skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As far as I can tell, your substantive comments are mostly getting upvoted while your flamewar comments are mostly getting downvoted and flagged. That doesn't seem ideologically motivated.

Would you mind reviewing https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and using HN as intended? Regardless of how right you are, perpetuating flamewar is destructive here.
Unless your retirement tax rate will be lower than your working years rax rate, it comes out in the wash eventually.

It's quite likely that some people today will end up paying higher income tax rates in retirement than today.
Pedestrian detection systems don’t work well, AAA finds
> The United States doesn't officially recognize Taiwan as a country.

That means little. The US has de-facto diplomatic relations with Taiwan, and has made official commitments to its defense against threats (which realistically could only ever come from the PRC), such as selling it arms. The weirdness and official ambiguity here are driven by the PRC's sensitivities, and do not represent any real commitment to the PRC's position.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taiwan_Relations_Act
I recommend Luminar https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J_83opqLxyU
I've had a horrible time with finding good vector software for my needs, especially since my requirements tend towards needing it to create physical assets in the real world (laser cutting) or the basis for game assets.

There isn't any good constraint based / procedural vector software. Best I've able to find for my needs is Fusion 360 but it's really for 3D not for 2D. I want things to reflow automatically based on parameterized constraints and nothing does that except for Fusion 360 and/or OpenSCAD but those are both horrible for 2D vector.

I've even resorted to use React and SVG to dynamically generate vectored laser cut designs. https://github.com/brennancheung/lasercut-react-svg/blob/mas...

If anyone has any recommendations I'd love to hear them.
But Cortana doesn't have that bug and/or feature.

If it was clearly about an awesome feature of Alexa, maybe that would be weird.

If it was picking on a significant bug in Alexa, then it wouldn't be very nice.

As it is, it seems to be simply finding something amusing for readers to think about, especially if they are developers and see it as an interesting corner case.
> Why are people so reactive and sluggish? People should be ready for change.

I'm not sure if you'd be so ready for change if it meant replacing expensive gear that is still totally functional.
I moved from Lightroom to Capture One Pro and eventually settled on Darktable.

It took a bit of getting used to (still not a fan of the UI and its obsession with "film rolls" every time I import something) but once I did it's quite nice. Images come out looking good and it has a handy Lua scripting environment and CLI with which you can automate many tasks.
Have you ever worked for a large company that is recognized by everyone?

You didn’t update your terms and conditions to meet the regulation date as of 12:01 AM? Lawsuit. You aren’t following accessibility standards? Reported to the human rights tribunal. You gave a perk to some clients but not others? 4,000 calls to the call center. Your ad was pictured next to a post about the nazis? Your brand made the evening news.

We have two rules at my company that guide EVERYTHING we do: don’t cause calls to the call center, and don’t make the evening news. Things get crazy when you have customers that number in the millions, it changes everything about how you operate.
Designer will import Illustrator files (.ai) and PDF files. It can also export to PSD and PDF (but not to .ai).

Photo imports (and exports) to PSD file format.

Some Photoshop features that aren't available in Photo (e.g. smart objects) won't be editable in the same way when opening a PSD in Photo, but you'll still be able to open the PSD file.

If you have a lot of Illustrator and Photoshop files, best to try them out in the Affinity apps to see if you're happy with the import feature.
> Anecdotally, I find that the people who are loudest about Apple's misdeeds (both real and assumed) are often people who've never even used an Apple product.

Interesting. The number of people of who I know that they have complained about Apple, and of who I also know that they have never used an Apple product is zero.
Tips to Avoid Leaving Tracks Around the Internet
Does Wazo compete with 2600hz's Kazoo [0] / Telestax's RestComm [1] or with OpenCORD [2] implementations? If not, I'm having trouble understanding what it really is... Can someone pls explain?

[0] https://github.com/2600hz/kazoo

[1] https://github.com/RestComm

[2] https://opencord.org
I think all they're arguing is that the word pension =~= "defined benefit retirement plan".
I don't like seeing content just disappear from netflix. One of the worst features.

If I rent from the store I know how long I have. If I find something on netflix it could disappear while I'm still trying to get through it. If I save it chances are it won't be there in a few months.
I was thinking of the same thing and looks like someone else already experiment with them: https://medium.com/@diego_pacheco/running-multithreaded-redi...
I think the best argument is that it is impossible to regulate. It's *ing math! Anyone can look up how it works. It will be implemented everywhere and always by the people who need it.
No need to read the blog post, the "end" page is still reachable:

http://truecrypt.sourceforge.net/

and Wikipedia article is accurate:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TrueCrypt
Living in SoCal, as far as I can tell, google maps generates some random numbers and then uses the result to decide whether it should use the Spanish or English pronunciation of roads with Spanish names.

In some cases it uses different pronunciations for two words in the same road name (I've heard "Calle Real" pronounced with "Calle" correct but "Real" as the English word "real"; other times it gets calle wrong and other times it gets them both right).
What is the intent of SK's policy?
Your beef seems to be companies being incentivized to maximize shareholder profit at all cost. Your solution seems to be to legislate morality and corporate conduct, which is exactly what every country including China is doing out of their respective self-interest. Unless you mean to only enforce western liberal values in which case it's an argument for subsuming companies to one nation's foreign policy goals (in Apple's case, US) - a complaint frequently levied at China. The current solution is to let the consumers decide which seems to be the least bad of all options.

Trying to tie trade to morality is exactly why Chinese influence is increasing - they are ideologically agnostic when it comes to trade relationships. That's just the new competitive environment we're in. The alternative is withdrawal and decoupling at the cost of hundreds of billions in trade and feel good points for some people at best and a long-term national security concern by pushing Chinese tech independence and future competitiveness at worst. Current administration already wasted that card IMO.

I think your real question is what does the west have to do to contain Chinese ascent which many people think runs counter to Western interests. The answer is I don't know. Though I don't think bilateral trade belligerency helps or individual action in the west. Developing countries are looking to the China model because it looks like it works - conflating the good and the bad with necessary and sufficient. I think western influence would go a long way if they managed to solve the myriad of problems at home and offer and offer an appealing alternative. Other countries aren't stupid, they're look at what works / is working. Too many things in the west is broken right now.
Friendly reminder that Kyoto Tycoon might be an option. Has real persistence (not just dump everything / reload everything, or cripple performance by turning on aof), is multi-threaded, scriptable via lua, amazing performance.
People might be complaining about your use of unexpanded acronyms (CCP, PRC), or infusing a huge political stance onto a narrow legalistic question.
Aslo noteworthy that Tron was not nominated for special effects because they 'cheated' by using computers.
I'm conditioned to do this trick in reverse, say to look for a recipe or song in French. Speaking the title in a horrible American English accent gives at least a 20% chance that Alexa would understand the query, as opposed to 0%. I'm not familiar with the problem domain at all, but it seems speech recognition is just as bad as TTS or worse at recognizing what language is being processed. Or maybe the problem for both directions is that there is simply no effort to even classify the language first.
It's still a very common English word that's spelled very similarly. One can hardly be surprised if people guessing at the pronunciation of "GIF" select a hard 'g'.
> Instead of having to configure potentially tens of different site-to-site VPN connections to connect every site to your head office where you controller is located, you're hosting it on the internet which makes implementation easier.

Unifi offers a cloud controller as hosted service, see https://help.ubnt.com/hc/en-us/articles/360006288413.
I assume you mean universal health care. Single payer is just one way to do it, and not the dominant one. (The Dutch model, for example, is closer to Obamacare than it is to single payer.) But yes, I do think we should have universal health care. And we should pay for it the way other liberal democracies pay for it—taxes or mandatory insurance premiums on the middle class.
Can you honestly say that the others have merely chosen not to associate with Stallman?

No, they are coordinating a character assassination campaign and are pressuring everyone to disavow him.
It's disappointing to see people cheering mobs on, just because they seem to attack "bad" people, while forgetting that anyone can be made to look bad.
The "best" method is to download the actual software through adobe cloud, and then use the dll method - that way you're using a single dll that's more easily verifiable and from a "trustworthy" source, instead the entire application. (You're still crossing your fingers for no viruses of course).

Of course this method won't work if you can't access it in the first place....
> “Short timeline” assumes you didn’t see 64-bit coming a couple of years ago.

Or that you haven't had the resources to spend on it
I did, and took medication for ADHD for a while. It did not go well with school but I will probably need to go back on it.

At this point my scholastic "record" (accidentally submitted failing grades to a school) at all of the good state schools precludes me from admission despite good performance in HS, and despite submitting my psychiatric record.

So... it's bullshit. I see a lot of people talking about not being a victim, but everything I do is thwarted. There is no choice but for me to be the victim, and society doesn't care.
Unless you're employing yourself, you don't get to open a 401(k) at Fidelity yourself.
Show HN: The Snowplow Data Maturity Model
It's the perfect operating system. A shame it's missing a good text editor.

More seriously, though: the heaviest of my Emacs processes right now is at around 28k of resident memory, while Rambox (Electron wrapper around Gmail and GCal, among potentially other things) is at 395MB + 195MB (presumably for the Gmail and GCal tabs) + some other more negligible subprocesses, and Slack is at 265MB. Total virtual/mapped memory is much higher for all of those (Emacs is still the lowest, at 541MB for the biggest process, while Rambox's are around 1GB each and Slack's is at a "mere" 20.8GB).

Granted, my Emacs processes are doing a bit less than any of the Electron processes, but I still think you've got things the wrong way round :)
I'm talking about third-person pronoun, not second. Sentences like "They is in the office".
China’s Breeding Giant Pigs That Are as Heavy as Polar Bears
Please don't break the site guidelines, regardless of how wrong another comment is or you feel it is.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Agree is not a "Solution" but it does not has the impact that most people are imagining.

I am just curious, what would be the right way for companies to tackle this, how would they know who is the family of a regime official for example? Most people's comments seem to be aimed at Adobe instead of the complexity that is dealing with this executive order.
Savings would not be significantly damaged if 1-1.5% in gains was missed on a $10,000 on a fossil fuel divested portfolio. That might be a significant overstatement of the differential.

Disclaimer: 1-1.5% would make a big difference over time
On torrent tracker sites the same torrents have often been up for quite a while with user comment so you can get an idea if they are ok or not, I've heard.
Redis is a data structure server rather than a simple key/value store. It's very useful in lots of scenarios, even if the persistence means it doesn't have ACID semantics.

It would be great to remove limitations like RAM-only capacity in exchange for a slight performance hit, and while also gaining better core utilization. We used ScyllaDB (a very fast cassandra clone) in the past for the cpu/disk scalability but always felt Redis offered better APIs. Now it's a real option.
No oral history, sorry. 3.5MYA, we were still Austropithecenes, basically as smart as a modern day chimp or gorilla, but bipedal. The little numbers in the tree here show divergence time:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Australopithecus#Phylogeny
studio hardware can generally last 20+ years (and can cost > 5000$ for one rack) - you really don't want to throw it all every 3 macos releases
Also Corel Draw supports macOS now
You're legitimizing character assassination campaigns. But only as long as they're successful.
Evolutionary Theory
Hi all,
Is there anyone here seriously interested in discussing evolutionary theory (I do not mean creation vs evolution)?
You must be lucky and/or careful. I've gone through a bunch, and aside from losing them, it's always the headphone jack input that goes. Apparently this was common enough there were soldering how-to videos out there.

One of the things I valued most is being able to navigate the device without looking at it - not possible with the move to touchscreen interfaces most things have moved to.
Move there, for two reasons.

First, it's the way you're really find out what they need - by being there, being immersed in the life of the village, meeting and talking to the people who actually live there, and finding out what in their lives you could do something to help.

And second, if you live there, you'll do most of your buying there, supporting local businesses. That helps the town, too.
Is it normal for these internal system to not implement any kind of access control? From the post it seems every reader can access every stream?
Dunno how feasible it would be to do remotely, but your best bet would be to spend few days with magistrate clerks, watch what they do and automate repetitive procedures. For instance they often know only absolute basics of Excel, so even simple things can help them immensely.
As a former developer of pro audio apps at Native Instruments, sometimes it's just that the first version of macOS updates has bugs that suddenly causes crashes in your lower level OS calls or unexplained latency. If something like this happens, users mostly blame the audio devs and not Apple. So, if you don't want to ruin your reputation, you better warn, test, wait, hope and fix (maybe not in that order).
Probably, it is easier and safer for them to ban Venezuela completely, than to determine whether or not one of their customers is one of those 150.

But, they don't want to say that. They want to blame it all on the government.

A lot of companies do this. Claim that their own business decisions about how to implement government regulations were forced by the government, when in truth it is their own commercial decisions around cost of compliance and risk appetite which were determinative, not the government regulation alone.
No KYC no AML.
No way law enforcement can follow the money.

I suppose countries will find a way to make use of the exchange illegal.

Mcafee has the morals of an arsonist.
It does, I moved to New Jersey from France, and my phone was in French. Navigation was kind of funny because it was attempting to pronounce English words as if they were French. For instance, street was pronounced "stré" ("streh", if you are not familiar with é).

Google maps was struggling with Roman numerals in France: many streets and avenues are named after kings, say "Louis XVI", "Henry VI" etc. Back in the days it wasn't able to pronounce those, VI would have sounded like "vee". It's probably been fixed since, that was almost 8 years back.
The major bottleneck for most applications using Redis is the RAM capacity, not the write performance. Disk persistence can be more than fast enough as proven by dozens of key/value stores out there.
Brown eliminates GRE test requirement for 24 doctoral programs
A chore to sit through?! Yes it looks dated but still an amazing film. It is basically a terminator film before terminator. A chase film with an unstoppable machine.

They really aren't comparable but the HBO series has been such a disappointment. Yeah it looks good but really weak story points. I'm still watching it, but my excitement has dropped a lot.
attach photographic plate to lead plate, attach PCB to photographic plate, mail to collaborator across a jurisdiction with X-ray postal inspection, collaborator develops photographic plate, 50% success rate depending on face down or face up, scan image and send result.
Affinity convert on Windows here.

Profile support is fine, compatible with ICC profiles, does soft proofing and black point compensation. You'd have to go into more depth about your use cases as I know Adobe let some wild stuff happen, but if you just need to use and embed profiles and soft proof, you can do that.

Its PDF export is good, not great—again, Adobe allows for extreme granularity in PDF settings so I'd need to know specific use cases to advise. PDF import and placing PDF docs is surprisingly good, in some case shockingly so. If you're publishing books built from scratch in Affinity Publisher, there's nothing off the top of my head that I had to fundamentally change about my workflow in shipping 4-color books with layered artwork and columnar text with sidebars to prepress. If you're editing PDFs or converting from INDD, you can get away with a lot but you need to be careful since there are a few feature gaps (see the next paragraph in particular) that don't convert well or at all.

What you'll miss the most falls under what I think you mean by "scripts for text formatting". Publisher doesn't do grep styles or anything similar enough to replace that. It's the biggest feature I miss regularly. You'll miss the level of automation complexity and droplets in Photo too if you use those regularly in Photoshop.

I don't have any problems with large or complex layouts loading huge amounts of data for artwork, or massive text docs.

What I get that I didn't have in Adobe, and especially InDesign: pretty much full access from any of the component apps to vector drawing tools, raster and vector brushes, and shape tools, all of which behave consistently across the suite. No more having to flip my brain from Illustrator's vector drawing to Photoshop's to InDesign's, they all just work with each other and the same way, copy and paste across each other without any fuss, edit within each other easily when necessary, etc.

I miss some power features, especially around styles and Photo automation, but I've adapted, and I appreciate the hell out of how well-integrated the three apps are with each other in interface and functionality.

The forums are a good place to ask about or research feature implementations and requests, especially https://forum.affinity.serif.com/index.php?/forum/52-feature...
they voted for him, saddly, and quantitative analyses show he might get elected again
Users have a choice to not use Photoshop, yet it's still the standard. Creative Cloud really isn't an issue for most people, it takes exceptional circumstances for this type of DRM to become a hassle.

I'm not remotely saying I agree with it, but its been transparent enough that their user base hasn't revolted and found something better, so this will be more and more common with software.
Both “Taiwan” and “China” agree there is only one China and Taiwan is part of it, but they disagree on which government is legitimate :)
> While the NNAL level in E-cig smokers is 97% lower than in tobacco smokers, nonetheless, it is significant higher than in nonsmokers

They really fail to emphasize this fact clearly. There's a popular delusion that e-cigarette users believe e-cigarettes are completely safe. I think most know they're not entirely safe, but a 97% reduction in harm is a pretty big win.

It's telling that the headline is 'E-cigarette smoke damages DNA and reduces repair activity in mouse lung' and not 'E-cigarettes 97% less harmful than tobacco cigarettes.' Finding evidence that they're wildly less harmful isn't as sexy as being able to say you've found evidence that there's some harm possible.
Scooters aren't being actively policed. Electric mopeds work fine, as do electric bicycles if you don't like regular ones. There's public transport bikes as well.

Further you can still take taxis, rideshare or rent something like a car2go, for which parking is more feasible, if you use it every now and then.

I mean... what else is there to want?
Vernor v. Autodesk essentially removed the right of first sale for shrink wrap licensed copywritten works.
Worcester, Massachusetts is also interesting, in a different way. The locals say it right, but anyone not familiar gets it wrong.

Or maybe UK folks get it right?
Apple Maps do something like that when speaking lithuanian street names. It pronounces special chars correctly but still does that in American accent.
If I were a foreign company, stories like this would make me hesitant to do business with American software business. Granted, many of you have pointed out that Adobe's model (Creative Cloud) is a contributing factor to the degree this is harmful, but the driving force here is still American policy.
> The other major entry point for officers, the service academies,

Of academy, ROTC, OCS, and direct appointment, I'm relatively certain that, unless things have shifted recently, the academies are the least significant source of commissioned officers in the US military overall, rather than the second major entry point.
Pretty sure they do. Part of the point is that they can revoke the signature once it’s found to be malware, and likely the signatures for everything associated with that developer account.
It is terrifying the amount of power Adobe have to lock the human population out of their work. I don't understand how companies don't see this as a huge liability to their large volume of assets kept in Adobe formats.
Funnily enough I just watched this video about how every map of China is deliberately wrong to be compliant with an idiotic law they have:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L9Di-UVC-_4
I'm using "new" in the sense of "new to me". For example, there's a New Wave of British Heavy Metal (NWOBHM) act called Satan that I had never heard of until I was browsing Bandcamp and saw they had a new album called Cruel Magic. They aren't new, but they're new to me -- and they kick ass.

Likewise, there's this Japanese pianist named Hiromi Uehara. She's been performing and recording for at least 15 years, and has worked with artists like Chick Corea, but I hadn't heard of her until this morning. She just dropped an album called Spectrum, and it's absofuckinlutely brilliant. If I didn't make a point of looking for new music, I'd still be missing out.