skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It is

- hopefully IMO not sound business advice

- and it is not backed by evidence that this is even a problem

- or that the "solution" will solve anything,

- it is backed by anecdotal evidence of a thing many of us dislike intensely: namely innocent organizations and individuals being hounded into crazy things because someone thinks someone else might get offended.

I say as Rowan Atkinson: feel free to insult me!

When I was young and vulnerable people did that to some small degree anyways and now I am old enough to don't care and/or get back at them, and meanwhile it has been an invaluable lesson.

In my case: Just stick to the facts, and don't accuse me of things that aren't true.

Or: in other words, if someone suggested your codebase should have comments in Russian because "think of the Russian children" it would be downvoted to.
Did you also take a salary during these years?
HP Color LaserJet MFP M181fw here.

Year ago, the plugin was needed for the scanning. Today, it works out of the box with Fedora 33, no plugin (I'm using eSCL mode).

Fedora 33 ships with sane 1.0.31, sane-airscan 0.99.18 and hplip 3.20.9.
You don't have to show the video evidence; you merely have to say that you have it.
When I dealt with this in school, I would simply fill the answers in on a separate document. Make sure answers are labeled correctly. Scan in notebook drawings if needed. I haven't had a printer in decades. If I absolutely have to get something printed out, I go to the library or print shop.
Why did you guys continue to exist once Nextcloud broke out and took the market? I feel like the insistence of ownCloud and OpenOffice to defy the more open standards their forks (together with nearly all developers) moved toward is... aggravating?

Stop trying to tell the river where to turn. It's already done.
It sounds like he put in no money of his own.

He would not have made $3.7M without the hard work of his employees. And yet when it came down to it, he took almost all the money for himself.
Pharma sounds like something that should belong 100% to the provinces.
I would love something like this for nodejs, my language of choice for microservices.

I will definitely watch how your platform evolves. Good luck!
So tell me then, what happens if you don't pay the "upkeep" fees?
Now I come to think of it... Reminds of when I was in middle school, we used a bug in Chinese IME to crash the software used to control our machines.

The webcam solution also seems entirely bypassable if the student is determined. (Speaking from my experience as a TA, students who cheat are usually pretty determined) Just put a phone to the level of the monitor, and there's nothing a webcam can do.
Did they not think about creating an emergency crowdfunding donation campaign to try to raise funds?
A federation of states is a fairly convoluted way to organize a government. Unitary states are without a doubt, simpler. But, simplicity was never, and still isn’t, a top priority.

The priority was for the member states to have control over parts of the elections process.
Google suggests they hadn't started, or were only just getting permission to start their phase 3 trials by the time of that article.

Either way. It's a matter of semantics to say the sinovac vaccine had results first if it doesn't say anything about efficacy. What is being discussed is efficacy results.
CNN has not flipped Wisconsin back to uncalled.
This reads like a dystopian fantasy, a "vision" to inject government control into every aspect of people's digital life.
Google in Switzerland my friend.

Or generally contract work in Switzerland.

This year for a brief, beautiful moment(two months) I was making 750CHF daily before taxes.

Regular, experienced employees can count on 100k+ before taxes.
Decoding the Genius of J.K. Rowling
Social Media Upstart Parler Tops App Store Charts
Altenate coverage, unpaywalled (or differently paywalled):

E.U. antitrust regulators announce charges against Amazon, alleging unfair business practices
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/amazon-antitrust-charge...

EU charges Amazon with anti-competitive action, opens second probe https://www.reuters.com/article/uk-eu-amazon-com-antitrust-c...

EU files antitrust charges against Amazon over use of data https://apnews.com/article/international-news-europe-8e02225...

EU hits Amazon with antitrust charges. A huge fine could follow. https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/companies/eu-hits-amazon-wit...

Europe lays out antitrust case against Amazon's use of big data https://techcrunch.com/2020/11/10/europe-lays-out-antitrust-...

Amazon to Face EU Antitrust Complaint Over Sales Data https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-11-10/amazon-se...

FT is often accessible via Archive.today:

https:/archive.is/https://www.ft.com/content/4908995d-5ba4-4e14-a863-bcb8858e8... (.fo, .md, .li, vn, .ph are alt TLDs).
Ah, now that you say that - I guess the minority response "process" would be the most accurate.
Automated tests may save you over $10k on app development
Show HN: AI-Augmented Photo Albums
i just joined
Betfair takes its commission as a percentage of the profit that one has made in a given market rather as a percentage of a bet size, so it's always worth making a bet on a certain event. Usually by the end of an in-play sporting event, one will find that there is no liquidity available to bet for the likely winner or against the likely loser (and draw if applicable) at any price (their lowest price is 1.01 BTW).

In this case, there are clearly people who are still willing to bet against (lay) a Biden Presidency, at very long odds. This is presumably either because they believe that the price adequately compensates for the low probability of it not happening, or to hedge risk that they have accumulated taking other positions while trading in this market (more likely IMHO).

One other factor is the cost of carry - while money is tied up in a bet it can't be used for anything else, including other betting strategies that might have a higher expected profit. In this case, if one has already made a profit betting for a Biden Presidency at longer odds than 1.07, it might now be worthwhile to pay someone else the slight risk premium to take up ones position until settlement, so that one can lock in the profit and move onto other things.
So if they sold for $4M, and the investors got $0, and the founder pocketed $3.7M ... where did the other $0.3M go?

If it went to the existing employees (they have 7 of them on the About Us page), that's ~$42k per employee.
Everyone Talks About Insecure Randomness, but Nobody Does Anything About It
> "This kind of calling-out is common in HN and quite distasteful."

Frankly there's nothing distateful about recognising that in a hierarchical system such as a corporation those higher up the tree have a duty of responsibility to protect the interests of those below them.

Quite how modern capitalists have managed to convince people that this shouldn't be the case I'm not quite sure, but the results are hostile to a functioning society.
The outcome is quite clear. While there are still some votes left to count, there are not enough to shift the margin of victory for Joe Biden in the states that matter. The lawsuits are becoming an embarrassment and recounts never shift the totals significantly; given the fact that the morons on team Trump spent months telegraphing this move everyone was prepared for it and so I expect there was extra diligence in getting an accurate count -- a recount will not make major changes to the total. These are facts.
Online exam software sparks global student revolt
Fyi this is not in the article title, but my personal opinion about it's content ^^
Is there any documentation on how to run multiple instances of Micro which can communicate and share config/secrets? What is the horizontal scaling story?
Twitter is covering up many of his tweets, saying that they are debatable, you can't just scroll down his feed and see what has been said, you need to click on each one by one, click back again to see what he has said, hindering the user experience massively.

Meanwhile the flat earth society doesn't have any of it's tweets disputed.
This is exactly why I did assign a static IP to my HP printer, and firewalled to block it from getting internet access.
The optimum solution might very well cost a billion dollars. A search for optimum while criticizing everything else seems like it's letting the perfect get in the way of the good.

> secular slaughtering processes, as they do not seek ritual values, should be more free to converge to the most humane solution.

Ok, but is there any reason it would converge to a humane solution at all? How strong is the market pressure in that direction? Jewish people are willing to pay a price premium to get a specific type of slaughter. Are secular people willing to pay a similarly-large price premium to get humane slaughter?
The election happened a week ago. I think we can afford to wait a month for a proper investigation. More importantly, a pretty sizable portion of the population thinks there is something strange about the results.

Now, you can just stick your fingers in your ears and call 71 million people stupid, or you can recognize that for the health of the democratic system, it’s best to investigate any anomalies. This shouldn’t be a controversial opinion, but apparently in these hyper partisan times, it is.
I remember coming across forums long ago (at least 15+ years) where some friendly hackers had figured out how to patch out checks like these and posted modified firmware for various printers with features like "cartridge always full" and "automatic waste ink reset" (mostly applicable to inkjets with CIS instead of lasers), and this was at a time when it wasn't that easy to change the firmware of a printer (which is frankly quite scary). I have long lost the link, and I'm not sure how much of such communities exist anymore, but that was an interesting discovery that, for a few days, I spent many hours reading.
You've just kicked the can down the road; what you've given there cannot solve, for instance, the same problem but with <= instead of <.

I checked by running with

positive_example(ordered/3,ordered(S1,S2,S3)):-
member([S1,S2,S3],[[[a],[b,c],[d,e,f]]
,[[a,b],[c,d],[e,f,g]]
,[[a],[c],[e,f,g,h,i]]
]
).

negative_example(ordered/3,ordered(S1,S2,S3)):-
member([S1,S2,S3],[[[a],[],[c]]
,[[a,b,c],[a,b],[c]]
]
).

and just got

ordered([a,b],[c,d],[e,f,g]).
ordered([a],[c],[e,f,g,h,i]).
ordered(A,B,C):-shorter(A,B),shorter(B,C).

Heck, I don't think it even got `shorter` right; it gave

shorter(A,B):-llength(A,C),llength(B,D),s(C,D).

which means len(A) + 1 == len(B), not len(A) < len(B), and AFAICT it can't learn len(A) < len(B), not because the program isn't expressible with the primitives you gave, but because it just doesn't reason that far.

So again, it's only trivial because it isn't learning the program, it's learning to put fit the puzzle pieces of the program together, after you wrote the program and then chopped it up.
Unfortunately, the positives are customer adoption, and customers have already adopted zoom. This is like continuing to feed the dog treats because it's what you're used to, regardless of the outcome of their actions.

But more generally, it's not obvious that individual, "reptile-brain" incentives translate to large company leadership. I'd be hugely skeptical of applying positive psychology to international corporate leadership, but what do I know anyway.
Good for you! I’m happy reading a sort of reasonable-ish success story.

4M is a lot, but an amount I can wrap my head around.
Google L5 is $331K a year according to Levels.fyi Eleven years. L6 is half a mil a year. L3 is new grad. L5 is not superhuman. It’s not mid level but it’s not Staff Engineer either, “just” competent and known to be capable of working with minimal direction. FAANG really do pay very, very well.
But I'm making the argument that most of the bullet points in your list make no sense to consider because the remuneration at FAANGs is usually so much more, and that money would then give you the freedom to do what you want.

I mean "how much time they want to spend interviewing/prepping"?? If a FAANG will average 2-3x payout, it would be insane not to be willing to prep for literally months if that made the difference between getting a job and not.
Not even close to FAANG level compensation in my experience. I’m just a moderately experienced backend/infra person and VC backed startups would straight up tell me they can’t compete when I told them what FAANGs had offered. We’re talking well over 100k difference in TC, and a significant difference in cash, and that’s not even accounting for liquidity.
It depends on the industry.

I'm graduating this year, and many of my friends (and myself) are going to work for FANG+ and finance companies and hitting that figure.
Hi HN, so I realized that there's no real digital equivalent to the good old (analog) photo album. Yes there are Google/Apple Photos or Flickr/Instagram for organizing and sharing photos. But none of those seems to embrace the idea of a photo album as a space for presenting your photos.

On the other hand, there are services for creating physical photo albums, but for those the digital album is just an intermediate step for the actual goal of ordering a physical copy.

My idea of a digital-first photo album:

- The overall goal is to create a pleasant viewing experience on any screen

- The design of the album should change depending on the photos

- There should be a way of annotating and decorating the album

The first version I made felt a little empty, so I tried coming up with a way of generating suitable backgrounds for each photo. My first idea was using a GAN to generate abstract background patterns, but I couldn't really produce meaningful results with that approach. So in the end I trained a neural net to predict emojis for a given photo, and use these emojis as a background pattern. The predictions aren't perfect, sometimes even comically off, but overall pretty decent for a 7.7MB model that's running in the browser.

For the privacy-conscious it might be worth pointing out that, up to the point where you actually sign up, the whole onboarding process is happening only in the browser, without sending data to the server. So if you want to try it without giving up any data, you can do so.

Also pretty surprising that the domain was still available.
JS has changed a lot since last 10 years. Form an ugly, younger brother of C++ to fully featured, mature language driving the internet. I like the direction it evolves now with supersets like TypeScript and types control.
As a Belgian myself: self-employment is the key here. It's not that hard to pull in 100-200K annually in the current belgian tech space, I've done it consistently for the past 5 years, with lots of periods where I did not work full time.
(cough)Trump(cough)
A $3.7M windfall is enough for most Americans to never work again.

Assuming he keeps ~$3M after taxes and can earn a conservative return of 4%/yr in investments, that's $120k/yr just from his investments. Many Americans live on far less. Also, he lives in Alabama, where cost of living is quite low.
He said it in an another comment; to employees.
Thought-Terminating Cliché
Bots That Code
Well I guess I have a few points:

1) We all depend on Chet Ramsey and don't spare a moment to think about it. How many people have emailed him a thank you note, let alone sent him money?

2) Is that good or bad? or both?

3) Mature software has low low maintenance costs (that's almost the definition of "mature software", eh?)

4) The real problem might be that we keep writing new code. If you restrict yourself to mature code your costs go way down, since you're not paying to write new code nor to maintain it.

(It might read like I'm saying Marak should be like Ramsey, that's NOT my point.)
The EU isn't a single individual. It isn't even a group of individuals with aligned interests. As such, its many different heads shouldn't be expected to have consistent messaging. This is a draft so, as of now, it's factually untrue to say the EU are willing to ban encryption.
Sure it is. HN has a whole plethora of rules that are purely to the taste of the website owner, I can still have plenty of real discussions and share ideas. I understand there's limits to the discussion and if I want to discuss more extreme stuff I can go to other sites.
Well, corporations aren't humans, contrary to what some might try to argue.
MFA wouldn’t be needed in a perfect world, but that world clearly doesn’t exist, despite 50 years of pleading with people to pick good passwords and manage them correctly. At some point you just need to look at the evidence and find another way to accomplish your goals.
JetBrains Marketplace is like this. It's a store for plugins to their IDEs but they also say they'll do co-branding and marketing with you, you get access to their reseller network, they handle a lot of the accounting etc.

But it's just for IDE plugins. Not the rest.
What I would like to see is software U2F keys that browsers sync for you. I'm sure this would upset some people but I don't think the average user has the ability to understand and maintain a set of security keys. Furthermore you have to maintain the keys separately for each site. This means that I only use 2fa for a small number of valuable sites, because the pain of rotating the credentials is huge.

However most people I know have browser sync set up. They are using it for passwords. It would be great if it could manage a security token for them and allow authentication to websites without risk of leak.
Are we absolutely sure that's what he was banned for? Twitter makes it very unclear, there isn't a "[user was banned for posting this tweet]" report.

Given their failure to ban glinner for far worse stuff I suspect there's something else going on.
The ant crawling on my floor is in Kingdom Animalia. Does it deserve the same rights as a human? I say no way. Humans are unique in terms of dignity.
> I've spent the past 10 years maintaining and improving a finance-centric lazily-evaluated dataflow language with integrated distributed NoSQL database for a Fortune 500 financial services company

I think you nail the fundamentals here. I also dream of a access+excel kind of full app but think need to start with the base language (that I doing at http://tablam.org). You need to align the base language + the rest of tool to make easier to scale up whatever the customers create (at least, you can copy paste whatever them wrote and debug it using the same tools as professionals, instead of reverse engineer the kirks of excel...)
How to run a hackathon during a global lockdown
Death to “Just-Add-Water Team Jelling”
I think that's true for contributions to existing projects or other hard to notice stuff.

On the other hand, I got my current job exclusively via my open source work. But I created a project from scratch.
>Where do I sign up for this?

In California

>it's very rare to make more than twice the average wage in Belgium as an employee

Yep, software engineer compensation is crap in the EU, while the cost of living is almost as high as in Silicon Valley. Solution? Apply for H1B at a FAANG. Fuck the EU.
FYI, there's no subpixel rendering in macOS anymore (since 10.15).
It also fails to define what projection it is based on (so it could be ‘projected by Donald J Trump’ for all that is specified), and further says: “If there is any material change to the established role or any ambiguity as to who occupies the position, then Betfair may determine, using its reasonable discretion, how to settle the market based on all the information available to it at the relevant time. Betfair reserves the right to wait for further official announcements before the market is settled.”

The rules are woefully ambiguous.
'Lockdown' is named Collins' word of the year for 2020
I'm a bit confused about how this compares to non-COVID-19 patients. The Mayo clinic [1] shows the same number, one in five, for the general population in a given year.

https://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/mental-illnes...
> Is a traditional store also not a marketplace for product manufacturers and distributors to sell their wares?

I think amazon is better compared to the whole street where the stores are, than to any store.
Also anecdotally, I hear the opposite from every single person I know. Zoom has been the video conferencing system that works the best. Have you ever used Go2Meeting, WebEx, Teams? Constant struggles with those applications for me, my friends, and my co-workers.
>quickly the Troubles wrapped up once the bombs started going off in England

The Birmingham pub bombings (for example) happened in 1974. The Belfast agreement (ending the troubles so far) was signed in 1998.

>requires very strong support from a very sizeable minority (e.g South Africa, Northern Ireland)

Please see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demography_of_Northern_Ireland.

You will note that Northern Ireland has a plurality of Protestants (48%) compared to a sizable Catholic community (45%). The majority of people in Northern Ireland do not support a united Ireland up to this point. At some point in the future that may change and a referendum for reunification may be held (if the Irish government agrees). And, note, it is not at all for sure that the Irish government would agree because Northern Ireland is a cats cradle of trouble and problem - demographically, economically, politically and in terms of civil order. I think only with very significant backing from the EU could Ireland contemplate taking it on.

Currently the UK (read England, because the Welsh and Scots are also net recipients of significant monies from England) subsidizes every subject in Northern Ireland to the tune of $7k per year, if that is "crapping all over Ireland" frankly I'd like a bag of that shit please.

And frankly there is peace in Ireland now because the IRA lost, it lost support in it's communities and it lost interest in freedom fighting because one element of it realized that a political solution had been available for at least 10 years, and one element realised it was far more interested in trading drugs and protection.

Anyway : please do some research and reading and don't use straight falsehoods to support an otherwise reasonable argument. Perhaps traveling to Ireland would be a good start.
Quick perusal of the extension would indicate that it’s main purpose is to help emulate dx12 more efficiently.

DX12 doesn’t have descriptorsets like Vulkan. It has descriptorheaps that are bit different. This extension basically makes them quite similar. First of all the descriptors can be stored into the same place (In Vulkan the descriptors are strongly typed.). With this an image or buffer etc can use same descriptor in a set, like DX12. In addition the CPU only heap is exposed in this, allowing the platform to directly implement DX12 heaps with desc sets.

Don’t really think this would help with DX11 at all. But it would make the mess that is DX12 binding model more tolerable to emulate.

Still not sure how would they emulate the root parameters to their full extent though.
None of Trump’s legal challenges could invalidate tens of thousands of ballots in multiple states, which is what they’d need to win.

But at least frustrated Trumpists can process their fragile emotions by downvoting us and wasting their money on hopeless bets.
Why do game engines need their own text engines?

Why not just use some system library to write into a texture and then use that in your game?
If it's networked, just manually add an IP address and don't specify a gateway.
"Peasant autonomy and self-defense of any kind could not be tolerated."

In the United States, "gun control" (restrictions on gun rights) is universally classified as a liberal/left policy and the absence of "gun control" is classified as a conservative/right policy.

Without entering into a discussion of these politics I would like to point out that those classifications are completely backwards.

The US Second Amendment (and associated US gun rights, court interpretations, etc.) are extremely liberal, from an historical perspective.