skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> It makes sense in some settings, but not in 1st order art.

I'm forced to disagree -- in part -- here. There are plenty of beautiful and stirring (or even just intriguing) generative pictures out there. I agree in part, though: from my own experience, generative music composition is harder than generative imagemaking. Probably because there are many, many more dimensions of choices that need to be made.
PerceptiLabs – A GUI and Visual API for TensorFlow
Hello HN,

I'm Martin Isaksson, the CEO & Co-founder of PerceptiLabs. We have developed a GUI and visual API for TensorFlow, on a mission to make ML modeling easier, faster, and more transparent.

While working with the beta version of TensorFlow back in 2016, my co-founder Robert Lundberg and I came up with the idea of PerceptiLabs. We felt that TensorFlow could benefit from improvements on the UX side because it was painful to see that such a powerful framework had so many UX challenges.

Today, TensorFlow has come a long way and is much easier to use, however, it has still a long road ahead of it to become easy enough to be used in an efficient way.

One aspect that Robert and I always felt was the most time-consuming part when developing ML models, was creating all the different kinds of plots and visualizations.

We created PerceptiLabs as a visual modeling tool, and here is a brief overview:

-Drag and drop interface for modelling, with warnings and recommendations

-I/O shape fitting

-Model debugging/interpretability: Auto-generates visualizations for all model variables both during modeling and training

-ML training infrastructure: Comes as a Docker image(s), distributes training on cluster(s)

-Model management

Since ML models are graphs, they are best suited to be represented as such. Visual graph representations are widely used (see papers at arXiv). This is why we believe that drag and drop functionality in conjunction with graph-oriented modeling, fits very well for ML – it just makes modeling more intuitive.

We recently launched a new version of PerceptiLabs:
https://youtu.be/9QaiCjV2jK8

I hope that you will give it a try. The free version of PerceptiLabs can easily be installed and run:

$ pip install perceptilabs

$ perceptilabs

As we are trying to build the best and most intuitive ML modeling tool for you, we need your feedback in order to improve PerceptiLabs. We are nothing without our community :)
Bitcoin Atheists
That should be fairly easy in Rust.
How to Make Money as a Developer
Incredibly interesting, thanks!
> There is no deprival, therefore no theft in "watching something you didn't pay for".

What about depriving someone of a paycheck?
Brilliant concept
SaaS Insights on Value-Based Pricing, Onboarding and UX from Product-Led Growth
This post explores insights for SaaS companies regarding value-based pricing and user engagement from product-led growth frameworks.
Marginal cost is not pennies. They still have to pay TSMC. With the premium to book their new nodes that's got to be a decent cost.
I would say it is legitimately much more difficult. Pretty much since the conception of quantum mechanics up until around year 2000 most luminaries of the field would say "it is impossible to harness single-particle quantum effects, all human tech would be based on collective behavior". And to realize a quantum advantage you need those single-particle effects. Kinda like asking Babbage to build the analytical engine before the wheel (let alone the cog) was invented.

Another thing to keep in mind: Creation of a working quantum computer would be a monumental achievement, letting humans harness the full computational power of nature's laws, a defining moment in a civilizations technical capabilities, etc. However, there are only a handful of computational problems at which quantum computers would be exponentially better than classical (most notably simulating novel materials and drugs and certain optimization problems). While these problems are simply impossible on classical computers, for the majority of other problems classical and quantum computers would be on equal footing.
Why on earth is there a stock photo of a "High Class Mature Man", captioned as "Author" opening the article?
Numbers please. In the USA there have been more than 10 million cases. Of course you'll find all kind of weird and wonderful side effects (of the illness itself, as well as the experimental and sometimes hair-rising treatment the patients received). Most people however allegedly don't even noticed that the ever had it.
To be nit-picky, little to none of that has to do with your gas stove. Our Coway kicks on if I take a shower (water vapor). It also kicks on for all of the cooking scenarios you list. There is no gas line running to our house.
There's a broken image on the page. https://i.imgur.com/xwSUXHz.png
This article was written by someone who doesn't understand math or the history of people beating lotteries.

There are many lotteries that have times with an expected positive payout. The key is that the payout can't be shared. Most of the big lotteries have times like this but the chances of having to share it ensure the payout is never positive.
There is, however, some consolation in the fact that only an individual who is already connected to you in Teams can run this.

That's not to say - of course - it's not abuse-able, it just gives some context to the fact threat MS calls this "Spoofing", since presumably, your Teams contact is someone you trust. So the bad actor is "spoofing" as someone trustable within your org (or outside it). But is does prob need some social-engineering for a bad actor to truly exploit this.

But the threat is still sever since the above logic only holds up to the point-of-entry, once the worm has infected someone the people forwarding it around are truly trusted.
I wonder if the team giving these ratings is the same team responsible for introducing the bug in the first place? I could see why someone in that situation would be incentivized to downplay the severity of a bug report like this.
Who qualifies as ICT practitioner in Kenya if the proposed ICT Bill is approved
Akinator specifically says to pick a fictional or non-fictional character. I don't think a fuel cap meets the criteria.
If they stick with UMA, gpu performance is going to be severely limited, unless they can make the unified memory GDDR6 or something.
Well guess I've either read sources which avoided that word when defining entropy, or I mentally erased it because of the poor fit.
Drones are poised to reshape home design
I love it. Imgur is a disgrace. We need micro-payments. Put in your credit card pay 1 cent / image / mo.
Is Teams still using an older version of Electron? Also looks like they are still using Angular, thought Teams was being moved to React, although not sure if that would help here in any way.
$20k to reward the amount of security analysis that went into finding this bug is an absolute deal for Microsoft. Seriously- a single FTE security researcher is going to be costing MS >$400k a year (salary, bonus, health care, office space, etc).

I work at a BigCo as a recipient of some of these XSSs and I'm awed by the amount of work that goes into them. I always try to overstate the impact to boost the reward- it's not just the bug that they found, but how much of the system they had to look at before they found this. The security folks at BigCo that I interact with are badasses, but it's just so hard to get this level of attention.
Really? This will sound petty, but there is no redeeming quality about Jobs, he surely seems to have been an awful person. All his strong points: "Taste", ruthlessness,"reality distortion field" are more the traits of a sociopath than anything else. Great if he is managing a company you have stocks in, but you could say the same if he were managing your "plantation".
Have you tried org-drill? I believe it's in the org-plus-contrib and it works pretty well, but like all things emacs, requires some setup.
Making changes to our local communities such that previously disadvantaged people are more empowered and their is better socio-economic justice is noble, and especially popular in the current news cycle, but let's not pretend that it is the full extent of politics.

There are issues like the environment, national security, social policy, fiscal policy, etc which all have substantial influence on us both as individuals and as a nation. Different people should champion different issues, and it makes a lot more sense for the people directly affected by issues to champion solutions which make sense for them.

I as an affluent white male do not understand, and likely can never perfectly understand, the issues of racism that harm people of color living just a few minutes away from me. While I want my neighbors to be free of those problems, I can't possibly evaluate which solutions work for them and which do not, and I would have no way of knowing if my efforts to help were doing more harm than good.

On the other hand, as an engineer who works on automation, I am extremely well qualified to evaluate the effects of economic policies on changes to the labor environment due to automation. Living in the rust belt, I feel I can do a lot to help rejuvenate my community as well as the larger nation, but that process looks very different. It's still political involvement though.

In a democratic society, getting large numbers of people to understand issues and support candidates who advocate for those issues is a key step towards any systemic change. Political discussion is an effective tactic towards this end. It's certainly not the only tool out there, and in many cases its not the right tool, but it's vital all the same.
> They want the convenience of quick payments with none of the liabilities.

All payment systems are moving in that direction: PayPal, any RTP like PayTM, cryptocurrencies, etc. You (the consumer) control the account and the transactions are easy to make. If you want to revert a transaction, you have to prove that you lost control of the account in a way that is not your fault. And even then you may not have a recourse other than going through the legal system.

(Self-custody has benefits and costs.)
How is this possible. Maybe because it's webp?

EDIT: Try now? I've changed it to a JPG and will never use new technology again.
We have the technology to synthesize petroleum and it is economical enough to do now for clothes, paint, consumer plastics, and clothing. These things cost more when made with synthetics, but not substantially so.

The economics of synthetics are cost prohibitive for use in transportation and road construction. But luckily, electric vehicles will continue to reduce the need for petroleum for transportation purposes and asphalt is the most recyclable petroleum product out there. You can literally recycle it on-site.
Perhaps it's not that developers are more rational, but that they are better at expressing logical-sounding reasons that they don't want to change.

It's also possible to see developers as more willing to change (more "rational") than others when something new can help them get their job done better. If nothing else, developers seem to like trying out new languages and tools for novelty's sake, even if it's not because they're actively trying to improve.
Then those researchers need to stop complaining when they get screwed over by Big Corp. I'm definitely not saying that the researchers shouldn't be rewarded appropriately, but we've seen countless times that, even with official bounty programs, these companies don't care about the researcher at all.

If someone still wants to put in all the work, that's great, submit the vuln and reap the good karma but they shouldn't expect more, even if the org they're reporting it to promises otherwise.
I think the reason is the discrepancy between what you're saying (which is true) and reality:

> sometimes you have to represent 'nothing.'

Languages in which all values can /also/ be null break the "sometimes" requirement there. Not all variables/parameters should be able to represent nothing. Representing nothing isn't the issue here, I doubt anyone disagrees that that's useful (there are still Options). The fact that anything can be nothing is.
You must have tapped into our meeting...that's on the plan for next fall!
Are lambdas limited by region? They noted in the post that they would be expecting the Irish diaspora from 130+ countries to be participating as well.
I had the same reaction to this when I was told by Microsoft, however this description seems intentionally misleading. Microsoft Support accepts calls for support and bug reports. There's a fee for the support. If it turns out that the issue is a defect, then you won't pay for the support call.

Unfortunately, this was the only way to report a bug at the time.
“Better weather” I can’t help but laugh. One of five Mediterranean climates worldwide, built on apricot orchards, formerly home to one of the most diverse animal and again ecosystems before the arrival of whites. It’s really hard to beat the weather in Silicon Valley. It’s almost non seasonal, anything grows. The diversity currently of this area is very high, it’s the home of top universities, between the two cross pollination of ideas happens non stop. As a “tech person” who lived in 10 years, and just moved away in March, well, it’s nice to move away, but damn, miss the weather.
Over 9 years. Yes, the first few years, I have absolutely learned a lot. Got exposed to many new programming and startup concepts I probably wouldn't have otherwise. Would often find new ideas here and spend a lot of time digging deeper.

Nowadays, I don't know. Not many things surprise me on here anymore. Some of it is surely just knowing more. But I do feel like HN "missed" some big developments. Crypto/blockchain is one example of a major trend that got very little coverage.
Please do not downvote questions like this (the comment is faded out as I'm writing this). It's a genuine question from a new user, possibly a non-native English speaker, trying to understand someone's comment.
> "Expect Apple to release a half-size mac pro in 2022 as the last, most powerful new product"

Even this piece of info can be extrapolated from statement's Apple has made public. They've said they were migrating their entire product line within 2 years. The Mac Pro is part of that product line. The only questions are how Apple is going to get there and on that front it's pretty clear this article is pure speculation.

Will the Mac Pro have integrated graphics or a discrete GPU? Maybe someone at AMD knows this based on order volume? Likewise, are they using external RAM, soldered on the logic board, or user-serviceable RAM?

How is performance going to compare to current top end processors?

Those are the only questions, and the answers here are pure speculation. It's likely only a handful of people at Apple even know the answers to these things.
Electric glass-cooktop ranges also provide added benefit to landlords. All the landlord needs to do is require that the tenant leave the range in pristine condition or forfeit the cost of replacing the cooktop from their security deposit. Since it's virtually impossible for a person who actually cooks to leave the cooktop in like-new condition after a year -- even with special cooktop cleansers -- you may never have to pay a security deposit back in full, ever again!
There is a supremacy, but the idea that it is threatened is hyperbolic, designed to get readers.

This is a small shift in the grand scheme.

It might help create new centers. But the gravity is going to be around the universities and infrastructure that is unique to the area.

Shifts like that rarely happen overnight.

Especially not because of something as temporary as a pandemic.
While I get your sentiment, I must disagree.

Profiting from the very likely unethical use of the exploit would be unethical.

Instead this mishandling by M$ should rather cause researchers to publicly announce the vulnerabilities which would hopefully cause M$ to change their ways in future dealings.

It is ofcourse easy for me to say this, not being a researcher who lives off of the discoveries made.
Monitoring My Boiler
Use treated wood to build long- lasting structures - bridges, buildings, etc.
We actually discussed a small train and decided to go with horse and sleigh next year, mostly because of upkeep and the ability to reuse that portion of the property for other things in the off season.
Silicon Graphics: Gone but Not Forgotten
> xCloud and Stadia have been trying to get iOS apps setup and Apple keeps stopping the apps.

Apple did indeed do that before they had guidelines that could accommodate this new streaming app distribution model. But now they do.[1]

These companies can choose other platforms if the iOS platform experience doesn't meet their needs, OR choose to support an iOS-compatible web distribution experience.[2]

[1] "Apple’s new App Store guidelines carve out loopholes for xCloud, Stadia, and other apps that Apple had blocked": https://www.theverge.com/2020/9/11/21432695/apple-new-app-st...

[2] "Microsoft is bringing xCloud to iOS via the web": https://www.theverge.com/2020/10/8/21508706/microsoft-xcloud...
Bullshit. Currently there are millions of children who are obligated to use Teams for their publicly funded education.

And thinking these huge metrics get changed by selling black hat exploits to what? Teach Microsoft a lesson? While harming an already vulnerable population (not just children are obligated to use Teams). As if the long term goal of educating "unwitting" users is advanced at all by blackhat behaviour.
That was a fascinating read, but without links to the original I have to remain a little bit skeptical. I tried to access the documents in your second link hoping I could search for myself, but it looks like I'm locked out.
That is not a bad idea :thinking emoji:
I've been using Privacy.com the past few years and it's superb. The only things that bother me are the fact that they don't support Credit Cards as the backend payment method. And "some" (albeit very few) sites will not let you use their cards.
Why did this happen for them ? PC and laptop sales have been going through the roof after the onset of the pandemic. Look up any report.
It's kind of weird that one of the most valuable companies in the world has this "we're doing our own thing and we're gonna do it well, invest if you want, or don't" attitude, but that same attitude is decried by pretty much anyone else.

It's not like they're an example or anything... I mean, it obviously doesn't work for every market, but I just see it as kind of strange that someone hasn't taken a page from Apple's playbook over the years when it would suit them.
The company I worked for at the time decided to pay since it was affecting users and we had to do an annoying work around. If I remember correctly we got the $100 back a month or so later, with a one liner reply saying something to the effect of "this will be fixed in a service pack at some point, godspeed."
You may be interested in coalton, an ml dialect embedded in cl - https://github.com/stylewarning/coalton
I’ve been thinking about an alternative to tailwind but I have no idea how to implement it.

I think what would be even more powerful is you configure all the classes with some kind of regexp. They need to be unique. You could provide a function as well that returns the correct css for any given captured units in the class name so eg. "mb-4em" you have template "mb-(\\d+)em" declared. The tool recognizes it and either just puts the number there, uses a mapping (4 becomes 16), or calls a function to return the resulting css properties.

What I like about it is you could just as well create more advanced utilities and the parser never generates any classes in advance. It would need some kind of watcher though to detect any new class aded to templates that match the definition file.

Then there would be no need to purge anything. Kind of a vague concept I’ll admit, but for me starting with a figma or sketch where designer typically does not folow a consistent guideline, it means I can just start writing templates and keep declaring utilities as I go because in the real world you bet that happens.
Ask HN: Disproving autoimmune risk of mRNA shot
Seeing a lot of potential misinformation about mRNA vaccines.

Specifically that some of the motifs of the Covid-19 spike protein have similarity to syncytin-1, which if true might trigger an autoimmune response.

Looking at Protein Database for syncytin-1
https://cutt.ly/chQ27vQ

and for Cov-19 spike
https://cutt.ly/ehQ9tlD

and running the FASTA through a sequence checker
https://cutt.ly/chQ9szi

similarities are not particularity high at first glance. But I know very little about this.

difflogo.com also allows you to compare motifs but I was having trouble uploading the proper file type.

What is the similarity threshold for a protein to be considered a autoimmune risk?

Can someone with knowledge enlighten me?
Wouldn't a heat exchanger top out at equalizing the inward and outward bound air at 20F in this case?
PLANTS

LOTS AND LOTS OF PLANTS

One of the best filters out there is a spikey plant that you wouldnt think of as "pretty" but it is super helpful

https://leafyplace.com/air-filtering-house-plants/

While is #10 on this list, its still SUPER good at filtering... I Personally like LOTS of Pothos and Spider plants....
> where I'm from, interior "Cross-winds" are deemed to be deadly.

In Romania, too, popular belief considers drafts to be a dangerous cause of illness, but at least in my own experience, opening all the windows in the morning is an exception. Airing out the house daily in winter is seen as a healthful thing to do by many if not most families... but of course once all the windows are closed again, there shouldn't be the slightest hint of a draft anywhere in the house.
Use tailwindcss@compat (instead of tailwindcss) and that's it.
Google to delete all Gmail, Drive content automatically after 2 years inactive
Additionally, there are many methods by which shipped goods are insured/paid/credited under Admiralty Law [0]. This part of law is particularly 'old' and traditional, so it's fairly complicated, but a fascinating thing to look into.

To give a taste, with tramp shippers there are largely three classes of contracts, called charters [1]:

1) Demise charter hires a ship with no administration or technical maintenance included. The charterer gets possession and full control of the ship with legal and financial responsibility of it. The charterer pays for operating expenses, like fuel, crew, port expenses, and P&I and hull insurance. Demise chartering is common with tankers and bulk-carriers.

2) Voyage charters hire a ship and crew for a voyage between ports. The charterer pays the ship owner per-ton or lump-sum. The owner pays port costs (but not stevedoring), fuel costs, and crew costs. Payment for vessel use is called freight. A Voyage charter specifies laytime for loading and unloading cargo. If laytime is exceeded, the charterer pays demurrage. If laytime is saved, the charter party requires the shipowner to pay despatch.

3) Time charter is the hiring of a ship for a period of time; the owner still manages the ship but the charterer chooses ports and directs the ship where to go. The charterer pays for fuel, port charges, commissions, and a daily hire to the owner of the vessel.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Admiralty_law

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chartering_(shipping)
Paywalled, can anyone provide a summary?