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New comment by Lxr in "Ask HN: Show me your half baked project"

Lxr — Sat, 09 Jan 2021 20:11:33 +0000

I’m working on https://www.dragondictionary.com, a Chinese-English dictionary aimed at Chinese learners. I am building it because there’s no good desktop alternative to Pleco at the moment.

New comment by Lxr in "The Dunning-Kruger Effect Is Probably Not Real"

Lxr — Sat, 26 Dec 2020 23:33:56 +0000

The article doesn't explain what is actually going on to produce the second chart, but here is a guess. Assume people have a true ability x, an estimated ability y which is x + some unbiased noise, and a test score z which is also x + some unbiased noise. If you take a sample and collect the lowest quartile of test scores z, then the average of the estimated abilities y in that group is higher than z because the y are produced centered at x rather than centered at z. By collecting the lowest quartile of test scores, you didn't just get the dumbest people, you also got the people who happened to perform badly on the test that day. These people may be estimating their ability accurately, in which case the estimate would be higher than their randomly bad performance that day.

This seems like too obvious a mistake to not have been noticed for this long though.

New comment by Lxr in "Deep learning job postings have collapsed in the past six months"

Lxr — Tue, 01 Sep 2020 02:03:43 +0000

ML is a shiny object with often no discernible ROI but occasionally very large ROI, and companies are understandably nervous about missing out. Spending a small amount to hedge their bets isn't necessarily irrational.

Ask HN: Would you pay for a tool to fix UX antipatterns on the web?

Lxr — Sat, 30 May 2020 01:58:18 +0000

Hi HN,

I'm constantly frustrated by the amount of annoying things websites do. Useless cookie and privacy notices, ads disguised as content, use-our-app walls, clickbait designed for "engagement", AMP and so on.

I'd like to build something to help users browse the web more efficiently. The closest thing I know of is uBlock Origin with handmade filters e.g. https://github.com/yourduskquibbles/webannoyances, but this doesn't really solve the problem as I'd like (or maybe it can't due to API restrictions).

Is this something you'd use and/or pay for?

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23357797

Points: 4

# Comments: 1

Mobile phone detection cameras on Australian roads

Lxr — Wed, 12 Feb 2020 22:34:48 +0000

Article URL: https://roadsafety.transport.nsw.gov.au/stayingsafe/mobilephones/technology.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22313563

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by Lxr in "Why are some things darker when wet?"

Lxr — Thu, 09 Jan 2020 19:37:52 +0000

This seems like a better explanation, because the effect is stronger for things that absorb water than for things where the water sits on top.

See how global warming has changed the world since your childhood

Lxr — Sat, 07 Dec 2019 15:08:10 +0000

Article URL: https://mobile.abc.net.au/news/2019-12-06/how-climate-change-has-impacted-your-life/11766018?pfmredir=sm

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21730623

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

New comment by Lxr in "Auto-Antonyms"

Lxr — Thu, 03 Oct 2019 13:29:38 +0000

Similar to 厉害 in Chinese - it often translates as terrible, but mostly used to mean great.

New comment by Lxr in "Experimental replication: knives manufactured from frozen human feces don't work"

Lxr — Fri, 13 Sep 2019 03:37:34 +0000

Don’t miss the supplementary material: https://ars.els-cdn.com/content/image/1-s2.0-S2352409X193053...

New comment by Lxr in "Can I Email: ‘Can I Use’ for email"

Lxr — Thu, 12 Sep 2019 08:30:28 +0000

Why use HTML in emails though?

Marree Man

Lxr — Sat, 24 Aug 2019 04:28:23 +0000

Article URL: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marree_Man

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20785204

Points: 103

# Comments: 27

New comment by Lxr in "Xiaomi explains more about how its under-screen camera works"

Lxr — Sun, 09 Jun 2019 13:26:45 +0000

> it creates low trust

Try looking into the camera when you speak rather than the screen.

New comment by Lxr in "Facebook plans cryptocurrency debut"

Lxr — Fri, 07 Jun 2019 15:56:40 +0000

What is the best way to profit from all this crypto hype, as a rational person who’s convinced all coins will eventually go to zero?

Australian National University hit by data breach

Lxr — Tue, 04 Jun 2019 03:36:24 +0000

Article URL: https://mobile.abc.net.au/news/2019-06-04/anu-data-hack-bank-records-personal-information/11176788?pfmredir=sm

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20091614

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

New comment by Lxr in "Pi-hole: A black hole for Internet advertisements"

Lxr — Thu, 30 May 2019 16:26:00 +0000

This. Router-level blocking will become impossible without intercepting https, and endpoint blocking also gets harder.

New comment by Lxr in "How not to hire a software engineer"

Lxr — Mon, 01 Apr 2019 14:19:30 +0000

Now I really want to know how I save myself before the candle burns through the rope.

New comment by Lxr in "Elsevier journal editors resign, start rival open-access journal"

Lxr — Wed, 16 Jan 2019 23:33:25 +0000

As a shameless plug, we are hiring right now (we’re a small remote team) working on this exact problem - neliti.com/careers

New comment by Lxr in "Ask HN: Who is hiring? (January 2019)"

Lxr — Wed, 02 Jan 2019 17:27:29 +0000

Neliti | Full-stack developer | Jakarta | FULL-TIME | REMOTE

We are a small team working to change the way academic research is published and make scientific work free of paywalls. We run neliti.com, Indonesia's largest repository of academic research (~3m users/mo), and are beginning to sell software to universities to manage their journals. This is a great opportunity to get in on ground floor with a successful startup, with a lot of freedom and opportunity for personal growth.

We're looking for talented full-stack developers to join our team who like well-defined tasks and a lot of freedom. Our backend is Django, frontend Vue.js, so experience in these is a bonus. Remote or Jakarta.

More info: https://www.neliti.com/careers

Contact: andrew@neliti.com

New comment by Lxr in "After 48 hours we haven't seen any sign people are using Waymo's service"

Lxr — Sun, 09 Dec 2018 00:46:06 +0000

What is “true AI” in your opinion?

New comment by Lxr in "EU to stop changing the clocks in 2019"

Lxr — Mon, 17 Sep 2018 23:46:31 +0000

Everyone using UTC would be chaos. Imagine organising a remote meeting - you’d have to figure out which hours each party would be awake, by googling “waking hours in Germany” for example.