skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My wife and I say to each other that this can't last forever and we say (half jokingly) that we're overpaid and hope no one realizes it too quickly. She's in the field (not a developer) and makes more than I do. Our plan is to keep at it as long as we can and get to a point were we are debt free (including the house) and then move to a LCOL area in another country when the salaries crash.
You have a very funny definition of "fairly compensated" because both construction and medicine are 6 figure fields after 10 years in most occupations. I have a friend who is a journeyman pipefitter making 60k for all of 2 years of experience. That is comically overpaid for YoE in a field that requires all of 1 year of on the job training you don't even pay for.
In this case, I think it will. Adobe has been trying to build their own version of Figma for like 5 years. If anything, this probably means the end of XD and maybe their web versions of Photoshop. The Macromedia acquisition was a little different – Fireworks was an inferior Photoshop competitor, Freehand an inferior Illustrator competitor, Dreamweaver was outside of their core business, Flash actually got decent support until the world itself moved on from it (and Adobe mistakenly believed it could survive as closed source), and the rest of the portfolio didn't have much value. In Figma's case, it's actually a superior competitor to XD and even Photoshop in a lot of use cases, and it's figured out the web-based design environment that Adobe has tried repeatedly to do with mixed results.

I'd be surprised if they decided to shutter Figma. Now... ruin it by adding a bunch of crap nobody wants like Adobe does with every other product? Pretty likely. But I don't think they'll do what they did to Macromedia. I could be wrong, though.
So how do they get around federal FMLA requirements to fire people over the medical time?

Sign me up! A friend of a friend was a diesel electric mechanic making $85k starting 14 years ago, and no college cost. It took me 8 or more years and a masters to hit that comp as a dev. My company manages some of the rail road 401ks and they are highly compensated. And they're unionized, unlike devs, which I see as a plus.
> If you build on Webflow, you're basically doing the same thing, but putting ownership of the marketing site squarely inside the marketing org (who likely has people who's time is less expensive able to do what you need in Webflow...and faster).

Fair enough. I still don't think Webflow CMS is going to make much of a dent in this market (even though I think their GUI is much better than Wix/Squarespace). The charts in the site builder report link, even being 2 years old, suggest they're well behind even obscure platforms like Google Sites.
America's underground economy is estimated at 2.5 trillions, 10-12% of GDP: https://www.investopedia.com/articles/markets/032916/how-big...

The total market cap of ALL crypto is about 1 trillion today. So money laundering at a thousands of billions scale cannot use crypto.
Sure, anything is potentially possible but notice how often you had to describe things in uncertain future terms. If you are running a business, that sounds like “call me back when you can do this” — and in particular, consider that while Ethereum-based companies are spending large amounts of effort working around the architectural drawbacks of using a blockchain, everyone else is working on user-visible features.
1) Maybe this is the case, but what reason is there to assume that the mother is the culprit?

2) Does a detailed CSI-level investigation take place when an infant dies of an apparent SIDS death? I'm sure the parents are delicately asked about what happened for somebody to fill out the paperwork, but if there's no obvious bruising or broken bones or anything, how intense is an actual investigation?
I have no idea with pedal driving is, but if you mean that traffic lights invite that pathetic type-A kind of driving, accelerating to the next lights only to immediately have to break because the next light is turning red, yes, that's totally dumb and needlessly endangering others. Drivers should totally smooth out their speed, slow acceleration, slow deceleration. When you drive like a gentleman, you'll find out you rarely have to break.
without paywall: https://archive.ph/qqQMw (article is 9 months old, though)
I'm near Carmel too. I remember when the roundabouts started going in. They replaced four-way stops that backed up for miles at rush hour. The roundabouts made traffic flow SO much better.

Now Carmel is replacing some stoplights with roundabouts. This man's opinion is that they are not always better. But so far, they've never been worse.
But then you also wouldn’t have been using this extension which defaulted to allowing all possible tracking when it couldn’t figure the popup out.

This was an extension for people who don’t care about privacy.
How would asking if it's OK to store cookies when you know the user doesn't care be part of revenue?
"written in Rust" => "powered by steam"
My setup for ergonomic and performant Zustand in React
I'm 33. I think you're wrong.

I suspect you're older - imagine the US without a public highway system. Imagine every highway is private. Imagine what arbitrary bans from those highways would do to impact how you live. Talk to me about how well we should communicate face to face in that situation?

Idea not that appealing? That's what you're advocating for today.

A complete loss of a highway system that has no public replacement. By the way - those "18-24 age range" are all being forced to help pay for those "private highways" with their tax dollars anyways, in the form of govt subsidies to private cable companies.

Should we discount the ability to still communicate face to face? Nope. Damn well shouldn't.

Does that make this ok? Nope, Damn well doesn't.
I bought a house recently so I'm theoretically on the losing side of any drop in home prices resulting from this, but I still support it. I'm of the opinion that the government putting a ceiling on the price of money by controlling interest rates leads to all sorts of market dysfunctions, not the least of which is asset inflation of the kind we've seen recently.
As I’ve stated elsewhere, many LongCovid cohorts are finding that 30% of them have hEDS which is technically considered rare (1/5000) but is actually not rare somewhere between 2% and 1% of general population. Many of those people would have got ME/CFS anyway from some other cause. Also because it’s indistinguishable and there is a stigma attached to ME/CFS many people are claiming to have LongCovid instead. In my view the only difference is the quantity of afflicted people is much higher.
> mine Monero for five months just to fund a grassroots organization.

Am I missing something here? This is the main use case for Monero. You can just buy it with your credit card or after buying bitcoins thru a KYC'd service. That's the point - once you got Monero, it is practically untraceable by the authorities or anyone else interested. No one can see who sent or received money without a view key. The same cannot be said for most other cryptocurrencies like BTC or ETH, since once you buy these from a KYC service, it's tied to your identity forever.
Not wasting electricity is absolutely good news for the environment. At the same time, they were wasting electricity before... so I don't know about admirable, they've stopped doing something they shouldn't have been doing in the first place.
I'm saying his writings about marijuana are cranckish, as can be confirmed by anyone with any expertise in the field.

>He is the first journalist to take twitter to court and get unbanned

The fact that he was a "journalist" had nothing to do either with the reason for banning him or why he was restored (he was restored solely because a twitter employee behaved like a moron).
Brilliant. TIL!
If profits have nothing to do with it, then there's even less case to call it a monopoly. They nowhere near match the install base of all the free editing softwares (GIMP, Inkscape, Paint.net, etc).
I wish I was a little bit taller
> What would the alternative be?

Donate it to the Earth. https://www.patagonia.com/ownership/
It's important in French because French tries very hard to have a consistent mapping between spelling and pronunciation. When you read a word you don't know, the spelling tells you how to pronounce it. English seems to have largely given up on this concept.
Although you will be out of luck in the very rare situations where the merchant has to fall all the way back to a completely offline transaction on paper. Usually they use a little plastic roller device that impresses the number onto carbon paper to reduce errors, which is why they were embossed rather than printed in the first place.
Are you in the US? Where?

Even here in Minneapolis, upper Midwest, there wasn't anyone on the team I managed making less than $80k. And I actually complained to the owner (small company) that we would lose people because their salaries weren't keeping up with the market or even with inflation.

If you're a developer in the US making under $80k I would have to assume that you're in an area with absolutely no tech business or you have no desire to change that.
In addition, in areas with very high traffic, like London, area-coordinated adaptive traffic light systems (see SCOOT/SCATS) are used to keep traffic flowing smoothly, stop congestion from blocking junctions, prioritise emergency services and more. These systems are very good at what they do.

Traffic lights are also used to give priority to pedestrians and cyclists on junctions where it would be unsafe to rely on zebra crossings or pedestrian priority - think sharp and low visibility corners.

As far as roundabouts go, the UK has been replacing big multi-lane roundabouts in areas with lots of pedestrians and cyclists with two-way-traffic horse shoes (e.g. Old Street and E&C, plus others outside of London). This allows the centre of the roundabout to be used as public space, and has been found to be safer for vulnerable road users.

I'm all for light-free junctions where possible, and light-free roundabouts work REALLY well in low/medium traffic. But you can't just abolish traffic lights - unless we also abolish cars at the same time.
For people looking at this post in the future, here's why it's so funny: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32850178
Ah I see. I think the butler position is we are all gender performers, it's not really something you either are or aren't.

For example a purse is a very useful item in an urban environment, so every man who doesn't use one is performing gender by rejecting a practical tool because of its gendered signals.

We don't tend to notice these minor acts of gender performance because they're embedded in the culture and expected of us, but they are still performance. People who egregiously transgress gender expectations, which is I think what you are referring to as gender performers maybe, are choosing transgression but not performance. The performance is already there in one way or another, and imo they are as or more authentic than the rest of us in their willingness to acknowledge that and bear the social consequences of it.
Thing is we didn't need to be stuck in a rough spot, if our electricity was clean we'd be excused for taking our time transforming the rest of our energy use.

You are claiming that e-fuel costs are declining rapidly, but you forget to mention that there's no meaningful market anywhere on earth meaning we don't really have any experience with it and don't know how much it'll cost and how it will work exactly(will it be hydrogen, ammonia etc.) it's simply not a solved problem and there's no infrastructure to support it. It might make sense in the future to use e-fuels together with wind but what we're trying to do here in Denmark is to use wind and solar for the grid which sucks. Electricity prices fluctuates wildly at the mercy of the weather gods. Thermal energy storage is also still experimental and hydro only works in very very specific locations where it's already utilized. If we where to build new hydro we would destroy even bigger ecosystems than we already have.

Edit: I'm not even necessarily arguing against wind and solar, I'm just off the opinion that it makes much more sense to build out nuclear to support the grid first giving everyone cheap and stable electricity as well as providing district heating where it's already built out.
Think I have some interesting, dare I say good, approaches to managing complex state on my site, so just sharing some of that for discussion.
When traffic is light (e.g. at night), the traffic light can be scheduled to blink red in all directions. Then it is treated like a simple stop-sign intersection.
> The UK "mini-roundabout" does not take up additional space.

There are plenty of small intersections with traffic lights that aren't any wider than two opposite lanes with no median and no shoulder, only big enough for two vehicles to pass in opposite directions. They would need to be expanded to put a circle of any size in the middle, especially if a big truck was expected to make it through safely.
This was in response to the comment about wages decreasing for the whole economy.

I don't know of any specific forecasts. It's possible the actual report by the Fed does break down by industry, but I'm not sure.
My city has throngs of people coming in via transit whenever there’s a major sporting event or concert. I know, I’ve shared trains with them many times. You don’t have to get there by car.
Last I checked, I couldn't access the prototypes on a mobile device that wasn't iOS.

I just need Sketch to publish the prototype to a publicly accessible web URL like Figma does. When I needed to do usability testing, I had to use a third party service called Marvel that imports the mockups and publishes them to a web page on their domain.
Misperceiving Life Expectancy in the Deep Past
It’s really a challenge.

Do I love my 5br house in Seattle that I pay only $3200 a month for? Yes. Low rates and low prices made that possible for a brief moment in 2020.

Will we be here forever? No… I don’t think I want to raise kids in the city. Everything is densifying and that’s not for me. But as rates continue to rise, the financial cost of moving seems increasingly large. We might be stuck here for the entire mortgage term if prices drop below 2020 prices, which is feasible if rates continue to rise for the next few years. Payment a few thousand a month higher, purchase price a few hundred k lower.

I could always rent it out. I really do want to preserve this old house and it would need to go the right tenant that takes care of it, likely for a below market rent in exchange. However, given how absolutely unfriendly rental laws are in Seattle and how little choice I’ll really have in a tenant as a result, I’m very averse to that. Maybe I’ll just leave it empty once enough time passes for the payment to be inflated away to a negligible amount.

I suspect inventory will stay low for these reasons. People either can’t move, don’t have an incentive to rent out their place, or will rent and not sell to avoid catastrophic losses.
I'm not in SF or anywhere close to that COL and I make over 200 in Ops (SRE specifically, but no diff from devops). What is your skillset? Can you write go or another language? Learning to develop is what bumped me from a Sysadmin/Devops to SRE and hugely increased my salary.

I thought I was stuck in the 160-170s until I did that.
It's not just some people. It's a whole industry. TheSoul Publishing has 550 employees producing 1500 faked clickbaits a month.
Be happy they somehow think they have enough of your personal data and metadata.
Just my opinion, but your original comment comes off as comically dismissive of what Figma has done.

Adobe, a company with literal billions in cash and thousands of engineers, wagers 20 BILLION dollars that it is not easy to compete or replicate what Figma has done. In fact, they attempted to compete with Adobe XD and "lost".

The founders of Figma started working on the beginnings of it in 2012 (perhaps indirectly) and launched in 2016. They also raised 330+ million in VC money to make it happen.

I'm a bootstrapped at heart and love the idea of small companies outmaneuvering giant elephants but suggesting one could outdo Figma, with relative ease, just doesn't sound likely.

All that said, if you truly feel like you can, get out there and do it! Theres billions of dollars waiting for you.
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Oleg is creating https://webstudio.is/ which I think is that.
These days, I get to know new services only when they get acquired.
> Sure, your QOL might be similar while working. But in the US, you can retire by 45 on a FAANG salary (even with a family!). That's virtually impossible on the entire continent of Europe as a salaryman.

Common idea but in IT it's absolutely possible to retire by 30 in several EU countries. Bulgaria, Romania and it might take more time but you can add Poland and several more to that list. Sure it's not Western Europe but then again the US is not just SV.
OK thanks, interesting.
This is why I won't use SaaS products or orient my career into products that use SaaS.
whenever it comes to web/data/privacy, default should be to not trust anyone, block all requests, deny deny deny. if and only if a company can prove they can be trusted, then on a compay-by-company/site-by-site basis should they be allowed to do things. that should be a very steep hill to climb.

blanket optimism sounds like a nice lifestyle of the young, but with age comes realization the world only takes advantage and wisdom leads to being more pessimistic. question everything including authority is how i was raised.
The article mentions this the colours were not designed at all. It was an accident.
Fair enough! Important table is https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa2109730 , showing a 5x rise above general population background.

I wonder how this compares to unvaccinated/once-vaccinated COVID health risk though. To be clear about the numbers: we're talking about one death. The second booster would have to be remarkably worthless to not be worth it.
> You can make local software with collaboration support

You still need to have someone maintain the central server that serves as the single source of truth.
> I just checked with my team, and upon review of your account, it appears that our detection system has triggered successfully

That's exactly the same response I got, word-for-word, to my lockout ticket [1]. Initially I thought it was a human replying to my ticket, now I'm not so sure.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31398660
Monero is close to anonymous by default. You generate wallet, and send money there. While this first step can be tracked, you can just transfer the XMR from the first wallet to a new one. This time, no one can see your transactions or associate this address with you (unless you, for example, publish it next to your name).
I'm also finding GitHub very slow and getting the odd unicorn error. Common root issue, or just bored developers opening HN tabs?
Cell phone penetration in the US is above 85%. Cell phone penetration has been higher in developing countries for years.

At least I as a minority don’t have to worry about a taxi cab bypassing me when I take an Uber.

Taxi companies have been breaking laws for decades against discrimination and don’t get me started about the government monopoly in regards to the medallion system in major cities.
I once wrote a locking wrapper around the shelve module so I could use it as a thread- and multiprocess-safe key-value cache (including a wrapper around the requests modules `get()` to transparently cache/validate http resources according to headers):

https://github.com/cristoper/shelfcache

It works despite some cross-platform issues (flock and macos's version of gdbm interacting to create a deadlock), but if I were to do again I would just use sqlite (which Python's standard library has an interface for).
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But doesn't a lot "good tech" have nefarious roots?

The internet got its start as a government weapon in the Cold War?
I thought I was one of the last Fireworks users and I gave it up a few years ago in favor of Sketch!

Once I learn a tool well enough to suit my needs, I really hate giving it up so it was a difficult transition. Probably why I never bothered abandoning Sketch in favor of Figma.
FYI - I wrote the article, happy to answer any questions
I have more than quadrupled my comp over the last 10 years, and I have not worked at a F*NG. I have not really climbed the ladder much either, I went from a senior to tech lead and manager back to a tech lead/IC. My comp is almost entirely cash as well, though I am fortunate in that regard.

This is in the US in the NYC area.
I don't follow crypto stuff, what about btc?
Indeed—however much it "sucked", there's literally no replacement. We've simply lost a certain kind of very-accessible creation tool for rich, animation-heavy, potentially-interactive content.
Penpot is written in clojure, front and back. I'm not competent enough to know if it's good thing or a bad thing.
Note the IP. - moved back to old host?

maybe it will take time to bed in?
Looks like I answered the wrong comment earlier:

> I actually like to leave the cities I live in sometimes.

You can own a car and still use a bike when staying within the city. That's what most people do here.

> Or maybe I don't live in a city, and I want to visit it with my car.

That usually leads to a worse experience than taking public transit or a shared bike, and I don't think this use case should be supported.
> It isn't OK for cars to dominate 50% of the space in modern American cities for roads, free street parking, and parking lots. Particularly because it comes at the expense of space that could be used for more scalable transportation solutions.

50% sounds extremely generous. There are 8 parking spots per car and one car per person which is around 350m^2 of area per person (some portion of which is stacked).

This is one median lot per household on parking alone.
I think this hit the nail on the head, honestly. I've been bored of hype for years now, but there are so many developments in tech that are worth getting excited about. Processors, GPUs, storage, and networking are faster, more powerful, more efficient, and cheaper than I ever could have imagined growing up. The rumors of the internet's death have been greatly exaggerated; I still see interesting personal websites and projects online every day. I've got power in my pocket I never could have dreamed of, and when companies close doors to users there are still people working hard to open windows.
Big bad from the EU from forbidding your solution. Website have to receive informed and specific consent.

This means that before getting your consent, each website has to show you the text. And they cannot get your consent from a setting that does not correspond to them, specifically.

So if you tell your browser: « I accept that website track me on what I do on them, but do not allow marketing related stuff », website are not allowed to recognise that level of consent, skip the banner and act accordingly.
Filters wont help you here, the extension actively clicked the consent forms for you, not something you can do with filter lists.
Rich people coming to your country and bringing money is tourism. It's often a much better deal for the local population than a polluting factory intent on paying the most meager wages possible; often the reason they're even there, after all.
These remote startups building social media sites and SaaS products with Javascript surely own lots of buildings and computers and run their own datacenters!
You are mixing open source and Free Software.
People forget this. And how this had a greater impact across the industry. Because other companies could pay less and compete. And because of this, even though it happened over a decade ago, it had a long-term affect of keeping salaries lower than they should have been.