skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Maybe (like most people), you never get locked out.

You can be stubborn and rely on a platform your audience/community probably doesn’t want to use and have a very steep uphill battle to success. Or you can take a risk and rely on a platform you don’t own and have a (somewhat) less steep uphill battle to success.

If the platform is good enough and the benefits of using it are significant enough, people are going to take the risk. See: App Store development, selling on Amazon instead of your own e-commerce store, etc.
I completely understand; C&C and Need for Speed were an important part of my youth and to see them treated so badly has left me with quite the poor opinion of EA. But for some reason, their shitty way of running the game business seems to work out, and they just keep going. I just hope they won't kill Battlefield as well, though with recent installments they certainly seem to be trying.
The subtleties of proper B+Tree implementation
I think this is nice, it forces people that want to participate to have skin in the game.

With proof of work there is incentive for people not invested in crypto to mine as much as possible and sell everything.

If a big enough computer is created, someone not interested in crypto can take money away from it, or if the computer is big enough even destroy it, a quantum computer for instance, should make a 51% attack on a network as proof it is a quantum computer.

I know it is unlikely, I myself think is impossible. But the incentive is there.

With proof of stake there is no incentive to do it, a 51% attack is idiotic since you have to buy so much.
I don't think "the government" does anything unless someone complains. In this case, the process is to send a letter requesting a "Business Review" [1]. It's probably a "fill out this simple 30 page form, wait 2.5 years (max!) and then have your review request politely declined" situation, but I suppose it's foolish to complain before trying. It feels like one of those processes that costs lawyer money that another business would usually pay for; however it's not clear what business would pay for this - maybe a heavy user of Figma? But then even if you 'win' and stop the sale, doesn't that alienate you from the founders?

1 - https://www.justice.gov/atr/business-reviews
Lol, I didn't realise how this sounds, I was essentially combining preventive care (measures to prevent disease...) and early childhood care.
It amazes me that people posting on a YC controlled board whose entire purpose for existing is to fund startups long enough to get an exit - statistically most likely through an acquisition by a bigger company - wants to stop acquisitions.

The funding environment for startups would be a lot worse if investors thought that the only way they could recoup their investments is through exits. Look how few of YC companies actually go public.

Even companies that do go public are often just surviving long enough to hopefully get acquired.

The founders at Figma chose to be acquired. It’s their product and their company.
Meaning it failed to detect a drop in oxygenation? Unless it fails 100% of the time, it would still be useful since “alerts on some non-zero percentage of life threatening conditions” is better than the alternative which is no alerts at all.

We had one and I think it made one or two false positives where basically it fell off. I can’t say anything about false negatives since none of our children stopped breathing. (It had two alerts, one for losing skin contact and one for low oxygen. The first one we got all the time when forgetting to pause the base station before removing the sock, so that bit certainly worked.)
McGrath, AK is at 330ft of elevation in a river basin surrounded by mountains, 170mi from it's nearest shoreline (as the bird flies). Air temperatures at sea level never reach the extremes of coldest air temperatures on Earth, which are always at elevation. This is somewhat due to air temperature being a function of air pressure (the denser the air, the warmer it gets), and air pressure is greatest at sea level. But it is largely due to the freezing temperature of sea water, and that the warmest water will be at the surface due to convection. Warm water rises to the surface, and the coldest water temperatures are at the deepest bottom of the ocean, and never colder than the freezing temperature of sea water.
These are modern technologies. The infrastructure to use the methane isn't there, so it needs to be monetized locally. Bitcoin mining is one of the very few options available to do this at scale.
UPDATE n. 2: Dylan Field (CEO of Figma) has addressed these kind of concerns on their public disclore of the fact: https://www.figma.com/blog/a-new-collaboration-with-adobe/

Citing him:

> Adobe is deeply committed to keeping Figma operating autonomously and I will continue to serve as CEO, reporting to David Wadhwani.

As others have said, there’s really a missing OSS version out there that can compete feature-by-feature with Sketch / Figma / XD. Layout engine capabilities are the biggest missing feature in competitors.
Making 9 sliced graphics for the web is obsolete though.

That said Flash also supported a bunch of innovation for its time, and it too was obsoleted.

Maybe 9 slice graphic were already dead at Fireworks’ peak.

Figma is officially way more overrated than this stuff ever was.

Does anyone know a person who’s like, bonafide smart, using Figma? I feel like everyone I know who does “Figma” day to day is doing negative ROI shit. It’s like anti-R&D. It’s the ultimate bullshit job for non engineers.
> You also (almost always) try to preserve anonymity in a democracy.

You most definitely do not. When you turn up to vote, you get asked for id.

EDIT: your actual vote is anonymous, yes. But your participation in the voting is not anonymous. Blockchain allows for anonymous participation, so to say.
Let's hope. Sketch always seemed to be amazingly well-crafted software. I'd love an online version.
The best I ever did with a startup was in 2002 when everybody went under. I made about $200k in 10 months buying routers and switches from startups and selling them to VARs. I have a folder somewhere in storage with all of my stock certs. I framed the worthless one from Napster :)
Well except that debit cards always require PINs in the US and credit cards only sometimes do in eg Europe.
> making it really damn easy to print anything, from any device built since

I guess at some point they had to ruin it by making all consumer printers use buggy wifi stacks.
Very nice. I just tried this public domain image from the Smithsonian's collection and the results are beautiful.

https://www.si.edu/object/washington-dc-tree-lined-street:si...
Mind-mush strikes again.

That should read "adherence to the principle of elections themselves remains necessary".

Point being that any governance system fails where this doesn't exist or cannot be imposed.
Probably a regional issue, considering this hasn’t been posted yet. I’m in the north-eastern US.
Links to code:

https://github.com/dendronhq/dendron
WFH is great except its really changing the way cities work.
Calling fellow commenters stupid or ignorant isn’t right. Please reconsider.
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Every designer I know moved away from XD to Figma and now Adobe are effectively forcing people into XD as Figma is dead in the water now.

I suppose this leaves Sketch? I imagine they are over the moon at this news.
The USA has a recent history of imposing extraterritorial legislation. USAians are apparently unwelcome at UK banks; transferring money from the UK to the USA risks unwelcome attention from the IRS, even if you've done nothing wrong.

This damages US businesses more than it does overseas businesses. Sure, UK banks lose some US customers. But actually they didn't have to lose those customers; all they were required to do was exercise enhanced diligence over the sources of funds transferred to USA. The UK banks chose to eject those US customers, because it was cheaper.

I don't know what to do about this. I think US legislators like extraterritorial legislation because it looks strong, and because it has a certain flavour of "fixing the world". Most USAians don't have overseas financial interests, so aren't impacted. But, for example, my US half-sister declined her share of my late father's legacy, because importing it to the USA would have been too costly as well as too much hassle.
When I was a kid, it was the AM radio. Then FM became popular.

Napster is how I really started to discover new content, and started buying CDs at a prodigious rate... then the record companies started suing customers, and I stopped buying CDs.

When disk space became cheap, I ripped all my CDs to MP3. I've been using those forever.

Since then, sometimes I'll hear something on the radio, but lately it's just YouTube play lists that people share.
I feel silly reading your reply. I didn't think dyne was a standalone word!
You can virtually model clothing on your own body using the Walmart app
I don't understand US anti-trust enforcement protocol. Is this before or after anti-trust process?

I think there will be more than one person against this.
Yes this is an incorrect use of “whataboutism”.

It is supposed to mean the rhetorical trick of using other’s faults to distract from and normalize one’s own wrongdoing.

It is not a general defense against accusations of hypocrisy leveled by a third party.
I definitely have, and I wouldn't use an electric furnace nowadays unless there was no alternative. That's what the 'I'm kidding' was meant for. Sadly, heat pumps can't mine Bitcoins on the side afaik, so I couldn't use those for the analogy :P
Now tripled as of this writing.
I have also tried to contact support and it was painful.

At first you get an automated response from some bot which is unhelpfull. After some more diggin and poking around you get to a human but they just told me that they don't know details about flagging and cannot do anything in regards to these processes. So basically useless.

I really don't understand why it got so popular

edit: typo
Adobe should have died a decade ago.
The meaning of ”fat” is also very different from the contemporary.
with figma’s adoption as a standard, we gave up cyclical innovation for continuous improvement, and have a trade where technical skills are highly transferrable and highly teachable. the cost of bad stewardship of figma won’t just be the loss of a tool, it’ll be the breakdown of a whole layer of the digital design practice.

seeing that adoption of framer has been so poor they have to lean on web export as a selling point, i don’t think we’ll get another tool as powerful as figma that young designers are as willing to spend five years mastering and collectively adopt as a standard—-more likely the design tools ecosystem will look like the front-end frameworks ecosystem.

do you remember what it was like in the field ten years ago? even with promising upstart sketch in play, it was unlike anything i deal with today, and it sucked
If I remember well, back then the black background wasn't perfect black, but something like very dark green.
I have recently played again (with a LCD) games that I used to play as a kid with a CRT monitor and in some cases the colors look extremely ugly in the LCD. I don't know why
I chose the word associated very deliberately. It's hard to show causation in humans for ethical reasons.
> So they should get 12x the reward as the average? The average US wage is about $55k, so that would be, for a successful entrepreneur, 660k (and $0 for an unsuccessful one). I don't think anyone has a problem with this I certainly don't.

That's not how averages work. If 1 in 10 of entrepreneurs succeed at all and 1 in a million succeed notably, all of those millions of $0 outcomes flow to the 1 in a million (or 1 in 50 million?) success cases to make the average come out to whatever it is.

If it worked like you suggest and 10% succeed, you'd have 10 @ $660K and 90 at $0K for an average of $66K.
> Does anybody really believe it will ever stop?

I don't. Regulation is the key in my opinion. Not fully sure what policies need to be enacted, but at the very least prohibit automated bans except for very trivial cases that don't really need human review.
Nah, they just have different rules for different huge tech companies.

FTC is blocking Meta’s acquisition of Within, the maker of a VR fitness app - an extremely niche product. Meanwhile Microsoft and Adobe seem confident that they can close on deals to buy Activision and Figma.
I have long suspected that Twitter (or people at Twitter) are colluding with the crypto scammers for a payout.
> What about it is inconvenient?

You have to remember not one, not two, not three, but several digits. Not only that. You have to look at a keypad. Oh, and you have to push buttons. Not once, not twice, but several times! Pity the poor fool who accidentally pushes the wrong button. More looking at a keypad and button pushing!

Yeah, I don't get it either. My only guess is the customer support calls for forgotten pins are more expensive to deal with than dealing with the incidents of fraud the pin would prevent.
> I'm not defending Cuban regime (...)

Well, except you are. You're trying to shift the attention away from Cuba's track record on human rights abuses by arbitrarily picking distractions that frankly you care nothing about, as if pointing out these distractions justified Cuba's long history of oppression and abuse.
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> For genuine contractors who are working with decent clients and obviously aren't disguised employees the rules haven't changed and neither have the tax obligations.

The problem is that whether someone is genuine or not is no longer relevant, because you may be genuine, but risk averse client says you are not and there is nothing you can do about it.
Every single genuine contractor I know now works in-scope of IR35. They pay their business costs out of their deemed salary, which is insane.

> The solution is not to work with bad clients who try to dump their obligations on you!

That's not a solution if the pool of "good" clients is getting smaller and smaller. If you now have much longer downtime because it is much more difficult to find a "good" client - say when it used to take a couple of weeks or even days, now it takes months - it makes the business no longer viable.
"We are ruining the environment more slowly."

er, I mean...

"We are saving the environment!"
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32850178
> "Was enjoying the competition and thought Figma was well ahead of Adobe to be honest."

They were… That's why Adobe bought 'em.
>The popularity of Discord always surprises me! It takes hard work and time to create an active community

Free dedicated voice chat with rich text chat. It was meant to take on Teamspeak, Ventrilo, Mumble etc. And it successfully did.

>or IRC if you're savvy

Totally different use case, not even comparable
Because while gold bars might be technically decentralized, that doesn't mean they are practically decentralized too. In fact, gold bars are probably 99% centralized in corporate and governmental vaults, neither of which are openly audited. Also; lots of 'paper gold' is sold, suppressing the value of it.
Oh interesting, so having ambient noise helps babies sleep?
> This is not to say that words with clear meanings or categories with sharp boundaries don’t exist at all (e.g. triangles, grandmothers and odd numbers) and that trying to clarify vague terms is an utter waste of time. But acknowledging that in many cases absolute precision is unattainable should make the process of clarification much less frustrating, more informed and therefore more fruitful.

Such an important principle to keep in mind!
> building a GitHub, Okta or Auth0 clone

Because it is is not necessary. Setting up something like Github onsite takes 1 hour. Network effect really is overrated.

Where it hurts are payment systems, credit cards etc.. And there are alternatives.
I'm on the opposite side of yours. I believe that blockchain has a bright future as a currency, but not in logistic.
Blockchain money is great because its inflation is very predictable, everyone can use it without permission (versus the slow banking system).
I don't believe in blockchain in logistic because database corruption has never been an issue, the problem has always been that people did not insert any data or corrupted data in the database. Blockchain only insure that the database won't be corrupted (not that the data it uses are correct), so it doesn't solve the main issue of logistic.
I used Fireworks for years for web design stuff - it was simple to use, but fully featured, a real joy to use.

As soon as Adbobe bought Macromedia, I knew they would shitcan it because of Photoshop and Illustrator. And I knew other nice Macromedia tools, like Dreamweaver, would have a similar fate. Such a shame, and buying a competitor just to kill it feels so wrong :(

I'm not totally sure if Figma will suffer a similar fate, but I do think it's going to get progressively more expensive, harder to use, buggier, and generally be more user-hostile.
I would love to have people move to this model, but its an extra layer of complexity that the masses will balk at, so they will stick to Facebook or Discord or even Slack.
Second issue is more political-ideological. Stopping crime is just an excuse. Current states will never allow a competing currency (against Fiat).
I saw an article yesterday saying that Ethermine (the largest mining pool) is indeed shutting down. I was surprised too! It seems like they're switching their business model to a staking pool.
Right, and it's already a crime.
main discussion at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32850178
Actually, I would consider it news. I learned something new as I have considered making a second discord account, one personal, one for more professional things since orgs seem to be picking it. I only have one phone number and and now know not to use it for both if they ever ask for it. I also learned that they may ask for your phone number and lock you out for no reason if you refuse to give it them even if you already have an account(I have yet to give them my phone number). This lets me know to be even less trusting of them and to make sure I don't depend on anything from their service.
Cool Edit Pro was one of my favorite programs ever. Adobe bought it and renamed it to Audition. I still can't believe how fast it went down after that.
My heart plummeted when I read this headline. I've done UI design work in some capacity for 18 years, and have always dreamed of design software with the thoughtful UI and features of Figma. When I realized Figma was that software, it was like experiencing a miracle. Software like this doesn't exist. It was the first design software I paid for (yes, in 18 years).

And now it's going to die. I almost feel like crying.
> Why

Because statistics. If you make one option less appealing (which is the presumption) all competitors will indirectly benefit, statistically, for various reasons, none of which might resonate with your specific personal needs.
Don't forget Freehand, which was, in many ways, superior to Illustrator.
> White is 0x00FFFFFF or 255,255,255

Calling this a falsehood isn't even beginning to describe the problem:
- does not distinguish between a white surface (reflects all light) and a white emitter (emits blackbody radiation in a specific temperature range)
- there is no maximum intensity for emitted light, but there is a maximum for reflection
- RGB (255,255,255) does not produce a blackbody curve -- though it can cause the same reaction as a blackbody curve for people with exactly three working cone types. This point may be wrong on this list because it may be thought of as a solved problem.
- RGB (255,255,255) does not specify the temperature
- that is before monitors even start being imperfect

Oh, and a general one: An emitted color (e.g. monitor) and a reflected color (e.g. printout) cannot be the "same", ever, because only the latter depends on how it is illuminated.
https://www.sketch.com/docs/subscriptions/benefits/

Looks like viewing in a browser is already available?
With my kids, I used to do visits with increasing intervals. 1st time after 1 min, then 3 min, then 5 min, then 7 min,... I never reached 11 min before they were asleep.
To be fair, I think they learned from this and also thousands watching the video. Let's hope they are more careful next time.
I don't think the French government care much because the EU gives them more bargaining power. If they were bound beyond political pressure then we'd have French or EU embargos against Cuba for the last 60 years. France doesn't stand alone nor does the UK despite leaving the EU, which is why I object to US foreign policy spilling over political borders via internet-based tech companies.
In my opinion, largely because they own a bunch of industry standard formats, so any competitor would be forced to start by cloning one of their products. Once you've successfully done that, congratulations, you've conquered 4% of the market, in that one area (let's say a photo editor), and your software still seems broken (although it's faster, bugs get fixed quicker, and the UI wasn't designed by a crazy person or filled with 30 year old cruft) because it doesn't seamlessly integrate with the rest of their suite.

Affinity seems to have made some penetration by copying/innovating on an entire range of their products, but that's a huge up-front investment to grab a tiny piece of the pie.

This is really a job for antitrust, but modern antitrust is just a circa mid/early 20c legend we tell children so they aren't scared that capitalism could get out of control and eat them.
I mean monero is still there ? And Its not a shit coin is it?
Technical solutions are not usually the answer to legal problems.

These theoretical cyberpunk-like crypto-networks only work in practice if you're uploaded to the matrix. Otherwise they fail the XKCD/538 Wrench Test.
One very important limitation: you run out of hands.
What do you think happens to VC investments when it’s harder for companies to be acquired?

If you were a founder and wanted to sell your company, would you want the government telling you that you can’t sell it for the best price?
> wants to stop acquisitions.

Who said that? The point is that anticompetitive acquisitions, like Adobe acquiring a direct competitor, hurt everyone but the acquirer, and should be tightly controlled.

Nobody would care if Figma were getting acquired by GitLab or Salesforce or Atlassian or whatever. The fact that it's a direct competitor known for destroying acquisitions is the problem.
I was just revisiting an api call which it turns out needed pagination. I put a note in the docstring before I began and copilot just... rewrote the function to include pagination. Except for a couple of corrections to the json returned by the api (copilot could only guess), it just worked! I'm amazing by copilot and it frequently writes chunks of my code, especially shell scripts and docker files. A little worried that my job might be on the way out at some point!
Depending on the region, this may not be a problem. I (casually) saw that the Russian approval is big (>50%) in the eastern regions, so these conscripts may still be "the good ones" for the population of this region.
Yes, see David Chaum's original pre-bitcoin "e-cash" and the more recent GNU Taler project: https://taler.net/en/

The problem is that banks won't implement these systems unless they're forced to. They seem to benefit from the insecurity, surveillance, and bureaucracy of the existing system. So we will have to make new banks...
Where's the 45 days coming from? Very few employers in the US pay less frequently than monthly, and in 30 years, I've never had a W-2 job that paid other than every-2-weeks.