skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My takeaway from DK is that the roughly 80% mark is where is the generally ideal balance between self-image and social acceptance, and that's why everyone on either side leans toward that inflection point.

Having been on the "exceptional" side of the curve on some things (and verified though both independent testing and testimonials), it was definitely socially isolating until I broadened my perspective and accepted that while I may be past that 80% mark in some things, I was well behind it in many others, and if I could appreciate the skill others have that I do not, I would have a much more enjoyable experience of community than comparing others to myself in the things I was the best at.

In general, I think this is a lot of cognitive dissonance & confirmation bias. For everything from politics & religion to what foods or TV shows we like, it's more enjoyable to share our lives with people that enforce our sense of reality. Coming to terms with the fact you suck at something is really unpleasant if you haven't also found the things you are awesome at to balance it out in your self-evaluation. And vice versa, being REALLY awesome at something kind of sucks and makes you feel you can't connect with others (and sometimes they will hate you for outshining them if you shove it in their faces) unless you recognize your own clay feet.

It also explains why echo-chambers like the anti-vaxx FB groups are so popular. They are exceptionally (in the standard deviation sense) out-of-touch with reality, which is typically something that is socially isolating, but by coming together, they can have the benefits of community without sacrificing their identity of being smarter than doctors. It's basically like a reverse-MENSA (which has its own issues with being on the wrong side of DK -- IQ tests are one specific measure of a population variance, and doesn't necessarily correlate with things like empathy, open-mindedness, or creative thinking - all things I'd care about having in my social circle moreso than IQ).

Interestingly enough, we can see the same effect in purely objectively evaluated ranges. Many of us might be familiar with the threshold for how much income correlates with the maximum happiness (on average, having either less or more correlates with unhappiness). IIRC the latest research puts it at about $100,000 times the square root of the household size. While I don't have the tables in front of me, I'd wager that's roughly the 80th percentile in income.

The thing is - that 80% mark is simply the ideal average - but the spread around it is up to us as a society. If we provide better education resources for those struggling in academics, we can get more people closer to the ideal (and likely improve their happiness) without necessarily moving the mean. If we have high marginal tax rates, we can redistribute wealth to close the "spread" around the ideal, which if the research is correct will actually improve happiness for the people on both sides of it. If we actually manage to master our own genes, we can likely do the same for health, innate intelligence, empathy, depression, etc.
While people give reasonable counter-arguments here to your point, it gets me thinking - I wonder if we could find a truly benign form of "malicious code" that "good guys" could use to find attack vectors before the "bad guys" do.

Perhaps there could be a website set up to get pinged by "malicious" installers? Perhaps it displays stats of some sort? It could turn into a friendly game.
> if you think it only applies to other people (which itself, ironically, is part of the DK effect) then you miss the core lesson

I have observed in conversation that invariably if someone brings up Sturgeon's Law [1] either by naming it or quoting it ("90% of everything is crud|shit|garbage"), they invariably place themselves in the 10%. As if awareness of the law somehow insulates the speaker. That seems to be the case with D-K, per this article.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sturgeon%27s_law
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Yes, those are valid arguments! Maybe I should have reformulated it to "a real god is better than an imaginary god" directy, then that does not work anymore. But I am no expert either ;)

The real way to break it down is by attacking (1). One common answer is that this does not prove the existence of the "biblical god" at all. Nothing about an omniscient creator God in heaven. It just proves there is a "best" thing. For all we know it could be a potato.

Another way is to say that by accepting (1), we basically already assume a God exists. So, nothing new was concluded by proving he does. This logical flaw is called "begging the question". Although not everyone agrees if that is the case here.
Per [1]:

"The standard deposit insurance coverage limit is $250,000 per depositor, per FDIC-insured bank, per ownership category. Deposits held in different ownership categories are separately insured, up to at least $250,000, even if held at the same bank."

[1] https://www.fdic.gov/deposit/deposits/faq.html
And so we circle back around to, "All socialism is evil except the parts that benefit me."

Which isn't to say that I think the government should do what it do out of spite. Is there any chance of... I dunno, cutting off the public handout and then regulating the private vacuum-fillers sufficiently? Or does the implied drug analogy here reach its logical conclusion (on the black market)?
I think web components fall back to regular elements if JavaScript doesn't run. So <twitter-tweet>Cats are the best!</twitter-tweet> and <button is="very-fancy-material-design-button">Click here!</button> would still show up for JS-disabled users, they just wouldn't have the extra JavaScript functionality.
Contributors, mitigators and risks: Stripe 2019-07-10 outage
An interesting book that discusses the ethics of keeping pets in general:

"Run, Spot, Run: The Ethics of Keeping Pets" by Jessica Pierce

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/022620989X
The hip problems where a result of breeding for showing sadly, older dogs of the breeds had much few fewer problems.

I personally think it’s tragic that we selectively breed breeds into those kinds of problems for aesthetics.
The belief I'd like to change is whatever belief leads them to seemingly vote agains their own interests.

Voting against one's own perceived interests is indeed an interesting political act, but it is in no way relegated or unique to American citizens who vote Republican or even American citizens at all. Do you extend this same viewpoint of reprehension to members of other countries who vote against what you've decide are against their interests? Do you extend it to individuals in the US? Your neighbors?
It’s true for experts outside of their field of expertise.
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I thought we were talking about inter-city rather than commuter service. Columbus to Cincinnati for example.
> I think God is the greatest jelly donut in existence.

Mmm, applied theology.

0: http://machall.com/view.php?date=2003-04-21
NYT started blocking incognito windows: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19275283
A less catchy but explanatory title would be: Revealing module pattern using immediately-invoked function expressions.

A compact syntax for achieving this is the "do expression":

https://github.com/tc39/proposal-do-expressions
What he’s saying is that even if www.equifaxbreachsettlement.com isn’t using the 5 digits of your SSN for nefarious purposes, Google Ads, Facebook, Twitter, and other slimy companies are collecting this data. Even if FB, Twitter, Google et al aren’t using this data, it might be available to marketers who use these Ad platforms.

Please correct me if my explanation of the parent comment is wrong here.
>conspiracy theories

I can't say what such a poll would say, but I feel fairly confident that using any sort of "surprising popularity" measure is no guarantee of Truth, but only an excuse after the fact to explain a result.

As you say, for some question the "surprisingly popular" answer could just as easily be dead wrong.
Your attempt to not come across as snide unfortunately didn't land. What on Earth does your little soapbox rant on purebreds have to do with the article? The dog was smart as fuck and lived a long life to 15.
Owning negative yield bonds not only you don’t make a return above inflation, but you have to pay for the privilege of owning them.
Why do you think that it’s a good thing?
Technology has been and and is increasingly so following a bimodal income distribution. There are two distinct groups.

1.) The people who work for FAANG corporations or high profile startups, a few places in finance. In depth knowledge of computer science required to get these jobs.

2.) People who are writing UIs, data flows, python apis, etc. Run of the mill software development.

The income for these two groups looks like this:

The top 5% (maybe less) in technology are making really good money, 250-1M. This is the group 1, FAANG group.

The second group:

The lower 95% are generally stuck between 75k and 175k. They are seeing increasing competition from Europe, China, and boot camps here in the USA.

So to answer your question, if you take writing software very seriously, and can out compete most engineers, its an amazing career and will only get better. If you are a middling programmer, youre better off doing something else.
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> a real god is better than an imaginary god

Cthulhu. Or pretty much any god from or inspired by Lovecraft really.

> For all we know it could be a potato.

Or a jelly donut.
There is some horrible javascript that calculates what the font size should be based on the height of the browser. A large screen gets a huge font and if you zoom out then the resize event triggers which keeps the font the same size.

Might be one of the worst things I've seen on the web so far
Everybody dies. The only certainties in this world are death and taxes, as the saying goes. You are focused on outcomes instead of principles, to your detriment.

This shit is so cynical: We should sacrifice individual freedom to get an extra 5 years of existence where someone wipes our ass. Like that's dignified. Fascist garbage that will be met with equal force should you choose to pursue radical means to achieve it.
Primarily, I end up basing this off of the types of libraries being developed for Javascript, and what kinds of articles and thought leaders JS developers tout as innovative.
I’d always assumed they were broad gauge for added stability if an earthquake hit. Are there other reasons?
If you count U.S. states individually, you'll find Arizona, Texas, Louisiana, Florida, and Hawaii being big outliers.
There is a nice book by Melvin Fitting: Types, Tableaus, and Gödel’s God, Kluwer 2002. It introduces some fairly standard typed higher order logic and then formalizes Gödel's proof in it. Although I personally like it a bit less than Mendelsohn and Fitting's book on first order modal logic, it's a good read (if you like logic and have had some basic course in logic sometime).
Deere bought Blue River, which does this. Deere packages it as a wide implement attached to a tractor. Cameras look down, recognize weeds, and zap them with targeted weed killer. About four companies are already in this space.

It's sold as "weeding as a service". If you need large-scale weeding, Pacific Ag Rentals in Salinas, CA, will rent you a Robovator. That's made in Denmark, and Pacific Ag Rentals beefed it up for serious use. It kills weeds by chopping them out of the ground with computer-controlled knives. No chemicals, so, "organic".

Making these things rugged enough to do the job is a problem. The R&D projects tend to have flimsy mechanical engineering. You want to be able to pressure-wash the thing. Dust-tight and water-tight are solved problems, but most machine learning people have never dealt with that.
Please list the group of people you trust to manage 1,037,274 packages.
what’s wrong with using your CPU? (seriously)
if you don't post this to Wikipedia, may someone else post it on your behalf (i.e. do you accept Wikipedia's license on your words above?)
A good portion of HN readers are rich. If you take the perspective of an average 3rd world laborer, vast majority of HN readers are rich, likely including you. Maybe we're more evil than average, but I have to admit, I haven't noticed.
Notqmail: Collaborative open-source successor to qmail
Others mentioned a couple of breeds that are generally known as smarter than usual; I'd add Catahoula to that list too. They're not as concerned about human's opinions of how they're doing their jobs as some others; they're doing the job, not waiting for the human's approval for having done it.

One of ours can reliably tell time from analog wall clocks. It's her job to put our daughter to bed on time, and she does, understanding school nights, weekends, and summer vacation all make circumstances different. We figure she's reading the clock because she's not confident about the DST change if we miss resetting those.
In practice this would be

<twitter-tweet id="424242424242"></twitter-tweet>

What you're saying is true only for the simplest of components.
I have a huge-mixed-80lb-border collie mutt and I'm grateful that I get to work from home. She likes to play hide and seek with toys and go for walks all day.

My point is that working from home rules, I suppose.
Take the most popular npm module lodash for example. It has over one thousand files! But you probably only need one (lodash.js) and that's the one I would commit to SCM.
Yes, the point is that in your area of expertise you are likely to be more humble relative to your actual ability (but not too far off, on average).

However outside of your specific area(s) of expertise your confidence in your ability is likely to far exceed your actual ability (on average).

So experts are still susceptible to DK effect for areas that lie outside their expertise. Even (or perhaps especially) if they think their expertise gives them special insight into another field.
Much of the infrastructure we need is self-financing. Eg bike lanes, transit etc. increase tax base and keep money in the local economy, while increasing foot traffic and retail sales. There’s no reason curing the 20th century’s car hangover shouldn’t be profitable.
TECs are a pretty awesome tech - I plan to build a cooling pad for my dog in my camper van which water cools the hot side to a radiator mounted under the floor, outside. Modeled on this YouTube video where he makes a freezer: https://youtu.be/RkSR4rTl2GY
No at that point they'd be saying "zomg NPM has a terrible bug that allowed the hacker to bypass my 2FA!"

If someone is trying to redirect blame they'll always find some way to do so.
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Couldn't agree more, it's horrible, and borders on abusive given the problems that result in many breeds. Show German Shepherds currently look horribly broken, like someone reassembled a kit wrong. When we got ours we found a kennel that had "English" German Shepherds - flat back like a shepherd would be if you saw photos from the 40s or 60s.

Far too clever for his own good that dog, I miss him.
For Polish speakers, I highly recommend this book:

https://www.ccpress.pl/produkt/Dowody_ontologiczne._W_900._r...

It has multiple formalisations of both Anselm's and Gaunilo's arguments, and critiques of each approach
Ontological argument for the nonexistence of God.

1. It is more great to do something with a greater handicap.

2. Not existing is the greatest possible handicap.

3. The greatest possible being is thus one who could create the universe despite not existing.
Is also easily circumvented by deleting all cookies from the site, then reloading, if at end of articles.
I didn't know that the shape of the hexagonal pencil has ancient roots.
The purpose of the scheme was to make namespace collisions less likely and that's about it, though. And people regularly deviate from it, both then and now. Not using it as a basis for authentication or distribution probably remains a really excellent idea.
The article suggests "surpisingly popular"==correct answers from experts.

It could just as easily be crazy answers from crazy people.