skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So disappointed :) I was hoping this was going to be a visualization OF bullshit, not a rant about bullshit visualizations.

All seriousness aside, Correll fails to realize that the layout, length, and organization of your text are also forms of visualization, and at those, he fails completely.

"It is my contention that many (most?) visualizations are bullshit in either the Frankfurt sense of attempting to persuade while being totally disconnected from notions of truths about the world, or in the Graeber sense of being created for no readily apparent purpose and to no real useful end."

So he's shown us some erudition by throwing in Frankfurt & Graeber. Whoopee. When he mentions Tufte, a pioneer and a giant in his field, he's dismissive.

All that said, there is some worthwhile stuff in here. He needs to study The Elements of Style, hire an editor, and reduce it to a readable three pages or so, single-column.
MVP vs. Prototype – Which One to Choose for Idea Validation?
Fairy nuff. I only discovered the SMP plans about 8 months ago, but evidently they've been around since ~ 2019-08. Not hugely well advertised to existing customers, unfortunately.

I'm barely hitting 1GB / month of metered content (but doing 300-600gb of unmetered) which is a huge improvement over the similar-priced satellite plans from SkyMesh for 70/70 (peak & off peak) plans, which involved regular usage checks and much fretting over bandwidth utilisation.
Here comes progressivism in all its glory
The problem is that the layperson sees experts being wrong all the time. From the doctor who misdiagnosed their cousin, to the epidemiological modelling that turned out incapable of making accurate predictions, to entire fields of apparent bullshit like social psychology. They also see credentialed experts vociferously disagreeing about the truth of important matters. They watch news reports that tell them meat causes cancer and that you should eat red meat to reduce your chances of getting cancer. They read news articles telling them cloth masks will save your life and that cloth masks are useless.

People are bombarded with contradictory expert advice, so it's hardly surprising that they decide experts don't know what they hell they're talking about.
I find it hard to square those company reported stats with the extremely common experience of your tesla trying to drive through a red light or similarly insane maneuver.
Oh come on, that's assuming a 30 year mortgage with 5% interests and not taking into account inflation of rent.

Take into account rent inflation and use 2.5% interest rates and then we'll see...
There can be a lot of value in value in a code base such as this. Just copy an existing open source lib, add a small speed up, push for fast adoption across common OS build tools, now you can sell committer rights for a high price to anyone wanting to launch a supply chain attack. Could be very profitable.

This is of course unlikely to be ai’s motivation. I just wanted to present a count point to the argument that such modules have low value.
An extinction event that wipes put humans would wipe out every large animal too. Humans are incredibly versatile and adaptable.
There’s some really interesting work coming out of the Swift project and smart people involved in it’s development but I keep feeling like not enough attention is being paid to basics. Tooling and compiler performance need some serious attention. These are boring tasks but crucial for the language’s wider appeal.
To me, it reads like a presentation prepared for upper management. The bolded headings would be standalone title cards. The text after each heading gets its own slide. The bullet points come on the next slide, fading in one after another as the presenter clicks the remote.

It's expected that the manager will begin to daydream about golfing during the bullet point slides, so the info there isn't as important :)
Hiring based on a specific stack instead of fundamentals.
But the whole point is that the reach and scale of social media means it's much easier to become an influencer, and furthermore you don't need to have some other celebrated skill (acting, sports, etc.) to get noticed.
> Science is the process of gaining, evaluating, and revising knowledge and understanding, Science is not a body of knowledge. It's an algorithm, not data. So clearly, having access to the largest book ever written does not say anything about scientific literacy.

Great description, loved "It's an algorithm, not data." especially.

> Here's the thing: people [...] love to not think for themselves.

Wtf? I agree with what you write before, but then in this comment you're grossly generalizing and calling people dumb. Why? Does it make you feel better? Maybe you could try to dig into your judgement here and share what emerges? Why do people 'love not to think for themselves', and then why are you different? Or what makes you and a few others uniquely able to see this?

I tried to honestly and state my personal state here if you're interested or need inspiration to describe your lens or your experience: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28661179
Let’s talk again in the dark and something like 100m away
Okay. You're so in the minority that we can safely say "nobody does this" and still have it be an accurate statement at a statistical level.
LIV is also the name of a fairly popular VR-tool [0] for capturing in-game footage combining it with the view from real-world camera, so I was confused at first

[0] - https://www.liv.tv/
Because bitcoins are completely decentralised and fungible, there is no real driver to Bitcoin miners paying more for renewable energy, other than the threat of government intervention.

I can’t read the full article to see if there is a rebuttal though as it’s behind a paywall.
my condolences.
> It's usually a different part of the taillight cluster which may be red or amber,

Which remains one of the issues, even if it's not technically a brake light. In Europe red turning signs are not legal.

But I can see how the same turn signal in amber would help very little, as you'd still have a very clear, very bright arrow pointing the wrong way entirely.
> If you let Jesus take the wheel in a Tesla under manual control it will absolutely depart your lane and hit whatever you are aimed at.

You are wrong.

https://www.teslarati.com/tesla-lane-departure-avoidance-sav...

I understand your confusion though, Tesla is well behind other manufacturers here.

VWs have had this behavior for years now, almost as soon as they started dabbling in advanced safety assists, meanwhile Tesla got it just two years ago.

https://youtu.be/TITEf_taUto

Kind of shows where the priorities were early on, saving incapacitated drivers vs "look ma no hands!"

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Also your second quote just leaves me with more questions.

What on earth are you talking about

> You want to save drivers where they incorrectly countermand an incorrect autonomy decision in a circumstance where the incorrect autonomy would have been correct.

What?
Cool!

I was trying to find out if they blinked in the weird arrow pattern by configuring one online, but it's impossible to tell (they're not shown blinking).

Kinda surprising that they're not keen on selling potential customers on the upgrade.
The article is about a marketing agency that represents people with significant social media followings.

Now that YouTube and other platforms have become so diluted that ad revenue is minimal, it makes sense that anyone with a large following would seek an agency to help them find advertisers. I get the impression that most moderately successful YouTubers make significantly more money from in-video product advertisements than they do from YouTube's ad revenue sharing.

It's also interesting how radioactive the word "influencer" has become in tech circles like HN. Nobody likes to think of their preferred internet media stars as "influencers", but they liberally apply the influencer label to internet celebrities they dislike. How often to you see Matt Levine (Money Stuff newsletter), Scott Alexander (Slate Star Codex / Astral Codex Ten), Marques Brownleee (MKBHD), or Patrick McKenzie (patio11) described as influencers? All of them are (or have in the past) used their platforms to sell products or show ads, yet they have enough rapport in the tech community that people almost never describe them as influencers. If you pretend the ads and sales pitches don't exist, or wave them away as a necessary part of their business, it's easy to pretend they aren't actually influencers playing the influencer game.

Instead, the "influencer" label has become synonymous with "fake person I don't like who shills products for money". In reality, a lot of the newsletters, YouTube channels, and blogs that the tech community loves to consume are also engaged in these very same influencer marketing circles. It's how the business works.
My dad put little mirrors in the garage so he can check the blinkers easily without leaving the vehicle.
Emerging Trends in Communication Market Competition
I wonder if Skype would have survived had they used an open protocol.
Arguments of other side explains a lot:

https://twitter.com/PostCSS/status/1441734989490446336

https://twitter.com/sitnikcode/status/1441878805337935877
If you're following close enough that this is an issue then you are driving too close for the conditions.
Similar situation...the U.S. fire fighting community starting using European-style reflective chevrons in the 2005-2010 period. U.S. apparatus spec is governed by something called NFPA 1901 but is highly decentralized and people were mounting them upside down even though they were conforming to the (nascent) standard for rear reflective surface area. The "V" shape of upside down chevrons can pull people TOWARDS a vehicle vs. direct them away from it. Mostly fixed now but a hot mess.

Incorrect: https://ambulancevisibilityblog.files.wordpress.com/2011/01/...

Correct: https://www.alamy.com/stock-photo-bright-neon-yellow-and-red...

Just why?: https://svigraphics.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/Curbside-...

tl;dr you can meet a safety standard and make things worse at the same time...
> Tangentially: it's somewhat interesting that we don't consider the source code history in our OSS licenses...

IIUC, IANAL, we don't have to worry about it.

Versions of software can have different licenses, and the license for each version is the license that the repo was under when that version was committed.

As far as I know, if you replace every instance of "version" in the previous paragraph with "commit", it still applies.

I think this means that every commit is under a specific license, and therefore, the entire history is under one or more licenses.
> there should be no trouble at all for a driver to understand, when seeing the full rear of the car, which direction is being indicated.

This response from Mini presumes drivers have the luxury of using "system 2" logical/analytical reasoning in a hectic realtime environment where they must most rely on "system 1" intuitive reasoning.

There needs to be a name for this type design fallacy, because it's not the first time I've seen it.
Reagan did in 1981
Lol, it wasn't Adobe that killed plugins, rather an intifada against browser plugins, that is yet to match Adobe's tooling.
There is no such thing as "the native residents" of a US state. That's not a thing. At least, it's not a thing that deserves any level of deference.

People have moved around in mass numbers throughout US history. What you're doing is choosing arbitrary criteria for which people are "native" (read: legitimate) residents of a place, and which people are invaders. That's not defensible.
Psychology IS indeed pseudoscience, one of the most well known fields of pseudoscience, what made you think otherwise?
If it’s dark, both rear red lights will be on. It could be motorcycles, if they are really close together but that sounds unlikely.
If data is required to perform a service you've requested (lawful basis = 'contract') then further consent is not needed under GDPR.

If by "requires information about" you mean "wishes to track/advertise to" then yes, that sounds like a headache. This is by design, and welcome.
Ah makes sense. Remember /s next time.

Don’t get me started on Cmd-Tab will full screen and Spaces!!
I agree. I think the secret to workflow abstraction relies in the relationships between the data. A lot can be inferred about workflow based on the direction, cardinality and type of relationship being represented.
> What is the definition of influencer anymore?

It's not really chasing fame as such, since fame is the default on the web now. The barrier to entry of being 'known' is so low now, that the oldskool notion of fame doesn't apply anymore. Hence Everyone in the title. Buy the latest iPhone, setup a few accounts and then you can start selling stuff really easily. You're also selling your personality too though, not just some product. The best influencers have insane charisma.
But like they wouldn't be any less British if they pointed the other way.
truth. but if you cannot avoid the trackers, then you should diversify them. e.g. I only ask Bing health questions. Google thinks I'm as healthy as horse (or at least not neurotic about my health).
It is hard to to go if you factor in basic human psychology.
Beating a Roulette with Martingale System
> The animated GIF in the article isn’t confusing is it?

I would say that it, in fact, is: once you see the arrow pointing the wrong way around it becomes difficult to "unsee" it.

I actually missed the issue in the video, the gif and text made the arrow "pop out", and now I can't unsee the clearly right-pointing arrow blinking at me, from a car which is certainly trying to turn left.
I wanted to use it as well on windows the other day.
Because I wanted to migrate a mssql database to PostgreSQL. However AFAIR there were no builds I could find and from what I read in the issues it is quite discouraging, a pity
That's not what I took from that comment, but there's another by the same poster that I can't see so maybe that's what they were suggesting there. Obviously, I'd personally vote against any such plan, but the issue is that there might not be a vote. By the looks of it we are inching towards one and half the world is in denial and the other half is arguing about how much beef we should be eating. It's ridiculous.

Anyway, I have no doubts that life and people will be around for a very long time, it's our current lifestyles that are either going to voluntarily change or be changed for us.

So to offer a solution, I think we need to put a dollar value on biodiversity in addition to carbon tax so that these things start to show up on the spreadsheets of people with the actual power to change things.
My wife thinks my anti-modern-mini rants are incredibly funny. But I think the car is a list of lazy mistranslations of a design classic. Thanks for adding another example to my list of mini shame.
Ubiquitous. Front-end, back-end, embedded and there's a node wrap for everything.
Tesla reports aggregated accident statistics publicly (for its Autopilot product, not this current round of FSD Beta testing obviously): https://www.tesla.com/VehicleSafetyReport

And indeed, they're better than human drivers. People will nitpick a little around the edges (e.g. cherry picking drivers of cars of the same age or in the same price range, pointing out the lack of specific numbers in various categories, arguing about the definition of "on autopilot"...), but the general truth is that yes: the "better than human" bar has already been cleared. We are not seeing the rate of accidents from this system that we would see if it was unsafe. Period.
Tycho also works for me when I’m in that sort of mood.
And that's okay and expected - it would be unrealistic to expect people to be 100% ideal givers.

In the parent post's quote "If you’re a giver, what are you looking for?" the "If" is doing a lot of heavy lifting.
I wouldn't be so sure of that. Most of the world's copyright laws follow the Berne Convention, which in addition to the economic rights that US copyright law provides also provides "moral" rights including the right of attribution.

The US sort of half-heartedly added moral rights about 30 years ago in order to join Berne, but they are limited mostly to works of visual arts and would not apply to code.

They are not so limited in most of the rest of the world. Furthermore in much of the world (such as most of Europe) an author cannot waive or assign their moral rights and so any license term that purports to do so would be invalid in those places.

Even if I was the kind of person who would want to misattribute someone else's work as my own, unless I was very very sure that I only had to worry about US copyright law I would tread very carefully.
Not to mention Agent Smith is dead wrong. Want to see biggest polluter/changer in the world. Plants. It's not a virus. It's plants.

Oxygen is a highly toxic compound, that's essentially exhaust gas for photosynthesis.

Plants changed the world way more than humans ever did. They redefined the basic chemistry of all other life on Earth. Because they slaughtered 97% of all life, by accident. What survived had to use/endure oxygen.
Related to this -- many popular packages churn through changes for change-sake. For example LTS on Symfony is just 3 years and on Doctrine, a single contributor is renaming a bunch of standard PHP/DBAL functions for no serious reason other than feels. It would be nice if LTS was more like a 10 year commitment but I know that's not fun for developers and it is a serious drawback to a lot of open source projects. The frameworks have to change because PHP is changing and then you get a stack that's broken and needs multiple upgrades and major refactoring.
They have been great. I feel like they run a good honest transparent operation. I think they are also pretty picky about which projects they take on; I applied before the campaign and they didn’t want to get on board, but that changed after the project raised 150k.
No, it's the opposite in a situation where people are mostly going 80 and only a few are doing the speed limit. Try traveling down interstate 95, this is an every day situation.

Look at traffic as a fluid: A stream is calm when the water flows at the same speed and direction, when there is nothing to get in the way. Put a rock into the stream and now water has to move around it, causing flow patterns that collide. Traffic can be looked at as a fluid in the same way. If you want it to flow without friction, it all needs to go the same speed in one direction. Accidents and traffic slow-downs are caused when people merge and people have to slow down unexpectedly, which is going to happen when you're going 30mph under the prevailing traffic speed.

Yes, the person going 55 is following the law, but the law was written in a faraway room, a long time ago, by people not driving on the road in that instant. Sometimes in the instant, following the law is not the safe thing to do. It's the same reason it's not safe to go 25 in a 55, and that trucks are required to put their flashers on if they're going under a certain speed. Because they hare a hazard if they are going too slow.
Very true, this is a reason i'm trying to distance myself from the NPM ecosystem actually... It's a cultural problem as much as a technical one, and it is ripe for exploitation... In combination with some of the NPM CVEs revealed in the past, it's pretty scary the reach and potential a single NPM package has for destruction and exploitation... and that is before even considering packages that get included in front and back end code for the web.
So if a bug is found such as the fact a particular pattern that happens to be the logo of an up-and-coming boy band crashes the car's visual software we just have to tell everyone to stay home and not use their self driving cars until they've installed the fix and hope people actually receive the message before tragedy happens?
Oh not a problem. It’s just that since the soul is ineffable, it makes one wonder: a what is it’s usage a shortcut for?

Whoever I see the word soul, in an argument I can otherwise understand… it works and glosses over a lot of complicated common ground.

But if I don’t know what’s going on, it’s as useful as reading “quod erat demonstrandum” at the end of a proof.
I have a portable USB external display that's super slim. It's a nice thing to have for sure.
I guess you are talking about limits like in analysis, but even then I don't think this is really true. I'm not really sure if you intend to distinguish between limits and colimits; I'll assume not, but I would certainly agree that infinite (inverse) limits are harder to understand with diagrams.

On a simple level, limits in category theory don't need to involve infinite things at all, you can take the limit over a small category like (x --> x <-- x).

With regard to derived concepts, one can draw pictures of "projective resolutions" or draw level by level pictures of the nerve of the category you want to work with. So I think you can in fact make useful pictures even in this case.
Yeah at my company it’s “show us your code” otherwise we do a code challenge.

Seems completely obvious but many orgs can’t get there for some reason.
What if one tail light is slightly defective and you're in the dark. Driving is done with the subconscious and this potentially lethal in the wrong circumstance.
I search for something like "reddit favorite sci-fi novel".
You compared an ID.4 to a LeMans car. Neither of them are hypercar or supercars. Theyre purpose built racecars.

“ The point is battery electric propulsion is clearly in the realm of supercars today. Here's an example:”

No, they dont. They can only compete on a very restricted space: straight line speed, or a single lap. The competition is always tailored to deal with the same problem: they’re heavy.

“ The VW ID.R completed its lap in 365 seconds. That's an average of 1 km every 17.55 seconds. Add on the extra 35 seconds for the extra 2 km, or even add on an extra 45 seconds, and the ID.R still beats Niki. Sorry.”

You either break the record or you don't. Theres no “could possibly if I do a linear fit”.

Linear fit? Really?

But lets keep it linear. Niki’s record is 45 years old on a longer, more difficult track on a car made to last a 2 hr race and not custom built for that one track, and not made of carbon fiber.

Im supposed to be impressed compared to the Ferrari?

Here’s F1 dirty secret:

Since the 1930s (!!) the cars have been faster than human reflexes. F1 rules, for almost 100 years, have been about slowing the cars down.

Good for VW, great accomplishment, but its good for an electric car. Good despite being an electric car. Good for within their competition space. But the ICE has too much of a weight advantage.
I completely agree with you, but your last point is exactly why recent updates are a proxy for ‘well-maintained.’ Software is so complex that it _has_ to have dependencies, and even if you vendor them / compile to an executable, that doesn’t account for upstream bug or security fixes.
European Minis have those stupid looking Union Jack light clusters, but IIRC it’s just the horizontal bar that flashes yellow on those, not the extra diagonal bits that make them into reverse arrows.
Long history of this effect in cognitive science, have to suppress the incongruity.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eriksen_flanker_task

I’m with the author, having the arrows point the right way would be cool.
I for one don't want to be an influencer.

Social media is damaging to society, doing things for likes is damaging for the ego, and curating your world for Instagram or TikTok likes is choosing to live in a simulacra.

No Facebook, Instagram, Snapchat, WeChat, WeiBo, or TikTok for me ~ just Hacker News. Upvote me here so I know you agree and we can influence others not to be influencers.
Meanwhile, this is standard on some European market cars under heavy braking.
Just so everyone is clear, you think Trump would have been the better choice than Biden?
tl/dr
Yes