skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> In essence, bitcoin was a technological solution to a problem which would have been solved more elegantly by changing financial laws, and requiring banks to offer non-reversible transactions.

Ahh, this may explain why I don't see how cryptocurrency is a good thing. I consider the fact that banks do not allow fully non-reversible transactions as a very strongly desirable feature, not a bug to be done away with.
I was just watching some baby birds who kept calling for the parents for food, and it must be ancient evolutionary speaking as well?
Mining pools do this.
> There's a very important difference in not emitting carbon into the atmosphere and actively removing carbon from the atmosphere.

The phrase "removing a megaton of carbon from the atmosphere every week" is globally syntactically ambiguous. It can be read as "removing [a megaton of carbon from the atmosphere] every week" or as "removing [a megaton of carbon from the atmosphere every week]". The second interpretation means removing a source. Both interpretations are roughly equally valid, although "eliminating" would sound better.

"eliminating the emission of a ton of CO2 every week" is a similarly ambiguous phrase which can be interpreted as [the emission of a ton of CO2 every week] or [the emission of a ton of CO2], every week.
That is jury nullification.
Nodes automatically forward valid blocks to all connected peers. This means that the initial miner would send it to, say, 100 peers, all of whom would reject it. Why send that block to anyone else, wasting resources and posing an attack vector (spamming the network with bad blocks, hogging resources and slowing/breaking the p2p network layer).
I remember how Fireworks *felt* to use. Just seeing that name written again gave me warm fuzzy feelings. Fireworks came about at a time when web design was almost entirely something you did in HTML. The workflow to go from bitmap to web was really bad, so most of us just did things natively.

Fireworks was the first tool that allowed you to draw, but maintain the constraints (and portability) of HTML and CSS as it came in to prominence.

The closest thing I have had to that feeling again was when a friend of mine did some design for me and shared it in Figma. What I thought were bitmaps were vectors!! I had so much fun bringing that in to my site (which I ended up doing in Webflow, because apparently I haven't kept up with the times enough to hand code reasonably quickly).

I've used the latest and greatest Adobe products, they definitively do not have this feeling. There is really no delight to be found. I know they are incredibly powerful and near and dear to many people, but for the young and restless they are boring.
The only hope is that since Figma is subscription revenue, they will immediately feel the pain of neglecting the product. I’d imagine it’s a mature enough, well known enough product that you could say it’s already stolen as much share as it would from adobe’s cash cows. Potentially it’s the place users get started nowadays and adobe could leverage it by making it easier for those users to explore adobe’s other products.
Yeah, M&A are joining of forces. So it might well be what you said.
California files lawsuit against Amazon for blocking price competition
Well, statistically, it's probably not a significant enough probability to be a risk worth acting on
There are two problems here

1) let a third party handle authentication (Code)

2) let a third party handle authentication (SSO)

Number 1: don't do that
Number 2: Only do that if you are in control of SSO, or if you are very certain you won't have problems contacting the provider. (so not google in this case)
Your analogy fails because digital goods are non-rivalrous. Were I to shoplift a video from Walmart, they would no longer possess the video; my gain would be their loss. Obviously this is not true in the digital domain, so moral reasoning about physical stores is unhelpful.

What I receive, when I visit YouTube, is a list of links: invitations to stream certain videos. Google hopes that I will choose to accept all of its offers, since some of the videos are paid advertisements: but it's my computer, and my network connection, and I can do what I wish. Google cannot obligate me to receive any of its videos, any more than I can force Google to supply anything its servers don't want to share; the streaming operation must be mutually agreed.

As it happens, I do not care to spend my time or my bandwidth streaming the ads Google offers me, and I have therefore configured my browser, which runs on my computer, which I own, to act in accordance with my preferences. If Google does not like this arrangement, they are free to change it; nobody is forcing them to supply me with video content.
First ad that I reported is already gone. I just reported the second one... We'll see if this one will be gone as well and if another crops up.

EDIT:
One hour passed and it's gone. None other showed up.
you don't understand how economics work right? ask mexicans how happy they are to have high earning americans moving to mexico?

https://www.latimes.com/world-nation/story/2022-07-27/americ....

once you remove a country frontier, the market forces that are leashed to that country will be destroyed. radically transforming the country economy in ways that no one in this country but the 1% will benefit.
Yes, true. Some economists suggest that the adherence to the gold standard prolonged the great depression. I suppose in some sense the entire economy is a kind of game where the goal (should be at least) to maximize the benefit to all participants. Having a stably valued token (fiat currency, crypto, gold backed, etc.) is a decision variable, not the objective function.
The market is caught up in the long-term value of Figma, but it's worth it to Adobe even if they bought it to run it into the ground.
Much like HN itself.
I have definitely been in stores where their card readers were down and it was cash only.

Personally I default to chipped credit cards but carry a few bucks with me too.

Also in general I don’t like to be utterly dependent on my phone especially if I’m traveling.
Many people don't know this but a bank's primary business is lending, not borrowing. It's totally possible that it was a bank that did almost exclusively commercial loans and didn't have any retail savings/checking accounts.
Well if your definition of bonafide smart is that they’re an engineer, then there are pretty few. If you think design and visual communication has any value whatsoever, then yeah, lots of people are using it, some of whom are very smart. That’s why they’re worth $20B after all.
I think we actually have pretty widespread agreement about who the terrorists are. Again, this is a slippery-slope argument of the form, "but what if they start pursuing people we don't all agree are the terrorists?" And the answer to that is that if things were different I would have different opinions, obviously.
https://winworldpc.com/library/operating-systems
If you were aware of how many things make babies cry I think you would be quite embarrassed about this comment
Of course not. Dude is only disrespectful in the context of professionalism, like instead of calling someone Dr Smith, you call him dude. But like most people, I refuse, when possible to ack those assumed titles. Exceptions for when they are performing title duty.

Disrespectful terms would be things like: putz, schmuck, douche(bag), neckbeard, and many others.
Yeah but we will still have Sketch, which rules. Nobody uses Illustrator and Photoshop to do web design anymore.
Plantronics 5200 great ear and mic noise cancellation. I have one and one for backup not expensive for its capabilities

https://youtu.be/VkH2tq5jENM
https://youtu.be/0hF2rrUAdA0
Interesting, I was not aware, I guess it's kinda new. Has anyone here used it and can give feedback on it?
yes, ether is scarce at any given point.
> if I can't run it to look at their work and actively comment/collaborate with them, it's not a useful workflow.

But you can do that though:

https://www.sketch.com/docs/browsing-web-documents/
If you’re gonna make wild prophecies about how crypto is going to completely democratize control of the money supply - and crypto boosters love to rant about stuff like that - then yeah, people are going to keep on finding fault with it until someone comes up with a new replacement for “proof of turning a fuckton of energy into waste heat” that isn’t “proof of having a fuckton of money invested in the coin”.

The number two crypto left Proof of Waste and that’s good, yay! But the whole scene is still in the shadow of Bitcoin’s Proof of Waste, and until that does the same, or shrinks to an irreverent shitcoin, people are gonna hate on all crypto for its energy usage.
Ehhh, that will just produce tons of new ETC (or whatever is the coin name), which will dump the price, as there are no actual users there. And they will need to turn it off.
What it takes to make a game by yourself
And now all of the Figma users are saying "Oh [crap]... now I need to find a new tool to use." When is the last time Adobe acquired something and it improved? They destroyed Fireworks and Dreamweaver when they acquired Macromedia (which they only did because they wanted Flash). At this point I'm tempted to swear off Adobe products entirely -- except that the combo of Lightroom and Photoshop are the industry standard for photography.
Embedding Methods for Image Search
The conspicuously missing tech in the rundown he gave is ML, which actually seems to be meeting up to a lot of the hype and I think will be pretty revolutionary, though not as revolutionary as a lot of the enthusiasts believe.

Even if ML models hit an unexpected scaling problem, they're still very very useful. Extremely disruptive, too. Then again, it could be ages before we figure out how to put them to the best use.
Damnit. Fair point. Doesn't quite make the same point as before :) But still. 400k jobs is insane for 1 company.
My web browsing just got interrupted by a new tab that opened without asking me, informing me of this acquisition. I have a 'one strike' rule for abusive behavior in extensions, and immediately removed it.
We call that “taxes” and people who are not billionaires pay more than 10% of their income a month
Yes! here: https://docs.digger.dev/quickstart/deploy-your-first-app
> These people create demand for the asset

I don't think I really understood what you meant by this... Nor did I really follow your overall point here, if I'm to be honest...

> means that the network is not properly decentralized

ummmm..... this just sounds like a convenient excuse in case of failure.

- "Somebody did a 51% attack!"
- "Oh, well it's not the system's fault, it just means that the implementation was bad"

Actually 51% attacks are a theoretical feature of these systems, before you even get to the implementation details.
Do you read apple's privacy policy? They go to extreme lengths to ensure none of the diagnostic data they collect is personally identifiable without user permission. They invest millions into certain programs [1] to ensure they can collect data in a way that doesn't even point back to any specific identifier.

I just don't see how you could equate apple to every other company and accuse them of spying on their users when it is clearly not the case. You have options when it comes to phones and computers and only one fortune 500 company seems seriously committed to keeping their users personal info private.

[1] https://www.apple.com/privacy/docs/Differential_Privacy_Over...
Adobe killed Fireworks hoping their competitor ImageReady would prevail.
Hey, author of the article here. It is difficult to prove anything when none of the former members of the security team are talking and Patreon is stonewalling. I can tell you what I have discovered though, HUNDREDS of allegations going back a decade.

If you read through my article a little more, I found two different glass door posts from a couple of years ago talking about child porn, hundreds of Trustpilot reviews from Patreon users saying that they have reported CP and been ignored, in many cases those reporting CP had their accounts suspended.

I have spoken to a number of people who have told me that they have repeatedly tried to report what look like organised CP rings on Patreon, only to be ignored time and time again. Social media is littered with complains about this going back years, allegations are EVERYWHERE. There is very clearly a serious problem over at Patreon, and I have been told it is because internally they have a policy of not taking action against creators unless law enforcement or a court order is involved.

I would argue that the allegations you see stretching back years are a direct result of this policy. Patreon is in serious need of law enforcement investigation, this has obviously been allowed to develop into a systemic issue internally.
For the last 12 years I did everything to avoid Adobe at any cost (I used it from version 5). Creative Cloud was my biggest nightmare and single point of every crash of macOS and Windows that I had.

It’s a very sad day for designers.
Does YouTube count? I know it's had it's controversy but it's still miles better than if it hadn't been acquired.
Surprising that the article doesn't mention Judith Butler, since it was her later, idiosyncratic use of the term "performative" that gained currency among bloggers and Tumblr user and so on, and from there entered common discourse. Now it seems to have taken on a pejorative sense kind of resembling "virtue-signaling." (Feel free to correct me, anyone, if I'm mistaken in my history.)
> When the president ultimately decided that the Iraqi regime must be ousted by force, he was influenced by five key factors:

> 1) Saddam was a threat to U.S. interests before 9/11....He had developed WMD and used chemical weapons fatally against Iran and Iraqi Kurds. Iraq's official press issued statements praising the 9/11 attacks on the U.S.

> 2) The threat of renewed aggression by Saddam was more troubling and urgent after 9/11.

> 3) To contain the threat from Saddam, all reasonable means short of war had been tried unsuccessfully for a dozen years.

> 4) While there were large risks involved in a war, the risks of leaving Saddam in power were even larger. The U.S. and British pilots patrolling the no-fly zones were routinely under enemy fire, and a larger confrontation – over Kuwait again or some other issue – appeared virtually certain to arise

And probably the biggest factor:

> 5) America after 9/11 had a lower tolerance for such dangers.

But let's just ignore history and claim that there was no other impetus for war other than making accusations that turned out to be false.

https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB121504452359324921
> systematic oppression from totalitarian bloodthirsty regimes

How do sanctions help an average Joe stuck living under such a regime?

Now they are even poorer, have worse nutrition and medicine.
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One of the top users of Figma by time-spent-in-app in its early days was the founder of a little tool called Notion.

So apparently spending your days in Figma can result in negative ROI shit like designing a billion dollar product.

But hey, I used to have the same gut feeling…that anyone who does something different to what I do all day is worthless. Then I got older and learned my model of the world, with me at the center of it, was naive and incorrect.
An emergency room physician once told me, they used to call the first sunny days of spring "Nierenwetter" ("kidney weather").
> Perhaps you want to put a webcam in your bathroom, so all the people of the internet can watch you eliminate and perform your daily cleaning rituals, and you have absolutely no problem with that (many people don't!).

Nobody is doing that. Nobody is suggesting we do that.

Again, if things were different, then they'd be different, and I'd have different opinions. But things aren't different. Things are as they are.

Just more evidence that every privacy argument starts with, "but what if..."
Why would Gitlab want Figma? Could it afford it? I am sure the owners of Figma thought this was the best available option. It’s their company - not yours or the governments. If they want to sell their property it’s theirs to sell.

Would Gitlab make it a better product if it was sold to them?
An Oxford comma a day keeps the diaresis at bay.
>[ACQUISITOR] is deeply committed to keeping [STARTUP] operating autonomously and I will continue to serve as CEO, reporting to [NEW OVERLORD]

You won't believe what happens next.
Pretty much where we are in terms of climate change. Knowing that we need to do something, everybody fearing being the first to move.
In case people are too young to remember, Macromedia was well on its way to matching Adobe's application suite – except Macromedia apps had far better UX, better performance, and better integration with the web. There's a good case that Adobe would no longer exist today had Adobe not acquired Macromedia.
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The person you replied to is making an accusation of intentional fraud.

Although I don’t think that is likely. If you were going to defraud your customers with components you know are fake, the US government would be the last customer you’d choose to send them to.
Not your server, not your data.

Host your own mission critical services, and don’t commit too much to (especially free) third party services.
I find it very fascinating: I'm in Switzerland, and the 4th result to [what kind of taxes on has to pay if one receives donations] links me to a good result: https://www.irs.gov/newsroom/money-received-through-crowdfun....

But when I connect to Google on VPN "from the US", I can't find it in the first 3 pages. Very strange.
Anti-trust law, please.
Most people want someone else to deal with the hassle. Most people don't want to run their own server(s), so even if people did use IRC or Matrix those people would host their community on servers that are controlled by others who could lock you out of it anytime they wanted.

> How do people feel ok taking such a big risk?

Well for most people they don't see the risks involved and those who are aware of the risks don't believe it will ever happen to them. Just look at Google accounts as an example. People use Gmail, get themselves locked out of them, and lose pretty much all their digital lives all the time but people still happily rely on Gmail.

Some quickly Googled stats about Gmail (take these number with a pinch of salt cause I've not looked into whats supporting these numbers - https://techjury.net/blog/gmail-statistics/ )

> Gmail remains the most popular email platform with over 1.8 billion users worldwide.

> As of April 2022, Gmail holds 29.5% of the email client market share.

> Gmail accounts for 27% of all email opens.

> 75% of all Gmail users access their email on mobile devices.

> 61% of 18-29-year-olds use Gmail.
in the UK. I only apply for Uk based remote.

what kind of red flags? i have 5 jobs, averaging about 3 years each, working since 2005 continuously.

my resume is just my work experience with a short summary of what i do now, which is build websites for one of the top 5 most trafficked website. i don't like to write about myself, i don't have any blog, but i do have a lot of projects i could share, but no one ever asks...

i thought the issue is that maybe the perception is people in my age bracket are less tolerant for any kind of nonsense. maybe companies prefer fresh faced people, willing to tolerate things that someone like me won't.
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I read it. It just read to me like you do not like having to constantly learn new things.

I do not need to be an expert at something new every month. I just have to learn enough to unblock high-value efforts no one else wants to take on. The problems that come up more often I get better at solving faster over time.

Not all skills are even work related, but just challenging myself. Last month I learned to solve a Rubiks cube in spare time. I will not break any records and am not an expert, but I can solve it in a minute which is good enough. I move on to the next skill.

I am not an expert at anything, but I have spent months doing a bit of everything at one point or another. I tend to identify risks most others miss from having breadth-first experience in how entire stacks fit together from kernel system calls to network packets to end user frontend javascript.

I ended up pivoting to full time security engineering several years ago as a result.

Security is in a lot more demand than devops/sysadmin these days but all sysadmins have experience in security. Something to consider.
Hey there, this my article you are discussing.

I can tell you that I have discovered HUNDREDS of allegations going back a decade.

I found two different glass door posts from a couple of years ago talking about child porn, hundreds of Trustpilot reviews from Patreon users saying that they have reported CP and been ignored, in many cases those reporting CP had their accounts suspended. I have spoken to a number of people who have told me that they have repeatedly tried to report what look like organised CP rings on Patreon, only to be ignored time and time again.

Social media is littered with complains about this going back years, allegations are EVERYWHERE. There is very clearly a serious problem over at Patreon, and I have been told it is because internally they have a policy of not taking action against creators unless law enforcement or a court order is involved.
From the Search.io homepage, “we are the only search technology supporting full upserts. Your updates are instantly live in milliseconds, no matter the scale.“

Anyone able to speculate how they were able to achieve this? Or for that matter beyond good sales & marketing - what technically gave them an edge that market actually needed?
Of course GoCardless have to invest engineering effort into scaling the technology they use.

The company doubles in size every year, with totally different products and use patterns.

If you're under the impression that purchasing an Oracle database would mean GC can let go of their engineers then I have a bridge to sell you!
I notice the overall sentiment is negative here, but Adobe is one of few companies I can think of that seems to acquire solid companies with solid products and a view to keep and develop them over time. Macromedia's stuff fitted into the Adobe ecosystem very well, as did the stuff from Behance, Fotolia, Aviary and Mixamo. As a long time Adobe customer, I'm feeling very positive about this move.
How has Desantis restricted voting rights?
Yeah IntelliJ by far is the most popular at the moment. We have been recommended to use it even by our university (in Italy) for the exam "Algorithms and data structures in Java".
I see you pretend to use buttons using styles. https://www.buttoncheatsheet.com/ That is bad, and you should fix bad.
Many of us are current Figma users who actively avoid Adobe products because they are overpriced crap.

Parts of the Adobe software suite has more than 30 years of technical debt, and it shows.

What's so hard to understand?
Switching to straight HDMI instead of USB-C to HDMI fixed it!
I still run a 22 year old copy Fireworks 4 because of Adobe's shenanigans. Just this morning I had to crop and resize a 1 MB image for display on a website and was able to do that in Fireworks in about 2 minutes resulting in 15k PNG and was on to my next task.