skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> blows GT right out of the water with its accuracy.

For general vocabulary, very likely. I believe Google Translate's competitive edge comes in the form of figuring out translations for jargon, slang, etc. from equivalent-corpus context.

I like to think of Google Translate as a keyword extractor on steroids. It doesn't necessarily give you the right prose, but it does better than anything I know of at giving you the right bag-of-words for indexing a foreign-language document in English.

(I hypothesize this to be Google Translate's real driving purpose, and the reason it still sees regular updates after all these years: it's used to index foreign-language web pages, books, and videos so that there can be a single TF-IDF token in Google's backend for each language-neutral conceptual category rather than distinct token for each language-specific word.)
I started rereading The Design of Everyday Things by Don Norman last night.

They be building Norman Layouts at GitHub
For those who are wondering what the parent is referring to: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blitzchung_controversy They banned a player who voiced support for the Hong Kong protests.
> Never meant to state that all these founders came here on an H1B

The URL is literally `h1bvalley.com` how can you honestly state that you "never meant to state" this?

I get the intent and desire to celebrate successful immigrants in the States but this conflation isn't helping the cause.
I'm becoming increasingly frustrated with the difficulty in accessing primary source material. Why don't any of these outlets post the surveillance video and let us decide for ourselves how much of a resemblance there is.
Does this RFC just sherlock DNS Spy?
Good question, but it's clear enough that it's also Google's mission.
>> I would be okay with working for a US defense contractor, ie a company which makes machines that literally kill people, yet I could not picture myself working at Facebook.

Maybe I can help clarify because I share that view. Making weapons for defense contractors keeps you at some distance. Presumably we need to be at war (or today's equivalent) and engaged with an external enemy to use those weapons - at some level the use is justified by serious issues or threats. What facebook does is not justified by anything other than pure profit motive. Would you work for a company making weapons that indiscriminately kill people in your own country just for profit? Probably not.
Thanks ComputerGuru! :) Certainly, Revery is just putting together the building blocks the ReasonML and OCaml communities have developed. Inspired by ReactJS and Elm.

Revery supports the same FFI as OCaml [1] - C-style linking. I believe Rust would be straightforward to integrate that way - I'm not sure about C#.

- [1] https://caml.inria.fr/pub/docs/manual-ocaml/intfc.html
Since we're sharing tips, here's another one: Holding the middle mouse button and dragging the mouse up towards the top of the screen accomplishes basically the same thing as pressing "Home" without requiring you to take your hand off the mouse.
I must be lazy. I don’t want my eyesight travel from left to right in like 100ms. It should be like notepad, open it up and resize it whatever you want.
I think you missed my point. Of course saying that they are only good at search is a catch-all statement. They are probably good at many things but their relevance is tied exclusively to their search product. Products like YouTube are what they are because of Google's search expertise.

Also let's not forget that AdWords either subsidizes or leverages everything that Google builds. So I would add that they are also great at selling ads.
Based on the article, it's simple enough to just use your computer to back up the text. They seem to adopt a flow of "write for 30-60 minutes, upload to a computer".

It also seems stupid-simple enough that losing data will require a pretty major event (i.e. more than just a power loss).
yes https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hNy_GNWwhQk
Search, Maps, YouTube, Chrome. (They all have competitors, some more successful than others.)

A bunch of people have listed Gmail on their lists, but Gmail is not even close to a monopoly, even in consumer email. https://email-verify.my-addr.com/list-of-most-popular-email-...
I just pasted a few conversations from whatsapp in portuguese and at least for that language google translate was 10x more accurate on the meaning of the very colloquial words used, mixed with English etc.

Edit: thanks for the link though, I'm saving it and trying from time to time, we use translation a ton in my household (everyone is learning English after moving abroad)
I'm definitely interested in how they justify this in comparison to Wikileaks. BlueLeaks certainly had sensitive information about victims and others that are innocent, but the line hasn't been officially drawn there by a statement or ToS policy. I don't see a Twitter statement in the future.
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Interesting. I’ll have to revisit this topic. My understanding was that the use of encryption was restricted while the parent was saying it is illegal.

To clarify what percentage of your clubs repeaters are reachable through one or more encrypted connections?
I'm starting to think Google (probably Facebook too) scoops up top talent simply to deprive potential competitors (e.g., startups) of the resources they would need to challenge them. Actually having something for them to do is secondary.
Search, browser, email and maps.
Oh, then you can just let them in as founders without first toiling away at substandard rates in exploitive companies, right?
Sure, I get that, if the copy of D2 that you're using was purchased from Blizzard North.
I wouldn't say that's entirely true. IMHO BigQuery is their best product. A lot of GCP is really good.

For consumer products I completely agree. I use DuckDuckGo as my default, but I still find myself hitting !g a lot to find what I'm looking for.
Search, the browser, email, non-streaming video are the only things that come to mind.
>I dont think ive ever heard of someone wanting transparency in a photo.

OK, but they do. It's pretty common for someone to cut out an object in a photo and have a transparent background.
What Is the Hiring Process of Data Scientists at Wells Fargo?
I expect TfL's "Tube departure boards, line status and station status"[0] feed would suffice. It's updated every 30 seconds. Plenty more data available too.

[0]: https://tfl.gov.uk/info-for/open-data-users/
search, maps, mail (gmail), video (youtube).
Well.. you're here now. Speak on it. Did you find a user? How? Did that user have a problem your product solved, or did you iterate on the initial product to solve that user's problem?
Subtract One – An Analog Inspired Web Audio Synthesizer
> I think Scott's fear (rightly or wrongly) isn't that his own opinions will be his downfall, but that those politically on his own side will attack him for providing a platform to the enemy. I think he sees himself in the same position as Steve Hsu, who was just forced out of his position at Michigan State despite Scott's attempt at public support. The were various criticisms of Hsu, but the main ones seemed to be that he provided a platform for people with unacceptable opinions (Stefan Molyneaux, Ron Unz). I don't think these two are active on SSC, but given anonymous handles, they might turn out to be. Others with bad reputations (Steve Sailer comes to mind) post there civilly, and are treated with respect. I think indisputably there exist some people who consider this to be grounds for "cancellation".

The thing about "cancellation" is that it doesn't work if there's nothing there to start with. No one can really dispute that there is at least one frighteningly racist piece of work and at least one frighteningly sexist piece of work we can all point to from SSC.

> Others think that the ideas are too dangerous to be discussed

I'm very mixed on this. One the one hand, the idea that there is forbidden knowledge is anathema to me. On the other, my timeline has someone in it who essentially argues that he learned "the Bell Curve" is correct because Scott argued for it and he trusts "the smart people" who have read it to conclude it is correct and not racist [0].

We have to accept that, however indirect, that is harm to this individual. They've been recruited into an argument for the genetic superiority of a "white" brain by someone who's irresponsibly laid that argument out. So perhaps there are no forbidden ideas, but there are ideas where it's irresponsible to discuss them without the adequate context of 25+ years of debunking and counter-examples. Especially when homed in a country with a famously inadequate primary education system and a history curricula that barely covers the civil war, let alone anything happening after WW2.

[0]: In the interests of not dogpiling a confused individual, I will not share a link to this tweet. You can find it on my timeline if you look, but I really encourage you to leave that person alone for now. They're a victim in my opinion.
subtract one is an analog inspired, subtractive, monophonic synthesizer, powered by 3 oscillators a filter and two envelope generators, controlling the amplitude and the filter. It's written in JavaScript, using the Web Audio API.
What are your thoughts on the habit of wrapping virtually every recurring piece of code in its own method? In case the implementation has to be overridden?

E.g.:

def current_time

Time.now

end

vs. just repeating Time.now inline within all of the calling methods?
If I had to guess what GP is referring to: search, maps, email, and browser.

While I'm sure we could disagree on if Google actually has a monopoly in these domains, I think it's obvious they have a _substantial_ foothold.
Show HN: Embeddable Instagram Links for Twitter
I use the Alphasmart, also. FYI, there's MacOs software for transferring the text that works great. It needed a PR and Xcode, so I bundled it into a dmg and am distributing it here: https://glassdimly.com/blog/tech/macos/alphasync-macos-catal...
I'm sure these alternatives work for some, but I really don't find "Hey" a suitable alternatives to Gmail, nor "Notion" to Google Docs.

I think the innovation and updating in those Google products has stagnated a lot, but they're still better for actual work and business than the new hip things.
Why? I guess it's because Figma has fewer features, but if OP used PS for web/app design, wouldn't this be fair?
First customer.

You find ten people in an industry, you ask them what sorts of problems they have, or whether and for what they're using Microsoft Excel. If four or five (or better yet all of 'em) have the same problem, or use Excel for the same purpose, you build software that solves the problem or replaces Excel.

In a vacuum, your ideas are things that you can come up with. Maybe they're problems you have, but those problems might not be problems you're willing to spend money to solve. Often the 'idea' is something you as a founder think will be credible, and you end up with a "sitcom startup" (http://www.paulgraham.com/startupideas.html), something that might come from a writer's room.

I've never built a startup. I worked at a consulting firm that took money in exchange for building the software that some sitcom startups tried and failed to use, and I've worked at two successful venture-backed startups that followed the pattern of finding a problem and trying to solve it.
I've switched to Brave and duckduckgo. They are evil and I try avoid them at all costs. AMP is a good enough reason.
This is going to go poof to lawyers the moment they release their remasters.
It's as misleading as mindgeek.com. It has nothing to do with minds or geeks but a website that focusses primarily on internet pornography. OP found a domain that fits the current political atmosphere for better SEO and went with it. Sure it helps to add a note on the website that these aren't all founders who came into the country on an H-1B.
Pretty interesting.

Minor typo: I think it should be "Cloudflare" and not "Cloudfare" (note the missing L).
That's nonsense. No one is going to be fired and no one is going to be boycotted for not joining in.

People might be fired for being against BLM, but that's only right. If you get up and say a group of oppressed people should continue to be oppressed then you absolutely should be fired.
Keep in mind, the author of the article is usually not the same person that writes the headline. An editor was looking for a punchy title for the piece.
PayPal and Venmo are bringing Bitcoin to 375M consumers and why it matters
tangentially related, i've been playing a bit with a brother ep-44 (see, e.g., https://darrengoossens.wordpress.com/2018/08/09/serial-termi...).

i've mostly been running it as a linux tty, but in spite of being designated a 'personal electronic printer', it has some memory and editing features so could pass as a portable word processor.

unfortunately its keyboard is quite unsatisfactory, so i'm considering acquiring a https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silent_700 also for use as a tty.

i would be interested in further suggestions along these lines.
No idea why you are comparing Nethack with Diablo. Two completely different games, but if I had to choose I would 100% pick Diablo so strongly disagree.
An iPhone is a general purpose device compared to an iPod. But maybe Apple has lost the willingness to cannibalise its own sales for the sake of creating stunning new product categories.
Income and Wealth Inequality Has Devastated American Workers
Google doesn't have time to fix that. They've got top-level leetcode engineers to make a new chat app.
> and the detectives then put the photo of this man into a "6 pack" photo line-up, from which a store employee then identified that man as being the suspect.

This is absurdly dangerously. The AI will find people who look like the suspect, that’s how the technology works. A lineup as evidence will almost guarantee a bad outcome, because of course the man looks like the suspect!
Intel can lose Apple: But little else
Google has minimal interest in "apps" (which many companies can do an OK job at) and much more interested in planet-scale data/machine-learning/AI (which is much much harder and something that Google is still very far ahead of everyone at).
They actually pushed ChromeOS and web services (GMail, Inbox, Docs, Sheets, ... ) pretty hard and realized that its not the way to go forward. While for lightweight tasks (like emailing and docs) it works pretty well, for heavy tasks (like video editing) and most importantly, as a development platform, chrome os din't do well.

So they pivoted to Fuchsia OS. A new OS to provide seamless experience across several devices (in home or in vehicle while commuting. Some of the resource can be living in cloud). Its a sort of networked OS. Streaming music to your Google Home, let me fetch that music form the Fuchsia Desktop's cache and stream it to Google Home, rather than fetching it all the way from Cloud.

With out applications, OS is not much of use. Here comes Flutter. Let the developers make apps for Android and iOS in Flutter (currently over 50k apps on Google Play store) and have them run the same app on Fuchsia OS. I believe it will take probably another year or two for Google to bring in Fuchsia to Pixelbook. Let's hope so! I would like an OS as open as Linux, with macOS like user experience.
I found it particularly jarring the this pushy behaviour is present on Windows10 Pro as well, which is supposed to be a "for business" edition of Windows.
> But the other side of it is: would police be more hesitant to act on such fuzzy evidence if the top match appeared to be a middle-class Caucasian (i.e. someone who is more likely to take legal recourse)?

Honest question: does race predict legal recourse when decoupled from socioeconomic status, or is this an assumption?
This getting released during WWDC does not feel like a coincidence. I wonder what Apple will be using it for, it’ll probably be mentioned in a session sometime this week.
I’ve usually seen the comparison come up when discussing the toxicity of user tracking and advertising tech.
Blessed be His holy name.
I have believed this for a very long time. Both Google and Facebook are well known for hiring top talent at top dollar and then putting them on projects that are far below their ability level. It takes that talent off the market.
I worked in Syn Bio from 2008-2010, long before CRISPR came onto the scene. I worked on a couple of iGEM projects, that's the international genetically engineered machines conference at MIT.

The basic premise was we would design E. Coli "strains" or "models" that had foreign DNA inserted via commonly-shared genetic tools. It is comparable to using Linux as a shared OS, lots of other FOSS developers helping each other... except that to get totally new DNA into your E. coli, you had to have it shipped in on dry ice from a willing lab halfway around the world. So, you can see why the field is much smaller and more niche than anything software-related...downloading a library is WAY faster and cheaper than shipping in a new genetic module.

CRISPR would've been a game changer for us. We could've much more easily edited gene sequences, though it still would've been hard to get foreign DNA from other labs...I don't believe CRISPR is good for writing huge new sequences... But small changes, small modifications, would've been MUCH faster with CRISPR. We could've gotten a foreign DNA sequence and then tried out 100 different mutations very simply, perhaps discovering an even better functionality than nature's original code.
Onivim might not be for you :) But our project under the hood, libvim [1], might be useful for you to start (if it's easy to create bindings from C in Go).

There's a cool non-Onivim usage of it called Paravim [2] (and the same author also used it for Vim-Cubed [3])

- [1] https://github.com/onivim/libvim/blob/master/src/libvim.h

- [2] https://github.com/paranim/paravim

- [3] https://github.com/oakes/vim_cubed
>any action taken should be evidence based and properly investigated.

My emotionally charged actions to not be your friend or colleague requires no evidence or proper investigation. If you want to be my friend/colleague, stop being an asshole. It's that simple.
Demand for raw materials for rechargeable electric car batteries is set to rise
This thing is really, really bad.
Super cool!

Would love to see pdf export for standalone documentation generation
The Psion series got some legendary status for its attention to detail. The Psion 5 had backlight, was running on batteries (25-35h battery life) and it has a slot for Compact Flash Cards. The keyboard is foldable. If you find an adapter for the CF cards they can still be used today for writing similarly to what is described here with the AlphaSmart.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psion_Series_5
To be clear, this is a stealth ad for Hey email service wrapped in a rant against Google. #1 on HN 20 minutes after posting. It's quite impressive, actually.
conscious just means conscious, doesn't address where you place your priorities

I wish people pushed back more, but 'conscious' better than 'unconscious'
>Bugs can always be introduced into master.

Or you can cut a release branch, test, and iterate on that branch and be secure knowing only those release iterations are being made.

Its fine for master to have bugs if you're on a release branch. That's why people use them.
Why would you switch to brave but not firefox?

Genuinely curious given the amount of shenanigans they have pulled out and said oops. Most recent one - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23442027
> having too many self-directed engineers with no management vision

I personally feel it's the opposite. I think management, and Google's internal incentives, lead to a lot of their issues.

As one obvious example, the leveling system is totally flawed and creates incentives for their greatest issues, such as releasing many competing projects only to deprecate/ abandon all of them.

That's on management, not the engineers who are explicitly being told "To get a promotion we need you to do this type of work, we don't really care what happens after that".

A little more control for engineers might mean that passion projects can be taken further, can go in directions that management maybe can't see the immediate "promotable" value from. You wouldn't be incentivized to compete as much, but maybe to collaborate - because you wouldn't need to lead a project to get a promotion, just add value and do good work.

If you look at Google's earlier years I think this is evidence. They used to feel a lot more moonshotty, a lot less managery, and perhaps a bit more culty due to the engineering driven culture. There were flops, but it didn't feel quite as ridiculous.

Just my observations though, as an outsider with some colleagues there.
> There's that conspiracy theory again. Vaccines are definitively, unequivocally safe. So are adjuvants.

So weird that I cite a study that says we need more investigation, and you just dismiss me like a crackpot based on no evidence whatsoever.
I've had editors or git merges mess with whitespace. I've never had editors remove braces or begin..end blocks, and merges have rarely caused issues with begin..end blocks or braces. apples and
oranges
, in this case.
This is Microsoft's most recent advice about in-process Explorer shell extensions: https://docs.microsoft.com/previous-versions/windows/desktop...

The advice is still "don't use .NET managed code for your in-proc shell extension", but the given reasons are not necessarily specific to the .NET runtime:

1. The .NET framework CLR takes too long to load for an extension that could be loaded by any app that pops up shell UIs.

2. There are seams between .NET and COM even with interop. These seams open traps for you because the COM-era shell APIs (Windows 95 to Windows 7) were designed for people who write their shell extensions in C++ and so can deal with all the tricky details of COM.
Is that one of the A1048 [1] "crumb tray" keyboards with the clear rim around the edge? I recently switched to one of those from an original iMac keyboard (finally got fed up with not having a forward delete key) and the key edges and the action both feel crisper. Could just be that I've been using the other one for a decade or so though.

[1]:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_Keyboard#Apple_Keyboard_...
Didn't Shakespeare invent a bunch of words? I'm not sure if Tolkien did or not, but it wouldn't surprise me if he did too (I mean real words that get used by normal people, not fantasy words). Shakespeare also had an attunement to people's emotions and underlying drives that few writers match (maybe Dostoevsky and some others). But I agree with your larger point.
I don't doubt that. I think a big share of HN users have done the same thing. I was talking about users outside tech.
I suspect the behaviour described on reddit is only for the USA, or at least everywhere but not in Europe.

If that behaviour is observed in Europe I suspect they'll get the European Commission on their back pretty soon.

Anyone can confirm / deny my hypothesis?
> There's no requirement that the domain owner's contact be a "registered agent." In fact, the person who owns the domain may be different from the business using it.

No, but if the domain itself is serving content then the domain owner is, and should be, party to any complaints related to the domain. Even if the domain owner isn't the "registered agent" of the business, they assuredly must know how to contact the registered agent and should have "skin in the game", so to speak, for being a proxy. Not knowing or being able to contact the business owner is, I would argue, grounds for fraud and misrepresentation.
Yeah, I'm kind of coming around to this actually. Support for ARM is better than I thought and I suspect with Apple going this way, Linux ARM and Docker portability between ARM & x86 is going to get a huge shot in the arm (pun intended). I'm less skeptical than I was, particularly if you wait 18 months before pulling the trigger.