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>And that Lina Khan should stay off this? Give me a break, this is exactly what she should be targeting if she is serious about antitrust. Adobe + Figma bundle destroys this market for anything not named Canva for at least 5-6 years.

But the concept of "market competition" isn't just something outsider observers like us can judge and say -- "Yes, we conclude that this Figma acquisition is anti-competitive."

True genuine competition also depends the actual founders' internal motivations and future plans -- which we can't see. In other words, there isn't any competition if the co-founders don't want to compete anymore. Humans have complex motivations and the FTC can't make them compete if they don't really want to.

Figma wasn't making profits yet. Yes, they were growing the revenue but every founder has different thresholds of fighting on vs selling.

For example of genuine competition, consider that Mark Zuckerberg said "no" to Yahoo's offer of $1 billion. He also said "no" to Microsoft's buyout offer of $15 billion. MZ valued his company more than Yahoo and Microsoft did, so "no" made sense to him.

Did founders Dylan Field and Evan Wallace have see their Figma company staying independent the same way? I guess not because they said "yes" to Adobe's $20 billion.

>The idea that FTC should reward innovation by allowing monopolistic/oligopolistic buyouts for big prices

As for the "innovation" paradox, what the blog author was trying to explain is that Figma never would have gotten this big unless the original VC investors saw a future possible acquisition by Adobe/Autodesk/Microsoft/etc. More startups get acquired than actually go all the way to IPO. Without the option of "Adobe might buy them later so we can get our investment money back", Figma never even becomes Adobe competition because they never got the $332 million in funding in the first place.

If Figma was a bigger publicly held company with other multiple powerful shareholders besides Dylan and Evan, that would make more sense for FTC to block the transaction because other owners+managers within that hypothetical company may really want Figma to "compete".

If startup cofounders really don't want to compete anymore, FTC can't do much about that.
As usual with these things, it's a convergence of factors. People caring, both in and outside Apple. French repair index (this update earned them 0,5 points / 10 compared to previous gen). Internal cost pressure on warranties, etc. "The time is right", i.e less things to optimize/design for in other areas (already solved problems).
Probably many other factors that only mechanical engineers and product owners at Apple can answer.
I agree stop printing. But I’d argue employers should adjust due to the 40% printing that had already happened, AND that we don’t print anymore after that.
Agreed. If the type of the lambda can be inferred, then they are great to work with. But if you want to define one upfront and use it later, having to spell out the type of it is almost prohibitively annoying (what do I need in this situation, is it a Function or a Consumer or Supplier or Bifunction or BiConsumer or BinaryOperator or Predicate or BiPredicate or IntUnaryOperator or ObjDoubleConsumer or LongToDoubleFunction or .........). Most of the time I'll just avoid it if I can. I think I"m the only one on my team who would ever create a local function rather than a private method, for instance.

An other thing is java's lack of tuples. All the time I'm reaching for some kind of ad-hoc grouping/touple but have to resort to using something from Apache or Spring or (perhaps abusing) Map.Entry<K,V>
When I lived in Tokyo I'd alternate weekends. One weekend was spent in an urban area and the next was spent in the mountains, which are incredibly accessible from downtown as they're on the city transit network -- no need to take an inter-city. Best of both worlds in many ways.
I think corporate taxation is the only way out of this mess. Tax the profits, take money out of the system. It makes extra sense given that most of this money was injected into the system in 2020 anyways. It's not like it was 'earned' even in the traditional neoliberal capitalist sense. It was an economy-wide bailout and now that it has served its purpose, it's time for the money to return to where it came.

Trying to tackle inflation by suppressing wages is both immoral and silly. How is that a 'free market' solution? It's the equivalent of price controls. I am glad that the Fed has taken that as their position, only because it seems to have made people across the political spectrum realize that there is a real antagonistic relationship between the architects of the system and those living within it.
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The James Webb Space Telescope.
Lessons from Fast’s Implosion: How not to scale a startup
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=grA5XmBRC6g
Kids should only have access to a Nokia candybar phone and phpBB forums. That's what I had and I turned out alright... I think.
True, but those extremist subreddits or forums are expected to include those views. Journalists are expected to include at least somewhat more objective points of view, but they often don't.
The best part is, if they NEED to read cursive at any point, all the information is there for them to learn it. The internet and information sites like Wikipedia have made learning some of this stuff in school totally unnecessary. You have on demand just in time information for nearly anything.

Stuff that you don't need to use often, or immediately, is best learned this way. Cursive is a prime candidate.
Of course, but there's a difference between a Bud Light ad glorifying beer, and E-B secretly funneling money towards academic studies that show positive impacts from moderate consumption of alcohol. Some groups aren't really expected to be impartial.
Same could be said about social distortions that manifest in the modern toxic public/private school environment. Different people weight the pros and cons differently. Also what has worked in the past for public school may not be true now when it is highly politicized.
Was it? How many plumbers, carpenters, or electricians came out of ITT tech?
Ship me the phone and I will click the button for you for only 3 easy payments of $19.95.
The humans also don't have to be local. Seems like a clever way to avoid paying HCOL minimum wage and benefits. Instead of paying someone in LA $15/hr, have some kid in Venezuela do it for $50/month. Latency shouldn't be unmanageable.
Where is EU when you need them with their anti-trust litigation. Google is pulling a 2000s Microsoft.
I've always been bothered by app names getting invaded by keyword vomit.

"Firefox, fast and free"

It feels like going to get a movie, and the title is "Casablanca, super attractive lead actor" or something. It just cheapens the value of the work like it's a low budget film from the adult section.

But what weirds me out is how much of that is needed to get a desired result. "Unreal engine 4k resolution".

What happens when 4k isn't enough? What about twenty years later when all our buzzwords are meaningless, and unreal engine no longer exists? Or what if AI appropriates the word, and that becomes the new definition?
1. Effective Java. The mentality/no-nonsense approach more than anything...the language itself not my favorite these days.

2. Headfirst Java. A stepping stone book like above, but it was very helpful in progressing from "here are variables and control statements" to here are the wide range of things a language can do in the later sections.

3. TCP/IP Illustrated. I never really saw the use in pulling back the curtain of some these lower level details in most modern development, but having pulled it back I can say it is absolutely useful/enlightening/worthwhile.

4. The Haskell Road to Logic. Educational exploring some math and logic through the lens of a programming language.
Tim Cook, Sir Jony Ive KBE, and Laurene Powell Jobs – Code 2022 [video]
“Santa” means “female saint” in Italian and Spanish. Perhaps the English “santa” came from another language but I always found the name “Santa Claus” just horrible.
If you want to make an app that is very lucrative, the Bloomberg terminal is the one to beat, not thinkorswim. The Bloomberg terminal is the standard in the trading world and it already has many shortcuts. It's been good enough for over 20 years and there is a lot of inertia and lack of need to change.

"scrolling, zooming, changing intervals and timeframes" is just not something that people need to do at a high frequency, and generally just using the mouse wheel is pretty fast and good enough.
> I've tried googling but can't find anything related to a right-left-liberal distinction.

America is the only country in which "liberal" is thought have any relationship to "left." In Australia, the right-wing party is called the Liberal Party.

"Liberals" are free market advocates who support change through competition and a hands off approach by government. "Conservatives" prefer the government support of firm moral values and established traditional institutions.

Somehow the US thinks that "liberal" means having a concerned look on your face, and that it's somehow related to communism, which takes the exact opposite position on the liberal's only defining belief. Communism shares so much more with conservatism, starting with an absolute belief in the importance of morality and institutions. Communism's major difference from conservatism is that it believes that the traditional institutions were created and controlled by a small group of inbred people for a small group of inbred people (which is undeniable, but also when conservatives get off the bus.)
If you paid your loans off, you don't lose anything by someone else getting $10,000. That is, indeed, incontrovertible. Imagine I have an apple and you have an apple. If I get another apple, that doesn't mean you now have zero.
> Boomer hate is stupid. The enemy are the elites, corporations and billionaires.

Hate of any generation - especially an individual member of a generation based on their membership in it - is stupid.

However, the critique against Boomers by younger generations is not about you as an individual, but is about largely Boomer-backed policies that pull up the the ladder of affordability behind them for housing and education.

That doesn't mean every Boomer is to blame, or that the wealthy among younger generations don't often advocate the same positions as Boomers. But as a cohort, Boomers' voting patterns at both a national and local level have tended to exacerbate the specific problems of housing and education unaffordability.
The opponents of this decision argue that it is cruel. Yet something must be done.

I’m not one to disparage California, but this behavior would not be allowed where I live.

I’ve experienced exactly one instance of a mentally ill individual harassing my son while he played in our yard.

The police were here less than 90 seconds after I called them. I’m not a fan of the police in general, but they performed their duty that day and possibly saved that individual’s life.
> EDIT: My understanding is that core-inflation isn't about "good or bad for people", its about "good or bad for statisticians".

Bad for making decisions. If there's too much noise in a signal you can't steer the ship. If you do try to take action on noisy data, there's a big chance that you'll over- or understeer, especially when effects are slow to be seen.
I'll add this to my rather long list of reasons to continue to avoid buying newer cars.
people that romanticize Flash are selectively remembering the cool uses such as Newgrounds and Homestar Runner. They are forgetting Flash ads, which were stuffed on a page to the point they would crash your browser. Or the constant fun of hunt-the-talking-banner. You could always tell when you landed on one of these pages by how fast your CPU fans started spinning. If your PC sounds like a jet engine, you're on a heavy Flash site and should close your browser ASAP.
And for years we've just been using eggplants!
Ask HN: Experience contracting designers for a brief UX review?
I have a number of simple projects that I'm happy to do the UI development for but feel their appearance or UX could use some critique from a more skillful designer. I'm not looking to hire someone to do designs for these small personal projects, but am wanting to pay for a 30-60 minute consultation to get general feedback and suggestions for improvement.

Any recommendations for finding folks interested in this sort of one-off design review work?
> everyone walked away happy

Only if you define the term everyone to be the VCs.
> How many of these people would still be out on the street if housing was abundant and affordable?

What if the housing was abundant and affordable but came with strings attached, like not being able to do drugs or engage in other antisocial behavior in them? Would that be a draconian policy?

Literature from people who have spoken with many of the homeless of SF suggest that "some, maybe, but surely not most" ratio is actually the other way around. People who are temporarily homeless due solely to financial factors are often able to find a home, and comprise a minority of the people you actually see on the street; and many of the latter actually turn down help if it means they cannot do as they please.
Here's a really good article about AI in Poker from the NYT: https://www.nytimes.com/2022/01/18/magazine/ai-technology-po...
I can assure you there are plenty of people within the Apple organization that genuinely care about security and privacy. And if Apple happens to profit due to those efforts, all the better. Not everything is some evil nefarious ploy.
Web browsers, like communism, is a red herring. There would be absolutely no point to using alternative browser engines on an iPhone unless they got super special second party access. Not being able to run any downloaded code, no JIT, or extensions would make them useless, and allowing those things effectively breaks the iOS security model. Most obviously with screen time, and parental control, but Apple also disables their JIT in lockdown mode.

I think the sanest compromise would be adopting Firefox, Chrome, and/or Edge as second party browsers. I guess we will see what happens in 2024 because I doubt it will be opening the floodgates.
> right to repair is valuable and desirable, even if it's not actually easy to do the repair

Huh? If the act of repairing is difficult (and extremely, in Apple’s case), then do you actually have the right, or is it only a right on paper? Is Right to Repair nothing more than printing out manuals no matter how difficult the process of repair itself is?
The Nazis were openly and explicitly engaged in genocide. They killed millions of people in death camps. They didn't talk about it, they didn't allude to it. They did it. MILLIONS of people were killed like cattle. This happened in real life.

White nationalists are bad. Racists are bad. The people associating themselves with those people shouldn't be.

Being a stupid ignorant racist, and building actual in real life death camps and then putting millions of people to death in gas chambers are galaxies apart, and the people implying that idiots saying stupid things on youtube are equivalent to an actual genocide are, in my opinion, engaging in a form of holocaust denial.

The death camps were core to the Nazis political ideology.

Is there a single US politician calling for this or anything even remotely aligned with it? Your implication that MTG appearing on stage with a racist internet troll is somehow equivalent to her aligning with people engaging in the industrialized murder of millions of people is absurd.
It is not a tax levied on you, so you are not paying for it.
This is great news. It's a good EUR 500 cheaper than a similarly outfitted M1 Macbook (although the performance is closer to Celeron than to M1)
Not just USB C, but USB C 3.1 or higher. If they put USB C 2.0 I'll rage.
By being a part of US society (i.e. being a citizen), you're automatically expected to contribute monetarily to the well being of the citizens of the US (and your state/country/city) as a whole, whether you agree with it or not. It's why you have access to things like safe drinking water. Regulated quality food. Cars that don't explode as a standard. And so forth.

And it's the same for every country in this world.
Shifting to a multi-polar that in essence agrees to the best possible outcome, even as we explore it, seems perfectly within the interests of all. Such an alliance can be more stable and productive while guarding against misuse of the single point of control.
So what's the deal here?

Is there a corruption problem in Romania, and the US is trying to help overturn it?

Is there no corruption problem in Romania, and the US is doing some power play to try to get the people in power out?
Right to repair is a societal and environmental topic. You personally not seeing a benefit to it is mostly beside the point: think about battery disposal laws, toxic material regulations, wireless power limitations, available frequencies, etc. These mostly matter at scale, taking input from single individuals would probably not land on the right trade-offs for the society as a whole.
This is essentially blogspam for the author's web development shop. It handily ignores the #1 advantage of spreadsheets - business users can develop and evolve them without outside help. It's a double-edge sword for sure, but that agency is super valuable. Problems have to be pretty big before a custom web application is a better choice... and before you get to THAT you have to blow through AirTable, Salesforce and Retool territory.
> I also understand that means maintaining that type of device integrity would require some heavy lifting to service the device after it's been sealed up.

Wel;l... it did require heavy lifting but according to this article that is no longer the case! Sure you'll still need a bunch of specialized tools for handling super small components but it is miles ahead of what it once was.

It took me a while to come around to the idea of "right to repair" because I had the same concerns many people here have. To make it repairable would mean to sacrifice a bunch of stuff like waterproofing and weight. But I guess with this new iphone it's "game on" for repairability. Which is awesome.
> True genuine competition also depends the actual founders' internal motivations and future plans -- which we can't see. In other words, there isn't any competition if the co-founders don't want to compete anymore. Humans have complex motivations and the FTC can't make them compete if they don't really want to.

Any citations for this extremely novel legal theory?
p8g 0.7.0 – 2D graphics library for C, C++, Java and JavaScript
>If regulators instead went after service pricing abuse

How would this work in a manner that isn't vastly more invasive than right to repair bills? I can't think of anything similar.
Amazon SageMaker Is Responsible for My Surprise Bill
Vice City and San Andreas where the only 2 games I've played where I consistently enjoyed watching the cutscenes, and loved the dialogue.

Rockstar later decided dealing with big Hollywood egos was too much of a hassle, and it shows in later GTA iterations. The quality isn't there.

And aside from that, how many car chases can you get into before you've had enough? Been there done that. It was fun while it lasted.
2 years without a reply, maybe it's a feature.

Could they be afraid of a surge in proxy Adblock extensions since they are trying to cripple the local ones?
My comment was not about VC, it was about networks. If you're in the right networks problems will get fixed. Most VCs, to be blunt, are not in the right networks. The vast majority of VCs are "dumb money". The smart money is much harder to get precisely because of the value of the network. If you can get in with that network, your chance of success is high. Simply getting "venture capital" doesn't mean you're in the right network. In fact, the vast majority of the time, it doesn't. Which is why I agree also with what you said that VC money may give you more time to pivot, but doesn't guarantee success. I agree. That's why it has nothing to do with VC and everything to do with the right network.
Unicode does have deprecated code points though. Not that I necessarily think making this character deprecated makes sense.
No, and to be frank, I’ve never known anyone who has disabled JavaScript in my personal and professional lives.

I recently gave it a shot on an old, sluggish iPad. I was blown away at how many websites just…don’t work, or only partially render.

It’s part of the modern web stack, and catering to those who disable JS is like catering to those who run FreeBSD - they exist, and they’re smart people, but their numbers are so small that catering to them makes no sense from a business perspective (unless they are a target demo).

With that said, removing the interpreted JavaScript runtime from your site is a laudable goal and things should be smoother, faster, and lighter.
It is debt that does disappear if it is forgiven.
Unknown 3rd party auto-scans emails for EDU recipients
After a newsletter email campaign we are observing spike in return traffic to our Frontends.
Unusual, as we don't see campaigns going viral immediately. We have a good open rate, but what we see is an order of magnitude.

Turns out after a quick investigation, that an unknown 3rd party scans the content and opens the links which generate request to our site.

It turns out all recipient domains that are involved in this traffic pattern, are from the Education industry, as they have "school" and other similar words in the domains.

- Have you noticed unsusual return traffic generated by auto scans?

- Especially/only for EDU industry recipients?

With the recent cyber attacs to EDU systems last week, could be a spamfilter/antivirus, or load balancing armor, that does this content analyses? All IPs that made this traffic pattern are from AWS, somebody pays the bills.
Could be a module just turned on recently for email industry either by antispam/antivirus, whatever?

What's your take on this.
Yeah I've done this. It somehow keeps getting turned back on wether it gets grazed by my finger, an update happens and resets the setting, or whatever else.

I'm saying i want a way that disables it and then prevents it from ever being re-enabled.

Also: it's a joke.
Tens of millions of people have been waiting for years for GTA VI to release and i am pretty sure that despite this leak people will be extremly for it to launch.
Sounds interesting, are you writing down what you are doing somewhere?
Acceleration Robotics, who leads the ROS 2 Hardware Acceleration community efforts, will collaborate with AMD to develop new robotic capabilities with its Adaptive SoCs and SOMs
I think we should be careful not to discount the idea where the 1.5% likely was actually a stand in for a variable to be discovered/optimized
> why is that?

The web3/crypto community seems to select for individuals with an almost proud ignorance of the law and state power. The same personality that can make a 21st-century gold bug pitch (e.g. a world on crypto is one without wars, Bitcoin is impossible to ban, or Luna is magically stable et cetera) is one that reacts to an arrest warrant by no showing and tweeting.
facts ^
I noticed that too. They might have been poking and prodding around with the different chips or something to see what is inside. That or it is the result of aggressively removing all the shielding. Sure threw me for a loop though.
They had drafting and electronics technician programs, both of which would be considered trades, not professional degrees.

"Trade school" generally includes stuff like that. Also cosmetology schools, truck driving schools, and so on.
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