skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Your overall premise of "There is nothing that prevents AWS from using it's own systems as business intelligence for creating their own competitive products." is spot on. But characterizing the situation as "terrifying" seems just a little bit disingenuous. It's a double edged sword.

All of the factors you mentioned are characteristics of any fortune 500 business. Are you familiar with the Innovator's dilemma?

> - No personnel, pay/benefits, recruiting or technological advantage over FAANG

Says who? Don't people leave FAANG companies all of the time because they realize they have technological advantages or don't have the right people? Good example - Otto. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Otto_(company)

> - No speed to scale advantages over FAANG

So let's ignore the agility and nimbleness associated with startups then? Isn't that precisely why so many software startups have been created in the last 15 years?

> - No rapid scalability outside of a FAANG owned platform

Microsoft would like to have a word with you. Ok snarky I know...I get your point. But, the rapid adoption of cloud is creating more and more cloud providers. Since lock-in is less of a problem which means we're getting more vendors with equally competing offers (just look at Equinix, Flexential, Digital Ocean, Linode, Pivotal, Rackspace, etc...just to name a few). Why do you think Azure/AWS/GCP all keep lowering their prices?

> - No advantage in new/exiting/upcoming technologies or verticals that FAANG doesn't already have projects in

What does this even mean? If a FAANG company doesn't have a project in the new/exciting/upcoming technology but you do and you prove the commercial value, then you absolutely have an advantage, no? You're there first! If, as you point out in your original post, FAANG sees that your offering has commercial value (they see more people adopting your technology) then they have to catch up to you anyway. You have a new competitor now, sure, but that is going to happen regardless of whether AWS exists or not. Is it a problem because they have the intelligence to approach the market quicker...sure. Not to mention, your ability to scale was already provided by them! Ultimately, you're complaining that the company that helped provide the scale is now competing against you? Boohoo. If this becomes such a huge problem than another provider will come along and create a "we won't compete against you" policy and change the market. I just don't see why that's such a problem.

> All the advantages you identify also reside natively inside FAANG

I think you've just proven my point. There is a level playing field when it comes to the technology services available to startups. FAANG's have a capital advantage and startups have an agility advantage. There's obviously a lot more nuance to that, but this isn't a terrifying situation at all.
I'm Australian and it would be pretty unusual. But maybe that's what the example is getting at. My close friends, I could probably borrow 2k from, but my neighbours are not my close friends.
>free expression, even of profoundly stupid ideas, might be a net good for society

It totally is! Stupid ideas are very dangerous. You don't want to hear about them from people with pitchforks at your door.
Some people who are in financial poverty have more community than more well-to-do people.

I live close to a refugee/immigrant neighborhood and despite their fears and worries, many are more connected to their families, friends and neighbors than I am. They seem to have more celebrations and get-togethers than I do with my friends. I regularly eat at restaurants there, and there's a warmth even for strangers like me that I don't experience in higher end places.

On the other hand, there's palpable loneliness among transplants to relatively affluent places like Minnesota, where despite surface politeness, is a society that is very insular and does not (and does not know how to) integrate outsiders.

Culture has something to do with it?
London's the most expensive place in the world to park during working hours, to the point where parking space sharing sites are advertising "from £11 per day" to entice people in. Street parking is upwards of £5 per hour.

Obviously there are some companies with parking spaces of their own, but companies with parking spaces in the restricted areas of central London aren't giving them to employees they don't pay enough for them to afford public transport. You're unlikely to be poor or limited in your transport options if you've got resident's parking in the Congestion Charge zone either
On pinterest, I have something similar, except that I'm mostly following cooking things and some 3d art here and there, and then every few weeks they sneek in some bible verses and anti-abortion propaganda. I'm sure some algo somewhere is binning me with some of those people based on me looking at dumpling recipes, but jeez.
Oh, then it's probably his Ikonta, the other 6x6 camera he used. It's a foldable.

He also had a TLR but he seldom used it for people.
> you can generate steam keys and then sell those keys off platform (and take 100% of the revenue)

Which is significant, and missing from most of the discussions about Steam's revenue share. Game creators can generate as many keys to activate their game on Steam as they want at no cost, and sell them however they want. If you buy a game from Humble, Amazon, or any other website and receive a Steam game key, Valve doesn't receive any money from that purchase.
But the purported massive difference of the video disappears on those versions too. So that's the big proof of the efficacy of UB driven "optimization" - one additional assembler instruction in the clang code, some movslq vs movl. Dramatic. A micro-benchmark that indicates zero.
I was getting the impression you don't know London very well. Zone one has many tourists and also the government, the world's largest financial centre (well part of it) and many residents, rail stations, museums, hospitals, universities and all sorts of stuff.
I don't see any jack booted government goons walking around burning books, do you?

I just see a private company choosing to not do business with another private company. Isn't that what the whole "free market" thing supposed to be about?
in a Black Mirror kind of way, possibly :-D
youtube-dl is on PyPI https://pypi.org/project/youtube_dl/
Are you saying that cops are and should be thugs? I think police officers are better than that and should be held to a higher standard than that. There are plenty of good cops out there, but they are very much not advantaged by systems which protect the worst offenders, encourage silence, and discourage accountability. If you think cops are thugs then by all means, encourage a lack of accountability, and they'll become exactly that. Our communities should have higher standards, and the police themselves should have higher standards as well.
Every time I encounter a tmux recommendation it has me pondering whether it's worth learning minicom.

When I first read the author's rationale for tmux it rubbed me the wrong way, because the main feature they dismiss as cruft- the ability to use it as a terminal emulator for a serial port - is something I still find myself using from time to time.

Is tmux really so much nicer than screen it's worth learning minicom?
“Our Children Were Screaming”: Muslim Persecution of Christians, July 2018
I do believe css + web magazine envy shifted everything into ~presentation and not tool/use
https://twitter.com/happyinwater/status/1068861340800958466

Apparently they'll be migrated to Hangouts Chat.

My Project Fi calling/texting from computer features are in limbo, though.
>>if it means a marginal impact on whatever destined-to-be-doomed small business is not getting off the ground due to increased scrutiny, I say good deal.

It's not a "marginal impact". Regulations like Dodd-Frank impose a massive structural
impediment to smaller business competitiveness that contribute to growing income inequality, and growing consolidation/centralization of industries. The Mercatus study shows just how much it increases costs for smaller banks.

And it's not just "destined-to-be-doomed small business" that's eliminated:

https://www.politico.com/agenda/story/2016/09/community-bank...

>>“Unfortunately, we became a victim of Dodd-Frank,” a northeastern community bank CEO recently wrote me. “In a few short years, an otherwise healthy community bank with strong capital and satisfactory earnings could no longer meet a number of financial benchmarks set by the regulators. These conclusions forced the bank to sell now when our shareholders and some of our employees would be less adversely affected.” The result: the bank merged with a larger bank and half of the employees lost their jobs.

There are government programs like the GSEs and the FDIC that promote irresponsible mortgage lending. Those should be targeted for reform/elimination before centralizing and regimenting the industry with labyrinth laws like Dodd-Frank is considered.
Damn. That's not enough to cover Amazon network fees for transferring 100M copies of 100GB.
I used to think this too. But I’ve come to wonder. My more recent hypothesis is that it’s not actually possible to do so. My reasoning is basically economics. Free software developers improve and maintain the UI experience that best fits their needs. If there’s shared ground between what the casual user wants and what the developer wants, they’ll even often err on the side of the casual user. The developer community will even reach into casual user space somewhat because it indirectly responds to the recognition and feedback loop that a wider user base is good for the effort in general, helping to secure other forms of acceptance and therefore employment opportunities.

But that’s all only up to a point. There are concessions one starts making as you woo the business/casual user more and more. Since there is no direct financial compensation to offset the increased sacrifice, an equilibrium arises. An equilibrium of good enough for general consumption, enough of a concession for the developer. Unless something changes the balancing point of that equilibrium, then it’s likely to stay about there.

It’s like a neighborhood handyman/craftsman who first fixed up his own house and then, because it gives him purpose and makes him feel good and contributes to the general betterment of the neighbor hood begins doing the odd project throughout the community. The work is quality AND it’s free(ish). As the community embraces the handyman’s efforts more and more, he begins having to do things more and more that don’t fit his vision or lifestyle. He has two choices: start charging or stick to the projects he likes to do. If he starts charging though, now he becomes dependent on trading concessions for income. The relationship fundamentally alters.
I know this is not answer to your question but it might help in some ways, if your concern is saving accounts what we did was disabled online banking and atm on our saving accounts with large amounts of money. We still have our checking for every day use. We hardly touch our saving and for that we have to go to the bank in person. That is the most secure way I figured so far!
Matter of preference. I use tmux as a multiplexer and minicom for serial consoles. Mostly because minicom works out of the box more frequently than screen does, even with proper baud rate and other options set sometimes screen just shits the bed when used for serial. Never had any issues with minicom, it just works.
> how will that not do just the opposite when companies can take open source code and lock it down?

They already do that, either legally or illegally, see here for some examples https://trac.ffmpeg.org/query?status=!closed&type=license+vi.... Plus most FOSS software is being developed by volunteers for free without the resources to fight back.

> there will also not be an altruistic motive for people to give back to the community through open source knowing that a for profit company can build on top of the work they did and not give back to the community.

Most FOSS software is actually not under a copyleft license, see https://blog.github.com/2015-03-09-open-source-license-usage....

> not only will their not be a financial motive for people to create works

A lot of software is actually commissioned either for private use or to distribute as an app for some business of some sort, which would not be affected by this. Moreover if as you say due to not being a financial motive for people to create non-FOSS software, the chances that someone takes some FOSS software and closes it down will be much lower.

Nevertheless, though unlikely, even if copyright stopped existing it does not mean that there could not be a replacement that only protects FOSS projects.
Same. I moved from Chrome OS to Arch Linux and this was one of the few things I missed.
More in-depth article on loneliness and impact on health, I can see loneliness having a direct impact in the future on people's health:

https://www.webmd.com/balance/news/20180504/loneliness-rival...
I just saw it pop up in the logs. Apparently Google doesn't have your last name, which confuses it. Will take a look in the morning
> you’ll download it from the Publisher via their own client.

And the main reason for pushing their own clients is because all of these publishers would love to a) avoid some of the cost of Steam in the future b) have a sufficiently big customer base to be an attractive platform for third parties to sell their games on, so that EA/Activision/Ubisoft/Blizzard can become the next Steam and squeeze others for 30% of their revenue.

Because 30% of everyone's game sales is a lot more (and more easily earned) than 70% of your game's sales, especially since in the latter case you actually have to develop (and market etc.) a game...
"lexis" is the same as

# unix
wc -w

# powershell
Measure-Object -Word
Is capitalism a sustainable life model?
I'm a fundamentalist. To the extent that I consider the possibility of deities, it's the fundamental active/aggressive and passive/receptive principles that appeal most. Plus some casual animism, I guess. Although I've always been agnostic, experience with psychedelics has affected me. Plus, of course, all the fantasy and SF.
If something bad happens to you in the real world are the online friends going to help?

It's been a while since I've had real friends on the internet. I can't say if that's "my life" or if that's "the internet has changed." But here are things from my past life with internet friends:

1. They helped me get healthier after doctors wrote me off for dead, including hand-packing pure medication without chemical additives typically found in store bought brands and mailing it to me as a Christmas present.

2. They helped me figure out how to raise and appropriately educate my special needs sons.

3. They exchanged Christmas presents with me.

4. They met me for lunch or made a day of it every couple of years when they were in the area.

5. They helped me start my first website.

6. They helped me attend two different conferences on the cheap, one in gifted education, the other in urban planning.

7. They helped me make it through the night without killing myself.

8. They helped me make it through my divorce under very difficult circumstances without killing myself.

(Yes, I also did things for them. I'm not listing it here out of respect for their privacy and brevity.)

Those are just the things that obviously come to mind off the top of my head without thinking too hard about it.

And then I was homeless for a few years and saw just how amazingly shitty people on the planet are capable of being. When I most needed some kind of support, the entire world just wanted to let me know I was a total fucking loser who didn't deserve any support whatsoever. In fact, an awful lot of people wanted to make sure they did all in their power to make my life worse while pretending they were good people or some nonsense.

So I just have no idea at this point if the world I knew somehow magically disappeared, is gone forever and cannot come back or just what. But I have, in fact, known real friends via internet, some of whom had a profound positive impact on my life though we never met in person nor even called each other on the phone.

Edit: To be fair, none of these were Instagram or Facebook friends. But they were internet friends.
I played one in the 2000s and loved it; odd that it aged as well as it did.
Neat! That could be useful in certain situations.

In case you're suggesting Linuxbrew is unnecessary (I don't think you are, but just in case), there's definitely something way more convenient about just using Linuxbrew to install everything, than to track down what software is best installed from what repository.
What about governments create a "bug bounty" program for diseases? Every year, the bounties for common diseases would increase, and if a firm finds a cure, it must accept the bounty and gives the cure to the human society, free of royalty
It would be nice if the list explained that, though!

And with the ~20 zsh "frameworks" and "plugin managers" here, they could really do some comparison, or probably even remove a couple.

I'd rather they showed me 3 good options and explained the trade-off than 20 options with little commentary (the lines seem to be mostly cribbed from the projects themselves).
> for bandwidth + servers + store handling credit card info + credit card fees + technicians + support staff

You're forgetting exposure and huge player base. That's got to add some revenue...
Less sedentary lifestyles and something Dr. Jason Fung always likes to point out: most people ate three times a day until a couple of decades ago.
Very rarely would one have a snack, usually no snacks in between those three meals.
That was fascinating, thank you for sharing.
> Illumina’s sales mix is the secret to its success.

So this prediction is based on business principles, not new technology? I'm skeptical.
Given that it is very likely that the UK military seriously considered a coup in the seventies (https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2006/mar/15/commen...) it seems foolish to place the job of political story placement and disinformation with them.
This points to a new scientist article https://www.newscientist.com/article/2186512-exclusive-uk-po...

Favourite bit.
"Looking at this data, the software found nearly 1400 indicators that could help predict crime, including around 30 that were particularly powerful. These included the number of crimes an individual had committed with the help of others"

Wow, so people that commit crime are more likely to commit crime.
I love this. Just reading the list make me happy.

I would contribute:

xmlstarlet Manipulate xml documents http://xmlstar.sourceforge.net/
jq Manipulate json documents https://stedolan.github.io/jq/
screen Terminal multiplexer (like tmux) https://www.gnu.org/software/screen/
imagemagick Manipulate images https://www.imagemagick.org/
ffmpeg Manipulate video https://www.ffmpeg.org/
gifski Create high-quality gifs https://gif.ski/

Oh I see I can make a pull request!
How/why is this at +800 and on the front page a day later? It's literally just a link to a couple paragraphs long advertisement. Actual useful books published online for free rarely get 1/3rd this attention. Paid upvotes or what?
The argument is that since a sidewalk hotdog currently costs more than $1.45, we should have considerable doubt that the inflation rate was calculated correctly. If the average sidewalk price then is equivalent to the lowest possible price now, it seems fair to say that the actual rate of inflation was higher than the official figure. The problem is deciding if a "sidewalk hotdog" then is really comparable to a "sidewalk hotdog" now, given all the other changes in consumption habits and opportunities.
and that's because distro package managers never have the latest version.

I am using Arch - seems pretty up to date:

[gerdesj@jglaptop ~]$ aurman -Ss ripgrep
community/ripgrep 0.10.0-2
A search tool that combines the usability of ag with the raw speed of grep

Thanks for the heads up wrt search tools.
If you haven't tried micro then you should, it's a huge improvement over nano. For the rest, most people are going to want what you're already using: iterm2 + zsh + homebrew.

Not the OP.
How does a story make the news and who defines what the news is?
I agree with this. I believe one of the biggest reasons public opinion switched to support gay marriage so quickly was because of public exposure of extremists like the Westboro Baptist Church. If ideas are that stupid and extreme, it helps people understand the real reality (sometimes at least)
I don't disagree with your gist, but does Steam actually manually solve the examples you gave? It seems like part of the value add of outsourcing comes from the negativity of a policy not directly reflecting on your own business. If you refuse to hunt down a check (or even stop accepting checks altogether), a customer might switch to another ISP. But if your third party mechanically refuses, it's "nobody's fault". Even if the customer expends the effort to escalate and they're a big enough customer for you to listen, you can still salvage it as a positive CS experience.
I use instagram to get inspired, I follow artists, photographers and travelers. It really depends on how you use it. I also love photography, so I will always take photos when I travel. I don't think deleting instagram will make me happier or taking less photos. Everyone is different.
It is essentially a case of letter vs spirit - using it unmodified doesn't require a contribution. I never got hired by Amazon but I believe their work is technically schema and configuration. No license I am aware of calls for such radical transparency.
> These services just need to attract average Joes with mundane topics as early as possible, and build up communities about non political, non controversial topics as their main priority.

That isn't possible unless you filter out the bullies and nutcases. If you don't filter out those folks, the place will eventually get taken over by them. The irony is, if you filter them out those very same people will cry about "censorship" and "FREE SPEECH".

You can't have Truly True Free Speech on the internet. It is too cheap for a few folks to spoil things for everybody else. In order to keep a good level of discourse, some people, some times, just have to get lose their right to access certain platforms.

I mean, what is spam filtering besides "censorship"? Everybody filters spam... Thriving communities with good, open content have to filter out bullies and troublemakers the same way.
D'oh, I had a haiku screenshot selected at first, but then I picked that one because it had more stuff on it. Didn't notice it was a BeOS one.
Yeah, great point.

All these "movements" that maybe could be seen as trends always become exagerated and annoying after a while.

But, I hope it doesn't happen too soon in this case.
Out of curiosity, for how long have you been using Linux as a daily driver?
Interesting read, never considered iTerm to be slow and I'm so grateful it exists but maybe I'm not as hardcore a terminal user as I thought I was :).
Java used to be Hindu, as evidenced by Borobudur and other monuments.

If you're working in Indonesia and your boss is Muslim and you're not, the fastest way to get ahead is to convert.

That plus other one-way traps reinforces Islam as a dominant religion.
> Sennheiser does make BT headphones with a dedicated tower that helps a bit, but nothing can replace a hard line.

Their RS line of headphones don't actually use Bluetooth. Their older ones use the Kleer protocol, while the newer ones use a proprietary wireless protocol. Lossless audio in either case.
Isn’t the genome data of millions of people worth something? I am sure they will figure out a way to make tons of money out of that.
To be clear, I mean you're in the minority of Android users. Since 2017 most Android users can't send SMS through Hangouts.