interesting idea. Although some countries change their names (sometimes in a complete way) depending on their native language. Should it be accounted for it as well, in case I need to search it via text? like, if the page is in english, it should be to match Germany for "Germany" and also "Deutschland" just in case, right?
Me being a non-US reader, it’s honestly a bit frustrating to see how often people from the US forget that a large portion of HN readers are from other countries and don’t share the same context for posts like this. It ends up assuming US context as universal.
And don’t get me wrong. I agree that corruption is horrible. I live in a country where corruption was and still is rampant. Political discussions related more closely to, let’s say, AI companies such as OpenAI or Anthropic when it comes to the Pentagon do spark interest, since they are somewhat more directly connected to decisions we can make as tech professionals in other countries, whether for moral, ethical, or practical reasons. That is not really the case for posts like these, however. To your point, I would love to see the tech/hacker community come up with ideas about solving corruption, even if it’s just philosophical discussion.
If my point still doesn’t make sense, imagine seeing posts about corruption cases from any other non-US country being posted on HN. What would you think about those?
When i browse sites based in other countries, i don't complain when there's a lot of talk specific to that country. I didn't know what Eurovision was until last week, but now LMNC is representing the UK. A lot of talk about how it should be boycotted because of Israel. How a bunch of people i never heard of are corrupt. i'm just there to cheer on LMNC, but i get why it's being overshadowed by the current politics.
I don't think the answer to that is to discourage posting US-centric stories about serious political issues. I think the answer is to encourage people from other countries to post theirs, too.
We need more understanding of each other and of each other's situations, not less. The more we tech people bury our heads in the sand about politics—every country's politics—the more likely we are to create more situations like the one we're in today.
I mean, if you have a modern digital display you might be able to change the brightness through the DDC/CI protocol and a simple app or extension, available in every much every OS. With a keyboard shortcut or two clicks you change it. Fiddle with monitor settings is painful, but that protocol is a godsend. Even one of my cheapest 13 years old monitor supports it.
I've created Livi! It is an internal tool for me and my team so we can encode complex images that sometimes have plenty of detail and transparency into optimized AVIF files for our websites.
Backend is Rust and Frontend is SwiftUI. At some point I'll make a Libadwaita frontend for a Linux release. Given my knowledge in Swift and Rust is pretty limited, it was an interesting project to learn the strenghts and limits of LLMs. I've learned quite a lot with it. Most useful lesson is that you might not necessarily need to know the specifics of a language, but you do have to have your common sense skills sound and clear, and how to code architecture a larger project, with refactors here and there, performance optimizations, multithreading, queue, cache and logs, and so on.
Maybe needless to say, but it wasn't easy. The produced code needed to be inspected constantly, and bugfixing, testing, handling edge cases required tons of prompting and guidance. The comparison features, such as pinch to zoom, keep the zoom and image positions while switching between the different generated images, handling exporting, all these features were loaded with intricacies. So far, glad that I was able to produce this.
As a fun fact, now that AVIFENC supports tune=iq, we don't have to mess with specific encoder settings and find the proper quality number anymore, but still, learned a lot from it
Completely agree. I've had some light/moderate floaters in my left eye which were very noticeable under a white screen, clean walls, or full bright sky in the evening. It came pretty sure because of a very stressful period at 27.
Here I am, 31. I have to look for them really really hard to see if they are still there. Only when I have a streak of stressful days and bad night sleep, they will be visible again. It comes without saying that I had to change my life in many, many aspects, not only due to these floaters. A much calmer life, better food, gym, financial security, better friends and people around me, and cultivate a spiritual being in some sense. The mind can be shaped in many many ways it's fascinating.
baffling that in this day and age Apple can have some sort of a dictatorship in deciding what people can or cannot install in their own phones they purchased with their own money, and Google taking similar steps towards that direction as well. I guess people just got used to this.
in the gh-pages branch you have the final index.html. You can also literally download/save the page as well, should be the same.
It does not use any other deps than the final index.html
Now, speaking about the project itself, maybe it would be good if the notes get also saved into localStorage in some way. One browser refresh or reboot and it all goes away if it wasn't saved.
Please, you're welcome! Local storage will definitively make it much better. Preserve the save feature so it is portable from browser to browser/computer or even shared across people!
I think "hacktivist" here means hacking into the politician's inboxes and leaking the contents, like "politicians want to do this to you; let's see how they like it when it's done to them" sort of thing.
