skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Really most of what people think is D-K is just statistics analogous to reversion to the mean: people assume they are typical, so less-skilled people naturally guess they are better, and higher-skilled guess they are less.

If it were just that, people would rate themselves closer to the median than they actually are, but D-K found the people rated themselves closer to the 70th percentile than they are.
The guy doesn't own Signal. Signal is funded and released by Signal Technology Foundation, non-profit; either directly or indirectly through it's subsidiary[1], Signal Messenger, LLC. (Both registered in Delaware.) That means there's much more likely a legally cognizable conflict of interest if Signal is being used as a vehicle for self-enrichment. And flouting rules against such self-dealing provides greater than normal reason to distrust the security of Signal.

But that's all predicated on the existence of self-dealing.

[1] The Wikipedia page, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Signal_Foundation, claims Signal Messenger, LLC is a subsidiary. There's no source provided, AFAICT, nor can I find one, for that claim. But Android says Signal is published by "Signal Foundation", and Moxie seems to be the head of both, so for our purposes--trustworthiness--the distinction is mostly irrelevant.
BTW you are backwards smooth locomotion is where you move around with a joystick.

Most of the user base doesn't get sick from smooth locomotion though. Maybe teleport was better back when the project started in 2016, but in Q1 2020 especially after boneworks which came out in Q4 2019 people would see Alyx as dated. Smooth locomotion wasn't even in the game from a Q4 2019 build of the game. Continuous turning didn't even make it in until after the game was released.
What makes Amazon app store and f-droid not first class?
Are you implying that people aren't allowed to... disagree with you...?
Here's what RMS wrote: "I think it is morally absurd to define "rape" in a way that depends on minor details such as which country it was in or whether the victim was 18 years old or 17." Meaning, you can't count on law to dictate what is moral and what is not. Rape is immoral whatever the country and whatever the age.
> court-authorized

There you go.

Microsoft and the DOJ have several times gone to a judge to get permission to take over botnets. The reason being that to do so they take over the botnet and the result is of course that if they control the botnet they then have control of those computers. But you can't completely disassemble some botnets without taking it over.
Thanks! I greatly enjoyed https://berthub.eu/articles/posts/reverse-engineering-source... before, and somehow missed the same author had one on the adenovirus vaccines.
I think technology is changing which kinds of gossip get spread. It used to be either things you heard directly from the people in your circle, or on tv / newspapers / magazines. Now it's algorithmically determined to be the stuff that's most likely to be shared out of a giant planet of random gossip. Algorithms reinforcing these kinds of vices make it far more extreme.
the difference of course is that it that, unlike handwashing or dumping fecal matter in the water, there is still no scientific evidence that masks actually work (for reducing infections when worn on the street by a population where most people are not infected)

no seriously - I wish I were kidding!
No halfway decent statistician has ever advised that one bootstrap a time series. Naive bootstrap obviously does not apply to that data.

And the bootstrap is not for taking a small amount of data and making it a large amount, it’s an empirical estimate of a sampling distribution.
You'd be better taken care of if you got hired by Amazon in a non-tech role and then applied to this program. What Amazon provides to employees who sign up:

"Applicants accepted into the tuition-free program receive a stipend to cover living costs and a subsidy to maintain their benefits plan."

That being said, as a former student of lambda, I do not recommend the program, at least the Data Science track. The controversial reputation Lambda has received over the internet and social media is well-deserved.
So far it looks like their PopShell extension with a dock. I already have a very similar setup with "Dash to Dock".
> Most people are not under a risk, it has 99% survival rate

In my circle, there's a friend who has lost his sense of taste and is immensely depressed about losing the ability to tell the difference between steak and spam.

He can still taste sriracha, but he is nearly suicidal from this (partly regret for taking risky decisions).

Survival isn't the only measure of impact.
Journalists using it for a source of news was strange to me until I happened upon a journalism job posting for Post Media, a major news chain up here in Canada.

The job required 5 stories a day. So you basically need at least one piece that takes a half hour to write and Twitter is good for that.
BLM is a Marxist cult. Ill hard pass on it being a noble organization.
opnsense is where it's at. Alot of pfsense users have been migrating off pfsense lately because of all the Netgate shenanigans.
FBI/NSA doesn't give a damn about some unpatched servers in the wild. They are probably clearing web shells in order to bait hackers into reinfecting the same servers, and try to locate/attribute the original bad actor.
> The cons of getting COVID itself are way worse for most people than just getting the vaccine.

How can it be worse for most people if most people don't even notice it and that being one of the reasons why the virus spreads quickly? People mention infection's side-effects, yet no one was screening those with side-effects prior their infection to definitively establish causation.
For small sized apps this may be true. For enterprise apps where multiple teams develop multiple features that all end up the same domain, this is still very much an issue. Many enterprise apps need to talk to more than one backend, and you end up with inexperienced developers trying to call remote services from client side code. Or the reverse where you get reqs to create a public api which is basically a proxy for an external service.

From what I can tell, it hits marketers the hardest. They want to be able to drop tracking code everywhere and get frustrated when third party services don’t have * for an allow list and they can’t put analytics in code that is ultimately hosted and ran from a vendors server.
I know a few myself. To the point of having real conversations.

Those who are working for smaller shops, or who are freelancing are in a very different place than people working within or dependent on the big media machine.

What beat you cover matters too. Some topics come with more permissive norms all around. Contrast social issues with economics and foreign policy. How much agency one has to both report in an investigative sense and be questioned varies widely.

There is wrong, as in not adhering to the orthodoxy and or established narrative, and there is wrong in a factual sense.

There are also taboos.

How many stories have you seen written from the labor point of view, or that question the growing Washington Economic Consensus, or even recognize it, for example?

How often do you see major league corrections? Where are they placed, why?

If you are reading overseas, indie, freelance work, you have seen some, and often the work is clear, solid, easy to understand.

Side note: Investigative work is particularly troublesome right now, and where it is unorthodox, is being actively suppressed to an increasing degree.

And I want to be clear here!

This is not saying people in journalism are bad somehow, nefarious. No, they are working in a highly consolidated media environment, or they are out in the cold working hard to do the job, despite considerable pressure.

Secondly, the entities they work for really do not want those questions at all. This may well be the more significant force in play.

Doing real journalism these days is hard work that does not pay well. While that has generally been true, consolidation, which just got permission to contract even further, has made all this more difficult.

Access journalism is a real thing too. Ask the wrong question, despite it being one very large numbers of people want asked, and boom. Gone. No access. Gonna need a new gig and potentially have it covering a new beat.

Often, we see steganography more than journalism because of these things. People pointing that out in comments gets conflated with people being idiots, trolls and asses and it all gets shut down.

Finally, old media is more like broadcast than it is Reddit, or even Substack.

In broadcast, nobody actually cares to ask what people want, nor is there any real two way dialog. It is broadcast, focus grouped, researched all to the nines, very little actually being done ad hoc, or even outside advertisers interests, which are often the media entity interest, which makes it the journalists interest, or conflict of interest depending on where they are at personally.

There are facts and there are opinions as to what those facts mean.

Journalists who enjoy sufficient agency see it like you say and have no problem with critics.

Many do not have that agency, and the entities who employ them much prefer broadcast rules and norms where their authority comes from size and position not so much performance. And those people will do what they can, but will also admit it often isn't much.
I do hope the moralizations get cut back but also that adults and children stay the fuck home when sick and we can ditch this perfect attendance play through the pain attitude towards minor infectious diseases.
Any move by an institution can be interpreted as totalitarian. Rather than focusing on hypotheticals, I am more concerned with are totalitarian acts that we know are occurring, for example: police militarization and restricting citizen access to vote in a democracy. I’m sure you can think of many more your self.

Regardless, while it is healthy to be skeptical of moves by institutions, skepticism shall be balanced by appreciation of threats to our way of life. Western civilization has been built within, and is dependent upon, a very specific and temperate climate. The activities of our civilization are very quickly perturbing the climate. This will lead to threats such as submerged industrial and commercial centers, reduced agricultural output, and mass migration of people into the borders of northern nations. We have seen historically liberal tree hugging institutions such as BlackRock and The US Defense Department, identify and begin to respond to this reality [1][2].

There are two choices, we can react to this issue, or we can be proactive about it. According to the article the legal mechanism to be proactive is insufficient

>Climate litigation is important to raise awareness, shame companies and gather evidence, said Jojo Mehta, the head of the Stop Ecocide campaign. “But, what they don’t do is stop the practice”

The question I have for you is, if not for the proposed introduction of law, if not for the Paris agreement, or perhaps not even for international agreements, what would you like to see be done about the issue of climate instead? To say that nothing should be done, or to deny that this is an issue at all is an implicit decision to be reactive.

[1] https://www.cnbc.com/2020/12/16/blackrock-makes-climate-chan...

[2] https://m.huffpost.com/us/entry/us_5c420386e4b027c3bbc1713f
Linus is also against enforcing the GPLv2 against violators because it alienates companies and contributors.

Their preferred strategy apparently consists of using two properties of the Linux kernel as leverage: the massive scale of its development and the instability of its internal interfaces. Linux kernel hackers get about 20 patches every hour and that figure comes from a video I watched years ago. Those patches improve things all over the place and nobody cares about code that isn't in the kernel tree. As a result, out-of-tree code quickly becomes out of date and the companies must pay the constant maintenance costs or be left behind.
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> The scientist I'm referring to (Mohsen Fakhrizadeh) was not killed as part of a legitimate strike on a military facility, he was killed in his car with his wife sitting in the seat next to him, on a road with many civilians around.

What are you talking about "facility"? The human, named Mohsen Fakhrizadeh, was a military target, since he was the head of the nuclear weapons program in Iran.

I'm unclear what the relevance of "many civilians around". Do you imagine military targets are always isolated with never any civilians near them?

> I am doubtful that Iranian agents doing these same actions to scientists in the US or Israel on the street would be considered a legitimate military action and not terrorism.

A scientist in the US or Israel working on developing a nuclear weapon would be a military target. Why does this surprise you?

There's a reason you don't know the names of any scientists in the US or Israel working on nuclear weapons: They would instantly become targets.

Do you imagine war is some kind of game where everyone is like "it's my turn now", and there's a referee?
This is exactly the same thing that goes through my head. We could really just fast forward or rewind time and events were always going to happen that way if we could understand the circumstances.
https://vast.ai/console/create/
Crypto is so strange. You claim ownership over a string of 1s and 0s. Exclusive rights.
This UI change is what may drive me away from a family plan if it doesn't get addressed.
I always worry about self-assessment data. Especially when an experimenter or other participants are in the room or otherwise observing or interacting with the participant during the self-assessment.

The results of Dunning-Kruger-adjacent experiments always present their results as measuring "How people think they perform" against "How they actually perform", when they seem to actually be measuring "How people tell other people they perform" against "How they actually perform".

Which seems to me like it's a slightly different thing? It seems like the pop-sci "those people are too stupid to know how stupid they are" interpretation isn't the only plausible interpretation, anyway.
> … before trading any for a home or land -- I'd be happy to rent.

You're still trading for a home and land even if you rent. It's just a more temporary arrangement.
It's a waste of time is what it is. We don't actually need so many people in the world. So there are a bunch of folks with no real purpose who are bored. They spend their time doom scrolling and pulling others into their void. Some of them also feel the need to vocalize. It would be far better if we just paid everyone $4k a month and otherwise we all minded our own business.
> general preference for biggins buttons instead of drop-down

I could never understand the strong revulsion some people have with that design language. To me the Windows 95 "File Edit etc." toolbar is terribly eye straining and has no place in the 21st century. Besides, with the ubiquity of touch screens in laptops the GNOME team has been entirely vindicated in their decision to take a more touch oriented approach. Larger buttons are easier to click with the mouse too.
I think parent is under the impression that a search warrant is the only kind of warrant. That is not correct.
I remember seing twitter early on and thinking it wasn't too impressive but guessed it was just an MVP and it could become fantastic in a couple of years when they added groups and topics and machine-to-machine and became a messaging backbone of the internet.

Instead they doubled down on being a massive high intensity low value channel: technically impressive yet sad.
Nope. Because you might get a variant you’re not immune to. Even those vaccinated that may happen to.

Not to mention people who develop an immune response but not one robust enough to stop another infection.

If folks think getting Covid or the vaccine is the end of things will be surprised. This isn’t going away in the next 3-4 years.
Why bother with DRY at all? Just sed all day to replace 24 instances of function foo().
What Marshall McLuhan said.
Is a concept like 'feeding babies is better (i.e. cheaper and healthier) than jailing adults' progressive and so probably based on misinformed understandings of history and science, or is it not progressive?
I lost quite a lot of productivity every day because I forget to put my phone on DND; I inevitably get some random robocall during a remote meeting which messes up my my bluetooth audio.

This wastes not only my time, but often a bit of time from whoever else is on the call from me missing important information.
It’s not a serious target for App Store scams, or scam software in general, because the user base is tiny compared to iOS.

I think you know this.
What ever happened to non-tracking contextual ads?

If I browse stackoverflow I'm probably looking for some saas, or tech related, or a react training course on a react question. If I browse game sites maybe I want a MMORPG promo or time card sale.

I don't want to see an ad to buy more toilets after having purchased a toilet once a month ago that is supposed to last decades. On every single site. For the next year.
You’re not in a market segment the company is pursuing. Avoiding price sensitive customers is a good business sense. They would need to support twenty $4 customers for the same revenue as one $80 customer. Their overhead would be higher. And profits lower.

There are good reasons not to take on customers for whom a thousand dollars a year is a deal breaker. Among them is it favors B2B relationships over B2C.

GitHub had free plans. There’s no point competing with that.
I'm kind of annoyed by some of the general negative tone of some of the comments here: "Ha! The FBI is guilty of hacking", or "But they didn't patch the root cause!"

In my understanding, the FBI:

1. Applied for and received a lawful court order

2. To make as minimally invasive as change as possible to help the targeted networks

3. While making a best effort to contact the network owners to tell them what they were doing and then

4. Widely publicizing what they did.

Not everything is some big "gotcha" conspiracy. We can just say "thank you" and move on.
It's interesting how people turn into such app misers when it comes to messengers. It's upsetting to have multiple different ones, even though they don't eat up disk space.

Some are very loyal to the Zuckerberg offerings. They ride or die with the Zuckster.
I doubt I'm incorrect. There were 46 billion robocalls in 2020. That would be a $2.3 billion operating cost. Make it 10 cents and its 4.6 billion. Robocallers are not making 2-5 billion per year scamming people.
Echoing the other sentiments in this thread, I have also decided against giving NetGate money, due to their persistent BS. Though, it is at least worth noting in case it gets missed, that this announcement appears to be from January.
This is why when Jews tell you someone is not "anti-zionist", they are actually antisemitic, you should probably believe them.

True anti-zionists, who are not also antisemitic, are extremely rare.
Say a Uber driver asked you if driving a Honda sedan was good for his driving career. What would you say to him.

Or if you prefer a more historical analogy it’s like a free mason saying is using one particular brand of construction materials good for his career. What would you say to him.

Don’t forget we software engineers are just modern day free masons.

Whether rust becomes a good choice or not is based directly on what you learned from using it and not just developing with it. A goog Career is based knowledge and or experience compounding. When you start with that in mind the language doesn’t matter as much as the learning. Language is just a tool at that point. Sure knowing how to use multiple tools is good. But that kind of differentiator will only get you so far.

Good luck!
Yeah I wouldn't read to much into his addled 'brain' lol but he also asked his advisors if he could Nuke hurricanes and there are lots of reports that he is fixated on them, asking 'why can't i use them' like a 8 year old wanting to use dangerous adult power tools but WHYYYY. Or responding why do we have them if we don't use them.

Sorry that's probably too much editorializing for HN but it's extremely farcical on its face.

https://time.com/4437089/donald-trump-nuclear-weapons-nukes/

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-40879868
No automatic software updates.
> And for my comically large (43”) monitor, I couldn’t use the extra vertical space if I tried.

It's actually pretty hilarious if you have a monitor arm that allows rotating the monitor, the amount of vertical space is ludicrous. You can fit a side by side diff with over 200 lines of code visible.

It's not very practical, though.
GPG keys are usually stored encrypted at rest.
A bit odd to criticize them for being "Protestant" and then quote CS Lewis.
You're just making guesses and not in good faith.
$100 / $0.05 = 2,000

Do you think the scammers have a better return than $100 / 2,000 calls made?
This, so much of this.
Twitter will just never be the best of the ways to have actual conversations.
You just have to ask yourself when has anyone left a twitter exchange with their mind changed? I mean is not like impossible that being said I doubt is a high percentage.
In top of that add the fact that a lot of people that grew up on tumblr (with its own h way of having conversations and with its won metalanguage) became a big part of the social justice movements in twitter and you have the perfect explosion.
I honestly do not mean that actual and real accountability is bad however when the mob attacks somebody like Joe Rogan they just made him more famous, but when they attack somebody like the kid that said "n*ga guacamoles p*nis" the result is much different. A kid that didnt know quite better had his life destroyed and the lifelihood of his parents too. For those that do not know the life of thta kid and his parents got destroyed.
SO instead of accountability and people evolving the dialogue and getting better you have this neopuritan mob destroying lifes, dividing people more and ultimately not changing the incorrect ways of anyone instead you just entrench their positions further. Is cannibalistic.
I don't know what the future of human interaction looks like on a global-scale omnidirectional communications medium...

... But Twitter ain't it. I deleted my account years ago and have never been happier.
I'm coming to this conversation late, but your pain points are almost exactly the same ones that inspired a side project of mine [1].

I'd love to hear of any more issues you have with Figma or your workflow in general.

What I'm working on is a web app that serves your project's Figma designs to a focused workspace where you can code them up. Different breakpoints, states, and specs are all right there, so there's no window switching and you never have to open Figma. And it notifies you of design updates.

Still a work in progress, but I hope to launch it later this year.

[1] https://wipkit.com/
if your unpatched server is being used as a command&control server in an active offensive campaign, you can be liable for damages your server caused.

I hope that in the future there will be some fine for Server Neglect (leaving internet facing server unpatched and hosting web shells for 5 days after patch publication by vendor) and you will lose your server and all your data for such misdemeanor.
Hmm I have a bit forgotten how things were, before Colemak. I was typing mostly software things, when I decided to switch. I think I a bit felt like you do.

> But when I'm ready to code, my typing speed is the single biggest factor

Especially when writing docs / comments for that code, then it's mostly English words (rather than `(){};!+-,[]` things)