skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As somebody who uses Photoshop for a living, I prefer the GIMP. The GIMP falls down on a few major features, not on usability. I can also see how Photoshop as the standard has broken people's brains so much that the concept of "intuitive" becomes entirely lost. It's not as bad as Illustrator, but features are just randomly thrown everywhere; the only reason I'm fast at it is from hard-won experience.

It's impossible to paint "Image -> Crop to Selection" as hard to find. The menu is at the same place it is in almost every other program one uses, at the top of the window.
I'm all for that but only if you suspect that a company is abusing your data. Otherwise it amounts to a DDOS attack and that should be reserved for those that deserve it, not to place a burden on otherwise compliant companies.

But if you suspect that a company is abusing your data, selling it, enriching it with data that they shouldn't have: fire away.
After reading a polygon post about Gundam Plastic Models (Gunpla) I have become OBSESSED with them. Getting the tools, decals, different grades.

https://www.polygon.com/guides/22653114/gunpla-gundam-models...

Before you know it I've acquired 15+ of the things, am writing a price comparison site and streaming on YouTube and CrunchyRoll.

And I wouldn't consider myself a Weeb, or anime fan. I just love the models. It's everything I've loved about model kits in the past, but none of the awkward paining or glue.

And it's WAY cheaper than LEGO.
Little confused. So eventually the PineNote will come with a custom Linux distro for end-users, I presume, that works out of the box with the hardware. But what are devs at this point supposed to flash, any flavor of mobile Linux?
If you refuse to install the desktop client, and just take calls in the browser, then you can close the tab when the meeting ends.
The same is true in Sweden. 51% of a professional team must be owned by supporters.
Unfortunately, data collection and data sales (either of the data directly or via targeted ads) is how many modern internet companies generate revenue. It’s easy to claim that they should just charge money directly for their product but their would-be customers seem to rather pay with their data than a monthly fee.

In fact, anecdotally, it’s often the vocal critics of data-funded tech companies who post an archive.is version of every paywalled article.
A professor of mine got mugged the evening before class, and he told us about it the next day lamenting “a neocon is a liberal that has been mugged.” It’s rare to see public officials targeted by crime, but it does make me curious:

Does crime have the ability change a person’s political identity?
Bitwarden Mobile: https://github.com/bitwarden/mobile

I will freely admit I am strongly biased against Xamarin as there are so few cases where I think it's unequivocally the right choice, and Bitwarden isn't one of them. It would make more sense to take the work done in their desktop electron app and use that as part of an Ionic hybrid mobile app than to screw around with the layercake of bugs and mismatched APIs that Xamarin is. Moreover, since this is a serious app from a security point of view it really should go full vendor native IMO.
Nice. A line-height adjustment was added to the text tool. Non destructive layer styles. Layer previews.

Krita is honestly fairly competitive for design now since last time I've used it.
Sounds like Japan. But most countries that is not the case. People want to protect their property. Also with hidden cameras it would be trivial to do so and not be detected so in your country those who want to record are already doing it just quietly. So again it is a law that only effects non criminals.
because you're not a business. businesses have different rules because a) they are not people (unless we're talking campaign finances), and b) all the money that flows into a business eventually flows out to people in a way that is eventually taxable.

a health insurance deduction would likely be regressive anyway. the primary beneficiaries would be the same (upper) middle class people that max out their 401k every year.

imo we should get rid of pretty much every deduction (except maybe for dependants) and slightly raise all the brackets.
"The reality is that they are government institutions, and this makes being inside them bad in the DMV kind of way."

This doesn't really make any sense. I've never had an issue with being in a library because it's "a government institution".

You can ask the librarians to get books for you.

Libraries provide more services than just loaning books, and they're particularly useful for people who don't have the money to spend on a coffee, or who don't own computers... Obviously they aren't as useful for engineers who have money.
Distance from the epicenter matters as well. I was 6 miles from a 4.9 last month, my first real earthquake. It was unsettling and concerning (including for the people I was on zoom with) but that was it. Nothing fell off the walls, iirc no fatalities or buildings demolished.

The scale is logarithmic. My rule of thumb is that 5 is where things start to get much more dangerous.
Tangentially-related in terms of organization, something that I've been trying recently is using numbered folders to get organized.

I'd create folders by month like "01 November", "02 December" and inside of those folders I'd create projects like "01 New Project", "02 Another Project".

It functions like a To-Do list in that it reminds me to work on a particular project and when I'm done, I can move it to a _Done folder.

For short-term reminders though, like with an upcoming meeting, I'd just write it down on my Boox Tablet on a weekly calendar template.

For a what-done list, I'm not sure if there is real value with writing down everything I've done for the day. I think short-term memory is good enough and for longer time periods, there are usually emails or commits that can answer the question on what was done.
Yes, that's the mentality. And, by "national interests", they mean "CCP interests" -- there's no distinction between "the party" and the nation.
it depends on your needs, I study Java and C++
It depends how close you are to the epicenter, of course. Your figure seems about right to me: I think a 5.0 near an epicenter would be pretty violent. But I've never been near an epicenter — only on the outskirts.
It's a good question. The best message here might be "we've made the decision to prioritize fighting marginalization and we think this is the most effective way to do it -- nothing personal white guys". But it's a delicate message to send, and some people will never accept this as an appropriate way to hire: "why do I have to be completely shut out to make inclusion possible?"
It's substantially simpler and harder to misuse. It only does signing & verification, and only allows secure primitives to be used, so there's vastly lower risk of user error.
In what way did George Floyd not disappear? Blackness isn't even an outspoken geopolitical position, yet significantly more African Americans have disappeared, whether literally, or effectively in prisons, than Chinese dissidents. I don't want to suggest your white and middle-class, but the world really is only politically safe for what is actually a global minority, namely the white middle class.

But it's way, way worse than that. At the most surface level there's Julian Assange, he's not even from the country that he'll be disappeared in. But deeper than his case are the cases that he actually highlighted, US war crimes. The US with formal support from Europe has had a decades long foreign policy of violently destroying communism (see the history of South America and South East Asia). Communism has its fair share of evil, but like it or not, it is a fundamentally valid criticism of the West's capitalism. 10s of millions of innocent well-meaning communist supporters have been killed whether directly or through Western support, by the West.

China is not good, but it's just not comparable in scale to the West's evils. Indeed I believe it shows a profound, albeit typical, ignorance of history to think that China is a comparable threat to the world.
Yes. This advice is decent if you're upper-middle class or above, socio-economically speaking, but to the majority of people, it's just not applicable.

Not to mention that we're in a society that incentivizes people to be irresponsible. I'm not allowed to earn six-figures or I'll lose healthcare. Same with inheriting/having more than a certain amount saved. My meds cost 300k/yr, so I hit OOP max the first month of ANY health insurance plan I have EVERY year. The wrong plan can cost me over 20k/yr.
Hard to stand up against Russia or China with any "decentralized" environment - this is what Europe currently experiences: a small nation like Lithuania alone is powerless against a bully.

We need more centralization (democratically backed, of course!), not less.
When reporting says “migrant workers have died”, I’m assuming that is in workplace accidents alone, and not including any natural deaths or other causes such as illness.

This may or may not be the case but if there was free press, we’d have the full picture.
Thanks I was wondering it myself!
I can also recommend Cygwin, and I really don’t understand why so many people seem to have either completely overlooked it, or outright dislike it. It’s so much better than having to keep a full blown WSL “VM”/container just to get access to basic tools.
Not so exciting but still pretty cool: Conways Game of Life in a few lines of otus lisp* https://github.com/yuriy-chumak/ol/blob/master/samples/Conve...

* otus lisp is a descendant of owl lisp (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=utOVF0U7Zd8) with a nice ffi - http://yuriy-chumak.github.io/ol/
No RSA support really stands out. No doubt many reading this have RSA identity keys on disk right now in ~/.ssh. It's been the default for so long.
The first fine, usually not. But that fine indicates that regulators have reached a level of pretty serious frustration at a company not doing enough. Second fines are at the level that you'll be talking about them in the board room on how you managed to mess this up so colossally. I haven't seen any third fines yet, but I'm pretty sure we'll see one in 2022 or 2023. And likely the company that is in luck will go right out of business.

And after that I expect compliance will be a much easier subject. So far the whole roll-out has been exactly as I expected it to be.
Public libraries in the US were primarily created due to funding from Andrew Carnegie, after he got filthy rich off steel. Whether out of pure altruism, or to assuage his guilt at getting so rich through cutthroat business dealings, or as a PR campaign, it was capitalism that created the modern library system. Just like what our contemporary billionaires do once they're filthy rich (Gates, Zuckerberg, etc.).
It's really not about "China". It's all about CCP.

It's also not the CCP doesn't care. The CCP does care about its international image. But it's making choice between domestic control and international image. It's obvious to CCP right now that the world is heavily rely on China's market and manufacturing power. So the CCP can use it to suppress any backlash, and do terrible things domestically. The whole HK affair has firmly proved that the western world can't do anything to it. Invading Taiwan is definitely in its calculation.
Why not use x86's BSF or BSR instructions? They've been around since 386.
the scale is the problem
I run this and like it.

Note that the official clients phone home; you have to block them from doing so.
> Now, I don't speak Italian myself, but this is the complete opposite of what you'll hear from pretty much any youtube polyglot who talks about Italian. In fact, the conclusion I've gained from them is that Italian dialects are extremely difficult for native Italian speakers from different regions to understand, which is precisely why there is a standardised Italian today.

In the paragraph you quote, antirez was speaking about standardised Italian, not about dialects (he refers to them in the preceding paragraph).

There are still differences in standardised Italian as spoken in different geographical regions, but they're minor ones and don't really impact intelligibility - the most noticeable ones are that Southerners use the simple past whereas Northerners stick to the present perfect; some vowels are stressed differently, and Italian Switzerland has a bunch of calques from French and German. Oh, and in the North we use the definite article with women in the third person, for some reason.

On paper it doesn't look too far from the differences between American and British English, but the phonetic difference is minuscule by comparison. No Sicilian is going to have such a strong accent while speaking standard Italian that an Aostan has trouble understanding him.
Docker wasn't dead 5 or 6 years ago when I heard about this. In my experience some things are easier to implement in Linux and some are easier to implement in BSD. I don't particularly care for BSD's internal politics either, such as the licensing issues mentioned elsewhere here.
Ok great :-) I'd love to see what you produce!
Second link under "A long time coming" points to localhost.
/me retired.

When I worked, my daily todo list would have been:

* Spend another day working on Project X.

Now it's all domestic tasks, which fall into two categories: tasks that have to be done urgently, and those I can do "when I feel like it".

Guess what? My todo list now consists of one or two things I must do urgently, and getting on for a coupla hundred blue-sky tasks that'll never be done.

Task #1: weed the todo list (high priority)

I've never been much good at time-management, as you can see.
> The desktop app looks and feels like an electron app, so I'm far less impressed by it.

That is because it IS an Electron app.

> At the very least it would be nice to have it in Qt or something like that.

Sure, I hope so too. Unfortunately there are very few serious alternative password managers that are not using Electron for the desktop app these days. Seems like 1Password is on the way out too.
Run natively on Linux.

But yes, BC is great too, and it was what I was using before.
Yeah, few people seem to know you can join any Zoom call using your browser (WebRTC). I refuse to install their spyware.
Just assume every engineer has access to everything. From a client perspective that's how you have to treat it.

There are so many zero days in regular consumer software, just imagine how many are in closed source public facing Amazon services.

Now multiply that by 100 to get the number of zero days that probably exist in Amazon's closed source dev only back end environment.
I disagree, what prevents you from buying a property and filling it with books?
https://momentumdash.com
One doesn’t mind until it turns on one, typically. It’s all fine until the monopoly stops operating in good faith and it’s too late to stop it.
Next: Street Fighter II in Game of Life.
Any cheap powerbank will do. The Pi Zero W never uses more than 2A of current which is within a recent powerbank possibilities.

Something like this should be enough to keep it running for a few hours: https://www.amazon.com/Ultra-Slim-Ultra-Portable-Ultra-Safe-...
Myths and Mythconceptions: What does it mean to be a programming language?
Wasn't the parent comment before it already a pretty unsubstantive comment? Why allow that and then ban people for responding to it?

How is China more of a threat to other countries' sovereignty than America?
> That’s why I consider it financial insanity to spend your 20s traveling the world and “finding yourself” instead of working and saving.

I spent my 20s unemployed due to MS. I'm screwed for my whole life now. Then again I don't get to plan when I retire either so I guess it works out?
Overall, FreeFileSync is more like Unison [1] than like Syncthing or rsync. Though, I haven't really used rsync, so I can't make a detailed comparison.

Syncthing is automated/daemon, so the syncing happens in the background automatically. FreeFileSync's default behavior requires manual start/stop of sync jobs, though it does have an optional real-time sync feature.

The main advantage of Syncthing is that it supports multiple hosts/locations for the same backup, and that syncing is P2P between the hosts.

[1] https://www.cis.upenn.edu/~bcpierce/unison/
> Then you can get onto the real issue - what are the power dynamics and are real resources being used effectively or hoarded.

If you get into the real issue of power dynamics, then you realize that resources are not what is important. What is important is the social relationship between two classes - the class of heirs who expropriate surplus labor time from the class of workers who create all wealth.

The very deep but unspoken assumption in the hegemony spread by the heirs is this revolves around resources. From the perspective of the worker who may not even contemplate it, is that this revolves around relationships.

Even the name of the study shows this. Originally, people studied political economy. As the study itself became political on the side of the current ruling class, the word political was dropped, and the scientific sounding -ics suffix was attached - economics.
I would if I wasn’t extremely rich. So it’s interesting to see how rich people agree to it.
performance has almost always been about violating best practices because a simple happy path isn't usually suitable for hot traffic (e.g. bulk insert vs insert into).

Back in the early 2000s when the traffic just started to hit people were de-normalising databases just to make sure stuff could even work.
The right way to get private money is to restore tax rates to sustainable levels, rolling back decades of cuts justified on debunked trickle-down economics theories. Public service has inherently different goals than a for-profit company and trying to pair the two almost always ends up costing more for worse service.
> My biggest problem isn't keeping a list and getting organized, it's remembering to look at my list.

You need to put "Look at the list" on the list!

That sounds facetious, but for GTD it makes some sense. "Do maintenance on GTD" as one periodically-important goal.
I can recommend the following youtube channel about China:

https://www.youtube.com/c/laowhy86

It explains many of the issues with China nowadays.
Snowden leaks
I wrote protobuf parser in ragel for work.. its still used to replace reflection as c++ protobuf implementation explodes our binaries to huge sizes.
The meeting should be in your zoom history at that point.
How does the value hold compared to LEGO?
Oh man, that’s such a false equivalency. Because someone thinks journalism should be done in the open, particularly when the topic of commentary, doesn’t mean they want their private information (location, sex partners, whatever) sold to the highest bidder without their informed consent.
> isn't "workers in Xinjiang region are forced labor, workers outside of Xinjiang are not" a bit of an oversimplification?

Not if you knew there was no forced labor in that region at all, and this was all just atrocity propaganda to turn opinion against China. If it's difficult for western corporations to avoid suppliers who depend on suppliers (and so on) who have factories in Xinjiang, then there will be constant stories like this which puts this ridiculous allegation back in the news and social media so we can have our two-minutes hate against the evil empire that's ~~challenging our imperialistic grip on the world~~ ""committing genocide"".
That's a cool system, how did you set it up?
> understanding how e.g. C++ is written

True, but why should you learn about this first? Better to get the fundamentals down first. Once you have that down, you can engage with accidental complexity like C++ compilation and linking details if and when needed.
Your argument makes no sense.

I'm not saying crypto is useless, for mainstream activity, though I personally incline toward that conclusion, awaiting proof otherwise.

But I am saying it concentrates wealth, even more than the existing financial system.

How does the very small tradable unit have any bearing on concentration of ownership?

How does 'service to humanity' justify a concentration of wealth, which itself is a dis-service to humanity?
Below 5 you only need to worry about objects in your immediate vicinity.

Old/poorly built buildings start collapsing at about 6.

Above 8, almost any building can collapse.
Wireless coexistence – New attack technique exploits Bluetooth, WiFi performance
> where is the profit in privatizing libraries unless access will no longer be for all

Yes.

> Libraries are a service that We the People have decided are a good thing to provide free to everyone

Yes. And any time there's a public good, there's a billionaire willing to advocate taking it away again so profit can be made from it.

It's like all those millions of acres of pristine, unlogged rainforest: it's just sitting there waiting to be turned into profit.
I most certainly didn't imply that (:

But you did say it was illegal. Seems to me there are exceptions if that picture is to be trusted.e
Chinese companies also make low-middle-end microcontrollers (gigadevice etc.), passive components, switches and connectors (clones of Japanese designs mostly) that are much lower cost and 'ok'. There's also PCB manufacturing and stuffing, tooling, injection molding (using Chinese or German machines), final assembly. For things like Bluetooth speakers, it's all local.. a wifi router might me be all local appart from the SOC.. iPhones yeah different story.
If they ban facial recognition then companies will start using other tech like gait recognition. So are we wanting to ban facial recognition or is it something more like the right to not be tracked(if that even is a right). I think we need to establish what our end goal is because you know clever companies will find a way around such restrictions and find other creative ways. They will use shoe detection instead or something maybe not as accurate but enough to get them around the law but still detect a percentage of criminals. Or jewelry detections or tattoo or whatever isn’t banned by law.
Totally. It's amazing how much complexity arises from something so simple. Just like in the game itself :). We lost someone special when we lost John Conway.
Understanding the Offense’s Systemwide Advantage in Cyberspace
Once somebody has done something like that I can't trust them again.
Actually, libraries intentionally do not keep records of what books you've checked out for patron privacy reasons. It can be annoying, but it's a the right thing to do.
Yeah, and thanks to Nix you can use PatchELF[0] to change the rpath on a binary too. Point being that for users it is not a straight-forward process to make a Linux application portable. Thanks to Linux Desktop's lackadaisical approach to userspace ABI compatibility it isn't necessarily that easy for developers either.

[0] https://github.com/NixOS/patchelf
This is the current sad state of America.
American Capitalism currently has the ability to pay for legislation to make it illegal to breathe air for free (Damn leftists and free breathing), then is ready to have the companies that paid for the legislation to charge you PAYG for breathing.

End stage capitalism is a thing.
Over time I've increasingly leaned toward the idea that "gender" is only different from "style" in the general perception that gender obligates other people to react to you in a specific way based on your chosen expression. Which is weird.
I’ve never worked on a game where we didn’t have at least one rendering programmer who would be assigned to a particular platform, even with Unreal or Frostbite or whatever. Major titles will still write their own platform-specific shaders, they’ll still tweak and modify the game middleware, and they still incur a per-platform, per-api costs.