skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Anyone else think this has nothing to do with the regulatory agencies but instead the market has dramatically shifted in the past 15 months in terms of valuations and this is a nice cover to cancel the deal?

Figma still gets $1B "investment" without giving up any equity or control and Adobe gets to walk away from a massive $20B fee.

Adobe makes $17B a year in revenue, they would need some pretty strong growth out of Figma to justify the price tag especially after valuations came down.

But it is nice to "blame" the regulatory agencies for the breakup so that both companies save face.

Also just seems unlikely that it was regulatory. Sure Adobe has the market cornered but it doesn't seem like this is where the agencies would suddenly choose to care so much. And if it was regulatory, then shouldn't those agencies come out and say "We blocked this, no go."
I think the "disruption" narrative has played itself out by now. Nothing has been disrupted. Society still largely functions the same way as it did 20 years ago, and the same firms are mostly still running the same businesses.

We were promised a radical new world, what we got was a couple of apps for fast food delivery from McDonald's.
I agree with this. If you grew up in the ghetto where there's piles of trash everywhere, why are you going to feel bad about throwing a candy wrapper on top of the pile. That's literally the 'grain of sand is not a pile' thought experiment.

One separate thing I want to point out is that not all litter was littered. trash trucks blow it out in the wind, mentally ill homeless people throw it on the ground while scouring the trash bins looking for a 0.05 soda bottle refund (which was, ironically, done to reduce littering). Animals get into trash. So don't knee-jerk when you see trash on the ground and assume it was from a deliberate act.
Imagine being Dylan Field staring at a $1 billion+ payday, and the government tells you that ain't happening, lol
> It's a pet peeve of mine that C people seem to think that 0 isn't a number. Or that 0 (or -1) mean infinity.

It's not just C people :D - Zero may or may not be a natural number depending on who you ask, and negative numbers definitely are not.

And since in low-level programming, which is kind of C's kingdom, every bit might count and you'd rather use that useless sign bit for something else. -1 being particularly liked by compilers because it is "all bits set" in the dominant two's complement sign encoding, which sometimes allows optimization tricks.

> I guess it's mostly a consequence of C having such poor support for data types.

Technically nothing prevents anyone from returning a small two fields structure - one for a tag and one for the value - to have "tagged unions" or "optional types" almost like your favorite language. But in the eyes of a low-level C programmer, that's one field too much (omg that doesn't fit in a register, you will be held responsible for global warming if you publish this etc.).

So, it's not that we think that anything non-positive is not a "true number", it's more like we've been using these conventions sometimes since assembly programming days (OR AX,AX to test if register AX is zero in old x86 assembly, because the OR instruction sets the CPU's Z flag) in order to get maximum performance.
A few reasons, but I admit that doing so is becoming less attractive as tools grow in capability.

1. to think through information architecture and content structure, especially for accessibility
2. to stay familiar with the basics and foundations of what I do
3. semantics
Interesting thought - why do you say Microsoft?
I see extremely intense critiques of western political leaders 24/7. What planet do you live on?
Not to mention the $1 billion termination fee Adobe now owes them.
They already do that now, even for less stuff from less than 20, 30 years. They reboot, remake, continue anything for whatever reason. Money is relevant, but by far not the biggest hurdle to prevent them. The permissions of the right holders and the influence of the creators are more important IMHO.

For example, Netflix just now announced a reboot of One Piece Anime, a series running for 25 years. The creator is still working on the original source. Imagine if Netflix could just do that on their own, the creator had no influence at all on their work. They could just make shit along the way as they see it. Twist it, change it, with their power, they could be damaging the original work for good, simply because they are bigger.
> But why is it so much different from "Inspect Element" and then changing website content to whatever you please?

For the same reasons forging a contract is different from getting an idiot to sign one.
Obligatory pitch for The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity
By: David Graeber, David Wengrow

which is a whole book about the challenging of the "Necessity of Cities" and "Agriculture Ends the Good Life" memes, as well as a few others that go mostly unchallenged in history books.

A trailblazing account of human history, challenging our most fundamental assumptions about social evolution—from the development of agriculture and cities to the emergence of "the state", political violence, and social inequality—revealing new possibilities for human emancipation
The company will probably do well for the reasons you mentioned, only some late shareholders are affected. A good exit for the economy would be actually an IPO.
C++ is hard to beat: https://www.tumblr.com/tgceec/74534916370/results-of-the-gra...
Why did Figma want to sell itself to Adobe in the first place?

Even though their revenue is only about $400MM, As far as I know, they make a very healthy profit (operating margin of ~90%), and they’ve also been expanding through organic and acquisition means (e.g. they bought Diagram).

Is it because they see the ability to grow the company’s products even more given the Adobe footprint?
Wonderful news. Adobe was bound to ruin this product, whether on purpose or not. This is a win for the consumers (for once).
That's AdSense revenue alone; brand deals (the sponsored bits in his videos) make multiples of that revenue.
Any code, really. Runs in (highly restricted) Docker containers.
It shocks me to see the end game of a culture where the ONLY incentive is financial gain. Doctors performing unnecessary surgery making 90k per week. Shameless.

And everyone is making money, laser makers etc, everyone else doesn't dismiss these people as unethical, but jump on the band wagon: if there's a market, it's fulfilling a want, right? Who am I to judge and I can make money too, right? It's harmless, right?

Late stage capitalism at its worst. Everyone profiting from everyone else to the bottom of the chain: the baby that didn't ask to be part of this trainwreck of a system.
> The Nordics tend to have their buildings designed for heat pumps from the start

My grandma's house from the 1950's wasn't "designed for heat pumps", neither my other grandma's house from 1940. Neither was my mother in laws from the same period.

You don't need to design anything, you just need a hole in the wall to run the cables.

What does make the houses suited for heat pumps is the fact that Nordic houses are designed to keep the weather out. So when you heat/cool the inside, the house doesn't leak it all outside.
When there are elected officials who say that maybe capitalism is more important than democracy, it becomes clear that consensus is going to be difficult to achieve.
Date-fns v3 is out
What makes you think they aren’t? There is no absolute position here.

Good and bad people come and go all the time.
> The entire purpose of starting a company is to make a profit by delivering a product or service that the market will willingly buy

Why? People can start companies for whatever reason, also your company itself can be the product and big tech companies might be the market you're targeting. Users might just be along for the ride (and they get cheaper and/or better products because VCs are willing to subsidize their development).
It's not been arbitrarily blocked.
Nvidia had boatloads of money to spend, and 6X the number of engineers. AMD was skating on the edge of bankruptcy. AMD bet the farm on Zen, and that bet paid off so now they have money to spend on other things.

If they would have split resources off of Zen to spend on CUDA they would have failed at both and AMD would be a bankrupt husk.
Particle Physicists Agree on a Road Map for the Next Decade
The other problem with hiring 'only' 10x people - or having them call the shots without oversight for that matter - is that they pick or - worse - build overly complicated solutions that the non-10x people can't work with or don't understand.

10x is a misnomer in my comment though; 10x refers to productivity, not skill level / intelligence / complexity.
I remember when Waze and Google Maps came out and angry neighborhood residents would try to "poison" the traffic data set by reporting non-existant police in their neighborhood streets.

That also didn't work.
I concur, and I don't understand why a lot of artists still talk about AI art as if prompt -> end result is the only way of interacting with these systems. That may have been true in Spring of last year, but entire pipelines, flows, tool integrations, models etc. have been created since then. To really excert control over the generative process, you need more than Dall-E through ChatGPT, you need ControlNet, you need various models, and so on. It's technical artistry as 3D modeling is technical artistry.
You just add a disclaimer that none of what the bot says is legally binding, and it's an aid tool for finding the information that you are looking for. What's the problem with that?
Haha oops. :-)
Mom-and-pop businesses fit the definition of entrepreneur just fine. I'm not willing to let Silicon Valley VCs redefine the term.

> What happens when the owner(s) wants to retire?

Maybe they just close down the shop.

> Or has a serious health issue?

And purchase disability insurance.
And for dd, where it's bs=4m on macOS originally but changes to bs=4M if you install coreutils. I think you can write out the number bs=4000000 if you want a portable command. This argument is effectively mandatory as it speeds up file transfers like 4 times in my experience over the default block size.
That becomes state property though, I think the analogy in this case is that the cops take the money themselves.
You're surely entitled to your opinion. It doesn't mean you're right.

I tend to agree the CMA is pushing some esoteric arguments in their rulings, but I don't thinks deal is at all like Facebook / Giphy.

"A healthy M&A culture" isn't undone by a single deal being pulled, especially when that deal is clearly an anti-competitive one.

Also if anything, Adobe overpaid for Figma given it was one of the last deals before Tech stocks properly melted, so even Adobe shareholders can be happy with this outcome
It could be a form, but a custom one. You'd need someone to create the form, put it some on the website where people can find it. The bot already has a spot, no need for a new interface/form, it's easy enough to find and it's just a small update to the database powering the bot.
There’s a bigger picture than just the consumer. If there is not a chance to exit then founders won’t be incentivized to create these companies and employees won’t be incentivized to join or stay at these companies. If M&A markets are limited then the only option is IPO which goes through major cycles and probably can’t support the number of companies needed. Plus many companies can’t get big enough to IPO.
The estimate of $20,000 for that poster seemed surprisingly low. It went for $101,000. (This was back in 2012.)

https://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-20552258
"You criticise society yet you live in it" type of vibe from this comment
Mortgage giant Mr. Cooper data breach affects 14.7M people
Driver uses ChatGPT hack to get dealer to agree to sell new car for $1
The other day, I was talking to my daughter about where she might like to study in future. We happen to went to a big University for some showcase event and I asked her if she liked that one. She replied, “No! Their logo is in Comic Sans.”
What a disaster for Adobe.

They signal they can't build something to outcompete Figma. Their stock price falls

They axe their existing competing product, and is therefore now way behind.

They face problems with the acquisition, which makes their stock price fall again because it signals that not only can they not build products they can't use their money to buy companies that do.

Then it's confirmed they can't acquire Figma.

Then they have to lose 1bn dollars.

And that money is going to a competitor that they took seriously enough to try and acquire at a sky-high price.

QQ
I suspect the venn diagram of littering and people who do not wash their hands after using the toilet is a circle.

my biases may be showing
How will they whistleblow against him if he fired them in the first week before he did anything?
Why couldn't highlighting the fragility of such machine vision systems be an artistic endeavour?
> The researchers noticed that people were more likely to litter if they weren't close to a garbage can. The more trash bins available, the more likely a person would dispose of their trash properly.

100%. I always carried trash to the bin, but easily understand that there are people who will not bother taking trash to the trash bin.

Bins are half of a story, however. I _think_ it also depends on society. I live in post-soviet country. I've grown up in a small city that went from not so nice and litter here and there to clean, flowers around, etc. Well-being enabled much of that. But also people were tamed to it.

In southern Germany, I once stopped by gas station and just took my time to look around. My attention was brought by automatic washing machine were people step out of car and garage style doors don't get closed while washing in progress.

Then on a nearby street, ADAC pulls over a car. Technician had totally clean dress. Then comes the garbage truck. The bins were totally clean. The workers had clean dress. The garbage truck was clean. Their attitude to clean/tidy is on a super high level.
"Playpen Sans"
This is awful. Slava Ukraini.
Directly into Anki. I try not to use cloze deletions either - straight Q & As whenever possible.
Amazon's Effort to Challenge Musk's Starlink Internet Business
Show HN: I built multi-language search engines for 200k icons and 5k emojis
OpenAI created a gold mine, and over the past year developers worldwide have flocked to it. I also joined the gold rush and successfully uncovered two gold nuggets of my own:

Yesicon (https://yesicon.app): A vector icon search engine supporting 8 languages with over 200,000 high-quality icons, the ⌘CV buddy for developers and designers

SearchEmoji (https://searchemoji.app): An emoji search engine supporting 30 languages, enriching articles and social texts with colorful emojis

As a front-end developer, I use many icons in my daily work. Iconify largely solved my icon needs but still had one pain point – as a non-native English speaker I often needed translation software when searching for icons. When OpenAI released their API, my first thought was: I will use it to build a multi-language icon search engine. That’s how Yesicon was born.

As I could only work on it in my spare time, it took nearly half a year before I could launch it. To my delight, the response after launch was fantastic. Influencers on social media continuously helped promote it. Currently it already has 121k visitors per month, with users from all over the world. In some ways, I succeeded!

I feel like I’ve discovered the secret formula for traffic – if you have the resources, you can leverage AI to deliver those resources to users worldwide, and GPT-3.5 alone enables this. But lacking substantial resources myself, I could only set my sights on free resources. Iconify was like this, and so were emojis.

I built the emoji search engine to scratch my own itch. Finding the emoji I want when writing documents is a pain. SearchEmoji just recently launched – I welcome you to try it out! Any feedback would be hugely appreciated. SearchEmoji’s code is open source and can be accessed via the Github link in the top right corner of the website.

Of course, I sincerely hope you will also try out Yesicon and give me some feedback. If you are a designer or front-end developer, you will find it indispensable. I am also currently thinking about how to monetize the traffic, so I would love to hear your suggestions as well.
I hope that is the case, and tried to be very careful with the wording of my last post to leave open the possibility for other explanations.
At least the European regulators are. Still waiting for US agencies to do their job...case in point: Intuit.
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The $20B price was a massive overpay is the most likely reason.
I would be surprised if this was any deeper than people being lazy. Some people aren't so they don't mind holding onto their trash on the way to the trash can. Most people are. Some are guilty about being too lazy to uphold good manners they learnt they should have. Some had lazy parents who didn't teach them any.
Counterexample: https://gandalf.lakera.ai/

Discussed at: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35905876 "Gandalf – Game to make an LLM reveal a secret password" (May 2023, 351 comments)
Not sure if its state of the art now.

ASAPP has been doing that for literally years.
Pixelmator/Photomator is an interesting alternative with robust software for both Mac and iPad. I’m a bit too fond of Photoshop layers right now, but I’m tempted to switch.
The Supreme Court almost always judges in favor in free speech, including justices like Sotomayor. A place this frequently comes up is in rap where rappers frequently tend to rap about specific people and propose or fantasize about violent acts and even murder being committed against them. Eminem and his ex-wife Kim is a more or less well known example. And the Supreme Court has ruled, repeatedly, that it's 100% legal. A relevant court case is Elonis vs US [1]. He said some extremely explicit and provocative things, and the court ruled 8-1 in favor of throwing out his conviction. Interestingly enough, the sole dissenting vote was Clarence Thomas!

[1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elonis_v._United_States
I mean it makes sense, they were in it for the long haul, building the US' space program, their work to be used and reused for decades to come. Rushing won't achieve anything on those timescales.
I visit the British Library often. It's a great place to work if no meetings are on your schedule that day. The library has been noticeably quieter the past few weeks. Perhaps it's the time of year, but many individuals use the library for researching family histories or accessing esoteric items in the catalogue. I hope this is resolved soon. Public libraries are a really wonderful utility.
Prompt Engineering Guide by Open AI
Source code: https://github.com/smeighan/xlights
In the US, mental problems aren’t an automatic disqualifiet to sitting for the bar, but being evasive with the bar investigators usually is.
The Art of Influencing
I imagine it's the same as garbage cans. If the corral is far away, many won't bother. If the parking lot is already full of carts most do the same yet most won't be the first to leave a cart out.
There's some distinction in Aquinas that I don't remember the word for that would describe a "table" of pinecones as just being a table by analogy but not a real table. It has a form like a table, but if it just arose by accident, it lacks the substance of a table. I don't think aliens or videogames complicate the question that much, but I do think some flat surface in the forest is only like a table but not really a table until some conscious being comes along.
Assuming your numbers are correct, they sold for 50x ARR, which is a very very good price. I bet that’s why. It’s hard to do better than that.
I usually tend to use Reader mode in Safari or ReaderMode[1] in Google Chrome. In-fact, I have set Reader Mode as default for a few common website such as that of PG's.

1. https://readermode.io/
don't you have to have already agreed in the binding arbitration and waived your right to sue - in writing - ahead of time?

Not sure that if you have no prior agreement with someone that you can force them to not sue and use arbitration instead. Not a lawyer, but that is my understanding (in the USA anyway)
Only if we're too lazy to pre-filter the content manually.
Confronted with the same sort of problem, I ended up with Capture One and couldn't be happier. There are other options out there, which you should definitely explore.
Most languages have perfectly functioning wheels right there installed and ready for use.

People keep reinventing the wheel on javascript because it doesn't have any.
They were being investigated in the UK, the EU and the US.

It seemed very unlikely (to me, at least) that all three would approve.

That being said, if valuations hadn't changed so much then maybe they'd have stuck it out.
It's a european thing, not just french. Same in other languages. People are highly attuned to accents and geographical differences they imply. It's frustrating as a non-native speaker. English is "neutral" ground. Americans too are in general really patient with other people's accents, so just less used to that sort of provincialism.
Taking that perspective, some of these books on the subject get funnier - color / personality or Myers-Briggs for example, gotta put the INFJs with the ENFPs else their chakras won't align or... something like that.
Maybe it's a sampling bias?

You don't realize how useful the bots are, because you only recounted or encountered those occasions where the bots are not useful.
The planet were "critiques of western political leaders" are increasingly stiffled, and governments and "independent" third parties and "fact checkers" (funded and working with said governments) dictate what's allowed to say and what's "disinformation".
What I find most sad about entrepreneurship is that almost all the successful founders appear to have been 'chosen' by a famous VC or investor. It's almost like what you do doesn't really matter. I've seen some 'chosen entrepreneurs' keep failing and they keep getting second, third, fourth chances and eventually succeed. Being chosen seems to be the most important element for success. But how to become chosen? It seems so random, in a world of 8 billion people, you need to be hand-picked by one of maybe 100 people... And the criteria is weird; basically they need to like you and for that to happen, you basically need to remind them of a young version of themselves... Which is not something you can control.

If you're very different, none of the famous investors will like you (that's assuming they even learn about your existence) and your chances in this industry will be very bad.
Do we want to turn customer service over to "this might all be bullshit" generators? Imagine coming into the showroom, agreeing on a price for a car, doing all the paperwork, and having them tell you that wasn't legally binding because of some small print somewhere?
I don’t disagree with the notion that there should be more medium sized, self sustaining (“lifestyle?”) companies, but such statements are rarely if ever followed up with _why_ this is a desirable outcome for everyone involved.
> -77m views on December 15, removing bot views?

If it works like on Socialblade, a drop in views usually indicates video delistings (potentially due to copyright claims as she runs a "reaction" channel). Detection of view botting is usually punished a lot more harshly with whole channel demonetization, which I'd be surprised if any big creator were to risk that.

Even if it were view botting, in those cases they rarely reverses payments AFAIK (as that would mean them having to pay back advertisers and losing out on revenue).
I'm very lazy, but I have anxiety about being a bad person. Perhaps it could just be that they don't have the anxiety.