skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You don't need to go far back in history to see when the US government broke up monopolies.
How an EyeToy and vacuum cleaner almost broke LittleBigPlanet
You can, but you have to reinstall them once a week, AFAIK.
If libertarian ideas were the status quo, there would be a lot less regulation than there is.

I don't care about just anti-trust. The entire bureaucracy of the regulatory state affects the competition throughout the economy.
“Keep asking questions like that and you will never get work in this field again.”

Those words should never come from a government official in a democratic country in any context.

Wow, just wow.
The time spent while pulled over is a pretty big discouragement to everyone. Time cost scales with wealth.

But victimless "crimes" don't need punitive discouragement the way other harmful activities might. Jaywalking, speeding, turning right from the left lane, these things happen hundreds of times a day in a city, and spottily enforced huge fines are not likely to address whatever societal harm these activities might cause. There are probably better ways to spread and encourage the small social norms that allow society to function. Leave large fines for large harm.
The thing with Java, and most other popular languages, is that packaging up a unit that small is painful enough that you don't want to do it.

For instance, if I was going to do something similar to left-pad in a .NET way, I'd have to create a whole Visual Studio project and build a DLL for a single function, which would rightly be recognized as pants-on-head.
Are you sure it's because you are getting older, and not because of another factor like technology? There is growing evidence that the constant consumption of information e.g. on social media and mobile devices is negatively affecting people's ability to focus. In my opinion the only way to rule out that possibility would be to go several months without it, pretending like you live in 2005.

I know a psychiatrist who works at a university who said she has had many students tell her that they can't focus as well as they used to in high school. Since these students are in their late teens and early twenties, I doubt it is due to their age.
They address this in the README of the repo (https://github.com/dunglas/mercure) under the "What's the Difference Between Mercure and WebSocket?" section:

> WebSocket is a low level protocol, Mercure is a high level one. Mercure provides convenient built-in features such as authorization, re-connection and state reconciliation ; while with WebSocket, you need to implement them yourself. Also, unlike Mercure (which is built on top of HTTP and Server-Sent Events), WebSocket is not designed to leverage HTTP/2.

> HTTP/2 connections are multiplexed and bidirectional by default (it was not the case of HTTP/1). When using Mercure over a h2 connection (recommended), your app can receive data through Server-Sent Events, and send data to the server with regular POST (or PUT/PATCH/DELETE) requests, with no overhead.
An US Certificate of Birth will also typically list the person's "race". Guess there's more than one thing there that could use some reform.
You don't seem to be addressing the criticism of your argument, which is that urban speed limits are determined by likelihood of collision with another car, a bicycle, or a pedestrian in the event of an unexpected need to brake hard. This depends on more than just the physical engineering of the road.
WhatsApp is owned by Facebook. Hard no.
One of the things I didn't understand about GPUs until I tried to program one is that they're not just chips with thousands of cores: they're chips with thousands of cores that (roughly) share an instruction pointer, so branching is very slow.
I have not been following space exploration in depth so forgive my ignorance on the subject:

1. How long did the trip take ?

2. How many times have "we" (the world) tried and failed?

3. How many times have "we" successfully landed ?

4. Is this "ship" able to return to earth.

Thanks!
I've found the 12-item Joel Test to be great.

https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2000/08/09/the-joel-test-12-s...

PS: Yes! Shockingly not all startups use source control.
Been following gm closely for a while and never heard mention of blockchain. All I could find was this - https://www.coindesk.com/bmw-ford-gm-worlds-largest-automake... . But there's like 50 companies in that coalition... So it seems weird you would say blockchain first. The other stuff doesn't seem misplaced at all, and future profitability also seems down on the company since they are currently profitable albeit their fcf could use improving.
I like this idea a lot. It goes away from the regular though that you get a friend that is forever that is there for you for good and bad, and puts you into the driver seat. I also liked that it is in general a framework for being a good person.

Where did you learn this? My Google search didn't get that far
One thing I'm a bit confused about --

The attack was present in the minified JS, but not the source JS.

(I'm ignorant about NPM.) Does this mean on NPM, the publisher gets to publish the source AND the minified version? Is there no validation that the minified code is sourced from the true source code?
Yes, they get paid, but not as much as tuition is for the PhD.
This is so superficial. How can you talk about ecosystem fragility when NPM is one of the best open source companies and which actually cope with problems (unlike most package registries who are completely passive)
MIT researchers show how to detect and address AI bias without loss in accuracy
How could you ever do that realistically? You can't consistently know which farm/grower the produce came from. Sure, sometimes it is labeled. But a lot of times it is not. Or a brand buys multiple farms and uses their combined output to create their brand name that they put forward to the world. The only case I see is when a grower has their stuff labeled or has the end-supplier label it and it is never combined with any branding with other growers.

You also have no control over what any business buys and it would be virtually impossible to find out. You'd never know, for example, where the Romaine used at your local Chipotle was purchased.

I also think you're giving way too much credit to human beings if you think they care enough to take action on this and boycott over this (even if they had full information that was easily available). They didn't even demand that the US government stop spying on them and jail the perpetrators within the CIA after the Snowden incident and after an investigative panel during Obama's administration acknowledged that the acts committed by the CIA's PRISM program were illegal.
That's one of those cool things that never gets thought about outside the people directly involved. "Why keep the code required for landing readily available permanently, since it'll never ever need it again." That's one of the aspects that I enjoy about programming Arduino devices. I'm so spoiled to essentially unlimited memory on desktop/laptops (in comparison) that writing code to fit into extremely limited finite amounts of memory becomes challenging in a fun way.
I don't see how the same thing couldn't happen with an elm package? The attacker can commit to the github repo.
So true! I've interviewed with several startups (about 50-60) in the past, over the course of 5 years. I had offers from most of them, while some of them rejected me after the interviews (for whatever reasons they had). Your comment is so close to reality (based on my interactions). Some laugh, some genuinely have no clue, some act arrogant (you can either join based on whatever limited information is provided, or leave), and some say they don't share any such information.

I've worked at two startups in the past. The first startup tanked. When interviewing for the next role, I did ask these questions, but had no luck. Ended up taking an offer with 15% increase over my last role. Two years of work, and I find out that this startup too, is on its way down. Eventually ended up moving to a big company.
Having done this myself (ctrl key permanent failure) the article and it's comments are listing several ways to achieve that swap.
Meanwhile if you prop it up the business will remain uncompetitive and the Japanese or Germans will come in and win in the marketplace.
This is a very selfless way of living, and for that you have my respect. But the chief cause of loneliness for many people is the fear that the person they were waiting for will never come:

There is a fire which burns inside me, but no-one stays 'round long enough to warm themselves.

Knowing this, if you can truly remain steadfast in your positive outlook on life, then you have achieved true strength. Hard to do in an oversocialized world.
I think what you mean is "make enough of them to deliver to people who paid $1000 to reserve a place in line"
VPN APIs is for VPNs, not ad blocker apps. Apple is “sandboxing” applications, so apps have limited ability to interfere with each other or alter the overall workings of the phone. Which is a good thing, one app should not see other app's traffic.
The telescope application was not very demanding real-time. It basically did slewing control, and you have sufficient overhead to do that in BASIC; milliseconds don't matter very much. Telescopes are a classic example of FORTH's success; the problem comes when you try to extrapolate from that into other problem areas.

The attempts I've seen to make FORTH work in a real-time game have all ended in failure. There are technical reasons for this (high cost of inner interpreter overhead, lack of dynamic memory allocation, program structure that makes it difficult to work in large teams) as well as social ones (mostly lack of objective evaluation of quality, and other immature engineering practices).
How old are you? Are you supporting a family? Where do you live?

What's the amount of your salary? What's the value of your equity compensation? How much time do you get off?

(your benefits may not be as good as you think)
I'm as far from marketing as I can be, but good to know that. Didn't know it was something they offered.
That's because the music subscription service was designed from the ground up to be exactly unlike the previous music business model; in fact the spotify model boils down to legal napster.

The problem is when something really has no reason to not be a one time purchase, like companies on instagram charging me $15 a month to send me three new pairs of socks twice a quarter, or maybe they mail me a wooden box once a month with some woodsy smelling beard oil, a leather flask, and a small axe.

Software is moving this way too; but I'm still in the camp that would shell out $25 for a program as is that would still work on my machine decades later even if the company folds or puts out another version, than pay $2 a month for something that might not work at all or fundamentally change its functionality in a year.
Don't measure developers, measure projects
> It's also terrible at hard real-time tasks (like games)

Why? I can't think of any reason that this would be the case.
Maybe you should substantiate such a strong claim, it is rather poor form to make such a definitive statement without proof

What form of proof would you accept short of a statement acknowledging the penalty, via a venue controlled only by Google?

or some legal action to go with it.

Do you have advice on obtaining representation competent enough to take on Google? My budget is $0.

(Also, is it such a strong claim? I understand the presumption of innocence. But why would the discovery that Google can and does secretely, manually, penalize websites without cause be so shocking?)
web page has been dead for me for about 20 minutes (since I saw this link) - does anyone have cached version available? Google gave me a 404 on their cache....

(1555-1615 EST -- 2018-11-26)
I'm not sure that level of "notice" gives such folks much comfort.

Decades ago I knew someone nearly homeless living in a downtown Chicago dive hotel, the kind of place you turned the bathroom light on just so the roaches would scatter before walking to the toilet.

They talked about the hotel management giving the younger and destitute tenants free months of stay in return for getting rid of the bodies and possessions of elderly tenants when they passed away.

Apparently it was somewhat common for poor elderly folks, alone in the world, to move into the hotel and have their government aid checks cashed for them by the hotel management.

By making them disappear after dying, the hotel continued to (illegally) collect the checks.
The Economics of Airline Class [video]
I think part of the difference at issue is the number of distinct entities (users/organizations) you need to trust due to the acceptance of micropackaging.

With most programming languages, a small-to-medium project might pull dependencies from tens of entities, but with npm, even a small project can easily rely on hundreds or even thousands of entities.

It is easier to weed out unreputable entities when you are depending on fewer entities.
Noted. Thanks. I will quote you on `Anecdotes are the life blood of conversation. This is an internet forum, not a peer-reviewed journal.` in the future, if you don't mind.
I don't think technology is the issue here, it will just exacerbate an already existing problem of unsustainable fisheries management.
I'm sure you appreciate that this is all a little subjective though.

force-touch touchpads are so useless than not even them use the technology to any meaningful extent

I love this technology. Use it literally every day!

the Touchbar is completely useless, and anecdotally people stop using it after a few days

See above :) I quite enjoy the UX of this, especially for things like trimming video, brushed in Photoshop, stuff like that… basically gauges and pallets work quite well!

- their new butterfly keyboards are a nightmare to type on (albeit that's definitely subjective), and stop functioning with dust particles, and they haven't even acknowledged the problem before being hit with 2 class actions

First point is subjective as you say (and personally I now find the old keyboards weird and mushy!) Breakdown does appear to be an issue, though.

they've removed all useful ports from their laptops

Could have retained the HDMI I guess, but I reckon most people probably didn't use much other than that! Bit of a downgrade though, agreed.

Basically, I think the "shitshow" of recent Apple devices has been a tad overstated by some people. I get that not everybody's going to be happy with those design decisions… but I don't think it's quite as "sky is falling" as we often hear.
8VC is awarding $30K to students working on increasing access to opportunity
Yes, it is possible to have 1.25 or 1.5x first money out liquidity preference. I'm not sure how common that is though, but I've seem it multiple times.

Also note, you can end up with negative returns since you may have paid taxes on the options.

SEE:
https://www.nytimes.com/2015/12/27/technology/when-a-unicorn...
This takes "charitable interpretation" to an extreme.
Sure, but we don't typically walk around the car and check that no one has slashed the back tires.
I'm getting a vibe that this comes across as implausible. So I'd like to add that the skin, central nervous system, and interior layer of the gut are all fundamentally ectodermal epithelia. Both the gut and CNS arise in development through invagination and pinching off. First the gut, and later the neural tube, which becomes the spinal cord and brain. And amusingly, in deuterostomes (vertebrates and their kin), the invagination point (blastopore) becomes the anus :)
I knew one CS professor who always had very good evaluations.

His trick? He brought free cookies on the day he was going to get evaluated.

He swore that it worked.
This just looks like a bundler. The thing about gcc, the name you're aping here, is that it's a collection of compilers. This looks like neither a compiler nor a collection of them.

As far as I can tell this seems to be approximately 2,000 lines of JavaScript (half of which is tests) that wires together existing tools in an rather un-novel way. Or, in other words: an ad for "zeit".
Could you elaborate more concretely about this campfire model?

edit: Asking because I'm having a hard time visualizing the metaphor applied to reality. Do you find/make friends ("campers"?) differently? Would they consider you a friend, or are these relationships more broad with less depth? How does maintaining the fire relate to maintaining friendships? Are you just a support person handing out favors with little expectation of reciprocity? If so does that feel fulfilling compared to deeply investing in a smaller number of people?
The ecosystem is more than just NPM the company (or tool, or registry...). And I think the problem is far from superficial, if it was superficial it'd be trivial to fix.

In theory the same applies to PyPI or Rubygems or whatever else you use too, but it's the fact that JavaScript packaging culture has grown to have many, small "does one thing well" packages that makes it harder to be across those which you are giving trust to.
2018 Samsung fat-finger error
Pretty crowded space. What are your plans with getting initial users?

Also, you can post with title starting with Show HN: to better showcase
> If Searle was correct we could do an MRI on a blind person and detect when their brain switched into "symbol processing mode" if a conversation with them covered any visual concepts.

I think that is true, at least to some extent: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3667661/ particularly for people who weren't blind from birth.
We have invested billions into fusion. And we get results like this, which are ... basically useless.
From what I can see there is no way as an end user to verify the quality of the goods being shipped.

The whole point of an exchange is the things being traded are fungible.

I see lots of rolxes being traded, but are they real? have they been used? are they grey imports? I don't see how you're supposed to trust anything thats on there.
When the first version of dotnet core went out, parts of it such as system.drawing were just empty shells. Nowadays dotnet core is all you need (happily F# seems to be developed first and foremost by the community and not by Microsoft).
The phone company has been characterized many times as a natural monopoly. But it certainly wasn't in its early days. Telephone companies sprouted like weeds and all competed with each other.

I don't know what the interconnection between them was like.

But I can say that in the days before the internet achieved dominance, the various privately operated networks provided gateways so one could connect to the next. In fact, the term "inter"net came from connecting existing networks together.

Lastly, it's not necessary for competing water companies to run parallel sets of water pipes to your home. Your neighborhood may have a communal pipe, and then water companies compete to connect to that pipe. There may be pipes connecting various other pipes. The water companies compete to fill those pipes, or rent access to those pipes to deliver the water to individual subscribers.

I.e. a free market water system need not at all look like the current monopoly utility system.
Are those points not the same for closed source products? "You don't know where the code came from" and "your best indication if its safe is how popular it is."
1. Six months.

2. This is the fifth success, out of thirteen attempts, over sixty years.

3. There have been five successful landings.

4. No.
That's right, what gets published is published from a dev's machine (or perhaps CI), which can (and often does!) include files (perhaps build artifacts) which aren't committed to source control. Similar to how perhaps a Java package might have the source in source control, but you push a built JAR to your package manager.
Trying to do a back-of-a-napkin calculation on a Haswell core (~ 500 GFLOPS), but what is the weight of a 1000-pin BGA? Maybe 20 grams? That would put it at 2.5e+13 FLOPS/Kg
InSight's First Image from Mars
My mom (who lives alone and is approaching 80) and I have an agreement: she emails me every morning with "hey" in the subject and no body if she doesn't feel like it. If I don't get an email, I call.

Since we started doing this (years), I feel more connected to her, and we often have conversations that last a while. I can't remember the last time I got a blank email.
I did like how "grufties" are labelled as fans of "The Cure", but also death cults.
No one knows what the hell you are talking about with the word "deck."
Only anecdotally: a couple Korean tire companies (Kumho, Hankook) I had never previously heard of started showing up in the U.S. in the past decade or two. They are of high quality and at a lower price than the U.S. tire manufacturers.

So, foreign competition?
JS's popularity is the canonical example of "a quirk of history". It is popular solely because until roughly now, it has always been the _sole_ language for the enormously popular web platform.

Better proxies would be Go and Ruby since both occupy the same niches; however, this doesn't support your point as Go has grown much, much faster than Ruby.
Also known as a "series hybrid". I'm not in favor of pedantic nit-pickery.
NPM is quite a different software distribution mechanism than a typical app store.

In an app store, apps are self-contained packages with low to no dependency on other apps in the store, meaning that a single compromised or malicious app can only really affect that app's users. The OS may also isolate apps from one another at runtime, further limiting the amount of damage such an app can do (barring any OS bugs).

On the other hand, NPM packages depend on a veritable forest of dependencies, motivated by the "micropackaging" approach. Look at any sizable software package with `npm list`. For example, `npm` itself on my computer has over 700 direct and indirect dependencies, 380 of which are unique. That's bonkers - it means that in order to use npm safely, I have to trust that not a single one of those 380 unique dependencies has been hijacked in some way. When I update npm, I'm trusting that the npm maintainers, or the maintainers of their dependencies, haven't blindly pulled in a compromised "security update". And `npm` is in no way unique here in terms of dependency count.

So this problem is limited to NPM, as far as the potential impact of a single compromised package goes.
I'll give you an example of government interference in the British car industry. For entirely political reasons the factory for the Hillman Imp was built in Scotland. The idea was to bring employment to a run down area, the reality was an inexperienced workforce that struggled to get products out of the door.

It's interesting to note we now make more cars in the UK than we ever did in the BL era.
The subtitle says

Getting to this point would have required reading past the headline.
Standard Oil is the canonical example of a monopoly needing to be broken up by the government. But in the book "Titan" by Chernow, SO's market share steadily shrank throughout the years of SO's anti-trust trial, as competitors had by then figured out how to compete with SO and were outmaneuvering Rockefeller.
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Authentication and price sales transparency.