mustaphah
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Comment · 1 month ago
I don't like Ed, but it seems that Luu spends far more attention documenting failed predictions than checking other predictions that might have been correct.
Comment · 4 months ago
Haidt, in his great book "The Righteous Mind," has been arguing that reasoning evolved not to discover truth but to win arguments. There's a lot of scientific research backing his idea.
Haidt's metaphor is the rider and the elephant: the elephant (intuition) leans, and the rider (reasoning) invents the justification afterward and then defends it like a lawyer, not a truth-seeker.
Intelligence doesn't fix this - it just makes people better at coming up with hard-to-defeat arguments; that explains why smart people disagree all the time.
Comment · 4 months ago
You can probably catch a big pie of those with simple heuristics to flag suspicious repos for expensive review
(human- or AI-based). I did that with public account & repo data, and I believe they can do much more given the amount of private data they have access to.
I'm talking about 10s of repos flagged in a few hours. I don't think the volume would be that big for an expensive review.
Comment · 4 months ago
Well, my trend detection logic rewards recent stars more than older ones [1]. Recency is an important factor for many custom and public tools that track GitHub trends. I think the bad guys intentionally recreate repos - I actually noticed that.
That being said, they do take action if you report the repo. So I'm guessing good users are doing the heavy lifting here with reporting. I don't believe GitHub is taking enough proactive measures, or maybe they do, but it's not working well, obviously.
https://hadid.dev/posts/github-trends/#growth-based-approach