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Discord was originally designed for gaming voice chat. It marketed itself this way, it was positioned this way in its public perception, and most of the early feature development reflected this. The move towards "online communities" only came later once they realized they had a broader product: they realized they had an alternative to Slack, while originally they thought they were an alternative to Ventrillo and Mumble. But make no mistake, the gaming angle was why Discord became popular; it made it vastly easier to host and create (and eventually, find) dedicated servers for specific topics, and the voice chat quality was mostly ahead of everything else (except Mumble, but again "not hosting your own Mumble" was a selling point.)

The fact it had text channels with (very, very limited) markup was less a ripoff of IRC and more "The basic thing everyone expects from a comms client, to have basic text channels where you can type words." It's literally the most fundamental thing a "communicator" can do is to have a text box that other users can look at. Otherwise you wouldn't even be able to organize people to get in voice channels! Sorry to say but nobody except nerds know what "IRC" is, but almost everyone understands online chat. This is not new. The fact IRC diehards think Discord "proprietized" IRC is a good example of not knowing or understanding your enemy at all and just romanticizing about what you think is important. Discord was not popular because of text chat. It was popular because of voice chat, and it did voice chat very well.

Every discussion of Discord has to have IRC contrarians who reminded you "it had text chat first", all while the fact of the matter is text chat isn't what made Discord popular to begin with!

> Even the niche Discord servers have managed to replicate the community feel of the early to mid 1990's IRC channels.

That isn't because IRC is some magical happy software that makes everybody using it sit in a circle and sing campfire songs. It's because what you are describing is the natural end-point of all online communication forums like Discord, IRC, AIM, or even Twitter or whatever: "community." What you are witnessing is a community of humans congregating, not some magical special sauce that IRC gave us in 1980 or whatever.

Community has existed in human society for a long time, in fact. Seeing it replicated in different mediums with similar features and form is not surprising at all. Your wording might imply IRC gave us this or something, or that the "communities" in Discord are rather ersatz in some way -- but I argue that's a simple confusion of cause and effect.
Yes. We should start everywhere with turning them off and introducing four way stops. Then re-assess which intersections need that light, or need a roundabout.

Traffic lights invite aggressive driving because drivers want to make it through the green (or orange) light. Basically, drivers end up accelerating into the intersection, rather than slowing down and be more careful. It's the _exact_ opposite of what should happen.

Traffic lights are the result of a misplaced obsession with efficiency and high technology. The idea we can perfectly manage complex systems (very mid 20th century mindset). We need a value shift. Safety is more important than speed.
Are you sure? A city that’s unwelcome to commuting workers, local visitors coming in for entertainment, shopping, dinners etc. may not be a city that the city dwellers want. Of course they’re welcome to discourage visitors however they want.
Which is why oil production without a gas connection tends to flare the methane. With the renewable transition we will in a not too distant future just leave the oil in the ground instead.

https://www.iea.org/reports/flaring-emissions
>Why do anti-car people not seem to understand that people don't want to ride a bike everywhere?

To be upfront, I'm a car guy. My last car had >700hp, currently a hot hatch. Soon I have to go dadmobile, vw camper id buzz... oh do tell me more.

My bike? I bought one of those huge/wide bike seats. My bike seat is worth more than my bike lol. I find it crazy there are people with ultra light carbon fiber sport bicycles about to be stolen any moment. Nobody stealing my piece of shit bike.

>You can't just tell someone to completely change their lifestyle to avoid potential problems, and then act like they are the insane ones for not wanting to listen.

Because of the boon on cycling. We suddenly have big lobbying and activism toward promoting cycling.

The thing is, don't just write off this factor. There's lots of good benefits to society if we all move to bikes and shared infrastructure to rental vehicles or transportation services.

>I want a car. I like my car. Demanding that people give up their ability to get in a car and drive somewhere so that all of America's infrastructure can be changed is insanity.

I don't think anyone is going to that extent to say you can't drive anymore.

>I actually like to leave the cities I live in sometimes. Or maybe I don't live in a city, and I want to visit it with my car.

Nobody is saying you cant drive. No politician will survive assassination if they banned cars.

There are ebikes with >100km electric range that can go 35km/h. Going to be hard to tell me that setup won't do what you want it to do.
Nope, that code actually does demonstrate the difference between pass by reference and pass by value. If you prefer, change either the `x`'s in the function to be `y` or the global `x`'s to by `y` and you'll see the same behavior. Which shows that Python is not, in fact, pass by reference.
This is an awesome game that I played many years ago with friends. I think this is an amazing way to reconnect with friends and just have fun at times
I seriously doubt that. Please elaborate why you think this is the case.
No you are just pretending to be reasonable. It's fake. You are ignoring information and calling it generosity of mind.

I don't care what you assert is "logical." Because you can't even modus ponens correctly.
You can open Fireworks PNG files in www.Photopea.com :) https://community.adobe.com/t5/fireworks-discussions/open-fi...
Because anti-car people understand that it is absurd to (mainly in cities) sacrifice so much space, environment, and health to accommodate car people's laziness. People living in the city have to sacrifice clean air to support the suburban car commutes. This is absurd. Many car-minded people are simply to lazy to take alternative modes of transportation, even if they exist and are really well implemented (as they are in most European cities).

The Netherlands does this properly. But as a European having traveled to the USA it is mind boggling how car centric cities are. With all the inefficient and extremely costing infrastructure investments car centric cities require.

A solution for people like you would be to park your car near the city borders and take public transport. But I don't know a single car owner who isn't too lazy to just drive straight into the city.

Having designed our cities around the car will be really frowned upon in the future. It's crazy how much people who use alternative modes of transportation sacrifice (in tax and health) to support this.
Yeah exact. Proof of trust, web of trust,... datalisp.is
Roundabouts are great on back streets where you'd naturally be going slowly, and okay on the meeting point between two major roads, but in my extremely limited experience they don't work so well in the case where you have a major road (light would usually be green to let large amounts of traffic through) crossed by a street (light would usually be red, intermittently green for a few cars).

Perhaps in that case you're meant to use overpasses, or maybe the data says that roundabouts work fine, but they don't seem to.
Outside the US, 80k is a high salary. It matters a lot which country we are talking about for whether 80k with that experience is insanely low (USA) or insanely high (India). Take a look at the StackOverflow (self-reported) income statistics in various countries:

https://insights.stackoverflow.com/survey/2020#technology-wh... (compare Global vs United States)

https://insights.stackoverflow.com/survey/2021#salary-comp-t... (compare All Respondents vs United States)

https://stackoverflow.blog/2018/09/05/developer-salaries-in-...
> An end-user node is like a device, which verifies that bank notes are genuine or that gold coins are pure. If everyone can independently reject bad money and accept good money, the good money will have more demand and therefore be more valuable.

The key word there "independently". Proof of resources is one way to tell if an individual node is actually independent.

Proof of resources gives an individual who has more invested in the network more weight in deciding which "bank nodes are genuine". Those individual's votes in theory deserve more weight because proof of resources assumes those individuals are harder to influence (or bribe) and have a stronger incentive to keep the network functioning because they have more at stake. These systems are trying to ensure that the nodes that have the power to accept or reject "money" only accept "good money" and always reject "bad money", and they're using demonstration of resources as a proxy of trustworthiness and independence.

Whether someone ties a bunch of money into specialized ASIC chip that's really only good for mining bitcoin, or they tie a bunch of money into staking eth is an implementation detail.
Much as how Kolmogorov solved the problem of defining randomness, I feel like Legg and Hutter solved (or at least mostly solved) the problem of defining universal intelligence. Loosely put, it is an agent that makes the best possible decision about the future with the information that it has available. “Best” can be defined however you want; it’s less about the particular cost function and more about achieving optimality. And no, the oft-cited yet frequently misunderstood NFL doesn’t rule this out.
> Those taxi companies that are their “for the poor” routinely wouldn’t go into “poor” neighborhoods or pick minorities up.

There's no reason to replace an already poor service with one that's even worse and requires a smartphone and a bank account, which adds a further layer of discrimination as about 5% of US households don't even have a bank account, much less a credit card, and 24-13% of poorer classes don't have a smartphone [2].

In contrast, a taxi can (at least by law) be used by anyone with cash, and the data about your travel is not available for police or anyone else to abuse [3].

> By definition any company that is using VC funding is pricing their product less than it takes to make it - ie “price dumping”.

IMO, there's a difference between using VC money to provide funds for growth (aka, a high-risk loan) and using VC money to intentionally provide a service at below-cost - five euros for half a hour taxi ride is not sustainable, it won't even pay for the working time of the driver.

> There are already laws about zoning that should keep AirBnB in check.

Yes, now after years and years of issues and complaints. AirBnB could only grow as large as it did by following the "better ask for forgiveness than permission" lifestyle and blatantly breaking all kinds of laws.

[1] https://www.fdic.gov/analysis/household-survey/index.html

[2] https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2021/06/22/digital-div...

[3] https://www.vice.com/en/article/mbqq7y/is-uber-doing-enough-...
Or if you want to run your software on Linux.

Its amazing how adobe isn't porting anything to Linux, despite linux being starting to be used heavily now in the creative industries with the rise of blender and tons of work being done on render farms.

Blender and Krita are really high quality stuff, so hopefully problem solved. But those teams are really small compared to adobe.
Let's reword it: The founders may want a payout and sell to Adobe too.
The Daguerrotype Prototype (alpha release): Will it obviate the services provided by dear chaps like John Singer Sargent?
That's not normal, Internet access works well out of the box on Ubuntu for almost everybody and has been for years. It could not be one of the most popular Linux distributions otherwise. There is something wrong or weird with your setup. Maybe remove your connection from the settings and set it up again.

I've installed Ubuntu on many computers without invoking any weird tricks, I can assure you IPv4 is not broken out of the box. That would be a huge, critical priority mess up.

Now, maybe you have some driver issue or something.
> In addition, when used in this communication, the words “will,” “expects,” “could,” “would,” “may,” “anticipates,” “intends,” “plans,” “believes,” “seeks,” “targets,” “estimates,” “looks for,” “looks to,” “continues” and similar expressions, as well as statements regarding our focus for the future, are generally intended to identify forward-looking statements. Each of the forward-looking statements we make in this communication involves risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ materially from these forward-looking statements.

Indeed.
- https://www.newstatesman.com/science-tech/2016/08/25-years-h...

"The Internet, bah. Hype alert"

- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UlJku_CSyNg

"What is the Internet, Anyway?"
You are going in circles: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32829679
The coreteam actively support building a platform which is to 90% or somused by scammers. They might be technically curious and not be scammers themselves, but this is a bit like Wernher von Braun's Statement that he is just building the rockets for the Nazis and makes them manoverable, what payload is loaded and where they are aimed at is "not my [his] department"
Friend, blockchains were designed to circumvent centralized regulation. Fraud is still illegal whether or not you use a funny internet cryptography tool, we don't need to be regulating our tools.
It may be said in another way: when you're young you can more easily overlook the tradeoffs because you don't really know what you're missing. Things that used to work fine to you suddenly became an order of magnitude worse e.g. credit card chip transactions are slow, changing digital tv stations is an exercise in aggravation...
What Is a Full Stack Data Scientist?
worship engineering as some kind of pure endeavor seems much more akin to the HN culture than whorshipping the regulators to me
To make money selling music of unknown quality to a supervillain maybe.
I’m definitely less anti-acquisition than most of HN. I think bigger companies buying new startups and smaller companies is a fine growth strategy.

However, in this case, I have to agree. Adobe buying any product is essentially the death of said product.
I'm fighting the urge to time the market and put an offer for a house I like in the next few days. The high mortgage rates are putting my monthly payment estimates in uncomfortable territory, but I also know rates are unlikely to go down for a year at least, especially not to historical lows of 2-3% we've seen recently.

Only saving grace is home prices are falling in my local market (Austin, TX) and builders are willing to negotiate more for inventory homes. But it's not falling fast enough proportional to the rate hikes.

I guess this is working exactly as designed for the Fed, but it sucks.
There are tons of roundabouts that have traffic lights too.
This is your cue to remove the extension from your browser immediately. I've been developing extensions for years, and I've never seen an extension acquisition done by a company like Avast not transform the extension into a data harvesting operation.

Judging by the size of the user base the author was paid at least 100k USD, all for an open source project that is free to fork. Avast has acquired you, the user, and the original maintainer continuing to work on the project is just a ruse, the new owners prefer to do it this way to reduce user loss until the business end of a future extension update is pushed out to your devices.
Many electric vehicle can do 1 pedal drive, but what is the gain?
I once calculated for my Polestar that it can save something like 1 meter of braking distance or less from 100km/h, so not super impressive.
Ethereum’s merge: a Netscape moment for Web3?
DeSantis ships Florida migrants to Martha's Vineyard
"IDCAC" doesnt have much to do with privacy, its about convenience. uBO filters dont help you there, as they cant click buttons for you on all the different cookie forms.
Yes and no. Because of the pandemic, and now the invasion, we have realized the world has too many unnecessary imports which could be produced locally.

They were cheaper because all this contamination is called "externalities", which is a code word for "someone else's problem"; and because short term profit is king and responsibilities be damned. Also dumping, tariffs, dominant countries imposing free trade treaties on weaker countries, and so on.

They still have a huge cost. There are of course things that need to be transported these distances, and with or without oil these need to be moved, but also a considerable percent is cheap plastic stuff from China.
Very slow on a gigabit connection and I’ve seen some network errors. Something is going on.
If you're not in America, grab a magnet for your mag stripe. I'm in Canada and have yet to encounter a need for it.
Trusts in particular (cooperation agreements between competitors) were entirely a fad of businesses in the 1800s, particularly amongst more progressive-leaning Chairman. It is doubtful they would have had long term success even without government intervention.

https://southerncalifornialawreview.com/wp-content/uploads/2...

We also know that things like predatory pricing and trying to undercut businesses to acquire them was somewhat of a myth. If Standard oil sold for less than you, it was because their operation costs were lower because they were bigger.

http://www-personal.umich.edu/~twod/oil/NEW_SCHOOL_COURSE200...

The enforcement of the Anti-trust act mostly relied on companies suing each other for grievances. But most companies never brought grievances about being acquired.

It was a PR campaign! But for protective tariffs: https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1890/10/01/103... Sherman himself was pretty open that he wanted to blame rising costs on businesses when a new round of tariffs was passed into law.
- "X is extremely wasteful"

- "Wait until you hear how much Y is more wasteful"

Ok?
I miss the days when antivirus protected against spyware and adware, now even your browser and OS get in on the game and employs hostile tricks.
I think trickle down would actually go against GP's point. Their point seems to be that even as richer SWEs make more money, they price out middle class workers on housing -- then as workers pay more for housing, they have less money to buy things from the companies that pay the SWEs, with a result of putting downward pressure on SWE salaries.

Believing in trickle down would actually undermine GP's point. If trickle down was true, SWEs' spending would offset the housing cost increases caused by SWEs, so middle class workers would have more disposable income to buy things from companies that pay the SWEs -- and that would be the opposite of what GP is describing.
Nah, they let on just fine. It's just that cats communicate in their own terms and tend to think we're kind of stupid, which from their perspective is fair enough. They don't look to us for validation the way dogs do, or go out of their way to make themselves legible; they don't much care what we think of them. Some people have trouble with that.

I never have, but I've also known cats most of my life, starting when my mom decided the best way for me to learn their manners was to let them teach me themselves. It worked well enough to make me one of those people who gets along perfectly well even with somebody's cat who "doesn't like anybody!" - I can't count how many times I've heard that or variations on it. So maybe I'm biased, or maybe I'm speaking from greater knowledge. Make of it what you like, I suppose.
GitHub fails as a collab tool and has no network effect? Interesting perspective, I guess.
> Isn't that good enough ...

I think approximately nobody is studying AI with the end goal of making a machine that is (say) as smart as a dog. It is a good intermediate goal but the hope has always been to surpass humans. If we want more doglike intelligences we can just breed more dogs.

Generally intelligent is only the start, and not a very interesting part. Animals can obviously learn things and they are "generally intelligent", but most are not all that bright. We are not all that clear on why either. Elephants have larger brains than us, so clearly it's not raw size but rather the complexity of the brain that makes us so much smarter. Which parts of brain complexity matter and which are accidents of evolution is almost entirely unknown.
This is probably the only tech acquisition that's ever made me sad. I just hate Adobe so much. The nightmare of their installer, the weird store with horrible designs popping up when you activate normal ui stuff, the difficulty in canceling a subscription, and the stasis in their product and ui. Oh and the sloppiness of Lightroom on mac with it's weird ui and that it didn't even import and manage photos well.

I've been so happy to have Adobe out of my life these last 10 years. I never even cared about the cost.

And figma has been so admirable, one of the best browser based apps. Always squeezing incredible performance out of the web with their crazy c++ engine. And their fast pace of delivering new features, often reworking ui just for the craft of it. It's been fun to just read the release notes.

https://www.figma.com/blog/webassembly-cut-figmas-load-time-...

Perhaps the silver lining will be the talent scattering, moving to and founding other companies, but for today this sucks.
I used to be a graphic designer, have my degree in it etc before I switched to development.

Adobe's pricing is more than fair. At least compared to what it used to be, where you'd have to shell out a couple of grand every 2-3 years to keep up with major releases. For me, it worked out a bit cheaper now than it did back then, but I also got a massive, high-quality font library thrown in as well as a bunch of other newer programs like Dimension.

They already have a functional monopoly in the industry and the prices aren't too bad.

Also Figma was a rival to Adobe XD, which was already actually cheaper than Figma was/is.
> Finally its not a great solution for the elderly and has some risks.

it's not a great solution either to have elderly people in a car where one of their mistakes couuld kill people; but it is more accepted this as a "fatality".

btw there are lots of solutions of mobility for elders that do not include a car.
The Netherlands is stuffed with these things. The amount of traffic lights I have to go trough to get to work is: 1. This is a 30km trip from town to town.

The only part of my route that I always have to stop, is the traffic light. Roundabouts are awesome. Our complete infrastructure is pretty awesome to be honest. Other countries could learn.
Adobe to Buy Collaboration-Software Company Figma for About $20B
Given that toxoplasmosis has been clearly shown to cause behavioral changes in rodents [1], and there's even an evolutionary explanation that shows why this behavioral changes is advantageous to the parasite, it's not unreasonable to think it's more likely that the behavioral differences seem in humans are also caused, not simply correlated with, the parasite.

1. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/20608470/
I'll never understand why people want to pay for their own home office and stay home by themselves all day. I'm an introvert and that seems antisocial. I imagine it's because most American commutes are so bad that it's easier to recreate the office in your own house. Ridiculous.
“History does not look kindly on leaders who treat human beings like cargo, loading them up and sending them a thousand miles away without telling them their destination.”