skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This gives me a feeling of unease. I run my businesses on Haskell, and I find Astrology and similar quackery immoral (probably as most people on this forum do).

Also, how is one meant to read this?

> jobs ∀ costarastrology.com

jobs forall costarastrology.com? jobs universal quantification costaratrology.com?
The actual reason, the core of this, has nothing to do with micro-trenching and everything to do with them not being allowed to use the existing network of utility poles due to bigger telco's lobbying the governments against it, and winning. AT&T, Comcast etc were fighting tooth and nail to not allow Google on their poles, which led to google attempting micro-trenching as a proof of concept.
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Both have their place, printing is good when you need to get some quantity reads.
Note that within the EU, as soon as you sell over a certain limit to a member country you have to charge VAT in the destination country. So large retailers will list prices with their respective VAT included and then re-calculate prices when you get to the payment stage (when they know which country you order from).
Asana isn't the king of project management software anymore
This is why I like 3 point estimation[1] - if you have optimistic, expected and pessimistic estimates for each task you can pull out which points are high risk. Using a single estimate can't give you that insight.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Three-point_estimation
It doesn't actually what the nature of the problem domain itself is, in this case -- you can't solve a problem that you don't want to.
> but decentralization isn't super effective for private channels of communication

The two examples of that not being the case are OTR XMPP and PGP e-mail.

> particularly where neither end is running the software in question

You cannot have useful encrypted communication if your software does not support it.
An approach that gives very similar results to yours but is more scientific is to multiply the initial estimates by e (2.718). Or, if you're conservative, then by pi.
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Plenty and plenty of developers never tested on anything more than IE. And today on anything more than IE and Chrome.

And plenty of developers test on IE and Chrome and Safari For iOS and call it a day.

Its very much not obvious that this is a deliberate decision and not an omission.
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My view of aircraft engineering has certainly changed since the 737 stuff came out. You always get told software engineers are a bunch of cowboys compared to aircraft people, because they have to put everything through a bunch of rigourous tests.

I asked a friend who trains commercial pilots about it, and to my surprise he told me the processes to get things certified are political and hand-wavy.
It's bad, but that was my first though too when I saw this headline.
Or the thickness of a human hair at 500km (from the article)
> someone came along and decided that we need to have multiple tenants share the same hardware, and they should have no way of knowing anything about each other

Isolation between apps on mobile phones is really important. That's a huge part of the computing landscape in terms of number of devices deployed, and falls within the 2nd category. I don't think it's realistic to dismiss so easily.
Eh. I've been successful adding 20% in. I feel like if you have to double first (meaning your end result is 220% of what you originally estimated) then you aren't learning from previous mistakes. Maybe 220 is appropriate for the first time you do work or work with a certain team tho.
manager: "thanks for the optimistic estimate!"
Or you could just multiply by 2.4 ...

I used to do 2.5, I read somewhere 2.5 was fairly common
You're both correct. Front running has legal and illegal versions. Getting any non-public information and using it for trading purposes is illegal, however you can still front-run with public information. Markets react at different speeds and so do indexes, if your machine is set up closer to the exchange and has a faster algorithm you can front-run an index by using information about the changes in the index's stocks.

In the case of this sort of information-speed arbitrage you're not making any stock analysis decisions, you just know an index has to respond a precise way to the stocks within it, and you're able to beat this information to the exchange and buy it ahead of the change.
How is this technical debt? It’s a plug-in. None of its code is in Firefox.

Serious question - would you object as much if it was called “Firefox save page”? Because I’ve never heard HN complain about Firefox sync, which has all your passwords, your history etc.
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I thought all you had to do to get access was to drop piles of money on TSMC lap. Is the access not common?
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In some parts of the highway is very plausible. Even 200km/hour and more
I've always thought that typically overoptimistic estimates tend to be more based on the mode. I.e. 'this is the sort of task that normally takes 1 day, so I'll estimate 1 day'. The high point on the probability curve is the most noticeable, but it's also way further to the left than either the mean or the median.

I have no data to back that up though.
Ok, a line in 3D space can also be called a manifold? Maybe a better question is then to ask, what is not a manifold?
I would say that disabling this is even less user friendly in Firefox. The about:config is cryptic and prompts the user whether "they know what they're doing", that will scare most away.
I guess he sets impossible deadlines not for the public but for his employees. He thinks he has a very limited time and has a lot to achieve. It is fine until someone loses money because of this news.
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Sure, in the same way a bad manager will say "No, that's too high, I'm going to reduce your estimate" if you use a single number. Bad managers are a thing. Make sure you get a good one.
Triple it. Then triple that if to do it you have to go across team boundaries.
Or Firefox will end up with a worse UX than before. I'm pretty sure the spying sites offer the cumbersome solution only to browsers that have ping disabled.

What you need is a browser that claims to honour ping but doesn't.
They blocked him to cover their ass from legal issues. Given that this is a response that many will take who don't wish to bear the burden of potential legal scrutiny, the GDPR is in part impacting his freedom as a citizen in the EU to access outside content.
A professor of mine at university taught us the same thing. It's one of the most valuable things I learned and it is uncannily accurate. Even after 30 years in industry I still fall back on this formula with great results.

Sadly, managers want to believe that you put more effort into estimating deadlines so I'll just whip up a gannt chart retroactively based on the 2/20 rule and they're happy.
I once had a really convoluted metaphor for estimation which involved opening boxes that sometimes contained other boxes which sometimes contained other boxes... I wonder how that models mathematically.
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In the 1980s, they had to explicate their biases in order to make the algorithm's predictions correlate well with human judgment. Today we can just use neural nets to learn our biases for us.
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GDPR gives me this choice -- either you will:

a) read articles of companies that spend $100.000 for law consulting companies so the company is sure they follow GDPR rules,
b) not read any articles at all.

It's a shitty choice, IF it's a choice at all, because it promotes rich companies and punishes small ones. It promotes monopoly.

GDPR doesn't say to the companies: "you need to give the user a choice". It says: "you have additional 100 regulations to obey from today or we'll fine your ass so much you'll have to close your company". Some companies don't want to waste time/money to analyze those regulations because they're small, or because they want to actually focus on the business logic instead of interpreting the law that won't help them gain profits. Granted, there are also situations that some companies don't want to resign from their poor/questionable management of data. But they won't do me any harm because I know how to defend from them. And I dislike that someone forces on me their inferior method of defence, when I can do better.
Why do you say we shouldn't do armchair analysis right before you acknowledge that said analysis was on point? I think it's good our populace is eager to analyze. Ultimately we aren't making the decision, just forming a branch of decentralized checks. Long as witch hunts like the Boston bomber don't happen I say people should analyze till their hearts are content.
Yeah, that's the same reason to use pseudoscience, it's a longer word with "science" in it, which means - more science!
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I am much ignorant about this, but I am curious to know if any comparison can be established between TritonAI and InfiniBand?
1.3 billion people, 2% own an iPhone (according to another comment here), equals 25 million iDevices in India...
Sounds like a tall tale.
The above approach uses the factor 2.2. Why would your factors be any better?
US navy has developed something similar with beta statistical distribution. You estimate "Optimistic", "Most likely" and "Pessimistic" time estimates for each task in the project and then use beta distribution on it. Some tasks take way longer than estimated.

Here is the link to the time estimation described above with Beta distribution.
https://www.isixsigma.com/methodology/project-management/bet...
I know it a little different, where you double it, but then a fixed offset, say 1 week, rather than 20%.
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German prosecutors are not independent but have to follow the authority of the ministry of justice. So in principle, politicians can stop the prosecutors. They would rarely do so as that would be the bigger scandal in the end.
> I wonder how we, humans, collectively build extraordinary monuments while we individually rest on stilts

My take is that we used to have brilliant engineers in the time where computational ressources were scarce (60s, 70 , 80s...), and they thought out their design thoroughly starting with a fucking paper and pencil.
Aerospace indutries still rely on the designs from these times.

But now engineering seems to be : let's ask my computing power what is the good design, with little further questioning.
Why can't they just leave the infrastructure there in case somebody else decides to utilize it at some point?
There is no requirement to hire a data protection officer nor are the requirements of GDPR absurd. Stop being an apologist.
Isn't this just gambling with extra steps?
Storytime. Back in 2013, I designed a "robotic" system to take 108 photos of products (from all different angles in a hemisphere) some years ago [1]. My co-founder and I also made a rotating image widget like this one, but that seems to have rotted too much to show.

The interesting thing is that taking photos is only the first part of the problem - the second and larger problem is that you have 36-108 photos which need editing. Outsourced, you can have an agency remove the backgrounds from photos, but long term this is unsustainable.

I'm speaking about this from having spent nearly 2 years having tried to get a startup off the ground which was intending to offer this kind of photography as a service.

Another massive part of the Challenge was that nobody cared! It's interesting tech and all the stats say that 360/3D photos convert better, but they're a lot more expensive and not possible to have an intern shoot as easily. In the end, I spoke to about 1/3rd of the available market, often reaching out with custom mockup and products in their market - we had 2 clients from this.

That was 2013 though. I can think that 2 things might have changed:

1. It seems quite possible that an RNN/CNN could help remove backgrounds more reliably? I'm no expert in this, perhaps someone else could comment. The particularly hard case is separating nearly identical colors - e.g. black&white trainer on white background. That would certainly allow for a higher quality finish.

2. Customer interest may have changed? Anecdotally, I've not really seen a huge increase in 360/3D photography in ecommerce. In 2013, I thought Amazon was going to introduce it because of some patents filed relating to an automatic photography pipeline.

[1]: https://zoetrope.io/client-story/3d-imaging/
Yet another programming language. I wish I was that rich that I could just throw money at people to develop yet another programming language. I think at this point programming languages do more harm than good. Why, because some poor fellow is going to spend time that he could be using to cure cancer but instead he reinventing the wheel in some language that he is going to be sick of by time he if 35 - 40 years of age and realizes that language evangelism is a scourge upon the face of mother Earth.
Based on the commit history of the repository they created on Github, it would appear that the reason it was so difficult, was largely due to their lack of gender diversity.
Only 2 months with a differently-genitaled member and they were able to achieve this marvel.
Something I’ve been trying is estimating for the time in which I’m 80% sure I can finish something. I end up racing ahead of estimates most of the time because they are too high, but then some times I’ll find something that is a bit more complicated than expected and it takes a little longer. Overall this seems to balance out, but also have a lot more predictability, it’s easier to predict at any given time what I might be working on. This has been pretty important on my team where I’ve been doing API work for some iOS developers to use.
VCs will invest in anything that looks like it'll return a good multiple. How stupid the business might appear to a rational person has absolutely no baring on things. This is why most people would make terrible VCs - if you look at something and think "that's a dumb idea" you'd pass on some massive opportunities.
So its kind of touched on in the lensing part, but gravity acts on light.

So the black hole is slowing down the light travelling towards us.... But the speed of light is a constant so... 'time' is slowed down?

So does the mean that the light is 'older' than the 54 million years it took to reach us?

I'm over 50% sure there's a flaw in my reasoning somewhere here...
Could probably be solved with a direct connection, like antennas touching each other.
Last time I checked, VS Code didn't use librigpreg directly. It was calling the ripgrep binary instead.
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Nitpick: x * 2 * 1.2 == x * 2.4, not 2.2
I agree with you but the general view is to avoid doing armchair analysis until official word is out.

As far as armchair analysis doesn’t cause any harm, I think it’s fine!
Maybe that's not what they want though. Maybe they just want to use their computer without a constant connection to all of their other devices and servers
If you've ever had the pleasure to work with people from wipro,ipsoft,atos etc to name a few this should not surprise you.
Just like almost every podcast ever. It's a transcript of a podcast and so not surprising.
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Admittedly, 160 was exaggerated. But on stretches where there's no speed limit and you suddenly get this 80 km/h along with Stau signs, people tend to still drive 120 if there's no visible congestion. Since those dynamic limits are not really enforced (most speed cameras tend to be in places where there's a fixed limit at all times) there's rarely a downside to drivers. Same as with driving 80 in construction sites instead of the 60 that's signed.
this guy needs to formally verify his explanations. they are pretty weasly and convoluted. not sure anything of value in this
You don't need to hire a DPO. They probably don't even need one, but even if they do, it's just a role they can assign to an existing employee.

Stop spreading FUD.
Admittedly, the 160 was exaggerated. But as a German who does obey the speed limit, my experience seems to be that most drivers don't.
Yeah in my experience everyone just mentally translates to time anyway so it is pointless. "11 points, that's about 2 days right?"

If you want to make the uncertainty clear it's better to allow ranges, like 2h-5d instead of trying to play stupid mind games.

Story points are like setting your watch 5 mins early so you are on time to things. It doesn't work.
> In many places, road engineers deliberately obscure visibility of the roundabout from the approaches. So even if it is legally a 'yield', in practice, stopping is enforced by unaccountable manipulation.

Besides that, many after-the-fact roundabouts are so small in diameter that the indicators on almost every car model are invisible, so there is essentially no way to actually tell if someone is taking an exit until they do it. Lots of unnecessary stopping and waiting due to that.

Another great thing is having a zebra crossing (preferably combined with a cyclist crossing) on each approach/exit, but planting a bunch of bushes such that it is practically impossible to see people there when approaching the exit, forcing people to crawl speed before exiting, and conversely forcing everyone behind them in the roundabout to brake as well.

I'm not sure if stuff like that is intentional or just accidentally stupid.
well yeah, but do they want it bad enough that I can go to all of the licensers and tell them "give me all your content for a small cost so I can fingerprint it and build a content identifier" ?

Old businesses have shown time and again they are unable to understand what's good for them if it moves from the way it was always done (some, at least).
Kubernetes is going to absolutely wreck aws’s profit margins on the 3-5 year time frame, imo.
> It's perfectly correct and does not contradict physics.

Sure, this is correct, but I don't see how this describes anything traveling faster than light. The light spot itself is an effect of the light that's traveled to that point (at the speed of light). The spot "moving" is (physically) more of an illusion as the light now travels to an adjacent location.

As far as I understand it doesn't actually move
> Whilst I appreciate your views, for many/most the idea that no party can affect or take down the content is a negative.

Citation needed, please. This really sounds like your personal opinion presented as a general statement.
Wouldn't it be 2.4 as you are adding 20% of the already doubled estimate?
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Nah, cloud providers are under enornlis pressure to optimize resource usage (real estate, electricity, labor). A hardware design without competitive performance has a snowball's chance in hell of being adopted in that space. The economics of cloud datancenter mean that security only needs to be good enough, not perfect.
> microcode (stored on metalized mylar sheets read by transformers)

First time I hear about this. Sounds wild, couldn't find a good explanation of how this works though.
Frankly, that particular enterprise is probably screwed and will be stuck with their legacy code until the end of time.

This is what happens when one gobbles up whatever Microsoft throws over the fence... and it's clear they haven't learned their lesson because .NET core is on the list.
There is no simpler, cleaner, alternative for them. By their nature such companies will (almost?) always end
up in this situation.

Any developer working for them must now learn VB6, ASP.NET and Powershell and other great future-proof tech. That is, once again, not a great career move and certainly not an argument for learning many languages.

For the sake of discussion, that entire stack could probably have been kept to C++, Java, HTML5 and something for scripting assuming a talented engineering team.

C++ would have covered their Windows desktop needs from Windows 9x until today, including going cross-platform if needed.

Java would have covered cross-platform desktop apps and back-end, likely including whatever they're using golang for.
Had they wanted more agility on the BE they could have gone with Python which doubles as scripting language.

HTML5 is self-explanatory. No need for fancy schmancy React or Angular which I bet they'll have to replace (or rather append to) in 5 years time.
Sure, hence that part in my reply and mentioning higher VAT of Sweden. The amounts needed to apply per country VAT are rather low as well (like 35k, iirc).

>>but the price is to be a bit higher due to VAT diff.

Sweden has 25% which is pretty high, compared to the 19% Germany.
Having 0% control over the engine limits their influence inherently. Maket share of the gui wrapper would give them control over... themes? Extensions?

I also think Firefox would be less appealing without Quantum.
I only skimmed this page but I don't see it mention ads only trackers? Honestly, FF should just integrate something like ublock but this won't happen for reasons.

Anyway, the performance impacts alone are so huge, imo adblocking should be enabled by default for every user focused browser not supported by ad money. Simply a superior browsing experience.
The main difference is that it uses an imperative api and it accepts a render callback allowing you to customize it pretty much any way you want.
On the circular road, did you try clicking a single vehicle to slow it down just a tad? I did that (just one vehicle) and watched in horror as a phantom jam developed. Just 2 slow vehicles and there arose a bumper-to-bumper, wave of stationary cars.
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Exactly. Even a centralized filtering mechanism can be curated by the community. The important point is that each server gets to decide whether to use it. If a user considers their server is not doing a good enough job with this, they simply move to another server.
Honestly, after doing this whole data science thing for a while now, I'm going to be blunt: I can estimate quite a lot of tasks with quite a lot of accuracy. including software and IT tasks.

What I can't do is make bad management hear what they don't want to hear. Nor can I stop people from accepting an estimate because its closer to what they want to be true, because they've already made a promise that conflicts with the actual estimate, or because a certain process requires or necessitates inaccurate estimates.

I think the whole "software is hard to estimate" myth stems from 2 fundamental causes:

- not controlling for human biases or referencing actual real world data
- processes that don't punish/ reward people who provide inaccurate/accurate estimates respectively.
It's really a bold move by Noam, considering that his contract with Datacamp doesn't let him pull out the course. Sending out this message after he's put so much effort in creating a course that could provide him lifetime royalty for every course that's taken.
I’m glad someone already posted this observation. Also common in this category are hordes of supporters who will explain away whatever their hero said based on what paints them in the best light at the moment.