skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Although it’s still great software I’m stopping usage today because a) I refuse to support adobe and b) I’m confident the software will progressively get much worse, so any investment today is a waste of time I should spend finding and learning something else.

Is there a blender of tools like this?
HN needs a separate section for this sort of "media shaming" posts.

I understand why they are being made, but it's getting a bit tiring to see these on the front page so frequently.
A lot of these colours were probably designed for white backgrounds; the default xterm background colour is white, and many terminals copied that. My old SparcStation uses a white background colour from the moment it boots, etc. I'm not sure how common it was in older systems, but it was definitely a thing.

In Vim it's been a fixed problem for ages if you use "set background=dark" by the way.
The popularity of Discord always surprises me! It takes hard work and time to create an active community. Why put all that hard work and time into a corporate-controlled platform that can lock you out of it anytime they want? How do people feel ok taking such a big risk? Why not use an open protocol like Matrix (or IRC if you're savvy) to form your community?
>Adoption has increased massively.

Adoption has mostly increased thanks to centralization, via exchanges, which seems antithetical to Bitcoin's foundation. What's the number one use case? Speculation and scams.

I'm not sure it's going in the right direction.
Please, Adobe, please don't add Figma to Creative Cloud. It would be great to keep using it, I'm not going to change my file system to case-insensitive.
Can we see some screenshots without connecting an account?
> I'm sorry but that is 0 risk compared to what an entrepreneur does.

Most employees loan the company 45 days of labour. This is an "at risk" investment. If the company goes under, they may lose all of it. When multiplied by a large staff, this can be a very significant investment which would, if borrowed from a venture capitalist, be quite expensive equity. Yet, no equity is given.

Moreover, unlike founders and other investors, the employees are typically left in the dark about finances. When a company is in dire straits, venture asks for a large multiplier as return. Employees, that grant a "free" 45 day rolling line of credit do not enjoy this risk premium.
If you antagonize someone in a discussion, they're going to disappear. I don't need a degree in crypto-finance to tell you that. I'm not here for any of this.

If you want to engage me in a proper discussion, you can look me up. I've been on the internet using this name since I was 12 years old (and yes educating people, and also getting educated myself.) I'm not going anywhere.

Why don't you explain more about how easily accessible those traditional financial instruments are for normies? I'm interested in that information, can you provide links?
I think many many people are infected. Is it not interesting that only humans are never given antiparasitic drugs on a schedule?
Workers are lost in the story of the rail strike
Personally I use Eclipse whenever I need to dig into Java codebases these days, though a recent HN thread made me consider giving Netbeans another go.
Found it: https://www.reddit.com/r/london/comments/cnkcaz/private_eye_...

Will give it a read...
Not sure how I feel about this. Figma is great and all their feature releases have been impressive, but I feel it was due to competition and worry about similar products coming in from big corporations (like Adobe XD). I feel this competition really push Figma hard.

Now being part of the same owner, just makes it feel like any aggressive progress will just stall out.
> Adobe is where software goes to die.

After EA acquiring Westwood, Macromedia is the second biggest let-down of a sale in the software industry in my book. Perhaps Skype comes close.
Not using up a goat load of electricity is like 99% of why this change is great. Let people speculate on their funny money without harming everyone. A lateral move on the other details is rather unsurprising.
On the Cuba issue specifically the EU and Canada many years ago basically told the US to "f off." Way back in the 90s in the beginning of the Helms Burton act days. I know the US occasionally makes threatening but unenforceable noises, but I'm pretty sure the EU drew a firm line on US overreach on Cuba. The mechanisms behind the US trade blockade of Cuba are considered to breach the sovereignty of other nations.

(As a Canadian I've been to Cuba many times with no issues; however a friend's father worked for a nickel mining company and spent time there overseeing their operations in Cuba and he can no longer travel to the US among other things.)
What is the qualify of life at work like for a crane operator? Do their mistakes cost immediate loss of life, possibly even for themself? Do they work evenings, nights, and weekends? Can they work from home, or move to a new country at a whim?
Can’t begrudge anyone involved, but this feels kind of lame. I thought Figma really could compete long term with Adobe.
bad news of the day.
downside: Adobe acquired yet another piece of software, one that even competes with Photoshop XD.

upside: I now can roll out Figma anywhere we have adobe CC licenses without a rigamarole from management
I triggered some Discord flag where now they require me to give them my phone number to log in via the web. I won't give it to them. Luckily I have a still-logged-in instance on my home computer, do I can still use that for the time being. Super frustration though.
You haven't provided the requested data. What's the energy consumption of "the total of electronics that are in standby in the US only"?

Actually, let math out an estimate of what your claim amounts to. Bitcoin uses ~125TWh/yr of electricity. The US has ~125 million households. That means Bitcoin uses about 1MWh/yr per US household, or on average, about 114W per US household. If I assume that's 5V DC circuits that's about 22A.

Therefore, your claim that Bitcoin uses more electricity than standby circuits in the US implies that standby circuits are consuming more electricity than the maximum capacity of one of the circuits in a typical circuit breaker box. That doesn't pass the smell test.
What about rain, snow, ice?

Or author think, people should only live on territories of forever summer?

Second important question, who will transport goods to shop network?

So, unless in some sort of radical concept, like linear city (where all business and most long way transport railroad or water), we should consider large share of automobiles (electro-), at least large part of year.
Maybe the best source for Russian military tech since the German reunification when the BRD inherited the not too badly maintained frontline stuff from the NVA. Which was not, as opposed to most other Warsaw pact nations, export variants of Russian hardware. As a frontline state in the Cold War East Germany gear was close to Red Army/Air Force/Navy specs.
> You have no idea about life, to be honest.

And you do? Everyone only has a small slice of what life is like. That is the life that you yourself lead. FYI I was a freelancer, chasing clients and invoices sucked, and was a waste of my time and skills.

You obviously have very strong opinions on how great entrepreneurs are, it is also coming across as "employees are lesser" as well which is not right.

There is nothing wrong (and a hell of a lot good) with not wanting to be a person that doesn't chase up invoices and worry about payroll, it lets you focus on doing a good job. Specialisation is a great thing, and would not be possible if everyone was busy marketing their own business/self.

> At a minimum that's 12-16x more risk than even a freelancer.

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. I do have an issue with the ultra rich, like Bezos who have made 7.5 Billion a year since Amazon was founded, or 278,406 times the average wage from 1994 (26,939). Did he take 278,406 times the risk that an employee did. No. No he did not.

> Oh and if insane people like myself didn't take this risk, the world would probably still be a foraging bunch of tribes. And you get hated for it for getting rich by exploiting people...

And if everyone wanted to be an entrepreneur we would also still be like this. People need to actually do the day in day out grind work that is building things. 99% of this is done by employeed people. If everyone tried to do their own thing that would severely limit what can be done. You really need to stop looking down on your (and all) employees.

edit: fixed maths - Bezos has too much money for my math skills.
I think that $40-$80 is ideal for most. However like I said my Sennheiser HD 25-1 II was about $120 when it was new, so a bit over. But everything on it is repairable. So when I replaced the foam bits last year, it felt like a new pair of headphones.

And of course $300 or $600 or even more expensive headphones probably sound better. But IMHO the difference doesn't justify the cost.
Oldest doesn't seem that old, but maybe that is for historical reasons of local politics. 70 years was frequently mentioned but there are several restaurants in London that claim to be operating in the 1700s and the oldest pub in my city claims to be over 800 years old [1]! The mosque it mentions is old and surely people must have had to eat near there at some point.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ye_Olde_Trip_to_Jerusalem
The founders of Figma must be very happy: "Adobe announced it has entered into a definitive merger agreement to acquire Figma, a leading web-first collaborative design platform, for approximately $20 billion in cash and stock."
Whenever I have boilerplate in a codebase I try to make a tool to create it for me. So copilot does seem like an extension of that.

I think the thing that weirds me out about copilot is that I can't peer inside it. I guess I like knowing something will always work?
> does a cisc-y frontend over risc-ier microcode count as a cisc or a risc cpu?

I can't beleive that some are still asking the question, the answer is in the name: CISC=Complex Instruction Set; RISC=Reduced Instruction Set
so if it has a CISC-y frontend the whole thing is a CISC CPU.

> I also don't think Apple's chips are particularly risc-y in the first place. I believe they have plenty of special purpose silicon.

I disagree: their CPU use the ARM-64 ISA is quite RISC, it's just that they don't provide only a CPU but a whole system on the chip.
Let’s not make this about the poor indy game developer either. Most of the game revenue comes from in app purchases from pay to win games and loot boxes where the “whales” are making the money. They are just as sleazy as the ad supported industry.

Epic in fact tried to convince Android users to side load. It was not only a horrible failure, it introduced a security vulnerability.

https://www.itpro.co.uk/security/31787/vulnerability-spotted...

Epic also lost its case against Apple. The judge explicitly said that Apple wasn’t a monopoly.
Many years ago, when Adobe bought Macromedia, they acquired a tool called Fireworks[1]. This was a combined bitmap and vector editor that was incredibly well-optimised for user-interface and web design, at a time when most designers were paying exorbitant license fees to do such work painfully and slowly in Photoshop and Illustrator. Fireworks was cheap, powerful, and hugely ahead of its time. Many of the features and flows people love in Figma and Sketch were pioneered years earlier in Fireworks.

After the acquisition, Adobe starved Fireworks of resources and marketing. They broke things, left major bugs and performance regressions unfixed, and eventually discontinued it altogether. I'd argue this wasn't simply negligence, but a calculated decision to kill an innovative product because it threatened the profits of their cash cows.

As much as I hope otherwise, I believe the acquisition of Figma will go the same way. Once it's under the Adobe umbrella, the simple mathematics of profits from Photoshop and Illustrator vs. those from Figma will result in the latter being starved, stripped of functionality, and eventually left broken.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adobe_Fireworks
The threshold varies between banks but there is often a limit as to how much you can spend or many times you can use "unverified" contactless payments (i.e. not Apple Pay which forces biometric verification) in a row before it will stop and demand a Chip+PIN transaction instead, to prevent someone who finds/steals a card from spending large amounts without ever needing to know the PIN.

For example, if the contactless limit is £100 and it only allows four contactless transactions in a row, the worst damage that can be done is £400, so banks and card issuers only need to manage the liability for fraudulent contactless transactions up to that amount (Visa and Mastercard call it "Zero Liability" protection).
We love to hate Clippy – but what if Clippy was right?
I don't understand how this acquisition is not anti-competitive behavior. It was such a joy to see Figma's growth and technical innovation, and now it will just get eaten by the established power.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adobe_Inc.#Anti-competitive_pr...
This would make for an excellent blog post
> I'm not planning to "buy" crypto; I would like to understand the technicalities.

That's been my entrance into crypto as well. I really dislike the speculative, get-rich-quick, even casino like connotation crypto has (inevitably) acquired. It shades the incredible technology behind it.

For a couple of years I have been studying and playing around with smart contracts in my free time, getting a better understanding of this paradigm (every smart contract can be seen as a singleton object "living" in the blockchain, with functions that are like API endpoints which you can interact with in a decentralized fashion), how it shapes applications built on top of it, and the possibilities ahead of us (ex: DeFi - Decentralized Finance).

There's a lot of skepticism around crypto, like "it's a solution without a problem", but I don't buy it. Even if it were, it's a solution sophisticated, interesting enough, worth diving yourself into ;)
Yes, so these people will be more isolated and in information bubble of RU. They can't get messages from others to stay out of the streets/work where RU army grabs them and sends them as cannon fodder. From the videos I saw they are just pure cannon fodder for UA artillery positions identification.
With proof of work, you have to spend your pile of money if you want to influence a vote. Whatever the cost of a 51% "attack" would be, the attacker has to actually spend that money to do it.

With proof of stake, having that money is enough to vote and you don't need to spend or waste it. In fact, you get paid for having that money sitting in the account.
Figma's blog post title [0] being 'A collaboration with Adobe', when it's really an acquisition seems like a warning sign.

[0] https://www.figma.com/blog/a-new-collaboration-with-adobe/
I think you might slightly underestimate the sheer # of companies and tech jobs in the Bay Area? I think Hacker News is an echo chamber when it comes to this because there are so many "rockstar" type engineers here.
Adobe’s PR includes the price:

“…approximately $20 billion in cash and stock”

Apparently it’s roughly half in cash according to other news reports.

Adobe stock is down 8% premarket, so seems like the market thinks they overpaid. (Personally I disagree — this is a good acquisition for Adobe)
Inkscape, penpot and/or maybe gimp afaik.
This is a phenomenon called risk compensation. The Wikipedia article (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Risk_compensation) covers the mechanism well, but misses one important thing - in every study that was ever done, the risk compensation effect was less than the safety effect introduced. E.g. the Golden Gate bridge barrier was a big increase in safety, and while people driving faster mitigates some of it it's still definitely an improvement.

[I don't have data on the Golden Gate Bridge specifically, just using it as an example]
Adobe and Figma says that Figma will remain autonomous. I think if this acquisition is treated the same way as the MS / Github model then things will be fine. Im a little surprised at the timing. This deal must have been in the works for quite awhile.
If I had to pick a single product that I thought could upend an entrenched competitor, this was it. Congrats to everyone who benefitted, but it's a bit of a letdown to see them go this route and give up the opportunity to build a lasting company.
This is the era that in the future will be marked as having nothing of substance and saturated with loaded terms that don't mean anything.
Penpot is foss afaik
A win-win situation:

Figma founders get money.

Figma competitors get a huge developed market to sell to when Adobe inevitably only sells Figma as part of their hellish subscription model.

Okay, Figma users lose. But that was a given.
> The you have to factor in $0 in health costs (gratis hospital and doctor visits), no payments for kids attending university, 32 weeks of paid maternal leave, and 5 weeks of mandatory holiday each year.

This sounds great if you're the type to have a family. Otherwise, seems like you kind of get screwed?
It’s a shame that the competition authorities don’t seem to have any interest in these type of acquisitions which destroys competition and harms consumers.
Same thing happened with Architecture software eg when Autocad bought Revit - end result is extortionately priced software that many architects cannot afford because they are paid so poorly. Same will happen for graphic designers.
Comments moved to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32850178, which is on the front page, appears to have been the first submission, and isn't a corporate press release (https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&sor...).

I assume bloomberg.com will update that article now that the news is confirmed.
Psychosomatic means "real symptoms caused or made worse (noticeable) by state of mind". They're saying there's actual damage involved, that it's not just psychological.
Taking a look at the raw data on Wolfram Alpha, it seems like a lot of the super low income countries are muddying the data. There are many low income countries with Gini coefficients all across the spectrum. I don't have the time to do it now, but you might find a pattern in the data if you filter out countries with GDP/capita <$5000 or <$10000.
It can be a big deal if you're seeking to build a following to spam with updates about ongoing development / new titles. Which can have a huge impact on how successful your launches on stores like Steam are.

These days I suspect it's more common to lean on Twitch streaming of the development process to build a following. But that probably reaches a different demographic than regular twitter updates would.
> This is the problem with privatisation of public services.

The much bigger problem is that not masses of users quit such a problem if such a problem occurs. This is a signal to the market that such behavior is perfectly fine.

Markets have the "nice" property that they typically converge into what people demand by their choices. In this case Twitter delivers what the users chose.
I guess this means a big boost for Penpot? It might not have a full feature overlap, but I can imagine it beeing more than good enough for teams collaborating on mockups and web related graphics. Plus it is open source and can be self-hosted, so it can't really be bought up and "taken hostage" like Figma has been.
We have „figma for xyz” but more often it should be „blender for xyz”

Would be awesome if all software tools were gravitating towards the non-profit financed-by-big-stakeholders model like blender is.
I don't really get why a company wants to be acquired if they're already best in their class and therefore will be raking in money for the foreseeable future. Don't they get a big payout either way?
> Adobe is deeply committed to keeping Figma operating autonomously and I will continue to serve as CEO, reporting to David Wadhwani.[0]

"autonomously". There, I fixed it for you :-) More seriously, I do hope that this will become an exception to the rule, but I'm not getting my hopes up.

0: https://www.figma.com/blog/a-new-collaboration-with-adobe/
Now they're going to pay for the damage done to the environment for the last six years that they've profited off of, right? No? Oh okay so it doesn't matter. I guess the miners have stopped operations, sold off their businesses, and moved on then.

Trouble is that governments and regulators are cracking down. I don't think it will be long before the SEC finally makes moves that will blanket label cryptocurrencies as securities. And we will see more arrests and trials. Once NFTs and web3 and everything else is wiped off the market I doubt there will be much left here.

It's always been a solution in search of a problem.

Update To clarify, what I'm saying is that the environmental angle here of using less energy isn't a concern for the Ethereum project. If the merge didn't work and they had to delay again they wouldn't have hesitated to delay again and continue burning energy on PoW at all. And they're not going to pay reparations for the damage they have already done because that's not what this is about, is it?
There's a tradeoff between decentralization and throughput. In the extreme, only people owning entire datacenters could operate a full 'node' that would be processing 1 000 000 TPS.

Slowness is not the mechanism, ETH had ~13 second block times before the merge. Bitcoin is slow because the difficulty is targeting longer block times, not because of inherent need for slowness. Difficulty is only required so that adverserial agents (with less than 51% of hashpower) can't rewrite the chain and change transactions.
This reminds me of Richard Dawkins' The Selfish Gene, where humans may be only incidental. (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Selfish_Gene)
I don't know, looking into the papers that are written in crypto research, especially in academia, it seems like there is a lot of very technically interesting stuff going on, especially with zero knowledge proofs for example...
It's sad to see people consumed by irrational germophobia to the point that they won't even eat in restaurants. Meanwhile the rest of us are enjoying ourselves, living normal lives.
The US supported and harbored an anti Castro terrorist who among other things blew up a civilian airliner:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luis_Posada_Carriles
Back in the days the Internet wasn't so riddled with ads as it's today though...
Well now I have a better idea of how much my friend makes (she's an exec at a big company). I just lost my sympathy for her.
So disappointing to see this happen to a beloved product, but congrats to the team for getting this outcome.
So, what's our alternatives? As others, I'm both pessimistic about the future and increasingly anti-Adobe (last thing I liked from them was non-subscription Framemaker and maybe PS 5.5).

Penpot? https://penpot.app/
Yeah, that and, you know, air bags. There is a TON of vehicle safety regulations for cars and trucks....
And yet there are restaurants that do it anyway.
Ironically, some of that military money would go back to Patagonia, through their discretely-held control of the current PCU contract, under which they provide a government-spec'd 7-layer uniform system to special operations units. They haven't always held the contract, and may not hold it in the future, but I always found that fact about Patagonia's business somewhat interesting, mainly due to the public obfuscation, and the perceived distance between the particular product, and Patagonia's "brand identity".

Now I need to go wash the fact that I just used "brand identity" in a sentence off my hands.
Yes, thanks. Typed it in on my phone and must of fat fingered it or autocorrect opportunity.