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I don't think your hatred is irrational. I, too, hate discord and everything it stands for. Your points are very valid indeed, but I think the main reason I hate it is because it really showed me that I am in the grave minority when it comes to caring about the issues you listed. Nearly* all people I know don't give a fuck: They don't give a fuck that it's a web browser with web widgets and humongous spacing everywhere. They don't care that it cannot be customized. They don't care about who runs the whole operation. They don't care where the money comes from. They don't care that I (I know, I know) have to fill out about 15 captchas every time I want to interact with the thing. They don't care that other clients are forbidden and a bannable offense.

Every time someone invites me to discord, it shows me that the world indeed couldn't care less about the values that are central to me when evaluating software. But I wouldn't expect that from the gaming community anyways, those guys never cared. The true pain comes when I find some free software project where all developement talk is on discord. Because it shows me that even the people I'd expect to care at least a tiny little bit about all those points, are okay with this.

I also want to add that I want to punch an executive every time someone calls his discord space a "server". It's not a server. It seems that fight is lost as well. Discord servers are what people think of now when the word server is used, and this change of meaning will not be reversed.

*Except my two best friends, who continue using a self hosted teamspeak/mumble with me and of whom one shares my grief about the whole discord situation.
Why would you miss anything? I think you are merely skipping over the part you have not missed: It's well designed and not a Google product. In a world with space for a thousand todo and project management apps, I am sure there is space for a slides competitor, even if that was all it has going for it (although I am assuming there is more).
The annual release cadence is a disaster for Python. I've already run into countless interpreter compatibility issues where new code has to run in a different environment. 3.6, 3.7, 3.8, and now 3.9 are all still officially supported, which just adds a huge mental burden when reading python code, because you have to remember when each feature was released.
> I find it's often much more important to ask "why might this work" than "why won't this work?"

A recurring thought I've had for years: the latter -- "why won't this work?" -- seems like a fairly common mindset for Eastern European engineers schooled in the 1960s. Brilliant people who need to understand everything to the bare essentials. And -- they produce strikingly simple solutions to almost every technical problem in the house.

Fairly often, though, this mindset seems to come with quite a complicated, uneasy personality.

My dad was a kind person, but I remember something he said about his civil engineering studies in the 1970s Soviet Union: for certain exams, not a single mistake was allowed. One wrong answer, and you failed. For if you build a house and miscalculate (e.g.) the needed strength of a crucial beam, you'll risk with fatalities.

I'm not an engineer, and I've always been in the "why might this work" boat myself. But I do understand this critical view precisely for that reason. For a lot of occupations, there is no unlimited Ctrl+Z.
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You can get a low end new car with a payment of only around $200/mo and buying used is significantly cheaper still. You don't necessarily need to possess a car, but if you don't have the financial means to possess a car then you really can't afford anything beyond the absolute most basic necessities. In a developed nation, that's barely surviving, not living.
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The short version:

> ... it was revealed that Bell city officials were receiving unusually large salaries, perhaps the highest in the United States. ... California Public Records Act requests, showed that the city payroll was swollen with six- to seven-figure salaries. Robert Rizzo, the City manager, received $787,637 a year, ... he had received $1.5 million in the last year. Rizzo's assistant, Angela Spaccia, was earning $376,288 a year, more than the top administrator for Los Angeles County. The police chief, Randy Adams, was paid $457,000, 33% more than Los Angeles Police Chief Charlie Beck. All three resigned following news reports and public outcry. All but one of the members of the city council were receiving $100,000 for their part-time work, salaries which were authorized by a sparsely attended special election, giving the city "Charter" status. By comparison, council members in cities similar to Bell in size make an average of $4,800 a year, prosecutors have noted.
Anecdotally from the generation of people that lived in Eastern Germany, especially in rural areas, a sense of community, solidarity and purpose is what went missing after the Berlin wall came down.

I have never thought of having more women in the workforce as "anti-family", and will definitely research on that, but personally I am happy to have a more diverse workforce and not stigmatize men if they want to stay at home.
I think Stan Freberg should be mentioned here as well. "take an Indian to lunch today" still feels very relevant today, to give one example.
It has a TLS certificate for the Yahoo Store domain if you browse to the https:// version, but I agree that PG should add something easy like Let's Encrypt or put it behind Cloudflare. It's been "modernized" with a mobile version already, so I think that HTTPS is a good next step. It can't hurt, at least.
I mean, for starters you gained the right to plug your own hardware into the telephone jack at your house.
Thanks for letting me know. I've passed that on.
Trademarks. Protect them vigorously or lose them.
My concern is that the benefit is minor, 3% faster web page download?

And I wrote that big corporations, because those have millions of users, if users download faster then they can server even more users on smaller amount of hardware. 3% less hardware, that might be big if you are big.

And considering it is developed by Google and pushed into Chrome they will get that benefit sooner than others.
Yes, it also can matter what you even mean by "competitor." Some people take it to mean "similarity in language features." Others can take it to mean "would I choose it as a substitute." Some take it to mean "would I choose it as a substitute for this specific domain or project."

I've seen this play out a number of times. "Rust cannot compete with C, because C is too entrenched in embedded." "I do embedded development in Rust, so it can." "Well, I work with these chips that Rust can't target yet, so it can't, for me." None of these statements are incorrect, but they can lead to huge back-and-forths.

Words are hard.
As someone who grew up relatively disadvantaged, I think I probably know a larger percentage of those “taking advantage” over the the “average” American. Further. I also used to volunteer regularly helping donate food, helping families, etc.

I don’t think people realize how good “baseline” really is, compared to even 2-3 decades ago. Just as an example, most people can get free housing from the state provided some paperwork (again I helped quite a few people, including family members, with this.).

I actually stopped volunteering in this space, BECAUSE I saw it being taken advantage of. Probably 75% of the people I assisted were capable of working physically. Now, mental faculties are a bit of a different issue, only probably 50% had the mental disposition to work a regular job.

That being said most people can contribute something in exchange for wages. Unfortunately, many don’t because it’ll either cut their incentives there’s a valley between maintaining life quality off the state and the minimum wage. You have to make significantly more than minimum wage to have the same quality of life in some cases. You can even see stories of this with the pandemic (people making more on unemployment, so they don’t work).

I’m also not arguing if it’s a good thing or a bad thing. Just that, at least from my experience, it appears to be a thing. I also don’t think we are collecting good data on this, particularly for political reasons (or incompetence). If we had the real stats I’m sure people who need these programs would also be left without them (because programs would be cut). I really don’t know a good solution. Just that it really should be explored, because many people have an inaccurate understanding (again from my experience).
It's much less common in Western Germany, and the difference largely persists to this day. The Economist recently had a good article on that, non-paywall link: https://outline.com/DZyckV
No. There is a real difference between staged computation of the type that zig has and macros in common lisp, scheme/rust have (so much for lisp's uniqueness BTW). In common lisp you can do completely arbitrary computation at compile- (or read-)time in zig you cannot and crucially you are also not responsible for manually ordering the "stages". E.g. in common lisp you have use eval-when to make sure that stuff is available at the right phase, whereas zig works out the dependency for you.
Reddit has gone significantly more mainstream over the past few years. I remember when a reddit post got 2000 upvotes that was a big deal. Then suddenly it became 4k, 8k, and then I stopped caring it got so large.

Reddit is becoming into a weird beast because I've found theres a mentality of people who assume you actively subscribe to the stuff set by default hence why people get upset when you don't tout the same opinion. I've even had people ask me what I was doing in their subreddit, said I came from /r/all, and they basically said "yeah right." Reddit is probably going to dominate the online forum market since it's so much easier to create a subreddit than it is make your own website with forums.

My only beef with this is reddit silences things they don't like, and not just things that sound reasonable. My rationale is let these people be. They're dumb enough to discuss this garbage on your platform, so why not collect that data and just monitor it? Better than they go elsewhere and now you have no idea.

Also reddit trying to take their anonymous platform and make it so you act as a community member has always been weird to me. That makes sense for public people, not for general users. Especially when bot accounts just harvest upvotes. Twitter is basically what facebook used to be now.
Apparently they didn’t even consider it:

“We did not seriously consider alternative ways to implement the new parser, but here's a brief discussion of LALR(1). [...] Other variants of LR were not considered, nor was LL (e.g. ANTLR).”

[https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0617/]
Less rules doesn't mean simpler.

Also, I don't mean Rust is harder than C++ or Java. It's just quite different.

If you are used to visualizing software as graphs of functions or classes in your mind for years, switching to the Rust model is quite a change of thinking.
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Arendt is the most relevant political writer of our current time, imo.

The final chapter of her book, "Origins of Totalitarianism," was added in later editions, and it is called "Ideology and Terror." Beyond criticism and explanation, I think it is a rare model with predictive power. The challenge with that book is that unless you are specifically interested in the history of antisemitism, the first 1/3 of the book is about it, and her general theory of totalitarian movements will get lost. I recommend reading the chapters of big theory books in reverse order, as the last thing the author wrote tends to be the thing they have thought the most about and is the most refined idea. (chapter is at: http://virtuallaboratory.colorado.edu/Origins/class%20readin...)

Regarding her views about violence, I suspect there may only be two true levers of political power, and these are force, and deception. Where one seems absent, the other is necessarily at work, and where one is renounced the other is tacitly advocated. When they start to form a synergistic feedback loop, you get totalitarian movements.

Glad to see Arendt here, hers is an important perspective.
> people in the real world need to use it

There is absolutely no purpose other than propagandistic for the percentage commonly referred to as "unemployment" with no other qualifiers. That number's only purpose is to start dropping a short time after an unemployment shock whether or not any jobs were actually added to the economy.

The other numbers aren't to give a "broad picture" of the labor market, they're to give the entire picture of the labor market. "Unemployment" contributes nothing. At the time of a shock it echos other metrics, and after a pause of a few months it announces that whatever the administration announced its reaction to the shock would be is starting to work, no matter what the other numbers say.
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Agreed, I am a freelancer making six figures married and my wife hasn't worked since we were dating. So according to their definition my wife is unemployed, not making a "living wage" and so am I. This is a perfect example of why I pay little attention to the news. They or their editor must have known this was bs but decided to publish it anyway for the clicks.
Sure. It's not like roads or tracks are a natural feature.

The problem arise when we "go after cars" without an alternative anywhere in sight. I'm pretty dubious of my government's (ireland) likelihood of achieving netherlands-like transport. I'm all for trying. But, the place to start is not by reducing rural car ownership. The reality is that electric cars will probably arrive before rural public transport... at least here.

In practice, there a lot of implicit and explicit anti-driving laws. Many/most of these take the form of economic "incentives." Most affect rural people more. Rural locals don't have much public transport. A lot of these policies are classist too. Changing vehicle standards affect old cars more, making driving unaffordable to poorer people. Same for petrol taxes. Implicit "policies" like allowing a broken insurance system also results in a lot of class discrimination.

In practice, in ireland, saying "you shouldn't own a car" is like saying you should move to dublin or "you shouldn't go anywhere." In cities it means "take the bus or cycle," but not everyone lives in a city.

Meanwhile, I didn't think it's fair that to have policies which essentially mean "poor people shouldn't drive," which many policies with a rural blindspot are.

I would be totally fine with severe anti-car policies in the city or anywhere alternatives exist.
The The Encyclopedia of Mammals is pretty amazing.
They should have said disrupting the ownership paradigm
It does feel like more of an experiment at this point. I don't see a use case for plugins if they can't be unloaded. I'm also perfectly fine with the Go/OS version requirements though.
The footer has more links for "Legal" than for "Product"... a sign of the times.
Yes, that sentence is what prompted my question :D
While I am not totally against spliting up Amazon (it would maybe even drive the combinede shares up, who knows?), it might be uch harder to do so. Amazon, while being dominant in eCommerce, is still a small player in overall retail and has legit competition from Alibaba and the likes. eBay is still a thing as well. As is Shopify. So Amazon could argue to be less of an anti-trust candidat purely because of that. Whether this is true or not is a different matter, so.

Google on the other hand, well I don't know about any legit compeitor in the web search field. They do have a quais duo-poly for ads together with facebook IMHO. Not saying they have to split up, but I'd expec Google to have a much harder time argueing against anti-trust charges.

And strangely enough, I don't think that this is in any way a political stunt or politically motivated. The investigations are going for quite a while now already.
It's funny how Microsoft has an absolute beast on their hand with Powerpoint, which has so many obscure and powerful features that their employees must be fuming at how it's all just there, and nobody uses them. Fractals, high-res fish models, it's Turing complete for Pete's sake. They could easily destroy their competition if only they got somebody in charge to do it.
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Apple is dominant as a monopoly in what exactly? Their own store, their own hardware, their own OS, their own services? Every business Apple is in has large alternatives. They make money selling you things, not from ads. Everything Google and Facebook do is designed to ensure they make ad revenue or sell your data in some way for money; they need to control every thing in their supposed business (search, android, social media, etc) to ensure they dominate in collecting ad/data revenue which is the only business they make money on. Apple only wants to sell you more devices or device related services which is their business. You can live quite well without any Apple product at all, many people do. Try living without Google.

Amazon on the other hand is worse, as they want to control all business segments they get into, even totally unrelated to their business of being a store that sells things. Using your dominance in one type of business to force everyone to also support unrelated businesses with no alternatives is one common definition of monopoly; think dominating railroads to force everyone to use your oil (Standard Oil).
The question is: does any of the competitors stand a chance against Google if they can't acquire more users and therefore improve their engine with the added revenue? Seems like a catch-22, and having Google as the default search engine everywhere, including in the web browser they make and that has the highest marketshare only exacerbate this.
How're you finding React Native?
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You mean Microsoft Azure Encarta Series X 2020 Edition Ultimate Plus Pack?
Web Authentication in Microsoft Edge (2018)
I have a crude and jumbled layout on the homepage of Pitch, with many styles missing, using Firefox Focus on iOS with content blocker enabled.
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1 Cognizant Technology Solutions 28,526
2 Infosys 21,473
3 Tata Consultancy Services 11,868
4 Google 10,577
5 Ernst & Young 8,893
6 Capgemini 8,411
7 Deloitte & Touche 8,258
8 Amazon.Com Services 7,705
9 IBM 7,237
10 Microsoft 6,041
11 Accenture 5,654
12 Hcl America 4,688
Seems it hasn’t worked very well, then.
Usually with these new software products I'm more excited about what the future will bring than what the product looks like at launch. When is the last time Google Slides has made a significant update? Now compare that to the speed of Pitch has built their product - pretty impressive what they have built in a relatively short time - let's see what the future holds! Also still skeptical but so far I am enjoying using their product
None of these languages represent the medium term future, but are certainly interesting milestones along the way that will inform it.

The real future though is theorem proving systems, and generating code from them. I don't mean so much Agda, Idris, etc., which try to approach theorem proving from a programmer's point of view. But theorem proving systems that embrace the full spectrum of abstract and correct thought.

Zig and Rust try to get there without paying the heavy price that theorem proving incurs (Rust pays that price more than Zig already, though). But to truly progress we need to pay that price and make it lower and lower with time.
unless you are changing them in the direction wanted.
There is no such thing as timeless styling.
Styling is like UX, some prefer simple others prefer elaborate.
> I am happy to have a more diverse workforce and not stigmatize men if they want to stay at home.

I dont think Eastern Europe is the place more accepting of men staying with children at home.
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Yeah but Nvidia and ARM are luxury goods. There is no point breaking up a monopoly of that calibre. They specialize in a niche market that affects an even more niche market.

The simple fact that I can say "google it" and colloquially anyone in the US and probably Europe would understand what I mean kind of states how dominant they are in the market.
> doing compile-time execution in a sound, safe way is not simple. For example, cross compilation becomes more of a thing. It is easy to accidentally break the type system.

Why? I don't think I've ever seen a concrete example of why this isn't simple (but I'm not really a compiler person, so there might be!). I can imagine plenty of ways of doing Bad Things, like adding compiler flags based on what day it is, but I can't immediately see why this would _break_ anything. What do you mean by breaking the type system? Accidentally getting non-typechecked code in the compiler, or running into problems with the compiler thinking two equal types are distinct?

> There's just not a lot to say. The exact details are being worked on. This takes time.

I understand and appreciate this! Maybe I should've phrased myself better: I don't understand how people are using `unsafe` today successfully when something as fundamental to the Rust language model such as aliasing isn't really defined properly yet. It sound like people writing books without the rules on verb conjugation being really set. It sounds to me like plenty of the unsafe code out there might end up breaking at some point, and that, by extension, all other safe code out there is basically built on extremely shaky grounds.

I might be overreacting here though, since I don't write a whole lot of Rust anymore and am pretty distanced from the community. Considering their track record, I'm sure it'll turn out just fine.

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> (By the way, Hacker News doesn't support markdown;

Ah! It's always tricky to remember which places support what syntax with these things. Thanks!
OK. You only had to wait an hour[1]:

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Justice Department and 11 states filed an antitrust lawsuit against Alphabet Inc’s Google on Tuesday for allegedly breaking the law in using its market power to fend off rivals.

[1] https://www.reuters.com/article/us-tech-antitrust-google/u-s...
And don't forget the biggest gorilla of the bunch, Apple, with its locked down walled garden that it gets a 30% cut of.

Maybe the next administration will give equal scrutiny to all of the big tech companies rather than seemingly targeting just one of them.
Just like any truly transformative tech, AI takes long-term planning, tons of competence and picking the parts that make most sense for your current business goals. So obviously AI fails for most organizations because they lack all of these things and the fact that most never operate in scale or tackle problems difficult enough to need AI.

Maybe one solution is finding the AI equivalent of Microsoft Office, ie a group of cheap tools that are so powerful, flexible and integrated that they can be used by individual employees and teams across all industries and business needs.
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> Mainly making it easier to do syntax extensions...

Yes, AFAICT the main reason for the parser change is to enable the pattern matching feature [0] that’s likely coming in 3.10.

[0] https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0634/
It's mostly self-fulfilling too: "No one wants to walk to these stores anyway, so when we didn't build sidewalks"...
I don't feel English is "my" language, either. It's a language I use, more than my native one, even... but that doesn't necessarily mean I think it's perfect. The point is that its textual representation is lossy.