skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I just released an update to one of my apps that adds a typography library. Like you said font's are a very subtle thing and as I was converting my app I didn't notice that much. But after pushing the update and seeing the two versions (before and after the upgrade) side by side you see that proper typography can help make an app or a website look that much more "professional". The app before didn't look bad, but it had a sheen of "some guy built this in his basement". Now when I look at the app I get a "ok well a cash strapped startup built this"
Technically, just to be that guy, she worked all the extra time and was compensated for it with a recommendation.
> "Using computational genetic engineering, researchers at the Technical University of Munich (TUM) say they have invented a method of killing any type of virus. The researchers say they have demonstrated their solution on previously incurable hepatitis-B viruses, and are next aiming at the coronavirus.

The deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) origami base-pair key-in-lock method they devised yields sphere-like icosahedral shells that kill viruses by clamping around each virion (the complete, infective form of a virus outside a host cell) until it is dead, dead, dead."

This sounds pretty amazing. Human trials being "years away" is no surprise, but here's hoping it gets there soon.
Eh, maybe at a senior dev 10x level. I'd wager that a large segment of the population is totally capable of writing relatively non complex code, given the training/resources that many software devs have (university, internships, online bootcamps, time for side projects). Just like I bet you could write a symphony in 4 years- It probably wouldn't be Mozart, but good enough to meet whatever time bomb requirements.
We use this at Drafted (https://www.drafted.us). It's been huge in helping us quickly train and deploy our classification models. The bindings into Elixir and Go helped us keep everything in our code base. We got to get rid of our Python TensorFlow app which we had to deploy multiple instances of for acceptable performance. All gone with Tangram. One model, any language. I would definitely give this a try if you can.
Cupertino, CA is like this too.
I'm sorry about your personal situation. That's awful, and highlights the need for human review and for flexibility in public documents, especially highly public documents like those displayed by Google. However, what you've clearly demonstrated is that there is neither human review nor flexibility in these systems. Google doesn't have a malicious employee with a grievance against you (or against the other Andreas affected) who is cruelly searching out incorrect images to display next to your name and your story to cause harm.

You were close to the root of the problem when you wrote "...to have a large corporation come along and continuously and consistently misrepresent my work and cause distress..." - the thing which is misrepresenting you and causing distress is an unmoral computer program. (Unmoral: Lacking awareness of moral standards, in contrast to immoral, intentionally rejecting morality, or amoral, aware of but acting without regard to morals.) The computer program doesn't have a concept of distress or harm. All it knows to do is to display its best guess of a portrait of an author when someone searches for the author's name. It has no ability - was not programmed with the ability - to understand that sometimes there may not be a photo of the person or that sometimes this is not good. That's still anthropomorphizing the program - it does not understand anything and does not know what is good. It just creates knowledge boxes with photos to accompany searches for author names, always.

When you contacted Google, the person who responded to you may not have been a person - instead, the entity behind your email was likely another computer program, designed to handle complaints about faulty knowledge boxes. If it was a human being (unlikely), they did not go to the source code file for the website google.com/search?q=andrea and delete the \<img\> tag, nor did they add an understanding of the concept that some authors don't have public photos and some knowledge boxes ought not include a photo to the knowledge box algorithm. Either the program or the human just flagged the first image as incorrect, and let the knowledge box program run as it did before and find another image. There is not (yet) a fault mode that indicates "this person's knowledge box ought not be accompanied by a portrait" or "this person's knowledge box ought not exist".

What other comments seem to be suggesting is that tech companies ought not run algorithms that work well 99% of the time, nor fault handling algorithms that handle 99% of the faults effectively. I'd take a slightly more nuanced approach and suggest that instead, programmers and spec authors should consider fault handling first, and expected operation second. It's very simple to follow the expected path, when you have to handle forks in the road it does get exponentially more complicated. Eventually, you always need a "defer to human" option. It would be prohibitively difficult (expensive) to defer to a human every time, or even 1% of the time, but that option needs to be available.
It doesn’t matter what they do after “looking for something to report to law enforcement.” Nothing after that makes it less invasive.
I don’t really think that’s true. Most US tech companies have branches in Europe nowadays
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That is not really a reason. What can I not build in Go that is easy to do in rust?
Maybe it has more to do with the commenter's opinion of what "value" actually is?
I was on a strict raw vegan diet for about nine months, and the primary reason I stopped was "brain fog". I just couldn't think and didn't want to, compared to before, and adding meat to my diet resolved it within a week or so. This is a common story among the people I met in that community. I don't know how much of this experience was due to the "raw" or "strict" parts. For all I know I would have done fine as cooked-food vegan or an oreos and fritos vegan.

I transitioned to all carnivore 11 months ago and have not had similar health problems. Or any health problems that I can attribute to the diet. This line from the article nicely summarizes my current point of view:

> and what better way to find the enormous array of fats, amino acids, vitamins and minerals these fastidious organs require, than by feasting on animals which have already painstakingly collected or made them.

If you're seeking the most dense and complete nutrition your quest will tend to lead you toward organ meats rather than plants.
Possibility 9 — nobody does, because there is no such thing as self-driving.

The whole name "self-driving" is invented to pull the wool on public's eyes, and is a misnomer.

It's fundamentally clear to anybody moderately technically literate that what "self-driving" companies can't be called "driving," yet there are way more studied, and credited people than us here working in these companies who know that, and stay silent.
Would you have felt more comfortable counselling her if you were 3 or 4" shorter?
And can people even charge a electric vehicle at a public charger if they don't have a credit card or a smartphone or both?
Sodium-Ion Battery Production Reported at Worlds Biggest Li-Ion Producer
Waymo taxis self-drive. Many of them have no support driver any more.
Now, is Europe higher or lower than Canada? We have some software developers working here incredibly cheaply, especially in USD terms.
Citation: "I chose not to put a photo of myself online".

Assuming that:

1) "Andrea Vassell" is a pseudonym (so that Google won't confirm claim for panel) or author just does not want send any extra information to Google

2) There are multiple "Andrea Vassell" writers, fitting Wikidata eligibility criteria

The solution would be:

1) Find origins of wrong images

2) Create a Wikidata item for each author and link each item to pages, which contain relevant images with https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P973

3) It is a good idea to create a page, describing original "Andrea Vassell" starting with a definition in a form of "Andrea Vassell is an NNNan writer, publisher of non-fiction books ...etc...". This page may contain the images of books (so that final card may look like https://www.google.com/search?kgmid=/g/122rd6_8&hl=en)

Step-by-step example:

1) I was notified that Google Knowledge Graph mixes Russian historian Andrey Simonov and American economist Andrey Simonov (wrong page snapshot: https://web.archive.org/web/20201202182248/https://www.googl...)

2) I created https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q41802044, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q103187106, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q103378461 and improved https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q4419737 (as all of them are passing notability requirements)

3) After few weeks Google removed photo of economist from historian (https://www.google.com/search?kgmid=/g/1hb_dk0rq&hl=en), because this photo was attached to economist card https://www.google.com/search?kgmid=/g/11fyy5b4yb&hl=en

Disclosure: I'm a Wikidata editor with 10M+ edits (mostly tool-assisted, of course). Have no relation with Google, other than hundreds of unsuccessful attempts to communicate with a brick wall of Google's contact form.
Gotta love HN, the LED has been flashing all day
I'd imagine the key is that it's "manually review images suspected to be child pornography". The point of the review process is presumably that there are possible hash-collisions / false-positives, so the reviewers are what cause that transition from suspected to known.
As Andreas himself routinely says in Q&As - If you're interested in it then build it. This is an OS for developers.

They don't have a 'plan' for hardware support. They work on what each individual developer is interested in working on. If you want to add compatibility with the pi then fill your boots!
Your points are solid; I accept that this material would not be very effective as a weapon, except maybe in a confined space. But it’s still something whose possession we want to control, so handling and transporting it adds to the cost and complexity of operating a commercial fusion facility.
Can someone explain to me like I am 5 years old what else is needed to make fusion practical?
Yeah but how often do we meet toaster devs?
> In Europe, you go, where?

Same place? All of FAANG and beyond has offices in Europe.
I'm still hoping they'll find a few of Monteverdi's lost operas in some attic in Venice someday.
Are you building every implementation of the protocol? Or are you publishing a communications standard for people to implement?

If I'm building a network stack and at every layer I'm pulling values out of the header in network byte order, except in one special case where I have to pull them the other way (for no good reason) then that's the protocol author's fault.

If there is a good reason for using middle-Endian EBCDIC (compatibility or technical) then fine. If not, then please use the thing that's the strong convention and therefore simplest to work with.
It's named "serenity" OS after the serenity prayer recited in AA meetings, because the developer started this as a way to keep his mind occupied to overcome alcoholism. I think it has been a wild success for that purpose and is one of the more beautiful examples of using software for the promotion of personal excellence rather than commercial excellence. Obscurity is not an impediment to accomplishing this goal.
> President says AF was never about nation building. Then what was it about?

To “prevent any future acts of international terrorism against the United States by" “those nations, organizations, or persons” who “planned, authorized, committed, or aided the terrorist attacks that occurred on September 11, 2001, or harbored such organizations or persons”, according to the law adopted authorizing the action.
Thats begging to emerge just generally! Nothing has really filled the gap VB left.
I live in a suburb of a medium sized city. It’s not particularly dense, probably slightly lower density than the median American lives in.

My generation Z neighbors (I have two) are very happy to live without a car. They live within three miles of their jobs and use electric scooters for commuting. They have their food and consumer goods shipped to their house. They say that they don’t need to drive anywhere, and the occasion that they want to go somewhere Uber is available. Meanwhile they are saving hundreds to thousands of dollars a month by not having two cars.

I personally (a millennial) have put less than five thousand miles on my car in the last 5 years. People say cars are a requirement for American life, but I find that’s becoming less true for more and more Americans.
I have similar expectation, but note:

1. Many of the FAANG have presence in Europe

2. There's a lot of fintech in Europe
The old saw has been "then you take the train", which only works for folks who are comfortable on trains, and whose type of travel fits with train schedules. I like having my own car, and I like roadtrips without schedules.

For me, an EV needs about 8 miles of range for commuting, and about 1000 for vacation, and it's just silly to own 992 extra miles of battery the other 355 days a year.

Which is to say, I think we're rushing prematurely into completely ending gasoline vehicles. They should be phased out, but "phased" is the operative word -- let some linger in applications where they're still better suited. I currently drive a hybrid and I plan to replace it with a PHEV, not a BEV, for that reason.
> In Europe, you go, where?

I don't know where you go if it's about the type of work you do. If it's about compensation, you go freelance. You can double your income or lower your work load. Your future is less secure, but who here really believes that developers will no longer be in high demand within the next 10 years?
This makes sense, iCloud can just be blocked with the rest of the malware domains.

For fun corporate and university IT types can start adding iCloud-related domains to their internal blacklists.
Among Us devs aren’t happy with Fortnite’s blatant copying
This is bonkers. We are innocent until proven guilty, not "unproven".

Witness testimony on its own is circumstantial evidence in general. Witnesses are very unreliable.
Can a warrant compel them to develop the capability?
that would be vandalism of wikidata
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Ask HN: How to Install Grammarly Add-In for Office 2016 on Linux
I have installed Office 2016 using Crossover on Ubuntu 20.04. Currently, it seems that there is no way to install the Grammarly Add-in to be used With MS office.

Have you managed to get it to work? I am looking for any insights.

Thank you
Americans make several multiples what europeans do in this market. Healthcare is expensive, but it's less than 20k/year. The salary differences are frequently >100k/year.

You can also negotiate PTO. Passive-aggressive "unlimited" (but not really) PTO is becoming a common bullet point in startup JDs now.
> "the law makes no requirement that they create such a capability."

and they have not created such a capability. This is built into the image upload libary of iCloud. This has less ability to "scan the device" than the iOS updater which can run arbitrary code supplied by Apple and read/write anywhere on the system. This is less able to be extended to a general purpose scanner than that is.
> government paid health care,

Most salary comparisons are done pre-taxes. Europe has much higher taxes, in part to pay for that free education and healthcare.
That is the whole point of container based distributions like Bottlerocket.

Also even for Windows, in cloud deployment the only admin access we tend to have in production are dashboards, no one gets to touch the actual machine.

In enterprise consulting projects, in security conscious customers, I never got Admin account directly, only temporarily via tooling that would request for it with a couple of hours duration, and installing software required IT tickets.
Two other things: tax is way higher in (western) Europe, and I would guess (site still down) the pay disparity will be something like 2x.
This is just not true.

There are plenty of product companies in Europe. To give just a few examples: Spotify, Deliveroo, Blablacar, BackMarket
"A decade from now, we'll be able to look back and say which companies or approaches were on the right track. For now, we can only guess."

My first thought was that a decade from now there will be a very limited number of self driving cars on the road, still. Mostly because people (not all people, but most people) will be very scared of the technology, no matter how good it is. Every time there's an accident it'll make news. Any deaths will make the news. It will not matter if statistically self-driving vehicles are safer.

I do wonder, can it ever be as good as or better than a person? Won't they always hesitate more, be slower than, and take more time than a real person driving? If it costs a little less to take a self-driving taxi than a person-driving taxi, why would anyone bother? What's the motivation for people to go with a self-driven thing over a person driven thing? Will there really be a big price difference?
Good to see a lawyer here. I have been a venture capital lawyer for 10 years. I am still with a law firm; but have been learning Python, and have also been building a legal publishing platform by hiring a developer. It would have been nice to create the platform myself; but I think the combination of an experienced corporate lawyer and an amateur developer might be more suited in my case. One day, I hope to go solo and consult companies and law firms in implementing technology solutions to make their work-flow efficient and also run the legal publishing platform, which at that point in time would have hopefully evolved into a marketplace for trading knowledge.
Does anyone have scatter plots or distribution data on tech salaries?

Would be much more interesting than average, anecdotal and even median.
System is separate I believe. Every single file is cryptographically signed.
Self-driving, as in there's no one driving the car, it drives itself. No human labor proportional to miles driven. How is that a misnomer?
If you think of the millions of lines of code these people are just looking at, you'd have to be pretty damn good to pickup everything?

Thanks for sharing
> You cannot sensibly call this a "queue". No programmer would accept "random order" when they expected "in order".

I see somebody never used the first iteration of AWS SQS.
The controversial plan to rewild death
If you're driving an 18-wheeler truck, sure.

But a lot of door-to-door delivery these days uses "independent contractors" who use their personal vehicles and fuel, and get paid e.g. £120 for 180 deliveries.

Nobody's enforcing digital tacho cards for people's personal vehicles.
>systems level programming or embedded development

Like building what?
You must be joking. Berkeley loves its gas stations. There is nothing more Berkeley than a Volvo 240 getting 5MPG and spewing smoke all over town. When someone tried to develop apartments at 3000 Shattuck on the site of "Smog and Gas" -- a quite ironic name indeed -- the city's grey NIBMYs went to war, writing the zoning board that "Berkeley Smog & Gas better serves the needs of the working class of my neighborhood than the proposed speculation housing." The ZAB agreed, disapproving the project! It is on-the-record that the people of Berkeley prefer gas stations over housing.

Also I have no idea what you are talking about with Emeryville. They have three gas stations, all on Powell St. Berkeley has at least 20.
Dupe: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28219800
Why Metaverses Are the Next Big Trend After NFTs
Metaverses are the next big trend after NFTs. We are witnessing the decline of the NFT trend and the emergence of the Metaverse trend.
For more information on the subject, check out Julia Magas excellent written piece on HackerNoon.
I’m testing how much I can move from services before switching devices and don’t have everything mapped out just yet.

- cloud backups: testing iMazing Wi-Fi daily backups to NAS. Tested a clean restore to an iPad that was perfect. The daily backups aren’t running consistently yet but likely has to do with power save settings.

- Photos: syncing with Synology Photos. Backup seems fine (40k of 65k pictures so far). The app leaves a lot to be desired vs Apple Photos.

Will test Calyx / Graphene on a Pixel at some point but not likely to pass the wife test.
> I'm happy with my work and paid fairly

But are you American or European? :)
United Airlines bans duct tape restraints
I couldn't get past the first couple of paragraphs because of the 4chan lingo
For individual users the risk is very small, but when you have a billion users the chances of innocent people being caught up is pretty much 100%.

Platform owners like Google, Apple, Twitter and Facebook should really keep stuff like that in mind when they deploy algorithmic solutions like this.

Like dhosek said, the manual review step should reduce the risk quite a bit, though.
It would be great if the secret_key goes through a time consuming hashing algorithm like bcrypt.
For now. A simple change to hook IOImage load in a future update and it will be.
I think the distinction is we have 50X more clothing to wash. And it's partly because washing is so easy. I have a family of four and spend a lot of time folding clean clothes.
Americans are overweight because of carbs.

I've seen vegans on YouTube putting sugar into banana milkshakes of all things, so I'm led to believe there are quite a few ethical vegans who don't have such a concern for their health.
We already know that viruses play a role in cross species genetic transfer.

And we still don't 100% know if HERV serves some real purpose or not.

I hope this "all viruses" is "when we choose to go after specific ones".
What happens to the millions of traps floating inside a person's bloodstream after they do their job? Do they eventually get dismantled by the immune system?
as someone who rides a motorcycle this sort of legislation is infuriating. gas stations are food, rest, and a chance to get my bearings with a map.

Frankly California's more gilded counties like
Sonoma have a perverse incentive to reduce gas stations: it reduces congregation and attendance by the homeless. This feels like the "cashless" argument playing out all over again. Sure, its perhaps easier and more efficient for the business to simply refuse to accept cash but at the end of the day its a poor people ban.
Nonsense. Our definitions of "value" are different. For instance, you likely would only ever work for money, or wish to live in a society that uses financial allocation to determine labor and resourcing. Personally, I do not find "money" to actually be useful except inasmuch to convince people to do actual value-producing activities. You don't need currency to keep the lights on, but right now you need currency to convince anyone to do the actual valuable work to keep the lights on.

I understand how the industries produce "value". I, however, do not find the "value" they produce to be overall beneficial to humanity. Furthermore, even if I accept the utility of currency, it is impossible to deny that these industries have grown into a parasitic nightmare sucking the world dry in the pursuit of ever-higher piles of cash.
Not switching TBH! Most people don't care!
If Google employees, blinded by their big compensation cannot understand how this can go bad and how nearly impossible it is to navigate the cracks these algorithm are leaving behind then I agree, the google collective they're part of is causing a lot of harm and they should feel responsible.