skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Figma's biggest strength is in UI design. Open illustration, while possible is not so great. (I still love Illustrator for this purpose, others may disagree or have other favorite tools). Figma allows UX/UI designers to speak a congruent language with UI developers. A design system or component library can be mutually understood. Things like, "we're using our 80% gray button here" can be very easily communicated. That's not at all impossible in other tools, Figma just takes it to a very nice level.
They basically did exactly this with XD and it started with some good ideas and then basically just fizzled out.
That's a lot of words to say you don't understand how cats work.
curious about this as well. hopefully it's next. webflow is pretty nice to use for a non-developer but the subscription pricing is hefty.
But this is the opposite of hacking. Feels like turning ETH to a political system. Soon you ll have the "republican party of ETH" forming. Those are natural self-organized outcomes when groups of humans are trusted with power.
This is all a "you" problem. You have made the choice to work in shitty startups, you have made the choice to work 60 hours per week, and you have made the choice to accept jobs that would pay you below market rate.

Being a bitter old man is not the attitude problem mentioned here, being someone that refuses to see that their unsatisfactory situation is 100% due to their own actions (or rather, lack of action) is your attitude problem.

Also your resume is absolute garbage and your company's website is offline. Read https://www.careercup.com/resume
> Same thing happened with Architecture software eg when Autocad bought Revit - end result is extortionately priced software that many architects cannot afford

I only hope Macromedia's story doesn't repeat itself: Adobe buying the superior offering just to take it off the market.
Those two pieces of software were undoubtedly the thing that got me into websites, which led to building computers, which led to my current career.

Incredible stuff.
To an algorithm trained to look for such things, the title is suggestive of sex trafficking and human smuggling. Perhaps the machine is misinterpreting the game's social conscience as the thing it's criticising.
I watched a video a while back where a BMW driver just drives off a cliff (and survives). He had an in-car camera. Apparently BMWs sense free-fall and just go ahead and deploy the airbags. They were fully inflated seconds before he hit the ground, probably saving his life. I thought this was a pretty interesting safety feature.
Typing to people you don't really know on the internet? Seems the same use case
You could add the underlying list to ublock. Or use a different list like Fanboy's Annoyance or EasyList Cookie
Well, the whole crypto/fin tech space is such a rotten cesspool of scammers and blowhards that it's becoming very difficult to take anything they do and say seriously.
I feel like this is toxic positivity.

People can't just make as much as they want. There's always competition and other constraining factors. It's absolutely reasonable to say that you'll never make $220k (in 2022 $) as a dev when the median is $110k, regardless of one's attitude.
I don't want to offer the canned rebuttal to this either, but, the free healthcare and education don't make up for a salary potential that maxes out at 2-3X lower than what you could make in the US (especially combined with much lower taxes).

The fact is, the Nordics are de-facto the best place in the world to be below average. They're not a great value if your skills offer you above-average earning potential.

Sure, your QOL might be similar while working. But in the US, you can retire by 45 on a FAANG salary (even with a family!). That's virtually impossible on the entire continent of Europe as a salaryman.
This is why people opt for gradual extinction, it allows you to comfort them and establish that parents are still around. By a certain age they have the capacity to fall asleep on their own, but are still accustomed to falling asleep before being put to bed (ime this was because we would feed-to-sleep, probably the mistake that led to having to sleep-train later, and it's possible that it could all have been avoided if we started the evening feed slightly earlier with the lights on by the time they reach 5-6mo). The goal is to provide comfort while allowing them to learn to fall asleep autonomously, or else you're looking at waking up in multiple times a night to hold them indefinitely, and that is unsustainable for working parents, nor is it particularly restful for the baby.

I'd expect that going from one extreme to the other (i.e. extinction) can lead to long panic crying and is unnecessarily harsh. By contrast if you rock your baby until they are comfortable and drowsy (but awake), then set them down, they'll be annoyed at the adjustment at first and protest but won't freak out. Then you can decide on whichever interval you want to check in (5-10 min), usually touching but not picking up. By the first night our kid fell asleep in 15 min, then 5 min the next. Then in no time he's sleeping through his nights.

Everyone gets better sleep and it was fairly painless. It doesn't have to depend on an infant feeling helpless - at bedtime they have high sleep pressure, they want to sleep. We told ourselves we'd abort the process if it things went awry. In the daytime they're as happy as ever.
I dare say they will be autonomous for a year. Then Adobe will want some ROI and start slapping creative cloud crap into it.

I'd imaging it'll be added to the CCX launcher pretty quickly and made the only way to download it. Thankfully because it's electron it shouldn't be too hard for a 3rd party client to be made.
> 66 percent of the 1,500 full-time employees surveyed in the U.S. and U.S. said they did not tell human resources about all the dates they worked outside of their state or country, and 94 percent said they believe they should be able to work wherever they want if their work gets done.

This is what it boils down to. If you want a remote workforce, you're not going to be able to keep them confined to some box that you decide is acceptable.
Meanwhile FTC blocking Meta from buying a VR fitness app and gif keyboard lol.
> I'm not totally sure if Figma will suffer a similar fate

I strongly suspect not. It's in a lot more use than Fireworks (which was cool -I used it- but was always a bit "niche").

If they play their cards right, they can use it to leverage their way back into many designers' good graces (who had been leaving the Adobesphere for the Figmasphere). They would probably add ways to leverage their cloud storage and other apps.

That said, it's pretty much a textbook "buy the competition" move, and the kind of thing that's getting a lot of scrutiny from regulators, these days.

But $20B is a lot of yachts. I don't blame the Figma people for selling out.
I asked my question because I doubted the assertion being made without any math to back it up. It seems unlikely that

1) this could ever be a significant enough amount of Bitcoin mining energy to make Bitcoin "carbon neutral", and

2) if it ever did become a significant source of energy for Bitcoin, it would likely also be viable for other uses, eliminating the carbon offset argument

I'm not doubting that you can put a cheap and inefficient boiler generator on top of a methane flare and label it "green energy."
Yuzu devs share a lot of code and knowledge with Dolphin and Citra devs.

The progress in Yuzu has been more amazing in the last 2 years than Dolphin.
Sounds like they have a interesting history behind the creation of Penpot:

> Penpot was (effectively) born in a Kaleidos personal innovation week (PIWEEK, aka recurring hackathon) in 2018. Back then we had been recently forced to break one of our sacred rules at the company “only open source tools and platforms are allowed to build technology” due to F1gm4’s overwhelmingly productivity boost for designers at the company. “We are second-class citizens in open source, it’s frustrating and it’s painful!” they cried, and they were right.

https://kaleidos.net/ seems like an interesting place to work as well.

Gonna be exciting to see where Penpot moves from here. I'm a 100% Figma user who just signed up for Penpot and gonna see if it's possible to adopt for my own workflows.

Particularly interesting for me as a Clojure/Script developer is that Penpot is written in Clojure and ClojureScript, but the average user won't care about that. But will also be interesting to see if they'll be able to keep iterating at the same speed as they currently are, and how the language will affect it.
Not illustration - design (UI design, specifically). It's fantastic for maintaining styles/themes, collaborating, iconographic design, flows, and especially composable/configurable/modular UI components. The components are one of the standouts for me, as compared to other software. They are more powerful, and yet somehow less confusing/complex than in other software. In general, I always run into some kind of limitation or bug or confusing behavior in other software - Figma has by far given me the least trouble. They obviously have both enormously talented designers and enormously talented engineers in charge. Also, they appear to actually think about what the team-based UI design pipeline looks like in practice.

Edit: As others have pointed out, it's not so much the existence of a feature that's missing from other software - it's the design and implementation of features.

Edit: Their autolayout implementation is incredible. And their tutorial videos! My god, they're incredibly discoverable and informative and SHORT. I'm going to stop because I could keep coming back and adding edits to this comment all day.
> downloading old music

What?
Here are the 4 sources of information in this article, none of which are new nor support the garbage clickbait title:

>CEO Sundar Pichai reportedly told employees that "there are real concerns that our productivity as a whole is not where it needs to be for the head count we have," and "we should think about how we can minimize distractions and really raise the bar on both product excellence and productivity."

>a manager [explained] that if next quarter sales "don't look up, there will be blood on the streets,"

>"The communication has been rude," another Googler told the outlet, "and it's threatening people to make sure we hit numbers.

>"Volume has picked up and the busyness of the workday has picked up with how rough things have been," one unnamed contractor told Insider. "I haven't heard of reductions, but there are definitely no additions."
Key security measure, and it is trivial - just start it as a new habit, and remind all your family & friends who didn't read the article.

>> most importantly, covering the PIN pad with your hand defeats one key component of most skimmer scams: The spy camera that thieves typically hide somewhere on or near the compromised ATM to capture customers entering their PINs.

>>Shockingly, few people bother to take this simple, effective step. Or at least, that’s what KrebsOnSecurity found in this skimmer tale from 2012, wherein we obtained hours worth of video seized from two ATM skimming operations and saw customer after customer walk up, insert their cards and punch in their digits — all in the clear.
what? There are going to block activision owners to be rewarded by msft since they don't publish elf/linux version of their games?
Yep. Sketch can feel limited compared to Figma (I hate that they need iOS Mirror app instead of being able to access interactive prototypes on the web), but I love that they are a desktop app and you don't have to keep paying forever.
I'm in exactly the same boat. It's such a shame that AFAIK nothing can import .fw.png files and keep them editable; I'll need to manually export everything to .psd before I eventually have to upgrade my OS.
> these discussions tend not to go anywhere, largely because we don’t really know what intelligence is.

40 years of academic cognitive science would beg to differ.... This sounds like it suffers the common tech dunning-kruger approach to pre-existing literature
Like Oracle. Buy nice things because you can and you hate colourful light shining through te windows of your dull offices. Paint it gray and resell it.
Thank the lord. After the acquisition, this is definitely something I'm looking into.
The point of VC investments by the VCs is to invest in companies and make a healthy return when the company exits.

You didn’t think they were doing it for the good of society?

Once any founder accepts VC funding, all of the talk about “vision” and “impact on society is also null and void”
Yeah, now you're just a cooked pig instead of a cooked pig on a spit.
Show HN: Finding and plotting solar panels in drone videos using computer vision
the servile class learned how to program
Yes, Java-Editor is more of a "lightweight JAVA IDE": https://javaeditor.org/doku.php?id=start
China, Russia, Iran, and then Brazil (with some other South America country leading to Brazil)

We now know the US schedule for the next decade, interesting
https://help.penpot.app/faqs/#how-is-penpot-sustainable
This is still a forum for hackers, makers and entrepreneurs. We just don't accept Monopoly Money as compensation for work rendered.
This happened to me - they absolutely will not unblock your # unless you know somebody who works there beyond the support queues. I was told by a friend who did a stint at Discord that standard flow is churn new accounts, and that's acceptable because their users are already used to name churn.
Stories is in a separate tab. I just ignore it most of the time and never post anything myself.

Accessing businesses on Whatsapp is kinda nice and convenient. I can enter a restaurant's phone number and see their menu easily. I also use Whatsapp to access bank statements which is super fast and easy compared to the bank's own app.

As for the privacy policy, it's like WinRAR. You just close the popup and forget about it. I've been closing the policy popup since months and don't even notice it much.
I'm going to start using this when i run into MAGA folk. "Oh do you work for one of the MAGA companies?" Just to see their brains stop working even more while their brain works out (unsuccessfully) what I'm talking about.
> In fact, were seeing the largest increases in pay over the past two years (and i think in real pay too), and they're forecasting that will continue this year as well.

Last two years I agree, and fueled by a acceleration of business for tech companies. But continue this year? Who is forecasting that?
Yes, I'm just now also discovering a disturbing pattern that goes back quite some time. I really wasn't aware of any of this before. If I'm allowed to speculate why this doesn't get more traction (and why the post was quickly flagged and my comment here was downvoted to oblivion), these are the reasons I come up with:

1. Patreon has over time managed to remove the obvious and explicit CSAM content, i.e. real photographs and films but also in some part in art form.

2. Patreon has teamed up with reputable (?) organizations like THORN and INHOPE that are offering counter-CSAM service. Why this hasn't been more effective is so far a mystery to me, but Patreon can at least hold them up as a sign of innocence.

3. What is left is in a shady gray area, that isn't obviously CSAM to flyby visitors to Patreon, but that on deeper inspection obviously are catering to, encouraging, and profiting off CSAM addicts.

4. Patreon has a vast number of creators that have common interests with Patreon and they will vehemently attack anything that blemishes the platform, as that could possibly affect their own bottom line.

5. The latest story making the headlines about the reasons for the sacking of the security team is not completely verified and could be largely made up. Which gives Patreon a loophole to issue strong denials, all while studiously avoiding to address issue of the accounts that operate in the gray area mentioned above.
I don't understand what you mean then
Which SQL engine supports none but ANSI key words? You're implicitly commenting in binary, but you didn't have to do any math.
> Everyone should know that the best camera you have is the one with you.

Not really. There's not really any point taking a smartphone camera out of your pocket at an airshow, or at a zoo, to take a photo of the Moon or a myriad of other scenarios where the lens is the dominant factor.

Sometimes the best choice is not to take the shot.
I've found myself needing some snippet of code that has a very targeted function, and whenever I see something online that's close enough, I sometimes paste that in my code and then make the necessary adjustments. This pattern is common enough (at least in my workflow) that if I could just start writing in the editor and it did a decent job figuring out what I was going for (in much the same way as my google query), and then let me dive straight into adjusting it, that's kinda nice.
The short answers is yes, there are various safeguards and countermeasures in place, some on the protocol and some on the social/incentive layer. But it would take dozens of pages to explain all of these in detail, so if you are truly interested in this you can search for "proof of stake security" or "proof of stake centralization risk" and you will find a huge number of resources.
I thought this project was dead. It is good to see some progress on this.
He must know his statement is pointless. How many times have we seen big aquisitions with promises not to mess with things, only for it to happen a year or two down the line.

You don't drop 20bn on something to let it sit at it's current level.

They'll be integrating creative cloud and making it part of the subscription. I dare say they'll close the loophole on the free plan as well that lets you have unlimited designs.
Not sure why the downvotes, just look at discussions here on HN about cyclists/escotters drivers wearing helmets. Cant find the link on phone now but it was pretty eye opening.

People fighting tooth and nails that without helmets they ride safer (what?), they have more situational awareness (more what? we talk about cyclists helmets) and various other arguments that make 0 sense to me, just emotional swings of people rejecting being told what to do by default.

My 2 cents - I didnt wear helmet on bike during youth since nobody did. But when I bought my new xc bike in 2008 I bought a helmet with it. Within a month I had accident due to screwup of my GF back then, where I hit the ground face down hard, losing few seconds of my memory. There was spiky stone in the ground where my forehead hit full force. I would be dead for a long time now if I didnt wear that helmet. No accident before or after, but you only need that 1 moment, same with safety belts.
Interesting framing. I'd frame it as Bitcoin having a local unexpected environmental positive externality. (As opposed to negative, which it has most other places without an unplugged methane leak.)
With respect, you've missed the point, as spelled out in the title.

"No means no" is a tautology. It's performative language. Not all performative language is outgroup behavior we should vilify. Performing a larger statement about consent with a terse slogan is a good thing.
Not necessarily. Mostly. But people are sensitively to the result (too smooth) without knowing how to. Now you have. Solution some basic idea like how to access raw (specific apps or a setting in iphone) and which stage to turn to the left (camera raw I presume).

Please. Do not be too harsh.
Hackers build these platforms. It's important for them to see and understand the common failure modes.
I think it's largely because speech recognition operates on only one sentence at a time. If you need to clarify a term said earlier or provide an explanatory phrase describing an earlier one, it can't connect the second utterance to the first. No context is retained. That's a surprisingly big limitation in terms of human conversation.

Until NLP can create a short-term memory model to retain info on prior utterances, Alexa's comprehension will be limited to self-contained single phrases -- spells and incantations.
Yes, it can even cause you to drop out of college https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32799090
For one, Photoshop & Illustrator have a significant history and feature advantage on most competitors.

But for two: "How can a $150B+ company exist with this much disdain" -- Have you looked at Oracle lately?
Really late here, but I have some first hand experience with this exact issue (raiding our business and everything.)

To be brief, and what I assume happened, is that military electronics specs lots of old outdated/obsolete electronic components. It can be exceedingly difficult to get that part changed (if it works don't fix it) and often can be exceedingly difficult to find parts from authorized distributors. On the back end too, those distributors also need to ensure they are getting legit parts.

SO what can end up happening is you desperately need a part to move production along, and you yank on all your distributors to get you some. One of those distributors then goes out and gets "contaminated" parts from a "usually good" source.

You end up with those parts, test them all, they test good, put them in, and by doing so assume all responsibility for them. "All responsibility" means you are legally liable for using that part. Cue FBI raid.

Really the core issue is that the military uses a lot of stuff that works amazing, but is contracted from parts that are long out of production. Updating is a difficult and risky task, because it's not really an "update" as much as a "find similar parts to build the same thing". Which means moving from a tested and known good product, to a brand new untested one. Naturally, there is a lot of resistance to this, and a changing something like a single chip could take a year or more of testing and auth.
I remember watching Jacques Villeneuve crash pretty hard in the 2000 Australian Gran Prix (tragically a loose wheel stuck and killed a marshal). I read an interview with him later, he said he ran back to the pits after the crash, but he couldn't even walk the next day. Adrenalin does funny things.

I dropped a motorcycle at the track a little over a year ago, and bounced off the tire wall in the process. Had a few bumps and bruises, but felt fine, until my back freaked out a month later. I got it sorted without too much trouble, but whiplash injuries do funny things.
Yep, if you change what you said to be qualified by a specific location it can become an accurate observation. If I say “people are at least 6 feet tall” that’s totally wrong. “All people on the basketball court I’m looking at right now are at least 6 feet tall” is a different matter entirely. That can easily be true.
Not everyone is equally motivated, that's for damn sure.
Agreed. My top concern with cryptocurrency is the huge waste of energy inherent to PoW. It's really, really good to see ETH pull this off. There are a pile of other problems in crypto, but it's fantastic to see this biggest (IMO) issue addressed by the #2 cryptocurrency. I actually thought it might never happen. It's a day to celebrate for sure.
The ETH core team who pulled off a very ambitious migration to POS might be different than the run of the mill scammers who are involved with crypto. Seems weird to group them all together when they appear to be very different.
Can ‘The Merge’ Save Crypto?
This is really the fault of the safety commission for requiring them to remove so many of their train cars from service based on a single minor accident with zero injuries.

If we treated car safety the same way that they are treating this, we would never allow a single car on the roads. There is not a single model of car that is remotely close to the level of safety that Metrorail has achieved. By reducing service so drastically, they will inevitably push people to drive instead leading to more deaths.