skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think it is worse than we admit.

IMAP will soon be dead, and the only way we can check our emails will be on the terms of Google or whoever.
And because of how websites work now, ad blocking is an uphill battle that will only get harder, as server side rendering becomes more common.

So, welcome to a future where you can't check your email unless it is on a multicore computing device with out least 2G of RAM, running an OS that is less than two years old. And you have to submit to email tracking beacons. (But don't worry, they will be proxies through Google so marketers will only know you opened them, but not your IP).

Google will make concessions for accessibility of course, but it will be strictly on their terms, and the screen reader will still need absurd system requirements and have to execute javascript quickly, to be able to read static text.

This WILL happen, and soon. And tech journalists will celebrate this, and say that IMAP was obsolete and "needed to die". They will praise the responsive and fashionable UX (the only interface allowed), and there won't be any serious pushback.

Maybe Google will require that you run an app or use some browser extension to fully utilize features that you used to get for free. And the OSS community will obediently scramble to implement these regressive requirements, because if Firefox and Ubuntu don't play ball with the latest DRM/restriction garbage, then they wouldn't be cool or something.

Federated email will slowly get squeezed out and die with a whimper.

OK, maybe an exaggeration, but is it really far fetched?
And this is just a microcosm of where technology is going.

The reason I am pessimistic is that the developer culture that I knew is dying out. Younger developers just accept that the centralized corporate internet is the internet. And people I think are far more obedient with technology than they used to be. But what's so frustrating is that they are accepting and obedient I think partially for very shallow and superficial reasons, and wanting to be cool and accepted. As if people think that Apple is too shiny to and cool to betray us. "So what if it's horribly intrusive DRM, It's Apple, come on. Nobody wants that second best obsolete crap. It is obsolete because that cool guy said so. And Google is 'the best' so we have to implement it their way. Please don't laugh at me."

I have said it many times before, but I just wish that people were as skeptical of Google and Apple as slashdotters of old were about "Micro$oft" or Oracle.
Debian is far and away the most stable distro out there, arguably more stable than RHEL. Many people and organizations, including serious research facilities use Debian for this very reason. It's also free as in freedom/free as in beer. Best of both worlds. Scientists already have the chops to run Linux, and Debian allows easy tinkering and customizable approaches than does RHEL/CentOS. It's also easier to upgrade and manage. An in-place dist-upgrade is a breeze in Debian. Not so with RHEL/CentOS. I've done several of both, and Debian wins here hands down.
How about we defend American norms on American soil?
>First, we know that any decision that forces passengers from flying to driving will likely lose more lives, just due to the inherit risk in flying vs driving. So it's possible that grounding the plane will cause cancellations and force some passengers into driving, especially in the US.

Well air travel is safer than driving in aggregate, over decades, across hundreds of models of cars and dozens of models of planes.

Even though Ford cars on the whole are quite safe, the Pinto was a death trap. Likewise although Boeing planes are safe on the whole (the regular 737 is very safe) this model could be a death trap. I disagree with your claim here. Two crashes in under 6 months is an abysmal safety record.
Typically not. Ferrying without paying customers is probably allowed.
I hope they are putting the safety of their passengers ahead of their reputation. Maybe grounding the plane is the right PR decision but the wrong safety-first decision.
What is “super premium vodka”?
I assume that almost every company that YC funds is losing money and selling thier services at a loss. How could I compete by selling profitably?

The whole idea of most VC backed companies is to grow big and lose money until they get acquired.
Plus it may not be against the interest of the other students to get a chance to network with rich kids (and the related future business/investment opportunities).
This will be improved in future versions. One of my major goals is to make KeyDB work well for large value sizes, >1MB. There’s no reason you shouldn’t be able to cache images as well as text.

FLASH support was the first step, and we’ve removed a bunch of unnecessary copies along the way but there is still more work to do.
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> Why could the term "Arabic Muslims" be considered derogatory?

In reference to ethnically Palestinian citizens of Israel, it might be considered derogatory for the same reason referring to Muslim American citizens with ancestry in sub-Saharan Africa as “African Muslims” would be.
You mean the full article?

No.

I don't see how that changes anything. Nobody has to host a link to anyone else's site either in the name of free speech ....
It's a basic DOM element — a block of content. Without native support, it's simply shown by default, instead of hidden by default, so nothing is broken, and even the default on non-supporting browsers can be changed with JS and CSS.

If anything, this is the works everywheriest of things that "work everywhere" in post-2010 web development. Some other stuff actually breaks accessibility by default.
InternetofShit is starting to kill people..
It may be unfair, but it's not corrupt.
> So since most of the things we use everyday on the Internet is free, that means most products we use are run by companies that are using predator pricing.

Don't forget "if it's free then you're not the customer you're the product" -- which means it's the users who are engaged in predator pricing by not charging for access to their eyeballs.

Of course, the users aren't giving their eyeballs for free, they're trading them for services. And the companies are trading services for eyeballs. There is no money because it's barter, not because there is no exchange of value.

And that's the case with all of this. Because the marginal costs for everything in tech are so low, the "cost" of providing something to the incremental user is negligible and nothing is ever really below cost because the ecosystem benefits to the company are worth more than the incremental cost of providing service to the user.

What creates these conglomerates isn't predatory pricing, it's the network effect. People use Facebook because their friends use it. They buy stuff on Amazon because the sellers are there, and the sellers are there because the buyers are there.
Right, stress is another way to say it. I read some other article in the past that had some magic solution to willpower. It was 'remove all stress from your life'. I see stress as a willpower depleter. It is easy to chose a salad for dinner after an awesome day. It is hard to not eat junk for lunch after a super stressful morning at work.
> any good admin should run debian (or maybe ubuntu) if they had the choice, if only because you can run the same system on your laptop and on the servers

Why is Debian special in that respect? I once worked at a place where we ran CentOS on our workstations, and the correseponding RHEL on servers, for exactly this reason.
Twitch is somehow able to handle millions of viewers at a time, and Youtube has in the past. This is CERN laziness.
I removed profit shortly after posting, it is just an awful place to use that word.

I think shaped is better than the implications of warped, thanks for the thought. Warped is true to how I feel but shaped I agree is more generally correct.
It seems like the overwhelming response to this article is that the author is nit-picking.

I'd argue that the main point of the article is to drive to first-principles: How did these giants get so big? What is fundamentally different about tech companies that makes current antitrust legislation ineffective?

Antitrust legislation and enforcement has had several "generations" of philosophy in the United States:

- 1890s-1970s Sherman Antitrust Act targeting American Standard Oil. In this era enforcement focused on how a company practiced its business, with a chief goal being maximal competition.

- 1970s-now After The Antitrust Paradox [1] was published by Robert Bork, enforcement shifted to "consumer welfare," with the chief goal being maximal welfare.

(Planet Money is currently doing a series [2] that covers this)

I believe Ben Thompson is advocating that a new generation of philosophy needs to begin, because "consumer welfare" cannot be directly applied to these companies, their unfair advantages, or how to prevent the next "wave." Indeed, their size is a direct result of their serving "consumer welfare" (ie, consumers choose them because their offerings are best).

Nitpicking or not, I'd prefer the result of the current discussion to result in actionable change, and I believe the points in this article (ie, the "nitpicks" it makes) are required for such a result.

[0] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_antitrust_law#Th...

[1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Antitrust_Paradox

[2] - https://www.npr.org/sections/money/2019/02/15/695131832/anti...
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No the entire purpose is to make a profit. The most profitable company in the US is Apple. They didn’t get there by chasing market share.
. Maybe this turns out to be true but right now you can't make decisions based on that.
How a bad business decision may have made the 737 Max vulnerable to crashes
> I would be surprised if they had sold even a single plane less if they advertised it as 'very minimal pilot retraining necessary'.

That might be enough for the plane to need a separate type certificate, meaning hundreds of millions of dollars expenses for Boeing to get it certified, and full new-type pilot training costs for every airline to fly the aircraft. (Plus, time, and ongoing crew management to juggle pilots certified on one but not the other.)
This is awesome for sending private documents to family (tax season, anyone?), especially when your family isn't inclined to learn cryptography to set up their own solution. Will be trying this ASAP.
He's counting mobile which is an "yea O.K." at best when he's also talking about general purpose OS.
AWS Joins the GraphQL Foundation
string matching in clojure ? you never read about lisps I suppose.

I'm even pretty sure that until a decade ago, Emacs had a more grammatical understanding of source code than Visual Studio.
3 Things to Know About Building Startups During Market Uncertainty
ZH said the seizure was without a warrant. There was a warrant. ZH's source updated their story to reflect this, but ZH did not.

> Then I keep going down the list and they have nothing to do with zerohedge

The links in the source section include links to ZH stories, links to the sources ZH used, links to fact checking sites, and so on. They are references for the assertions in the text above in the corresponding section.
Woops yeah I misremembered that detail, thanks.
This is pretty much how I develop most of my web stuff. I do use JS, but it comes in afterwards, in discrete packages. It process specific HTML attributes to make the page do extra stuff, or accelerate certain operations, or stich pages together via AJAX. All scripts are stateless, because all state is stored in HTML.

The key is to represent your data and UI state via sane HTML. This article demonstrates this well with the modal popup example. Once you represent popup's state with a checkbox, you can manipulate that checkbox in any way you want and you can style it in any way you want and your styling will not have any dependencies on the methods of manipulation.
I had this issue [1] where a piece of software (GNU octave) would adapt foreground text color to my (dark) theme, while the background would not, thus ending up unreadable. The issue was exacerbated by the fact that colors could be picked by the user.

I would have liked a simple way to automatically adjust the colors. Are the formulas behind the site available somewhere? That would make a nice utility function for Octave as well :)

[1]: https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?func=detailitem&item_id=53995
I self host many apps on a VPS including Nextcloud, using Wasabi for off site backups. Very happy do far.
I'm not referring to mono cropping for animal feed. I'm referring to mono cropping for human consumption. A large fraction of the calories in your diet likely comes from corn, if you live in the US and get your food from the grocery store.

There used to be hundreds, maybe thousands of varieties of corn grown regularly in the US. There aren't any more. It's hard to tell how many corn varieties that are grown commercially in relevant quantities, but it's certainly less than fifty, and maybe less than twenty.

Less genetic diversity means less robustness to changing pathogens and climate.
When I graduated from Michigan State I went to work as an organizer for the National Farmers Organization. The NFO was controversial, they worked to organize farmers and led a nationwide dairy strike in 1967 where LBJ threatened its leaders with imprisonment. I was a young optimist but the bottom line is that basic human nature makes it impossible to make it work. But I helped start a couple of Coop elevators and learned a lot about business.

Farmers are faced with two choices:

1. Get big and be a commodity farmer ruthlessly focused on efficiency

2. Or a niche marketer preferably selling direct to the consumer.

I've seen guys successful with either method but it's absolute suicide to be a small commodity farmer.
> Ports/pkg is better. Gentoo’s package manager is better.

Strongly agree. Gentoo's Portage is the best experience I've had with a package manager on Linux.

My package management observations, as someone who's been using them for... a while, now.

Best experiences: Portage on Gentoo (lots of options; many packages; fast; reliable unless I broke it doing something stupid; maintaining a high level of control over the system at a low level is the only way I've ever managed to make Linux behave itself), Homebrew on MacOS (great package selection; casks are wonderful; outstanding CLI; keeping user packages away from the core system has really grown on me)

Middling: apt on Ubuntu and Debian (OK but increasingly feels dirty after getting used to Homebrew and keeping my user packages separate from the system; breaks "on its own" more often than Portage did, though still rarely; package selection just OK)

Bad: Yum/RPM on Red Hat, Fedora, and long ago, RPM on Mandrake (sloooooooowwwwwwwww and RPMs seemed to break constantly back when I used them), Macports on MacOS (slow; broke so bad the easiest thing to do was to delete the whole dir and start over about once a quarter; limited package selection)

Incidentally, Gentoo's OpenRC is the only Linux init system I've ever used that I liked and felt like I actually understood well enough to use it without apprehension or constantly needing to check documentation.

I like the idea of Nix and tried NixOS once but after an hour or so of following a guide and troubleshooting couldn't get X running so gave it up as "for those with more free time than me—try again in a few years".
Of all the people who might make that claim, News Corp is the one who I am least interested in. Not solely because they're like a second-place runner looking for excuses to call foul on the one in first place, but because they mix politics and propaganda in both the US and Australia (among others).

I can practically guarantee that News Corp's first action on diminishing Google's hold over media would be a ConservaSearch. It's not that they're necessarily wrong about Google's power, but that their motives for it are at least as evil.
Considering that modules are (like the name suggests), detached components, how's that relevant with the fork? If anybody wants to build an alternative to Redis Labs' (or anybody else's) modules they can already do so.
And usually the building bears the name of the donor!
When passengers starts wondering what model plane they are going to fly on then you know that you have lost the narrative.

No wonder McDonald Douglas changed the DC-10 into the MD-11.
What does having no willpower mean? Is it even possible?

Does having strong willpower mean that you will be able to resist every single one of your many impulses if you see them as negative? Let me reformulate that: is willpower generalizable?
You'd need the IMEI from either knowing the LLC or knowing his location and successfully recording it, no?

So maybe, like parent said, track him at an in-person conference appearance?
They will probably suffer and hopefully put a lot of heat on Boeing.
> We are talking about an industry that consistently chooses safety above all else, regardless of profits and minor inconveniences. And for some reason that just doesn't seem to be the case here.

Or maybe it is the case here. We all seem to think it's obvious Boeing should ground this plane and yet they aren't. I hope Boeing aren't idiots and are making their decisions based on engineering factors we don't have.
If I drink milk, people sniff at me, like some sort of person with lessened ability to digest lactose, who therefore ferments it in the gut and proceeds to fart out the result.

I can't be bothered to mess around with separate lactase packets, or specifically seek out the lactase-added milk.

Also, the last time I tried shelf-stable ultrahypermegapasteurized milk, it put me off drinking factory-processed milk. Nothing like preventing spoilage on the shelf by spoiling it before it even goes into the container. I might try 260nm UV-C irradiation pasteurization someday.

I don't trust that individual dairy farms can reliably control E.coli and Listeria, and I don't appreciate the degradation of the product caused by the high-temperature methods used to rapidly pasteurize in a continuous flow. And none of it is worth it, if I just end up farting all day anyway.
I think this is a really cool mind-hack. I'm glad to see it worked.
I think the proper framework for considering morality of those choices should take into account the history of childbirth and child rearing.

Right now we are mostly insulated from concerns of childhood mortality; there is an extensive network of medical care and parental aides that made the subject all but disappear [1]. In the present day a child dying is a freak accident, something that happened years ago to a friend-of-a-friend-of-a-friend. Even concerns of major birth defects aren't all that common.

However we the humans have biologically evolved, and our civilizations have culturally evolved, in environment where childhood mortality was high, and parents had only limited means of providing safety. Granted, the family planning back then was also of lower availability and reliability back then [3], to some extent muddying the waters here.

At any rate, I believe our moral choices should be informed by our (humanity's) origins, and the way we have successfully overcame various problems in the past. That includes considerations of bringing children to the world when we know they could end up experiencing hardships and misfortunes, or even that they could possibly die one day.

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[1] aside of miscarriage, which is a prevalent problem, but due to various factors it appears somewhat less impactful.

[2] herbal and mechanical anticonception was a thing for millenia now https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_birth_control
The article is slightly vague on this point. It says NV/WY/NM "don’t require corporations to record their owner", but that is not really accurate.

The owners are recorded when the LLCs are filed with the secretary of state, however these states are simply willing to keep the identities of the owners private, without publishing them as most other states do. As in most other states, you do need a Registered Agent, but you can delegate this to an attorney or company who serves to receive legal notices, correspondence, etc.

If there is any type of law enforcement investigation of the company, police would simply go to the secretary of state to determine the owners.
Naive me would expect that these are typically lease agreements whereby the OEM promises an SLA with compensation if they have to take the aircraft out of service for design issues? If they don't do it that way, why not?
You were specifically asking from a personal perspective, so I gave answers from the same perspective. That does not mean that I discount the impact from corporations, in any way whatsoever.

Lifestock farming is one of the biggest contributors to climate change. By choosing alternatives, this contribution can be lessened. I very specifically said not to buy nut milks, because they're also rather bad for the environment, especially in terms of water usage. Soy and oat milks have lower impacts than dairy and nut milks.

Just because your individual action doesn't make much of a difference in and of itself, that does not mean we should just give up. Obviously it shouldn't be a case of ignoring the big polluters just because you did a small thing, but by changing our habits, we can use consumer demand to change the production and packaging practices of corporations.

Individual action does make a difference. Everything counts.
> Unless, of course, the human body historically faced strong selective pressures to efficiently store energy when you have to eat a lot at once.

Right, and the intermittent fasting crowd uses the same tricks as Gary Taubes but in reverse: look what happens when you fast! All these great reparative things happen. But it's all basic science and ignores a long term (even 24 hour) view of consumption. Ultimately there might be small, statistically significant metabolic differences between consuming the same number of calories in 1 meal as spread out over multiple meals (ie: 1 big insulin spike vs multiple smaller ones), but we've had a hell of a time showing them, and and even harder time showing clinically significant differences.