skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Have you received a cease and desist letter from Days of Wonder? If not, then it cannot be a legitimate trademark violation. In the US they must defend their own trademark with a lawsuit or threat of one. If you are in Europe then your country may be different.
Yes it is a different scale with different needs. It is noncommercial for friends and family. It is private cloud services at a small scale with appropriate security and backup measures.
If the US wants "email as a utility" then they can build and fund it themselves. I wouldn't even complain about proposals for the US Government to buy Google- I am a demsoc, after all. But I do think that half-measures like forcing private organizations to operate under the same rules as private ones are a "worst of both worlds" proposition.
If you just need a simple key value store that stays on disk, it's fine.
You're right. Poor choice of words. I seem to recall it's around 2025ish where most cards won't have mag stripes. Mag stripes only exist today because of the US. Everyone else uses the chip for either chip and pin or tap.
RIP Figma, I've been trying to avoid Adobe products since they charge the earth for their products and free open source options are solid alternatives. I'm expecting Adobe to eventually price gouge us to the point where we are forced to find a Figma alternative.
Investment groups aren’t in it for the resell. They’re incentivized to hold the asset as they’re leveraging against it to buy more homes. Selling assets is pretty uncommon in SFR for this very reason. The game is more about cash flow to service their debt. That means rent rates. Selling the homes has a 2 part effect: reduced your cash flow to service your debt and further forced asset sales that were bought with debt. If you really want to get homes back into the retail market, you have to target the cash flow.
Increasing the separation between runways would be sufficient to get most of the way there; planes can be landed solely on instruments if the runways are far enough apart.
found the microsoft employee
> Of course, the owners of the Bitcoin factory would never try to exert their influence and try to keep their cheap source of hydro power, or keep the methane flowing. /s

You see how you just substantiated my argument that Bitcoin naturally ends up favoring renewables, linking up the most efficient use of energy?

It’s not like there is (or should be) a limit on renewable energy production.
Yes, but those government services are funded using taxes, so yes, you ARE entitled to those services. You are not entitled to the use of any private service.
> See a shirt in a store? On me a L is a belly shirt and an XL is a baggy belly shirt.

Seriously, as another skinny-ish tall person, I wish "L-Slim" was a thing. That would be so nice. I'm tired of wearing shirts that are way too wide.
That's not entirely accurate.

For email see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32715437

For website see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32706673
That means a lot of second hand GPU hardware could show up in the next weeks. Good for all the people who want to play with AI images.
Soooooort of. Space is finite. Sure we have a ton of unused space, but space near harbors, is a premium. New York City cannot expand, not without a massive rail infrastructure.

Anything that "brings in more space" in any shape or form requires a really solid investment in rail. But unfortunately this is not something the US can do effectively.
Hi, Hugh, co-fonder here. Just to precise a few bits : You get 5 credits when you sign in so you can do 5 sessions . If more needed don't hesitate to reach out we'll be happy to add credits!
For me it was How to Design Programs (HtDP) by Felleisen et al.

Before that I wrote code that I know hate from my core. It really taught me how to write code properly using functions. More than that it taught me how to break down a problem into parts and solve each part correctly.

Very few books teach problem solving and programming together is such a fantastic way.
This is not the news I wanted to wake up to today. Come on Figma! How bad did you need it?
I got this one "remaster" of an album that I like that I've been working on that the 32-bit version that 100% definitely goes over 0 DB just happens to sound a whole lot better when I don't correct for that so on occasion I like to load up that album in Ableton live and listen to it exactly like that.
I think you just won today's buzzword bingo
You are assuming that HMRC and Treasury act in a good faith. The purpose of these changes is to stop small business from operating without explicitly saying so (as that could bring a bad PR, so they use their Behavioural Science Unit to frame it as anti-tax avoidance law and their messaging is designed to ensure population sees these businesses as cheaters etc.) - a nudge technique.

Reality is that it is always the weakest entity in the chain that pays - see Loan Charge scandal for instance, where HMRC claims advisers, accountants, promoters of schemes and scheme operators did nothing wrong and the victims are on the hook to pay.

Personal example I have is with my friend who is a freelance care worker. She got a gig from an agency under a condition that she has to sign up for an umbrella from their Preferred Supplier List, as they deem it inside IR35. She was desperate to get the gig, so she agreed. Turns out the umbrella didn't pay tax on her behalf to HMRC but simply pocketed it. She was getting payslips showing correct deductions, but HMRC never got the money. The umbrella closed before she could find out. Then HMRC sent threatening letter that she is using a tax avoidance scheme. Guess what happened? HMRC decided to recover the missing tax through the tax code, so she barely can make ends meet from her current gig.
She has no money to go after that umbrella (when I looked up, the owners are living in Asia) so there is that.

If what you saying is true, then HMRC would have gone after the umbrella, but they didn't - it's easier to make the worker pay. So the Fee Payer trying to recover money would have done nothing different than HMRC is doing themselves.
I wonder where you get your data from. I checked the dedicated IP I use against other services and they all come back as clean, but yours labelled it as a bot.
We're only as intelligent as the models we learn. Where we don't have models we tend to learn by simple correlation. Discoveries are rare, even researchers only grind at that 0.01% beyond the known modelling space.

A human in a primitive society, even with the same IQ with a modern man, would be much less intelligent about solving a variety of tasks because they lack the mental "furniture". Most of our intelligence does not come from the brain, it comes from the culture, which is an evolutionary process.
Yeah I tried that myself - I took that benchmark script and changed the CREATE TABLE lines to look like this (adding the primary key):

CREATE TABLE store(key TEXT PRIMARY KEY, value TEXT)

Here are the results before I made that change:

sqlite
Took 0.032 seconds, 3.19541 microseconds / record
dict_open
Took 0.002 seconds, 0.20261 microseconds / record
dbm_open
Took 0.043 seconds, 4.26550 microseconds / record
sqlite3_mem_open
Took 2.240 seconds, 224.02620 microseconds / record
sqlite3_file_open
Took 7.119 seconds, 711.87410 microseconds / record

And here's what I got after adding the primary keys:

sqlite
Took 0.040 seconds, 3.97618 microseconds / record
dict_open
Took 0.002 seconds, 0.19641 microseconds / record
dbm_open
Took 0.042 seconds, 4.18961 microseconds / record
sqlite3_mem_open
Took 0.116 seconds, 11.58359 microseconds / record
sqlite3_file_open
Took 5.571 seconds, 557.13968 microseconds / record

My code is here: https://gist.github.com/simonw/019ddf08150178d49f4967cc38356...
The only way this would make economic sense would be quite immoral from my point of view, so honest question:

why should an organisation pay them such salaries, unless they can effectively enslave the taught pupils until they've made that money back?

Or are you arguing that it should be done through socialism and taxes?
In that case, whats the rationale for that? The society won't gain significant value from this, and would have significantly less money available for other things. Do keep in mind that teachers usually still get more money then the average salary while having significantly more time off-work.
Not the person you're replying to, but for a couple hundred bucks you can get a Berkey filter that very effectively removes things like flouride, etc.
> Perhaps you misunderstand that Figma was motivated to create value. A large part of the motivation for many startups is an exit plan wherein they get bought out by established competitors.

> If you prevent such purchases, you eliminate a major factor in creating the value to begin with.

You're basically saying that they wouldn't have made Figma if they'd only been able to sell it for 15 billion.

Same tired argument as the "unless you lower taxes on the wealthiest even more, they'll stop creating jobs!" (Even though the taxes haven't been lower in history than they are right now).

People do stuff even though there are anti-trust laws limiting how many tens of billions they get out of it.

As long as there's insane profits to be made, there'll still be an incentive.

Selling out to the market leader, creating a virtual monopoly that harms the consumers in the long run, isn't the only way to make money on a start-up. Far from it.
Doesn't surprise me that people in a society that values individual liberty develop more anxiety as they are expected to take responsibility for their own decisions,

as opposed to a society where traditional authority commands you exactly what to do and you'll obey or else.
I notice that you and "danielfoster" here in this thread post similar and very peculiar replies.
Who are you to tell the company how much they “should” make? The company was valuable to Adobe because of “synergies”.
I don't know if the problem has already been fixed, but at this time in Germany HN is loading very fast as always.
Yep. Good point.
> Also, it assumes that non-tech workers won't just move to cheaper areas

Which creates non-tech labor shortages in the original HCOL area and puts upward pressure on non-tech wages and downward pressure on tech wages, as non-tech wages are ultimately paid by the spending of everybody, including tech workers, who consume more than non-tech workers by virtue of simply earning more.
https://www.unddit.com/r/gpumining/comments/xecer8/the_end_o...

And also https://old.reddit.com/r/gpumining/comments/xez20s/sorry_bou...
Good point if the community is only on twitter then gamers like myself and others like me would not participate. As the politics of twitter are antithetical to my way of thinking.
As an escapee from Oracle land: I am not at all advocating purchasing it. Postgres in general is great, even if Oracle has some features that are better. The enterprise class insanity of the Oracle world is literally a cause of developer depressions in some cases. Run away.
Figma is really pretty revolutionary as far as web apps go, both from the design side (collaborative, beautiful, and easy to use) and from the dev side (realtime multiplayer, fast stateful graphics with undo/redo, incredibly complex UI, built in a combination of WebGL, WASM, and Workers).

For a while before it, Sketch was the dominant UX/UI tool, but then Figma came outta nowhere and surprised the world by showing what could be accomplished with a web app, using a freemium model, developed by a previously unknown company.

As far as unicorns go, I can't think of many startups that have delivered similarly amazing value (maybe Cloudflare and Vercel?), and certainly none in the design space. Like Canva and Draw.io etc. are alright, but Figma is really technologically impressive (and beautiful, and usable!).

If you ever see a complex UI that you enjoy using... chances are very high Figma was used for some part of it.
As a university student looking for internships, I highly disagree. I've taken the highest level DSA course my university offers and it's nowhere near enough to tackle interviews from top tech companies.

It's not about knowing how to implement DFS. Its about understanding the problem and requirements quick enough, then figuring out what DSA to use, and then doing it quick enough within the time limit.
No, when windows pops the admin auth prompt into the background the best and most reliable way to notice is to intuit that such a window should have appeared by now and go looking for it.
Sure, by all means wait until these features are ready.

They’re not as uncertain as I made it sound though. Smart wallets already exist and layer 2’s exist where users can submit proof of fraud. Danksharding isn't going to take 8 years like proof of stake.

The biggest issue I see is building trust, which takes a lot of time. A smart wallet is great but it’s going to take years before the community trusts the builder of the wallet.

With that said, I do think crypto has a chance of offering things that the current financial institutions will find very difficult to compete with. I’d love to see Visa reduce their fees to a flat $0.01 per transaction but that that would massively reduce their profits.

Also, with a standardized financial API it opens the door to more competition in other areas. For example, a fairer and more transparent alternative to credit scores. Current credit score providers rely on the fact that their system is opaque. Competing with a transparent credit score would be very difficult.

The reason I’m so interested in crypto is the possibility of taking away power from these large institutions.
(int) ‘3.9e3’ gets parsed correctly in php, perhaps use a language built for the web and not a general purpose language, or a framework that knows how to parse exponential notation? It sounds like Rails doesn’t understand how software works.

I’ve also been messing with forms for twenty-something years, and I’ve never run into these sorts of problems but I understand the problems you are facing, especially after googling these problems and their solution in regards to Rails. I’ve heard it’s a productive language, but when you have to solve such simple problems, maybe not?

Sorry, I don’t mean to bash on your chosen language which is probably how this is coming across. I’m genuinely intrigued by these stack overflow answers.
This worked for me too. Also joining by phone (audio only) seems to work.
My highschool "Intro to Programming" class teacher (she is a wonderful woman) would say out loud "string box args" to have us memorize the boiler plate. Needless to say, we never even got to loops in that class.
and some actual physical friction which prevents some kinds of very quick reaction to current events
Whatever intelligence is, more of it should lead to greater success, on average.
I works suggest a more descriptive word than "modern".
That definitely takes up extra space. Notice all the room between the lanes. In many places in the US, you don't have even that. The intersection is literally only wide enough for two cars to go past each other, and _any_ amount of space taken up in the center means you need to widen the road.
that remaining 16% is HN related?
LinkedIn didn’t “need” to be acquired as a public company. But they did
The analogy for me has always been Snap-On hand tools vs Craftsman. If you are making a living twisting wrenches eight hours a day, six days a week, the wrench you use really does matter.
I feel you there. Sticking around long-term may also not be sustainable for everyone.

It takes a lot of energy (to wade through the ups-and-downs) as even running a co in a "profitable" situation isn't always as rosy as one hopes it to be. There are lawsuits, internal politics, competitive drama, etc.

Cashing out allows one to regain some headspace, take care of family or address other personal matters that need attention (or have been inducing some strain) and finance the next idea that one may have had on their minds.

Furthermore, things tend to get more corporate-ish as orgs grow because more structure is needed/required and this may not fit every personality type very well, so I guess builders will do themselves a service to hop out once the train shifts into a different gear to allow folks that are better at that game to take it from there.

Just hope that Adobe doesn't end up ruining things because I feel that is usually the issue with acquisitions. The buyer just dulls things down or they actively kill to push one of their overlapping overrings.
Thanks I figured it out while my friends (who bought a lot of property) got rich and I waited for the crash. That's the problem right markets can stay irrational until you're dead.
We've been getting away running HN without pagination lately but today is a big news day (twice over - Figma and Ethereum) so I've turned it back on. Hopefully that solves the problem for now.
It depends... can the same outcome be achieved by using 99.5% less electricity? If it can, then it means 99.5% of the electricity consumed by this activity is being wasted, and that is a fact. Otherwise, it becomes a matter of opinion. Do I think casinos are a waste of space and energy? Sure, but this is just an opinion based on my personal preferences. I understand people have different preferences.
Adobe on the run to ruin another amazing software.
> A few days ago I made three accounts to try to test ways to get them off my back. One was made on a virtual machine on a VPS located a thousand miles away from me and had no connection to me. Although I did give vague hints to friends that it was me. They banned all three accounts, even the VM one. I had a nervous breakdown knowing I may never be able to participate on the platform again. I also felt like I was being watched.

Curious what the mechanism for identifying the VPS account was. Phone number? Some sort of client signature? I don't use discord.
Why did the price drop? If the merge went successfully, I'd expect people to have more confidence in the future, and thus buy - driving the price up.
I thought 5G was dumb until I downloaded Witcher III onto my SteamDeck through my 5G iPhone on holiday. Frivolous, but not uncool.
What do you mean? Joel puts easter eggs in his posts?
There is literally no direction this can go but down.

If there wasn't enough evidence before, this seems to strongly suggest your only salvation from user-hostile corporate monoliths is community open source projects. So... Anyone want to build a multiplayer design tool? :)
And you believe what the VCs say?
Yeah that statement is simply not true. Manipulating the DOM was how all of this was done already in the before jQuery days, not to mention many, many libraries since.
In your example of the highways though, Facebook and Discord aren't the highways. They're the private clubs you take the highways to. The highways are the telecom companies, the ones where you're incredibly limited on which ones will service your area, where you realistically don't have multiple choices.

Discord isn't the only group chat platform on the internet. WhatsApp isn't the only text message service out there. As long as you can get on the internet, the highway, you can drive to another club. You can use Matrix. You can use Mastodon. You can use tons of other services out there.
My city has been going roundabout happy over the past few years. One issue they've had to contend with is existing intersections in congested urban areas don't have enough space to replace with a roundabout. Therefore it's been primarily the suburban areas that have been able to implement them.
WAL works for different processes accessing the same SQLite database. It's meant to improve concurrency, in fact.
In the early to mid 2000s I worked a day job as a technical project manager, a 3rd shift NOC job and worked on a side business during the NOC job. My side business required me to mostly interact with people in a time zone 7 hours ahead of mine. I took the 3rd shift job because I was going to need to be awake anyways. Everyone I worked with during that 3rd shift had a day job and some other side hustle going on. I did have to respond to some emails and take some phone calls regarding the business during my day job also. This lasted for 2 1/2 years at which time I sold the business and quit the NOC job.

During that time period one of my co-workers at the day job was also working as an Oracle consultant and owned/managed 2 Afghan kabob restaurants. He would do a walk around the office to be seen a couple of times a day. In between he was either at his restaurants or at one of his clients. We got free Afghan kabobs and covered for him if anyone ever came looking for him.
Weed Became the New OxyContin
Yes, and in Java, capital-O Object is primarily used as a class, not as an object that you work with directly!

Alan Kay himself said he regrets coining the term as "object" oriented, and wishes he had emphasized "messages":

https://wiki.c2.com/?AlanKayOnMessaging
I can't believe something like this was published. In my opinion this is borderline misinformation.
I’m making my comments in the context of the thread:

>we need new antitrust laws that are a bit more proactive when it comes to super-massive companies like Adobe

> What do you think happens to VC investments when it’s harder for companies to be acquired?

> maybe a culture of creating small companies out of VC capital only to be acquired by megacorps is not the best way forward for society

> What would the alternative be? There will always come a day when founders and investors want to move on

> A company like figma could have always just gone public if the founders/investors just wanted to get out

The whole point was that anti trust should be stepping in more, and then people were making over the top claims about there being no alternative.

The whole point is that it is not up to the public shareholders to sell to whoever they want if the government will block the sale.
There are also a lot of people who built empires, renting out tens of flats bought on huge mortgages. They can't raise the rents too much, the law limits it, and a lot of them need to refinance after 10 years, which may crash the housing prices as they may have to pay more for the mortgage than they receive from the rent.
Lido and Coinbase
> You're not responding, you're just condescending

Says the person with such gems as "go educate yourself", "normies" etc.

> you've only quoted from the parts you cherry-picked as you could easily be responsive to them.

Says the person who ignores everything written in every single response and then pretends he's being offended

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There's a reason you repeated several times you're a big time investor from age 12. That is most likely representative of your actual age.

At this point I've lost all interest in trying to have a conversation with you. Adieu.
> JavaScript itself didn't even think '111,2' is a proper float number. Only decimal point is allowed. So by using it, your input already bugged out.

I may be misunderstanding the gist of your comment, but surely the only "bugged out" behavior would be to try and call parseFloat on the value of the input directly without accounting for localization. Why should JavaScript's number representation affect whether or not I can enter numbers in the way I do everywhere else? The browser offers an API[1] for displaying numbers in a specific locale after all, though it's annoying that you either have to hack something together using Intl.DateTimeFormat.prototype.formatToParts or use a third party library in order to parse them.

[1] https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Refe...
This merge doesn't make the environmental cost go away. It props up past environmental harms on a pedistal.
This isn't true. I've been banned and then unbanned in this exact scenario - they re-enabled my account after 2 days. I had my messages flagged as spam for a further 6 weeks, but it was eventually resolved. My only contact with Discord was emailing support@.
long life to PenPot https://penpot.app/
I can’t believe Fireworks is already considered “once upon a time software”. It’s what got me into webdesign, together with Dreamweaver.