skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My feeling about NPS has always been that the very wide pointing system polarizes users towards the two extremes; most people aren’t analytical and they don’t build up a mathematical way to objectively come up with a number between 0 and 10. They would instinctively vote 10 if they’re happy, 0 if they’re angry, and something in the middle if they’re not fully satisfied. The way they map partial satisfaction to a number is unscientific, and this is why NPS only rewards perfect scores (9 or 10).

Similar findings were made by Google with the YouTube rating system that was switched from 1 to 5 stars to a simple upvote/downvote after realizing that most users are polarizing towards the extremes: https://techcrunch.com/2009/09/22/youtube-comes-to-a-5-star-...
> To signal to passengers that you won’t record them during the ride

I doubt this would even be a concern. Many Uber/Lyft drivers already record interior and exterior views for the duration of every ride. And I don't see anything wrong with that. Hell, think about:

"The rider after you reported damage to the car that you didn't report. Therefore you did it and are responsible for paying for it."

"Where's your proof? Maybe I just didn't notice the damage and it was the rider before me -- it's not my job to inspect your cars. Or maybe the rider after me damaged the car -- possibly even on purpose -- and then blamed me."

They'd be foolish not to record every single ride, from multiple angles if possible.
There are many problems with the state of online advertising today. First of all, far too many online ads are actually fraudulent. They are either advertising dubious products, like penis enlargements pills or lose weight fast, or are click-baits for other ad-loaded pages. And of course, there is malware served along with the ads. And the remaining more or less legit ads are damn annoying.

So for me, I try very hard not to click on any online ads. It has come to the point where I consider a product dubious, if it appears in online ads - the exact contrary from what ads try to achieve.

The only way out of this I can see is, if web sites stop just using random ad networks, but get active in the selection and placement of ads on their sites. Large publications should run their ad departments - like any printed magazines and newspapers always did - and place selected ads in the content and also host them themselves. Smaller sites might require the help of ad providers to make a living, but I see them also in the responsibiltiy of selecting the ad provider to ensure only acceptable ads on their site. This might mean that some sites are not profitable any more, but far too many sites exist which are basically serving ads and no real content of their own.

To make me accept online ads again, the people doing the advertising first of all have to regain my trust.
That's for the entire global energy production (and then some), including transport, heating, industry, not just electricity.

10% of land is set aside for agriculture, which is about 1/3 of 10% of water, but gives an indication. That's an area far larger than the entire US (including Alaska). We use a lot of space.

But you wouldn't produce your entire output from wind. In a desert you get about 2kwh per day from solar per square metre, or 2gwh per square km, or 100,000 SQkm of land for solar.

That's under half the size of Arizona's desert, or 1% of Sahara.
> Problem vehicle will be taken out of service for review.

I am thinking like a public transit subway in New York. We cannot have anything you can't pressure wash.

However, that also brings up the problem of traffic congestion and automation (as well as comfort and ergonomics?). Can we automate the process of sanitizing a car? Will passengers accept (cold) plastic and aluminum surfaces everywhere?
The packaging change the article is referring to was when Smarties used to come in a carboard tube, with a plastic lid at one end.

http://l7.alamy.com/zooms/ae76784029684feb8d06d507f47ff7ad/c...

As a child it was fun to eat the sweets, then replace the lid and crush the tube to make the lid travel quite surprising distances
I assume you mean extrinsic reward. Yeah, it's unrealistic to expect people to burn CPU cycles processing the ledger client just for the fun of seeing the dials on their power meter spin faster.

An extrinsic reward doesn't have to be financial though, it's anything that you want to get out of an activity that isn't part of the activity itself.

If the blockchain ledger was a part of a greater whole and the client software of which it forms a part was somehow intrinsically fun, useful or needed, the token itself wouldn't be necessary.
A Blockchain-based future
There are always new sheeple waiting to have their lives enriched by ordering groceries on Amazon Prime...
The Fish That Took a Century to Name
UK minister to tell universities to stop 'no-platforming' speakers
Correction: the distribution is actually Ubuntu 17.10
PostgreSQL Load Balancing Using HAProxy and Keepalived
Top 5 Free and Open Source Restaurant Management Software
Author neglected to mention the absolute pain of using any C lib. Everything has to be compiled for UWP and some basic capabilities are/were not available for a long time. Like no access to a secure RNG. Good luck using ffmpeg or libsodium.

One of the reasons Electron is popular is because there are no good choices for Windows. All you can do is choose between different flavors of shit.
I think we all know that the Marissa Mayer "war" on remote jobs was just a PR move to facilitate a rapid mass layoff without negative moral repercussions on the rest of the Yahoo teams. We should not take her words as a serious reflection on the issue
Researchers describe first-ever hybrid bird species from the Amazon
Non-traditional credit-worthiness data is mostly only possible in China at this stage. Looking at the Fico XD score which enhances the traditional credit bureau score with Lenddo information is quite a game-changer in terms of banking for the non-banked. There will be people like "Mr. Bai" who start to gamble with this system and fail. But these people exist everywhere.
Not the OP, but: I don't believe people will accept that computers only have to beat human fatality rates to be preferable.

People have this weird psychological effect around control. They will accept higher failure rates if they believe (correctly or otherwise) that they have control over a situation. Or rather, they will believe that they can beat the statistics at least for themselves, as long as they believe they have control over the situation, and achieve a lower failure rate then the driverless car. In other words, "the higher failure rate might apply to the average person, but I'm above average".

It's related to faulty risk assessment: it's much more likely that you'll get in a car and die than it is that you'll be killed in a terrorist attack, but most people don't even think of getting into a car as all that risky, and yet we start drawn-out, unwinnable wars because people are afraid of terrorism. People believe that they personally won't die in a car crash because they have control of the situation and that they're a good driver, but they have no control over when or where a terrorist attack will take place, so it's somehow a worse threat.
Polygyny may actually be advantageous to most women, while being bad for most men: https://www.psychologytoday.com/articles/200707/ten-politica.... This is because it allows many women to have a more desirable mate than they would otherwise have, while many men end up with no mate at all.

From that perspective, it's no wonder that many patriarchal cultures outlawed polygyny.
Some areas iPhones excel in:

- LTS Updates
- HW quality
- Relatively consistent UX elements
- Foolproof-ish App store
- Less features
ie no App drawer, just homescreens
- Forefront of security & privacy technology

The 5s was released Oct 2013, and still received iOS 11. It was also the first(?) phone with a Secure-Enclave device for fingerprint reading.

If iOS doesn't limit your glass-brick usage patterns, it's a very simple OS, with features that were thought about and picked for a reason. Or maybe more importantly, left out for a reason. This of course gets frustrating if you disagree with what Apple's designers have prescribed you.

But to a lot of people; Android phones these days feel creepy to be around, with the amount of Google-integration that requires much hoop-jumping and ignoring-of-gentle-pushes, just to get peace of mind over your data not being vacuumed from whatever crevices Google can find. And there are a lot of crevices on your personal smart phone.

If you're installing + maintaining LineageOS or something then you can get par with iPhones for the features that a lot of people in the HN crowd might care about, especially if you subsect for DDG-users.
I liked a lot your analogy with altruism. Wish I had thought of that one myself ;-)

I probably disagree with the notion that people actively seek to create bullshit work for themselves, initially. I think a lot of bullshit jobs is something people realize they are doing after the fact when it is hard to change careers or find another job. They then engage in a sort of cover up operation to avoid losing that bullshit job.

Of course there are a lot of bullshit jobs which exist due to regulations and red tape. People might seek a lot of bullshit jobs simply because they have high status and pay. E.g. it is well paid to be a lawyer and high status, despite the fact that a lot of lawyer work, is just bullshit.

I also think everybody could have been employed despite removing bullshit jobs, it is just that people would simply need to work a lot fewer hours. This assumes of course a gradual change. If we removed all bullshit jobs tomorrow, there would for structural reasons be a lot of people who can't change to other activities easily.

I also think that a lot of bullshit work, isn't 100% bullshit. There are perhaps 10 hours worth of work to be done each week. However workers have no incentive to expose that, because otherwise they could not excuse the pay they get. Also people are proud and don't want to look like they are lazy or working less than others. So in a sense people end up doing bullshit to simply not look worse.

So part of the solution is also to stop valuing work so dam high. We have a tendency to glorify work. I personally think people would end up doing useful things for the most part if given the choice. People are unnecessarily concerned with others being lazy.
You can start by installing the AdNauseam browser plugin https://adnauseam.io
The numbers still seem extremely high, even if an ambulance only does 3 trips a day on a bad day, that's over 10k USD. A private ambulance ride in Thailand (Im not talking rescue org ambualances) for example is $80-$120. Now I understand the service standard might not be as high, and wages are lower, and so on, but is it really 40x as expensive in USA to cover costs?

Actually a better example, might be HKG, where service probably exceeds US, an ambulance ride is HKD990 (~USD127) apparently. It is mentioned elsewhere in this topic that its $82 in Canada for an ambulance.
The non-metal rear back plate, and the absence of a headphone jack are really stiff turn-offs considering the price. Also, it’s kinda big and heavy in terms of the physical dimensions of the form factor, and besides, I’m just not that into photography.

Also, the whole thing with the batteries, and not so much the surreptitious performance throttling, but more the eternally non-swappable battery locked behind delicate ribbon leads inside the pentalobe-secured chasis.

So, sorted in preferential order (most desirable first), for an extra special X model, I’d have enjoyed seeing:

- the all metal, black gloss finish introduced with the iPhone 7 (yes i’ll be clapping inside some stupid mil-spec plastic envelope because it’s $1,000 but metal doesn’t shatter into a gritty spider web on a bad drop)
- normal wired headphones
- USB-C replacing the lightning port, because one less dongle for my macbook pro
- sane, toolless battery options, ...maybe a universal apple battery format? (yeah right)
- maybe smaller and pocket friendly? i dunno... maybe the bigger screen is nice to have...
- and whatever other extra crap they bundled in lately

Also, a watch without the weird red dot on the dial? Christ, almighty. Why the red dot? Why?
Ask HN: Is there demand for blockchain developers now?
Agree there is this illusion that the market is there to figure out what you want and deliver your needs efficiently at a low price and high quality.

Instead it is more like the producers create their own demand by emotional manipulation of the consumers.
I think the NPS question could benefit from some more specific answers, such as:

- Yes, I would bring up how much I like [product]

- Yes, if the subject of [product category] came up

- Yes, if my friend had a problem that [product] could solve

- No, because I don't care enough about [product category]

- No, because I don't like [product] enough

- No, because I dislike [product]
I'm fine with any of the Flattr, Spotify or Patreon models. But the newspapers still think they're competing against each other rather than their general obsolescence and so each one is charging like $10/mo for access to only their own content. If I wanted to pay for all the news sites I visit through Hacker News links alone I'd be paying over $100/mo
The whole style feels crude and inelegant, but the content seems useful. I don't think you are going to write carelessly like the author by following his advice, so the harm is limited.
The facts are sobering: 86% of consumers
suffer from banner blindness and only 14%
of users are able to recall the last display
ad they saw.

Poor fellows... They suffer so hard.

No for real, I think banner blindness is an automatic attempt to solve the real problem: intrusive unwanted and even dangerous ads.
That's different, though. Autopilot doesn't absolve the driver of the car from responsibility to be alert and take control when necessary, so the argument can be made that the responsibility is shared, or even rests on the human driver, depending on the circumstances. But a level 5 system will theoretically not even have a driver, and might not allow passengers to control the vehicle at all aside from giving it a destination.

I think that becomes easier, though: in the case where no human in the car has control over what the car does, it's obviously the manufacturer's fault when something goes awry. Though if doing something like rapidly and repeatedly changing the car's destination and intentionally "confusing" it leads to a crash, that might shift blame to one of the passengers, which would be unusual.
Seriously. Not even a mention of ZeroNet means the author didn't obviously do a through research on the subject.
One was the last price, the other was an average of some sort.
Well, you would invoke the point to challenge dismissal which I think is fair.

Airing skepticism of a technology does little more than fuel forum fights after all.
Yes, I fully realize that, and in the end, I'm still just going to stick to my adblock/umatrix&friends solution, without doing anything more. :/ It's just an idle urge to somehow hasten the demise of the "Age of the Ad".

An article I read sometimes last week made an unflattering, but rather astute comparison that a site which relies on ad networks for their income is like a streetwalker - selling out integrity integrity for money, competing with or against shady people (the scammy porn sites, the automated link-farms with Markov-generated pseudo content, etc.). And if one has to "interact" with sites like that, it is smart to use protection (adblock&friends).

I wish I could find the article. I'm quite certain it was linked here on HN one or two weeks ago.
Calling it UTF-16 code units as distinct from UCS-2 is dubious. The water is very muddy there, because bad surrogates are allowed, thus the strings are arguably better considered UCS-2 rather than UTF-16.

See https://mathiasbynens.be/notes/javascript-encoding for a discussion of the topic.

I’m perpetually sad that a couple of big players decided to go all in on UCS-2/UTF-16 when it should already have been apparent that UTF-8 was roughly uniformly superior and that UCS-2/UTF-16 would have major issues. (I speak as one who was a child at the time, but has read a fair bit about the state of things back then. So don’t trust my yearning optimism.)

The worst part about UTF-16 is how it poisoned Unicode with surrogate pairs. UTF-32 and UTF-8 are both good because they didn’t need any special consideration from Unicode to make them work. But UTF-16, extending UCS-2 as it does… ugh.
Hacker News at its best... awesome!
I would expect more research into organ cloning/regrowth and artificial replacements. It's an interesting question, to be sure.
really-existing capitalism involves co-opting local power structures (parliaments, legislatures, dictatorships, puppets, etc.) to protect your cartel.

If capitalism is only capitalism when there is no conglomerated power structure then capitalism is impossible.

Often enough today its the left who are defenders of capitalism (ie., of disentangling power structures from coporate control) whereas the right seems possessed by the idea that whatever a company does is by definition captailism.

Capitalism was all about recognizing that business interests are anti-capitalist.
Some Necessary Guidelines for Controlling Weight
> What they want is urbanization of the less developed areas

Everybody wants that. Can't remember that any country ever got it, in the last century, anyway. That's akin to wanting water to roll uphill.

Argentine will prefer its population to not clutter around Buenos Aires. France will prefer everybody not move to Paris, same for Russia with Moscow. But that's just not what is happening anywhere.

If you're moving to a city, makes total sense to pick a powerful one.
Obvious solution is to start sinking Japanese whaling ships, after all they already labeled you terrorist.
AdNauseam is nice, but only in certain conditions - for example, I would never activate it on my work laptop, for fear of triggering web content filters my employer uses. I do not want to get into trouble when AdNauseam "clicks" on some unsavoury, or flat out illegal ad - those sometimes get through the screening on all ad networks, no matter how well they try.
Is it a good place to live? What about racism etc?
If I’m a foreigner and I’m breaking my arm while being in San Francisco, do I have to pay for the 5k bill coming my way, too ?
What literature shows that? The linked presentation contains only inference instead of direct evidence.

You seem to be imagining distant future when people just work on things they enjoy. Even if such utopia can be built, it doesn't change anything about the present situation. The vast majority of people would quit their jobs if they didn't need the money.
I skimmed through the article and a simple question came to mind that I couldn't get an easy answer for.
For serving static files to very few users, what would the performance difference be between Apache httpd and Nginx.
Throughput wise and latency wise..

I can run this experiment on VMs, but wanted to ask here in case anyone already did.
> why does bit erasure end up in energy expenditure

Following this explanation from the link:

"Theoretically, room‑temperature computer memory operating at the Landauer limit could be changed at a rate of one billion bits per second with energy being converted to heat in the memory media at the rate of only 2.85 trillionths of a watt (that is, at a rate of only 2.85 pJ/s). Modern computers use millions of times as much energy."

I understand that to flip a 1 to a 0 it is necessary to dissipate that energy into heat.

Edit: But also I'm not sure how reversibility avoids that.
The Power of Money – A Case for Bitcoin
It would definitely seem like ML could improve performance here, if they fed it all the right features.

I feel like outstanding debts (amount, time since last payment) could be really helpful in this regard so people can't rack up huge debts from multiple lenders, but that would also be a privacy nightmare.
So you're saying that because we do not hear about corruption in state-controlled media in countries like China and Russia, but we do hear about corruption in countries like the US or France, is evidence that Western corruption is more rampant than elsewhere?
Hockney–Falco thesis
"NPS thinks that a 6 should be equal to a 0."
No : It considers that at 6 you're not a promoter. But your score will be 6. And the progress from 0 to 6 will be reflected on your score.
In the media, it has been just been Gordon Chang. But China is due for a normal bubble crash, which occur quite frequently in normal economies, but who knows when that will happen.

Pro-china people will always interpret crash as collapse to create a red herring against anyone who isn’t bullish on the Chinese economy. Likewise via the opposite for anti-china people. It makes any discussion basically a red herring fight.
If you are not going to make intellectually honest arguments here, I suggest that you just not post.
I would only purse my lips if I were performing a shush. In words like ‘hash’ I’d just close my mouth slightly & leave lips parted and wide from the ‘ha’ sound.

I agree that the mouth shapes are garbage in this demo. A shame because that is the most interesting & important part of animating speech.
Still, women have a quite measurable exchange value. And from the perspective of who has what to say in a marriage, gut feeling tells me it is the husband.
I already live like this, though without the commute (I walk). I use Lyft for shorter, in-city trips, and drive my car when I want to leave the city.

It's honestly not a great use of money: my maintenance cycles are longer (though don't quite scale down linearly with decreasing use), but I still have to pay for parking and (slightly discounted) insurance. But I grew up in the suburbs and can't kick the habit of owning a car.

I feel like it'd be cheaper to ditch my car and rent one from something like Getaround or Turo (or even from a legacy car rental service) when I need one for longer trips, but having a car that's mine is too embedded in my lifestyle.
Because their legal, at least they are somewhat transparent. It also helps the west better adhere to rule of law, while in china it is all illegal but happens anyways (law isn’t very important compared to official whimsy).
Anatomy of a hack: Docker Registry. cc:@upgoingstar
The real cost of housing is distorted though when house prices keep going up. In many cases, if you take into account the value increase of housing, it is actually opposite of what you claim. People don't spend anything on housing, because they get back whatever they put pay for the house in terms of value increase of the property.

I think it would be more fair to look at, how much does it cost to build a house, and divide that cost on the time it may be used. We should not really add the price of property to the equation.

If one does this I will bet that consumer goods make up a much bigger part of the economy than you think.
Thanks to the OP - I have about 1.6BTC worth of other coins that I wasn't aware of. Not sure why I hadn't looked into this, but thanks again.
Thanks for reply!
> 100mw output of batteries costs $38m, so 16 of those costs $0.6b, 3% of the cost of Hinckley C, even assuming no more overruns.

So 24 hours' worth would cost 72% of the cost of Hinkley C, and that's not including any amount of power generation. Looks like wind/solar + enough batteries to timeshift their output to match consumption would end up costing more.

> Ok that only gives you 1 hour of charge, but your requirement was changing in minutes. These batteries respond to load change in milliseconds.

The ability to change quickly is only part of the problem; if you want to run the country on wind or solar then you need to be able to handle several overcast or calm days in a row.
Is it any more bizarre than any other marketing giveaway? Stadiums being paid for by cell phone companies?