skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Apart from the obvious reasons governments don't want to put "us military spending" amount of money into fusion research (very expensive, unclear benefits, potentially changing global economy, hurting oil companies), it is also not clear that putting more money at the problem would help. Look at the mess ITER has been organizationally. It hardly seems putting more people in that project would help.
I don't know how you believe laws work or what you hope to discuss but the reality is that in the case of software, laws offer deterrence and recourse to any malicious actions. It's absolutely stupid to take a repository by an anonymous person, execute it and hope it's not malicious or doesn't have any bugs. Not to mention there's nothing obliging that a piece of software has to be bug free, maintained - go and now determine if a bug that deleted your production data is malicious and if you have any recourse. I'd love to see any actual cases about software distribution causing damage that don't have anything to do with malware distribution.
But that’s sort of what you’d expect, e.g. most people thinking they’re an above-average driver—but don’t actually think they’re incredibly wicked good. I’d never seen it presented quite this way before but it makes a lot of sense.
Will share links once I find them.

But the technology is: A library of weed images is used to check if the thing visual to the camera is a weed. If it is, then pluck it or spray chemicals (here: pluck).If not, move on.
Amid the ranting, the one thought-provoking statement was this:

> The reason for this is that HyperCard is an echo of a different world. One where the distinction between the “use” and “programming” of a computer has been weakened and awaits near-total erasure. A world where the personal computer is a mind-amplifier, and not merely an expensive video telephone. A world in which Apple’s walled garden aesthetic has no place.

HyperCard made Macs function as personal computers (the original notion behind the term) and not as digital appliances (video editors, gaming rigs, media boxes... etc.)
Namespaces would be a feature of Crates.io, not Cargo (and Crates.io was not contracted to Yehuda Katz, as Cargo was).
Amazon may eventually catch on, but it’s a ticking clock until they get paid and disappear.

Day A, they ship X fakes to Amazon. Day B, they sell at slightly below market rates to sell as quickly as possible. Importantly as they have the lowest price they should get the bulk of orders. Selling off a mix of real units from others and fake units from themselves.

If they are a fairly low percentage of the market it could take a while for any significant number of their fakes to be shipped. Now it’s a race if they get paid by Amazon before Amazon catches on.

Obviously this works best if the fakes are close to the real product so it takes a while before a significant number of people notice. Think functional but substandard USB cables etc.
> more expensive housing (larger, more luxurious) will be constructed first because it's more profitable, and building companies and homeowners will do all they can to keep less expensive units out of the market as long as they can

That's almost entirely due to regulations that restrict density. For example, strict parking space requirements sharply limit the number of units you can build in a given parcel. If you are required by law to only let 10 people live on a parcel that could comfortably house 80, you're going to have to maximise the amount of money you get from those 10 people.

Repeal the laws that force developers to focus on luxury housing, and you'll get less luxury housing. It's not rocket science, and it works well in areas which have done so.
> [T]hose who endorse anti-vaccine views were far more likely to estimate that they knew as much as experts or doctors, when in fact their knowledge level was extremely low.

> Dunning believes that ability to self-assess is also key to the effect.

> As you gain knowledge, this confidence grows.

> Specifically, narcissistic personality seems to put DK on steroids.

That collection of quotes feeds my suspicion that extreme examples of the DK effect and conspiratorial thinking (For example: vaccine-denial, birtherism, racism as "expertise" on how the outgroup "really is," and so on.) have in common the fact that they give those inflicted a much-needed sense of control over an uncertain universe. Baseball players are known for having superstitious rituals at the mound or the plate, precisely because pitcher and batter are engaged in high-stakes, high-variability activities with unpredictable success rates. Baseball players are hardly traumatized, but imagine if they were playing for their lives, or their senses of self.

I wouldn't be surprised if the fractured way that the world is presented to us after the decline of television and the rise of the internet (with its conflicting narratives) hasn't so traumatized a fraction of the population that the only way they can construct their sense of selves as in control enough to not feel permanently precarious is to habitually steer themselves away from even the hint of dissonance by constantly asserting, "I know. I am in control. This is how it is."

One of the things having one or a few sources of national news possibly did was to give one the plausible belief that their set of beliefs was tenable, stable, and unchallenged by rivals. From a scared monkey perspective, I wonder if we got lucky with broadcast television, if the perception of unity wasn't necessary. Whereas now we seem to be constantly having to defend our perceived in-group.

The point of this ramble is that maybe the psychodynamics of DK are as simple as, 'Feeling confident feels better, and I need that, and I feel rewarded when I engage in thinking that rewards that sense.'
Real-Time Kickball Scores/Stats App
prok.idonotknowhowthisworks.com is the landing page for those interested in learning more about the tool I'm creating.

real time stats & scores. It'll be great to use during tournaments or other kickball circuit events.

I wanna know how many kickball players/managers/leagues are interested in using it.

Other questions I have:

Who wants to know more about it?

What other features would you like it to have?

What's it worth to you as a member of the kickball community?

onward
I didn't downvote you. FYI you are not even able to downvote a post that that is a response to one that yourself wrote.

You didn't put forward any compelling arguments for your point of view so I didn't bother to refute them.

It is a big question, but being remembered doesn't even register. Could not care the slightest. Now there are things that I do care about and they sort of implies that I will be remembered (by friends and family) if I get my way (wouldn't be a good friend if that wasn't the case).

But that is not why I do anything, and most certainly is not what motivates me.
One of the things I like about Purescript is that you can use it without needing any javascript package manager, and without running any javascript outside of a browser. Nix works well for installing the Purescript compiler as well as psc-package. https://nixos.org/nixos/packages.html#purescript
frr is great. its BGP implementation seems miles ahead of OpenBGPD (RFC 5549, EVPN, ...)
Right, so practical reasons and sovereignty trump environmental consequences. This standard should be applied for all countries.
npm's size is not independent of its curation strategy.

This can be construed as a good or a bad thing.
If you care about the future relationship then say either "I don't really have time" or "that is not a good fit for me right now".

If you don't, say "sorry, that would amount to me working for essentially no pay, which I am not willing to do".

Neither of those cases are lying btw. If you had infinite time, you wouldn't mind taking a crack at their idea.
The only option for contact available on my account was a support ticket. I know they have numbers in the US. But this is EMEA, US does not deal with that. Edit: here’s a Twitter thread: https://twitter.com/rad_g/status/1117811252493996034?s=21
Amazon also has its hooks in consumers even deeper with Prime. Sure, another store might be willing to sell me an item for a couple bucks cheaper, but then when I factor in the extra shipping costs, Amazon comes out ahead - and they defray that cost for the consumer with value-added services like Prime Video and Twitch Prime, so that I don't really feel like I'm paying for the shipping, but rather for a bundle of services that happens to include the free shipping that keeps me tied to Amazon over other e-commerce sites.

It's also interesting because this means that it's not only less convenient, but also more expensive to use other platforms - and in a Capitalist society, anti-giant-corporation ethics can't really stand against the need to not live on the street and the desire to own nice(ish) things.
I got one of those but only having one. I can think of some uses for it if I had two but with only one, couldn't do much with it.
He, who has the biggest, fastest computer wins.
Yeah, that's totally on point. Discussions about Torvalds show the opposite of what I claimed. I wonder what he's like in person.
“Top or above average” in what? Apparently not in being a team player. And I don’t think “writes excellent code” is the only criteria in any serious performance evaluation.
All programming environments do that. And Apple continues to this day to give away a free programming environment for your Mac.
Did you read the paper? https://d4mucfpksywv.cloudfront.net/better-language-models/l...

You don’t need any seed, and can generate summaries (section 3.6).

GPT-2 is the model to learn about if you’re interested in NLP.
I empathize with your feelings, but iobjectively, if an author makes three good points and then pours toxic emotional sewage all over them, the good points are still the gooid points.

We may not want to read the author esposuing them any further, who needs toxic sewage? But the sewage cannot nullify a point that we recognize as true. Its truth is independent of whether the author is a goofd or bad person. Its truth is independent of whether the author argues it well or poorly.

It's unfortunate when good points get covered in toxic emotions. I wouldn't say that we should read such things whether we like it or not, but having read them, I say we take the good points and repackage them in less vitriolic prose.
Never heard of this one, thanks. I used quagga years ago, and migrated to bird and never really looked back. Next time bird makes me go crazy due to its somewhat bonkers config syntax I'll be checking this out!
or the real real article: https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acsomega.9b00632
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Go Contracts – Draft Design
It's not randomly chosen which units get shipped. It has to do with location, ownership, risk, and other things.

If a brand new seller is selling they're likely not to commingle their high risk products until they've proven themselves.

It's not nearly as easy as you think.

Some categories have commingling turned off completely.
My initial hypothesis on bug fixes are normally wrong. However proving/disproving them tends to help immensely in finding the real problem.
A Wind Turbine Farm the Size of Delaware Could Power the Entire United States
That sounds like a really fun gamification of an aspect of security research that maybe doesn't get much practical exploration.

I'm not sure, though, how the game would distinguish between vulnerable code pinging the endpoint, as opposed to a player simulating a successful attack by performing the ping themselves.

I feel like the attacker should be able to provide a link to a package on a software repo somewhere and the game should download the package and check for some unique "Player 123456 attacked this package" string.

This reminds me of a similar game someone created where they challenged people to add a certain string to any repo that the challenge creator maintained. An ingenious social engineer then pointed out that the rules of this game weren't in an easy to find place, so the challenge creator added a page to their blog, which was under version control... Game over. Unfortunately I can't remember any detail that would allow me to find a citation for this story.
napkin math. Say we start with economy size A and a year later we have A+P. The profit rate is P/A. Whole economy-wise the P comes from people doing/producing something. Next year same people doing the same would produce the same P. Thus profit rate fell - it is now P/(A+P). As a result we can see that the profit rate can be increased by increasing output - ie. P(next year) > P(this year) due to productivity increase (thus automation) and/or labor force growth (population growth).
Ok. Why do climate deniers find it important to convince us old forests are important for CO2 balance maintenance?
And yet the effect could just as easily be predicting that he is still not confident enough.
BIRD is a very good and extremely stable piece of software.

We run it on the global network I manage, mostly not in the core (hardware routers are required/better at our scale) but we do run BGP on edge devices and use BIRD there, in a number of full-FIB situations as well.

I will also say i've run OpenBGPD in the past, albeit in less demanding situations, and it worked well. That said, I don't recall any advantages OpenBGPD offers over something like BIRD and it was considerably less flexible, though that may not be so anymore.
You may not use the CCTV in stores but I can assure you it is using you.

Source: I set up this tracking for a retailer.
I thought that the internet was about disintermediation not about adding 1001 me to comparison sites with identical products with identical copy from the same wholesalers.
If the LiveCode people can get HyperCard running on *nix, I'm sure HyperCard could be ported to Qt.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LiveCode
In any population there is going to be a bell curve in terms of performance. Often those on the left may simply not be as smart or talented. Being rude to them does nothing to make them better.
Points made through the application of logic can't be nullified by a failure to appeal to emotion. The writing style may not be optimal for building consensus, but that won't make it invalid.
So this still continues because it's seen as short run volatility where the cost of rebalancing and trading out is higher than the expected loss? Or is it seen as a stability measure that protects investments in other asset classes? Or are a lot of investors/managers just asleep at the switch (organizational lagress, internal politics, laziness). Or is it simply market inefficiency?

It is difficult to wrap my head around why price discovery is totally failing here...
If they did, those spots on the cars would be constantly occupied by homeless people.
Then it sounds like there's money to be made then. I've never used hypercard, but perhaps it could fill a similar niche as wix?
how does this compare to newspaper's built-in summary feature? What is different?
> On the contrary, dense populations allow for the efficient distribution of goods and services. There may be an aesthetic argument in favor of small town living but there isn’t an environmental one.

I would suggest it is not as cut and dry as you suggest, and is heavily dependent on where the population centres are. For the majority of towns and towns folk, there is a deeper connection to the surrounding environment and what it provides. Rural populations get much of what sustains them from the nearby surroundings, be it through gardens, hunting and fishing, local agriculture etc. You would be hard presses to find big city populations that do the same in anywhere near the same percentage.

I lived in a small, northern town for 20 year, and currently live in the heart of downtown of a major city. The difference could not be more contrasting.
We Fight for Crypto
Maybe I'm taking this too literally, but you can code Java in eclipse and web pages in several electron apps. What are you implying?
Ingesting nothing but water for days on end being unhealthy really shouldn't need a citation, but if you really want one, go ask your local doctor.
So by looking at a tiny fraction of the 1 million+ npm libraries, and articles by a few dozen people on the internet, you are able to conclude that the

> vast majority of JS developers don't seem to be aware of the rest of the software universe

Forgive me if I dismiss this as business-as-usual JS bashing
Is it actually preferable to shut up though? They say that one of the easiest ways to get a better answer is to be wrong on the internet. Thus if you share what you know, but end up being wrong, then somebody's going to correct you.
I do not think you read the link. It is not about Drexler, but P. T. Barnum, which does not seem an apt comparison.

Few would claim molecular assemblers are physically impossible. Drexler made claims about what was possible under physical law. They are pretty conservative.

I don’t think he ever pretended to having technology he didn’t have.

I do think Drexler committed the grave sin of writing a book for popular consumption. He should have published Nanosystems first and waited decades before writing Engines of Creation.
> It's not nearly as easy as you think.

Sure, but it does not have to be successful to harm the reputation of a manufacturer. The issue is it’s a cat and mouse game with some actual winners which get others to try and do the same.
A dog's intelligence doesn't have much relationship to how much you have to care for it. In fact, smart dogs are often more work because they can be destructive when bored. They can also be very good at escaping, stealing, or pestering you.

It's easy to go to a shelter and find a dog that's 2+ years old with a known history of being safe around kids. Whether or not it's intelligent, you can select it for appearance and ease of care.
The point of this article was too remind us that just because someone is smart in one area (Cornell psychology undergraduates) doesn't mean they are smart in another (humour was measured in original paper - have you read the DK paper?).

The article makes the common mistake of ignoring the other side of the DK effect: the top quartile estimates their skill downwards.

I like to say I am showing DK tendencies because I often underestimate my skills ;-)
> He was basically above average, convinced he was several standard deviations above everyone else

From GP's own words, this person was _not_ subpar, just not nearly as good as they thought they were. I don't think most comapanies would fire someone for that.
You are arguinng a strawman. We are not discussing bugs or maintenance, we are discussing a person acting maliciously. Furthermore, you are talking about people being "stupid," which has no place in a discussion of whether a person giving away code has an obligation to not act maliciously.

Never in the history of the courts has a defendant's lawyer gotten up on his hind legs and intoned, "But your honour, the plaintiff was stupid," and had the case summarily dismissed.

Naturally, one can make arguments about what precautions the user of some software ought to reasonably be expected to perform to avoid harm.

I agree it may be prudent to assume that every maintainer is malicious and sits up all night trying to think of ways to put malware in your compiler, but I do not agree that this is going to be an effective defence in a court of law if you actually put malware in a piece of software that you give away.

Now please excuse me, I am about to audit every last line of code in Unix. I have no more time for exchanging pleasantries with you.
Obviously. Hence from a pure narrow CO2 economy POV
The really funny bit is that DK predicts that the people best at a subject will tend to underestimate their own skill compared to the average. That implies they'll overestimate how good other people will be at the subject. Which is the exact opposite behavior of those people trying to look smart.
That power comes at a cost. The author covers this when they say open source versions of Hypercard do too much. There is a place for a low powered/low barrier to entry programming environment.

My first forays into computing were Klik n Play and VB6. They let me learn how to solve problems without being overwhelmed with the many things a real Software Engineer needs to deal with.
There is a difference between arbitrary bashing and giving concrete points of concern. I would hope such criticism would not be dismissed out of hand.
Ny main gripe lately is with YouTube.

YouTube's gotten a lot more shitty about it, too. I wouldn't block ads on there but they treat their creators like crap and they treat me like crap. Nowadays if I don't block them I get two ads in a row and if I don't skip the first one, I have to wait on the second one, too. And often some ads go on for minutes. The longest I've seen was a 50 minute ad. Or ads that scream at you, as loudly as possible. Especially when you're trying to enjoy more laid-back content. Ugh.

And a lot of that revenue doesn't go towards paying the creators their proper share. I would gladly pay for an ad-free YouTube but they're dead-set on shafting creators, making their lives as miserable as possible. Random demonetisations, horrible handling of fair use, etc. All this without ANY kind of proper support. If I pay for a service or rely on something to make a living, I expect to be able to at least somehow talk to a human being, etc. They've gotten more and more and more hostile towards creators and users. So now they get the Brave-treatment (since they fiddle with adblock on Safari, I use Brave just to watch YouTube. If they detect adblock and can get through it, you get actively punished with longer and more frequent ads.)

Little wonder that most small people without VC investment backing them have looked for alternatives to this, they understand how sites that host content being hostile towards the userbase is a race to the bottom. With off-site patronage and superchat and burnt-in ads they're in control. Sadly you do have to be of a audience certain size to take advantage of these but they're far more pleasant for everyone involved (except the firms that host the content).

For sites in general that model seems to be viable, too. But you do depend on your audience for this which can be a good thing generally as often it seems to keep the content more honest. The content that panders is very often just going to slowly die off.

I would be okay with ads if they weren't disgustingly obnoxious and consistently trying to intrude in my life and take my data.

Lots of bigger websites have an insane quantity of ads, some even have their entire backgrounds replaced with clickable ads. One accidental misclick and you're pissed off. There are sites where the occasional ad is sometimes interrupted by content.

I simply can't take it. Performance-hogging, data-stealing, annoying, time-wasting ads. They're everywhere.
Very rarely do people correct you in a way that's instructive. It's usually just mocking after they get you on one tidbit. A large part of that is because those who argue on the internet are usually children or people who know nothing about anything.
The Nation of a Billion Votes
If you are a middling programmer, youre better off doing something else.

There are a massive amount of people that would absolutely love to be "stuck between 75k and 175k."
This tech seems to have the potential to decentralize farming somewhat. The same machine with a few attachments and software options could also cultivate, plant, irrigate, debug (organically with frikin' laser beams), and harvest. Since software is the most expensive part of the problem it could be turned into a small retail device in not too many years. Buy a gardenbot like you now buy a lawnmower. Add seeds, compost, power and water, let it loose in the backyard and just wait for it to stack vegetables in a bin.