skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> In amazons case they unfairly use their market position to begin offering amazon private label products on their platform. They know what users are looking for, spend the most on, and they can give their own products dominate positions in the UI.

1) How is that different than a department store? If you go into housewares at Macy's you'll see their own branded stuff along with other brands. So at issue is not the practice itself, but rather that the digital marketplace makes it easier and more efficient.

2) The consumer (along with Amazon) is a beneficiary here. The losers are brands trying to sell commodity items at a markup. The play is not to undercut all the power strip sellers (to take an example) and once they are out of business, jack up the price. The play is to take the margin due to marketing and brand equity from the sellers and split it between the consumer and Jeff Bezos, so rather than being harmed, the consumer benefits from this.
What If Child Care Were as Standard as Coffee at Tech Conferences?
Feature Visualization: How neural nets build up understanding of images (2017)
Dupe: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19337456
By all accounts I've previously heard from people in the airline industy, you have the economics completely backwards. The bulk of the profits come from premium classes, while economy is totally unprofitable but serves to provide the economies of scale for a larger flight.

Premium economy seems to be the best compromise for this situation that the market has come up with. There's still economy to stay competitive against other airlines for passengers who want to pay bottom dollar, but provide a bit more comfort and amenities without being too exorbitantly expensive. Passenger gets treated a little better, and the airlines make a bit of margin.
In addition to overdraft fees, banks charge monthly fees if you don’t maintain a high balance or regularly make direct deposits. This is how they “monetize” poor people. In reality the result is that these people go unbanked and simply keep cash.
Yes, that's what being anticapitalist means.

I'm good at what I do and I work for a hedge fund because they'll compensate me well for it. I increase the productivity of other people at my company, without them doing anything, by giving them better platforms for their work. Chasing salary is the obvious locally rational action for me, but it's inefficient for the world. I could be making life better for the world if I could be funded to work on, say, Debian instead of our in-house build system. And I probably could be funded at about 1/20 of my current salary to do it, and provide 2x productivity benefits for you personally, but the incentives of a capitalist society mean that isn't the right decision for me.

However - you say "using the power of the state to prevent." I am not in favor of that. I am in favor of ceasing using the power of the state to enable. The government could stop recognizing the right of corporations to property and to the labor of individuals at any time.
You can install a different home app. I use Nova Launcher, which lets you customize the search bar or remove it entirely.
A quote from the post calls this pattern "Microsoft takes three tries to get anything right":
Microsoft's entry into most new technologies follows this same plan, with the first effort being a preemptive strike, the second effort being market research to see what customers really want in a product, and the third try is the real product.
I wholeheartedly disagree, despite the down votes in this community. The act of attempting to open it is what is illegal, in both situations.

You have a person cruising for keys to a house and a person cruising for keys to databases. They own neither.
Walmart did too, for a long time. They have had a stranglehold on vendors for vendors and were the first to kill small brick and mortar shopping.
I don't know if he updated his comment since then, but that's exactly the one he talked about. It's his first link.
As long as those services are profitable and they can outcompete startups then there’s nothing illegal or wrong about that. There’s no right that startups need to survive or have bias to succeed.
Someone posted this [0] on an article from another website. It's NASA's method for taking these sorts of pictures from the ground. The process for taking airborne images is probably similar, but must require so much more coordination.

[0] https://ntrs.nasa.gov/archive/nasa/casi.ntrs.nasa.gov/201700...
That works to some degree, but there's some point at where it is more beneficial to just spin the platform into its own company and let it be regulated while all your other services can operate freely without having to hide most of their revenue.

Sure, some of your IP moves to a new company that is more restricted in how it can operate. But at least your marketplace doesn't hold back everything else your company is doing.
Monopolies are inherently harmful to consumers, as reduced competition means less parties can compete for the best offering, or push to create a better product. The myth that a monopoly "isn't hurting anyone" is nonsense. It's existence is enough, and yes, impacting other competitors negatively directly harms consumers. There has been an outdated focus on price specifically, which is why many free services have evaded the law for so long.

That being said, Warren directly states something tech companies should be competing on: Privacy. An issue with direct consumer impact, that due to monopoly status, these companies have largely not set as a priority.
As the article notes, US domestic and inter-europeans flights never have more than two classes and the "first" in the US is not much more than what you get in coach.
Eh, it's crap because you have to trust the company pushing it out, it's 100% impossible (by definition) to verify source yourself, at least not legally. You could trust an open source developer, but you could also have a look at the code yourself, or pay for an independent security review of it if your business depends on it.
I recall a daily science fiction piece in which people were romantically involved according to various algorithms that enforced optimal evaluations such as a limited difference in wages. The plot was that a woman falls in love with man, but she recieves a promotion which makes her relationship inappropriate according to the algorithm of her robot-servant. She is issued two days to get over it and is swiftly paired up with another male, who affirms that he is also recovering from the same emotional burden of losing a loved one in this same way.
Chelsea Manning Jailed for Refusing to Testify on Wikileaks
Yes, Nintento has always refused to dilute their brand value/cast doubt on their quality by lowering the pricing. You can see this all the way back in the NES with the "seal of quality," and how rare it was to find games for the system that released without that seal. They legitimately felt like bootleg releases even if they were from Capcom or something.
Typical statist: can't build anything, only wants to tax and break what others have built
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Doubling of pointer size doubles the memory overhead (where overhead is defined as memory used that isn't your data). Sure, it's not the worst part of pointer-heavy data structures, but if the overhead is doubled, that's potentially twice as many unnecessary cache misses.
Jesus christ, the downvotes here have gotten out of hand lately. Here someone is asking a genuine question and getting obliterated for it. How did anybody come to the conclusion that this comment needed to be buried?
> Cook also added that about half of Apple's US employment last year was made up of people who did not have a four-year degree.

A stat nearly as meaningless as the headline unemployment rate.

- Since we're talking about "successful" or not, what is the median annual compensation for Apple's retail workforce in the US?

- For non-college educated retail staff (or non-tech staff), what training opps does Apple provide to help them move up in the company?
>Linus has a policy: Don't break userspace

He's also pragmatic. He will break userspace in 100 ways if it's needed.
Microsoft is now worth more than Apple, and it used to be in the target of government regulators. What has it done right?
> But that's precisely the point I'm getting at - if Pi is normal, you need to use base 2 for this to work because your codomain is just {0,1}.

You can use any base that is a multiple of 2 (like 10) and then apply a parity function to the digits. If pi is normal, then the digit parity sequence is also normal.

Sure you lose some entropy, but in some sense the digits of pi have 0 entropy anyway since they can be calculated. And in the other sense of treating the digits of pi as an unknown random sequence, there is infinite entropy, so throwing away 70% of it doesn't matter.
There’s no way that number is correct. A 737 carries not quite 7,000 gallons of fuel, so that would imply the average American has a carbon footprint of 0.7 gallons of jet fuel per year, if you used the full capacity of a 737 to fly coast to coast. A 737 doesn’t fully drain its tanks on that trip, and smaller jets will use less.
I use ownCloud on DigitalOcean and it works fine. It was a bit of a pain to set up but not too bad.
Just pay to go in one of those Instagram private jets then:

https://www.thisisinsider.com/fake-private-jet-interior-insi...
Maybe it would be better phrased as "art has the capacity for exploring and engaging with empathy"? Just because someone said a urinal is art doesn't mean that The Brothers Karamazov is less impactful to me.
Is there an easy way on Android to, for example, block all traffic to Facebook? Sort of a Little Snitch for Facebook?

I know this could be done via VPN, but I'm looking for an on-device solution.
The east coast of Canada gets their oil from the Middle East. Politics prevents building a pipe across Canada.
Convolutional Neural Networks: A Modular Perspective (2014)
That's so wild. Made my day.
By using "1" for left (lastKey = 0) and "0" for right (lastKey = 1), I get 12%.

A de Bruijn sequence DB(2, k) is spelled by an Eulerian path in the corresponding de Bruijn graph, whose vertices are {0, 1}^k and where any arc (x, y) has the following property: x[2..k] == y[1..k-1].

Obviously, there are as many Eulerian paths as there are de Bruijn sequences.

Each such de Bruijn sequence has a different capability at getting a good score at the game "https://www.expunctis.com/2019/03/07/Not-so-random.html".

diff --git a/not-so-random.html b/not-so-random.html
index 48c04da..168a287 100644
--- a/not-so-random.html
+++ b/not-so-random.html
@@ -169,8 +169,12 @@
randomHelpFunc = function(evt) {
evt.preventDefault();
//document.onkeydown = null;
- for (let i = 0; i<10; i++) {
- lastKey = Math.round(Math.random());
+
+ // db(2, 6)
+ var inputString = "0000001000011000101000111001001011001101001111010101110110111111";
+
+ for (let i = 0; i< inputString.length; i++) {
+ lastKey = inputString[i] == "0" ? 1 : 0;
testPrediction();
updateAll();
predictNext()
Really? You honestly don't see the difference between "you had to agree to that law to operate your business" and "here is a reason that the law is a good idea"? Or the similarity between "you can just do sales online if you don't like the laws, therefore there is no problem here whatsoever" and "you can just operate in a different jurisdiction, therefore there is not problem here whatsoever"?

Then ... I don't think there can be any real meeting of the minds on this :-/
Many included "better" features that depended on a somehow non-compatible BIOS. Quite a few of those had dual modes so you could get PC compatible but slower or worse, or incompatible but better. They eventually died out.

One company I remember that was pretty successful for a while were Apricot: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apricot_PC
I choose not to use Amazon. I choose not to use Facebook.

Very difficult to not interact with Google...

I choose not to use Verizon... however COMCAST is TERRRIBLE and along with Verizon, they have shut down every mom-and-pop ISP and are responsible for the wholesale elimination of robust, in-place copper from the consumer and business markets.

Senator Warren, please add Comcast\Verizon to this list.
That would get my vote... either that or slapping Ajit Pai for me next time you see him. Thanks.
Not for devops, personally, but I love the idea of a service where I can just 'talk to a guy' who's an expert in $DIFFICULT_TOPIC.
She's a politician. She doesn't need logic behind her statements. Rather, she's tapping into progressive sentiments and trying to ignite her base during primary season.
"I think my problem with the Wikipedia definition is that it's so overly broad that it's virtually unfalsifiable if you're young and white"

Not my experience whatsoever. Philadelphia public school growing up, we had young white kids who would have unambiguously fallen into categories of "Punk" "metalhead" "goth" "hood" to just name a few of the most cliched highschool-sitcom-but-actually groups. (there was even regular assertions that "hipster" and "scene" were different but that one never really grokked for me)

Especially having lived east vs. west coast over the last decade, the assertion that there isn't a distinct subculture in a non-derogatory way that can be defined usefully as "hipster" doesn't ring true for me.

And for the most part, even growing up, I never got the sense the grouping was malicious except in rare cases. Most kids would own their tastes (usually associated with music and dress) and would probably take insult if you confused their clique :P (And less in the "you just shit on me" way, but that could happen, more in the "how the hell could you confuse that" fashion, which implies to me that others saw the same clean voluntary-group-agglomeration that I saw.)
This seems a little hard to believe. Do you have a source?
But Google (the search engine) is one of the greatest gifts to humanity that ever existed!

That some people made a few $100B on it is nothing compared to the value it's given humanity.
Yes, the demand for oil is a huge problem, and we should all do our best to stop driving and flying all the time.

That said, I'd encourage you, if it's something that's economically possible for you, to consider finding work elsewhere. Sticking to your analogy, the poacher who shoots the elephants is not entirely innocent either.

I used to work for a sketchy company, so I also recognise that this is not an easy decision to make. I used to think If I don't do it, somebody else will.
If, as usual, people are voting heavily against their own interests and more according to the lobbyist propaganda fed by economics 101 professors, then you are likely on point.
Apparently no one around here has ever heard of Standard Oil.
This reminds me of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UVB-76
A radio station that emits a horn sound periodically.
LHR has that service (for BA at least). It was great when the kids were small, less useful now.
Bose Dives into 'Audio AR'
I am pretty sure the Black Mirror anthology on Netflix had an episode with the exact situation.
Now that’s funny.
I honestly don't get it. What of these robots are functional? There is a "Toys" heading but... they all look like toys? Every single one?
The Northern White Rhino is what you are thinking of an global warming didn’t kill it, poachers did, driven by a Chinese market based on superstition. Rhino horn is used in Traditional Chinese “Medicine” despite being chemically identical to a human fingernail.

Perhaps we should be banning windmills and solar if we are going to care about the birds. https://www.audubon.org/news/will-wind-turbines-ever-be-safe...

https://www.investors.com/politics/commentary/windmills-and-...

If Audubon cares about birds, they should promoting the banning of domestic cats. Invasive species propagation is a far bigger driver of extinction than variation in climate. In fact it’s the second largest driver of extinction behind hunting/fishing/harvesting.
Thanks a lot for checking out the code! I addressed most of your comments.

I mostly refrain from checks like '--' or double-quoting everything when I'm sure of the input (even though shellcheck is not happy about it).
For example, argument passed to move_cursor will never start with dash.

For third point, I don't see any problems with that - am I missing something? Especially when I give freedom to set any attribute (like bold, underline, etc).
That comment was posted only ~19 minutes before yours. That's not enough time to predict where it will end up on the voting spectrum. It only takes a handful of downvotes to start turning grey, and only a handful of upvotes to recover.
This is a really interesting conversation but I really want to read the full proposal. As many have noted, what about AWS? Does Apple's App Store count as a platform? What does the data clause mean? Etc.
I don’t know about “help”, but it will still change something - over time the different management teams will diverge (in some sense), even if the shareholders stay mostly the same.
Why Venture Capital Likes Modular Farming
1) Go code has the same locks that java synchronized code is, they're also used a lot

2) Go encourages more threads than java does because of the M:N threading model

3) Go's concurrency primitives (channels and select) is actually more complex than the java equivalents

4) Go's concurrency gives the programmer less control (e.g. how do you say, I want max 40% cpu time spent on X ?)

In my opinion the big thing that protects Go is twofold:

a) Go is still not very common among bad programmers. Java is.

b) it is much harder to write large Go programs than it is to write large Java programs. That doesn't make those big Java programs bad. Some problems are big and require big solutions, say, CAD, or a company platform. Go is frankly unfit for those problems. Especially because Java has tooling that makes analyzing and working on large programs feasible and Go has at best the very beginnings of such tooling.
That really depends on how you interpret the nuance of antitrust law.

In the past we've taken a harder stance on giants like this and as a matter of precedence we can do it again.
Nitpicking here, but in Warren’s post she writes:

> Google couldn’t smother competitors by demoting their products on Google Search.

Isn’t this already illegal?
its the 4 most recent decades covered by census data. Although you're right to point out that suburbia had its primacy in this time period, the researcher can't be faulted for looking for the highest quality, most recent data.
Antitrust enforcement focuses on the "primary market" of the entities. Google's primary market is advertising and Amazon's primary market is retail products. The DOJ does consider the potential anti-competitive impact on tertiary markets the two entities operate in but it wouldn't be a barrier to the hypothetical merger because those markets have plenty of other competitors.
cljfx looks lovely, but I think it's misleading to talk about something being useful for 'frontend' if it can't do (at least one of) mobile and web.

There are lots of great languages I'd love to use, but if you want to target those common frontend platforms, your choice quickly becomes limited.
The why right now, at least in the US, is that federal politicians are beholden the monied interests that lobby and fund their reelection campaigns, not to the constituents. So policy is written in their interests, which doesn't require a social dividend because all involved parties are already wealthy.

Even if you solved the money in politics problem (which is hard) you still have the issue of a substantial portion of the US congress being elected in uncontested lifelong seats where the citizens have been thoroughly indoctrinated enough into either major parties ideology that they never consider voting for anyone but their incumbent. As long as politicians can feel their seat is guaranteed representing their own interests rather than those of their electors becomes the norm.

So to even begin having a conversation about social dividends you need to radically revamp American elections to incentivize the legislature to represent their constituents. Which requires competitive, representative elections (which means you cannot be using first past the post everywhere) and substantially diluted power and influence so that buying influence over the legislature is less trivial (which almost always means substantially more seats in US congress to make buying a majority of seats more difficult).

Which is by nature a constitutional amendment, which the congress itself would never ratify because it would end their gravy train of private influence and wealth so many currently enjoy. So you need it to come from the states, but the state governments are often just as corrupt and out of the control of the citizenry, if not moreso for their lack of publicity and presence in conversation, so you would need to figure out how to fix them first.

Its a crazy massive expansive problem Larry Lessig was campaigning on in 2016, and Andrew Yang could learn a thing or two from before having pie in the sky conceptions of being able to institute UBI given the structure of the present US federal government.
> The key components of the Warren plan include passing legislation that would designate companies with annual global revenue above $25 billion that provide marketplace, exchange, or third-party connectivity as “platform utilities” and prohibit those companies from owning participants on their platforms.

As a Googler, speaking for myself, this seems like an interesting idea that could positively impact the tech scene.
If you think the debate is purely about relative wealth, you are misunderstanding most of it.

But even still: relative wealth distribution getting too extremely unequal has negative ramifications for any society, regardless of the absolute wealth. But again: that is NOT the issue in this case.

https://www.npr.org/sections/money/2019/02/22/697170790/anti... for more perspective, a bunch of discussion about antitrust issues in big tech and NONE, ZERO, NADA of it is about wealth and money in itself.
I'm a bit confused by this.

Who's picking these podcasts?

Why?

What value does this site add?
Yeah no one cares about monopolies anymore. But how exactly do you split up a search engine for instance?
Anti-competition law and it's interpretation has changed drastically in the US after Robert Bork's book 'The Antitrust Paradox' (1978). Reagan administration used it as their bible.
British Airways have first class on the LHR/SEA route, ten and a half hours.
Because First class is just overpriced business class on most airlines. I fly Business and First all the time with churned miles. First tends to offer more privacy, but if I had to, I wouldn’t mind paying cash for Business. I’d never pay cash for First.
Virgin Atlantic too, although you still have to walk from security to the lounge