skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
When I scan for outlier submissions on the front page I look for:

* Submissions for high comment number to vote ratio. This sometimes means it’s a submission with a political bent, leading to flame wars; you can easily tell this by the title. However, sometimes this ratio is high for unexpected submissions, I check these to see what the discussion is about.

* Submissions that are voted to first page with, say, >20 votes, but have either no comments or a single comment. These are usually are topics that people unanimously agree with nothing much to say. These are relatively rare, I’d say maybe once or twice a month but are interesting.
Stoll has written a lovely 2010 mea culpa, originally a (now-vanished) comment at:
http://boingboing.net/2010/02/26/curmudgeony-essay-on.html,

I saved the comment. Quoting:

"Of my many mistakes, flubs, and howlers, few have been as public as my 1995 howler.

Wrong? Yep.

At the time, I was trying to speak against the tide of futuristic commentary on how The Internet Will Solve Our Problems.

Gives me pause. Most of my screwups have had limited publicity: Forgetting my lines in my 4th grade play. Misidentifying a Gilbert and Sullivan song while suddenly drafted to fill in as announcer on a classical radio station. Wasting a week hunting for planets interior to Mercury’s orbit using an infrared system with a noise level so high that it couldn’t possibly detect ‘em. Heck – trying to dry my sneakers in a microwave oven (a quarter century later, there’s still a smudge on the kitchen ceiling)

And, as I’ve laughed at others’ foibles, I think back to some of my own cringeworthy contributions.

Now, whenever I think I know what’s happening, I temper my thoughts: Might be wrong, Cliff…

Warm cheers to all,

-Cliff Stoll on a rainy Friday afternoon in Oakland"
It will depend on what the actual product is and who the intended customers are.

It may be that you just need to start hitting that phone and talk with potential customers. Validate they want to talk with you.

Also a waitlist and building an email marketing can be very strong from the start. And it will help having that list when for instance you launch on ProductHunt.
I have a fairly obvious theory.

NIMBYism is directly proportionate to the amount of capital you can access. More money, more protectionist of the status quo.

It's the same reason people say you get more conservative politically as you age. When you have nothing, you don't mind if the system changes, and vice versa.

I call it Loughla's Theory of Pulling Up the Ladder.
PhotoPea is amazing. Zero install edit/create photoshop compatible files.

I'm just afraid to invest time in it only to have it pulled since it is not open source or owned by some big corp.
Saw this question today randomly on twitter, probably that's the source...
What does his race have anything to do with it? Hamburg Steak is popular in Japan, where do you think that came from?

Also do those $5 noodle carts make their own dough from scratch? Not sure if you read the article because this guy goes through great lengths to make a top quality product.
> "Self-organizing" just means that scrum master or coach or whoever is creating set of rules that dictate pretty much every aspect of work.

See, this is already not "by the book" Scrum.

The team decides those things in a retrospective, and as long as they are releasing in a reasonable timely manner, it's alright.

If someone is being unreasonable and putting their foot down too much, then it's a management issue that doesn't have anything to do with Scrum. Either the person is a dictator, or they don't have authority and there's no management to put an end to it.

Scrum also doesn't work when the team is burning in a building on fire, but we don't blame Scrum for that.

I'm all for shitting on it, but those problems have been happening in companies for millenia. Scrum won't fix them, you gotta fix each separate problem by itself.
> > an "open source" neural net, which is technically more accurate than the "error-prone" hand-written rules (ignoring that it supports far fewer filetypes)

> You say that like it's a contradiction but it's not.

> > and they want it to "help other software improve their file identification accuracy," which of course it can't since neural nets aren't introspectable.

> Being introspectable or not has no bearing on the accuracy of a system.

"Open source" and "neural net" is the contradiction, as I went on to write. Even if magika were a more accurate version of file, the implication that it could "help [libmagic] improve" isn't really true, because how do you distill the knowledge from it into a patch for libmagic?

My point re: their "error-prone" claim is that their comparison was disingenuous due to the functionality difference between the tools. (Also with their implication that AIs work perfectly, though this one sounds pretty good by the numbers. I of course accept that there's likely to be some bugs in code written by humans.)

> > and which is much less effective in an adversarial context,

> Is it? This seems like an assumption.

It is, one based on what I've heard about AI classifiers over the years. Other commenters here are interested in this point, but while I don't see anyone experimenting on magika (it's new after all), the fact it's not mentioned in the article leads me to believe they didn't try to attack themselves. (Or did, but with bad results, and so decided not to include that. Funnily enough they did mention adversarial attacks on manually-written classifiers...)
Setting the transport layer aside (which would be tricky, since you have to avoid relying on anything thar can be used to interfere), you'd want all the same things you'd need to pull off an illegal election, or contribute remotely to organizing a protest: A web of trust, a userbase that's practiced in maintaining it, and the ability to vote and agree on some outcome without revealing which real identities correspond with the voters, but while still providing proof that this was indeed an outcome chosen by a majority (or you know, customizable logic here), among people you've explicitly trusted, pseudonymously or otherwise.

It would need to be embedded in some kind of larger system whose use was widespread, a platform for p2p apps. Perhaps there are games like pokemon go, but serverless, which involve going out running into other players at places you've never been before.

It would not be hidden, but rather a coordination module used by apps for all sorts of groupwise coordination. Imagine games which involve forming coalitions and infiltrating other coalitions and communicating in secret, learning which of the other players you can trust, etc.

People would create games on this platform which involve conspiracy towards unimportant goals embedded in the game universe: Place an augmented reality hat on these four statues, all of the same color, or interfere with your enemy's attempts to do so by getting there first and placing the wrong color hat, that sort of thing. But once users were practiced at such things, and had large enough webs of trust which they actually trusted, and had trusted that the software wasn't up to anything shady... Well there would be nothing stopping them from using it to organize around non-AR outcomes like keeping your government in check.

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I'm working with an urban exploration group--they travel to explore abandoned missile silos and such--and also a guy who puts on IOT murder mysteries at his house. We want to put on murder mysteries in abandoned missile silos, but there's no wifi out there so the dream is to do it peer-to-peer over bluetooth. Sort of a test bed for this kind of thing. I'm the only coder, and it's an audacious goal, almost certainly doomed to fail, but it's got me in the mindset.

I'm simultaneously writing some SF about such a scenario, so even if my software fails I'll have a place to encode my lessons learned that's a bit more digestible than code.

Dreaming this thing up and attempting to build it is my hobby. Larping for democracy.
Thanks for sharing this. By far the best tool I've seen in the market centered around Code Integrity is CodiumAI (https://www.codium.ai/). They generate unit test based on entire code repos. Also integrates into SDLC through a PR Agent on GitHub or GitLab. My whole team uses them.
Look at all the comments insisting that the way Microsoft does it is the correct, superior way. How could we do away with it then?
Why the hell would I base my self worth on other people's opinions? Title is not at all intriguing.
Removing blockers to having more children and opening up more availability for people to move into their desired areas are good things.
>>The amount of housing deficit we have in the United States will never be aided by building more apartments

Then... How? What are we missing? :)

Also.

We have to be careful of causation VS correlation VS confounding factors.

I. E. If your area was undergoing gentrification and That's why developers built more apartments, that's the true explanation for rise in prices. And still those apartments in your area may have relieved pressure somewhere else!

Going from one specific personal experience to global math is tempting but tricky.
Probability is the probability mass distributed over your data with fixed parameters, and likelihood is mass distributed over your model parameters with fixed data. The absolute most important thing to know about likelihood is that it is not a measure of probability, even thought it looks a lot like probability.

If I look at coin flip data, I know the data comes from a coin flip, but any specific count of heads vs tails becomes less and less likely the more flips we do. So likelihood being small tells us nothing on its own.

The value of likelihood comes from the framework you use in. If I wanted to make a best guess at what the balance of the coin is then I could find the maximum of the likelihood over all coin balances to get the most representative version of my model. Similarly, I can compare two specific coin biases and determine which is more likely, but that alone can’t tell me anything about the probability of the coin being biased.
Again, there is a difference between sanctions, and actively investing billions of dollars into critical industries there.
Hah, I'm not the one you're replying to, but I pick B: adapt. Soooo easy!

At this rate, we're going to kill each other fighting for scarcer resources, and the rest of us the planet's going to finish off.

But hey, I'm sure you know better than all the morons.
Crypto had a similar impact for similar reasons, namely enriching NVIDIA, and there was no there there either.
Does anyone have an equation that combines "Location Location Location" and "Supply/Demand" when it comes to housing costs?

I see this argued frequently and haven't made up my mind. Yes, Supply Demand hold true, however housing is slow moving. And, as "Locations" get more desirable (mostly through jobs), prices go up.
Pretty straight forward the installation process on Debian, nice job
You can get these direct from USGS in KMZ, GeoTIFF, GeoPDF, and JPEG format.

And mobile apps like Topo Reader and Avenza Maps for iOS will let you load them for live referencing. I just “discovered” this yesterday, by chance.

https://www.usgs.gov/programs/national-geospatial-program/hi...

https://ngmdb.usgs.gov/topoview/viewer/#4/39.98/-99.98
It’s not myopic. The App Store tax is an absolutely enormous part of Apple’s net income.

If Apple completely lost their software tax revenue (not on the table in the foreseeable future) I would expect their market cap to go down by like… a trillion dollars?

Back of the envelope math usually leads me to conclude Apple makes about $30B net income per year off of the App Store tax, plus or minus a generous error bar. This ranges between a quarter to half of Apple’s total net income.

App Store tax including the tax itself, plus App Store search/ad racketeering.
It works easily without PMs if you have engineering managers and product owners.
Depression is an actual medical condition. Disabled is a actual medical condition.

Giving a fuck about other peoples opinions is a choice.
I love these USGS publications. So much history in them.
It goes to the EU budget. They don't specify where the money goes to when issuing the fine for the same reason a cop doesn't tell you where the money from your speeding ticket is going to be spent on.
It's useful to have this defined. It's implemented everywhere but no consensus about it's meaning. It's also a concept in MMOs. If I join a random group of people to fight in a dungeon, should the blocked users be able to form a group - no it should keep them separate.
It’s just contrarianism. Most articles are about how cities are not building housing so most of the time, HN commenters talk about how we need more housing. As soon as an article is about building housing, all anyone wants to talk about is NIMBY. Taking the article’s topic/argument and making your comment the opposite is a standard HN trope.
Our Obsession with Hypocrisy: A Selection from Neal Stephenson's the Diamond Age
I am curious now why its not feasible to basically just solder the silicon directly to the PCB, foregoing the package. Obviously the silicon would need a bit of environmental protection, but it seems possible (probable?) to flip the die over so its typically wirebonded pads are against the board, and then same process as we have now with SMT devices, reflow oven, ready to go.

I know that some dies are super tiny and this could make it difficult at the pcb bonding level, but surely we can shrink down our usage of plastic and the alloys that go into the IC packages. Theres a lot of unused space inside an IC package, with most of it being empty or pin arms. That would allow for smaller and more dense boards.
Possibly, I suspect though that most Americans here grew up in SFH and are reluctant to see that lifestyle go away.
You’re forgetting about condos.
Seems to be working more or less like https://news.ycombinator.com/best except in different order + different UI
> If Apple were Bugatti we wouldn't be talking about it.

Yeah, because only 0.001% of people would own one.

Bugatti is orders of magnitude more luxury than Apple, if you look at ownership percentage; also there are many car brands versus very few OS brands; some Samsung flipphones are more expensive and in some ways more luxurious than iPhones; the comparison is silly.
I suppose being the UK there would never be easy answers to questions like that....
> habitat control.

Not really, if you want to reduce the human population, ie lower the birth rate, it’s really about education: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3449224/

Additionally, the problem we have is sprawl, and upzoning fixes spraw. After that we then have the problem of how people get around, and the reliance on the car in the US and other places is a major problem. Most urban downtowns are only unpleasant when they are mixed with dangerous levels of car traffic.
People on the U.S. west coast are still asleep! So all the commenters you see are posting from their McMansions in the Midwest.
I am not a fan of adding ADUs. It’s not because it’s “ugly”, or “scared of change”.

I think it doesn’t go far enough. A home upzoned to support 1 -> 2+ families in the sticks still means extra amount of traffic originating from the burbs. It partially fixes one problem (increasing housing supply should result in stabilized rent and home affordability). But problems such as reducing carbon footprint through reduced use of cars, dependency on expensive highways, ban development of new SFH to preserve environment, and supporting alternative modes of transportation (bike, walking, bus, train) are left untouched.

With the impending single zoned commercial building crash, I was hoping we could get a massive push at all levels (federal, state, local) to provide incentives for converting these to mixed zone properties.

for what it’s worth, it’s a small step in the right direction.
>The DOJ wasn’t going to split Microsoft because it was a “gatekeeper.” There is no legal basis in US Law to do that.

Being a gatekeeper is not illegal in the EU either and it's not what the parent comment claimed. Abusing a gatekeeper position for anticompetitive purposes is illegal, which is similar to the U.S situation even if the vocabulary is slightly different.
You have an extremely inaccurate and flawed understanding of conservativism. It's like you have concocted a view based on stereotypes and MSNBC editorials. Or are you deliberately misrepresenting?
Obviously the best way to avoid war is to, checks notes, outlaw war.
Italians will leave the EU if they keep killing their gods.
I’m also doing this but it adds punctuations, paragraphs and chapter headers because most raw YouTube transcripts lack proper punctuation

https://www.appblit.com/scribe
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It’s not for you then
Shift to greater interdisciplinarity, top universities, older age in discoverers
But that’s the whole point of what I meant by “I should be working on something higher level.”

Nobody (hopefully) uses an LLM to write mounds of x86 assembly code instead of letting the compiler do it. An AI model is a very blunt tool for most jobs. If I need code generation, most often I should write my own tool for it rather than copy-paste reams of barely inspected code from a language model.
I use a static wallpaper, maybe that's why I don't have issues with it.
It isn't that simple, NYC is a good example. If you build a lot of new condos often that area gets gentrified and prices go up.
Interpretations of Probability (2023)
what? that "equation" is just "supply / demand"

as locations get more desirable, demand goes up.
The old aio API is very inefficient and has awful quirks, such as not working on regular files opened without O_DIRECT. Not surprised no one used it
In Wyoming, Sheep May Safely Graze Under Solar Panels
Is JSR or any other package manager any better? Do pip, cargo, creates, go package manager, gems, nuget, etc enforce anything? AFAIK they are all exactly the same. Any person with any level of experience and any API design can publish a package.
For discrete distributions you indeed cannot, but for continuous distributions all you need is sufficiently small variance. Try for example a Gaussian with variance 1e-12
But we need people to have children. Discouraging people from having children by limiting the housing stock would be terrible for the economy and for people.
I didn’t imply the base universe is finite just it has to be orders of magnitude larger than the simulation.

Yes but if you only simulate a consciousness there is no nesting, otherwise on what does the consciousness run on? That’s the whole idea behind as you lose fidelity with reality the simulations becomes less capable until it’s unable to simulate anything.

Note nesting isn’t necessary for the probability argument to be true just many simulations. But the vanishingly small likelihood of not being a simulation depends on the nesting idea.

Again, yes, it’s possible what we observe is a simple simulation of experience but I don’t think this is the “almost certainly a simulation” argument.
Every election will have some shady stuff going on from all participating parties if it's big enough. But it's important to remember that every election has even more stuff going on that can look shady from the outside, but is absolutely normal on further inspection.

2020 was special because the sitting president (who has accused others of election and voter fraud against him in AFAIR every election he's been part of) has primed his emotionally invested base to expect fraud everywhere. They saw a bunch of things they thought were shady, part of which were caused by unrealistic expectations (e.g. "I can just show up and be Poll Watcher without registering beforehand"). If you are aware of shady going-ons that have not been investigated I'm open to hear them, but all the occurrences I've seen have been investigated and explained - but since many people aren't open to normal explanations, the fraud idea keeps and keeps on festering.
I remember that act, thanks
I lived without a car in SF for years. You can certainly get by, especially with e.g. getaround. But there are many valid uses for having a car in the city, even if you live by transit. The primary one is that not everyone’s work will be transit accessible.

Mandated minimums for parking are stupid, but so are mandated maximums. This is one of those cases where the invisible hand will approximate an alright solution (and I say that as someone who finds market efficiency arguments generally uncompelling). Even along transit lines, some developers may choose to add extra parking as a unique value proposition to those who need it.
> It is not only based on popularity.

Except it literally is? [0]

Doesn't mean it's not fun/useful though! Stars are a kind of handwave proxy for utility. And it's useful to see what's catching fire and what's staying lit.

- [0] "The following graphs compare the number of stars added on GitHub over the last 12 months."
> It's no accident that throwing out the parking rules was vital to the Sundial's construction. "The elimination of parking requirements has been the most effective regulatory reform we have made," McMahan says.

This is a really neat fact! Even if other areas don’t build hardcore, why not remove this regulation anyways? Let the market decide if they want cars!
It's almost as annoying as the fact that nearly every application and website uses light theme by default and often don't even provide a dark theme (Hacker News included).

While I don't discount the possibility of their existence, I've yet to personally encounter an application or web site that only has a dark theme, so the "dark mode only" complaint rings like the perennial "War on Christmas" rant.
He'll Be Here All Week (2011)
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I see you are getting downvoted, but I think you are right.

People spend a lot of money finding a neighborhood and home they like. If you build next to a huge open field, you need to assume it could become anything. But if you build in a neighborhood that is built out, you like the feel of, and then it suddenly changes... that's a scary prospect.
Wouldn't the NE be up now and replying with pro-building comments?

Also, not everyone in the Midwest lives in a McMansion, your snide comments are not helpful. Is it possible that people don't agree with you?
I mostly agree with you, I straight up dropped World of Final Fantasy after I was 10+ hours in and still mostly just watching cutscenes.

They're not as good as movies and they're way longer too. It's like these game producers really wanted to be movie producers.

Mass Effect is a perfect example. I recently played through ME1/2/3 on the PS4 remake and am now playing through ME: Andromeda, so I've gotten to experience all that evolution in a few months.

ME2 was probably the sweet spot, the further you get into the series the more it becomes about the wow factor rather than the gameplay and the characters.