skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
https://inspired-ideas.web.app shares the one-idea that changes your life.

I often see an idea that help solve a problem that I was stuck. A few days ago, people start to shares those ideas that helped them, so I created Inspired Ideas that you can learn from other experiences
I have 2 licenses for affinity photo, Mac and Windows. But when I actually needed to get work done for a project, at least for my particular needs, I ended up going back to Photoshop.

It was a small thing. With Photoshop I can open a .PNG or .JPG file, edit, and pick Save (cmd-s/ctrl-s) and it saves back to the .PNG/.JPG. If I added layers or something I can press Ctrl/Cmd-Shfit-E to merge it all down then Cmd/Ctrl-S. This means the workflow is fast.

Affinity has no such workflow. You can open a .JPG but you have to follow the export workflow to save back to .JPG which is tedious.

I had say 150 files to edit. I reasoned my time was worth more than $120 to pay for a current version of Photoshop than to put up with a slow workflow.

I also recently tried to use Affinity's batch processing features but they aren't ask good as Photoshop's. I think they are trying to be helpful in that they scan all the photos before you start so you can see what they are going to operate on before you pick "Go". Unfortunately that's not actually a good flow if you're going to process 100s or 1000s of files. Instead of getting stuff done you have to wait for Affinity for several minutes while it goes and makes a thumbnail of all 100 or 1000+ images just so you can then click "Ok, do it!"
Totally agree with this. At yazz.com we take exactly the Visual Basic approach too of building software from front to back and it works for simple things
The bush admin was terrible, moreso i'd say than trump's, but the global neoliberal consensus was unshaken.
We might've already been here without Trump.
>who do you think hooked up the Mujahideen?

CIA, actually, as noted in the wiki you linked.
>Theory is great, but practical results matter.

True that! Thankfully our Supreme Court frequently sides with the people and their rights against the government.

You wanna know something that I think a lot of people don't really understand about America........ we're a really young country. One of the youngest. And one of the best! We haven't had much time to settle into our new diggs, ever since we fought your terrible government- and won. Our country is still settling while many other first-world countries, such as Britain, have been settled for centuries. You may not understand this but our government isn't federal top-down. The organization isn't Feds > State > Local > People. That's not how rights work in America (see A10.)

>In practical terms I genuinely feel vastly more confident in my liberty, safety and freedom over here than in the US.

I get the feeling you don't excersize contentious liberties. In which case, you're not the right person to ask if they feel confident in their liberty.
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I wonder if there's some narrative parallels there somehow, since Shawshank is definitely what I would call Oscar Bait and Fifth Element is really just a cult sci-fi flick.
The audiobook version of Chapter 1 is simply sublime. I can listen to it repeatedly and always laugh out loud and marvel at its mastery of language, emotion, and satire. It's as if Mark Twain took a time machine to the future and called you after lunch to tell you about it.
Polar Explorers Talk About How to Keep Your Cool in Isolation
I've seen how the VMware and Softlayer group operates inside IBM. They did not know what they were doing, but were given massive buckets of $ each month to spend. The entire cloud business is a joke.

IBM would spends 100s of thousands of dollars per Q buying the keyword "VMware" and send people to a page that did nothing.

One of the most expensive keywords in the company was VPS, which was a broadmatch term. There wasn't even conversion tracking in place and they spent millions per quarter in PPC with terrible results.

I've seen many instances where they spent more than my annual salary on keywords over 1 week with no results to show for it.

This was despite having about 10 people on the IBM side to "manage" stuff (excluding multiple layers of management) and several people on the ad agency side to "execute", with more focused on "strategy" and others focused on,"analytics".
OpenCL used to be supported on Android (But not required on by Google). Currently, Vulkan _is_ required by Google[1] and is probably the future path to GPU compute.

[1] https://www.androidpolice.com/2019/05/07/vulkan-1-1-will-be-...
> Like the thyroid risk and iodine for kids: you dont want to have to but you know you can.

I'm not familiar with these. Can you explain?
So you can’t criticize people’s personality?
Right. But it's more than that: there's no default from which to deviate in any direction. Every country can freely choose who it considers as its citizens under all circumstances regardless of which law usually applies where, and I don't think any treaties cover that (with some narrow and not-worldwide exceptions around people who would otherwise be stateless) including the ICAO ones. ICAO's rule for the "Lex loci" of airplanes is irrelevant to the nationality question except when a nation's domestic law of nationality makes it relevant for granting (or withholding) that nation's nationality.

The US nationality rule for birth outside of the US is narrower than "anyone with one US parent", by the way. It wouldn't apply to cases like mine if my time spent living in the US had been below a certain threshold. By contrast, even children born in the US to those whose presence in the US is unlawful or otherwise irregular are citizens by birth.
Agreed on the point that an amphibious invasion of Taiwan could quickly become more chaotic than the PRC wants. I think the PRC's strategy is probably to build up for a naval battle with the US Navy and use a victory to threaten a multi year blockade of Taiwan like the US did with Cuba. If China can secure naval dominance within the second island chain and a corridor across the Indian ocean to the Middle East and Africa they have all the time in the world to leave Taiwan in a pressure cooker.
I also made the mistake of trying Google Maps for bicycle routes early last year. Searching for a better alternative, I found komoot.com; perhaps you might want to try it.

For my region, I'm pretty happy with it (although it has its issues in places where you have to pass along bigger roads for short distances). It's OSM-based, though, so that might vary.
Maps could always be implemented as a combining country code, as flags are.

I’m still sad Shibuya 109 was removed from Unicode, that place is iconic.
I found one in my favorite niche streaming audio site. I actually went through the process - there were actually a few steps to get to the actual email address. I sent them an email even though I wasn’t on the market :-)
> i imagine with knockd it would go negative.

So it's the people running knockd that are actually the ones generating all these ssh login attempts...
As I said, I consider them both incorrect.

Perhaps it's wrong, but much like incorrect use of 'I' vs. 'me', one annoys me more because, rightly or wrongly, it reads to me more like deliberate thought/effort went into it; that the author thought they were getting it right.

I should also say I don't object to gendering specific hypothetical/imagined characters in a story-telling sort of way - 'let's say Sally is a software engineering manager, and her direct report Bob ...' - but the generic case should always be third-person, even if interspersed with such story-telling.
Wait, I remember seeing this a while back! Great stuff.
Arizona is electric unsustainable? California has rolling blackouts now
ikea was founded by a nazi
I am looking to replace Adobe because 50 USD per month is quite a number. I prefer one time price like Affinity. Too bad they don't have replacement for Premiere Pro and After Effects. For now I'm stuck in Adobe's purgatory.
> And maybe, just maybe, what is right for the business is bad for the majority of the staff. At least in the short term. I know that is a bitter pill to swallow, but it is reality.

Perhaps an example more palatable on HN would be Uber replacing all its drivers with software. Clearly better for the business.
This is plagiarized from BBC News, word for word.

https://www.bbc.com/news/health-52656808
Can you please stop using allcaps for emphasis? You've been doing it a lot, and this is in the site guidelines:

Please don't use uppercase for emphasis. If you want to emphasize a word or phrase, put asterisks around it and it will get italicized.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html.
The most effective way to get Vitamin D in your system is a Vitamin D lamp. Taking D3 is a limited substitute. Switching to a lamp had an immense and immediate effect on my insomnia.
Richard K Morgan goes for different impact from Stephenson. A lot of it is about the world building, and the impact on people and culture that the little details of some technology or planet would have. Stuff like the Harlan's Day celebrations with balloons released for angelfire instead of the fireworks, the Meths growing increasingly out of touch with everyday people, the evolved weapons systems becoming indistinguishable from consciousness.

While Neuromancer was awesome because it introduced so many new concepts, and moreover delighted in doing so, I feel like the 2 sequels lost their awe of the world they were in, which was a real letdown.

Neal Stephenson is not boring, but you have to look for the ridiculous under the surface to understand what he's doing. Everything is a caricature, and his story is about the interaction of over-the-top stereotypes or tropes. Snow Crash has the main character "Hero Protagonist" who develops a feud with an Eskimo ninja, saves the world from Zombie Robot TV Evangelicals, with the help of the Mafia (who have pivoted to pizza delivery). Then he fills it in with more tropes in a fractal fashion all the way down.

I have a soft spot for Iain M Banks's work, even if I find it a bit... slow at times. Neal Asher takes something like The Use Of Weapons and turns it from space opera into gritty action. Maybe not as refined, but that's really not what it's trying to achieve.
I made a goal tracking system for my time tracking. It helps me make sure I'm working enough.

http://timegoalie.com
After reading this I think a mathematically sound approach is to leave 0^0 undefined.

Then because of practicality define 0^0 = 1 accepting some weirdness around 0^0 (limits to 0^0 not being 1).

With "practicality" I mean for mathematicians the convenience for some definitions, perhaps like this: "While we know that 0^0 is undefined, we proceed with the definition 0^0 = 1, because in our domain the disconuity doesn't matter [...]". This could be a footnote.

For programmers just let the pow() function(s) return 1.

It's a pity (or in a more positive way: spicy) that nature doesn't hold the principle of the least surprise. It's something we can't or shouldn't fix.
It's possible, sure. That's never been high on the list of criminal charges I've ever heard people worry about, but I'm sure it's relevant to some people.
That's also true of the linked article. I can't bend my pinky finger to make the symbol for 1 in the diagram without my ring finger also being significantly bent.
This brings to mind an expression I wanted to have put on a T-shirt around 1997:

On the front: The more I use Java
On the back: The more I love Smalltalk

This was while I was in the middle of writing a compiler front-end and a code generator for a JVM. I decided to write the compiler in Java (eat your own dog food), and the exact kind of do. every. step. at. a. time. in the example here made me long for select: []
I did an internship at the SAP HQ in Germany more than a decade back.

The work was exceedingly boring. But they had excellent lunch. Better than most Google offices.
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We've moved most comments moved to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23187698, the current thread on this, excepting the comments that were about this probably being a rumor (now clear that's not so), the comments confusing Taiwan for China, the political/nationalistic flamebait, and sundry unsubstantives.
It’s hard to predict a worldwide pandemic. It’s easier, but still difficult, to predict the course of a pandemic when it first emerges. You can build a model that measures the risk of supply chain disruption vs. the cost of buying more inventory than you normally would. This could go beyond pandemics obviously.
> As in all of life, you will be most successful if you simply figure out what skills your advisor has that you don’t and work hard at picking up all of those skills without complaining

Which probably means you will pick up programming, as the field moves so fast that professors usually have out-of-date skills. With a younger professor, this may be different.
It could be a reason. Maybe Server's boot time is not optimized like Microsoft/Intel does in PC.
Is Sweden using an unsustainable amount of heaters to fight against deadly winter temperatures? Air conditioning is much more efficient than a heater. Arizona will usually only get more than 15 degrees warmer than a comfortable indoor temperature. In places with cold winters, sometimes temperatures will get more than 25 degrees cooler than a comfortable indoor temperature.
Diffwhat: List all functions affected by code changed in a commit
IPFS for free decentralized hosting or permaweb network by Arweave.
I've seen 100Gbe gear specifically support it as a feature
> It highlights the extremely neglected costs in raw material and non-electrifiable infrastructure that is required to produce materials that are nominally 'green'.

Hey just because you haven't thought of them doesn't mean other people with much more knowledge and experience on the subject haven't.
I hope to see a thousand silicon startups on the West Coast. This is a great time to join Chris Lattner at SiFive.
Nationalism is a powerful thing huh.
I wouldn’t want to buy a ‘Made in CA’ iPhone. How would this be any different to one with chips made in Taiwan?

Keep in mind Apple is sold around the world. Not everyone is American.
Where do you get the idea that Republicans are against the Patriot Act? A majority of them vote to reauthorize it every time it comes up. Yes, some Democrats like Feinstein are for it, too, but that doesn’t mean they all are. https://twitter.com/SenateGOP/status/1261002222772551681
An earlier thread, before the official announcement, was https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23183850. But we've merged most of the relevant comments into this thread.
Yet Sky was able to make true-to-the-book Pratchett adaptations. I wonder why others can't follow suit?
Please follow the site guidelines in the future.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Agreed. I found that getting as close as possible to the user minimizes the amount of useless/superfluous code.

Front-end is pretty much as close to the user as you can get.
OpenCL is only supported via hacks to install shared libraries into one own's device.

Vulkan even if optional until Android 10, it is supported by the SDK since version 7, which is something that OpenCL never had.

No serious Android developer would make their life even harder than it already is with the official APIs, by making use of an API that requires device owners to manually install libraries via ADB.
If you were in their shoes and america exterminated your family,how would you react? Killing civilians is evil and horrible but in their case they are being very rational.

Was the US being irrational with nuking of japan?
Furthermore DAW are very, very loyal and hesitant to jump ship. I'd bet that for many Logic users being able to keep using their DAW of choice is reason enough to never even consider a diffeent OS / platform.

On a sidenote it has to be mentioned that Logic is just incredible value. I'm an Ableton Live user myself and love it, but the amount of content and the quality of the instruments/effects/tools you get with Logic for such a reasonable price without being expected to pay for an update is unmatched among competing DAWs.
So you pick less complex stuff and look good and get promoted.

Or you do more complex stuff. No one else will want to do that so you become an expert in certain area and are above the leaderboard in a way. You answer to no one.

Or you get on the committee who decides these items and you push for a multipler for complexity.

Or you hack it.
Lyft is still hiring generalist SWEs after laying off 12% of the engineering staff.
Doesn’t this depend on age and other factors?

I thought that as you age your body slowly loses the ability to synthesize it, hence the need for supplements.
Please don't take HN threads into partisan battle.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
I agree that Cryptonomicon was more consistent; I just didn't like what it had to offer.
This was fun. It failed though, when I made the penis veiny, large or hairy.
Another verbatim plagiarized article. From April 5:

https://www.marca.com/en/lifestyle/2020/04/05/5e8a447d268e3e...
It's not really very secure, but it's used so little that low-end attackers don't bother to attack it.
Don't do it.

People will hate you for it... and never, ever let you live it down. :-/
My theory with this is that someone privacy-conscious, ad-adverse and those who block ads signal both that their time is too valuable to be wasted by advertising and they have the skills to install technical countermeasures against them. This correlates favourably with developers and similar positions that typically have higher than average salaries (thus more purchasing power) and the possibility of influencing purchasing decisions at their company for enterprise products.
That's what curtains and blinds are for.
https://remottecoffee.com a tool to make easier how we keep connections online. Several weekends of confinement have helped one friend and me to shape and implement one of those projects we had in our personal backlog.

Because of the distance we are from each other, our friendship has relied heavily on phone calls and video calls. Some time ago, we started calling them, "remote coffees", "- Hey man, when are we having our next remote coffee?"

We met at the University, we spent about two years working for the same company and we have kept in touch during these years thanks to our "remotte coffees" and also due to the many concerns about technology and productivity we have in common. "This conversation should have been recorded!". We are sure this same thought came to you after some either formal or informal conversation you had. The challenge was simply to place a product live with as much free time as this quarantine allows, and here it is. We are not launching a super business, nor did we intend to, we both are fully dedicated to something else. We just wanted to launch this MPV and share it with friends and contacts.

We do have a lot more functionalities and ideas to put on it but, if you want to try it, those ideas will be much better by taking into account your honest feedback.
China marching into Taiwan would be a losing move. Never mind the civil unrest, the entire world would bail out of China. Japan, Korea, Vietnam, Malaysia, Singapore and Thailand + India would be even more alerted than they are right now with HK situation. The narrative in these countries is quickly evolving. CCP is over playing their hand by engaging in asymetrical trade.
Both, they adopt. This isn't a video game you get to beat after figuring out the enemy, unlike games real life enemies adopt to your tactics.
Using HN for nationalistic flamewar will get you banned here, regardless of which nation you're for or against. Please read https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and use HN in the intended spirit, which is curious conversation.
There is Tildes. It’s open source and non-profit, maintained by donations and has privacy by default. The community is heavily moderated and, while we do have liberty, we do not venerate free speech. There’s a great focus on civility. Most of our users are also on Reddit, and Tildes creator also created Reddit’s /u/automoderator.

Image posts do not exist and we usually prefer medium to long text and videos that are dense with content. It’s not entirely formal though, and there are avenues for conversation and personal expression.
The announcing post: https://blog.tildes.net/announcing-tildes

Extended docs and the philosophy of Tildes: https://docs.tildes.net/philosophy

Tildes' content is open for anyone to see: https://tildes.net/

We have a subreddit: /r/tildes with a permanent thread for invites and there are invites for everyone.
> Welcome to USA. Smart Move TSMC and Taiwan. You have earned a friend for life.

Remember when Trump floated withdrawing from NATO?

Remember when Trump stopped funding the WHO in the middle of the worst pandemic of the past 100 years?

America First has no room for friends for life. Only friends for the moment.
This capabilities based OS library reminds me of genode some.
I can see some American politicians are celebrating this as a blow to (communist) China.

But is this not hurting Taiwan in a major strategic long term way? And risks turning the whole island towards mainland.

And for the ones celebrating "Re-industrilization of America". Is the America you envision really a America which does not have anything of importance produced outside America. Even if outside means traditional allies such as Germany, Japan, Taiwan ... ?
I generally do like the data-first approach when I have a good idea of what we're building. One place I’ve found it useful to start when you don't have the views planned ahead of time is to mock up the main data management views with handwritten sample JSON data needed to render the functionality desired. Then make the DB schema to provide that data.

If you want to get fancy, you can use Mirage JS [1] to emulate network requests with mock data.

[1] https://miragejs.com/
That's a funny way to spell 'horrifying'.
Sound pointlessly nationalist.

Because of all of my electronics being assembled in China, there have been millions of people that were pulled out of poverty.
AZ also has the largest nuclear power plant in the country, supplying 27% of the state's electricity.
Finally biting bullet and learning react (I've had run ins in the past) by converting a vanilla js handcoded-web (super complicated) app to react. Probably not the best app to learn on as it requires a Mapbox map which means you have to interface with the map api in a very untraditional way.

Was a little new to npm as well, but got rolling after a while. Not done yet, still little issues with flow state, for example, if I have a dual range slider in react with clearly styled and labeled beg and ending sliders values, how do I drag one slider over the other and force swapping the two but continue the UI motion. Currently I'm just overriding the event target.
The bunker builders preparing for doomsday
9/11 terrorists were well educated. Show me how absent flight security 9/11 can't happen again in 2020?
And as long as it's true, may it long keep getting mentioned.
There are quite a few things that people put in their HTTP headers. You can search for these types of jobs:

https://beta.shodan.io/search?query=x-recruiting

https://beta.shodan.io/search?query=x-hacker

You can also find tributes to people such as Terry Pratchett:

https://beta.shodan.io/search?query=x-clacks-overhead