skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This isn’t a fringe statement. Amnesty International agrees (at least the 2022 report—a fair time after 1966). Apartheid is the systematic domination of one racial group over another. How is that not in effect in Israel and the occupied territories? How is, say, the freedom of movement for Palestinians considering all the checkpoints that they have to go through? Can anyone argue that Palestinians are not second-class citizens in Israel and the occupied territories?
They literally indicated they were against it from early on, but Adobe tried to brute force it through and after careful review they said, “still no.”

Also, it’s not as if Figma has been sitting around all this time waiting for their dear Adobe to close. My understanding is that more than 500 new people have been hired since the deal was announced (total is now like 1300+) and growth continues.

I’m just glad Figma can now move on without having to do some “roadmap alignment exercise” or doing the “gradually falling apart” that so many Adobe acquisitions have done.

The real thought should be why Adobe was willing to pay twice the recent valuation to take Figma out as a competitor, and why only European regulators had a problem with it. They have a tendency to kneecap anyone who’s a substantive threat to their market, and we need viable competition in the space.

It may not have been particularly timely in terms of review, but it was never inconsistent. And we have no idea what kinds of delays were put on the deal, including delays from the Figma and Adobe teams.
Fair enough, here are a few links:

- Les Parents Du Campus: Gboglo Koffi (1993): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tOOo7GmMT0U

- Espoir 2000: Abidjan Farot (2006) : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zNVpabquZFA

- Molare: le boucan (2008): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D4bDNll6L0g

Boucantier is one of the words that was introduced in the Larousse dictionary in 2019

One of the key artists of the movement passed away in 2019 and I also wrote about the significance of these songs from an "urban youth" perspective: https://medium.com/mitafricans/farewell-to-dj-arafat-reflect...
Is it though? Because if they were doing something that good wouldn't I have heard of this service by now? I have a pretty good (I would wager better than most) understanding of which streaming services are available but I've never even heard of this one.
time to go back to BBS. text only. New protocol. Completely outside of www.
> I'm interested to see a $/H breakdown of the cost of (self hosted htpc) piracy. You gotta buy hard drives and a media player, and spend time with set up and maintaince.

Why would you need hard drives? If your internet is reasonably fast you can just delete the file and download it again next time you need to watch it. Same goes with htpc. A laptop with a hdmi cord works fine as well and is way cheaper.
Adobe Firefly is cute but it wont get you any customers from Figma because it's different product for completely different purpose.

Figma has something that Adobe lacks and wanted probably more than Figmas customers. Huge database of essentially all web/ui design done in past 3 years. If Firefly is such a hit wait once FigmaAI will start generating their stuff.

Also it doesn't seem Figma as product was slowed too much - they have recently launched dev mode. One of the biggest features in a while. That put them more ahead of the competition.
Available as a phone line API (https://www.vocode.dev) and OS project (https://github.com/vocodedev/vocode-python)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dead_Internet_theory

Often referred to as the dead internet theory
People from the US generally find accents from other English speaking countries fairly charming (source I'm from the US) rather than a source of amusement or derision. I think attitudes about accents from non-English speakers vary more widely and regionally.
No blame for the corporations outsourcing jobs and suppliers to save a few bucks for their executives and investors?
North America's first people may have arrived by sea ice highway
Flipboard Begins to Federate
I found a loophole - check my older comments - to let me get out of their system, but they may have closed it. I bought Affinity for a laugh but switched to Capture One for better skin tones, Photo Mechanic Plus for better management. Both those have gone to the terrible subscription model but I’m just going to freeze my Mac‘s OS where it is and have a reliable machine for this.
Yeah. I was genuinely surprised at how hostile the process has become. These were the most difficult installs I've ever had by far, and for entirely different reasons than in the past. Contrary to past installs, once I finally got the OS on there, everything else worked better than expected.
This conveniently ignores the location of the pollutants, not to mention the difference in difficulty with recapturing pollution particles from many small, vs few big sources.

Even if the electrical grid is only run on coal, the end result is still less pollution, especially in dense population centers
I think on the contrary, Microsoft may look into it as another AI driven or AI enabled product that can deliver UIs on the fly, and hence can attract creative crowd towards them. TBH, possibilities are limitless.
Could you tell me what feature kept you there? I've been trying it on the side, but it seems to be bulkier than basically anything else I've tried.
I believe Toyota @ NUMMI actually showed that they could win over the union and get everyone bought into their lean culture, but it took time / patience.

Notably, this plant was considered a failure before because the of the antagonism between labor/mgmt led to really toxic behavior.

GM blamed the union labor, but Toyota ended up firing the managers and got buy in from labor because of their long-term / labor-centric culture, including more empowerment, respect, high quality training, etc.

https://www.lean.org/the-lean-post/articles/how-nummi-change...
> Adobe has probably captured back both mental and market share from Figma

Unlikely. Based on the google trends [1], Figma sees around 10x more traffic than Firefly, but more importantly it experiences severe weekend drop-offs, meaning people are using it for work. Firefly on the other hand has a constant amount of attention, in line with people playing around with it but not committing to it for serious projects.

Anecdotally I work in UI/UX space as a contractor and I've been given every design in Figma, I hadn't even heard of Firefly until this comment.

[1] https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=today%203-m&ge...
Nikola founder to be sentenced for federal fraud charges
" Adobe can now add collaborative features to Firefly" - Except they won't. If you have been inside old big tech companies you'd know. Hard for me to articulate though. An open acknowledgment of this phenomenon is Satya staying out of OpenAI and still sucking the milk. They can never hope to move the same. Sathya's brilliance is that he decided and quietly said to himself and his board.. "And that's ok". Being humble brought MS back into the race. Adobe should have done the same with Figma.
r.e. 'The Flying Tigers', my high school library had a copy of 'Way of a Fighter: The Memoirs of Claire Lee Chennault' that I read multiple times. Might be worth checking out.
I'm confused about what this is actually offering (also very tired due to some flight problems; anyway)

To me, I'd imagine kubernetes on fly as running kind (kubernetes in docker) with fly converting the docker images to firecracker images OR "normal" kubernetes api server running on one machine then using CAPI/or a homegrown thing for spinning up additional nodes as needed.

So, what's the deal here? Why k3s + a virtual kublet?
Well, for us it was a blessing. My daughter destroyed my wife nipples, to the point she was unable to breastfeed due to pain. After the surgery my wife noticed immediate relief and it went pain free after another week. She proceeded to breastfeed her for 2 years.

I do believe medicine driven by money is really really bad, just reporting our experience.
It's a reductio ad absurdum style argument.
From the article:

> I tried to determine if the commenters, too, were bots. The vast majority of them clearly are not. Most commenters I looked into are people who have been judiciously posting family photos, political arguments, and status updates on Facebook for decades.

I wouldn't be surprised if most of them are real. There's still an incredible number of Facebook users (especially the older generations) that just scroll through Facebook for hours each day and earnestly interact with things they see.
To be fair I have some memories of the papers and surrounding tech being really bad. The popular implementations didn’t actually do what the papers said and the tech wasn’t great for anything beyond word level comparisons. You got some juice doing tf idf weighting of specific words but then tf idf weighted bag of words was similarly powerful.

Cosine similarity of the sum of different word vectors sounds soooo dumb nowadays imo
Actually a really well written article and not your typical hit piece, worth the read this time
The regulation has changed and no longer limits use at altitude. Source: have launched high altitude balloons to 100000' and https://space.stackexchange.com/a/14695.

You still have to be careful to buy a GPS unit that isn't limited in altitude, though.
> it gives you the power to create experiences and share them almost effortlessly

That's exactly where the hate comes from: I don't want you, the web designer, to have the power to create experiences, because you (collectively) use that power to force experiences on me that I don't want to have.
You're getting downvotes, but IMO it's because people don't realize how far outside the norm Lina Khan's stances and approach has been.
The font (because of the drop shadows I guess) looks jarring in dark mode.
Agreed, pure semantic HTML5 with minimal (if any) CSS is pretty much equivalent to what Gemini and markdown are going for. HTML5 is also a proper standard unlike markdown, which exists in a variety of incompatible versions.
> I take a very large example of real-world data (say 95th percentile of what is actually used in the wild) and develop with that as my backing data. If operations are slow enough for me to be annoyed in development, clearly they will be too slow for the (many more) people who have to work with the project once complete.

Interesting point. Will try to incorporate that.

> Does making a change in one flow tend to adversely affect seemingly unrelated others?

It doesn't happen that much, but because there is a lot of intersection between those flows, they are kind of interlinked(to reduce code duplication). But point noted, I will try to see if they can be separated.

> Lock the `main` branch, only allow commits to it from PR's. Review your own PR's.

Done.

> There are no bad queries, only insufficient validation and/or timeouts.

Validations are huge issue. When you have hundreds of variables and one of them throws DivisionByZero error or invalid data type, those are hard to catch

Loved these suggestions especially the first one. any more ideas?
> a military compound in the city center of a small town called Delft

You mean like, the military museum?
`redux-saga` maintainer here.

I've been using `effection` to build a replacement for `redux-saga` over at https://github.com/neurosnap/starfx

Effection has demonstrated to me how truly powerful delimited continuations are and why structured concurrency is an incredible asset for anything that requires async flow control -- basically everything in TS/JS.

I know sometimes it's hard to imagine why someone would need structured concurrency or care about delimited continuations for a front-end application, but this is a game changer in terms of expressing async flow control.

Some things to note about Effection:

- API surface area is small https://github.com/thefrontside/effection/issues/851

- It tries to stay as close to JS constructs as possible so it will feel very familiar

- Resource cleanup is automatic (when a function passes out of scope all descendent tasks are shut down automatically)

- End-user doesn't need to think about delimited continuations

The only leap users need to learn coming from async/await is the syntax.

import { main, call } from "effection";

await main(function*() {
const response = yield* call(fetch("my-api.com"));
const data = yield* call(response.json);
});

In this way, effection is very approachable and I highly recommend people try it out.
https://twitter.com/cb_doge/status/1736740888431264122
> In the US perhaps.

You may note that the DOJ mentioned in the article's title is a US agency.
This is exactly what the problem is. If you don’t agree with the mainstream “save Ukraine” mantra, then you “fell for Russian propaganda”. The only accepted opinion is to fight at all costs. Nothing else is accepted. How is this democratic? I’m not for Russia, nor against, but don’t support of killing even more people.
If there would be freedom of speech, then you could discuss this openly and publicly. I believe in Russia you can also post on the internet, at least anonymously.
There is the right way (pro Ukraine) and the wrong way. Why?
So, how exactly will Ukraine win this war? And at what cost? How would Russia accept losing? I believe you don’t have an answer.
Because if you are the only one selling coffee, you can jack up the prices and keep the returns growing as they are required to.
The GCC Ada frontend is written in Ada (and has been maintained that way in the gcc source tree for well over twenty years now).
Anyway, there are reports from Bloomberg’s Apple reporter that Apple will ship all new models of watches with a different form factor and new features like BP monitoring in 2024.

PS: Was all set with an app design for the Samsung devices a few years ago, but Tizen turned out to be not worthy of any mindshare and I don’t support Google’s surveillance capitalism business model (so no WearOS for me). Meanwhile, Apple doesn’t have a well known procedure for vetting app developers enough to trust some with full access to their crypto-locked devices. With no other similar platforms, there is no real opportunity to advance mankind in this regard at this time anyway…but dang, love those Activity reminders /not
I have seen it. Nobody I know posts on Facebook anymore, so when Facebook is desperately trying to find content to fill the feed it turns to whatever it can come up with from random accounts.

The apparent active group of friends you have is no doubt why you haven't seen it. That activity gives Facebook something to work with.
> that the purpose of building a business is just the exit

The majority of those affected negatively by this are not the founders, but the employees. Many of them may have turned down FAANG positions that come with predictable liquid RSUs. Some may have kids (in fact, I know someone at Figma who had a kid in the past year).

Liquidity's not necessarily about opportunistically passing on risk...sometimes it's just about making a competitive living relative to being at a public company.
Gemini Is Google's Best AI Model Yet, but Who Cares?
I had Everything installed but didn't use it as much as expected. I've gravitated toward FileLocator Pro instead, which uses extremely fast metadata table searching instead of requiring an index (I don't use the Agent Ransack features).

Not a Linux expert, but out of curiosity did you try Recoll when you looked at other platforms? (https://www.lesbonscomptes.com/recoll/pages/index-recoll.htm...)
TIL that 1 BC is succeeded by 1 AD. There is no 0 AD.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Year_zero
No one disputes that regulators basically killed this merger.
Matrix Homeservers like Synapse can run on anything now, and there is conduit which should be lighter too.
Technical Protocol doesn’t matter we’re talking approval and liquidity here. ACH/Wire same dif.
If you believe that dealing with homelessness is critical, then you should be willing to take some sacrifices yourself in order to personally house homeless people. If you start making exceptions, then you are saying that dealing with homelessness itself is not inherently good, but only good in _some_ places when it impacts _some_ people.

You can apply this to literally anything. This argument is silly.
>> Counterpoint: rust is doing fine without those organizations and industries. Why change what is working well?

Because Rust is a game changer.

Wouldn't it be better to have Rust used for the code that runs on automobiles and aircraft? Or you would prefer that they keep using (subsets of) C and C++?

Is the security of your Internet-of-Things (IoT) devices good enough or could they be better?

What do you have against Rust being used in more places and for more purposes?
As a car buying customer, I care about four things:

(1) Getting the car I want

(2) at a price I think is fair

(3) as quickly as possible

(4) with little effort on my part.

The manufacturer or dealer’s inventory does not concern me. The number of configurations does not concern me. If the manufacturer has exactly one car and it is what I want and they will sell it to me for a price I think
is fair and will deliver it in a timely manner and won’t waste my time, then I will buy that car.

Traditional dealerships fail on all these aspects. They don’t have the car I want, they tack on fees that are bullshit, they take forever (last time I bought a Toyota it took five hours. Five. I walked in at 2pm on a Saturday and barely made a 7:30pm dinner reservation), and they make me do a bunch of work that I don’t want to do.

I opened my web browser to spend $70,000 and only one company was able to take my money.
Performance engineering, profilers, and seeing the invisible
https://www.politico.com/news/2022/11/02/doj-review-adobe-20...

That's a little over a month after the announcement was made. That is "very early on" in the 15 month "sequence of events."

Keep in mind, this was the announcements. FTA: "The DOJ has been contacting customers and competitors of Adobe and Figma, as well as Figma’s venture capital investors, in recent weeks, the people said. According to one of the people, the DOJ has already issued civil investigative demands — information requests similar to subpoenas — an unusual move at this early juncture in the probe."

So, we are talking about significant action being taken less than a month after the announcement.

I'll grant you "very early on" is subjective, but I feel any reasonable person would say that this constitutes "very early on".

In short, I would urge you to look at the actual timeline of events around the CMA and the DOJ before you keep spreading an inaccurate factual understanding of the sequence of events here.
Sure. But breaking down an illegally constructed fence can produce discussions beyond vandalism.
Makes sense when you realize that they are never loyal to capitalism, only to themselves, and their own wealth and power.
Nitter mirror of a Twitter post that stole the picture off Mastodon, this is how we do microblogging in 2024. Looking forward to the rest of the year!
But that's the point: it's not timely. It's a massive millstone to Figma, who now have to figure out what to do with their pixel-perfect UI designer collaboration tool in a world of an and coming Adobe Firefly.
Is there any option to set a default ISO to boot? Without having to select a file manually. I keep juggling between different OSes on raspberry pies and it’s a pain to reformat drive again and again. But sometimes i do want it to boot headless.
YouTube offers an ad-free service.

(yes, I know content providers can still embed their own promotions into their videos).
"Internal documents show how X content moderators are no longer authorised to take action against accounts posting racist, sexist, and homophobic content"

Huh! I thought Must had fired all these moderators.
> Novel approach here, we need a 240W version for spot-welding or putting a quick sear on pork belly.

Only 60W, but...

https://pine64.com/product/pinecil-smart-mini-portable-solde...
Yes, it's a bit of a problem for the field! Like many aspects of antitrust, predatory pricing applies cleanly for an industrial-era economy but as you point out, it's less clear how to translate it into the context of 21st century informational capitalism. A significant amount of legal and economic research in the field is asking these kinds of questions, and the answers are still forthcoming.
It's actually much earlier than that. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38685644

tl;dr: Their was significant action less than a month after the announcement was made.
You can - click "All Tasks" under the File menu or press CMD+T when the app is focused.
> I personally don't know any technology that overall was a net negative.

To start, I think it's extremely difficult (if even possible) to assign "scores" to the outcomes of all technologies ever developed in human history. IMPO to be able to accurately/productively say "oh this has been a net positive or negative for humanity" you have to have all of history written down to begin with, which is a tall order. Anything else requires you to impute some data, so already the assessment has error bars.

Second, this is a massive survivor bias fallacy. Technologies with net negatives don't get promulgated precisely because we have a culture of safety and caution around technological development. If someone invents the InfantShredder 9000 it winds up sitting on the lab bench, because it would never in a million years get developed for serious release because it is unsafe.

> but so far history is on our side.

It is not, history is full of both blood and joy. That we haven't wiped out our species yet is an extremely low bar IMO.

> Technology is the only change we got to change this dreadful default fate awaiting us.

My personal cosmology is that death is natural, normal, and good. "Dreading" it is as silly as dreading rain. Biological systems die and their components are reused by the ecosystem: this is reality. I recognize that not everyone is on board with this, and that it's kind of a religious/spiritual take, so I don't want to belabor a useless point too much, but I do think it's worth bringing up at least once. We should aggressively pursue every quality of life improvement we can find, absolutely I support this. But should we pretend like we can somehow escape the ultimate confines of being a biological organism? I think that's delusional and distracting, personally. Much like my views on the Christian Heaven, this glorious techno-future promised by Sandhill Road strikes me as bait to get rubes in-line, rather than an actual ethical north-star. My preference is to find joy in impermanence, and focus on maximizing the human experience now, rather than play utilitarian games about possible futures; "a bird in the hand" and all that.
I agree there. We seem to be recovering from a cycle of not caring about monopolies at all, and corporations are now as strong as they were in the late 19th century. I am not surprised that anti-trust is slow and unpredictable today. I hope that we settle into a more predictable regime, no matter which political party is in power.

For historical references, anti-trust filings began against Standard Oil in 1906, and it was broken up in 1911. [0]

The AT&T breakup took four years, from 1978 to 1982. [1]

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Standard_Oil

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_v._AT%26T
What does Gen AI and Adobe Firefly has to do with Figma? Not even the target group is similar - Figma didn't even try to touch raster/illustration. Building or acquiring a product is not a one-shot try at a popularity contest.
It’s hard work!

Much easier to give things away for free and sell the company.
Gym memberships, cell phone plans, utility bills, unpaid parking tickets, etc. will all report to your credit report if you miss payments. Debt, not just credit cards. A delinquent account on your account will drop it by 100-150 points immediately.