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Adobe is paying Figma a 1 billion dollar breakup fee this week. Sounds like a very good deal for Figma.
And then raising them again when the competition was gone.
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Quality of time spent is probably something fair to consider too.

People pay $20 to go to the movie theatre for a couple of hours when they don't need to do that to watch a film.

Some video games might take 200 hours, but they're probably slogging grindfests that have long since become a chore by the 50 hour mark.
> What is Mozilla without Firefox?

De facto? Google's puppet company to keep regulators happy.
not nothing: they got to examine Figma's books, IP/code, staff, etc where Figma got to see nothing about Adobe.
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Sush… don’t give them any ideas
Sounds really cool! Thanks for the idea!
gaben for President!
I mean regular call centers employed that tactic too. Use the right language to make it appear as if something is happening, and you agree with the customer, but not doing either of those things.
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Yes, the parent comment is describing M2. Do you have any rationale for why you believe it is a large factor in general price levels?
I'm not sure I buy particularly the "Android users are jealous of a coherent ecosystem" part on two counts.

The first because you just said there is outstanding competition in the rich messaging space. Competition means a lot more than quantity of companies trying to do something. If, at a large scale, consumers are truly jealous of something they can't get without swapping hardware and OS providers to the message provider then competition is poor at best.

The second because I'm an iPhone owning user who uses Beeper, it has much better multi-os iMessage sync without having to sync/mirror my phone locally. So it's not just Android users it's even owners/users of Apple's products wanting to break a bit out of needing to use a Mac to get proper access to their iMessage. This widens the overall scope of the discussion quite a bit.

I will agree Beeper is entitled and lawmakers are clueless. We may differ on whether that entitlement is warranted or what lawmakers are clueless about though :).
>... accused of having "a lot of spare time". I find this rather offensive.

isn't strong enough to me. Essentially when someone tells you you have "too much free time" they're saying:

"I judge the way that you're spending your time to be completely worthless."

I walk away at that point. We obviously have different priorities and values, and I don't have enough "free time" to want to discuss it with them.
Meanwhile, the Ministry of Justice proposes a destructive digitisation of its archive of a couple of centuries worth of wills.

https://twitter.com/MoJGovUK/status/1735642204809351595
True, but the balloon ascent won't look like a "throw" to the onboard sensors.
What about a professional tool with a million features? Sure, sometimes designers create unnecessary complexity. But sometimes the problem is inherently complex.

A cup is something a baby can learn to use. A CAD package for designing rocket motors? Not so much.
For a fascinating read about Nucor, the competitor that surpassed US Steel, I'd recommend Richard Preston's American Steel.
I've emailed my local MP about this, she voted for it. Really troubling, and no one I know has even heard about this bill!
No. That is exactly my point: That the change in M0 is the source of increased prices, not changes to M2 (apart from the changes that are in M2 because M0 is in M2).

Think about it this way: How can M2 increase without M0 also increasing? Then we can look at those mechanisms and determine if they are to "blame" for the recent price increases. I think they are not.
A profitable company is hardly a failure. Or maybe it is, after all HN is more into VC-miney-burning-to-buy-wannabe-monopoly "tech" start-ups.
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My information might be out-of-date, because I gave up on Figma years ago, and I recalled Sketch being significantly more powerful as an actual design tool. But now I'm looking up differences and it seems Figma has improved in areas it was weak in previously, like not having color profiles. From their feature lists they seem about identical.
Housing prices increasingly reflect labour costs, as those represent a higher percentage of the BOM year over year. North America has high wages and so the minimum threshold for a new 2000 sq ft hovers around $250K, bulk of it being labour cost, the rest materials.
The top of the chat window says, "Powered by ChatGPT". The "Chat with a human" text is a link for the user to change to a human.

I had the same confusion as you, though. The UI is a bit opaque here at first glance. Maybe, "Chat with a human instead" would be clearer?
The problem is on the long run: syntax stability, avoiding feature creeps with extensions/attributes, like we actually have with C (c++ is beyond saving due to its absurd and grotesque complexity).

Without that, you won't have real-life alternatives.
“Everyone involved” includes customers
> Why would they pay ransomware hackers when they would obviously have backups. Sucks to have data compromised, but presumably it's not lost.

It's been more than a month. I think if it was this easy, they would be online by now. They said on their blog they will only begin to restore some functionality in January. A business could consider paying the random to avoid two months of downtime. Although in this case they didn't have the option to pay it.
2020 was also peak lockdown, which probably means more time watching anything relative to 2023
I had an idea for a pay-per-minute youtube, where your time watched gets credited to the creator. I would rather just pay per use than worry about whether I'm using my subscriptions enough to be worth it.
To be honest, I don't mind if the middleman is actually holding the funds and gives them out when the taker signs up. Creating a totally new market where you need to develop both sides of the transaction is not an easy task.
The project was optimized for shortest critical path to land a man on the moon and bring them back in the shortest amount of time.

It was not optimized for lowest cost.
I read a lot but Kindle unlimited never enticed me. I had a quick look at what was available and thought "I don't want to read any of these books".
Hm, I'm confused- why you do not just wipe the Windows install entirely then?
Incredible that they have $1b sitting around in cash. Wouldn't you at least put it into a bond or treasury?
She has a fancy title and clinical experience… but is there any evidence that her ideas produce more effective treatments than others? I know it’s a hard thing to study but there are tomes written about addiction, and I am yet to find an academic that has any unique insight in actually solving the problem.

I agree it is a complex issue, but in my experience the truth is closer to “you have a choice to change things” than “you are helpless.” I wouldn’t phrase it as “it’s your fault”, e.g. some people start drugs because their parents share with them in adolescence and that isn’t their fault. But ending it is their choice.

Maybe I am being too harsh in how I frame it. Frequent relapse can definitely lead to despair, but I honestly think the idea that “I don’t have a choice” causes more despair than the opposite.
It is the same people that exercise no discernment when sharing fake news that share these obviously fake AI images. I’ve been seeing it for most of this year and it is concerning that people can’t spot obvious fakes at current AI tech levels.
. . . except the N1 wasn't testable. Among other things, engine valves used pyrotechnics to operate, so they couldn't static fire the engines.
This is essentially what I replied to the comment with. Hard agree.
That's a fair point! Didn't look at it that way.
> I don't even know why Catholic leadership even bothers keeping this up. We completely ignore most of our holy text anyway and plenty of Catholic priests will perform gay marriages against the will of the Vatican.

Gonna need a citation for this boss. Because it's laughably not true.

There is certainly not a deluge of Catholic priests running to perform gay marriages in a Catholic ceremony. Why? Because all it would take is a single person complaining in the local diocese would result in almost immediate defrocking.

I've heard stories of a few that would perform civil marriages, but in no circumstance would there any percentage of those that would perform those marriages under the guise of a Catholic sacrament.

And as far as ignoring the holy text, that doesn't make any of it more or less right or wrong. You just have a whole bunch of cafeteria Catholics in 2023, and theism of any kind is becoming less relevant. That's a far cry from a sect Christianity like Methodist, who take a much more liberal interperatation, and expressly allow it as a sacrament.
The financial incentives encourage this. All FB cares about is the monthly and daily active users don't dip, and they get more ad impressions. They don't care if the content is fake, so long as it gets eyeballs on the page or in the app.
I do have a problem with the Brave/BAT system here, because it lacks consent from the creators. Brave show the user ads and grants them BAT, the user "gives" the BAT to the creator, and almost all creators won't know about this so it's in a black hole (controlled by Brave?). If I were a creator I'm not sure I'd like that, specifically not being able to opt-out at all(?) or at least not without signing up and giving my details.
Why won't you let my SSH into your systems and do what I want? Blocking access to them is anti-competitive.
That's because they're not running gas lines in a lot of new neighborhoods. If you don't have a gas line then the only sane alternative is to get a heat pump.
Might be technically possible from an app, but in the USA, the backoffice won't approve it without one-on-one interaction.
>The problem is nearly all company mergers, both big and small, are detrimental to competition...

Mergers are not the only way in which market concentration happens though. You can't ban asset sales and you can't ban companies from hiring employees of weaker or defunct competitors.

If the owners of Figma decided that Figma wasn't viable as a standalone company, they could sell the software and fire all employees so they could be re-hired by whoever bought the software. No regulator in the world would mandate the software to be destroyed and the employees exiled.

Also, I don't think a market without mergers and acquisitions would necessarily be very competitive. It could well trend towards an equilibrium where a few big incumbants would rule their respective turfs unchallenged and a large number of tiny companies without the capital to do anything big.

I think merging legal entities is just a more efficient, less messy way of handling asset sales.
Fair. But it's not like US Steel has just been humming along for decades printing money. There are a lot of failure smells about it. Hundreds of thousands of people have been laid off at least once. Dozens of mills have been shut down.
"It's time we stopped believing in the Free Market Fairy." <https://bitworking.org/news/2008/01/the-free-market-fairy/>
I've never tried ventoy, but if the PXE/netboot features work, I want to strongly urge anyone thinking of experimenting with PXE/netboot to use ventoy or any other similar helper instead of trying to set up PXE/netboot yourself. I can confidently say that PXE was the single most difficult project/aspect of computing I've ever worked on in the 20 years of working with Linux machines as a hobby and a job. 3-4 times I attempted to mess with it, got it working about 2. Wasted/spent an absolutely enormous amount of time.
I guess not much seeing what they have been shipping.
Dupe: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38682631
Is Masimo a Patent troll or legit?
Average wages have never gone down since WW2 (stats are readily available), although immigration may be a factor in dampening the growth rate. For most people on HN, everything before WW2 is before your lifetime.
US is still battling with its confederate past many years later, it's insane to ask country that's had barely 30 years of independence to go through this quicker.
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Yes let’s do both
Less a story than an anecdote. Not even a real take away presented, just a nice 'do unto others' note. Would he have been paid without sending the Xmas gift? As likely yes, as no.
A CEO also owes it to their employees and investors to let everyone have a massive payday.
How America is pushing China out of the internet
That probably didn't help things but I think the root cause comes down to the usual source of monopolies in this case: having vertical integration and a default app. Technically you don't even need an iPhone or SMS service to use iMessage. It is by the most common use case though, and one which increased the amount of integration a bit.
Hmm. May be they see Penpot and learn something from it.
I work from home and have something on the TV all day, so these stats seem reasonable to me.
So you're saying if you try to build a product, fail and want to acquire that product from another company - now that you have 0 competition with that product - that should somehow be illegal? Why exactly?

Also what product did Adobe had that was in direct competition with Figma?
>the Linux kernel is a key motivator for the project because there are a lot of kernel people who would prefer the kernel to be compiled only by the GNU toolchain.

Linux can already be compiled with clang if you want an all LLVM based toolchain. The duplicate effort of developing and maintaining this does not sound worth it to have GNU "purity."
Time to switch to Peertube
thats a defeatist attitude. "Oh the windows are already broken, let's spray paint the walls."
The other way to look at it is that a library can afford the trouble, as no one is likely to be at immediate risk of death if their computers go down.

A hospital has no choice but to be more resilient, since many other emergencies they would be most needed in (eg natural disasters) can also involve loss of access to computer systems.
Not bad, but it's more metal to me (including roars at 4:14)
This was one of the most obvious outcomes anyone could have and should have predicted. Even when people know an image is fake, it still seems to be able to sway them. The effect we've seen over the past few years is simply likely to become worse: more polarization, more extremism, more inter-group hostility, and more BS online.
> it would seem regulatory issues would start to scare away investment

In certain narrow cases maybe, where you really want the monopoly-holder to buy the startup. But overall this is better for VCs because competition breeds both investment and acquisition opportunities. In most cases 3 big competitors seeking to acquire your startup is better than 1 big monopoly seeking to acquire your startup.
Why not dual boot any Linux for that? If you use Windows. Coz if it run Linux, you’re fine, you can just load another kernel of your is happened to break after the update.
Sure, but the flip-side is that the truth becomes harder to ferret out as well.
I agree. I believe the green shift is a big part of the underlying cost. Every good requires energy to produce, and clean energy is currently more expensive than coal and gas.
I find the e/acc ethos highly relatable for the simple reason that accelerating innovation inevitably means access to new technology becomes democratized quicker. Progress and technology only moves forward and this can't be avoided, but when we try to slow it down under false pretenses of "safety" all that means is that the disproportionately wealthy or powerful will have access to it. Accelerating technological progress means these amazing tools can get into the hands of the average person much quicker, and imo that's a good thing.
Apple isn't preventing competition. There are numerous messaging apps available on iPhone. They are preventing non-customers from using a service provided for customers only.

To make a bad analogy, it is like Jack's Auto Repair selling a service that enables Honda owners to use BMW service centers. And then Accord owners expecting to go to their nearby BMW dealer and get warranty repairs to their Honda.

Apple has a simple solution here. Identify how many unique users are coming to the iMessasge service via Beeper's app and send Beeper a bill for one iPhone 15 Max Pro for each user.
"Risk aversion" here is more a synonym for "prefer planning ahead and trying to account for everything in advance instead of using an iterative trial and error approach". SpaceX is very trial and error focused, which means they learn more quickly. It doesn't mean that their end product, e.g. their Dragon capsule, ends up being more (or less) risky to use for humans than, e.g., NASAs Orion capsule.
Fascinating. You have to wonder if they are cognizant of the associations of the term "accelrationism" with the extremes of the political spectrum and signalling a dog-whistle for one or the other, or if they just think it sounds cool?
I wouldn't necessarily assume they do have backups. At least, not recent backups of 100% of their content/systems.
> being willing to abandon that decision after exploring to see what was involved is a big deal

Yeah but spending several years and many millions of dollars isnt 'exploring'.

I'd say it's a solid fail for the management.

But we can agree to disagree on this. I see you strongly believe that losing tens of millions is good management.

For what it's worth there's many posts nowadays on blind about how the culture of LinkedIn has tanked and I'm assuming management probably believes they're doing a great job in that area too.
Yeah this is the real advantage of AI. Optimize that 90% -> 99.9999%!
> Is the average monthly usage of Netflix 43h/month? That's 1.1 hours per day!

While the author doesn’t actually know how many hours subscribers spend, we do know that a subscription is used by several people in a household. If we take a conservative view of on average two people per subscription (e.g. you and your partner), a combined 1 hour per day seems very reasonable.
They had a really good core in my opinion. The overall performance and especially the prototype preview was really nice. Every change was instant and not even heavy animations were a problem. Much nicer than the Sketch slideshow style prototypes and Figma prototypes that load very slow, not to mention the bugginess.

Judging by the 20bil price they wanted to pay, I guess they know what kind of investment would be needed to compete now.
Yeah, and then there was that time he wore a tan suit after Labor Day and triggered the Fox News people something awful.

But yeah, to your point, stochastic terrorism is indeed a thing. Ask your favorite right-wing politician about that, they're the actual experts.
> Rust should learn from the mistakes of C++

Rust should learn from the mistakes of C++ and C, which are one of the longest lasting, biggest impact, widely deployed languages of all time?

It's confusing when people think language standards are bad, and instead of saying this code is C99 or C++11, they like saying "this code works with the Rustc binary / source code with the SHA256 hash e49d560cd008344edf745b8052ef714b07595808898c835f17f962a10012f964".
I'm going to guess regulators are plenty busy with a long list of things to do. When the acquisition gets announced it gets added to the list and they make their way to it.

I really doubt regulators are dragging their feet. They are most likely understaffed and overworked. Things this big should take time for all sides.
Amazon flyer tells workers to ask company mascot for help
That's sort of how YouTube premium actually works; creators are paid an allocation based on time watched for premium users to replace ad revenue.
>vast array of valuable services

I'd argue that this is how libraries get into this mess. Instead of specializing, they adopt a scattershot approach to services, many of which aren't even related to taking care of library materials. Flashy pet projects get prioritized while less interesting things like books or computer systems languish.
> If a car dealership had a parrot in their showroom named Rupert, and Rupert learned to repeat "that's a deal!", no judge would entertain the idea that because someone heard Rupert repeat the phrase that it amounted to any legally binding promise. It's just a bird.

If the car dealership trained a parrot named Rupert and deployed it to the sales floor as a salesperson as a representative of itself, however, that's a different situation.

> It's not a company representative.

But this chat bot is posturing itself as one. "Chevrolet of Watson Chat Team," it's handle reads, and I'm assuming that Chevrolet of Watson is a dealership.

And you know, if their chat bot can be prompted to say it's down for selling an $80,000 truck for a buck, frankly, they should be held to that. That's ridiculously shitty engineering to be deployed to production and maybe these companies would actually give a damn about their front-facing software quality if they were held accountable to it's boneheaded actions.
That's just what MS and Apple claim.

> Both Microsoft and Apple have reportedly argued that Bing and iMessage aren’t popular enough in Europe to warrant being covered by the DMA, despite the commission claiming they meet the required thresholds.
This is brought up every time percentiles are brought up on Hacker News.

Based on this logic, do you think the law should be that 99.9% of everything is crap?
> I would like to support

This is the attitude that makes people fork over $70/hr to CGPGrey. I like these people's content, and want to support them too. But they don't need my financial support. They're all making way more money than me and probably you. If they wanted some sort of micropayment they could ask for it, but they're all pushing for the $10/month rate instead. Your $1/mo is so inconsequential to them that they don't actually want it. So don't worry about it.

Just support them by thumbs-up-ing their videos and don't worry too much about their finances. They're fine.
But the most views and comments on these images are also ai-generated. Aren't they?
> How in the world did it take fifteen months for regulators to reject this?

Presumably regulators in a few countries were interested, each with their own processes, and presumably there's some fairly significant back and forth between the regulators and adobe/figma as adobe/figma tried to convince the regulators that the deal should go ahead.

15 months seems very believable for a deal of this size.
The BAT only leaves the user wallet if the creators joins the program. There is no black hole.
Your own link.

Bandera remains a highly controversial figure in Ukraine.[9] Many Ukrainians hail him as a role model hero,[10][11] or as a martyred liberation fighter,[12] while other Ukrainians, particularly in the south and east, condemn him as a fascist,[13] or Nazi collaborator,[10] whose followers, called Banderites, were responsible for massacres of Polish and Jewish civilians during World War II.[14][15] On 22 January 2010, Viktor Yushchenko, the then president of Ukraine, awarded Bandera the posthumous title of Hero of Ukraine, which was widely condemned. The award was subsequently annulled in 2011 given that Stepan Bandera was never a Ukrainian citizen.[16] Bandera gained further prominence following Russia's invasion of Ukraine in 2022.[17][18][19]
Not everyone is in the position to turn down a job because of a moral stance on the device(s)/tools they are assigned. Even if you think they are "weak" saying that to continue to fan the flames isn't going to help anything. Why not argue why you think those types of use cases shouldn't impact the decision instead?