skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Give me a few days/weeks each time to get used to the at times perfectly backwards UI and it's great
At this point, if you are in the graphic design area, Adobe basically own you. There is really nothing that will substitute for Photoshop without a massive drop in productivity.

GIMP is better that it was, but not yet good enough to replace Photoshop in the same way that Blender replaces Maya etc; perhaps this will drive support for GIMP to get better, but I'm not optimistic.
Anyone else getting a Site Not Found?
The government isn't a large, monolithic entity (despite all rumors to the contrary), and the biggest issue would probably be single employes or departments that use this system for things they aren't supposed to. Trusting the goverment at large or every single employee are different things.
Twitch has lot more content creators who aren’t streaming music so getting a deal done immediately wasn’t their #1 priority.
It's powerful and the UI is atrocious. I'm an occasional user and there's nothing I can do in under ten minutes of futzing or seeking tutorials.
It may even in the us, but a lawyer will cost you more than paying the fee. Though there is a class action in the us if enough people cancle - the lawyers get the cancle fee and you get $.25
Debian 13 will mount /tmp as tmpfs
Thanks to labor unions (and previous strikes), not having to work in the evening and on weekends is now something we take for granted. Viva la revolución indeed!
I cannot understand why this was made. The world is filled to the brim with AI garbage already, especially here. Why create more for a space already infested with similar ilk?
Mind Fields [video]
The "consumer" who "buys" research in a commercial setting is usually the executive who is funding the department. In that context stuff like P-hacking, HARKing etc doesn't happen much because at some point your bosses boss is going to read your internal paper and notice that your claimed discovery has nothing to do with what you were originally asked to investigate. In academia that doesn't matter, it still counts as a discovery because nobody is really checking your pre-registrations. In corporate research it'll either be checked by the people paying your salary, or at a larger scale, it'll be checked by a regulator who is forcing you to pre-register your clinical trials.
Just a disclaimer: I haven't ever edited for anything serious. I'd be fine with an open 'paint' from Windows

That said, I haven't noticed much change with GIMP over the years. It's... fine. The timeless one.

Other/newer editors are around though. I hear good things about Krita
Less Security Update
A heterosexual 40-year-old man with top-level security clearance, access to sensitive information, and the skill set of Turing, getting involved with Eastern European strays, at the start of the Cold War, possibly compromising himself, would not have received the same punishment, but likely would not have been spared jail time.

Cruel? From the lens of modern times, certainly. But don't we still chemically castrate certain sex offenders?
The devil really is in the details here, a tweet further down the thread quotes the new terms of use: https://x.com/Stretchedwiener/status/1798390688830402802

> Solely for the purposes of operating or improving the Services and Software, you grant us a non-exclusive, worldwide, royalty-free, sublicensable, license, to use, reproduce, publicly display, display, distribute, modify, create derivate works based on, publicly perform, and translate the content

(typed from the image, may have some mistakes!)

Which to be seems astounding! Especially for professional software such as photoshop where many many of its users will be working on behalf of clients and this clause would likely breach agreements with those clients and for other users making content for themselves they understandably don't want to allow Adobe to 'publicly display' their work.
> whatever is the actual state of affairs instead of misleading people

How are they misleading people? They are not saying "we will put resources and review all your contributions in the next day, and guarantee that all your feature requests will be implemented", are they?

That's a big misconception about open source, and people really need to start understanding how it works. Being open source means that they provide their code under some license. We usually like this license because it means that we can reuse the code, and it also means that we can audit it and debug it and potentially adapt it to our specific needs (like compile it for an unsupported device). This is already great.

Open source does NOT mean that they owe you anything at all. What you could have done before sending a contribution is ask them if they are interested and if they would have resources to help you. But I assume you didn't, did you?

I will be very honest: I do a lot of open source, and I maintain open source projects. For free, in my free time. Your behaviour is actually very common, and it drives me crazy (because I work for free and people complain about it). To the point where my new projects are actually proprietary. I don't need to open source my code if people complain about it. "Just go buy your proprietary stuff and leave me alone" is where that kind of behaviour has pushed me.

> This seem to be in dispute. You can't distribute your own client.

You can't distribute it, but you can certainly use it. I run a client I compiled myself. They just don't want to end up in a situation where everybody downloads a third-party Signal because it has fancy features and it eventually turns out that this third-party is a malware. Again that's a valid security concern.
https://www.adobe.com/legal/terms-linkfree.html

>2.2 Our Access to Your Content. We may access, view, or listen to your Content (defined in section 4.1 (Content) below) through both automated and manual methods, but only in limited ways, and only as permitted by law. For example, in order to provide the Services and Software, we may need to access, view, or listen to your Content to (A) respond to Feedback or support requests; (B) detect, prevent, or otherwise address fraud, security, legal, or technical issues; and (C) enforce the Terms, as further set forth in Section 4.1 below. Our automated systems may analyze your Content and Creative Cloud Customer Fonts (defined in section 3.10 (Creative Cloud Customer Fonts) below) using techniques such as machine learning in order to improve our Services and Software and the user experience. Information on how Adobe uses machine learning can be found here: http://www.adobe.com/go/machine_learning.

--

4.1 Content. “Content” means any text, information, communication, or material, such as audio files, video files, electronic documents, or images, that you upload, import into, embed for use by, or create using the Services and Software. We reserve the right (but do not have the obligation) to remove Content or restrict access to Content, Services, and Software if any of your Content is found to be in violation of the Terms. We do not review all Content uploaded to the Services and Software, but we may use available technologies, vendors, or processes, including manual review, to screen for certain types of illegal content (for example, child sexual abuse material) or other abusive content or behavior (for example, patterns of activity that indicate spam or phishing, or keywords that indicate adult content has been posted outside of the adult wall). You may learn more about our content moderation policies and practices, including how we moderate content, at our Transparency Center (https://www.adobe.com/go/transparencycenter).
It would be significantly less people required to be sent as if enough fertile male-female pairs are sent then childbirth can 4x or more the original number of colonists.
It matters. The menu location (and the keyboard shortcut) for Print has been in the Apple Human Interface Guidelines since the 1980s, and all Mac apps adhere to this convention.

You might be able find an exception -- there is no approval process for HIG in Mac apps. But you will not find an exception (v1.0.1 or later) in an app that has any meaningful user population, or is of any meaningful quality.

Ignoring HIG without good justification is a strong garbage signal. It was a surefire indicator of a crap Windows port back in the 1990s, but I don't think that's even a thing any more.
I think it's weird/lucky that you had such luck recommending macs - most of my non-technical friends just find them confusing and unintuitive, and it's not because they were only used to windows or something.

As for Linux just working untouched...doesn't mean it doesn't have problems or is secure. I've seen plenty of older people use their browser fine after not running updates for years.
Check out Costco’s stock performance over the last 10 yrs, compare to Target, Kroger, Walmart, let me know which you would rather have owned. Hard to complain about dropping a ball while wildly outperforming their competitors.

Maybe selling user data to third parties is a short term profits at the expense of long term strategy?
I don’t use Adobe, but this feels like it’s missing some context around when / how the private data is accessed. Is it for AI? To satisfy law enforcement requests? For compression or some technical need?

To make the most charitable case for Adobe, this could just be clarifying that there is no encryption at rest.

It’s not clear if “may” means that the user is giving them permission when they agree to the T&C, or if there are other circumstances where they “may” be required to access the data.

Uncharitable cases would be for AI training, life-ruining tech like automated scanning for illegal content that gets automatically forwarded to authorities, etc.
> rip out the anti-cheat stuff and the games generally work

Yeah, that's called piracy. The ant-cheat stuff isn't going anywhere, and even without it plenty of games require DirectX which has no Linux equivalent.
I really really like Affinity. I'm not a pro but they offer all of the tools I would possibly need in a much better designed package compared to open source alternatives like gimp. Adobe has more bells and whistles like AI, but I don't need that. And I'm very happy to support their no-subscription model, it's very refreshing.
Adobe response:

https://blog.adobe.com/en/publish/2024/06/06/clarification-a...

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40606768

Previous:

Photoshop ToS grants Adobe access to user projects for 'content moderation' - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40591860 - (86 comments)
Waterfall and spiral model failed in the general case for the reason of plan everything in advance, so unless it's a safety critical system I'd say Agile is still better.

I say this because no matter what methodology is used there will be spaghetti code regardless, mid tier devs like to over engineer solutions, junior devs don't know better and do whatever is first on stackoverflow.

Business execs also don't ever know what they want so change a system half way through when they see prototypes so then you still end up with Franken-systems.

To that end, you might as well start with a half spec'd system as it saves time.
It's the wrong question.

It's like asking "How long until a bulldozer [1] fully replaces a human construction worker?" A bulldozer is not a full replacement for a human construction worker. However, 1 worker with a bulldozer can do the work of 10 workers with shovels. And 10 workers with bulldozers can build things no amount of workers with shovels can.

[1] I'm using bulldozer as shorthand for all automated construction equipment - front end loaders, backhoes, cranes, etc.
Affinity make a pretty decent clone of the main Adobe apps.

Although they just got bought by Canva so may be at the shark-jumping point.
Can we agree that it could be a 2nd or 3rd order effect of a design choice such as putting the menu system as part of the system's UI nudging developers to follow conventions instead of inventing their own menu UI because it resides inside a window which they can control completely, hence giving the thought of "I can do the menu however I want" a bit more probable?

It's hard to analyse and quantify this ergonomics objectively so I'm just spitballing a potential way that the menus in Mac apps follow much more the convention than Windows apps. I think Apple is also much better at keeping their UIs consistent than what the Windows team is, could also be another nudge to developers to follow them. And no, I'm not saying they're perfect, I hate all their UIs like the App Store, new System Settings (it's frankly stupid, also in responsiveness), Apple Music, etc.

Design choices are nudges, Apple's ecosystem has nudged developers much better into keeping some consistency across the system, it's much more jarring on macOS when an app doesn't follow conventions than on Windows.
I think it's just being fatter, even as a youth.

Females store fat on ass and hips first, males on the gut first. Not only, but primarily first. Once these regions get to a point, fat accumulates all over.

Kids are indeed fatter in the West, just as adults are.
> I agree, but then what do you base a moral system on?

I've thought about this way more than I probably should. While I don't have any answers, I do think two very famous attempts are particularly worth studying (and IMHO, blending). Immanuel Kant's exploration, particularly his categorical imperative, and Jon Stuart Mill's Utilitarianism.

IMHO though, it's a very difficult task because we humans tend to base our moral judgments on our emotional reactions to things, and our reactions (such as disgust) are a complex combination of instinct from past evolution, and culture we are raised in. If the outcome from some system/principle disagrees with our emotional reaction, we tend to discard the system rather than examine and question our reactions. I actually find Robert Sapolsky's work (and others in that area) to be just as interesting/illuminating because while they don't provide answers themselves, they do a remarkable job helping us see the challenges involved with trusting our gut.
> It's about a landlord who's too greedy (...)

You're letting your antisocial bias show.

The street was packed with businesses. The restaurant was a business hoping to profit by taking over someone else's property against their will. Once their profiting scheme failed, they resorted to pull extortion schemes at the expense of every single person living in a 4 block radius.

You're here talking about greed as if the businesses trying to freeload off of everyone are social justice warriors, when all they were doing is trying to turn a profit by putting everyone around them in danger.
Once an executive is poisoned with an enshittification mindset, anything they touch moving forward will (probably) have a lingering smell of pig shit.

Less crappy services will come with generational change. Some young entrepreneurs who are not yet jaded will choose social capital and goodwill over financial gain.

As an aside, I miss the days when you could go to some hole-in-the-wall restaurant and get a genuinely good meal. I always thought this was because the owner probably glowed with pride that he was feeding people and that people like him/her.
To run a bunch of "hacks" that make it work better than the alternatives, I guess:

https://www.macbartender.com/Bartender5/PermissionInfo/
They also messed up with their computer system. I forget the details from the account I read, but it had to do with trying to import the entire system from the US, database included, and spending more time fixing errors than actually selling anything. That database (if I recall right) included the sales data they used to predict demand and allocate stock, and it was completely wrong for the new market.

It might have worked if they started with a few stores to work out the kinks and incorporate the data into their planning systems, but they went for a huge launch instead and couldn't keep shelves stocked because nothing was where it needed to be.
I used to work for an insurance company that is a F500, they had thousands of mobile phone insurance policies for £2.99 a month in the UK that were running for decades. We never got calls, we never had claims, 99.999% of the customers had completely forgotten the policies even existed, diligently insuring their Nokia 3210's.

Every software company is banking on this happening for them.

Enshittification will never end, sure they lose customers but eventually they can get their costs down to zero and its all more or less free money after that.
Anything changed in 8 years?
The key part here is "related to general intelligence" (not sure how they measured that as I haven't read the whole study). They obviously don't have 6.5 times more gray matter as a whole.
Has System76's hardware improved in the last few years? I bought a Gazelle 15 during the pandemic, and it has been the worst computer I've ever had. Display issues, overheating, keyboard dies at random, monitor has an increasing number of dead pixels (had several on arrival from manufacturer), had to have an entire motherboard replacement because the power port stopped being able to hold the power cable after just a couple of months and it refused to fully boot without being plugged in (despite having a battery), the battery life is a joke (less than two hours even on low performance mode), the whole case is cheap plastic, the video card will occasionally just not be recognized by the firmware and will only allow me to use the integrated graphics, and so on.

I spent weeks working with System76 support and they tried their best, but the laptop is just a piece of junk, especially for the two grand price point. My next purchase will probably be an ASUS laptop that I'll load either Popos or Linux Mint on.
I'm really interested wether this will blow up in their faces or not, they have some power over their subjects - oh sorry - users.
It's from their general terms. It does not clearly restrict itself to items stored on their servers.

See...

2.2 Our Access to Your Content.

4.1 Content. “Content” means any text, information, communication, or material, such as audio files, video files, electronic documents, or images, that you upload, import into, embed for use by, or create using the Services and Software.

4.2 Licenses to Your Content. Solely for the purposes of operating or improving the Services and Software, you grant us a non-exclusive, worldwide, royalty-free sublicensable, license, to use, reproduce, publicly display, distribute, modify, create derivative works based on, publicly perform, and translate the Content.

...and so forth

https://www.adobe.com/legal/terms.html

They're unlikely to actually want to go out of business or spark major revisions to law, so they'll presumably "clarify". (As they've attempted to do I guess.)
>Israeli prime minister Yitzhak Rabin condemned the attack, describing Goldstein as a "degenerate murderer" and "a shame on Zionism and an embarrassment to Judaism" - which is important.

Agree that it is important. What is even more strange is that Yitzhak Rabin himself was assassinated by a Zionist Terrorist.
There were many deals and processes and talks, Almost all of them put Israel front and centre, even Oslo accords for instance. But as claimed by Bibi, Zionist Terrorists tried everything to thwart it. And conveniently placed the blame on Palestinians. It was Zionist Terrorists who brought terrorism as we know today to the middle east. It was them who killed in cold blood, the mediator who presented the plan, Count Folke Bernadotte. But all the blame is on Palestinians, while the Terrorists derailed any hope for peaceful coexistence, and continue to do so.
Musk timelines are always absurd, but SpaceX has eventually done a lot of stuff previously thought to be infeasible. I remember ULA pooh-poohing reusability.
This isn't a text to image model it's an image captioning model. The images in the figures are confusingly labeled since it's the caption that's generated, not the image I think.
Hi, I'm at least one person who emailed you to let you know this was on front page of HN.

I just wrote another comment that may interest you to some degree: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40607523

It's probably best to reply to each person's comment, letting them know first also know you're author of the article/project.
I work a lot in Premiere / After Effects / Photoshop. For me it would be incredible difficult and time consuming to change my workflow. Wouldn’t be impossible, but I would need to spend lot of time learning new tools until I would get to the same work speed. Plus it would be much more expensive. Am I concerned regarding this claim? Not really. I think the chances of being hacked are higher then Adobe doing something nasty with any of the projects they might have access to.
Lol, most men are barely scraping by and thinking what to eat. Even in richer countries like US or Poland only like top 5% would partake in such activities like you described. On average men do more manual labour that required no abstract thinkng than women.

Yeah you live in a bubble
Just curious who pays for cleaning up the debris after one if these landings.
I think this line is really compelling:

> Chrome OS is Linux based. Linus Torvalds, the creator of Linux said that Chromebooks might be the way Linux finally wins on Desktop.

I'd love it, but I don't see most non-techie people consciously adopting free software out principle. On the other hand, I reallh can't see how new platform developers like the people behind Android, Chrome OS and the Steam Deck wouldn't choose linux. It's there, customizable and works great.

From that angle, it seems like unless Windows or Apple continue to be the desktop platform of choice indefinitely, (i.e. there won't be any new desktop platforms) something linux based taking market share of the desktop at some point becomes inevitable.
The amount of gray and white matter that the brain has is very much a combination of nature and nurture, as shown by the study on London cab drivers who grew more gray matter in the parts of their brain related to navigation while they were learning to navigate the streets of the city.

So a study showing a difference in gray or white matter between men and women does not immediately prove that this difference has to be due to a biological sex difference, since social gender roles can directly influence this. What makes it even harder is that it would be highly unlikely that any research in this topic can control for all the differences in how men and women lead their daily lives.

Anyway, I'm not criticizing the study cited, but just be careful that to not draw any conclusions about why those brains ended up the way they were from it.
I replaced Gimp with Krita. It is often said that Krita is made for digital painting rather than photo editing but I haven't missed any features so far.
This is the second video model comparable to SORA. Other one being Vidu, also from China.
Says a lot about our world, that such business plans are the most desirable.
Applied Philosophy
I've heard claims that favourable genes get through the global human population rather quickly, 100s of years.

Neanderthal genes have had a long, long time to do so.

(Note the key "favourable")
It's not only nauseous to read but it's also too speculative, e.g. how do you know the trick is impressive? How do you know the skateboarder is exhilarated?
A tool for monitoring Intel RAPL data would probably be a bit more accurate, as this tool is not really measuring anything.
SBI/CBI only allowed changing one bit, new registers allow for multiple bits and also toggling them.
Germany set a new renewable power generation record in Q1