skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ah, Fireworks brings back good memories. I used Fireworks way back in high school to design websites - you could throw together a basic multi-page website with a clickable/hoverable image navbar in literally minutes, no code required. And it looked good too, at least by the standards of the early 2000s.

Later, I did the vast majority of the visuals I used throughout my PhD in Fireworks CS6, long after it had been abandoned by Adobe. It was fast, faster than Photoshop or Illustrator is today. The shape libraries meant that doing diagrams and illustrations was a breeze - these days I do most of that in Keynote/Powerpoint, with much poorer bitmap editing support. Photoshop and Illustrator are simply too big and slow for quick-and-dirty editing tasks.

The thing that ultimately killed Fireworks for me was that it crashed more frequently every time I updated macOS, to the point where it simply would no longer launch. For a couple of years I maintained a set of binary patches to Fireworks CS6 to work around startup crashes and such, but that ultimately got to be too time-consuming to keep up with.

I don't think I've ever been as productive in any other image editing software. Photopea gets surprisingly close for me - despite being a Photoshop clone, it's both faster (just a web app!) and has a few of the nice features I miss from Fireworks.
They pretty much are de facto public services. The town square is now digital, and the laws have failed to adapt. Just because some big corporation owns it doesn't make it different in practice.
Do you really want to defend a future where you can be banned from doing anything because some random $BIGCORP's algorithm decides so on a whim?
"Can't they crowd-source a proper labeling project"

I'm very surprised how primitive it is. I put in a few names of uncommon technical objects and some of its images were close and others so far off as to be unrecognizable or totally unrelated/useless.

What it needs is a quick/instant feedback system that allows humans to rate an image against the query word. A rating scale of say 1 to 5 where 1 is an identical match, 2 a close match, 3 marginal, 4 ambiguous, 5 wrong/totally unrelated. If in place then likely thousands would make an effort to optimize the matching.
Yes, you're right. After 25 years of mostly being treated like shit by start-ups with an average weekly work rate of 60 hours, my attitude is probably kind of bad.

Do I really need to be a rockstar to get an inflationary raise every year?

Take cost of living into account and we make about 40% less than we did 20 years ago.
This is a strange one. Presumably a few people in the target group for this would know a few people also in the target group - how do they intend to bootstrap trust? Or is it just a calls b, b's device reject call - b can now call a? Then after b call a, a can also call b?

If so, it sounds like a very complicated way of marking contacts as "super favorites"?
Genuinely curious: how does burning methane to generate electricity make an organization carbon negative? Do you have a reference for this?

I understand that methane is orders of magnitude more significant from a greenhouse effect point of view than CO2, but I don't see how it would be economically viable to burn methane "in stranded gas reserves" to generate electricity for Bitcoin mining but somehow it's not viable for other electrical consumption purposes.
It is a giant aging and super buggy C codebase. I found a serious CVE in it myself on accident any basic test suite would have caught.

It was very successful but it is nowhere near the security, documentation, testing, or UX standards of what we would call quality software today.
If you are only interested in Stable Diffusion there's no need to get up to 24 GB. Plenty of people are using a 12 GB RTX 3060 (with that you could generate something like 4 simultaneous 512x512 images in a matter of seconds).

Even the cheaper and recently re-released 12 GB RTX 2060 could be a good pick although the 2060 is generation behind and is less efficient in terms of electricity consumption.

Of course with more GB you get higher resolution images, but plenty of people just generate at 512x512 and then use other AI projects (for example "real-ESRGAN") to later upscale their images, which will still let you achieve great results.

I think a good advice could be to join Stable Diffusion Discord and talk to other users sharing their results and experiences there.

By the way, IIRC (please double-check the following) it could be also worth noting that the guys behind Stable Diffusion (Stability.AI) declared that in the end they will eventually bring down the VRAM usage to approximately 5 GB.

However more GB are always a good thing in general for Machine Learning...
maddening maybe, but because of the simple equation that the fraud losses from continuing to use swipe and issue cards without chip are high, but the margins on credit cards, due to the high rates are high enough to cover it. Carrying a balance on a credit card in Europe and South America is not very common (your account bank will grant a decently priced overdraft facility (not the crazy US fees there), rebates/points/miles are lower - so it just pays to be complacent here for the industry.
Should traffic lights be abolished? (2021)
I am really curious: What features of Figma are not available in Penpot?
I'm a victim of communist Cuban regime and won't name here all my family has to suffer and endure under that system. People, companies and countries should not do business with dictatorial regimes, period. Regardless of any mental justification, is immoral and only support those regimes to continue exploiting and abusing its own people with your aid, greedy businessman. Then you go on with your life hypocritically saying that you care for others and care for the planet and blah blah. You only care for you and your money, you worth nothing.
I can think of lots of nefarious reasons why a company would buy a browser extension, but I’m having a hard time thinking of a a potential good outcome of this. If we put on our optimism hats, why would Avast buy an extension? What benefit could they possibly get from it?

Edit: Maybe it is just a talent acquisition?
I used to always check out new releases of Illustrator to see if they had caught up to CorelDraw circa 1999… behind those cheesy vector and free-font CDs was a vastly superior vector editor. (to be fair, they seem to have mostly caught up around 2010-ish?)
The Ethereum's foundation next scam could be to sell carbon credits, promising not to switch back to PoW for the next 5 years, genius.
Overall daily profitability on a 3060 Ti is down from $1.56 pre-merge to $0.36 as of writing:

https://www.nicehash.com/profitability-calculator/nvidia-rtx...

Seems logical to just sell the GPU for $300 on the used market and get 833x its daily mining profitability.
A guy who can look at stable diffusion and audio LM and go bah, It's not all that great and it's certainly not AI... has definitively passed the inflection point.

I'm on team "What a time to be alive".
But either way, it's a central entity ordering transactions and putting transactions in blocks.

The real question is, how much capital do you need to be a block producer. For Ethereum that's 32 ETH; with 400K validators and 12-second blocks you'll produce one every 55 days on average.

So on Bitcoin, the largest remaining PoW network, how much capital do you need to produce a block that often?
None of these solve the same problems and they have the usual problems of free software. Grandious ideas but godawful UX and no interest to fix them.
I would assume pay at a fixed level doesn’t go up that fast. For an individual though you are gaining experience and should be able to use that to leverage at least small raises, big ones if you’re moving up in seniority

In 7 years out of university I went (some raises, some job hops) 80 to 85 to 97 to 130 to 165 to 300

I dont think the market is much more lucrative, but there’s a very big difference between junior engineer at small tech and senior engineer at big tech
Yes: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yardbird (3rd one on the list).
They also do exactly what was being talked about in the comment I replied to. Do you think their refine would be that high if they didn’t? Blizzard is also far from the only game studio in the world. Look into how the Cyberpunk launch hurt that established studio.
The irony of this comment at the bottom of 200+ comments arguing about what every parent knows
> "... both keyword and semantic search in a single API. This new API platform is blazing fast, massively scalable, and, importantly, cost effective. No other vendor offers this today."

Where's the proof that "no other vendor offers this today"?
I'm a bit out on a limb there that I haven't climbed on in years. Look at the ganzfeld debate from the mid-eighties, early nineties.

On the acceptance of Rhine's results,I recall seeing something similar recently, possibly here on HN, but I don't recall details either.
On a related note, if you sit with them while they're going to sleep, make sure it's "for a while before they go to sleep", not "until they go to sleep", or it becomes a contest where they stay awake as long as possible to keep you there.
> Anyone able to speculate how they were able to achieve this?

vespa.ai does it and it's open source
10b in Aug 2021 https://www.forbes.com/sites/alexkonrad/2021/08/10/how-figma...

covid was so huge for Figma. literally 10xed in value in 2 years
So there’s hope :fingers crossed:
For good reason.

It's a pretty safe bet you can throw any mail that has "IMPORTANT" printed on the envelope in the trash.

Every online store, software vendor and web site wishes they could get my attention for an "IMPORTANT" message at least 100x more often than I wish they did.
You wouldn't have cut it working at Microsoft, but that's okay since there were many lesser companies around during that era, as well as opportunities in child care.
This is exactly the same palette the BBC Micro had.

It was frustrating to have such a fast computer, high resolution (640×256) and be stuck with those awful colours.
A lot of semantic arguments could have been avoided if they'd just called them "scripts" instead.
Some people are more committed to a functioning society than market exploitation.
a reply to the top comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32850953

TIL of penpot from that comment - seems great tool!
Is this just a case of title inflation? Where the entire metallurgy department was just one person? Or did she actually have reports who were doing the work and didn't even bother tasking them to run the tests?
Does Eth have an advantage now vs. even more trusted actors like Binance? Binance has a history of relative reliability and is better understood by people. The unknown crowd of ETH stakers is .. unknown, but it demands our trust. Why should we trust it?
U.S. charges 3 Iranian nationals in global hacking campaign
What exactly is odd? It doesn’t seem like you are disagreeing that both professions are bimodal.
> This is a signal to the market that such behavior is perfectly fine.

That would only be true in an ideal free market: that is, one where quitting did not cost the other users something significant, and where there was a competitor to go to that was identical except for the undesirable behavior.

Due to network effects, centralized communications platforms like this cannot be an ideal free market. Leaving means abandoning your friends and/or your audience/customers, which can be a huge cost.

Furthermore, the major competitors of Twitter (which...also aren't very much like Twitter) more or less have the same problems: inconsistent enforcement of often-arbitrary rules, with a totally opaque appeals process that doesn't necessarily involve humans at any level a regular person can reach.

It's really, really important to remember that all the market theory like this is only guaranteed to apply to a free market. Just because you have "a market" doesn't mean it's going to be any good at capturing the people's genuine desires.
Why VPNs Are Wrong for Privacy and MPRs Are Right
No, but it is way more tested and stable than GnuPG imo. That said limited smartcard support keeps me from using it yet, but that is in testing and rapidly maturing.
I think the implied point was that the steering column will kill you anyway, so the lack of an airbag is not a problem.
Sounds like your friend is just making stuff up out of their own "common sense" and trying to sell it to people.
because youre conflating stock and flow. adobe is worth $170b.
time.to leave....
Been actively following the Appwrite journey since 0.4. Glad to see Appwrite is finally stable!
Nobody cares what changed, and nobody should have to care.
Open source has been used for risk management rather than idealism for probably about 20 years now.
They are but that’s precisely the problem. More and more of our vital communication channels are owned by single private entities. IOW public discourse is being replaced by “public” discourse. The promise of blockchain solutions is that they can return us to the status quo ante of the internet where there were open protocols that operated in a decentralized way. Whether it can fulfill that promise, I don’t know. But there’s also plenty of precedent for regulating how the private owners of public goods (such as rail and telephone networks, or even sidewalks) must behave.
Let's not forget how Adobe, Apple, Google, Intel, Intuit, Pixar, Lucasfilm and eBay, colluded to pay lower salaries [0].

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High-Tech_Employee_Antitrust_L...
“Does not look that hard to compete with or replicate”

Then why haven’t you? Seems like a good opportunity to make a few billion now that Adobe has set a price.

I hear this all the time on HN. And yet, this rhetoric never seems to follow through.
I find it incredible that this was written by an AI and it translated:

> back-button breakage

into

> the vexing loss of information when pressing the back button

It's a remarkably good translation.

Then again "the unfortunate repetition of a name" does not have quite the same meaning as "name collisions".
Hacking Anything with GNU Guix
If you've ever met one of these super-smart engineer types you'll know that nothing shuts them up and gains their respect faster than having the right answer. It's not about "whoever is louder" it's about having deep and impassioned understanding of technical issues.
Walt Disney thought so.

When traffic is light, traffic lights make you wait a long time for no reason. When traffic is heavy they add insult to injury by taking 2 or 3 cycles to clear out the stack of traffic you're waiting in -- and that's just the immediate intersection, frequently traffic stacks up to the point that traffic flow is impaired in preceding intersections. That's how traffic lights turn a 5 minute drive into a 50 minute drive.
Some "contractors" were definitely disguised employees so I have some limited sympathy with the original intent behind IR35. But the baby was thrown out with the bath water and then they knocked down the bathroom and half of the house for good measure. As you say that has had a devastating effect on the independent and entrepreneurial sectors in several industries including tech.
Took a while to find someone say this. Yeah this sounds about the case from what I've seen. Factor in significant growth in talent pools (college engineering programs are often minting 20-30% of their students as CS majors not counting math, physics, ee grads etc) and it seems to explain a bit of the stagnation in the SWE job market.
It's like with phone apps. Every single phone app thinks it is the centre of the universe and is "only" sending you a few notifications per day, but if you extend this to every app on your phone you'll get hundreds a day and the only recourse is to disable them entirely.
> It's bad development, not development itself. Car centric, bad public transport, low population densities in cities, etc.

If its so bad, how come its so expensive and people want to move there? The population of Amsterdam is the same as it was 60 years ago. It isn't popular, I'm not sure why you think its a good model - esp as it restricts development so strictly.
First, the title is really grasping at straws; the article doesn't talk about any 'recovery' for the region outside of metro ridership, nor does it demonstrate the necessity of such.

The incentives are all there for people to favor cars until highway congestion gets particularly serious. When drivers don't have to pay for driving, it takes other incentives to push them toward alternatives. When the wealthy commuters of the DC area are being given huge rebates for their electric cars, that's another incentive that transits have to claw back against.

Then you look at the DC metro, which runs infrequently to a limited set of places and is frequently on fire or out of service for other reasons, and it's not hard to understand why suburban commuters use cars. Furthermore, outside the city the metro stops are largely commuter stops, which means people drive to big parking lots and then have to get into a train.

If a working metro were a priority, new lane-mile construction would cease and highways would be tolled much more commonly.
I do honestly think those cars, and most of the sports cars from the 70's (edit: 80's) look like rolling refrigerators. Especially when they are painted white. I think car design has declined since the 60's, after regulators started becoming too fussy about stuff like "safety" and "pedestrian safety" and "seatbelts" etc etc. As this video shows, there was once a time when you gambled with your life every time you strayed onto the motorway, but the reward was you got to drive a beautiful car like the Bel Air, it was gut wrenching to watch it being destroyed. Nobody will miss that Malibu.
for what its worth @zoink says they'll still be autonomous https://twitter.com/zoink/status/1570385560312909826 and he doesnt seem like the kinda guy to lie about it (even if this might change 1-3 years down the road)
How do you jump jobs every 2 years if your shares don't vest for 4?
Wow! I was waiting for the stable release for a long time.
Can't wait to use it.
Good Luck Appwrite!
I try to avoid them like the plague. Affinity while not nearly as supported and feature rich....it doesn't stab and bleed me monthly for the privilege of bloatware...
The author is the maintainer of exa, an excellent `ls` replacement that makes effective use of color in the terminal.
Having experience with both, the big win with Discord vs. self-hosted services is that I don't have to directly fight the losing war/arms race vs. organized spam.
He could just abdicate the throne, instead of being the spoiled wretch he is

(British Monarchy is the only time calling ones self a "Republican" is palatable thanks to the Americans)
Indeed, Cuba had more that 167000 covid deaths because they refuse to give its citizens foreign and proven vaccines. Trying to develop its own to profit selling it to another countries. of course they've failed. They refuse to provide scientific results that it's vaccines works.
On top of that hospitals are empty of everything needed: no hygiene, no medicines, no even doctors because the government "exports" them for cash to other countries neglecting its own necessities and Doctors gladly agree to earn a bit more of the 50 USD dollars a moth they would earn working in cuba a MONTH
I would, if I thought it would make a difference. It won't.

I just bought a new 2022 model flagship television, and its colour management is very visibly broken![1] My partner, who knows nothing about colour standards mentioned that she thought the colours were "off" within minutes of using it.

This is the good brand and model according to reviews. I've seen the other brands in the store, and they're markedly worse.

Like... stupidly bad. Garish beyond belief. People looking like they're wearing clown makeup. Normal colours looking like neon tubes.

Are most people colour blind? Am I weird? Did I marry someone equally weird?

Or is it a mistake to just say: red = 0xFF0000, commit the code, and call it a day?

It's probably just me. Never mind.

[1] Unless I connect an Apple TV to it, on which nothing is broken. It's amazing that only one company on this planet is able to comprehend colour. Every other organisation, propriety limited, corporation, and charity is staffed entirely by colourblind people or robots that see only black and white.
I live in Kiev, Ukraine, city famous for it's territory on few great hills.

We have so large angles of roads in some places, so cheapest models of cars, with smallest engines, can't drive up on 4th speed of gearbox, sure it is not easy for bikers to drive there.

So, in few districts bikes are impractical. And also, are very rare cars, with small weigh/power ratio.
Countries not participating in Cold war? Then ie Switzerland or Monaco and so on were 3rd world, top of the world when it comes to wealth per capita. Not a definition that most people would agree with
Relative to almost any other career in the US, the answer to this is an easy "NO". Salaries have been stagnant across the board but tech salaries are probably the least stagnant of any category.
We still use Fireworks! I open it every day, and it remains a decent vector and simple image editor. Back in the day we used to create our web designs in Fireworks and then (before we knew better) "slice" them to HTML and export using Fireworks. Even after we transitioned to building by hand, we still used Fireworks for things like creating mouseover menus.

Bad news for Figma.
Slightly different perspective on [optical] perspective:

>Impossible Colors:

>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Impossible_color
I agree on this front in regards to language being a poor interface for technical tasks. NLP has some extremely useful applications, but language is inherently lossy and abstract. We use the same words to describe different things in different contexts, and it’s common to incorrectly use words in contexts we are unfamiliar with. I don’t think this is a solvable problem in a general domain. Given a more specific domain, I think it can become more accurate, but domain level understanding from the user is required to interface with the model and the scope of its utility will be dependent on how it is applied. Personally I don’t think this 1-1 interface to do a thing is an appropriate design for those situations, although perhaps IDEs will begin to use some NLP to learn when to recommend certain types of refactoring tools, sort of like linters for design choices.
> Irritating for screen sharing with people who use default putty settings, small size courier new, default colors. Ugh. Savages.

I'm visually impaired, so if I were to screen-share my PuTTY window, you'd be treated to 22-point bold Consolas and mostly white on black.

This points out, though, that for accessibility, frame-buffer sharing is really not ideal. What we really need is some kind of high-level content sharing, where the content is re-rendered on the viewer's machine with their settings.