skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What strikes me about that graph is that the entire group is likely to be more skilled than the general population. The selection only of people who have the interest and means to attend higher education seems like a narrow window at the furthest edge of the true graph. So I wonder what it would look like if we included people of all education levels and social strata?

My gut, based on this article, is that it would look generally the same but with a larger spread at the lower end of the scale. But I don't think we can truly say we've disproved the Dunning-Kruger effect without a more varied dataset.
I have received plenty of reasons, but none from meatsauce so we unfortunately don't know what he meant.
Right leaning thought is already welcomed in large portions of the public square. Right-wing media outlets are very successful and have been for a long time, and people can get all sorts of opinions broadcasted there. There are also multiple right-wing Twitter alternatives out there for anyone upset about Twitter's (relatively lax, honestly) moderation. Despite any complaints about Twitter moderation the fact is that plenty of people are able to broadcast right-wing views there.

Could additional places to communicate be useful? Sure, why not. Are we lacking them? Absolutely not.

COVID disinformation did result in right-wing speech being theoretically suppressed in some places, but that's because a lot of right-wing people were openly and loudly broadcasting absolute nonsense, which got their general ability to speak on those platforms curtailed. That was a self-inflicted wound, though, and not something that really can get fixed by new platforms.

I'll also note that many media outlets people call "left-leaning" openly welcome and platform right-wing speech. CNN, ny times, etc frequently hire right-wing politicians and commentators to "balance" their commentary.
If you can't track provenance to un-restrict the pointers because it's infeasible, then you have to give up on at least one of the optimization passes. In this case, the optimizations used are very fundamental and giving up on any one of them unilaterally would be catastrophic for performance. The provenance models being suggested add more nuance to the model (pointer provenance) so that we can keep all of the optimization passes while preventing these cases from being optimized incorrectly. Weak provenance says we can't optimize away the pointer to integer cast, strict provenance says we must provide provenance for integer to pointer casts. Weak provenance is broadly compatible with existing code (compiler semantics change) whereas strict provenance is not (language semantics change). The tradeoff is that strict provenance leads to better optimization in general.
His past behavior gives strong evidence of these things. If one looks at this offer without any broader context, then sure, it looks like people are making a big deal out of nothing. But that's disingenuous.
From my side it reads as if Elon has master-level trolled partisans.

I think that's exactly it. I can't find any other interpretation that makes sense.

Lots of folks are up-in-arms about how he's going to destroy free speech. But since there's no hint from Musks's quarter that anything would be done to limit anyone's speech - more the opposite, that he largely opposes any such limitations - their concerns make no sense. I know it's partisan and uncharitable, but the only way I can find to read it is a fear that the kind of anti-speech limitations that they are accustomed to and they like will be removed. Thus, Musk has trolled them into revealing this secret preference.
A lot of LSPs are written for node though, like pyright for example (yes, the best python LSP is written in typescript). It's kind of unavoidable to use node at some point if you're using LSPs in your editor.
Last time he mentioned Tesla shares in a video, he had sold them for a nice profit, but is no longer holding shares.
this is the first i've heard of cyclists having to obey any traffic laws of any kind. But then again, I live in Arkansas.
jq for quick lookup, jsonb for actual storage, indexing jsonb is a pain though
Indeed they don't: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/foundation/1/1e/Wikim...
Yup, it's an instance of warning fatigue.

They exist because of the usual bureaucratic CYA risk-avoidance. "We have to do something, this is something" and "If it saves just one life" and all that, even though the vast majority of stop signs never will. Or even the cumulative man-hours lost by stopping exceeds that one life.
You’re deep in the trenches if you’ve only worked in places that don’t even provide free coffee and teas.
> as I can tell they didn't usher in a new age of love, peace, and tolerance.

Things did improve, but of course how would you attribute it to that, and of course, how would you account for the effectiveness of the counter forces? Just because something didn't succeed completely doesn't mean we can conclude it has no effect, especially if it wasn't actually tried at the suggested scale. We have this problem in Vancouver with opioid addiction and there are some services in place but they are mostly shit and the government's overall plan is direly incomplete. Then people say "Wow, we spent money on harm reduction and still have addicts".
Those aren't javelin cages, they're called "cope cages"[1], because they're just a psychological coping mechanism for the troops inside, but offer no protection against modern smart munitions like NLAW or Javelin.

They're a relic since Russia's war in Chechnya where those cages could protect against ancient RPGs fired from buildings in narrow city streets.

[1] https://i.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/original/002/324/004/043...
yea i'm glad i wasn't around when that was discovered.
I've been cycling in urban environments for 20+ years, and the only time I've been hit by a car was when I was rear ended at a stop sign. There's also been a half dozen or so other times where I've heard cars come to a quick stop behind me, or that I've pulled into the crosswalk to avoid being hit.
Feel like many bicyclists already act like this is the law regardless of the right of way. Anecdotal of course but around me they just blow through stop signs like they have permanent right of way. Especially the groups riding together in the mornings. Totally ignore all rules of the road.
Cycling should be for people of all ages, skill levels, and risk tolerances. I don't think it's sensible to be snarky to someone because you judge them to be taking too many precautions for their safety.
Good to see this common-sense law spreading.

"The Myth of the Scofflaw Cyclist" (https://washcycle.typepad.com/home/2008/07/the-myth-of-the.h...) highlights why this issue provokes such strong emotion from drivers:

> Running a red light is so dangerous for cars that it isn't just illegal, it's taboo. You're breaking a social construct. That means people find it objectionable and abhorrent. So if education is needed, maybe it's needed to explain why it's safer for cyclists to do it than for drivers.
Another trite complaint about startups not being cool enough these days. There are plenty of interesting and well funded startups if you earnestly look for them. As for the majority that aren’t interesting to you, well, they don’t owe you entertainment.

The Utopia you describe seems to be “VCs give me unlimited money but I’m not expected to provide them any returns or listen to their suggestions, ever”. I don’t know what to say to that. It sounds like what you really want is to be rich, so you can finance your own experiments.

Like others have said, this blog post would be much more interesting if you described what experiments you'd run if you had money. I think about that myself very often.
What do you do, if you are an indie developer and you suck at marketing
I have tried now at least 5 times to launch SaaS products as an indie developer. But I suck at marketing. When I look at my website traffic it's depressing. The product is pretty good and the competitors are doing fine, but I suck at getting the word out.

What do I need to do? Any advice is appreciated.
Yeah - it surprising how much demand there (still!) is for 'C'. It doesn't get all the press the 'sexy' languages get. But there's still a lot of work...
The couple of times I've had friends or coworkers deal with non-competes it wasn't an issue of enforceability but rather are the employee AND the new employer willing to deal with it.

Both times the new company withdrew its employment offers. It is pretty terrible. It leaves the employee at a company they don't want to be at.

This was in Colorado and Texas FWIW
I can’t imagine any of the stop signs here in Los Angeles being able to be replaced by yield signs.

They are almost all 4 way stops, with regular traffic in all directions. If you made it an uncontrolled intersection, or added a yield sign, the road with the yield sign would never get a chance to go.

In fact, there are a number of places along my route to my daughters school where I take a slightly longer way to avoid the intersections without a 4 way stop because I would end up sitting forever trying to turn if I went to one of them.
> However, claiming that "basically all" IPs are multiplexed is definitely wrong. A home or small office broadband line typically gets a dynamic-but-ephemerally-unique IP, same as it always did.

IPs assigned to homes and small offices are still multiplexed. It's just a case of magnitude. (In other words, it's rare for a home or small office to contain just a single person.)

The policy as stated makes no sense, if they intend for it to be something like "more than 5 people per IP" they should just say so.

> The effect of IPv6 on this isn't totally clear to me yet. If anything, as IPv6 deployment among ISPs increases, the trend seems to be for less multiplexing and not more.

FWIW, every ISP I've used in the last ~10 years has delegated me an IPv6 prefix, resulting in each device in the network getting a unique IPv6 address. I've never seen any kind of NAT used in the wild for residential IPv6.
Rockefeller, Mellon, Hearst
Thats a bit detached from reality. Conflating a billionaire spending their money for something that as far as youre co cerned is a different proposition to something the governement can madate and control through their monopoly on force.
How are 3 way stops safer?
Plenty of the laws passed by American legislatures are literally written by corporate lobbyists and promoted by the corporate media, yeah.
LOL!

Well time to continue using "site:www.reddit.com" on Google, then. I find the old search from old.reddit.com to be way better than the newer search (but I haven't tried this newest search linked in the thread).
I'm the grinch of cycling ever since I blew my knees from doing rides that went up a mile vertically when I was 20. There was that time I was in agony riding home from a Ross Perot rally.

I went through a phase when my knees hurt just looking at a bicycle. Even today I avoid any hills, off-road or anything challenging.
Is the corollary to this that if we ever see some faction largely controlling that public square, we can assume that they're also controlling the government?
Seiko UC-2000 – The Dawn of Wearable Computers
This is really interesting. I wonder whether they can increase their impact by narrowing the time frame and also adding repeatability to the list of criteria, so as to better motivate building capacity that can lower the price for the broader market in the years before/after.
I can tell you're being sarcastic and think this is some kind of "gottcha, ya hypocritical lefties", but that is exactly what will happen if he takes it over and tries to make it all about "free speech". It's happened plenty of time in the past. This will just end up being another version of the same story that's been repeating for decades now. It will turn into the cesspool and no one of any note will want to be on it anymore. Whatever new thing takes its place will be open-ish at first, eventually gravitate towards "left-leaning", become popular enough that businesses and news outlets start posting to it, and ultimately become a target for the rich to take over. The cycle has already started, kids do not have any interest in Twitter.

I doubt Musk cares about free speech and I doubt much would actually change if he took it over. He might give powerful people less trouble, but it wouldn't mean anything for the plebs. He just wants to own a major platform because that's what billionaires do.
Yes. I'm actually also against tradeable joint-stock corporations, admittedly a quite radical position, but one I share with people such as Adam Smith ;)
It's also so much easier to write plugins in Lua than the insanity that is Vimscript. It's why I'm slowly moving into Lua-ifying my configuration away from old standbys like NERDTree to things like nvim-tree.lua.
Russia is already poverty stricken without any of that. Imagine being president of a country for 22 years (Putin) and its still an economic shithole.
You haven't been to Sherman Oaks.
The saddest thing about this bid going through is that we're going to miss out on the next SpaceX or Tesla and he's going to be pulling his hair out over this intead.
I play a game with friends where we try to come up with the most obtuse query that will still return the right answer from google. It's incredible the type of things it can understand.
There is a disinformation campaign against remote work. The likely culprit behind it are commercial real estate interests and good old fashioned corporate leaders with their head buried in the sand.

Ed Zitron’s Substack has been following and reporting on the remote work propaganda machine for over a year.

https://ez.substack.com/archive?sort=top
Question for you, why would you ever roll coal?
It's enough for me. I have a 2022 4K TV that I just never connected to a network and everything works just fine.
The kernel today has its own complete standard library of data structures and threading primitives for C. In general I find these much more well-designed and pleasant to use than the user-space C standard library. Give me work queues and kfifos over pthreads any time!

Maybe the rust devs can also learn something worthwhile from working with the kernel community.
Little bit odd simultaneously lamenting the dearth of new ideas and complaining that people are doing the same thing over & over.

If it was that easy to come up with unique new viable ideas VCs would be investing in that. But its hard. Has little to do with risk tolerance.
That's an interesting question. The area north of Potrero didn't become residential until quite recently and I don't think they ran streetcars in the specific place I'm thinking of. They were basically tracks in an industrial part of town headed in the direction of Southern Pacific rail.
This article is about trying to hammer into the public’s brain the conflation of Twitter and a public utility. Referring to something that a small fraction of the country interacts directly with and an infinitesimal fraction actually contribute to as the public square in order to build support for legislation that would wrangle it into requiring it to reflect their viewpoint.
That's really pushing SQLite where it was clearly not engineered to go. If you need something that is accessible over the network, use a database server that is designed for it. The right tool for the right job.
Same in Turkey, and I presume through most of continental Europe. Most stop signs were removed in late 90s and converted into either implicit yields (i.e. nothing, ‘don’t be stupid’ rule) or traffic lights. Right now they’re trialling allowing California style allowed right turn at red lights.
This feels almost incoherent enough to be AI generated. I'm not sure what the argument being made even is.

Are they mad that Elon wants to buy twitter because he's rich? Are they mad because of his stated position on free speech? Are they trying to point to some imagined hypocrisy in people considering twitter a public square who are also cheering Elon's attempted purchase of it?

In the end the company would just be moving from one set of millionaires and billionaires to another set.

And then what's with the sudden tangent to AI regulation?
> address the actual problem in a way that still preserves the option for useful pseudonymity and participation

You mean like supporting use of pseudonymous accounts that don't require more than an email to register, just like HN? Wikipedia already does this. It's trivial to sign up with a throwaway email account. No one cares unless you try to abuse or game editing by making sockpuppets to sway debates.

They're also exploring how to mask IPs. https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/IP_Editing:_Privacy_Enhancem...
I really hate the mental health questionnaires. They did a poor job of assessing my difficulties when I was in the thick of it (I’m doing much better now). I also found them quite stressful to fill out.

I remember getting scores of “mild anxiety” or “mild depression” and just kind of sitting there confused and somewhat dismayed, thinking… “Why am I having such a hard time? What is actually wrong with me?”

Turns out some of my core issues were difficulty knowing and connecting with my emotional state, constantly trying to meet intense expectations that I believed were necessary regardless of how I was feeling, putting (what I imagined to be) the needs of others above my own needs, and having deep fractures in my sense of self-worth.

Five years ago, I was largely oblivious to all of that. All though some pieces of the puzzle had been slowly coming together for some time.

Some potentially more informative labels for what I’ve been dealing with: C-PTSD, emotional neglect, and / or highly sensitive person.

C-PTSD isn’t even in the frickin DSM! I had taken online questionnaires (the anxiety and depression ones mentioned earlier were from medical professionals) for PTSD. It didn’t really match up, which makes sense. There is less material for C-PTSD compared to PTSD. I did try one or two assessments I found online for c-ptsd and I think I got a score that was very close to the “clinical threshold”. Which was a little helpful. But it took me quite a while to get to that point and I was still confused and uncertain.

All that to say… The ”best in class” assessments, as well as our general ability to classify and understand the mental health difficulties that people experience, are not very good.

We can do much, much better. And doing so would alleviate an immense amount of suffering.

P.S. My advice for anyone who relates to this is to find a good somatic therapist who knows how to work with complex trauma / emotional neglect. It’s very difficult to work through this on your own. I was pretty skeptical about therapy… It took me 4 tries to find a good therapist. The first 3 were not that helpful. The somatic approach is important. If you haven’t found a good therapist, keep looking!
I've got to be honest. I live in SF and up in the Oakland Hills and ride a bicycle, commute via motorcycle, and use my SUV the rest of the time so I've got a nice cross-section of motorist interactions. The truth is that most people are nice on the road, easily adapt to other peoples' mistakes, and for the most part are doing the best they can.

On my bicycle, people will slow down to arrive at a stop a little later than me to give me right of way. On my motorcycle, folks will give me room to lane split easily. In my car, people will let me into the lane. An example of this is the time I was on CA-13 going South and when you come off CA-24 going West, you know that the on-ramp rapidly becomes an exit-only. The guy in front of me clearly didn't realize right off the bat (or he'd have merged early) so I slowed so that when he made the inevitable late attempt to merge he would have room. People do that for me too.

Given that my experiences are so different from Internet people's view of the road as some sort of general warzone, I can only conclude that most real-world people experience the road as what I see it: a shared space that we can collaboratively make less unpleasant. And also, that this so-called cyclist-driver animosity which I have only rarely experienced (and never actually on the PCH despite that being where I make drivers' lives most hard).

In practice, I treat stops as yields in the SF Bay Area and life is fine. Everyone is cool. I have to conclude that the people angry about other drivers are over-represented on the Internet.
I'm sorry, this is just beyond parody. A perfect distillation of HN brain.

> These tech companies say they are unbiased, that they are not political, and yet they are always everywhere denouncing murder, never giving the murderers any symbolic support.
I wonder how long it will take for Musk to run for the Whitehouse. Such a good way to have people talk about him even more, he cannot not do it.
I think people are really blowing twitters influence and impact out of proportion. I think theres a small vocal minority on twitter that uses it that think twitter is the world and discourse happens on it. Most people don't use it let alone are even tweeting.
The only time I would ever sign a noncompete like that is if it came with 18 months of severance pay. That's ludicrous.
That wasn't the last strip it took you to. That was the next strip.
I've seen fairly commonly in developing suburban scenarios something like "a through street with a new -- but very low-traffic -- intersection with a cross street". People are accustomed to driving fast on the through street, increasing the risks of the conflict at the intersection, but 99% of the time there is no conflict.

The easy solution that's often chosen is to add a stop sign to these intersections, but this tends to result in largely-unnecessary stopping and starting, which then tends to increase the number of conflicts (because the traffic on the through street tends to congest at the new stop rather than passing quickly through it).

A better solution would address the nature of the risk -- speed -- more directly. Traffic calming techniques like narrowing the road, or deflection (manufactured bends in the road or speed humps) would improve outcomes for all road users more than a stop sign that creates congestion (and therefore conflict).
>They cracked down on the baseball thing way before they got banned though; after they got quarantined.

And the_donald literally disallowed submissions for months before being banned. When reddit has a sub in their sights, they will find a reason.
One of the more popular and recent LSP autocompletion plugins is written in python: https://github.com/ms-jpq/coq_nvim It appears to work pretty well for them.
>the author seems very confident in their conclusion

They are, but honestly all that can be concluded safely IMHO is that the original D-K graph doesn't support that the widely discussed "effect" which their conclusion describes exists. Therefore unless there is more evidence from some other subsequent study there may not be any evidence for it at all, and if that's the case then there's potentially no proof it exists.

However, even if you prove that their data is not evidence, that doesn't actually say anything about whether the effect exists or not, just that the D-K paper isn't evidence of such an effect.

I don't think that's enough for the author to conclude that "DK is autocorrelation". A more careful conclusion would be that "the DK data do not support DK's conclusion"... but of course that's much less likely to attract click throughs.