skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Let's say you want to stack a contrast, a saturation, and a color temp adjustment layer (or levels/curves/or a color threshold/etc.), then want to keep tweaking them until you're happy. I do this often. Or you have them right but just want to change the mask a bit to add/subtract a bit you missed. Or change the image under those adjustments. It's trivial with adjustment layers and done in a few steps trivially. It's not if you're copying layers and tweaking away and backtracking and reverting in separate layers.
Not joking. I don't need the sophistication, I trade options and I don't need instant orders, or to be near the exchange. I don't need insider information because I can already see what's going to happen with a high probability.

You can view my profile, sign up for a trial and see it for yourself.

I don't care about fees, taxes, or any of that because it's inconsequential to me.
Whole Wallet as well.
I get this too. I call it eargasm and have a folder full of music files that have triggered it. Anytime I hear a new one I save it in my eargasm playlist.
This sarcasm does not move the discussion forward. There’s a number of things a person can do in the U.S to pick up a skill from a trade to medicine. With grants, loans, or any number of free/paid courses.

Also, it is truly impressive to see people work and succeed going from “not very much” to “boy he’s a force”. Just takes effort, go figure.
Backstory I found, I wasn't familiar with this story (2001).

https://www.hardocp.com/article/2001/10/23/optimizing_or_che...

TLDR: ATI did the same thing with Quake 3 Arena which was commonly used as a benchmark game for testing new video cards of that era and which many game news sites were using.
Because you have shit mobile.
> They have a queen and a royal family which, AFAIK, literally do nothing meaningful, aren't running the country, don't produce anything of value (from what I can see) and yet are paid billions (land holdings etc) and are forcing populous to pay fealty to them in many respects...

I think that's kind of a backwards view of how it works these days. If anything, the royal family are a bunch of mascots that not only bring in billions to the UK, but also, for better or for worse, serve as a unifying identity for millions of people.

If anything, I think most celebrities in the US serve as a bunch of vacuous narcissists, while at least the royal family understands "noblesse oblige" and their jobs basically involve making non-stop charity appearances.
The worse outcome may be, if there's an ambiguity involved and the smart system takes precedent, but occasionally happens to take the wrong route – and suppresses any feedback for the user to intervene or even notice. Which is much, where we have arrived by this. I guess, collateral damage has become a matter of everyday life.
Perfect normality is one of the stranger outliers humanity exhibits.
I'm interested in finding ways to better organize the MIDI files. I'm curious how you figured out which category to put each MIDI file in on your website. Was that done manually by you?
There have been umpteen articles how wages have not kept up with inflation. It's a tough sell telling parts of the country that swapped the first black president for man with a less than stellar morality record that this is the best economy in history.
The "Fluid" pack which ships with MuseScore and "Musyng Kite" pack which is just found online are both Freely licensed and sound "better" in karaoke-parlor kind of way (though personally I think I prefer the MIDI sound you have now, which is a bit closer to how I remember it sounding before my dad invested in a SoundBlaster card.)

Having options for the overall playback sound is one of the cool features of MIDI though.
> Comparing processors, ram, test scores means nothing compared to the actual experience

But Apple brags endlessly about their A11 "Bionic" chip and similar[0].

Arguing that Apple values experience over specs might have been a valid argument back with Steven Jobs, but Apple's presentations spend significant amounts of time talking about hardware specs these days.

I don't specifically mind that Apple does, but people need to stop pretending like Apple hasn't changed as a company with the shift in leadership.

[0] https://youtu.be/M4Pc1eQtWmQ?t=11m43s
If they had something similar that was a different workflow but was as powerful, flexible, and involved a few steps to do what you can do in PS in three or four steps but in the current GIMP in fifteen or more, then that'd be great. It's not that PS's workflow is inherently better, it's that I can do things in seconds that take at least a few minutes, far more work, and a lot more effort in GIMP.
Show your tax returns for the past decade.
Games often have the opposite problem of trying to be balanced that can harm the educational aspects, think Civ and Total War. EU4 and most paradox games have asymmetric starts that make it both more realistic and offer some great a-historical challenges.
That's true, but my comment was more about the HN crowd which is primarily (or exclusively) from programming background.

Professionals will always go with a well-marketed and popular option and they don't care about paying 500-1000$ for an image editing program. They don't care (or know) about open source. But I expect better from HN crowd.

As for GIMP and its features, well, when Photoshop firdt mentioned about the new Content Aware feature, there was a collective orgasm, but GIMP had that feature (by sheer virtue of the scriptability and flexibility which is inherent in its design) in a script format at least a year or two before that.

I don't expect GIMP to win hearts of professionals and their shiny macbooks, but for a casual heavy job, GIMP is more than capable, and expect programmers to appreciate it for what the GIMP project has achieved. But all we get here is "but but Photoshop!"
Or EarthFare, or Sprouts, or Trader Joes, or a bunch of other grocery stores that do what WF does. Whole Foods is just an expensive grocery store to me these days. It's uniqueness of being an "organic grocery store" has long faded.
blog.mozilla.org/security/2018/01/31/preventing-data-leaks-by-stripping-path-information-in-http-referrers/
I just mean they are one of the largest companies in the world and don't seem to be going anywhere with the rise of Instagram. It more or less seems that they have had no penalty for using this strategy.
A four byte hash is unique to two billion sites. The collision space with non-mainstream sites you might visit is going to be tiny.

It’s as good as sending the actual URL, and possibly even the full path to the document you requested, if the browser has previously asked Google for another site and Google has seen a pattern of browsing from Site A to Site B in browsers not using this “security” feature.
> See: the way "favours" are portrayed in The Godfather movies, for an image of the American mindset on what owing someone a favour / being in someone's debt is like.

Maybe not that extreme, but yeah, it's too easy to get guilted into something because you've become socially indebted by something large.

It's not even about being able to get out of it, like you mention afterwards with a legal exchange, it's about the exchange being forced to continue out of a mixture of guilt, politeness, and social pressure in general, simply because you don't want to accidentally kill the personal relationship.
> I never realized midi support had declined so much all over

I actually have no idea why MIDI support was removed from browsers. I understand that <bgsound> was a bad idea – autoplaying audio and all – but why did MIDI file support have to go too? I was under the impression that web browsers took backwards compatibility pretty seriously and deleting a supported audio format and breaking most of the sound on the early web seems like something that wouldn't fly today.

Does anyone know the story here?
Yes, it is impressive to see people improving their lives, and we should work towards a society that helps people do that.
However, to just write it all off as if "hard work" is the only thing preventing a lot of people from improving their lives is very much blind to the reality that a lot of people are _already_ working very hard, just to stay afloat as is, and there are other factors beyond "hard work" preventing change.
Not going to do that because I don't need to. :)

My trial makes more money than most people make in a year.
Cstar, an Apache Cassandra cluster orchestration tool for the command line
How Canva doubled its engineering growth rate in 6 months
Not only should one use ISO-8601 compliant data types, but also set the time zone and server time according to UTC time.
People who are really serious about software should make their own hardware

I never get tired of this quote, and I will always point to it when people compare iOS/Android or macOS/Windows.
That's understandable, but he specifically asked what kind of music his coworker likes. If you asked someone what their favorite movie is and they brought up a completely different activity they enjoy to pass the time, like programming, you'd find their response more than odd, no?
It at least works enough to show the embedded Google Map, which hints at why it wasn't optimized for mobile. It's difficult to make a complex Google Maps API app work well on a phone.
There's no healthy way to use cigarettes, plenty of people manage to use Facebook without freaking out about it.

The Facebook == cigarettes claim is disingenuous.
I do agree with you Rjevski! We don't need another analytic tools where only app-owners access the data for more insight. I am sorry for not explaining what we actually intend to do at Emaww. The data we sense will be provided back to users so that they understand their own emotions and their contexts to increase their emotional awareness. Thoughts?
The universe is in a process of entropic decay. Entropy is death. Life is the opposite. Life creates order, reverses the decay. Music is spontaneous order, but nuanced, like life. Music is a celebration of life.
Yeah they have Mozilla but not Google which occupies the other 99% of the same building. Amazon also has significant headcount in SF.
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Thanks for this information. Is frustration the only emotion they measure?
So PowerVR is the only GPU design I don't have direct experience with in the mobile space, never worked with an SoC that fielded it.

However given that Apple isn't the only one who licenses their designs I'd put a large sum of money on them doing the same thing.
I expect people will be paid fairly for their contributions. Are you in a position to be telling people what their time is worth? Or, possibly you're simply being a pessimist?
I love the feeling you're describing! The understanding of an abstraction (or in other words, a mental model) that links two parallel thought processes in an unexpected, and fun way.

I like the term Kensho [0], thought you might too. Interested in thoughts from other people as well.

[0]: https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/tMhEv28KJYWsu6Wdo/kensho
I asked the same thing several years ago and got an answer [0]: You're correct, they didn't care so much about that specific detail and let it be changed because it wasn't actually too important to the main plot.

[0] https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/19817/2242
The health problems caused by smoking can be easily visualized as a pair of black lungs. Social media is harmful in a more invisible way.
Not just google but run of the mill commercial site use fingerprinting.

E.g.:
https://github.com/jackspirou/clientjs/blob/master/README.md
https://github.com/Valve/fingerprintjs/blob/master/README.md
Omg, this is so meta. In the comments on a post about guys running a shady day trading site is a guy trying to hawk another shady day trading site?

I think you’re barking up the wrong tree. This HN crowd is usually pretty skeptical and you’re making wild claims.
apparently there is only one mobile app startup in SF and lots of developers developing developer tools
You are acting like most bugs aren't already caught in the dev process. No on writes code and just deploys.

Writing extra tests that cover everything for a small project that you are working on yourself is a waste of time.
> A four byte hash is unique to two billion sites

Due to the birthday paradox collisions happen much earlier.
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Flame graphs have extra information in the form of seeing the caller and callees. That, and I find the graphical presentation to be easier to scan.
Apple plays this game, but in a different way. They know that apps like Geekbench test for only a short duration which won't necessarily hit their thermal throttling if the phone is cool enough. Detecting 100% load for a few dozen seconds and giving it full performance isn't hard, that is what Huawei and other vendors should have been doing.

Issues like the Intel i9 performance going significantly downward with consistent usage are often missed by benchmarking apps: https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2018/07/we-tested-throttling...
Uh, that second link says studies have reported that from 55% to 86% of people can experience it.
This entire change is a security risk - there is no guarantee that any subdomain has the same owner as the primary, and that's not even getting into subdomain hijacking.
This is me. I can listen to and appreciate music in the same way regular people can learn to appreciate art or fine wine. But I usually prefer listening to silence, and really don't get why people on the whole are so obsessed with music. I've been to a concert exactly once, enough to know it's really not my thing.

Interestingly I'm also clinically tone-deaf, meaning that I'm utterly unable to tell what note is played or make anything resembling song with my voice. Don't invite me to karaoke. I cannot tell that the pitch of my voice doesn't match the song accompanying it.

But don't feel any pity: you guys are the weird ones :P
Allegedly 90% lose money on trades, but 50% of the capital makes/loses money in a given market window (however most of the winning capital is owned by a smaller number of players than the losing capital, mostly banks, quant funds, and creative/smart/disciplined/lucky indie traders).
FWIW, I'm day trading and I'm making consistent returns, well above the rates of most mutual funds and hedge funds.

The caveat is what most fund managers would call capacity. My trading strategy can't scale without severe cuts in those returns. It's extremely easy to buy 10 contracts and hold for 5 ticks. I've never experienced slippage at all. Operating at mutual fund sizes, I would be trading at volumes that would slip 25 ticks before filling completely. My strategy can't and won't ever scale to that level...it would degrade to negative profitability likely with two or three million dollars of daily volume. Effectively this means I have major limits to compounding...like most day traders, I merely skim returns off of a fixed amount of capital.

So yeah, I do well enough for myself, and there are thousands of traders just like me. The quant firms may be on another level, but it's not because they have better returns than you can get as a day trader, it's because they have better capacity.
That's a shame. I got a P20 Pro and I really like it (even the software).

But I don't think I'll get another Huawei next time, because the company itself is really weird.
A good indication that you aren't a great trader is that you try to sell services based on being a great trader.
Listening to silence is different from listening to music? They're both categories of "things you'd want to hear."
Interesting, especially in a place that doesn't have a lot of history in tech startups (Sydney).
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I'm a little confused on your comment? Is this in regards to how to deduct a donation post-Trump tax law?

I'm a regular salaried employee, all my income is reported on a W2. Pre-Trump, if I donated $ to my favorite charity...it's deductible if I exceed standard deduction.
If there were no snippet in Google search result page, then quickly it would become a feature of all web browser to display such snippet of each link on hover, though.
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I have uncovered a bug in Firefox with this!

Playing a MIDI file, then playing another MIDI file, then playing _another_ MIDI file, causes the "Mute Tab" feature to break. The icon disappears and right-click-Mute-Tab no longer works easier. Can somebody else confirm? Firefox 61, latest OSX.
Whether or not the source is biased, the advice is sound. NIH can and does kill projects that would otherwise be viable and profitable, not to mention distract from finding product market fit.
From what I can see, there is no upside to enjoying music. People spend so much time and money (attending concerts, paying for streaming services, buying music, buying instruments, practicing instruments, listening to the music, etc.) that I'm able to happily use elsewhere. If I enjoyed music I might want to start using my time and money for those things.
That's senseless. Non profit doesn't mean "worthy cause I should want to die on my sword for" it simply means the corporate financial structure doesn't accommodate profit-sucking shareholders, nor building the corporate coffers from year to year.
Some engines have two per cylinder :)
Are you implying that short burst performance is for gaming benchmarks?
If you asked someone what their favorite kind of pizza is and they responded with "chocolate milkshake", you wouldn't be at a loss for words? They're both categories of food.
for benchmarks to work against such practices they need to be changed every single time, in a non predictable way.
I open a file, edit it with changes and save it. If it’s lossy then the application should say so.

But as I said this just one annoyance of many.

I have no intention of logging these as bugs because from my perspective they are implemented as per the developers’ vision.

But not mine. So I use other applications because I find them faster. And again, I’m not a photoshop guru so don’t think this is about comfort and learned keybindings or other muscle memory.

GEGL on the other hand is something I’m going to investigate further. Being able to use that for workflow would be very useful.
I agree conditions could be improved, and that we are probably near the peak of anti-union sentiment. I don’t agree unionization will transform these stores. Many grocery store chains are unionized and the jobs are still loathed. I understand the fear is that Amazon will make the job worse than merely loathed and perhaps the status quo union is enough to prevent that. I don’t think a union can change that impression you’re getting when you shop.
Actually wait, it has Atlassian!!
Twilio hit profitability last quarter FWIW
I like who I am, and am perfectly happy the way I am. If you step back and look at it, letting vibrations in the air control your emotional state is kinda a scary proposition, no?
Confirmed! This happens for me too. Want to file the bug?
Apple does the same thing when they introduce new models. They pretend it runs x times faster than the previous flagship one. Same thing really.
Nope, not implying that at all. For some games that may make sense, but I think that'd fall under the sustained heavy CPU/GPU usage category for most games. Same for compiling large apps, interactive HTML5 PWAs and such.
You had a couple of perl scripts that integrate with 3rd parties (Slack, Pingdom, etc), manages complex on-call schedules, make phone calls, send SMSes, handles retries, and is fault tolerant across providers? That's some amazing perl skills. :-)
Really? Besides "feeling good" (I assume?), I would be hard pressed to think of a single beneficial thing about cigarette. Facebook certainly has more productive uses than just making you feel good... the question is whether they're worth the downsides.
What stops big firms from automating a great many small trading strategies?
By your logic then Apple does not seem to take much about macOS and their latest pro offering then.
Apple has always tailored their marketing to whatever their advantage is at that moment. If they have the best tech, they'll talk about speeds and feeds - if they don't, they'll talk about the experience or some other aspect. This is almost as reliable a tick-tock cycle as Intel's.
Ask HN: Favorite books on how to be a good manager?
"All my experience shopping at grocery chains in the US and elsewhere has impressed upon me that these workers represent the absolute classic, textbook case for unionization."

Why?

"...an industry that needs a union.."

Why?

"...more union-friendly in the coming years"

Why?

Nothing you said is grounded in any actual analysis or verifiable facts.

I'd argue that undifferentiated skills that require little education make this an industry poorly suited to unions; Even if you unionize you have little chance of success since most workers are easily replaced by scabs or increased automation. Many workers are also kids in school (speaking from experience -- I used to work in a produce department while studying),and so would not join a union regardless due to the temporary nature of their employment. Butchers and bakers may be an exception, but these are the minority compared to checkout workers, stock boys, or produce workers.

So maybe they'd benefit significantly from the fruits of unionization as experienced in more technically complex industries...but they are highly unlikely to receive those fruits.
Shady trading site ;) If people want to pay me money to make money like I am making it, I am not going to say no. If you reject peoples money, that's absurd. I am not saying, come pay me, I am saying, if you want to make money, come pay me. If you want to sit on the sidelines, then feel free to do so. I am not trying to make a sale, I am trying to make a point. I would love for a Warren Buffet, or anyone else, to come challenge me. I will destroy them. :) If anyone wants to post their returns at a trade deks, I will beat it in 2018/2019

No, my claims are not wild, maybe being the best is, but being profitable is easy. If you don't think so, you haven't done your due diligence. There are hundreds of people that are profitable, how do you think I learned?

Also, as to the HN crowd being skeptical, I think one person already subscribed and made enough to pay his subscription, we will see how they do for the rest of the year. Also skeptical is good, I want skeptics, because I like silencing my skeptics and trolls.
+1 they do protocol detection as well. If blocking is all they want,fingerprintig is cheaper than DPI.
You are grossly misinformed about deserts.
Tests save you time. They have a negative cost.
MZ (screaming): you broke my Facebook, so you better damn fix it.

CS: Whoah Mark, you know people want me to run for president. I can’t scorch my reputation fixing your dumb internet site. Plus enough of my shares have vested for me to leave with my pockets full of loot. It’s not like I ever have to work again.

MZ: [redacted]

CS: OK, I’ll do it.

What did Mark promise her? Would love to know what deal she cut.
Well, short high load sounds like typical usage for some smartphone tasks. Like open a browser, load heavy website, check something and shutdown. If phone can boost CPU, I can load website faster. And if benchmarks want to test for a prolonged duration, surely they can just run longer?
I loved hearing Tim Cook's response about the incident "we would never put ourselves in the position of selling our user data". Fundamentally the Facebook business model was flawed & destined to fail. We hope the new generation of applications learn and evolve to better & stronger platforms https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tkyH3JRxndc