminum rim) vs the same spoke count "cheap" wheelset that might weigh 1800g.

That is all before you get into the category of exotic and expensive deep profile CF rim wheelsets that cost $1500+/pair...
The best way to commit illegal actions is to gain power, and then make those actions legal.

Power, in this sense, can range from monarchy[0] to democracy[1][2] to political respect[3][4].

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/English_Reformation

[1]
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twenty-first_Amendment_to_th...

[2]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Legal_history_of_cannabis_in_t...

[3]https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Women%27s_suffrage

[4]https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Civil_Rights_Act_of_1964
I don't even want to know what kind of phone you have if unfolding a map, tracing and memorizing your route, and folding it back up is quicker than a GPS lock. On any phone I've had since 2009, GPS lock has been instant.
On the other hand, Japan and Singapore are not good places to be if you want to be "safe from bad police."
How should we measure the effectiveness of a city (what are its KPIs)?

Why is measuring a city using "KPIs" a goal of this study? The effectiveness of an entire city cannot be captured by a few numbers. Chasing metrics can easily leave you blind to reality.
And they were built in the golden age before cars, which have ruined everything.
care to mention which one it is?
Every time we assess a multi-billion-dollar penalty against a public company, we acknowledge that its shareholders share some culpability.

Do you think shareholders of a company like VW, which includes pretty much everyone with a retirement plan, shoulder _all_ the responsibility? Because that's pretty much what a "corporate death penalty" means.
No legal expertise, but the thing that struck me is Campos' extremely flawed analogy. If we want to make comparisons to rental cars, the hosts are the rental companies. There is no third party platform to compare to AirBnB.
Visual Studio Code is pretty neat, and it's plugin system is very powerful: more and more languages are adding amazing IntelliSense and interactive debugging support for it. It's like Atom, if Atom was faster and focused on exposing nice APIs for autocompletion!
"Good chances" doesn't mean 50/50. It doesn't really mean anything. It vaguely means that the author is welling to bet on it, and smart people have bet on far less than that.

>So far fewer Americans are renting than ever before.

In 1915, there were ~100M people in the US. At 20% homeowners, that gives 80M renters. 36% of the current 300M+ population gives > 80M renters. Therefore, there are more renters today than there were in 1915.
Ask HN: Took over an abandoned library. How do I get people to use the new pkg?
I was able to track down the original developer of a .NET icalendar library that had been abandoned. (It wasn't easy.) It had ambiguous licensing and copyright associated with it, which made me leery of using it for production tasks. He gave me explicit written permission to rename, open source[0], and relicense under a permissive license[1]. He also relinquished the copyright. I've also published a nuget package under the new name, Ical.Net[2]. The trouble is that if you look at the download stats, the older, buggy, under-performing library has many tens of thousands of downloads. It has a gravity to it that my library doesn't. How do I close the gap, and give people confidence that it's safe (and preferable) to use my library instead?

* It's unencumbered by licensing and copyright issues.

* It performs significantly better. The test suite completed in 17 sec; the current nuget package completes in 4.5, and I have an unpublished version that brings it down to 3.6. Performance was my original motivator for working on the library.

* I fixed about a half-dozen bugs while working on the performance

My plan of attack is as follows:

1) See if I can get the person who imported the original sourceforge history to commit a deletion of the code, and redirect people to ical.net via the readme.

2) Contact the original publisher of the unofficial nuget package, and ask them to unpublish it.

3) Have better API documentation. That's one thing the old package clearly does NOT have.

4) Maybe do a "Tell HN: dday.ical is now ical.net"(?)

What else should I consider? What else would you do? What would you NOT do? It seems to me that so long as the old code is floating around, and has a significant following, people are going to use that one instead. (I know I would as a naive outsider.)

[0] https://github.com/rianjs/ical.net

[1] https://github.com/rianjs/ical.net/blob/master/license.md

[2] https://www.nuget.org/packages/Ical.Net/
Rank and file employees absolutely do lose out in forced acquisitions; huge numbers of them are RIF'd.

Consumers also lose out, because of decreased market competition.
Does one really believe that German soldiers had zero idea of the atrocities that were being committed? There were reports in internation news, rumours, physical evidence and millions upon millions of people being rounded up.
As for being the person dumping toxic buckets - they are doing the crime. They are culpable.
I understand that Tokyo is like that in large part because of very strict laws against actions like what you describe. Turns out very strict punishment is a good deterrence, but some might argue that the ends do not justify the means. There's no free lunch.
I'm using Firefox 47.0 on Ubuntu 14.04 LTS. That was an untouched (apart from clipping to size) screen-shot.

This is the thing about wonderfully complex, beautifully crafted, responsive themes - can you really be sure they look the same to others as they look to you? For me, it's just completely unreadable.

Just to add, I also find the image you've posted very hard to read.