skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You know these are the low tier macs right? They did the same with the first intels...I am really concerned with us collectively having such poor recency bias. We’re only at the beginning of the transition. These macs they replaced were already bottom feeders and their punching above their weight. Give them by this time next year and we’ll have a better argument to form.
Fun fact: the name is a Pulp Fiction reference :)
https://www.xach.com/gg/1997/1/profile/1/

"It took us a little while to come up with the name. We knew we wanted an image manipulation program like Photoshop, but the name IMP sounded wrong. We also tossed around XIMP (X Image Manipulation Program) following the rule of when in doubt prefix an X for X11 based programs. At the time, Pulp Fiction was the hot movie and a single word popped into my mind while we were tossing out name ideas. It only took a few more minutes to determine what the 'G' stood for."

It's a shame how so many people these days want to change the name and destroy such an early and enduring example of gay representation in Free Software.
You are mocking your own ability to critically think. That's all.
Make Magazine. I know it has its detractors here, and some of the material ends up being dated pretty quick, but it represents a mindset that I really enjoy, which is that you have the ability to transform the world around you. It’s the same thing I love about programming, but for physical objects.
It was not Microsoft, it was IBM that “gave us” commoditized hardware.
Well... "discovered", by itself, doesn't do much. "Discovered, and told the world" changes the world. We care more about the latter than the former.
Skeptic, Reason, Spectator, Lapham’s, Nautilus, Foreign Policy, Economist ... I could keep going but the world of magazines is far richer than regular news. There is significant diversity of thought available (just buy a few different magazines), and with the long form format, there is more than just a shallow hot take.

One frustration is that as you devote more time to reading from such sources, the more mainstream news and social media seem broken. It can be harder to feel connected to others and even depressing, because the world in general is short on nuance while the world of magazines and journals offers it in spades. Still, it’s worth it.

I highly suggest visiting a Barnes & Noble or another retailer with a big magazine section, and checking out what they have to offer in person. Many stores also carry more serious academic journals (I recently discovered the Cato journal) as well as literary journals that can be a great way to discover rare gems.
https://pagedout.institute/

It's an online zine focused on programming and hacking. If you like 2600 you'll love pagedout.
So like a lot of rabbithole hobbies.

"All you need to do is pick up this abandoned github project, fork it, fix all the outstanding show stopper issues, bring it up to date with advances in browsers since it was last regularly maintained, and add in my own personal must face feature! Bob's your uncle! The you just need to avoid whatever inevitability it was that caused the previous maintainer to abandon it, deal with the usual crowd of self entitled and demanding-to-the-point-of-abuse users who refuse to contribute pull requests or money, and worry about tremendously overreaching to the point of fraudulent DMCA or patent lawsuits and having GitHub roll over to the RIAA or whoever doesn't like what other people use the code to do."

:sigh:
Is English your first language? I ask because I didn't consider this a problem until 10-ish years ago, when I migrated to a mostly English-speaking country and many people I would be talking to, would be aware of that meaning.
Vit-D in asymptomatic and critically ill Covid-19 patients and correlation
To the west India is nothing but a cheap labor centre that is here for the service of the west with its thick accent and bad tech support. It’s difficult to change it, and you see it even persist in popular culture with the likes of Tim Ferriss glorifying this culture with books like “The four hour work week” asking people to outsource the trivial stuff to countries like India. Accuse them of it and they will evasively mollify the situation by talking about the rich culture(while thinking derisive thoughts about the ever-growing population) and yoga/meditation(while mentally smirking about how insignificant a contribution it is compared to their own). Nothing will change until we change fundamentally in our approach to viewing people.
Yes, but it's very uncommon on pianos these days. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jankó_keyboard

Most button accordions and modern electronic instruments (Linnstrument, Soundplane, Eigenharp) are have chromatic layouts... I wonder if you could hook up one of these devices up to a player piano without too much latency.
Is there actually a publication to this teaser?
GitHub requires logging in to view gists??
The Public Domain Review: https://publicdomainreview.org/
Any word yet on whether GIMP will be supported on Apple’s M1/silicon platform?
I work at a technology company that knows what apps people run on their computers, but even if I didn't I would no more use an app called "GIMP" than I would one called "FAG". The name is pretty offensive IMHO.
Funny enough, my company. Follows a four day work week here.
I found it odd coming from tools like Macromedia Fireworks or Coreldraw because I was expecting to add shapes, fill and pan objects in the canvas. But as soon as I grasped the difference between vector based and raster based tools and why layers are important it became easy.
Yeah you just described me too. I learned it as GIMPShopPro (a resin for Windows that looked liked photoshop) and when I switched to Linux in 2007ish I learned the basics of normal GIMP and have used it weekly ever since without learning anything new. Never thought about it until now.
https://www.netapp.com/cloud-services/cloud-volumes-service-...

You could try NetApp - it's significantly faster than EFS in my experience.
Reddit should make an API feature to allow the 3rd party app, the ability to display the ads. Then, Reddit will do profit sharing of each ad shown. This would give the 3rd party app incentive to maintain the app.
1. That's definitely an issue. But in the space occupied by a single upright acoustic piano, a music venue could easily store three digital pianos. No doubt it would take decades before you could be able to rely on a venue having made this transition though.

2. Yes, but it sounds harder, and needlessly so.

3. Yeah but that actually sounds like a good thing.
All of these points are true. If you're building a tech org, take note.

But there's a couple big problems that these points raise:

1. Why don't engineers design for production, and how do you get them to? I find most devs just do not want to care about how their apps actually work. They don't care about the product or user experience. Getting them to care is hard.

2. Deployment is not a problem - an ongoing site reliability process is the problem. Anyone can ship some code to a server accessible on the internet. But what do you do when it breaks? Or even worse - what do you do when it's just getting incrementally slower? Deployment is just one tiny part of getting your code to production in such a way that it continues to be a functioning product. Site Reliability is really Product Reliability - and that's something devs need to learn about.

3. The company never wants to pay for anything, yet they insist on hiring people to build stuff by arbitrary deadlines that can't be met. How can we fix this? Beats me.

4. A person manually checking for quality is basically a relic of old managers who have no idea how to get quality other than to pay someone to care about quality, but they don't know how to get those people to do the right thing, which is work with devs to write tests.

5. Simple things are the hardest to make, and definitely takes the longest to get right. I would start with easy, and try to work my way up to simple. Simplicity being complexity reduced to its most essential parts. I think all refactors should be always towards simplicity, and should happen often.

6. The reason that building or running systems can be so difficult or error-prone is human communication problems. Look for communication problems and solve them, and you will magically see less errors, more frequent deploys, and happier customers. Yes, this is kind of obvious, but it's amazing how often communication problems are both known and ignored because "we're too busy because we've got to do X other thing".
Eh the gimp scene in that film isn’t a good representation.
> I don’t need one.

Of course you're entitled to your opinion. It just appears to be motivated reasoning when someone asks for evidence and then, when provided evidence, interprets it in a way that diminishes its significance with no evidence for their interpretation.

> The trump campaign is desperate for evidence.

do you have evidence for this? Based on the number of sworn affidavits that have been filed, I'm not convinced they are short of evidence. The problem is that many people aren't concerned about election integrity when they think they have managed to compromise the election for their guy. Which is entirely expected, Republicans behaved the same way in 2000.
Parler is ranked highly because it was recently popularized on centrist and conservative media as an alternative to Twitter. That rank is misleading - it’s not necessarily the best because it is newer than some of the others, and it isn’t meant to be a direct Reddit alternative as much as a Twitter alternative. Some of the others like Ruqqus or Saidit are more of Reddit’s direct competitors.
I'm not parent but probably they work in a corporate environment where you have to talk to someone about what apps you're going to have installed on your machine and get them approved. Based on my experience it's quite common at companies over a few hundreds employees. If the company is publicly traded, then you're almost guaranteed having to go through that because of regulatory concerns (I'm in Australia, it may vary by country)
You can, but there are lots of better options available.
I've also been using GIMP since the 90s... but I'd say the overall experience has changed drastically and done so many times. I use a lot of Plug-ins, and somewhere in the mid 2000s the communication between them stabilized and sped up dramatically to the point that I all but ditched photoshop. Then I switched to an all mac shop, but GIMP's X11 interface on a mac was terrible, so I was back on photoshop. Then, fairly recently, GIMP switched to all native windows on mac, with tons of new windowing and tiling options that feels as responsive as photoshop, so I'm back to 100% GIMP.

I'm leaving out a ton of bug fixes and optimizations and new features over the years that were game changing to my processes. It's never stopped getting better. The only software I'd say has improved so much so consistently is OBS.
What do you think a file system is?
Because then you have to actually implement the allocation logic.
IIRC, you can, but it's bit elliptical: because IAM access policies can key off tags, you can adopt an IAM role that can only see the desired tags, and list objects.
Gimp is a type of of suit commonly used in BDSM circles...
Are you using Minecraft's textures? because those look very similar to Minecraft's actual textures.
IMHO, there's a much better one:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harmonic_table_note_layout

I have never been able to manage a piano. The hexagonal layout looks daunting at first glance:

https://1.bp.blogspot.com/_rScBRKlTdoE/Shc8M8VM4SI/AAAAAAAAS...

But I have found it much more straightforward. Over and above not needing to memorize every pattern twelve times, the layout is so intuitive, I'll frequently find myself reaching out blindly for notes in my head and landing them correctly.

Unfortunately, the manufacturer of the above keyboard is no more, but there a recent successful kickstarter for one:

https://www.lumatone.io/
It'll take generations to get rid of all current diesel engines. We need stuff like e-diesel as a stop-gap solution, because things like farming machinery are rarely replaced.
Ah hah - but see https://medium.com/zendesk-engineering/resurrecting-amazon-s...
Linux implies a GNU userland to most people which Android does not have.
From the same article you link to: "And to make the matter clear, the GIMP originally stood for General Image Manipulation Program, but has since been dubbed GNU software by Richard Stallman (with our agreement). Spencer and I decided that GNU Image Manipulation Program is a better usage of the 'G'."
Not merely that, but it disproportionately punishes EV drivers. The fuel excise currently stands at $0.423 so a non-EV driver getting 10 km/l would be paying $0.0423 per a km to drive their car while a EV drive would be stuck paying $0.2 per a km.
As a counterpoint I often hear people make this argument but I've never found that to be the case. I find Gimp to have a simple interface in which it's easy to find all the features.

However I never used Photoshop or Paint Shop Pro. I have found that people who cut their teeth on Photoshop seem to consistently find the Gimp UI confusing.
Free and Open source? Please which ones do you recommend?
In all fairness, same shit in Europe with PSD-2 (Payment Services Directive). Imagine an auditorium with representatives from each bank in Europe, no matter how big or small; each shouting at each other about how their systems are they way they are and will not be changed! It makes agreeing upon standards awfully hard.

SEPA standards are pretty slick though, built a couple implementations myself for transfer documents (pain.00X) and It Just Works™.
Finally time to stop this ridiculous trend to rename everything one does not like ?
Names can mean multiple things to different groups and if one had to cater to every group which finds a name non fitting then you'd end up spending more time on name changes than actual development as in some context any name can be seen as offensive. This isn't strictly useful and to non-native english speakers the connection between the offensive meaning and the name would most likely never occur as it's use in such is obscure (for one, this is where I first learned of it).

Currently there's a large number of resources that refer to the program as GIMP which are unlikely to be updated if the name changed and thus making years worth of guides, tutorials, and so on harder to find unless you know to search for (which if you do... the name change is meaningless as you'll still see GIMP). Harassing GIMP over the name is hardly a way to get things moving forwards and only sparks a negative environment. Should you find the name to make the software unusable then it would be better to focus your attention on the fork which changes the name rather than continuing to contribute a negative to the positive news of GIMP turning 25.
not sure when I started using it, but I loved it ever since
This.

It is an eventually consistent key-value store with some built-in optimization (indexes) for filtering/searching object timestamps and keys (e.g. listing keys by prefix), which allows for presenting them in a UI similar to how it is possible with files in a directory. That's about it.
One of my biggest gripe is forcing Reddit to their mobile app, which is filled with bugs. I've had a bot posting a daily Calvin & Hobbes strip for seven years. The comic is posted as a gif, and so many people using the Reddit mobile app have complained, I basically had to write a FAQ for it.

https://www.reddit.com/r/CalvinBot/comments/bdxb6h/why_are_p...

It's been over a year & the bug is still there.
So this turned into more of a rant so I apologize in advance. I left facebook and social media (excluding HN of course) in general 10 years ago. The sad reality is I lost every friend I had to that hell hole. The straw that broke the camel’s back was the day facebook notified me that a Serbian had accessed my account, so I scrubbed all my content, unfriended everyone, and deactivated the account except for one post warning not to trust any future posts.

I’m even considering leaving HN after taking a two week break from it. The problem with all online forums in general is that they sour once their population reaches the onset of chaos. This phenomenon is not as subjective as it might sound; it’s loosely related to entropy in information theory introduced by Claude Shannon, but that’s a conjecture beyond the scope of this thread. Humans historically work at their best together in small groups or tribes for the same reason why smaller classroom sizes produce better grades, meaning that our capacity for communication increases with our level of autonomy.

I’m frankly surprised why that fact isn’t salient among social media services today, but I’m sure there’s a good reason. I know Mastodon is taking distributed social networking seriously, but honestly Mastodon is very awkward, it’s kind of like being in a small waiting room alone with another person where you can only communicate in terms of orthogonal and pithy announcements, rather than form a natural conversation.

I’ve been thinking a lot about the elements that would make for a natural, healthy, and conductive social networking service quite recently, but my largest question is how much of a factor is the underlying platform technology itself a measure of success in engineering a social network?

I was surprised when my nephew told me not too long ago that his only friends are ones he meets in his video games; having grown up in the early 90’s this is bizarre to me, but also is provocative in the sense that it reminds me of how random sampling works. An individual may more likely to form a significant lasting social bond as part of a random sampling of a population of peers through a controlled trial process, such as a video game, than they would had the selection process been through biased selection events such as systematic population nepotism, proximity, or stratification. For example, I hate my neighbors, I don’t miss my facebook friends, coworkers and couples are a drag, and I could honestly do without relatives. I think that finding friends as an adult is hard for many logical or practical reasons, but may just be because in life we our forced to abandon our sports and adopt absurd “hobbies” instead. Having said this, I can take pity on my neighbors rather than hate them, because now I realize that sadly the only socially acceptable way to play as an adult these days is with annoying pets.
Call it the GNU Image Manipulation Program then.
Well I'll be, the software that launched me into design as a career. I remember messing around on it designing (bad) gaming forum banners and trying out wacom tablet styles back in the 00's. Convoluted as hell to somebody barely out of grade school, which well prepared me for how absurd Photoshop is. ;)

Kudos to the software for sticking around, and the team for enabling it.
Quite similar situation here: it's the tool that I know but that I will never master. I'm not bothered much by the UI though, it gets the job done well enough for the occasional pixel task. What I mind much more is the atrocious startup time (might be a peculiarity of wingimp)
When AI sees a man, it thinks “official.” A woman? “Smile”
Ask HN: How to make Product Management decisions?
Please let me know and help out as someone looking to build a startup. Looking for answers from Product Managers,CEO,CTO, and entrepreneurs here.

When building a new product for a company that has validated idea, there are a few features which are very common no matter what type of product you build - For example, Secure Sign In, Login with [FB,Google,Apple], integrations with X etc.

My question is, how often you look at competitors and see what features they are offering? What is the value of this competitor data to you when making decisions about building features and roadmap?
While I use GIMP all the time, I'm a bit out of the loop regarding its development community.

I remember CMYK support was discussed as a future goal in the community a few years ago.

Is it still planned? Or it was later abandoned?
The problem with innovation here India is the level of bureacracy and their british era rules. As simple example would be drones, are limited to a flight of 15M height. Any serious drone type innovation required you to get a license and a permission before every flight from local police authorities.
The govt istelf cripples any innovation.
There was a sad incident where I don't remember the scientists name but he was shunned by the govt till the west recognised his research. Indians love to say we didn't first in our ancient books, but never question how west got ahead.
Copper? I thought batteries were primarily lead.
Thank you for pointing out the Stanford lectures. I wasn't aware of them and they look really good to get up to speed. I messed around with SwiftUI a while back but I haven't for the past year, so those should help me get back into it.

The game looks very impressive for being new to iOS. If you haven't looked into it yet, I recommend learning SpriteKit as well. Its animation system (SKAction) is pretty nice. I actually ended up basically re-implementing it in C# for another game I was working on, since it wasn't terribly hard to do (got the subset of actions I needed working in a couple of hours), and you can be very expressive with it, once you grok groups and sequences.
Fair enough, but that still means this statement (made by ArgylSound): “iOS’ kernel has almost nothing to do with any current BSD distribution.” is false.
Uniquely Identifying PCBs, Subassemblies, and Packaging
Where are all the HN trolls now? Hiding? But but Sweden
I've been reading the Economist for about 10 years. It provides great coverage on big issues, and recently, some fun ones (billie eilish comes to mind).

It's unique in that it feels "slower", more deliberate, and thoughtful than most newspaper/tv channels. It gives context and covers multiple viewpoints before giving an opinion. Its daily espresso newsletter and quarterly tech issues are always interesting too.

I've subscribed to NYT and WSJ over the years, but none feels as differentiated as the Economist. (Haven't tried Financial Times, if someone has and likes them, please do share your thoughts)
Australian or New Zealand Geographic. I am into hiking, and environmentalism is the topic I care about most when it comes to politics. Aus Geo manages to cover these topics with thoughtful and in-depth stories. I like the focus on my own country, I always find out something new and interesting from reading an issue.
Most of these images look really cool. Not like scars at all, but more like... art.
Do be even even more pedantic, it is RedHat's involvement that is deprecated, anyone can grab the source and start fixing bugs if they arise :-P.

Like, you can be certain if i try to install Xorg on my PC at some point and i can't get my Window Maker desktop to work properly because of the X server i'll try to fix whatever issue there is.
India never stops to amaze me, for those interested in space, you should look into India space program, yes dates from early 1900s.
The sqlite codebase is often mentioned as an example of well-written, well-tested antifragile code.
Anthrax is just the flu
GIMP's name comes from Pulp Fiction.

> It took us a little while to come up with the name. We knew we wanted an image manipulation program like Photoshop, but the name IMP sounded wrong. We also tossed around XIMP (X Image Manipulation Program) following the rule of when in doubt prefix an X for X11 based programs. At the time, Pulp Fiction was the hot movie and a single word popped into my mind while we were tossing out name ideas. It only took a few more minutes to determine what the 'G' stood for.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GIMP#cite_note-GG1Jan1997-6
> Not a single one can run Linux.

My ARM Chromebook which boots into Linux would beg to differ.