skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
True! However, the seed that became the tree is very low entropy. One of my favorite marvels about life is how it is an unbroken chain that goes back 4 billion years (with countless branching, truncated ends, of course).

Also, many seeds didn't make it, so there is a bit of survivor bias looking at the one seed that did become a tree.
That was a lot of words for very little content. I still don't really know what this breakthrough idea is but I do know way more than I need to know about Lina Khan. The only 2 paragraphs that allude to it are:

In Ms. Khan’s view, a company like Amazon — one that sells things, competes against others selling things, and owns the platform where the deals are done — has an inherent advantage that undermines fair competition.

From Amazon’s point of view, however, it is a problem indeed that Ms. Khan concludes in the Yale paper that regulating parts of the company like a utility “could make sense.” She also said it “could make sense” to treat Amazon’s e-commerce operation like a bridge, highway, port, power grid or telephone network — all of which are required to allow access to their infrastructure on a nondiscriminatory basis.
I hope you are right, but all it takes is a visit to any large social media site or 30 minutes of watching political news (any political news) to renew my cynicism.

I really don't see anyone anywhere who is even interested in the truth. People want their side to win for non-rational emotional reasons. They're only interested in what truths can be cherry picked or spun to support their cause. Truths that don't support the cause are ignored and denied.
I saw that. I understand use of the word bearded, given the cover, if not the authors (a woman, a bearded man and a clean-shaven man.) I am specifically wondering about the NYT allowing the word “dudes” since it seems to be used as slang for men and not as a term necessary to describe the criticism.
> Maybe the new way is without the middleman. Instead of government insider speaking anonymously to a reporter, the insider anonymously posts the leak himself.

This doesn't replace journalists/reporters as witnesses to local government activities.
Well map in C++ is ordered, while unordered_map is not.

If the name was hashmap then it wouldn't be surprising, but for "map" and especially "dictionary" I can see how people might expect them to be ordered without further information.
I disagree. The iPhone was significant leap: a captive, multi touch screen (not resistive), a full desktop OS (hidden from users, but not a scaled down embedded OS like everyone else), finger, not stylus focused, touch, not button focused.

Yet at the launch I wasn't impressed ("doesn't solve a problem I have"; clearly I lack vision as it took until iPhone 4 for me to see the light).
Build the poison, with the antidote to (much) later follow ... A perfectly sound business model. Reinforce the pathways that ensure that an industry's products (prescription drugs) will never fall out of vogue as the mechanism to solve all of people's problems, and make (a lot of) money all the while. Subjugation through palliation, a textbook case.
Thanks for the clarification but that's pretty much what I just said.

Not sure about this though:

> "Open Source" is a development methodology.

Development methodology is one of these as far I understand:
https://www.synopsys.com/blogs/software-security/top-4-softw...

In any case my question/suspicion still stands: far not all types of software projects are fit or benefit from being OpenSource.
Your great teacher formula assumes one way communication where students are talked to but ignored. That is suspect.
I agree! Until that aspect is solved, the standards of when you get reported and for what are entirely private, arbitrary, and have long-lasting effects on your overall wellbeing.
How does that address the problem that credit scores solve? If I'm a lender given no data about a potential debtor and my only recourse is to the courts, I'm not going to lend to anyone --- or, if I do, it'll be based on far more arbitrary and discriminatory standards, like whether the right poobah at the local Chamber of Commerce vouches for you personally. That's how it worked before we had credit scores.
Cars don't scale. It's really as simple as that. Growing cities must build transit and transit-oriented development or they won't be able to continue to grow.
So, like, in a parallel universe where we reinvent the civil legal system, you might have a point? But in this universe, you concede that Equifax has a practical purpose?
Very true. I don’t think we have a better option though. Like a lot of standards updates you have to cycle from old to new. Cutting support for old SSL cyphers/versions/certificate key requirements without a notice and replacement implementation period would be painful and disasterous.

I turn off whatever insecure protocols exist on my router and will do the same once everything I care about can do WPA3. Getting the population at large to do the same is difficult. I’ll evangelize the benefits of switching, but the best way to loose support is to break use cases by pushing people onto something that prevents their positive device experiences.
Why not? I am extremely introverted, I became that way as a result of adapting to and learning from my life experience. Why can't I be taught through experience and having to adopt to uncomfortable situations, to become extremely extroverted?

There is a reason the military has a bootcamp,it's to break your personality so they can form a new personality that can take orders and lives without hesitation.
Be careful with what you call rickety.

Web advertising only became viable with the birth of persistent tracking. Twitter’s struggle to monetize underscore that. Persistent tracking is only possible because government in the US has adopted a prevailing policy of remaining hands off for most business matters.

That can change with the stroke of a pen. If Google or Facebook found themselves unable to gather comprehensive dossiers on all humans, their business models would implode.
> Further, I think relativity still has an "arrow of time". Thermodynamic quantities can transform under reps of Poincare group - "Relativistic Thermodynamics" is certainly a thing. Landau and Lifshitz has a few chapters on it I believe. So the idea of time "passing" (entropy increasing at least carries over.

I'd be grateful if you could show me where in §27 (PDF pages 94-96) of http://people.physics.tamu.edu/kcolletti1/classes/fall15/sta... you get any of that from.

> "Relativistic Thermodynamics" is certainly a thing

Is it a thing which really deals with an arrow of time, or is it a thing which lets one study the temperature of a moving object, the temperature of an object in a gravitational field [Tolman], or the temperature of an object in which individual velocities (of fluid elements or particles) are large [Israel & Stewart]?
This is a profile of a person who has sparked a revival of antitrust in America. If you want to read the actual paper she wrote, which is linked to in the article, you should do that.

https://www.yalelawjournal.org/note/amazons-antitrust-parado...
We should be careful of falling into the trap of "When all you have is a hammer, every problem starts to look like a nail."

It is the fundamental job of the government to provide all of the essential services that a society needs -- healthcare, courts, police, housing, information gathering, transportation, mail, water, electricity, garbage collection, protection of the environment, flood control, social insurance, and so much more -- all human activity.

Some of the decisions regarding these activities should be handled by decentralized decision making. That is, sometimes the government governs best by outsourcing some of the decision making to other entities. But when we speak of the private sector, we are speaking of just one kind of decentralized decision making. It can be very convenient in some cases to make use of the private sector, but we should not make a fetish of it. There are many other forms of decentralized decision making, including all of those forms that have yet to be discovered, but which will be explored in the future. To say that this one particular form of decentralized decision making is the only form which should be allowed is the same kind of mistake that leads some computer programmers to insist that Ruby On Rails is the ultimate solution to all forms of computer programming, and therefore Ruby On Rails should be used to solve all problems of computing. That kind of fetish can only lead to bad results. Wisdom dictates that we examine the issue on a more general and broader level.
People always tend to complain about things like groupthink. Doesn't mean it isn't real, just rarely a concrete problem. Sweden has a ton "first world problems" like status, fear of missing out, vanity etc. Still absolutely nothing compared to social pressure in most of the world. As you probably know things like engineering go back hundreds of years. Tons of successful Swedish inventors, artists, actors, athletes etc.

The American Dream is alive in Sweden. The prime minister is a foster child and welder by trade. Daniel Ek and Markus Persson both grew up under less than ideal conditions and are now billionaires. And if one thinks Sweden is too small most people have the tools to move, like Fredrik Eklund.

That said, it isn't like 10-15 years ago when it seemed like Sweden was spared from many of the worlds problems. Housing inequality, dysfunctional politics, call for easy jobs, lesser standards, less access to social safety net etc. All large but common problems that make "the deal" a lot less appealing. Tons of people moving to UK, Berlin or Norway for work or just trying to have a decent life.

I do think it is a bit of a bubble. To many cocktail parties, consulting companies and incubators, not enough substance. It isn't really clear whether there will actually be a lot of new extraordinaire companies. I think most people are more concerned about their mortgage.

Because if there is anything I would attribute to recent Sweden's success in technology it just that in end of '90s, early '00s Sweden was a really good deal. A decent apartment, good employment and good infrastructure was all available. A lot of people in technology didn't even bother with university. But nothing was "glamorous". So if you wanted to do something you had to do it yourself.

Today everyone is looking for the guarantee. Going to school for 5-6 years, huge mortgage for the rest of their life and chasing money in consulting. I get it, just unlikely to produce anything different.
Isn't this just a feel-good post?

I have no clue what you expect to do with police phone number to prevent train suicide. People don't just camp out on the track for an hour before the train comes. It's a last second ordeal.
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Sometimes I wonder what it would be like to go through life with no conscience. I don't really want to be a sociopath but I admit that to be free from guilt or anxiety over my actions at even a level one tenth of this guy would be nice.
While the typesetting helps here, I think a lot is due to the writing style. Writing easy-to-read content is difficult, and it’s usually not that obvious when you’re reading it, because you’re absorbing the concepts rather than struggling with the language.
Why all the energy on Amazon when the organization we'd expect to break up the monopoly _is an actual monopoly_ in so many ways?

If we ask the government to break up Amazon, should we expect it to break up the post office?

Amazon already may be in the decline - myself and many of my peers no longer trust it to deliver items we purchase.

They have a big Fake Review problem [0] and there's competitors popping up all over the place.

[0] https://www.gimletmedia.com/reply-all/124
They only argue that the impact was enough to offset a decline from 270 ppm CO2 to 250 ppm CO2 to instead wind up at 280 ppm CO2 at the preindustrial stage. Over about 8,000 years. Call it 40 ppm CO2 over 7000 years to make the number a little larger and its 0.005 ppm CO2/yr.

We're currently increasing CO2 in the atmosphere by 2 ppm CO2/yr or 350 times faster.

So he's not claiming that pre-modern agriculture had a huge impact on CO2 levels, but that those CO2 levels do have rather large climate impact over time. He does this by comparisons with prior ice age due to similarities in the precession of the Earth. The paper is about MIS19 which is 18 interglacials ago, which provides a good analog in the orbital properties, and which there is CO2 data for in ice cores.

That can then be correlated with the paleoclimate record showing glacial inception happening ~10,000 years after the maximum in MIS19. Using the actual paleoclimate data from MIS19 to control a GCM for MIS1 they run the GCM forwards from the glacial maximum and find that the mean global temperature falls by 1.2K and that the high Arctic cools by 5-6K with 3K falls in temperature over most of the Arctic and Siberia.

That paints a consistent picture where by right before the pre-industrial revolution the Earth should have been cooler and continental shield glaciers should have started forming across Northern Canada and Siberia. And this matches the paleoclimate record of MIS19.

If this seems counter intuitive at all, then your calibration of how much human impact is necessary to produce global climate changes (particularly over thousands of years) is likely off.

That also means that the argument that climate change will be beneficial is correct in a way, but pre-industrial humans already made that impact. We're well beyond the climate impact that would produce a consistent, beneficial boost to global temperature and are blasting the furnace.
Not really that difficult, you got a ton of empty space between cities where you can put rails. Then do the stations outside of the crowded city centers, just like airports.

For "short" routes, I'd prefer trains. E.g. I prefer Cologne/Berlin by train in Germany, would even if the station was - just like an airport - outside of the city. The train ride is a lot more relaxed, not really longer if you calculate the total travel time, more space, no security theater (and related queuing), luggage check, etc.
I believe that Google randomized the iteration order of the versions of Java and Python that they use too.
There's a very real business reason to make certain goods cheaper, even at your own expense. "Commoditize your complements" is the short catchphrase for some of this.

The short explanation is that when something is cheap, demand for complimentary goods goes up. For example, when the software for managing cloud deployments gets lower (in a total cost of ownership sense, not just sticker price), then demand for cloud computing goes up. Google has both Kubernetes as an open-source project and Google Cloud Compute as a revenue-producing product.

Really good blog post that explains this in further detail: https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2002/06/12/strategy-letter-v/

There's another reason to do open-source, and that's to get your future hires pre-trained on some of your internal tools and frameworks. If Go or Angular were internal-only things, Google wouldn't be as able to hire engineers with experience in Go or Angular.
“Leak” sounds small, too, so it gives a minimized impression of what happened.

“Hemorrhage,” perhaps. :)
> only applicable in a country such as the USA, where the roads are poor

Not sure about this. I've traveled all over the USA, and the highways are uniformly excellent.

Local city streets however are a mixed bag, especially in the north, where harsh winters create conditions for potholes to form.
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I thought the A&P story in particular was peculiar, since they presented it as an argument for not regulating Amazon, but looking more carefully into its history (on Wikipedia), I would say what happened to A&P was probably beneficial to consumers long-term. So if FTC looks at how the government handled A&P in the 40s and uses that as a model for dealing with Amazon, I would say it's not necessarily a bad thing.
Thank you very much! I shall investigate these!
Never said we had to go backward, and I definitely don't think that's better. I am saying that the legal system is the demerit based system for this kind of reputation based decision-making, which has completely failed us in the proper function of this task.
Thanks for the correction, I had last read that almost 20 years ago :)
No, I’m sure there are 100 clever ways to fund this I haven’t considered, but I haven’t had the time to explore it.
To be somewhat fair in this case, the TC author got an advance copy of the reporting and data in order to get some company responses included, so I suppose there is a value-add in that respect.
Pretty much what wyoung2 said. F# feels much more modern than OCaml, with fewer weird warts. I don't know much about .NET, other than that I don't want it, just like I don't want the JVM.
A more abrupt correct course of action comes to mind
followed by seizing all assets even tangentially related as inadequate compensation for horrific damages.
ya know, to make an example,
like we do with the little people.
Another curious instrument is the Vako Orchestron, the one used by kraftwerk in trans europe express [1], this instrument uses optical disks as source of sound
[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bhkIOw4TyXE

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orchestron
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JCybRH8gIBI
The correct response should have been for credit card holders to sue their credit card companies. We have a relationship with the card companies, and they chose to share data with a third party, so the credit card companies are responsible. This class action suit did not happen as far as I know. Why not?

If we're so outraged and thus there's a market for it, why didn't banks start offering their own credit cards with guarantees not to share your data with any third parties?

Also, why should it be risky for someone to know your name, address, and social security number? Yes, I agree it is risky, but it shouldn't be. Those things are not me. They're not even secrets. Knowing those things should not give you superpowers.
You can compare the global direction he overlooked, vs. USA strategic direction staffed with trophy execs and given enormous marketing budget (which was measured close to $100m and possibly more in recent years,) vs. one he had, which was zero.

Aliexpress was created with explicit intention of barging into US market, yet it ended up with them making more money in Russia than in every other market combined.
> Don’t let the government pursue Amazon the way it pursued A.&P., Mr. Muris and Mr. Nuechterlein warned.

why, because Amazon is so precious?
You already acknowledged elsewhere the comment where I informed you why the legal system cannot function as a credit reputation service. We had the legal system before credit scores, and we know what the outcome of that system was.

Even today, people (in effect) steal thousands of dollars from creditors, essentially for sport, by exploiting the FCRA and the procedural difficulty of enforcing contracts and collecting delinquencies. The courts are not a realistic option for underwriting consumer credit.
>> “As consumers, as users, we love these tech companies,” Ms. Khan said. “But as citizens, as workers, and as entrepreneurs, we recognize that their power is troubling. We need a new framework, a new vocabulary for how to assess and address their dominance.”

That's a good point; governments have to face the fact that people aren't just consumers but also producers. In fact, based on how much time people spend working each week, it's fair to say that people are more producers than they are consumers.
If this is the case, then surely the government should take steps to protect people from monopolies.
Except it did. GDPR sent many companies scrambling to comply and they did. Equifax, as you can imagine, was not on that list.
You are being unreasonable because you equate the hypothetic possibility of malicious code execution by Apple or Google due to bugs with running an OS from either on hardware from them.
> After this update, Google will be able to follow me across the entire web, because it will the one who serves it to me.

That's not how it works. Only the initial page is loaded over cross-origin server push. After you actually navigate to that page you're no longer on Google's site (which is why the URL bar is able to show the domain of the site you just navigated to instead of still showing google.com), so obviously they don't have any enhanced ability to monitor what you do after that point.

> Are you seriously claiming that the largest ad company in the world is interested in decentralizing the web?

The general web is already decentralized. This is about decentralizing AMP. And yes, decentralizing AMP is exactly what Google is doing here.

> the goal of this entire initiative is to increase the usage of AMP by "displaying better AMP URLs"

Yes, and they're accomplishing that by pursuing the development of open W3C standards which can be used by anyone. Just like how offline storage on the web started as a feature enabled by [a proprietary plugin developed by Google (Google Gears)][1] until Google pursued the development of open standards to replace it: https://www.w3.org/TR/service-workers-1/ (Check out who the editors are on that draft.)

Google's been following this pattern for over a decade now. They start with a proprietary initiative, then use the lessons learned from that effort to develop open web standards that improve the web for everyone. (I can give maybe a dozen more examples if you still don't believe me.) There's no reason to think AMP will be any different in this regard, especially since Google has already made their intentions on this matter clear.

[1]: https://support.google.com/code/answer/69197?hl=en
Ha, how will you know how the leaked information is being used ? This is the problem, once your data is out there there is no way to know how it will be used. Everyone i know had to take active steps to lock the credit history including me. This is the major blunder they got away with..unbelievable!
I'm not playing victim or making excuses here, just saying that the credit rating game isn't designed to discriminate against people who don't believe in usury (as the OP claimed) but to serve as a tool to warn against people like me who can't be bothered to fulfil their contractual obligations in a timely manner.

If I, in my perpetual slackitude, can acquire all the necessary things to live then someone who does pay their bills on time but doesn't believe in credit should have no problems at all is all I'm saying.
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mmm, kinda seems like you're trying to attack the argument by going after a trivial part of it.
For iOS, there will be: https://guardianapp.com

Also, we will either provide a searchable app index, or freely share findings/info with parties such as Exodus (This has not been fully decided as of yet).
The algebra and calculus of algebraic data types
Well then they should have titled it something like "Lina Khan, Amazon’s Antitrust Antagonist" and not "Amazon’s Antitrust Antagonist Has a Breakthrough Idea". I expected to actually read and learn about her ideas.
That's actually completely the opposite. Low Floor High Ceiling lessons are the antithesis of monologues.
Here's a primer:[0]
[0]https://nrich.maths.org/7701
Searching through my 'projects' directory, piping all output to wc so my terminal doesn't become a factor, it is about 16 times faster than ack; 26 times when using the gitignore filtering. It is using ~7 times more CPU to do so.