skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
How we renamed our Design Converter to Magical Ass
So here we go, our rebranding is done. New logo, new domain, what could go wrong.

We provide a tool to convert design files between Figma, XD, Sketch, Figma, PDF and more and have recently rebranded it from "XD2Sketch" to "Magicul". We started out as a simple tool to allow users to import XD files in Sketch hence the name XD2Sketch but soon added more features. The name just didn't make sense anymore. Magicul initially seemed to be a great name, but turned out to be a bit of an interesting pick when translated to French.

We've sent out a newsletter to our customers to let them know about the changes and here's what one of our users replied:

Hey folks,

While I understand that you guys probably hope to operate primarily in English, I think it needs to be mentioned that your brand name "Magicul" in french, literally means "Magical ass"... but the real kicker is the .io of the domain, which literally means input & output...

So here goes the bad news... The entire french community is reading your brand name - literally - as: Magical ass (dot) in & out.

And then there's the logo itself... which is a hole with a hat.

Christ. You can't make this stuff up. This is ugh, umm, a brutally unfortunate brand?...lol

I'm in Quebec, Canada, where french is dominant and so I'm keenly aware of this - and so are my partners, colleagues and friends. We all had a good laugh.

Don't know what else to say...?

Bonne chance mes amis!

Have a good one,

- A fan of your work in Montreal.

You can checkout our website here: https://magicul.io

I just thought this was too hilarious to not share.
Einstein had to flee his country to save his life. From the "Encyclopedia Britannica":

> In December 1932 Einstein decided to leave Germany forever (he would never go back). It became obvious to Einstein that his life was in danger. A Nazi organization published a magazine with Einstein's picture and the caption “Not Yet Hanged” on the cover. There was even a price on his head.

He certainly had an uphill struggle and wasn't simply handed everything because of some innate privilege.
When, as a reaction to the simple statement that there are less women on this map than there could be, someone says "[women] aren't being ignored, poor people are being ignored", I don't need to assume good faith in that individual. The goal of downplaying doesn't have to be stated to be obvious.

If they wanted open and constructive discussion, they shouldn't start out with a destructive statement.

Your apologetics are frankly worrying. If you really think lines of reasoning that downplay the importance of taking note of women and shoehorn male victimhood into those discussions should be given a chance to breathe, I don't think we can have a productive conversation.
> Are there any more good ones?

I find these handy, especially after doing a search (quoted from :h z):

- z. redraw, cursor line to center of window

- z<CR> redraw, cursor line to top of window

- z- redraw, cursor line at bottom of window
Otellini is far more responsible for the colossal screw up in culture and products at Intel than anyone else.
Ask HN: How to value your skills as a (former) sole proprietor?
Hi HN, some quick context: I am 22, no college education, entirely self taught. Started coding when I was 15, spent an average of 30~ hours a week coding since then. I have been writing in TypeScript for about a year now, and it’s my most frequently used language as of late. Other than that, I have been writing JS code for about 3-4 years, Python for the same, as well as Java.

Anyways, back in 2019, I was enrolled in College for some courses. I had a few “side hustles” that played off my tech skills back then. One of those side hustles revolves around video games. When lockdown and quarantines hit early that year, my video game side hustle turned into a video game business due to all the extra demand from people staying at home.

I ended up dropping out of college to pursue this, and I don’t regret doing this— I was in school for something non-STEM/tech as I wasn’t confident that this was what I wanted to do with my career back then. I made a great deal of money from that little business, and I managed to not let it get to my head too much and put most of it into savings.

So, long story short, my business looks like it’s going to have to come to an end soon. I have enough saved to live for a few years without issue but ideally I’d like to have a job lined up to not have to eat into my savings when it comes time to pull the plug.

The issue is: all of my commercial / for-pay coding I have done has been for myself. I don’t have much in the way of a portfolio, as most of what I worked on was for my business, and not fit for public display (eg server side code, or Uber specific solutions/projects, or even possible publicity issues if I end up selling my company and cashing out).

I know that I am talented, I wouldn’t have been able to survive and run my business solo for so long if not. It’s just that due to the nature of my work (I had no employees, my business didn’t have much of a public presence), I have little proof of what I am capable of, and hardly any references.

Should I intentionally take whatever low hanging fruit I can get, or should I aim for the stars and settle for nothing less? I have maybe another 1-3 months of predictably OK revenue left with my business. After that I’ll have to start using my savings.

Thanks HN
Hetzner covers the US: https://docs.hetzner.com/cloud/general/locations/
Sometimes, but the company will lack soul, purpose and a meaning that it stands for. Sometimes it's better to stand by what you want your company's values to be, even if that means losing some potential customers. As a result, you'll have more passionate and engaged customers who are more likely to stick with you long term.
This is exactly why I like the 13" Apple Silicon Macbook Pro, it looks boring, if you saw me using one you'd probably assume it was 5 years old and had an i5 in it or something, but actually an insanely good laptop.
When your are working with huge files or files with huge lines it makes sense to disable syntax highlighting to improve performance (:syntax off).
Eh, my example renders perfectly well in every browser.
I probably miss something then. The article also states that it is not a database.
That doesn't account for the byproducts, assumes ideal efficiency, and puts a huge squeeze on other agriculture. Then there are resources consumed by transportation, refrigeration, spoilage, etc.

As we search out the threshold of unsustainable living maybe we could tap the breaks a bit first? Earth is a nearly closed system we must all share, and cows are a terribly inefficient way to produce protein and calories.
I have a side mounted fingerprint reader, and from my experience, I can easily unlock it with either hand - using my right thumb or my left index finger. I think i also have a couple finger tips in there so I can unlock it when it's laying on a desk without needing to pick it up.
We are still using it! Laboratory course of Computer Architecture I (B.Sc. Computer Science). Still the best tool around to learn your first steps in digital design.
I agree with the practicality of thinking of 3 as one ideal that can be emulated by the 5 year old or the PhD. Yes you could argue they're not really the same 3. Just like you'd be hard tasked with finding two identical oranges to the atom scale. But that doesn't feel like it gets me anywhere. I just don't have a straight refutation for it.

Similarly, solipsism feels like trying to reason with the kid that shouts "LALALA I CANT HEAR YOU~" at the start of each sentence.

I'll have to think more about evolutionary pocket calculators and computational equivalence. There's definitely some sneaky stuff at play
https://youtu.be/92WHN-pAFCs
This user found Maradona hanging out in northern Colombia, where he's losing the notoriety war to Gabriel García Marquez.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32275300
Yes, but the data collection is tangential to that value. With Linkedin, you get direct financial benefit from having recruiters able to search Linkedin's database and target you with opportunities.
The first easily affordable and poortable camera was the box brownie which is about 120 years old.
Which is correct, as I route my IPv6 via wireguard to my DC netblock, because my consumer ISP at home doesn't provide any IPv6.
Why OO Sucks
It’s precisely not rational. It’s an evolutionarily successful behavior.
As Intel Gets into Discrete GPUs It Scales Back Support for Many Integrated GPUs
Solr needs better documentation and community, but it's crazy fast, stable, and works well for what I do with search. It could also stand to have an improved UI to enable a better getting started experience and an easy means to index webpages out of the gate.

If anyone were to search for how to index a webpage with it, they'd get frustrated pretty quickly. I started a new version of Grub to address this, but I've found my motivation for working on it lacking: https://github.com/kordless/grub-2.0

A friend and I assembled a module for that repo called Aperture, which implements a scalable screenshot crawler that sends document into Solr. If anyone is interested, hit me up and I'll provide some instructions for using it!
Once upon a time I was on SCEE offices in SOHO, was IGDA member for almost a decade, attended a couple of GDCE back in the day, regular visitor of Flipcode and GameDev.net back when they actually mattered.

Maybe don't try to guess the possible lack of knowledge of random people on the Internet.
Inflation Chart
If the aliens are as willing as we are to interpret everything through a lens of violence then we likely have no chance in the first place IMHO.
I like what I see but my 4 year old LG V30 still ticks all the boxes (speedy, 3.5mm, microSD and a whole lot more).

I hope I dont have to get a new phone anytime soon.
While I'm all for more of these space missions, my personal #1 priority is return missions to Uranus and Neptune in the next window for favorable planetary alignment to get there in reasonable time. That's the same window as this (mid-2030s). It would mean such probes wouldn't reach their targets until the mid-2040s.

Time is actually rapidly running out to launch in this window because such a mission can easily take a decade to plan, design and build. Missions to Mars might be a few hundred million but Cassini or Juno style missions are in the billions. Getting such a mission funded is a far more onerous task. It's generally a flagship joint mission for ESA and NASA and then adds all the politics of that (eg using Ariana launch vehicles to mollify Europeans).

We've only been to the ice giants once and it was the Voyager missions. I hope we go again in my lifetime.
Funny how FKK is also synonymous with brothels in Austrian and Germany.

Also, this article have me a flashback of when I was very young and in Dubrovnik, passing by a nudist beach and seeing naked people all around. Was a shock at that age.
What has surprised me recently is how little equity founders have in mature startups. Its not unusual for heavily funded startups to have founders with under 10% equity between them. In India, so many startups that IPOed or raised late rounds are at 2-5% equity.
No such thing as 'wasting' life. It doesn't really matter what you do - the core moment-to-moment existence if the same for everyone, what differs is just what you sense moment-to-moment (touch, smell etc., but more importantly also mental impressions like emotional states and various other mental images like memories). In fact, all of existence has always been just here in this moment; this moment is all that has ever been and will ever be. So 'have been wasting most of my life' is just a mental construct, and not a very useful one at that.
Thanks for further clarification. I haven't needed such capability in a text editor, but probably I should look into what that provides.

And I don't see how such features are necessary to rule GVim as GUI. I have a fairly basic classification: TUI runs in a terminal, GUI have their own windows.
It's basis for a tremendous number of recipes in French cuisine, which is only one form of cooking.

If you are from Louisiana you'd think the Holy Trinity was cooking 101.
My belief about it is that a waitlist kills your business.

That is, while they are ‘waiting’ most of them have lost interest, sometimes because they just don’t need your service anymore. Every email you sent cements the notions that: (1) you are just another spammer that doesn’t respect their attention and (2) you can’t execute.
Oh man, that's a classic, always check what your name idea means in different languages ^^ it's actually close to "ass" in Spanish too (culo).

Do you plan to keep the new name? Personally I don't think is so bad.
Problem is, this still makes sense in some cases but doesn't in others, and stow, as it is, doesn't care about the distinction.

For example, on a machine where ~/.config/autostart/ doesn't still exist, I do not want that either ~/.config or ~/.config/autostart are created as symlinks to my stowed package; otherwise any newly installed file, from unrelated apps, would end up in my package! I just want this path to exist as a proper dir, and only contain whatever symlinks are needed from stow. Thus an `mkdir -p` is still needed before running stow.

On the other hand, I do want that ~/.config/wireshark/ is a symlink to the stow repository. So no mkdir in this case.

Regardless, having a script that adds extra per-package pre-process/post-process logic before/after running stow is still needed, anyway.
Ah - my mistake then. I assumed since he went to high school here, he was from the area. TIL!

But hey, at leas the fictional Jason Bourne apparently hails from Nixa, MO, so I've got that.
DevOops
Back in 2015 I had a Chromebook I installed Ubuntu on.

It was slow, but looked amazing with an HD screen before they were super common. Plus it was only $300.

I always thought Microsoft could have absolutely owned the ultra low end market If they had the right people in charge. Smart people work there, it's just like there's more ideas floating about than focus.
I know a friend who had "speaking hours" where he'd respond quickly to messages, outside of that, writing to him over email/IM was asynchronous.

OP can also schedule time (and place?) to chat to others.
> while ignoring that all of the problems with the registry spawn from the choice to have it be a filesystem in a file.

The whole point of that paragraph is that the problems it has as a filesystem do not spawn from the choice of having a filesystem in a file.
Yeah, some people can't afford rice, beans, and peanut butter, so they have to eat steak instead :(

https://tools.myfooddata.com/protein-calculator/174914-17429...
If you use neovim with tree-sitter, this is not really true anymore! Or at least it extends the huge file/huge line boundary pretty far.
Neovim is not developping GUIs themselves, but they are actively maintaining the API these GUIs use. It's even listed as a feature on their homepage[0].

[0]: https://neovim.io/
I don’t think self-hosted will ever happen. Centralisation wins for consumer services. This has been proven even with the crypto shitshow, which revolves by and large around a few centralised platforms.

On the other hand, are micro-blogs so different from TikTok stories, other than the format of the content (text vs. video)?
What happens with mocks?
The dopamine switch between atheist, believer and fanatic
When you see a polished video clip on the net, it's the cumulated result of an hour or more work for less than a minute of your time. Simply put, it doesn't scale.
I'm one of the few who believe Apple will bring the mini back as the next SE in a couple years.
A dual stack reverse proxy is already implemented and provides your domains with full IPv4 capabilities.

So even IPv4 only clients can reach your domains
You're talking about iPhone SE2, probably. I'm still using original iPhone SE, and its shape is on every pair of jeans I had in those 5 years.
Well it was a kind of hand wavy pronouncement on my part.

With respect to the ‘Fall of Rome/Dark Ages’ narrative I had Pico della Mirandola and Edward Gibbon in mind.

Considering their takes on monasticism, I suppose monasticism as the savior of civilization was actually a much later add on.
Are there any specific questions that you may have?

Ryan @ TensorDock
Developing an App with M-16
I have a Pixel 3, which received less than 2.5 years of secure use between time of purchase and time of last security update. I'm looking for a new phone that isn't made by Google, preferably one that has an open platform, because I don't trust Google as far as I could throw their advertising department.
Rumor: Google Stadia May Be Getting Shut Down
Don't know how reliable this is but you can try "buildwith":

https://builtwith.com/fnac.com

(obviously won't tell much about the server side of things)
I haven't used influxdb before but if the data resides on hosts I own I think that would be acceptable. Thanks for your answers!
I think we're already too invested. The SEO took a big hit and I think changing it again would be even worse for our organic traffic. On top of that I think its hilarious and I you know what they say "There's no such thing as bad publicity".
Wikipedia is horrible for everything political and often contains blatant lies. It is not reliable on definitions like this.
My undergrad econ class used Mankiw's Macroeconomics, which did not use the two quarters definition, just "a period of declining real incomes and rising unemployment" less severe than a depression and referred to NBER as "The official
arbiter of when recessions begin and end". So maybe there is some variation.
Nobody in their right mind would put every field into a separate file though. (Yes, I do know about qmail.)
NASA revises Mars’ sample return plan to use helicopters
Layoffs that don't break your company
One of the best knock-on effects of these kinds of missions is that they provide the rare chance for news outlets to feel like they can report on something optimistic, hopeful, and positive for a change.

Something so desperately needed.
I was concerned for New York for a bit, since choosing one person must be brutal to all others. But apparently NYC actually consists of a ton of cities.
Oh, good to know! The phone sounds nice otherwise, so I'm glad to hear this isn't a problem for you on similar devices.
I do wonder what RegEdit.exe does here. Does it infer encoding, have a long list of key-to-encoding mappings, or a combination of the two?

I did a bit of experimentation on this too and we think it has a heuristic to guess encodings of strings. (Which to be fair isn't a terrible idea - it's very easy and almost entirely reliable to determine if a string is ASCII/UTF-8 or UTF-16LE which are the major encodings found.)
What an odd announcement. Is NIST not sure about the patents relating to their selected winners? "NIST expects to execute the various agreements prior to publishing the standard. If the agreements are not
executed by the end of 2022, NIST may consider selecting NTRU instead of KYBER. NTRU was proposed
in 1996, and U.S. patents were dedicated to the public in 2007."
[distant yelling of human segmentation faults]
Movies generally set their shutter speed to gather light for half the duration of the time a frame is shown to the viewer, so the camera itself captures a slightly motion-blurred image of anything in motion.

Far more here: https://kevinlisota.photography/2020/04/understanding-video-...
For Twitter, however, arguably the most important event of 2009 was not these publicity bonanzas but the introduction of the retweet button... As with Facebook, the larger that Twitter’s social graph grew, the more attractive the network became. Pretenders to the short-message throne, such as Parler or Gab, struggled to get traction, as their networks lacked sufficient size and numbers of influential users to compete in a battle for attention. By 2011, Twitter, following in Facebook’s footsteps, passed the milestone of a hundred million users.

While discussing the time period from 2009-2011, the article claims thats Gab and Parler "struggled to gain traction", but those services didn't launch until 2017 and 2018.
Darwin, Hawking, and Newton are all on the map, in their places of birth like they should be.
Current estimates are that around 100 billion people have ever lived. So that's a lot more than 50% that have been "ignored".

It turns out that if you look for notability or exceptional attributes you will get mostly men. This is due to biology and essentially the whole reason males and sexual reproduction exists.

This doesn't mean that being male will give you a better chance of being exceptional or notable, though. Quite the opposite, in fact. The bar is lower for women because simply being a woman is considered notable precisely because there are so few notable women.
Sir Howard Florey seems to have missed out in Adelaide completely.

Only the most significant person born in Australia, who's co-discovery in medicine has saved ~200 million lives in the last 80 years.
> When, as a reaction to the simple statement that there are less women on this map than there could be, someone says "[women] aren't being ignored, poor people are being ignored", I don't need to assume good faith in that individual. The goal of downplaying doesn't have to be stated to be obvious.

Fair enough, I'm not going to argue too hard on that matter since I do agree with your original statement that there could be more women on the map.

> Your apologetics are frankly worrying. If you really think lines of reasoning that downplay the importance of taking note of women and shoehorn male victimhood into those discussions, I don't think we can have a productive conversation.

You're assuming a position I don't have. I was pointing out that your discussion style is counter-productive, that doesn't mean I side with the other commenter, or yourself. But since your point wasn't to engage in discussion, I guess it doesn't matter.
Narrative Interlacing in the Lord of the Rings
Very important point from the OC:

"Before I ask my questions to candidates, I calibrate my questions against people I work with so I have a realistic expectation for how to gauge the skill of the candidates. Calibrating the questions also helps me refine them and weed out confusing parts."

Yes! Exactly!

I was once on a hiring committee that did it right. We created an interview toolkit. We then validated, tested, practiced our interviews on each other and own our people.

I've never seen another org do recruiting, screening, interviewing, and onboarding with such intent.

Like project management, requirements, architecture, QA/test... Everyone's winging it.
Extracted from the "Rationale" section of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_Registry

1) Since file parsing is done much more efficiently with a binary format, it may be read from or written to more quickly than a text INI file.

2) Strongly typed data can be stored in the registry, as opposed to the text information stored in .INI files.

3) Because user-based registry settings are loaded from a user-specific path rather than from a read-only system location, the registry allows multiple users to share the same machine, and also allows programs to work for less privileged users.

4) Backup and restoration is also simplified as the registry can be accessed over a network connection for remote management/support,

5) It offers improved system integrity with features such as atomic updates.

These points are mostly bogus IMO, but apparently this was their initial rationale for implementing it.
there's a rude joke in there somewhere.... :-D
One of the announcements was a reduction in the amount they were spending on building fabs.

I’m not sure cutting capex to pay a dividend is a good move.