skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As much as I LOVE to shit on Adobe (they leaked my CC info) they surprised me recently with one new feature I've been begging for years - bullet points and ordered lists in text fields. Ever since Illustrator became an alternative to InDesign for smaller print jobs, it's been my core missing feature.

Although, in the grand scheme of things, Illustrator has been really left behind and apps like InDesign or XD have seen next to zero updates in years.
I used to be called sysadmin, then I was DevOps, and now I'm SRE. They're all the same thing. Search for Senior SRE on Google, and you'll quickly find jobs that pay more than $220k.
Mr. Gosling thinks differently though :)

"One of my favourite IDEs out there is BlueJ"
— James Gosling, creator of Java.
Airbag-snag. Bumper-thumper. Insurance-abhorrence. Holy-fucking-shit-that's-going-to-cost-me-what?!?
I see you have never worked in the insurance industry then.
They do, but it’s not nearly as popular (or as valuable) as Figma.

In the last couple of years Figma has essentially overtaken Adobe and Sketch in terms of designer mindshare and usage. I don’t know a single designer (I know hundreds), that doesn’t use Figma. Of course, I’m focused 100% on software, so I’m strictly talking about product, UI/UX design. Not print or graphic design.

The way I see it, Adobe had to buy Figma.
Java-Editor
Is there a FOSS version of webflow?
European salaries are still higher than they used to be last year. But they remain significantly lower than the Americans.

In the UK, you could hire a decent senior for 80K in London, now it would cost 100-120K. I know a few decent devs whose base salary rose to ~200K, that was extremely rare in the UK and even in London.

Also in Germany and Austria I see salaries rising.

On UK contractors, the government closed a tax loophole, or rather made it harder to exploit it, so the person sitting next to you and earning 700-800£ per day, now doesn’t pay less taxes than the junior making 60K per annum.
It really does give you the best of both worlds - resistant to typos, handling synonyms without all the usual hand-written rules, but still able to handle direct searches like ISBNs.

(disclaimer: I work on Semantic Search at Lucidworks)
For those interested in non-subscription, one-time payment alternatives, there are a few options:

1. Figma replacement - Sketch (1yr fee, updates optional, MacOS only)

2. Adobe Photoshop - Affinity Photo (Win/Mac)

3. Adobe Illustrator - Affinity Designer (Win/Mac)

4. Adobe InDesign - Affinity Publisher (Win/Mac) (I use this to create my indie magazine)

5. Adobe Animate - Tumult Hype (closest thing to Flash that we have today, replaces my need for After Effects + Bodymoovin, Mac OS only)
> person A agreeing to sell over something to person B, even if just verbally, is a legal contract.

This is not at all what I am saying. What I am saying is that a contract is the definition of terms of a transaction, while a smart contract is the execution of a transaction.

A "contract" defines what parties are supposed to do and the courts use to determine the legal process in case of disputes. Enforcement is not part of the contract.

A "smart contract" is just about enforcement. It makes no sense to talk about the "smart contract" being legally binding or not, much like it makes no sense to talk about "running computer code" or "firing a gun" being legally binding. Sure, you can discuss if the actions resulting from someone running a program to be legal or not, but this has nothing to do with those actions where established in a "legally bound contract" or not.
It's as if millions of design files screamed out and were suddenly silenced.

Fuck Adobe.
The internet is not real life. It seems a lot of people who hold your opinion are in the 18-24 age range. Those people who grew up thinking the internet is the only way to communicate or “make things happen”. But I assure you these private companies do NOT have to let you use their services, and common excuses such as “Online communication is like a public square!” is not rooted in the desire for free speech, but is rooted in the desire for instant gratification.

Yes it’s easier to gain a following online, but throughout MOST of history, people started these movements/conversation offline. Don’t let these companies trick you into thinking you don’t have a voice, or power, without voicing your thoughts on their “platforms”. You have a voice, and you can use it. You’ll just have to get out the house and start talking to people face to face.

Edit: I didn't mean to establish a condescending tone with the second sentence - I was simply making an observation.
Calling alex berenson a journalist is a travesty. The fact that he is a crank is obvious from all his writing about marijuana that precedes the pandemic.
> Blockchain allows for anonymous participation, so to say.

No, different agents are voting. Democracy could be totally anonymous, in principle- get a secret key, generate a valid public one-time key, and your vote is verifiably valid but nobody has any idea who voted, much less who they voted for. If everyone is registered, you don't even have any useful information about who could have voted. Even in reality, your identity is discarded as soon as possible.

Blockchains are inherently public. Validators are NOT anonymously participating- they may be owned anonymously, but the owner isn't the one with the actual right to vote.

It's not just a semantic difference. In a real election, your ballot comes in a voter envelope. The ballot is anonymous inside the envelope, and the envelope is opened blind, but kept until the election is over. If they get two envelopes from the same person, they know it was a fraudulent vote. Once those envelopes are thrown out, there is nothing tying you to an election at all.

On the blockchain you effectively never throw out the voter envelope. Your vote -and what you voted for- can both be tied back to you via ownership of the voting agent. There is zero inherent protection of that relationship. All protection is done externally and the system does not do anything more than making sure it's not actively impossible to conceal your identity.
The inability of a cat to communicate with a human being is what makes cats unintelligent. People like to think that cats are above communicating with humans when the fact is that they're just too stupid. It's not like cats could follow instructions if they wanted to but they just don't want to -- it's that cat are dumb and they can't follow instructions.
How is Affinity Designer less feature rich? It has great features like corner rounding and interactive path offsetting that I cannot find in Figma? Also, Last time I looked Figma did not even allow skewing of objects.
I always kind of assumed thats why they weren't Cold War participants.

If you don't have a "developed" economy you're not as useful of a trade/etc partner than a country with a developed economy. Or your country is basically semi-colonizable then it'll just be semi-colonized instead (i.e. parts of your country become a gated community for the oil field employees).
I don't think there was much United Fruit action in SouthAm. They did worry about losing influence to the Soviets though -the old Domino theory.
Is your math right on that? That’s a 15% annual return.
~250 workdays a year = ~£175-180K/yr, which is fairly achievable in London for a SWE
Well, lets see what happens. But it doesn't bode well when Adobe is saying they'll add features for photography (wtf?) into Figma, when that's not what the tool is about at all.
Exactly right. People choose to give these companies power over them; they choose to submit to tyranny.

Nobody can ban me from email, or from my own website.
> Once seatbelt laws came into effect in the 1970s, that number went down to 1.

I'm surprised the number went down, I'd have thought there would be far more car crash survivors with traumatic brain injuries once people stopped being killed outright so often.
yep, thats why ive been focusing a lot on porting linux drivers over to little-kernel on the vpu, and getting things working without linux

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l7lIewA9fm4 is an example of a VPU accelerated mandelbrot, without the arm core even being turned on

for (int i=0; i<16; i++) { int temp = a[i] * b[i]; if (store) c[i] = temp; if (accumulate) accumulator[i] += temp; }

basically, the VPU can run this entire line of code in just 2 clock cycles, and this isnt even the 3d core, which is entirely seperate and more complex
I don't think Figma is going to die. It'll be bundled as part of the Creative Suite. It'll add buttons to quickly export your designs to PhotoShop or Illustrator or whatever. It'll probably get slower and clunkier.

Not death, just... Adobe.
It’s simple to replicate a lag. Just take a series of photos or a 4K video. It takes a non trivial amount of time for the phone to process it.
CloudBoy – A cloud gaming handheld concept
You should try out Affinity Designer, the one time fee of 40 euros is a no brainer. I use it since 2017 for my UI designs.
Adobe is a shit company. It is criminal how hard it is to cancel a subscription.
Probably about where we are with pedestrian/cyclist safety.

In NA, lack of safety regulations is resulting in massively increased ride and hood heights, which is going to kill a lot of people over the coming years.
> Same will happen for graphic designers.

I'm not so sure about that, I know quite a few graphic designers who've either reverted to the pirating ways of their youthful years, many years ago - or have moved over to Affinity's offerings.

The latter's still a bit rough around the edge - I can't work with Designer (I've been using Illustrator for too many decades to), but I've stopped paying for old rope and nixed my once-beloved Photoshop as it's frankly a waste of cash. Affinity Photo's got some quirks and has a wholly different workflow that I struggle with, but it does the trick in the end.
Figma was really one of a kind. Back to Sketch I suppose.
> There's no technical utopia that will replace 'integrity'. Or frankly 'values'.

This is so important.

If someone is trustworthy, you need fewer checks in balances to be able to be confident that transactions with them will go well.

If, on the other hand, someone is not trustworthy, all the systems in the world cannot guarantee good outcomes.
No, survivorship bias would be looking at motorcycle injuries by only talking to motorcycle injury survivors. Your conclusion would be that motorcycle injuries only result in minor small damage like skin abrasion, broken fingers, etc. Your conclusion would be that brain injuries basically never happen because all the survivors you spoke to were fine.

If you're looking at casualties from motorcycle incidents, you by definition are not looking at survivors.
Splatoon 3 is the only good social media platform
I'm literally implementing seated portion as a I write this comment.

This is my third kid, and we definitely discovered this the hard way during our first baby. There are a few windows that you can soothe and successfully put a baby down to sleep. Despite all our kids being otherwise different, putting them down as babies worked exactly how this method describes.
That can be bypassed by using a residential/LTE VPN. They're not as easy to get a hold of as regular VPNs, but if tens of thousands of dollars on the line I think tech workers can manage.
I'm still flummoxed why people use blockchains for any kind of data or computation. Fundamentally isn't blockchain a tech stack built on a linked list with mandatory network calls in every operation? It seems purposefully inefficient. At least in theory it had a point (decentralized control). In practice, however...
XD had a great start, tons of updates, good team communication, I really liked where it was going 3-4 years ago. Then, for the past 2 years+, a total radio silence. Barely any new features, just crash fixes to make paying customers shut up. At least I now know the reason.
Bath (UK) also used it in the early 2000s, I believe faculty at Kent (UK) had some kind of hand in building it too.
Teachers: "My students are smart and diligent, 30min of homework per day should be well within their abilities"

Students: have 4 hours of homework per day

The latest app that needs their notifications disabled on my phone is Amazon. Shame really, knowing about packages was useful. But I really don't need spam about "Hey this thing you glanced at is on sale now" every 2 days.
>Full body health checks, ultrasound, MRI, doctors, specialists all failed to diagnose this not so rare parasite.

How did they find it in the end? Or did they just give you some broad antiparasitic.
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Sketch vs Figma
Is that because the 2 have a time gap? Throwing money in the market does not have instant effects, it takes a while.
To be fair, the article talks about none of that and focuses on the high-level traders perspective. I'd bet that a write up of the process of the merge would be a huge hit on HN.
Product (software specifically) design is where Figma shines. Auto layout, prototyping, etc. are second to none. Sketch had all of these features for years, but Figma’s implementation and depth of execution is unrivaled.
Crypto’s Long-Awaited ‘Merge’ Reaches the Finish Line
I tried it!

Good:

- It is a good copy of figmas UI. With much open source software, it often seems the UI comes last in priority and interest; Penpot’s UI is well working and looks good.
- Basic features are all there
- The team has build an open source online platform before, so they know what they do.

Bad:

- In design systems particularly at variants and states of components, it is not on figma’s level yet

Interesting:

- You can self-deploy (cause open) or use their free instance
- Front- and backend are written in clojure/clojure script
If anything, it's the middle aged who refuse to believe that technology and music can just sort of stop progressing, while the young are downloading old music and shrugging about all the the tech hype surrounding corporate stock market bubbles.
> You wrote this like the ideas are mutually exclusive.

No, I am writing like one of them has shown to be completely useless in effecting any type of real change, while the other is an equalizing force.

> Software license has nothing to do with what rulings are possible.

The software license has nothing to do with it. It is the economic and social forces that differ.
Doing tricks is neat, but I think dogs get too much credit for doing tricks and following commands.

A dog (or cat!) can show impressive signs of intelligence without having much inclination for tricks. Our dog knows who we are talking to on the phone, our daily routines and many "intelligent" things, like spoken instructions on how to behave the next morning, but hardly know any "standard" dog commands at all except "sit" and "stay".
I still learn and use all of the above tools regularly too as good security requires a good infra-as-code story.

We often open source security-first ansible and terraform infra patterns in our community, #!, which may be of interest to you. https://hashbang.sh https://github.com/hashbang

A lot of open source work there has gotten a lot of us jobs with major pay increases. I know I personally strongly favor sysadmins whose work I can see online. Less risk.

Also yes, security is a very negative industry, but people tend not to listen to overly negative people so I try to bring realistic threat models and spend most of my time teaching now.

Anyway. Best of luck and by all means reach out on sysadmin security any time :)
As usual, when money talks, we get FOSS posts with a subset of the capabilities of the real thing.

Naturally everyone will do donations to support the upstream development going forward.
Only if you have idiots for traffic planning. By now you can have sensors that detects vehycles on lanes and change it depending on the situation.
only two lanes are in use: permanent green until a car on the other lanes come.
Show VHN: Light bulb re-implemented using Wolfram (by Sir Stephen Wolfram)
Between cars, no. But a pretty significant amount of the traffic in my area is actually just trucks and full-size SUVs. Twice I've had someone hit the hitch receiver on my truck and damage their vehicle without any damage to my vehicle.
You are right that they are demosaiced raw files but that’s about it

> Instead, ProRAW stores results of computational photography right inside the RAW. This is another reason they need to store demosaiced data, as these algorithms operate on color, not RAW data. Once you demosaic, there’s no going back. I mean, what would you even call that, remosaic?

> Smart HDR does this in the least destructive way. Apple worked with Adobe to introduce a new type of tag into the DNG standard, called a “Profile Gain Table Map.” This data gives your editor everything it needs to know to tone map your photo image and end up with results identical to the first party camera. Because it’s separate data, you can turn down its strength, or turn it off completely.

source https://lux.camera/understanding-proraw/
See, if this was local software that you could buy once and keep forever, an event like this would not have felt so full of foreboding.

On cloud-based web apps, there is no opt-out short of ceasing use of the program entirely. Don't want their new features? Too bad, we're going to roll them out anyway, and there is no turning back after that.

I'm still puttering along just fine on a copy of Office 2010, so my opinions may not be representative of the majority.
only if you rely on a domain name for identity, instead of private/public keypairs
That's true -- there are tests of brute strength, for instance, and there are also vocabulary tests. But the kinds of tests life throws at you aren't often so narrow -- they're more general tests. Once in a while you'll be faced with an immediate test of whether you can lift a heavy car off a human being in the next five minutes because there has been an accident and someone is pinned under a car, but the generalized form is "can you move a heavy object", for which the answer is something along the lines of "invent a crane".
I stopped reading after three words: "Algolia disrupts market …". Goodbye. I am still a fan of DocSearch.
Well, for a start, you can't set a stroke width less than 0.1mm, which may sound like a useless edge-case, but makes it useless as a single-point tool for designs to be sent to Lasers or CNC machines that run off a print driver.

Also, the workflow's quite clunky.

Still, I've bought it and Photo, just because I want them to one day better Illustrator and Photoshop.

- ed Sorry - 'less than 0.1pt', not 0.1mm. Samediff ultimately.
I love Sketch but macOS is no longer the OS I spend the most times in, which is Linux and Windows. I'd love for Sketch to be cross-platform, I'd buy one license per year just to support them.

So my only option was Figma and now... Now what? Damn this sucks.
Failure to launch – A Vox investigation of Launch House
> You gotta stop putting all of your eggs in one basket.

This isn't free or even possible for a lot of people. I think it would be better for society for this cost to be imposed on the Discords/Metas/Googles of the world, than for it to be imposed on their users.
Any sleep-training that doesn’t begin with teaching the baby to self-soothe is bound to be a lot of work for the parents. If you perform this task for your child then you will inevitably end up repeating it whenever they stir during their sleep time. Babies can learn structure and routine and follow predictable sleep/wake patterns if they’re taught to, and they are capable of soothing themselves. So long as you’ve taken care of all their other physical needs (fed, dry diaper, secure swaddle if they’re still in that stage) then any intrusion into their sleep time teaches your child that you will come in and be with them if they stir. Even infants will pick up on this very simple cause/effect relationship and abuse it to their advantage. I have adopted 4 special needs kids, and my wife (who knows much more than I do on the subject) has successfully managed to have them all sleeping soundly relatively early, often through the night after 3 months, and never in our bed.

This approach does require some patience and letting the child “cry it out”, but this is how they learn to be the master of their own sleep.
Compared to what? In California I was paying a full 35% effective tax rate on top of something like 3000 a year in health insurance/deductibles and still had a sizable homeless camp on my street. Plus if I wanted to go back to school for an advanced degree the cost was a joke.

In the US you can definitely bring home more dollars in absolute terms, but I've found if you actually compare total life costs and standards of living you end up at fairly similar % between SV and Europe.
Is there a version of this product that tells the site to block all cookies automatically? It seems this just answers whatever is easiest to keep the site running.
Authenticity and Time – Is there a link?
We had to use "Java-Editor" https://javaeditor.org/doku.php?id=start
It was actually ok, because it integrated the Java help and a freely available Java book.

It also has some features you need in school, like a structogram editor, UML diagrams and so fort.
I can confirm, we have many Patagonia piles which are 30 years old now and they look brand new, passed from dad to me.

Also some t shirts from the 90 are still looking good, which is kinda incredible.
Big company executives do not see the world the way you do.

Creative Cloud alone has at least 5x the users of Figma. I have no idea how to even calculate all the users of all Adobe products. I guarantee that a lot of people at Adobe see Figma as just adorable, but not really, you know, a product. Some people at Adobe get it and are hoping to revolutionize their company with new blood, but… they probably won’t succeed.

At big companies that have captured a large portion of the market, they are usually not interested in “disrupting” themselves. Steve Jobs was a rarity. There are far more attainable revenue and careers to be made optimizing the existing revenue streams.

If killing Figma entirely made Creative Cloud revenue go up by a few percentage points that would be worth it for them. Even if the acquisition has negative value the people who pioneered it have more influence in their company, and an achievement that advances their career narrative.

They may tell themselves they’re going to integrate Figma, and some people are going to definitely try, but if that doesn’t work out that’s probably fine.
This does not contradict my comment that resale value of those cards is going to be nowhere close original purchase price, though
:-( We're looking at NL specifically so our kids can have some freedom, ride their bikes and take public transport, and not be prisoners of suburbia. But the wages are pretty terrible; I've been working remote for US companies (set up my own consulting firm so invoicing is easy) and that's worked pretty well. We'll see if the recession kills it.
A product line can be useful, longstanding and industry-standard without being friendly, easy-to-use or cheap.

I don't love Photoshop's long startup times, huge RAM usage and non-native Mac UI, but I appreciate what it lets me do. And I'm not even, for example, a graphic designer working with other people who expect me to submit Adobe assets.
I learned Java with this IDE and thought the class diagram and the color coded blocks helped a lot. I wish VS Code has a similar setup for real projects. I’ve worked in code based where a real time class diagram would of been super helpful.
It is true that some dogs are more intelligent than other dogs.