skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Almost 15 years later I can still remember that number from the TV commercials.
Doesn't address how highly technical people dealing with new systems are also wildly innaccurate in their estimates.

It's like a expert in tech, business and computer science trying to predict stock prices. I mean that's the expert of experts failing.
This is actually really cool.

I wish the icon set was larger (ie 10K) and it randomly picked and presented you icons that you didn’t pick based on similar icons. I found myself not wanting to pick certain logos because other people would probably use a common shape.

The work on shade and typography generation is awesome.
Theres also the general problem of the truthness of what people write about you online .. anyone can write anything so it shoulg be at least defendable to be kept
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No, the cost of a combined gas-wind system would be something like £60/MWh, so that’s what you should be comparing to the nuclear cost, not the £40/MWh directly.

You need to think of wind as a combined wind and gas system, you use wind when it's available because it has a very low marginal cost, and then use gas when it isn't. Luckily capital costs for building gas plants are low, and marginal costs for buying the fuel are high. That means it isn't expensive to build plants as backup, which are only going to be used part of the time. You can use the fuel savings to pay for the capital cost of building the wind farms, and end up without significant extra expenditure, or even saving money. The same can also apply to solar.

It's more difficult if the backup is coal, though, there the balance is more towards capital cost, not marginal cost, so there is a much less leeway to defray fuel costs using renewables.
Show HN: IPFS for Dummies
> Universities are supposed to educate people

The primary goal of most research universities is to conduct research. Educating people is not the goal, or is an auxiliary goal.

Related: http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/cosmicvariance/2008/05/29/...

> But there is one misimpression that people seem to have, that might as well be corrected before any hasty actions are taken: the purpose of Harvard is not to educate students. If anything, its primary purpose is to produce research and scholarly work. Nobody should be surprised that the gigantic endowment isn’t put to use in providing top-flight educational experiences for a much larger pool of students; it could be, for sure, but that’s not the goal. The endowment is there to help build new facilities, launch new research initiatives, and attract the best faculty. If it weren’t for the fact that it’s hard to get alumni donations when you don’t have any alumni, serious consideration would doubtless be given to cutting out students entirely. ...

> This is not a value judgment, nor is it a particular complaint about Harvard. It’s true of any top-ranked private research university, including Caltech. ...
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> If engineers stop giving estimates for their work and simply ask for deadlines then it changes the dynamic of the conversation.

If there's a single line you want to take away from this wonderful essay, it would be this.

Parkinson's law usually takes care of the rest once the resources have been agreed upon.
Ethical proprietary license is an oxymoron. This is nothing more than a waiver of responsibility to make a product not only worth using but to encourage its use. This crippling license can only serve to rig the market competition. Imagine if the FSF could suddenly ban all routers from running GPL software, to promote its own line of approved LAN and WiFi cards.

Speaking of FSF, how uncanny is it this license released so quickly after Dr. Richard Stallman's resignation? If nothing more, to catapult the walls when the gate is already lowered.

Let's cut to the chase: How will you prove an allegedly amoral actor is utilising your code when you have no access to the codebase? So banning top secret government projects is an unrealistic pursuit, which leaves only one part of the 'open source' community to destabilise another part, or to make crooked the already fading concept of software freedom.

When can we expect Coraline to nominate xirself(/herself/himself) as the new ethical leader of 'open source' software, and in term the FSF?
Why can't the EU produce easy to follow guidelines and examples and make the process fair?

Right to be forgotten shouldn't be about taking down the information, but protecting those involved.

For example, let's take Grievous bodily harm. If a journalistic source reports on a GBH case (such as this), we could come up with some rules that say the publisher has the right to include:

- identifying details about "incidentals" - e.g. the victim (e.g. Name) or location (e.g. Business name) for 3 years after the event. After that, they must replace it with generalities - "A 39 year old man", "A restaurant on Letsby Avenue". Must ensure that an individual person or business cannot be identified from the generalized description without significant legwork.

- identifying details about the perpetrator for a number of years after the first article is published - at least 6. Their age should be a consideration here - if a 90 year old stabs someone at dinner, I'd expect that to be generalized after 5 years. If a 20 year old stabs someone at dinner, I'd expect that to survive for 20 years. So assuming we now have a number between 6 and 20, if the person was not convicted, that number should be halved.

Once that's done for various classes of crimes, the process should be cheap and easy - the publisher should be sent a letter by the subject or someone with a vested interest in the article and request that the article be redacted. Provided they give enough information, the publisher should be able to look up the guidelines and either agree or reply with a reason. If they refuse, they can be taken to court.

On a broader note, this is just another way that GDPR is broken. It feels like the lawmakers wanted it to cover so much, that they wanted to right wrongs so badly, that they didn't care who would get hurt in the process. Almost retaliatory lawmaking.
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Side story: I just bought an iPhone 11, and proceeded to put it into a new case. During this process the phone tried to call 911 two times. The process was only stopped when I hurriedly cancelled. I can't imagine I'm the only one.
>Why are some of the comments here defending the deletion of facts?

I see people referring to the search results, the facts still remain in the original databases, so 10 years old articles should still be there.

Let's say I did something stupid 20 years ago, nothing major, if this is not important for the society then why should it appear on Google? Would you be OK if all your embarrassing moments are searchable on Google ? maybe you are lucky and not such moment was published but someone else may not be that lucky.
I have always struggled with understanding time in the context of the universe. Why would the universe care for our conception of time?

It obviously cares, because time slows down at high speeds and in gravitational dilation. I can't wrap my mind around it.
Wow that does look good. Why use Ubuntu? Wouldn’t it add a lot of cruft instead of just i3?
Often it seems you take the time to properly evaluate the code and changes .... often it seems you are nearly done.
From http://www.climate4you.com/GlobalTemperatures.htm

All four previous interglacials are seen to be warmer (1-3oC) than the present. The typical length of a glacial period is about 100,000 years, while an interglacial period typical lasts for about 10-15,000 years. The present interglacial period has now lasted about 11,600 years.

I found it fun that the xkcd comic on Earth Temperature [0] is roughly the red box in Figure 2 of that page. Really puts things into perspective.

[0] https://xkcd.com/1732/
"The only church that illuminates is a burning church."

Durruti.
We should make the punishment for falsely accusing someone of rape equivalent to the punishment for rape. That's take care of the problem.
One is about a year, the other is close to five years.
Like the article in general, but it would be even better if basic conditions like cpu governor, fixed clock frequencies and so on would be mentioned. This is especially important for comparable results ;-)
It never ceases to amaze me how much tape I still see imported, mind you I see way more SSDs, then HDDs but still a fantastical amount of tape.
Wondered if Lithuania will be mentioned in the article. Yes, it is. The difference between Nanuvat and Greenland is that their populations are 10 thousands, we are almost 3 million.
yee haw!
This law is really terrible, but maybe decisions like this will help abolish it. After all, if one can find the information with a VPN, it becomes less useful to enforce this law and people who want to change their record will do it the old way, applying to the person publishing the information or the courts to get it removed instead of getting it delistet in search engines.
Based on the number of emails I get because other people think my email address is their email address...

As one of the first subscribers to a new ISP, that was set to be the most popular one in my country, I was able to get an email address with my nick. I couldn't anticipate what was coming my way. It was possible to explain most people their mistakes, not the guy sending me underskirt porn. Except it was scottish underskirt porn. It was too embarrassing to write a complaint.

Now with my current gmail address I had a problem with a bunch of... individuals that use a reply-to-all mail list. Forced to mask everything as spam.
This actually suggests that there are interesting psychological implications to parking lot circulation design. If you design a lot so that people can explore it in an order that matches a monotonous decrease in the ‘value function’ they place on each space location, you reduce driver stress because they can take the simple strategy of parking in the first available space and know they could not possibly have done better by following a different strategy (ah - except for waiting by the entrance and holding up traffic til someone leaves, of course).

This assumes you can identify a common value function everyone (or most people) places on each space of course.

Making people follow the value function in increasing order - as in the example, where each space you pass is closer to the entrance and so ‘better’ - seems to force this strategy choice.

This suggests all kinds of analogies in user experience and organizational and game design problems...
What is this thing even for? I cannot make heads or tails of the description on the website.
Certainly for the benefit of doubt of the GP I'll concede that at this point, now that I seem to have two commentators disagreeing with me.

I'm not a native English speaker, my understanding of the word "tractable" is "solvable". E.g. arranging some blocks on my desk with the tower of Hanoi algorithm using chopsticks is a tractable problem, doing so with my hands is more tractable, but the end result is the same.

In any case, whether the GP meant "completely solved" or "partial progress can be made" I think the point I was trying to make stands regardless.

That point is that even if you say achieve 100% equality of justice among jurors regardless of the sex of the defendant, you can't say you've achieved much if any progress on sexism in general.
I absolutely hate auto-updates on anything. Of course this is always met with "but security issues..." YOU BROUGHT SECURITY ISSUES BY MAKING EVERYTHING NETWORKED AND IN A PERPETUALLY UNFINISHED STATE!!!

And of course since everything is in a constantly broken state, it is also in a need of constant auto-updates that both break and unnecessarily change stuff without my knowledge or permission.
on a core i5 you can use lz4 and compress LZ4 for a ratio around 2 at 370 MB/s (ans decompress it faster) - for one core.
That usually doesn't matter because—when I do grocery—the mall has the option to have an attendant carry it for you for free.

With that in mind, I usually opt to carry the grocery out myself because I prefer it. But rationally, the cost disappears because of the option.
Ask HN: Startup idea feedback – user-friendly AutoDataScience
I would love to know what people think of this idea. Here is the hypothesis/pain point:

ML and more broadly data science are very useful, but even some of the most recent "easy" data science tools (e.g. Google AutoML tables) have too high of a learning curve to be useful to the average consumer.

Normally if you were learning a new tool, you might learn through a combination of study, and trial and error. However, many people don't have a lot of time to sit down and learn something complex in this manner. (They need a bit of an extra push to minimize their error/guide them toward reasonable use cases.) The result is something like this:

1 - get excited to try something easy and get new value out of their data

2 - get frustrated because the tool is not easy enough, or they don't know what questions are answerable with the available algorithms

3 - search the internet for guidance on what the algorithms do, get overwhelmed

4 - abandon tool

Solution:

1 - send us your data (probably a spreadsheet/CSV/Excel file)

2 - we analyze the data, and send you a list of questions that we can answer/insights that we can derive

3 - you select which of the questions you want answered

4 - we run our analyses and send you the results, including an explanation of the algorithms that were used to derive the results

The key here is that the "learning" takes place after value is delivered to the user. Even though a tool may allow you to do things with the click of a button, the hidden complexity still presents a learning curve to the user.

Footnotes:

- I'm not claiming to have a large amount of data to back this up, hence why I said this is a "hypothesis". I'm offering the idea up for feedback and am interested in hearing what people say!

- This certainly does not apply to people who are used to self-directed learning and enjoy a healthy challenge
Are there any cheap tape drives? If not, what's the issue? Is it the fact the prices are kept high because it's used mostly by business/enterprises customers? If so, are there any hopes of LTO becoming mainstream for home desktop usage? Couldn't find much info on Google about this.
This also misses the point. The point was that optimizing for number of stores closed is the wrong metric to begin with. Who cares how they rank on a metric that doesn't matter?
This is a simple obvious addon that every connected portable device could implement. When I bought my fist and last smartphone (Android 2 at that time) after noticing it had an accelerometer on board I immediately thought of an app that could detect a fall when going at some speed, then start beeping for like say 10 seconds and in case the user didn't stop it (as in signaling "I'm ok") it would call emergency numbers sending them coordinates through SMS. I had other things to do at that time, and it seemed so obvious that I thought it already existed or someone soon would create something similar.
I've gotten that too; registration confirmation emails from services which I've never even heard of, but appear to be legitimate. I wonder if it could be some sort of spam/phishing attempt, or maybe even just a way to verify "account liveness" for future spamming (expecting the clueless user to click 'confirm', then e.g. checking if a profile page on a site is created/another account can be made with that name...?)
I am not sure about recent enhancement if any but until last year it wasn't possible unless you use Vectors.

https://www.codeproject.com/Articles/1223361/Benchmarking-NE...
Very nice - nice, clean... just what’s needed
Can confirm. My late 2013 13” MBP is still kicking. The SD card slot failed but otherwise it’s fine. I got it refurbished originally and haven’t had to change a thing.

At work I have a 2015 15” and imagine that’s the route I’ll go to replace my personal machine soon enough...
Have a very clear business case of why you are using it.

Rolling out K8s should not be the goal. It’s a toolset, an expensive a bleeding edge one. It’s also very much geared for operators not developers so you likely need to build guide rails on top of it.

There are lots of good reasons to use K8s but make sure you know why you are.
That's right. I hate it when people mess up the units like that. When I read that "X's GDP is $Y billion" with no mention of "year" or "annual" I am almost as annoyed as when journalists can't tell the difference between energy and power.
So negative. I ride and run in the woods near me quite a bit. It's peaceful and quiet, but the opposite side of that coin is that no one would find me for quite some time if something went sideways.

I have great cell coverage there.
similarly Blender author made a voluntary move to keep blender an open product

pretty great outcome :)
"If you have end-to-end encryption you can't sanitize in the client."

I think you meant to type that you can't sanitize in the "server"? Because with end-to-end encryption the server has no access to the plaintext to be sanitized. Only the client can sanitize, only the client has the plaintext.
Do you have such an inclination? maybe you do and you don't even know it yet, it is said that we can do a lot of things if circumstances are right. Say someone attacked you , now 20 years later you can't get a job because some misunderstanding that happen 20 years ago, maybe you don't even know that Gogle shows that fact about you because when you search your name you see something else.
Someone could make a Right to be Forgotten request to the BBC for the news article, but they'd need to meet a higher standard. The listing is of ones where people have asked to have the result removed from Google.
https://www.adsmartfromsky.co.uk is the technology.

I had a quick look around the site, but can't see where it says where the data that they use comes from - other than the FAQs which say you can supply your own data if you want.

I would assume they are using the open electrol role, postcode data etc to target specific premises for their "Location Based Targeting" and for the "Attribute Based Targeting" I guess data from various market research forms that Sky send out or buy?
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Vendor lock-in for their IDE/toolchain. If the ISA isn't open, you're going to be paying the vendor for a license to compile new code.
I'd like to see a version of this that optimises for this problem more globally. Other people exist!

e.g. Park further away if you can handle it (arrived on time, and are in good health, and have little luggage). Then people who are struggling (arrived late, with kids, in poor health, with lots of luggage) have a higher chance to find a space closer to the entrance. This might invisibly make someone have a less shitty day, and reduce my own risk of running into an angry person later. It's more impactful to optimise for that, rather than save seconds of walking.

Any ideas for how to math this?
Hopefully farther than nowhere. It seems like you're ignoring the dangers of proprietary software here entirely.
You're deliberately missing the point just to name-drop some scene names?
I guess I won't getting this mac either. Anyone at apple who values a thinner laptop over a ergonomic keyboard and longer battery life should be tared and feathered. It's embarrassing that I have to say this out loud.
Could also be a hit and run. Having something like this could end up saving your life.
How did they fix that, in the rm binary?

In the example above, the command would be `rm -rf /` without the variable present, and the shell would expand / to all the folders in /. So it's not a direct call to `rm -rf /`, you would need to handle the shell expansion of /* as well?
"even if somehow server-side algorithms are better (which this presentation seems to imply)"

The slides provide several reasons why server-side algorithms are worse.

"the situation is better client-side, because when running code on the client's side, you can check how exactly the browser parses the HTML code."

Yes, and for this reason, DOMPurify is a client-side sanitizer.
> And while such borders might present new challenges after Brexit, there were proven solutions: non-E.U. Switzerland, for example, keeps its borders, travel, and trade open with four major E.U. countries. These problems only became “insoluble” when E.U. diplomats discovered they might be used to tangle up the Brexit negotiations.

Complete nonsense, just like the rest of the article. Switzerland (and Norway) are both Schengen countries, and even so, the borders are hardly "open". More importantly, the shape of the border is completely incomparable to that between Ireland and Northern Ireland.

The Irish border is the only blocking issue, all else heard from brexiteers is just misdirection.
I tend not to buy new phones until my current one is done for. But if the Librem 5 pans out and is well received by the first buyers, there is a high likelihood this will be my next phone.
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No. Inheritance plays a larger role in becoming a successful CEO/"professional" than it would in hunting a lion. The biggest lie Americans tell themselves is that the wealthy got wealthy by "taking risks" and that they deserve their wealth.

What takes more risk: having large amounts of capital accumulate wealth over time due or switching between multiple jobs, working longer hours, and being more stressed as you try to keep your family alive?
> we're all aware of radiation hormesis

And many other crackpot theories.
When I last published an app it was cross-platform and I was denied for having "sync with the Android version and the Chrome extension" in my listing even though that was one of the main value props for my app.
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Yeah, seems like he forgot to finish writing that. I guess he statically linked the libraries when updating windows deps because he didn't know how to do it dynamically and that meant they were stuck shipping them all together? Is that even how that works (I don't really know C et al well).
> There are about 500 modules in VLC, which means you can come and work on a very small part and improve it without breaking everything else.

This is presented as a positive. Here's the negative: poor maintenance. Virtually nobody knows, for example, how the official SMB plugin works, and there's no documentation.

Speaking about "best developers" (a section of the article). Since version 3, video playback suffered from one or more bugs on any of the 4+ machines I've tried it on. I'm talking about video playback, which is a core feature; I had to switch to MPlayer.

It seems to me that VLC is the software users love to love. I'm puzzled by the reasons of this; my guess is that products with a zillion of features have a certain charm.
You are referring to a greek proverb, right? :D
Please file an issue on GitHub and we would be happy to look into this.
Hinckley won't be renegotiated, it's more a question of whether we commission the other new nuclear plants. It’s possible that Hinckley could go bankrupt though, and then the government would have to decide what to do.
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