skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is really good feedback, thank you -- the "$24k" number is something we're going back to the drawing board on, we're reaching too much there. That number includes the capital costs of replacing and installing equipment (a single heat pump vs. both a furnace and an A/C unit, for example, plus rebates), and it's best case for heat pumps vs. worst case for legacy equipment. So, I think you're right, it just doesn't line up sensibly with the really concrete annual energy savings numbers.

On winter peaks, I'll have to look into what you're seeing -- we pull weather data from the nearest ASOS station to your zip code and have done a fair bit of validation on that data, but it could be a number of things. If you're interested, you could send the inputs you're using to pumpers@heatpumpshooray.com and I'll do a little digging?
Regulators put the brakes on Microsoft’s Activision acquisition
Know or assume what? That the email was automated? Yeah, I mean I don’t know 100% but I highly doubt a human analysed the situation and typed an email.

What seems more likely to me is, a request came from my app to some bank server. The server detected the request coming from Cuba and flagged the account as having suspicious activity, that in turn triggering an automated message.

Maybe there was indeed a guy somewhere in an office who saw one request to my account coming from Cuba and decided to have some fun and said he’ll turn my account off. I don’t know. Whatever it is, it’s creepy it happened.
Well, if it wasn't stupid, you'd be right to tell them that.

More often than not, it's the audience that's stupid, especially the average viewer.

Which is also why e.g. the Monkeys sold more than Miles Davis, and Bieber more than any number of much higher quality pop.
This is using tools from the Hyperledger foundation, the Ethereum compatible subprojects, not running on public Ethereum chains. Notably, this is a permissioned system
companies never buy with straight revenue. first it's half stock, so that becomes 10. second adobe had about $5b cash on its balance sheet. third they may have issued commercial paper or bonds to finance it, not in front of a bloomberg atm so i can't check issuances but it's pretty likely.
You may be right that the majority is probably an exchange. But is there something in the protocol specification that prohibits such majority?
Then it raises a question, can an actor such as a government (which may have unlimited resources) to hold large numbers of ether (> 51%) to add blocks to their advantage?

Perhaps, it's my ignorance about this technology that makes me question and prevent me from adopting this technology.
Penpot is also hosted on machines not run by you, as demonstrated by https://penpot.app/ so not sure what you're arguing against.
Note: the "US property" in question here was basically all of the agricultural land in Cuba
Also:

- Pixels are squares

- Pixels are as wide as they are tall

- Limiting the colour gradient across an area will make it look smooth (Mach banding yay)

- The number of bytes in a line of an image is bits_per_pixel * pixels_per_line

- High frame rate means smooth animation
Yeah, i don't get this. Seems like textbook anti-competitive behavior to me. Doesn't Adobe already have their own version of Figma (XD)?
Just to be clear, cryptographic hashes and other outputs of cryptographic primitives are designed to be uniform random. If you find a detectable bias from uniform on the outputs of /dev/urandom then you should consider the underlying primitive (the ChaCha20 stream cipher, in the case of modern Linux urandom) to be broken.
I don't believe that it's just fraud: the claims aspect adds drama and the drama makes it objectively worse.

I'm going through wiplash myself right now (mostly gone) and I think that too much drama played a major role. In my case not because of any claims situation, but because
having recently gone through an intracranial hemorrhage and because of having spent a year of my early career typing out neurosurgery reports from dictaphone. The result was that I wasn't sufficiently confident that it might be "just whiplash". Went on for months, with hardly any improvement, until a physiotherapist gave me a demonstration of just how capable those muscles are of creating the nastiest headaches. I'm quite convinced that this change to my mind was more important than the changed my neck muscles. I'd expect the drama created by the claims situation too have a similar effect as that alleviated hypochondrism I had, creating a link from claims to severity that isn't related to fraud at all. Fraud certainly exists, but its role might be much smaller that suggested by that link.

I remember that story from HN as well by the way, might actually have been a contributing factor in my disbelief/hypochondrism: "this pain is real, certainly not that thing that hardly exists outside of the American claims ecosystem". Beware of unexpected side-effects I guess.

(another factor in the difference USA vs rest of the world, entirely unrelated to claims, is likely the "unique" relationship with painkillers. Tho put it in perspective: I lost two trips to France to that injury that I had been looking forward to for months, but didn't take a single pill in the entire ordeal)
A basic image viewer included in your OS can probably do that - and a lot quicker than two minutes! How does Fireworks make it so slow to open, resize, and close?
There are tri-modal compensation bands in tech

midsize and non-tech companies are doing $50k-120k

VC backed startups and large non-tech companies are doing $80k-$170k

publicly traded big tech, tokenized crypto startups, and established crypto companies are doing $120-250k base salary plus another $200-400k in some form of non-cash but easily convertible to cash compensation for $400-$600k total annual compensation
BLS signature aggregation was finalized as an IETF standard in 2019. It's the reason Ethereum can support over a million staking nodes.

BLS was invented back in 2001, but was expensive to verify. A paper published in 2018 showed how to verify n aggregated signatures on the same message m with just 2 pairings instead of n+1.

https://ethresear.ch/t/pragmatic-signature-aggregation-with-...
Oh sure they would. Have you ever dealt with the stupidity in the C-suite of a large corporation?
OH NO, this is my favorite extension. What to do now?
Wild to me that they are getting bought for $20B yet didn't think they could make it through this macroeconomic environment. Or maybe just too hard to turn down that amount?

Figma is one of the most vibrant platforms I've seen in recent memory — genuinely it goes well for all involved, including the users.
>It's a bit old-fashioned in English, but you sometimes will see it in older texts on words like "coöperation".

You don't even need to search for older texts! The New Yorker actually uses the diaresis in their print edition. It's certainly a bit anachronistic, but I do think English spelling can be a bit obtuse to say the least, so the orthographic hint can sometimes be useful.

https://www.newyorker.com/culture/culture-desk/the-curse-of-...

https://www.arrantpedantry.com/2020/03/24/umlauts-diaereses-...
I think you misread, the parent agree with you that Figma created value, the issue is the acquisition by Adobe that might stop or slow this.
>And it seems in recent years schools have been preferring Python as a first language

JetBrains is trying to change this using Kotlin
That’s what I’m wondering. There are a few gpu mineable coins, will miners switch to those, and keep gpu prices high?
What is the great feature of Figma? I tried to use it for illustration and it did not feel great at all compared to software like Affinity Designer. How were you using it that it feels like such a great loss to you?
Not quite a CAPTCHA, but something similar has actually been done before.

The ESP game[1] paired two random people looking at the same image while a timer ticked down. The players had to enter labels that described the image, and if both players applied the same label, their score increased, and the label was associated more strongly with that image.

Well-known labels for an image were excluded after a while, so you had to guess less and less obvious labels in order to score as time went by. Once in a while the system would also assign test images with known labels to prevent cheating.

Apparently a lot of people played it because it was fun, so there wasn't even the need to pay them for labeling the dataset...

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ESP_game
I absolutely adore Chattanooga. I'm a 2nd-generation Austinite (and had only ever lived outside of Texas for about six years... Oakland & Nashville), and moved to SE Tennessee, sight-unseen, six years ago, to help Twin build his home in the National Forest. I now live in a 100-year-old cabin inholding, just minutes from downtown.

Cost of living is very low; internet has so many gigabits [optical, up to synchronus 10GB+ direct to home] you won't even believe it — and the local ISP is one of best-rated in country. Electricity is VERY INEXPENSIVE, traffic is minimal for a city of this size (so many interstates / highways).

My mother, living in Austin, just died... and honestly I really don't see any reason to return to my hometown (having found Chattanooga) except for the rare wedding/funeral. When I do return to either ATX or SFbay, my anxiety and distaste(s) for the world return.

This is still a homely town, with homely people, and simple good times. For the wrong person, this place can become a self-inflicted hellhole (e.g. Meth, prostitution, trafficking... all very high here). With the highest per-capita of churches of any US city, it's interesting how questionable some of the morals are around these parts (Good Ole Peoples' Clubs).
trimodal in tech
What about RGB (256, 256, 256) though?

Edit: Oops, I read "there is a maximum for reflection - RGB (255,255,255)" as one statement rather than two fragments but I still like my response. :P
> This is an online collaboration / network effect acquisition. Not a tech acquisition.

One could also make the argument that it's an acqui-hire.

If one wanted to build a real Photoshop, Illustrator, Lightroom, Premiere, etc. for the web, you'd want the Figma team. Nobody else understands how to build desktop-like experiences using the latest web technologies (Wasm, etc.) better.
Two reasons:

- To inconvenience the institutions of the occupier just in that area (Why just there? To avoid removing their incentives to change and to avoid crippling your own companies who provide a service there. If you sanction the occupier fully, they'll double down, perceive it as an escalation, and your own companies will be significantly hurt. They'll find an alternative, and once they do, they won't need your service any longer, so you lose leverage.)

- To frustrate the local populace so that even the milder ones have additional incentives to oppose the occupying regime.
Ask HN: Is academia the opposite of self-employment since you have many bosses?
In particular, the people involved in peer review of your work could be considered not just bosses but bosses who don't particularly care whether you succeed.

In fact, they may not even want you to succeed if your research threatens their research.
We have perfectly fine definitions for intelligence amongst creatures that are not closely related to humans, and it mostly centres around problem solving, even when introduced to problems that the creature and its ancestors had never grappled with.

In these situations does the creature try the eager solution despite it obviously not working near the end?

For example, does it take the close bridge that gets it 99% of the way across the river or does it not even bother and travel to the farther one that actually gets it across.

If it uses small sticks in nature will it employ artificially introduced tools to solve artificially introduced problems?

Etc.

The key here is to apply the test without breeding for it first. That is how you tell the individual is intelligent rather than the breeding mechanism. For example, I don't think the individuals are at all intelligent in OpenAI's[0] Hide and Seek. It's basically burned in instincts since the introduction of a button that would, say, swap positions with the farthest enemy agent wouldn't be utilized for hundreds of rounds of play. The learning is the brain and replication together. Reminds me of a story about aliens on LessWrong[1] about baby eating aliens.

[0] https://openai.com/blog/emergent-tool-use/

[1] https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/n5TqCuizyJDfAPjkr/the-baby-e...
Okay, this is awesome - I literally had the thought of "Figma is so fucking awesome, what the hell would I do without it?" pop into my head multiple times today!

And now I know now why... Fuck! I mean, I am happy for the entire Figma team and everything they have accomplished, and everything they've given to the designer and the Internet-at-large community. But I fear this might be gradual end of it, hence my brainwaves going all crazy about it.

I signed up to Figma the day it was released, and it immediately became the tool I use for creating and editing vector graphics. Since then I have written well over 1,000 articles, and I can say with confidence that for 80% of those articles - all my visuals were created, edited or improved with Figma.

I have never spent a single dollar on the product. That was also one of my thoughts today - like holy shit, I can actually enjoy this fast interface, greater features, and insane amount of community resources for no cost?

Yeah, these guys did it right.

Let's see how the story unfolds.
yes. Whether they're public or private doesn't change anything about how competitive they are.
I'm dismayed at the Figma news. I do not like Adobe. Hi PenPot, will be switching to you. I wish your name wasn't so close sounding to polpot.
Kinda fun that https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32845229 is on the home page alongside this one.
In this case "removing" is not the right term, but "avoid emitting". No carbon will be removed in any case, be it PoW or PoS.
Flash was an incredible accessible animation engine. There are dozens of “webtoons” that got their start as flash animations.
Do you really think a teenager who was involved in possibly their first accident is really going to make an honest assessment of themselves? Although they make not be in shock, the sudden hit of adrenaline you get at that time can really does not make you capable of a self assessment.

Also in my last accident, it tooks months for the symptoms to become evident. When an EMT or doctor checks you out after an accident they are checking for life threatening injuries. Not saying "OK, despite the accident you are 100% the same! Go about life as normal!"
How they pay the hosting and storage fees? What is the business model?
Less so on computer monitors, but the raster on a CRT is not pixels. So graphics made for CRTs look worse on LCDs. Even low-res games on a CRT look less chunky than on LCD.
> What are "the people" going to do about this? What does blockchain have to do with this? Not a damn thing.

You have Coinbase, Kucoin, Gateio, Crypto.com, Kraken, Bitfinex, Uniswap, Sushiswap, Pancakeswap, ...

Competition is also a form of decentralization.
Encouraging women’s involvement in the cybersecurity industry in today's society
$20B for graphics editor in browser – there is no inflation in US. World does not make any sense.
I just signed up to Penpot right now and gave it a look. Seems at least there are a few things that are not in Penpot but in Figma:

- "Components" implemented differently so requires you to hit "Update master component" before changes in instances are visible

- Auto layout doesn't seem to exists

Probably more stuff, since Penpot is relatively new and FOSS, while Figma is old by startup standards with huge investments and a large team behind it.
Browser extensions were main data source for their analytics subsidiary Jumpshot [1], which was shutdown for privacy reasons. Before that, when Mozilla and Opera started asking about their extensions, they rather removed them [2].

[1]: https://www.vice.com/en/article/qjdkq7/avast-antivirus-sells...

[2]: https://palant.info/2019/12/03/mozilla-removes-avast-extensi...
From what I heard it was the polluters who pushed us from "global warming" to "climate change" as the second is less emotive and less likely to be linked to them by people (especially after they paid so much for people to obscure things).
There purpose for existing and our reasons for coming don't need to be the same. Very few readers/posters have a ycombinator startup. Stronger feelings towards YC ideals would be found on the private ycominator channel.

The goal of facebook is some meta universe. Most users go on to write a friend..
If you are a UK contractor doing remote work, you can avoid the IR35 issue by working for a clients outside of the UK. Also, if you can get US client you'll probably get paid more for doing the same thing as a UK client too.
It still doesn't, unless you mean as a cause for activists. Stocks are here to stay too, and SP500 returned about 12% since mid-20th century while being much lower risk and having no withdrawal restrictions. Why settling down for 4% when you can have multitudes of that with lower risk? There is no financial sense to do that, and "voting with your wallet" against your financial interests is by definition activism.

What you're saying is effectively "staking is a donation to Ethereum future", which I don't mind as long as it is explicit. In Ethereum's communications, it's anything but.
It's more than that.

See this rather disturbing video of someone with rabies trying to take a drink: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OtiytblJzQc
>The only hope is that since Figma is subscription revenue, they will immediately feel the pain of neglecting the product.

I honestly haven't observed this to be the case with subscription software. They will continue making cash because people want to continue to use it. Meanwhile, if it were individual sales, they would actually have to maintain and improve it to get people to buy new versions.
If you are self-employed and have 10 clients you have 10 bosses. Somebody like

https://www.youtube.com/c/techmoan

has no "boss" but he's at the mercy of his fans, the Youtube algorithm, etc. For instance in 2017 there was a moral panic over ads running against terrorist content so people like that got demonetized until Youtube improved their content filtering.
Have you considered that a lot of people in the medical field have always been latent antivaxxers and that was just the moment to out themselves?
Spoiler alert, antivaxxers are always wrong.
FOSS has risks too.
In contrast to the negativity here, I am optimistic that Adobe won't screw this up. The past acquisitions are not necessarily an indicator of the future.

Adobe consistently upgraded Photoshop even when they had virtually no competition. Their CC subscription pricing is actually an incredible vaue if you use it as a professional. Figma has a huge user base, and a team that is excelling where Adobe is struggling - collaborative cloud-first design software.

It is very possible that a 20B acquisition is in part Adobe investing in talent to address a gap in their expertise. This isn't 20 years ago, it is now.
The US is pretty evil and sanctions on Cuba just affect regular people on the island and keep Florida politicians alive, but Cuba is way eviler. They don't export doctors, they do human trafficking for the enrichment of the communists and their families. Many of my friends were sent to Brazil and Venezuela as doctors, of the 3000 a month dollars the governments of these countries paid them, they only got $200 a month and the gov kept the rest while they were risking their life's in bad neighborhoods and very isolated places in the Amazonas. Does this money go back to help the regular citizen? Nope, it goes to Castro's families and the other new commies that are in power now, there is more poverty, and there are very few hours of electricity in a day right now, there is hunger compared to or worse than Africa and Haiti, there is repression and incarceration of young people who are protesting regularly, including 16-year-old kids and young women. It's that the embargo fault, nope completely, there is no production of anything, communists steal everything for their own enrichment from the government companies. Their media brags about the doctor exports and being a medical potency, yet my mom spent 4 months in pain to see a doctor because all of them have been exported or young ones left the country. There are zero medicines and one person in my family almost died of COVID if they didn't move fast and bribe the hospital director with dollars and suddenly there was medicine. Did they help fight apartheid in Africa? Yep and that was nice but they sent people against their will there, people who were kids and were in the mandatory military service, if you refused to go they did acts of repudiation (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acts_of_repudiation) with your neighbors and got a job was hard or impossible after you said no. I still know people traumatized from that war.

Source: I was born and raised there my entire life, and just came from there last weekend.
Offline transactions are available in many systems up to certain limits defined by both th card and the terminal. They get reconciled later.

Merchants not having connectivity is a rather small problem in this day and age really, with ubiquitous mobile data connections. (Yes, I am aware someone will be along shortly to tell me they have yet-another-edge case where it doesn't work for them. I don't really care, for the vast majority it is a massively convenient way to conduct business.)
The First Banknotes in Europe [pdf]
It was a small company, 8 people including an office admin and an intern.

I was simultaneously doing conference marketing and managing our infrastructure. Dad died, I told them I had to go, didn't communicate much, because my dad had died, and they thought it was inappropriate that I wasn't calling them while taking care of my mother.

I also found out later that a certain YCombinator partner found out that I had 2% of the company and suggested they fire me before I vest because it was an "obscene" amount of stock for a single employee to have, even if I was the 7th employee and took a 50% salary cut in exchange for that stock.

So yeah, there's more to the story.
Current lying-in-state queue endpoint
> No digital records

Is it really no digital records, or just fewer/obfuscated digital records? I would think that the ATM keeps tracks of the serial numbers of the notes it gave you?
You seldom want to become an expert in a single technology. It's doable, but you're putting all your eggs in the same basket. What if the technology becomes irrelevant in 5-10 years?

Get good enough to be proficient and become a broad generalist. This is a much better route imo.
Turn off scene detection.
Out of interest if this is your position, why does your profile list a protonmail account instead of something on US soil?
Chia solves this pretty well with a one time POW then POS in the form of presolved hashes.
They are both under a broader banner of pollution.
But having thousands/millions of "bosses" via self-employment is better than having tens/hundreds of academic peers.
"My income has increased significantly every year of my 20+ year career."

"Always another company willing to pay 30% more to gain niche experience you have that is stalling progress for them."

I feel like you're living in another reality. I have not had significant increases every year, and I feel that's the experience for the majority of devs. A 30% jump every two years is unimaginable (at least prior to the last 3 years). Maybe you're just a top tier dev and me and everyone I know is just shitty.