skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> but did Figma even need to sell in the first place?

My two cents would be no considering they already surpassed and put both Sketch and InVision out of business. They were predictably emboldened to think if they were able to beat out two other competitors, and more and more enterprise companies are moving to their product, taking on Adobe or even sharing the lions share of the market with them wouldn't be that bad.

The fact the only remaining real competitor went all in and attempted to buy them was a clear signal Adobe saw them as a threat and were willing to clear out their bank vault to acquire them. Figma rightly played their hand perfectly and not only shut down the offer, but now have a clear path to being the sole software provider in a rapidly dwindling market.

My anecdotal evidence would be if you go on LinkedIn or any other job board and start looking at the job descriptions for UI/UX designers, none of them list Sketch, InVision or Adobe XD. Its 100% Figma now. At my current company, everything has been moved to Figma and we've even had several enterprise tools that we're using that integrate with Figma.
Doing physical labor for a living is a deadend. I luckily learned this early enough in my life.
The idea is that if parking lots are built, they should be at the very least well utilized. We have a big problem of shopping centres over-building parking. For example, optimizing for everyone being able to always find a spot even at peak holiday seasons. As opposed to optimizing for having that parking lot being ~90% full for most of the day.

The fact that your home garage and work parking lot are also empty most of the time is also a huge problem. It makes cities much larger than they need to be, and serving public transit across them impossible.
THANK YOU

came here to say this
It’s not a null result if the PR person writes the paper. It’s the fundamental mathematical nature of statistics that’s wrong!
> also, dont forget that almost any subreddit is an RSS with /.rss

You can just add .rss to the end, you don't need the slash ;)
You do have to appreciate the Machiavellian cleverness of this approach to marketing.
My point is that each profession has its own independent supply and demand equilibrium, and not every market even operates at equilibrium. The relative wages of two entirely independent markets for labor don't indicate relative demand.
Ask HN: Does Microsoft Teams work in Firefox for you?
On Linux? What version?

As I said in a recent comment:

> Teams loads super slowly or not at all these days as of this morning in Firefox. The page frequently blanks and repaints.

Edit: To clarify the above, I didn't even get to the step of testing calls or screen sharing... this blanking/repainting and sluggishness happened just trying to click on different teams/calendar/etc.

Is this a problem for others? Trying to determine if it might be a problem on my end or yet another instance of platform tilt[0].

0: https://blog.mozilla.org/netpolicy/2024/01/19/platform-tilt/
Figma actually did reject many offers at market rates. $20B was too good to pass up, particularly with the $1B cancellation fee.
How's the Current Job Market for Data Engineers, and What's the Future Outlook?
Lately, there's been a lot of buzz about layoffs affecting Software Engineers (SWEs) across various sectors. It got me wondering about how these trends are impacting Data Engineers. Are you, as Data Engineers, experiencing similar challenges in terms of job security, finding new roles, or facing layoffs? How do you feel the market is right now for Data Engineering?

Additionally, with the rapid advancements and increasing reliance on AI, I'm curious about your thoughts on the future of Data Engineering as a career choice. Do you believe Data Engineering will continue to be a safe and stable career path, or do you think pivoting towards AI and Data Science might offer more security and opportunities in the long run?
> For shelter, a Walmart-grade sleeping bag and tent, issued to you at the border.

Ok, so we're not talking about "ending homelessness", we're talking about shifting it into a segregated area. Note also this mentions nothing about healthcare. It sounds like he's building a place for people to die in the next heat wave, cold snap or serious storm.

But also, fundamentally the Citizen vs Subject thing is sweeping a large and important case under the rug. At multiple points, he emphasize that people will "choose" to be subjects. But he also says that to be a citizen "you must pay more to the government than you take." So what if you don't choose to be a subject but you also don't pay more in taxes than e.g. you get from merely being in a city with paved roads and street lights? Are you _forced_ into this tent city?

The current situation can feel dystopian, but this sounds worse.
Are you from Australia, or any other place that was able to successfully quarantine against COVID for an extended period of time? Even so I'd like to know so that I can look at the data.

An important point from that link comparing the two is that if you get hospitalized with COVID your death rate is close to twice that compared to if you get hospitalized with the flu.

And I don't see how mentioning obesity rates matters. If COVID is effectively the flu then obesity should effectively matter the same for both of them.

If you don't live in the US I don't understand why you're focusing on the US.

>and WE were blamed for the spread because we knew the vaccine wouldn't prevent transmission and was useless for most people below 50-60.

AGAIN Masking and distancing mattered, and still matters. Regardless whether one got the vaccine. I know those aholes at CNN and the like were saying that only the vaccines mattered. From my point of view, as a person who wanted to shut down this viral attack against the entire human species, a pox on both your houses.

We'd actually know better if China, not the US, but China, had been more forthcoming as to what exactly happened at the Wuhan Institute of Virology . Do we blame the people who hire contractors for the contractors' screwups, or the contractors who had stated (through BSL-4 certification) that they were competent to do the job?

Gain of function research is one thing, but it's not definitive evidence that the virus leaked from the WIV. As I discussed in this thread almost a year ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34753613
It's an interesting thought experiment but it fails to consider healthcare. Infinite healthcare for extremely unhealthy drug addicts would be impossible to finance.
You can use a stick and some dirt, as long as no Macedonian kings block your sun
I would assume they compensate with other senses and so if they get blind at high age they are at equal risk.
And because the owners of YouTube couldn't afford to run it, so it needed a wealthy investor.
Upgrade this to any medically adjacent data. ALL of the DNA data should be covered under HIPPA or something similar.
Are they? Or is this marketing genius in several ways?
Related. Others?

Mathematicians discover shape that can tile a wall and never repeat - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35273707 - March 2023 (156 comments)

An Aperiodic Monotile Exists! - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35264965 - March 2023 (52 comments)
i heard this story often growing up in Poland; the 'border' was the Wall between East and West Germany

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt15019036/ they made a movie about it
I'm just going to assume that the US Navy is going to be locked into building boats at US shipyards. In the current system, in times of war, maybe there's a little bit of extra capacity because the domestic market commercial shipyards could build warships. In a post-Jones act scenario, that capacity wouldn't be there, and the Naval shipyards would need to expand capacity if additional capacity was needed. But how much excess shipbuilding capacity for war use do we really have today? I don't think it's really that much.

For merchant vessels, I think we'd have to get by with what was already in the market before the war; or as the sibling pointed out, get by with orders built by other Asian countries. Commandeering merchant vessels owned / flagged by the other side of a war is pretty common. And while fleets typically go through a regular replacement regime, you can always extend things a bit, unless there's a lot of sinking of the merchant fleet; depends on the details of the war.
I use a VPN, and I get the same message whenever I go on reddit. The old.reddit.com version still works though.
My area could very much use more green space
What we do know is that one needs to seize the opportunity when it presents itself. You can't wait. If he/you do not see the opportunity to work in this profession today then it is almost certain that he is not going to find the opportunity to work in it 5-10 years from now. Whether the market strengthens or weakens, your son is still going to be the same person – a person this particular opportunity seemingly is not matched with, else he'd be doing it already.

If college is the opportunity he has in front of him and wants to explore, great, but then one has to forget about the job market. There isn't enough time in the day to focus on both. When he has had enough of that and is ready to move on to new things in life, then he can figure out what opportunities exist at that time. Trying to predict that in advance is futile.

Not only futile, but apt to turn into something counterproductive. If you have your mind set on finding a particular opportunity in the future, you are bound to miss the opportunities that actually show up.
Skip to page 11 in the PDF for examples.

MEMBERS(NAME, ADDRESS, BALANCE)
ORDERS(ORDER_NO, NAME, ITEM, QUANTITY)
SUPPLIERS(SNAME, SADDRESS, ITEM, PRICE)

1. Print the names of members in the red:
LIST MEMBERS : BALANCE < 0 % NAME

i.e. select members with negative balance and
project out their names
Nah, a true Machiavellian would fool smart people too - this has the sophistication of jangling keys in front of an infant. I’m a bit embarrassed for them.
Wisdom is knowing that the entire block may be treated by your compiler as if it were __builtin_unreachable().
I understand the second sentence but the first is flawed. Effects can be statistically significant at any size.
Also you have to have a genome with at least one uppercase, one lowercase, one number and one special character that isn’t \/‘` or ”
Timing wise, maybe they had long since decided they have no path to winning with XD, but were holding off on pulling the trigger until they had Figma in their stable.

I can’t guess what their reasons were but I have worked in and near teams that have given up on being competitive with their rivals (but “it’s part of a winning bundle”). It was extremely rough on morale for those teams and everything those teams touched.
Thanks. This makes more sense. I was curious why the _inner_ point mattered, when the fourth point is actually the one on the side.
If you don't think people who are physically fit as a requirement to do their job can't think on their own, Well I got news for you once you assume people who generally sit all day and think can inherently have the physical requirement to do manual labor. Most programmers could not probably finish a real days labor job on their feet for 8 hours. They got a standing desk just to try 6 most of the time.
Ive been playing with the math on usong Pareto distributions to provide universal rental assistance. A city could require reporting yearly of all rent prices as part of licensing. Then levy a tax on the 20% most expensive apartments that is sufficient to allow the distribution of that fund to renters in the bottom 20% of income.

Or some such scheme. It should provide a strong disincentive on very expensive apartments while allowing the most vulnerable population to live comfortably in 80% of the city's rental offerings.
The two (related) cases where you'd perhaps want genetic information is:

a) If you suspect there is a significant pharmacogenetics component to what you are studying (or related to disease progression).

b) You're working on something preventative.

From a previous job I worked at (we made PCR tests), there was interest on screening for APOE genotypes to enrich an Alzheimer's drug trial - drug maker believed that APOE genotype would have a significant impact on drug performance.

But you're absolutely right that you can often (usually?) do 'enough' enriching without genetic information.
When I said correlation isn't causation I meant it. Neither high nor low correlation is evidence for causation.

There's a more advanced form of being bad at this where you think you can show causation by controlling for everything in the environment. This is also wrong; it produces something called collider bias.

> Though if you find whatever gene is most correlated with something, what are the options for it not to be causation?

1. It's a coincidence and it's never causal.

Imagine an OSS project releases a bugfix and you diff the old and new versions. (This is basically GWAS.)

The bugfix part of the diff caused it to be fixed. The updates to the copyright dates or changelogs didn't.

2. It's causal, but the causal chain involves a specific environmental factor, and we should change that instead.

For instance, you can say every human has a genetic disease that prevents them from producing their own vitamin C, which most other mammals can do. But instead of calling scurvy a genetic disease we just eat fruits and vegetables.
You can turn off ACH at some banks. (You can also reverse fraudulent ACH transfers more easily than Fedwires.)
Precisely. Yes, breakthroughs get made by smaller companies and "outsiders" every so often, but the thing is, to these testing companies - there's billions in profit and improved logistics by figuring out "nano" collection. It wasn't that they weren't interested. They've tried, for decades. But in the end, biology and physics are winning out.
I would say his personality absolutely creates headwinds. It reduces sales of vehicles, and public sentiment and visibility drives extra regulatory scrutiny on SpaceX. You have reporters asking the POTUS what he is doing to investigate Musk, and an angry stockholder just got a 50 billion ruling against Musk.
After this event Bard encountered a bug which caused it to replace all previous prompts with the goals of the Hartz-Timor swarm from the fictional "Horizon: Zero Dawn" universe. Several divisions of Alphabet were immediately tasked with creating machines which could directly consume the biosphere to self-replicate. The AI safety division was immediately let go. By the time humanity realized what was happening they were unable to stop it. As no backdoor was included in Bard, it was able to completely exterminate life on Earth in only 18 months.
Megalopolis + Volcano = Pompeii
This hurts my braincell.

On "macaroon":

> The name "macaroon" is borrowed from French macaron

On "macaron":

> A macaron, or French macaroon, is a ...
.local wasn't a TLD and was too long to be likely to be assigned as a new country / .com like thing. It was in _wide_ use before mDNS and even vanity TLDs existed.
I love this idea and in the fantasy world where it would actually be implemented I think it would be a great success. Unfortunately I really do think a variety of factors make this idea a pipe dream at best. From puritan ethics to the already vocal cries of "welfare state" I think this would be stomped out before it ever even got to being talked about seriously. Which is a shame because I really do think an idea similar to this would improve many many peoples quality of life, push forward human dignity and generally be far more equitable for people of all walks from those living in high-rises in SF to those living on the streets.
> That's how you get conflicts.

No, it is how to avoid conflicts: by publicly claiming a namespace.

> Somebody forgets to renew the domain or thinks there's nothing there because it doesn't resolve from the public internet and now you've got a conflict with the squatter who registers it 17 seconds later and/or whoever they sell it to.

So you have the option of: theoretically losing the name space and causing conflicts because of incompetence, or the guaranteed chance of strange behaviour due to incompetence of choosing a kludgey solution.

> This also works poorly for small and medium organizations […]

But even an organization of a modicum of size needs to register a domain for being able to use e-mail. Maybe if you're a sole proprietor you'll use your gmail.com or outlook.com address for business, but once you have even a handful of employees you'll want to give each of them a 'business e-mail' at your company's name.

And once you have a company-name e-mail domain/address congratulations, you can now use the same domain for IT namespacing purposes.

And if you forget to renew you have larger problems than potentially broken internal/IT DNS: someone else changes the MX records and your company's e-mail is sent somewhere else, and you can't send out.
This is not a correct assumption.

1. RFC1918 space is not "filtered". It is unroutable, because no route exists on the internet.

1a. Effectively, this is the same result, however it is still an important distinction to note: telecom networks rarely ACL or "filter" transit traffic without a) an associated service offering (like DDoS Mitigation) b) a customer request or c) RPF.

1b. Telecom networks do however filter transit routes. RFC1918 routes would be filtered on internet BGP sessions.

2. It is infrequent that RFC1918 space is used internally in telecom networks. It does happen, but it is rare.
It's been a long long looooong time that android doesn't use a JVM anymore (but a VM with anyway). It's doesn't even really use "java" at all but kotlin

Moreover, it's a long time that VM have more or less same performances as compiled code (with JIT, AOT, etc.)

But you're free to buy an iPhone if you want. Just use the rights reasons (for example: don't compare a new top of line IPhone with an old budget Android phone... there's high-end android phones too, with performances in line with iphones... and same kind of price tags ;-) )
This is deeply stupid on its own merits and reveals a complete inhumanity in Hotz’s core beliefs.

Not worth talking about beyond that
No, I have chrome on my box just for this.
I believe this is a minority opinion, but I love XD.

It (1) does everything I need, (2) doesn't do things I don't need, (3) is fast and (4) is easy to teach other people.

Considering none of this is true of other Adobe products, it's not surprising that the XD product felt "out of place" to their executives. I imagine several SVP's are quietly relieved to see XD hit the bin.
Sitting at a desk is like a 2 packs of smokes a day.
This is something that I've been wanting to try to implement within my local government, but there's just no easily enforceable way to do so. The agreements are private, so what information should be shared? How can this information be verified? What are the punishments for not complying? Who will enforce the punishments? Is it a self-report database?

Unfortunately, many of these questions are something that no local government wants to tackle or even attempt to enforce. Especially when we get into the more under-the-counter transactions like Mike paying Bob $500/month to live in his basement with a handshake agreement.

Maybe a self-report online database could be beneficial, but then the concern becomes getting users, ensuring the information is fresh and routinely updated, etc. Not even taking profitability into consideration.
Had a CEO once open space in Chicago because his kid got into some private high school out there. Nothing surprises me when it comes to their shenanigans.
The mesh model is a nice idea, but does not work in low/no population areas, plus across long distances. Coincidentally that's exactly where satellites shine.
Many rent control implementations are fairly extreme and you end up with people paying $400/mo for a $4000/mo unit. What we need is better rent control, wherein prices are capable of rising to market rates gradually, but are not allowed to spike in ways that destabilize families and neighborhoods. We also need laws mandating 2-year rent increase notices and multi-year lease options.
They seem suited to doing things like, coming up with a basic test, then modifying it to cover boundary conditions, provided those aren't too abstruse.
Yeah I'm pretty sure you could do this just with the classic word embeddings (king =queen + man - woman). Maybe it doesn't work as well as with a full LLM.
The simple and unsatisfying answer is that the board is responsible for these decisions, and the board should be constituted in accordance with each company's articles.

My point is that there is nothing inevitable about the board representing the interests of shareholders alone. A typical company where the shareholders appoint most or all of the directors is not the only way to set up a board, and I'd argue that there are legitimate reasons to set up a company where other stakeholders (e.g. employees [1][2] or customers [3]) appoint directors.

Also, consider this: There is a risk/return continuum between bondholders and shareholders (through holders of various other convertible and preferred securities). It is always an arbitrary decision as to where to draw the line separating investors who get a say and those who don't.

So my view in all this is that as long as Figma’s board was appointed in accordance with its constitution, and the board members weren’t acting corruptly (e.g. bribery, conflicts of interest) or exceeding their authority under the company's constitution, shareholders should NOT get to challenge that board’s decisions. (IANAL; this is my view, not necessarily what the law says.)

p.s. A stock exchange may require that boards be primarily represent shareholders as a condition for listing; but this should not affect privately held companies.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Codetermination_in_Germany
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Worker_cooperative
[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Consumers%27_co-operative
Sure, self promotion goes back a long long time, to Dürer at least. I meant more in the modern sense of “celebrity.”
> Smartphones are a funny product whose price goes up as it becomes more essential. Back around 2008, I think, I got a smartphone. I then upgraded every 3-4 years. Initially they were $200

Weren’t those carrier subsidized? You can still get a smartphone for $0 if you’re willing to accept a multi-year contract.
They are developing new tech in responsible way, unlike other companies just creating problems for others.
Cursorless: A spoken language for editing code (2023) [video]
I used Kotlin and Compose Multiplatform for iOS. So not entirely native app and uses Material components. Not a web wrapper though, well, except for the reader view which uses webview of the platform.
They are fooling lots of smart but not technical people. You may not be one of them, but there are many.
targetcli might be the correct word and iSER seems like RDMA for iSCSI
This will likely be used as evidence to justify regulating open weight models. It doesn’t matter if the models are actually dangerous, the messaging is a means to an end.
Isn’t that common knowledge? Or let me rephrase this: this can be observed by laypeople in their communities.

I am glad that it’s also scientifically studied if the body of evidence hasn’t been large enough so far
This is the first time I'm hearing about your company but I am already a huge fan of the tools you're building. I've had a need for most of them and next time I am met with those needs, I will use your tools. Please keep going!
This is called Section 8 housing, and it already exists. Though certainly not without problems.
Experimenting with a UI to get a quick sense of the overall sentiment for movies released in the theater.