skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
For me GIMP has been infuriatingly good - by that I mean its 95% amazing and 5% complete and utter horseshit. Sadly I run into those 5% often.

GIMP has the signs of what I call "Brainworms" in a project. By that I mean conceptual-ideological stubbornness for certain things that harm the Workflow of most users. A minor example of this is the save / export thing where use of the XCF format is forced for some conceptual reason that just gets in the way for me every single time I use GIMP. I used the XCF format for one thing once last year for the first time so I guess I saved saved time there once. Can't say that about any other time i used GIMP tho.

The other more major example I can give falls under the "missing non destructive editing functions" that I have seen other comments mention. As part of my image "manipulation" I need to add several simple geometric shapes of the right size to an image (I think it was 2 lines and a rectangle). This is super hard to do in GIMP because while there are ways to draw a line and to do a rectangle as soon as you let go of your mouse button those are converted to bitmap right away. So no adjusting the position angle or line width of the lines or the dimensions of the rectangle. This can be partially worked around by using layers to position the lines and redoing the lines with different widths until they match the width and angle you need. You can apply rotations but that has its own difficulties since the aliasing of the lines then isn't what it should be. The easiest Solution here is to not use GIMP.

The apparent reason why GIMP has been missing these vector functions is that it was felt that vector functions would be "drawing" on not "manipulating" an image if a comment I read by a person involved with the project is to be believed. So GIDP not GIMP if you will. A great app becomes completely unable because of a single function.
Certificate Transparency should be able to detect that
I have most of it in place, but I guess it's 4&5 I need to improve. I feel like my problem, when comparing to the video posted of today's winner, is that I'm "too safe". I should gamble a bit more, read only parts of it at the chance of misunderstanding, and go with my first thought of implementation even though it may not work. Because the moment I start to consider things the others are already done, heh.

And I guess I could do better on 2, but on this day I only needed 1 run. I use Kotlin, and guess I lose a second or two on it compiling before running. I see today's winner just did everything in browser console as a repl. So that's probably a good way to minimize the loop. Pretty annoying for the later problems, though.
They are a good way for companies to indicate to employees who the are the nobles and who are the peasants...
With better surveillance tech (no cash being an example of this) you can pave the way for future governments to exercise that power in bad ways even if the current one is lenient.
One one hand i agree that being defensive is warranted given the accusation, especially considering most of the claims appear to be related to an entirely different product than their CA business. The bit where someone goes to great length to demonstrate how they email isn't e2ee is especially jarring.

That said, it appears mozilla's decision is founded not on their response in the thread, but on the fact that Trustcor basically is a root CA for the sole reason that they provide a useful service in the exact product being shown as untrustworthy. If the only reason is their email service, and their email service can't hold up to scrutiny (including promising e2ee and not actually providing it, and having poor development security practices) then why do they have root CA power in 99% of client devices? in my opinion, their email service didn't warrant such inclusion to begin with, even if the service was sound, and that's not accounting for their weird corporate ties (which may be legitimate, tbf).
I don't know about all managed postgres offerings, but quite a few of them have a setting I consider to be insane: if you delete the instance, it deletes all your automated backups as well (and possibly your ad-hoc snapshots too). This was true for a few managed offerings when I last checked.
I wonder how people would vote, if forced to choose between acting like Ukrainians or being treated like Uighurs.
For the right price every investment is good. The difficult part is to know what the right price is.
Ordinary people tend to not do very well with the Stokes formula. Much less with infinite sums (which is essentially what Feynman. diagrams are for).

Lots of geniuses are unaware of the difference between their intelligence and other people’s.
> I don't know where you are

I started my original comment above with "Here in Germany...".

As for current income data, it does not really matter at all?

Because whatever the current level is, it's not part of my argument. It's about the market mechanism - higher demand should lead to higher wages. The dynamic behavior, the price changes. And we don't have that, even if you can show some increase, it's nowhere near the changes in demand. In many sectors.

The argument was, if there really is a shortage, since we have a market, we should see or have already seen significant increases in compensation to signal the truth of such claims. We have not, not even close, for many years.

The only kind of jobs where compensation increased far far above inflation was - the very top levels of management. Citing a statement from https://www.businessinsider.de/wirtschaft/manager-gehaelter-...

> Führungskräfte haben ihren Gehaltsvorsprung laut eine Analyse der KfW zwischen 2010 und 2020 weiter ausgebaut. Ihr Gehalt stieg in zehn Jahren um fast 27 Prozent – auf fast doppelt so viel wie der Gesamtdurchschnitt aller Leistungsgruppen.

Translation of the main point:

Managers compensation between 2010 and 2020 increased about twice as much as the average of all groups.
Look the same on all platforms.

Allow artists to create simple animation quickly.

run fast.

The key selling point of flash was that it was an author once, run anywhere tool. I could use keyframe animation along with a simple scripting language to make almost anything. Not only that it was fast to build and deploy.

Nothing I've seen recently allows an artist to do the same. I've tried a couple of times over the years to make an animated SVG on the web, and all of them required me to program keyframes using code, which sucked. Not only that its dogshit slow. animating <5 low complexity shapes would eat 50% of CPU, (think squares and circles).

Worse still all of those libraries are deprecated now, so if I want to do it again, I'll need to start again from scratch and select a new animation library.
> Everyone agrees that no evidence of mal-issued certificates exists.

This is one thing CT logs are useful for. As soon as logging certificates to a public log becomes commonplace, then misissued certificates can't be used in private without a high chance of the world being told about what's going on.
In civil courts, the burden of proof lies with the accuser, usually. Because this is what happens if you let public opinion rule. It’s unfair to the accused and rarely ends in their favor, regardless of innocence or guilt, as you so clearly put it.
Dreambooth training UI for training a model for less than US$0.80
Probably the cheapest UI, by hacking a bit Hugging Face Spaces. Also works locally. Of course Google Colab is still free but I think the UI / pre-curation of hyperparameters may be worth it?
We use tons of vector animations in the UIs, but I guess what the GP meant are animations in the form of short movies like Happy Tree Friends or Animator vs. Animation. That style is no longer popular and it used to be everywhere.

As for the cause, I think it's not only that Flash is dead, but also that there are now many other easy options to create content including professional looking video and much more refined animations. That wasn't an option 20 years ago for most.
Dan Olweus, the father of studying bullying and anti-bullying interventions, also studied this. He found that fighting sports did not help bullying at all, and there was even evidence it made it worse.

It's not so surprising when you think about it. Bullying is about power, but it isn't being good in a fight itself that makes some kids have power over others. It's social, not physical. The victim had the ability to strike back physically all along, they don't need special training. In theory the victim could stab the bully in the back in plenty of ways - even literally. The reason they don't do that, and the reason the bullies don't fear it, is because all the ways the victim could strike back would be scorched earth. It makes no difference if it's with freshly learned BJJ or a weapon.
Well, if the Android ecosystem is serving you well, and the devices you have are functioning the way you expect, more power to you. I'm not a person who takes hard sides, but support whatever works for people. There's plenty of evidence that Android fulfills needs of a lot of people, so let it be (except they're trying to replace Linux with Fuchsia in a relatively unethical way to lock down the devices even more than Apple, but let's not digress).

> ...its a proper shitfest form her point of view

You know what? That's perfectly OK in my book. Android and iOS are backwards with respect to each other, and they are built on different default modes of operation. However, I'll never call Android like that as an iOS user.

> basic settings simply NOT possible by OS because Apple decided they know better than users what users want and users have no say

Well, again this is a subjective view. I used many things before an iPhone. Android, Palm, Windows CE Casiopeia, Windows Mobile to name a few.

People think PalmOS is dead, but it's very well alive and its name is iOS. Basic iOS mode of operation is a direct descendant of PalmOS, and evolved from there. When looked from that point of view, it's a perfectly capable device which provides all the settings I want. Again, it might not be providing what you or your wife's expecting, and that's OK. This is why we have choices, and I support that.

> The whole device can be summarized as 'basic for very premium price' - it looks very cheap, works cheap, not a single fancy or cool thing on it.

Well, again it depends on your view. Considering I can do anything I need on it, short of conquering the world (which I'm gonna publish an app for that), I don't call it a basic tool. It might not be as open as an Android system (for things which I call fancy, you need to root that system too), but seriously, calling it "incapable and basic" is inaccurate and laughable.

> Apple is just another amoral non-privacy corporation just like the rest of bunch despite their hard efforts at marketing...

Apple is just another company, which earns money in different ways. Just to be clear, I don't see them anything extraordinary.
Be it web or offline, does not really change as both flash and rive are proprietary software. I think rive is still better as its runtimes are open source and the export format is documented https://help.rive.app/runtimes/advanced_topics/format so technically you could make your own editor.
Added benefit, off site execs have less opportunity to get in the way and mess up things as long as they are occupied with leisure and playing politics.
There's an "EU Chips Act" happening as well: https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2022/09/a-revitalized-semicon...

It makes sense. ASML are in the Netherlands, as are NXP. ST are in France. Germany has quite a bit of semiconductor production for the automotive industry.

It'll be slow and expensive to get there though. There's not many places in the EU where you could simply drop a Shenzen in, demolishing historic buildings and natural environment along the way.
Paleo-conservative is one name for this political subset, which is in many ways the exact opposite of socialism, but in some places they wrap around to agree.

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

> According to the international relations scholar Michael Foley, "paleoconservatives press for restrictions on immigration, a rollback of multicultural programs and large-scale demographic change, the decentralization of federal policy, the restoration of controls upon free trade, a greater emphasis upon economic nationalism and non-interventionism in the conduct of American foreign policy".

They were funded by a Silicon Valley multi-millionaire for a while, but he went onto even weirder things afterwards:

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

> since 2013 has been publisher and editor of The Unz Review, a website which describes itself as presenting "controversial perspectives largely excluded from the American mainstream media."[2] The website has been criticized by the Anti-Defamation League as hosting racist and antisemitic content,[3] and the Southern Poverty Law Center which has labeled it a white nationalist publication.[4] Unz has also drawn criticism for funding VDARE and other writers that critics have termed white supremacist.[5]
This should be the article.

Running this with 1.65 on an Intel 12400 gets a nearly 4x speedup when bounds checking is not needed. Just wow.

Bounds checking avoidance is important when it becomes a significant chunk of your hot-path.
Will it give the same answer for a question or change the answers every time you ask it ? Just curious.
Already being planned by Intel. They're building a new leading edge fab in Magdeburg, Germany [1]. This is backed by the new European Chips Act [2]. Wheels have started turning very quickly with regards to home-grown semiconductors in 2022.

[1] https://www.intel.co.uk/content/www/uk/en/newsroom/news/eu-n...
[2] https://ec.europa.eu/commission/presscorner/detail/en/ip_22_...
Very interesting, going to try it out!
It does smell like an attempt to redefine "spyware" to mean a subset of "cyber crime", instead of its original meaning, which now covers most of "legitimate" adtech and software telemetry.
No, I'm fully aware of it being a variable-length encoding. Yet as such it is still simpler to work with than UTF-8. So if we are to use a variable-length encoding anyway then UTF-16 is a reasonable choice. It is not compatible with ASCII and old APIs, that's true, but I cannot judge how important this is. I guess that for some projects the efficiency of UTF-16 should outweigh the inconveniences of that incompatibility.
Ask HN: Incremental Precision Solver
I have a system of equations or constraints over multiple variables. Most numerical solvers seem to compute some floating point solution at a fixed precision (float or double). I wonder if there are any approaches where the precision can be chosen, either upfront (user defined) or afterwards, that is, first a solution is given at some precision and then the user can ask for it to be improved (more iterations of whatever numerical solver), until user is happy with the precision. I assume perhaps interval arithmetic would be appropriate for this. Any pointers?
I think showing empathy is good and important. Responding to accusations on a public forum is understandably stressful, I could understand how it's hard to stay entirely placid in that situation. And I strongly agree on inflammatory comments like the Microsoft comment at the end, which do nothing to raise the level of the discussion.

However, I think it's helpful to consider public comments separately from the responses of browser vendors. I think they did an admirable job of keeping the contents of their messages calm and focused on establishing uncontroversial claims. In no way are Apple or Mozilla's responses trying to make the person squirm, or trying to 'smell the guilt'. Mozilla's final assessment rests on TrustCor's quantifying value statement in light of the MsgSafe.io findings, i.e. the close tie of TrustCor operatives with this malware operation.

The legal system is hardly a panacea. Legal battles can be made to last many years. And a court of law has no ground to litigate on questions of trust in the first place.

The forum was able to establish a list of important and uncontested claims in a few weeks of strenuous discussion, and their assessment of the benefits of keeping TrustCor vs. the risks seems reasonable to me. Third-party inflammatory messages about Microsoft notwithstanding.
> At least that is the only thing that keeps the EU Commission from going full police state.

Such an extraordinary claim.

Are you able to provide any evidence that supports your claim that at any time the EU Commission tried to go "full police state", and that courts kept that from happening?
I don't think that's going to work.

Probability measure for "Trump is the present President of the US" is likely the very high. It's still untrue.
Transcript of SBF interview at Dealbook Summit:

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/12/01/business/dealbook/sam-ban...
Just because Rails is untyped doesn't mean you can add type definitions to your own code within a rails application.
Flawless AI’s ‘True Sync’ tech is a revolutionary approach to film dubbing
Yup, but it seems it will default to "click the notification on your phone" as soon as you've signed in on a phone. You need to click "try another way", even if you've explicitly told them that TOTP is your preferred default.
cars -> public transport + bicycle
meat -> plant based food
flights -> trains
Rachel stated that TrustCor CA has many customers that are not the email service. Because this isn’t a court, discovery won’t tell us if that is, in fact, true or not. But if it is, then it seems completely normal.
Actually, maybe yeah!
For more details: Rob Pike & Ken Thompson invented UTF-8 when prompted by X/Open (Not sure if X/Open and POSIX were already merged at that point) and they first implemented the proof of concept on plan9 (https://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/ucs/utf-8-history.txt).
Supposing some users get maximum value from the App Store exactly as it is now, with all its quirks and limitations: you'll understand that other users get less value from the App Store, and are still stuck there because Google is also not willing to provide them with an App Store that helps them.

On one hand you have some happy users and a happy Apple, on the other hand a flurry of penalized users with nowhere to go (we should coin a phrase, like "the year of --linux-- alternative stores on smartphones") and angry service providers.

Up until now US regulators sided with Apple to protect its money, I don't expect EU regulators to be as kind.
https://techcrunch.com/2022/12/01/was-sam-bankman-frieds-app...
> more to do with evolving tastes over time.

Among the top HN posts of all time is an interactive watch visualization: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31261533

This is evidence that people still enjoy interactive experiences, but they are just harder to create.
Make your game Google's doodle
Very nice surprise from Google, my daughter is delighted, she rushed to her computer to make a game. It's brilliant.
Try treating the conference paper as a 15-page long abstract. You can still try to publish now, you don't need to be a postdoc for that!
I already responded to your other comment here[1], however any lawyer would advise against making condescending statements to cops, judges or anyone else for that matter.

Further, no lawyer would advise making a statement such as "we've been asked to avoid discussing our legal structure because we may be punished by tax authorities", because the statement itself can be taken as an admission of wrongdoing.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33814291
Sorry yes. 'Invested' was more along what I was thinking :)
She didn't lash out, everyone else did? She made it very clear numerous times that she didn't think the forum appropriate for discussion of speculation.
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Doubt - so many people have been defamed over anything from politics to covid
Bartosz Ciechanowski is indeed awesome; and indeed the web got worse. Boring. A template repeated million of times by people that know libraries, but no html+css.
My assumption is that most CAs have someone working for them who is also employed by an intelligence agency, possibly more than one from any given agency and more than one agency per CA (and more than one national government, e.g. both Russia and the USA have intelligence interests in Russia); this may be any combination of actively inserting malware, passively watching to get forewarning of zero-days before the CAs themselves know about them, and actively advising the CAs about exploits the agencies know about that aren't public yet.

Most of the agencies are likely to be more subtle than this, given it took Snowden's whistleblowing for us to learn about much of what they actually got up to.

But not all of them will be super-competent, and some of them will be spotted from the outside in much the way this was.
Because zero-click attacks is approaching impossible.
I was on the other side of the table once. I was hired by a company. And then I had to interview people to fill the role of my manager :) I was the first hire of the team that was being newly formed.
I've been a big fan of GIMP for the past 20 years or so. Sure, it has its quirks, is a little slower than I'd like, but it's still a useful, reliable software.

In fact, since they added support for 16 bit color, I can finally use it to do photo retouching. I mean, I was using it before, but it limited use-cases.

Now I'm not losing color anymore, and that's awesome!

I can see in the comments a lot of negativity towards this project, with a few valid reasons, but I think most of these people are trying to use GIMP like they would use Photoshop. But these are two different softwares with different capabilities. Stop fighting the tool and start working with it.

Thank you to all GIMP contributors. Thanks to you I can complety avoid Adobe's bullsh*t and still clean up the dust in my images :) Keep up the good work!

Oh, and if I may indulge in a request: a better foreground selection tool would be awesome. Faster, certainly, and maybe with some AI subject detection?
If you have evidence, I'm sure you can bring to the attention of the Mozilla Root Store Inclusion program and the CA/Browser forum. Moreover, "there are other criminals who have gotten away with much more" is not an argument.
Is it possible to connect to a minetest server through Minecraft?
> the way to avoid being bullied is to not be an easy target.

That may work for the individual, but there's always going to be an easiest target. We have studies of bullying interventions, including teaching kids self respect by way of martial arts, and changing the victim doesn't work.

I suggest people should look into the actual science on this. A good start is "Bullying at school: what we know and what we can do" by Dan Olweus from 1991.
I don't like this argument. It's like saying everyone should be a race car driver because they drive to the grocery store. Tech for most people is like the sidewalk, it's just a means to an end. Also, the more control you have, the more dangerous the device. i.e. a race car. An iPhone is a Honda Civic and I hope it stays that way.