skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
WFH means fewer national resources diverted toward commuting. Fewer cars and less mass transit. Maybe more bikes and other light personal transport.

Could we return to a more pastoral time when we mostly go to market center on Weds?
I could buy with wallet codes on amazon, 2 years ago. I cannot anymore because they broke noscript/basic (x)html support.
Don’t do it Figma. You can beat Adobe.
Buying Afilinity would 100% lead to antitrust.
That’s troubling. My optimism hat is starting to look silly…
If there was the perception that no one disagreed with “no means no”, I’m not sure why people would go around saying it. (Although I would rather a slogan about enthusiastic consent.) Unfortunately, if the rates of sexual assault or rape are any indication, there does seem to be an anti-consent constituency.
Oh man, I totally forgot about the slice-into-HTML stuff. Back before everyone decided table-based layouts were "harmful".
I know people currently working at Google and have worked at Google. The internal politics they've described is insane. They all agree that there are many hurdles to prevent you from getting any work done. I don't know if it's always been that way, probably not, but I don't see the allure to working there now.
The Efficiency Dilemma
https://archive.ph/W4sUJ
Note: I work on Typesense [1], an open source alternative to Algolia.

This is an interesting acquisition from my perspective because we also just started working on adding vector search to Typesense about a month ago.

So you can now do nearest neighbor searches by bringing your vectors into Typesense. This lets you do things like similarity searches, recommendations, etc.

I’d love to have more beta testers use the feature and give us feedback. If you’d like to try it out, please send me an email: jasonb at typesense dOt org

In any case, congratulations Search.io / Sajari team!

[1] https://typesense.org/
This is a tool for beginners. Formatting code on save might cause confusion. IMO professionally format on save sounds good if your expecting it. For a beginner they should learn the syntax and concepts. Formatting can be taught later.
On Brave I get "malicious site ahead" warning.
A lot of these negative WFH articles read as if "maybe this next article will make them come back".
> European salaries are absurdly low.

Counterexample: Zurich, Switzerland.
Same for me, at a local community college, around 2005
I think this is quite common. Either money laundering or a legitimate front for something else. There was a very good Bosnian restaurant in my town about 15 to 20 years ago, but there was only one waiter, who may also have been the cook, and one half of the restaurant was always slightly darker and always had people who clearly "belonged there" sitting at a table in the corner. Perhaps I'm being unfair and it was just a gathering place for the local community and they decided to make a little money off of it as long as they had it, but it always gave me a weird vibe. In a different town I lived in there was an African restaurant that was never open, but always had two or three people in it drinking coffee. It was there for years and I never once saw it open or empty.
self-soothing FTW. Although, funny story: sleep training went great with our first kid - maybe one hour of "cry it out" and then everything was fine for the rest of the night and all following nights. So when the second one came along, and we had managed to forget everything about the care of newborns because we formed few permanent memories during the haze of sleep deprivation, we thought to let him cry it out _on the very first night home_. Literally a 3 day old baby. Fortunately when we came fully awake we stopped mumbling "cry it out" to each other and remembered, right, newborns need food in the middle of the night. For months. "Cry it out" has to wait a bit...
>Just because two people agreed to trade doesn't mean value was created.

Reminds me of that adage: "Economics is the idea that if I pay you a dollar to step on shit and you in turn pay me the same dollar to step on shit, that makes for a better world"
A treatise on the most prevalent falsehoods, commonly held as truths by mechanical instructioners, on the topic of historical reenactment.
Crabs Could Be the Unlikely Hero the Battery Industry Needs
I disagree. GitLab is a lot better and has many more features, but GitHub has managed to close the gap significantly. Before MS bought them they weren't even close to being close and had stagnated for years, and now there's a bunch of major new features (mostly playing catch-up, the only differentiator they have is Copilot), at the expense of stability.
Do you have a better way to increase the probability that the signup is a real human being and not a bot of some kind?
That's the promise almost all acquisitions get.

Even if it holds for a couple years, there's still the corrosive effect it has on morale and productivity as the surrounding company's broken culture seeps in and most of the high quality employees just either rest & vest or flee the vacating ship.

The founders will stick around and play middle mgmt until their agreements run out, then leave ASAP. You know it's really bad if they leave before those agreements are done.
I agree with not holding the infant until they sleep, that probably makes the greatest difference. I don't understand the check-ins, because they fall asleep so quickly anyway and we don't want to disturb them.
Usually it's one of these:

- Spotify's "Discover Weekly" playlist.

- Spotify's "Enhance Playlist" feature applied to my playlists (including the "Liked Songs" playlist).

- Friends (lots of them love music, some of them are musicians).

- Live DJ Sets on YT.

- Music compilation videos on YT.

- Artists I follow on Instagram. Some make music in niche genres and started their movements, which onboard new interesting artists from time to time. I found several cool emerging artists this way, to answer your question.
The Atlantic has started using AI art (midjourney) instead of art from humans
> Because every bitcoin transaction costs $60 in electricity. That is a monumentally stupid amount to pay. It's $125 per kB.

Its incredibly fallacious to measure the cost of electricity per transaction on Bitcoin. Blocks can be completely full or utterly empty and still use the amount of power. You're also missing the point of the power consumption. Its not used to move capital from one person to another, its used to secure the network from attacks and preserve its integrity. Measuring the cost of electricity per transaction is like measuring the amount of energy bank vaults and the US army use per dollar transaction. Stats like the one you quoted don't take into account the number of Lightning network transactions happening off-chain but is secured by a past on-chain transaction.

> No, it is not. Projects like that may be branded with bitcoin, but bitcoin miners are buying the same electricity as everyone else. The rising cost of electricity is causing new sources of power to be exploited.

> Instead of being used for something useful, that electricity is being turned into waste heat.

One, value and usefulness is subjective. Because something is "useless" for someone like you doesn't mean its useless to others. I, and many people around the world, find Bitcoin to be incredibly useful and worth the electricity. Secondly, if oil and gas companies could profitably monetize flared methane, they would have already. They don't because trapping and transporting the methane would lose them money. Its an industry standard to simply release or burn the methane instead. So Bitcoin IS useful in that respect.
A little mentioned dynamic is that tech salaries can't be too much out-of-sync with non-tech salaries, because overpriced housing bought up by SWEs making 300K+ eventually leads to non-SWEs demanding wage increases to keep up with rent payments and/or remain able to save for a downpayment on newly priced homes. In turn, the lower disposable income from workers being squeezed by housing costs is lowering growth and tech growth in particular, which puts pressure on tech wages, stock valuations, and headcount.

In other words, free market mechanisms are slowly starting to redistribute wealth from high-earning SWEs and other high earners to middle class workers and lower.

In other words, it is not possible for too many people to be making 5x+ the median household income regardless of the value they may create.

In other words, expect non-tech wages to rise faster than tech wages for the foreseeable future.
There is also pg_hint_plan. MySQL too can suffer from this lurking thresholds problem. Though it has hints built in.

Upgrading major versions and huge surges of writes are often the catalyst of crossing performance cliffs, IME. The first can be planned for and since load testing can help get ahead of the second.
rough at the edges

That part is the deal-breaker for many people who actually use these tools for work. It's difficult to daily drive an objectively worse software, when your pay depends on producing value with it.
> The internet is not real life.

Ok, if the internet is not "real" life, then what is it?

Is it "in" reality? Do we interact with it? Does it interact with us, or within the ineffable, largely unseen soup of causality from which how things are/become in this world emerges? Does anything matter?
> If it is 3 billion people and we can reduce the power consumption by 25%, it would be a lot.

Honestly - not really. Yes, it's large in the abstract sense that it's a very tiny number multiplied by a large number, so it appears large compared to the original tiny number - but in terms of practical impact, it's SO VERY FAR down the list of approaches to reducing climate change.

A year's worth of smartphone usage will generate about ~5 lbs of CO2. Driving a car ~5 miles (at an average of ~21mpg, or 411 grams CO2/mile) will generate the same CO2.

The average commute in the US is 41 miles round trip - so every day, the average commuter burns 8 years worth of smartphone usage in a CO2 budget by driving their car.

This is getting really back of the napkins-esque (since not all people work/commute) but if we just assume that in general the US population is driving - at ~330 million people, times 8... we get 2.63 billion.

Basically - each day, driving in the US is generating close to the same CO2 that all 3 billion of those smartphone users will generate in a YEAR.

Looks like roughly 1/3 of US pop actually commutes, so we'll be generous and say that every 3 days, we blow through the yearly carbon generation for ALL 3 billion of those smartphone users.

It's just a really, really tiny number compared to other initiatives. You're MUCH better off tackling basically anything else. There is SO much better low hanging fruit.

A week long "don't drive" mandate in the US earns the whole world years of smart phone usage.

Go argue against "back to the office" policies instead - you'll do far more good.
Yeah you're SOL. Discord has a habit of banning people, saying that they investigated themselves and determined themselves to be correct in banning you, and then deleting accounts.
You can voice chat on IRC?
> Have these online public spaces serve under the same laws as real-life public spaces (museums, parks et cetera).

That will inevitably lead to more government spying at the end of the day. No thanks.
"A team of researchers counted the number of neurons in dog and cat brains and found one had twice as many as the other."

Guess which one!

The answer is found here: https://www.nationalgeographic.com/animals/article/dog-cat-b...
Adobe trying to pay $20B dollars to buy a designer tool meanwhile I am still pushing in prod code I wrote using vim
"Elon Musk" is not a trademarked name, "Ticket to Ride" is registered.
You would have to be in the stone ages not to heard of VPNs or believe that the origin IP is correct. But maybe I like that you exist.

I've helped a few remote workers with this setup. Always a stable VPN - be careful some of the low cost ones - any lifetime bullshit deals - anything listed on stacksocial - anything less $5/m - they change their IP registrations so even if you are connected to SF one day it shows correctly the next the day it shows Pakistan - use something like Mullvad or better yet Tailscale exit node from a stable VPN provider in your specified location of working - heck just setup tailscale on raspberry PI at your parents/friends. Modify route tables so you never hit the web unless connected via VPN, easy on some Asus routers.

Adjust the time and TZ on your PC to place of registered work time,that web based homebrew HR system could be doing something crafty .

Deep latency hacks - use RDP from place of registered work
https://climateer.substack.com/p/methane-lifetime

> Methane emissions decay gradually, with an average lifetime of about 12 years (“perturbation lifetime”, which is what matters for climate purposes).

> This will increase by roughly 35% if methane concentrations double, or decrease roughly 25% if concentrations return to pre-industrial levels.

Methane is actually 150x-ish worse than CO2, but it breaks down over time. Ameliorated over a long time it's 25-30x worse.

Rough part is that breaking down methane depends on OH radicals in the air, of which there are a fixed amount. The more methane there is, the slower methane is broken down. If there were a sudden massive release of methane, it would stay at that 150x potency for a very long time. Fun!
Thank you (and the others). I seem to have completely missed the whole purpose of Figma.
The first one would be "colors exist as a physical concept". They do not.

There is no relationship between the physical nature of light and what we call "color". A wave has a frequency. There is no concept of "color" associated to a wave.

We statistically put names on some convoluted detector/brain transformations and everyone does the transformation differently. This is why most of the people agree that a tomato is "red".

As an ex-physicist, I hate to speak about colors in a physical context (and yes, we have charts that show that higher frequencies are "blue" and lower ones "red"). Color is a biological concept and should stay that way.

And then, as a farther, I have to explain to my children the convoluted course on colors in high school in France.

Sorry, I had to let off some steam.
Not gonna comment after this, I posted more in the other thread. This is spin by you after being called on saying something misleading.
Boo. How come the big American mega-companies are always allowed to buy out the upcoming competitors? I thought you guys were all about free-market? Although I guess that's what complete free-market does. Oh well. For sure prepare for price hike.

But it'll be interesting to see what they'll do with the cutting-edge web app know-how they'll acquire from Figma.
>wait 2.5 years (max!) and then have your review request politely declined" situation
>2 - https://www.justice.gov/atr/business-reviews

"3. The Division may, in its discretion, refuse to consider a request. "
You haven't shared your resume, but your tone seems to suggest you might think it isn't the greatest. Have you tried different formats of resumes that maybe highlight some of the skills you have that are relevant to the positions or show off some of the projects you have done?

I'm not sure about how much experience you have since you only give your age, but if you are applying for senior remote positions, do they spotlight the skills that a senior engineer has?

Independentness, mentoring junior members, etc?
>But this already exists without blockchain! If you play Spiral Knights or Half Life on Steam, you get a hat in Team Fortress 2. There are various third-party websites where you can display your Steam/Team Fortress/Dota/LoL achievements, inventories, ... because those 'ledgers' are public already. You can trade Steam items on third-party websites (which interfaces with steam underneath) that dodge Steam's 30% store tax and will actually pay money out unlike Steam.

That ledger is controlled/can be edited/changed by Vavle. Valve can delete your inventory and there is nothing you can do. Wouldn't that defeat the purpose of having a public ledger that no one can modify on a whim?
> The way I see it, Adobe had to buy Figma.

It's so fucked up though. Just because Adobe has existed for a long time and managed to squeeze their existing customers enough, they been able to stop innovating. And instead of innovating enough to be able to beat their competition (Figma), they'll just buy the competition and continue doing the same thing. Until another competitor appears, rinse-and-repeat.
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2022/01/old-music-...
this is patently false. look at the Twitter user that compares pictures to SLR shots of what he sees. pixels are always the most color accurate
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bumper_(car)#First_standards_1...

For a while, they mandated that a 5mph crash should result in almost no damage, which caused bumpers to evolve accordingly.

These days, the term "bumper" seems more like an anacronism.
Or you know, you could choose to use decentralized services just like we used IRC back in the days. Dont blame the platform when the users created their own problems in the first place.
Maybe this is how the term originated, but I have never heard it used in this context personally.
the internet is, unfortunately, real life
This is huge. Adobe was asleep at the wheel while Sketch ate their lunch. Now they are definitely back.
I'd quit if I were working at a company which announced its layoffs like that and I somehow failed to get laid off.
I looked into your statement about bitcoin mining preventing methane emissions and it doesn't add up to me. Oil drillers already flare the methane, which turns it into carbon dioxide. The solution these bitcoin miners are implementing is to burn the methane in a controlled manner so they can harness the energy produced for electricity to mine bitcoin. The same chemical reaction occurs, converting methane into carbon dioxide. The companies internal research claims this reduces carbon dioxide equivalent units, but I'm pretty skeptical. Of course, they would want their research to show they are doing something good. Sure, I guess it is more useful to harness the energy than to just burn it fruitlessly, but I don't see how it reduces emissions. Is there something I'm missing as to why this would make sense?
I love contrapoints, but Philtube is worse in my eyes than JP. JP’s been a little wonky since he came back from russia, but 12 Rules For Life is one of my favorite books.
>It might be rough at the edges

Often it's not just "rough around the edges", but fully missing features that are necessary (or STRONGLY desired) for a regular professional's workflow
And you're acting in such a way that you will always be a have not, and it will always be someone else's fault
New York City Penthouse Lists for $250M
The complex arms race between predator and prey
Going anon for this

I grew up poor, got in trouble with the law at 18 - but was coding since I was 9, now I have been writing software for 20+ years professionally, no degree, and have never been able to clear more than 250k - moved from coding to mgmt but still cant break 250. I looked at changing companies to a FAANG but haven’t been able to dedicate the massive amount of time needed to prep for the algo whiteboard / leetcode interview process (which I still don’t really understand as most of the actual work needed to be done will require 0 of this)

After taxes my take home is so low I still can’t afford to own a home here in ny.

Tried migrating to sv a few years back but it’s even more expensive than ny.

I’ve always kept my hands on skills up to date, coded large distributed systems that are in prod supporting millions of daily’s, big data pipelines capturing billions of records daily and as mgmt, onboarded and trained juniors who’ve gone on to big tech and been able to far surpass me in earnings.

Disillusioned and wondering what advice HN might suggest.

- ny anon, beard greying and hope depleting
I am a clojure dev who has been in the community for 8 or 9 years, these are my observations:

1, Apple hires Clojure Devs. Netflix uses Clojure as well. I believe Amazon may in places. There are several other corporate 500 companies that use it in a vast minority of their projects. I asked one dev at Clojure Conj "how many developers do you work with? 100.. How many use Clojure? "No, there are 100 on the Clojure team, we have 1700 JVM developers." Typically these jobs are listed as Experience with one of Clojure/Kotlin/Scala..

2, In all of the negotiations I have had for Clojure jobs, I was offered both routes. The W2 route is often through a staffing company, or a 1099 route on your own. The compensation is pretty much a wash either route. (1099 pays more to compensate for lack of benefits). I am sure there are companies that do direct hire as well.

3, Yes, there are few developers competing for more than one would think number of jobs. It isn't difficult to train up developers to code Clojure, but it is a bit harder to find developers who intuitively architect in the Clojure way. Those guys are a pretty hot commodity.

4, Clojure devs also tend to be extremely experienced. That would mean a high salary no matter tha language.

There are a substantial number of Clojure unicorn companies. Examples are NuBank, Reify health, AppsFlyer, TaxBit, Amperity. Most of these are still under the radar in that most people have never heard of them. There are probably a lot more that haven't hit the Billion dollar mark but still have significant staffing.
Figma is mostly used for website and app prototyping. It's very popular because it allows for multi-user collaboration, like a Google doc. Older prototyping tools like Invision or Sketch did not have this, and it was a major differentiator.

You can create different screens and set up click points, such as a button. Clicking the button navigates you to another screen in your design. This is called "interactive prototyping".

Figma puts these interactive prototypes on the web, so designers can create a visual prototype that can be tested on mobile and desktop devices. It's more realistic than simply looking at pictures of mockups. The biggest advantage is that it does not require developers to write working code and deploy a whole app just to click around and test it out.
The best for the acquirers and acquired isn't necessarily, and is in fact rarely, the best for the consumers at large. Unless you want to end up in an abusive relationship in all of your transactions, governments should intervene to keep things level, competitive and innovative.
I don't think businesses care, other than issues with taxation if people start working from another country. It's the fault of tax services and governments.
Or you know just having a small room with a server rented that you ssh or vpn through.
I think by the time an employer gets into such arms war with the employees, it’s time to have a hard look in the mirror and see where the CEO is working from.
I found that a little surprising and upsetting about CloudFlare for example. The CTO is working from a beach town in Portugal but regular employees are bound to a physical office. And this is 100% ‘cloud’ company where all your work is logging in remotely anyway.
Some RK3399 boards can be used AFAIK entirely blob free. This has been true for a few years actually: https://stikonas.eu/wordpress/2019/09/15/blobless-boot-with-...
How to Read Bug Reports (2016)
Adobe to acquire design platform Figma for $20B
I always understood OxFFFFFF to be “give me all you’ve got”. Of course a quasar is going to be able to emit more powerful photons than a 90s CRT. But if said quasar had a GUI, 0xFFFFFF would mean “master blaster”, and the same for the old screen. My expectation as a programmer was never that the colors would have any semblance of “realism” or “uniformity”, and to expect variance from machine to machine. Perhaps since I have not involved myself with photography software and kept my budget for displays below the thousands-per-unit this has held true so far