skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is a stark validation of capitalism.
EU unveils plans to cut Europe’s plastic and packaging waste
To each their own, but if GIMP got a "Logic Pro"-style rewrite then I'd probably be looking for a new raster graphics editor.
That sounds productive to me.
> One of the first FOSS projects I ever used. I pirated Photoshop soon after trying it.

Oh… okay.

Did you also steal a car right after you learned how to drive?
Dear Gimp developers, my walls are covered in photos printed with help from Gimp, making my home a little brighter wherever I look. Multiply that by half a bajillion users, and those lines of code you wrote have made a concrete difference to the world. Thank you for your service.
For some reason I think of this cheesy watered-down focus-group tested Pepsi portrayal of social consciousness when I see the word "conversation" in corporate PR.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j9x15lR9VIg
Also I've heard stories by some pretty prominent Twitter users who just left the platform and feel like their time on there has mostly been a waste of their live and won't be going back.

Maybe people just don't need another "online community"
GIMP is great, I use it all the time. I wish they would change their name so it could have more mainstream acceptance.
Looking forward to Michael Lewis’ book about it. Hopefully he can stay objective. Given the heavy hitters he allegedly screwed over (Sequoia VCs etc) I am surprised there is not more legal action. Maybe they would rather not underline how gullible they were.
Related:

Physicists have purportedly created a wormhole using a quantum computer - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33802613
You can 'sideload' DRM-free MP3s into Spotify on iOS, Android, and desktop: https://support.spotify.com/us/article/local-files/
There's a difference between you personally not using WhatsApp and you saying "no one wants to use WhatsApp".
Whatever he goes with as far as either successfully destroying twitter or implementing this creator feature is fine with me, as long as he sees one of them through to completion.
It is, yes. But by accurately associating the costs of such infrastructure maintenance closely to those that cause it, people might actually realize that we're building our urban environments terribly inefficiently.

People can carpool, older cars are lighter (less tax because lighter weight), and look for alternatives and demand them. We should be encouraging that behavior instead of incentivizing financially, environmentally, socially, and health destructive ways of transporting ourselves.
Sam Bankman-Fried’s Red Flags Were Seen in All Corners of His Empire
That one's on the front page now: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33807169
That sounds almost more excusable than the rush code I found the other day. They were storing something (to local storage and then to a DB) via JSON.stringify() but for whatever reason they hadn't thought after retrieving it back from the database to just JSON.parse() it and instead used a weird mash of string replacements, splits, and regexes to parse an ad hoc brittle subset of JSON.
At this point I don’t think it’s controversial to say that this project existing has harmed creative tools on Linux.

If another project had become the de-facto we’d have all those basic features.

Instead we’re stuck with something that almost provides the basics ok, because it exists people treat it like a solved problem, and it has such a history no one’s allowed to say it just frankly isn’t usable for it’s one job.
curl in Windows Powershell is by default mapped to Invoke-Webrequest but it is not in powershell which you download or install via the store. I long ago removed the alias for curl in Windows Powershell too.
I understand your points, but, for all except "including things like thoughtful typesetting (especially noticeable with poetry)," I don't find them very compelling. For fiction an e-reader has been a great improvement, easier to handle, never lose your place, able to jump around the book and then back again, search, and probably most importantly ergonomics - larger text when I'm tired etc.

For non-fiction I do find it hard to understand how paper is better for you than on a monitor. Open 2 pages at once, yep, side by side is no problem, plus as many other pages as you like open at once with windows or tabs. Full text search AND the index, with clickable links to the places you want to go.

Jotting down notes in the margin - yes, I can see that would be an issue. But if its important I think I'd want to keep it separate anyway. I have one of those e-paper notepad things with a digital pen which I use for note taking or drawing freehand diagrams or music notation (and its nice because it has the templates so I don't have to go and search for the sheet music paper). The only feature I miss from real pens and paper is colour.
I appreciate what you’re saying. Do you mind if I dig into something a wee bit? Because us engineering types are often a bit communicatively tone deaf.

What specifically in the comment suggests a sense of entitlement? For me, I see none. I see a, “as an expert user, it’s surprising that such an important feature has been missing forever and I would like to criticize that.”

Edit: I’m not allowed to reply to your response but thank you for taking the time to respond.
I have a lamp like that and the bird noise is about a 4 second, very obviously looped, loop. It's even more unbearable to be slowly woken up by that that just hit over the proverbial head with a loud normal alarm.
We've grafted the word 'purportedly' from the article's opening sentence into the title.
running "Curves" on a photo?
The Echo Nest published a song metadata collection 11 years ago: http://millionsongdataset.com/

They were acquired by Spotify in 2014 and according to announcements at the time, the intention was to enhance their recommendation/discovery system with the deeper insight they got into songs as a result (Infinite Gangnam Style, anyone?), but I don't know what came out of it.
> As is currently normal for internally found Chrome bugs, no CVE was assigned.

Why I don't care about or trust anything from Google TAG, PZ, or any other "security blog" that Google publishes.

They have no problems copping CVEs on competitors like Mozilla, Microsoft, or Apple.... but squirrel away zero days on their own products for the better part of a year or more and then quietly publish blog posts without actually filing for a CVE.
This Week’s Hype (Quantum Wormhole)
They used to make really good typewriters...
Oh we definitely do -- the shitposting workplace group serves this purpose. Also the private nonmanagers group.
Google used to have an option to exclude sites from search - but then advertising... bit painful especially with all the scraping and frequent domain changes now, but better than nothing. IIRC there's some browser extensions which can do this for you.
> What a weird thing to say... A/B tests are a thing, does anyone buy that experimenting with new things by rolling out new features to all users at once is a good strategy?

What it means: 'Elon looked bad when the blue checkmark fiasco happened. And more boo boos are on the way. Now Elon doesn't like to look bad. Solution? Everything we do is now covered by "it was just a test" disclaimer. Problem solved.'
> So banning right wing users for having right wing opinions are OK…

What views?

I saw some of the tweets people got banned for. Are you okay with me associating those views with right wing views?

> that is accounts held by people taking part in month long riots and looting and political real-world violence

So, you are saying that your alleged criminal activities off Twitter should feature into whether you are banned? (Note, you never claimed they violated ANY of Twitters rules in your comment)

Is this satire? Is this an honestly held opinion? Or am I missing something?
This attitude is why no one seriously suggests GIMP over Photoshop.

Why would anyone with the talent required to do that invest time in a project that hasn’t been able to add these basic features.

Cloning the current GIMP feature set into a modern and competent system is easier than trying to work with the team that can’t ship these features alone.
> I would say overall that oil and fossil fuels have done far more good for humanity than harm.

Without the oil and fossil fuels we wouldn't have had cheap and abundant fertilisers, that would have meant no Green Revolution, that means we wouldn't have been able (as a species, that is) to feed 8 billion people. Literally speaking hundreds of millions to billions of people wouldn't have been alive right now if it hadn't been for the industry of extracting hydrocarbons from underneath us.

It's crazy to see how reactionary a lot of people have become when it comes to this subject, even apocalyptic.
The fact that VR content is gated behind major companies concerned with brand safety is a major reason to be skeptical about current VR tech ever taking off. If it were more like the early internet where any passionate and reasonably technical person could make widely available apps and content, I think VR would be much more interesting. Porn is one of the most obvious genres, but also just having a bunch of weird niche content and experimental games would be really cool.

Living in a bland Facebook controlled world overseen by Zuckerberg the God is about as enticing as filing my taxes on a daily cadence.
and what would then happen if a bank were -- somehow -- induced to make more of those loans, which, as you describe "duplicate" or "create" money a number of times up to the number of loans made?

and how would the world look if that same bank then decided to stop making so many loans?

would there be a difference in the total money "created"/"duplicated" between those two worlds?

you can quibble with language ("Many people get ensnared in a series of linguistic traps when they talk about bank accounts." - quoting the article) but I think you'll find the OP and other commenters here have a sufficiently reasonable model of what is happening under the hood in the modern banking system. I suspect if you view the OP charitably and accept that he does understand what's going on and is describing the relative difference between these two hypothetical scenarios I gave above as "more or less money creation"...the essay becomes less "bad".
> Our approach to policy enforcement will rely more heavily on de-amplification of violative content: freedom of speech, but not freedom of reach.

This is the only part of the statement that might possibly be referring to the algorithms. I think the worst thing twitter (and FB as well) has done in the past was to use algorithms to boost outrage and thus boost engagement. Are they saying they're going to change how this works? I'm skeptical.
Gold from Troy, Poliochni and Ur found to have the same origin
he says he made donations based on covid policies. which republicans had covid policies that he would have agreed with? honestly this sounds like deflection, why should we believe it without any evidence?
no - Adobe has GUI and process Software Patents by the boatload for Photoshop.
That would please me-- in Gimp I have to think carefully about every command. It seems like every choice for a default operation is the non-intuitive one.
More concisely - there is correlation, but not necessarily causation. Someone who uses these phrases will _probably_ also be someone who doesn't put much thought into their communication; but merely removing those phrases will not automatically, in-and-of-itself, cause them to become a better communicator.
And thanks to all the repliers below for their kind words. My goal was always to share knowledge and enthusiasm and it is genuinely touching to know that I succeeded.
More people were dying from COVID in June and July in Melbourne than at any point during the pandemic. Case numbers look low because nobody even bothers getting the PCR anymore unless they work in health.

The public can't be trusted to do the right thing. Many people aren't getting additional doses of the vaccine so their immunity has weakened. Why are we not in lockdown right now? It's literally costing lives as we speak.
Of course, hence my comment.
It's a JIT. The heap and code are intertwined.
You are wrong. Banks don’t need deposits to create loans/money. They crate the money, out of thin air, as the conspiracy theorists like to say it, and they pay the central bank interest on it. That’s it.

Start with this paper from the BoE if you want to learn more: https://www.bankofengland.co.uk/-/media/boe/files/quarterly-...
That's how I remember it. I know I had to take calculus twice, but passed analysis the first time. To be fair, this is 20+ years ago and my memory sucks at the best of times.

Looking at it now, I think maybe I just found it too boring to remember the tricks, and too tedious to not make mistakes, while I found coming up with proofs more "interesting" and requiring less rote memorization.
This is tangential - anybody have a reasonably clean way of running JVM apps on fly?

Given that the deploy model of a jettified jar is so clean in comparison to the various hipster stacks ;) that they do have primary support for, I'm not sure why they don't have much in the way of documentation for it. I did find a support thread that refers to https://archive.is/o9YE1, which seems like a fairly gross and opaque sequence of steps.

@tptacek, what are the chances that somebody at Fly could produce a more streamlined recipe and/or documentation for JVM apps?
The Bamboo Bicycles of Chengdu
True, it's not malice or stupidity, it's just "making money".
Unfortunately, that is sometimes optimal.

Regardless: I suggest you check the sibling thread (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33805016), where we explore more relevant considerations - not just "what group are you masquerading as?", but also "does the use of this jargon result in fuzzy thinking or poor structure independent of the actual words used?" (/u/munificent suggests yes, I suggest that they're often correlated but there's not necessarily a causal link - cutting out those phrases will not _in itself_ result in better-considered, clearer, more-meaningful communication)
> and also to keep the kid in an associal bubble.

There are other ways to socialize kids besides school. As I understand it, things like field trips and social gatherings are an important part of a well balanced homeschool experience.

Instead of just studying about government from books, take a field trip to City Hall, observe a public meeting and talk to people there.

Spend time with other home school families (via homeschool associations) and other families in general. Take trips with them. Let the kids hangout among themselves.

Homeschooling gives you that freedom.

Anecdotally, I personally know homeschooled young adults that are confident, have great social and communication skills and are doing very well in life thus far.
For example, your language can implement sum(Array<X>) for any monoid X. And the sum of an empty list of integers can automatically return 0, while the sum of an empty list of strings can automatically return "". This sounds simple, but many programming languages make you learn special commands and notation for strings. A compiler could also leverage the fact that length() is a homomorphism, so length(a + b) = length(a) + length(b).

Monoids are really simple, so you probably won't get a lot more examples there. But monads are a different story. Once you know the pattern, you really miss them. For example, Promises in Javascript are like painful versions of monads. There is a lot of special-case language support and reasoning around Promises that only apply to Promises. In a language with native support for monads, you could use the same code or libraries to handle patterns arising when using promises, as patterns arising with other monads like I/O.

In summary, if you never try it, you may never know or care what you're missing, but that doesn't mean you're not missing anything...
He can't provide it. He's failing in all regards with this "argument" and he knows it doesn't hold water.
Must admit, I've never thought of "number of times I've visited your site" as PII. Number of times I've visited every site in my browser history, maybe, but not "number of times I've visited this specific site". I'm thinking about it, but I'm not immediately convinced.
no - litigation from Software Patent holders has prevented progress
It will get easier. Six and a half years for me, after almost ten of marriage. I wasn't the main meal preparer, but everything about mealtime took a different tack, including going out and experiencing new things in life. I felt like half of a team tackling the world. Eventually I moved to the mindset that the number one thing she would have wanted for me was to keep adventuring and getting out there, and I took to it quickly. Just as we grew to a be a team, I grew for a while to be solo, and then eventually grew to be a team with someone else. Our hearts heal and our patterns can change.
Parenthood is so stressful and time consuming it is kind of amazing people have time take on new interests. One coworker had some luck with raspberry pi projects with the kids, new learning for both of them, but not all his kids had the same interests.
I upvoted to compensate for the downvotes, but I really curious why you think its a match made in heaven vs just using a random x86 laptop and an x86 cloud instance?

My take, is that you want to cheer Arm on in this space, not because there is some huge technical advantage, or the arch meets your fancy or whatever, but because it is adding another competitor to the space. One that brings its own baggage, but having three+ competitors competing to be the best (intel/amd/various arm vendors) is a good thing for the industry.

But the blank fanboyism is just harmful, the mid 2010's with all the Intel fanboys talking up Intel, while they screw everyone with low clocked server processors limited to 2 cores copy pasted in their laptops when you could buy a freeking phone with 8 cores, is what you get when one company gets to much market share or too far ahead of everyone else. The same thing is going to happen if gravaton becomes the dominate platform, except its going to be a case that you won't be able to buy competitive onprem hardware, or any number of other shortcomings. Or like the Mac a piece of hardware which isn't technically locked down, but also will likely always have subpar support running any operating system not shipped by apple, and could be locked down tomorrow without affecting their business one bit.

So, careful what you wish for. You want competitors that show the giant monopoly that maybe designing a processor for an actual laptop is advantageous over shoveling whatever leftovers from the hyperscalers happen to exist. You also want competitors that show up and pack 2x the cores at 1/2 the price. Or competitors that show up with huge power hungry processors that are pushing the limits of single threaded, high Ghz processors, or 500W GPUs because that is what some people need/want.
Heh, except when you wish to talk about "natural equivalence"!
Removing bounds checks is a stark example of a premature optimization.

You can remove bounds checks when you can prove that the index won't ever get out of bounds; this is possible in many cases, such as iteration with known bounds.
You may have been reading a different version of the documentation. Documenter.jl outputs are dependent on the code actually running (and it's the package DifferentialEquations.jl uses to build its docs).
They’re nowhere near free. Branch prediction table has finite entries, instruction cache has finite size, autovectorizing is broken by bounds checks, inlining (the most important optimization) doesn’t trigger if functions are too big because of the added bounds checking code, etc. This is just not great benchmarking — no effort to control for noise.
I'm not sure how getting to the root of the problem instead of treating the symptoms is "trying to apply feels-right reasoning to complex medical topics." If the topics are more complex, let's address those complexities. I feel like when they say, "We should teach kids how to survive bullying better," they're the ones trying to apply feels-right reasoning to a complex situation. That's a short-term solution. If the real, long-term solution is medical intervention of some sort, then do that! But don't let the bullying continue and put all of the work on the victim of the bullying. Sure, we can help them be more resilient, as I said above. But the actual problem needs to be addressed no matter how hard or complex it is.
Lucky him! Money well spent I'd say.
Must have been some edge-case though, because usually stage 4 is metastatic, the liver is severely damaged, the lungs and so on.
Sorry, come again? Porting to GTK 3? GTK 4 has been out for years.
> To celebrate [...] this nice birthday illustration (fully drawn within GIMP [...]

There's some sort of weird inferiority complex when your graphics software is 27 years old and you're still saying 'look we used it for one of our website assets.' It's like telling people at the birthday party that you dressed yourself.

I find it equally strange that there are almost no screenshots on the website, outside of the docs and tutorial section, and those tend to be partial screenshots for highly specific exemplar purposes. There are good screenshots in the Release Notes, but that's not somewhere new users are likely to head to immediately. The landing page declares it's great for 'High Quality Photo Manipulation, Original Artwork Creation, Graphic Design Elements, Programming Algorithms' - but none of these categories lead to their own pages full of compelling examples.

I get that GIMPists are very proud of how community-driven it is, but the quality is extremely variable to the point of weakening the project. Having good politics/aspirations is very important, but before you can turn people into contributors you need to turn them into enthusiastic users. GIMP could learn a bit from the commercial products it competes with about how to present itself to the rest of the world.