skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"Sussman constructed his theory as something a company harmed by Amazon could use to file a lawsuit, even if no antitrust laws are changed. If it survives an initial motion to dismiss in the courts, Amazon would have to reveal unit costs in a discovery proceeding, which would settle the controversy."

What Sussman actually wrote was "In addition, [this paper] calls for the establishment of a viable framework under which a case may be brought against such firms [as Amazon] by injured competitors."

The journalist says no antitrust laws need be changed. What he fails to mention is the small matter of this framework Sussman says is needed before any case can be brought. It does not exist.

Sussman did not describe the framework in any detail or how it would work. All one can find in the paper is this single sentence: "It is, therefore, necessary to develop some means of oversight that will allow the public to determine whether firms such as Amazon are engaging in such activities."

"Linda Khan published a very informative and influential review on Amazon and antitrust in 2017."

I can remember when a story on the Khan paper was posted to HN. I thought at the time the journalist seemed just a tad overly optimistic. It felt odd to see a law review article being so "hyped" by a journalist. It almost seemed like he/she did not want the reader to actually read the paper. There was so much paraphrasing that the risk of the journalist getting something wrong would be very high.

In 2018, there was another paper in Yale LJ by Baker and Morton that discussed Amazon's anticompetitive activities. This paper was actually influential.1 Unlike Sussman's single sentence calling for "some means of oversight" and a framework under which cases can be filed, the authors included an entire section on "US Enforcement Challenges", about five pages devoted to how enforcement might proceed. The paper was cited by US Sen. Blumenthal in a letter to DOJ and FTC urging them to open investigations of Amazon's predatory pricing.2 (He did not cite Khan's paper.)

Not sure if the Baker and Morton paper received any hype from journalists, but it is indisputable the paper and the letters to DOJ and FTC had an impact. Amazon finally removed the MFN clauses from its agreements with US sellers, as it had done for sellers in Europe in 2013.3

1 https://www.yalelawjournal.org/feature/antitrust-enforcement...

2 https://www.blumenthal.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/12.19.18%20-... https://www.blumenthal.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/12.19.18%20-...

3 https://www.bbc.com/news/business-23881202 https://www.axios.com/amazon-price-practice-antitrust-elizab...
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I use my ipad mini for reading and watching TV in bed without disturbing my partner.

For that it is a cracking little device, a phone screen is too small to read comfortably and if I'm watching a movie in bed the ipad is the perfect size.

Originally bought the device for testing and it ended up been the thing I spend the most time looking at after a desktop/laptop.

Enough that I'm considering buying the new ipad mini and giving the old one to my stepson.
> the bandit's account held 38,000 ether, worth more than $54 million at the time. In the year since then, Ethereum's value has plummeted, reducing the value of the blockchain bandit's haul by about 85 percent.

> "Don't you feel bad for him?" Bednarek asks with a laugh. "You have a thief here that amassed this fortune and then lost it all when the market crashed."

Well, 15% of $54M is still $8M.
drug trafficking - correct. Everywhere that e.g. recreational drugs have been legalized, the prices dropped. Of course, heroin and other drugs are not legalized, and I don't think society is in as much of a risk from recreational drugs, as much as it is from opioids (which some are legal with a doctor's prescription)

human trafficking - this is not "moving populations to some other location giving them houses", I think you got it all wrong. This is your mother/daughter being taken and raped many times per day by many men for many years, your son been cut to pieces and have body parts removed. Go see a doctor. You need help.

counterfeit products - you probably have created nothing in your life, so yes. Once you create something, let's see how you will like it if people copy your hard work and deprive you of income.

I think you are a troll, or naive-beyond-repair or just a horribe person.

Sometimes I wish HN had a 'block' mechanism, so you can block someone and eliminate their writings from our screens.
Yeah my dad and my mother both had their cars broken into and both of their steering wheels stolen.
The door locks were surgically removed and nothing else was touched or ruined. They only removed those parts and went their way.
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I have written a "guide" for myself to replicate my setup.
It is by no means perfect, but maybe it helps: https://gitlab.com/snippets/1678554
Another way to bootstrap this immensely desirable "spotify for news" model could be a platform (trusted third party) for mutual co-subscriptions. Subscribe with publication A, also gain access (metered behind the scenes, redistributing some predetermined part of the subscription fee according to measured consumption) to otherwise equally paywalled publications B,C and D.

But something like that will only happen when attractiveness for publications is maximised, which requires, amongst other things, that the platform avoids consumer facing lock-in or even just branding, because that would make publications (rightly) fear that they hand over whatever pre-existing digital subscriptions they already have to an exploitative intermediary. This in turn pretty much rules out the VC model for starting the platform, since eventually becoming exploitative is a required ingredient of the risk equation. But I see no reason why this could not work as a cooperative, because all the platform marketing would be directed at potential members. Consumer marketing, something in which a cooperative would tend to be inferior to a metrics-driven VC project (by a wide margin I suspect), would be left entirely to publications, who subsequently get to "own" the subscriptions they pulled in. Important design parameters would be the ratio between pooled and unpooled fees and the exact rules about weigh and how much content member publications would be allowed to keep exclusive to their direct subscribers. Outside of implementation, the biggest challenge would be to convince publications that few people would ever subscribe directly to multiple channels (how many people had now than one daily newspaper?) and that therefore, the content made available to subscribers of their peers would not cannibalize potential direct subscriptions very much.
Can anyone read the article on mobile ? Half the page is covered by a stupid overlay telling me i got two articles left to read. If only i can read the first one !
I do? I get the paper on weekends. It's nice and much superior to reading on screen. I find I take in a lot more on a wider variety of topics due to the lack of algo feeds.
Tell HN: Mailchimp deactivated account with no notice
Seems to be a recurring thing: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18715866

Here is the situation:

- The account is old. Like 4-5 years. There is around 150 subscribers if I recall correctly and the product is now defunct. So it is not a big deal.

- It is not about cryptocurrencies. (WordPress product)

- No emails/campaigns were actually sent.

I went to check my emails and there is no deactivation notice. There doesn't seem to be a way to access my old list or my old account.

I didn't lose any data as I didn't need the old data. I was starting a new service and I need a mailing list. Guess I'll need to shop for a new provider or run my own.
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Yeah I tried too fancy words. What I meant to say that there might be applications beyond gaming, like driving a remote car, vacuum cleaner, or who knows what.
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That is one argument that is often made, however the real issue is that if Nintendo doesn't do this takedown, does not protect its intellectual property, they may lose it entirely - to retain a copyright you have to actively defend it.
It will help apps which require interaction from users, like google stadia's game streaming. for other use cases, I think one does not care even if the feed is delayed by few seconds.
That's something you should have learnt in grade school.
I’m saying of course they are not going to approve of pirating of their active software, regardless of the channel.
Micron Unveils 16TB NVMe SSDs with 3.5GB/S Throughput
Hiring for Senior Software Engineer. Candidate doesn't know what negative powers does. Candidate showed some other skills. Just wanted to know HN thinks about it.
> Is it greedy to want to pay off your student loans or provide for your family?

Perhaps not greedy, but definitely selfish.

It's YOUR student loans and YOUR family (thus, YOUR genetic code) that you're helping without regard for anyone else.

Don't pretend like only helping yourself and your spouse/children is anything other than self-serving.

Self-serving is fine in moderation, but a lot of people foolishly seem to hold it as an axiomatic good.
You forgot to factor in that he's also paying indirectly for employer-provided health insurance. How much is that in comparison?
Maybe I still have a C64 at home and don't want to switch to a Switch?
Seriously asking: How does it work for undecidable cases? Nominal subtyping may cause ambiguity where both supertype and subtype match. Overloading may cause ambiguity where more than one overload matches, and depending on the overload we can infer different types.

BTW I didn't say it was impossible, only that it doesn't play nice and probably is no longer a pure HM system. The search space is definitely much bigger with overloading and subtyping.
Y'all are talking about two different things.

Secret key recovery via nonce reuse(linked SO post) is a different than simply trying a range of integers which is mostly what these researchers did.
Yet some were so surreal and nonsense that actually made me laugh!
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>Latency To Broadcaster: 7.71 sec.

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What if I accidentally contributed a little bit too much code to the Linux kernel? What if that code had been in the last 10 releases? What about the users and distributions running those versions?

I'm not sure the answer is, or should be, as simple as "derp - delete immediately, this was never meant to be Open Source".

That said, if the code was stolen, and then published under an OS licence - it's not OS. The "publisher" never had the rights to make it OS, so the "contract" is null and void...
There will always be a performance loss unless you go the extra mile and passthrough the gpu. It already works great, but is not a breeze to set up.
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He does still need to withdraw funds though, which might be a problem nowadays (with KYC). Or are there still anonymous ways to withdraw funds?
Please. What's the actual scenario you are envisioning here? Do you really, honestly believe that a jury is going to conclude that Nintendo is no longer the rightful owner of a trademark on Mario? Because they didn't take legal action against a C64 port? And what copyright are you talking about anyway? I thought this was a discussion about the Mario trademark?

This "you have to defend your IP" nonsense very quickly veers into propaganda in my estimation. Stated better here: https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2013/11/trademark-law-does-not...

There is no realistic timeline in which the outcome you are suggesting comes to pass.
They break at much much lower rates, because they have many fewer parts. EVs don't have the pistons, valves, belts, fans, compressors, alternators, spark plugs, etc that gasoline engines have. There's probably order of magnitude fewer parts to break.

Having seen the interior of an automatic gearbox, the surprising thing to me is that conventional automobiles are as reliable as they are.
So? Unless you're doing some sort of math heavy code I fail to see how that is in any way relevant to most programming jobs.
I think you're thinking of trademark defense, not copyright.
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Apparently the max charge percentage is user configurable, see https://teslamotorsclub.com/tmc/threads/set-charge-limit.131...
In general, it makes sense to assume that stuff which irrespective of competence would require large amounts of resources, access to intercepts or the ability to flagrantly breach local laws without anyone stepping in might have state involvement, especially if there's an obvious motive for the state to target that person/organization.

Not convinced that guessing private keys of anonymous randoms for a few million in assets of limited fungibility falls into that category. I'm not sure it's a question of competence in this case so much as why would a state be the ones tackling these accounts, when a lone criminal with relevant knowledge of cryptography would have the ability and a lot more motivation to do it?
This is a great talk. During its discussion, I've seen some misconceptions about what Concurrent React is. I hope this thread will be helpful to someone who's wondering why we're continuing work on that approach: https://twitter.com/dan_abramov/status/1120971795425832961
On HN I see lot of hand-waving away of ethics and a lot of defence of straightforward greed.
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It's more like a few advertising networks where thousands of journalism sites host ads where all advertisers bid on fairly.

The tech monopolies is a separate topic.
Your choice of words were perfect, I just found it humorous, as a gamer, it was the first thing that came to mind!
"State actor" is security research speek for "I am very happy that you interview me, and I understand your need for an sexy headline."
I've replaced regular Cola with Cola Zero (yeah, I'm aware that it's not healthy as well but..) while keeping eating one or two candies while drinking black coffee and I've stopped gaining fat. Once I've started working out (running, ~5km, 1-3 times per week) and doing some pushups (nothing fancy, just 10 of them at the end of the day before shower) and here I am, one year later, feeling much better, with 13kg less :)

(before: ~93kg, now: ~80kg)
> ...but it's holding the line against any sort of trespass.

I just don't believe that practical solutions to real-world human problems is ever to be more strict, more pure, more rigid, more unwavering in the interpretations of rules(law).
This guy seems to have one of these "bullshit jobs" that David Graeber wrote about.
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Less wear on brakes due to regenerative braking. No clutch, which is another wear item. No regular fluid / plug changes like ICE engines (and far fewer moving parts to go wrong generally). Essentially all you're left with are wipers and tyres, which don't really require a specialist / main dealer.
I don't understand. Investment growth means house/condo prices keep going up. New houses/condos sell for market rates. The smallest places, studios, are already out of control. Building more at these prices is not building affordable housing. And everything is interconnected because it is a market. The only way things get better for renters is if they get a lot worse for owners.
Funding their campaign for re-election in the form of ads.
True. Caml-like languages are nice (hello Rust!). One of the benefits of the CLR is that it can support virtually any programming language that can compile to bytecode. But I do not see that being a major thing. Yes, there are various Iron$language implementations and Clojure is also available on the CLR. But from my perspective most projects are C# and then there are just very few F# projects.
800 EUR/pd is not unheard of in continental Europe, and, assuming you're working 225 days a year (i.e. probably less than typical US coder), this puts you at $200k USD.
I agree with you whole-heartedly. Instead of running one simple qemu command for each vm you instead have hundreds of lines of xml split into many different files. Files you need to run through libvirts session manager that needs to implements its own pretty pointless state management (this could be handled by systemd instead). If there is a nice feature in qemu you want to use, not only do you need to know how to define it in libvirts xml, it might not even be supported at all.
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I'm impressed nobody mentioned libvirt (https://libvirt.org/) here, an open source framework for managing all kind of virtualization platforms. It is especially well suited to take off all heavy work of managing QEMU. From the features, Virt-Manager (https://virt-manager.org/) can compete with VirtualBox -- and is probably well beyond, thanks to network transparency, the Spice protocol, real guest console access, powerful CLI interfaces such as `virsh` and other goodies.

In Linux distributions, you basically install `virt-manager` and the package manager will resolve all dependencies to provide you a fully working virtualization desktop software which is well capable to be used on servers.
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VW have a lot more money in the bank and the support of the German government, two things that Tesla don't have.
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And so it begins. The building of "tools for tools". The inability of people to work with the fundamentals. A device in search of a problem.
You can blacklist categories.
Britain to allow Huawei restricted access to 5G network
Yes, the Battery University is my favorite reference for this stuff, see this page for example: https://batteryuniversity.com/learn/article/how_to_prolong_l...
Service intervals are very limited. Let me use my Model 3 as an example, I only need tire rotations until 25,000 miles. At that point I need the cabin and HVAC air filters replaced, then 25k later I do it again.

Not only will dealership service centers be impacted, oil change shops will have little work if any as the number of petrol cars wind down, general service shops face the same issue as the numbers decline.

Now there are jobs that will become important similar to how renewable energy solutions ended some jobs and made new. Electricians for business and home needs will increase because of both industries.
Well, depends on where you live. A lot o wear on my break calipers are from really shitty and sandy places :)
You can never remove it, and this change seems better than allowing propaganda.
This is true for all manufacturers. I've owned "changeover year" cars from various manufacturers that had parts from both the older and newer revisions, very occasionally resulting in a garage ordering the wrong part leading to a delay. This isn't a Tesla-specific issue.
People used to do this to bitcoin addresses all the time back in 2013, the same servers are probably still running

I always thought about all the opportunities to do it on other blockchains, but the challenge of picking which blockchain would be so taxing

Now that this season there are several high values one like Ethereum you can easily choose

The concepts are the same for all of the chains

Also lol at state actor. Guessing a private key of “1”? Come on. People were doing this with entire phrases from obscure songs and poems 6 years ago. No brainwallet is safe. Deflecting is a great way to get away with hacking
We do a private version of this with friends a few times a year, each household takes turns hosting a full dinner party, sometimes with a theme and sometimes not.

It's a good way to exercise one's hosting skills, keep in practice in the kitchen, and socialize.
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Interestingly, before the arrival of Internet, people had no qualms for paying $1 per day for newspapers. That’s at least $30 per month. Weekends editions were priced more and many people would even have subscription to couple of newspapers. Their content for quarter of the price of a coffee cup looked pretty cheap and no one seems to complain about the price.
I just read someone saying that he doesn't like podcasts but using the word "against" to shock friends and attract clicks.
See also, “-gate” for scandals.
In the discourse that followed WW2 we put the same burden on soldiers and we still today prosecute German soldiers who worked in concentration camps (see [1], for a book keeper sentenced to prison time in 2015; not actually involved in killings).

Who, if not we, the engineers who really understand the implications of our actions, should stand up?

[1] https://www.rt.com/news/421101-auschwitz-accountant-guard-di...
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And security researchers around the world can poke at it and figure out how to defend against it and derivatives.

Another day, another better mousetrap.
Yes. Working as a freelancer/contractor. A big part of it due to sought-after skills in a market that values native speakers. A small part of it probably to do with my experience and the way I conduct my work and finally a pinch of always trying to raise my prices.
That's not super different from long lasting oil? Some Petrol cars do 30'000km without and service?
Is there any megacorp that doesn't do political donations (Neither as a corporation or from upper management) and also has a $0 lobbying budget?
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It depends on the market segment maybe? I like my (older) Samsung TV and love my Samsung fridge. But those are not exactly contested markets that heavily impact stock performance.
Patches can be turing complete.
It seems like .NET resolves some of the limitations of the JVM (around generics, lowering of float point code, I’m sure there are others). So if you want a managed language VM but some of the magic of C++, .NET might be a nice place to be.
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The BBC aren't funded by the government though - "who writes the cheques" is members of the public who pay the license fee.
Like Java and unlike C++, you have platform independent packages. Like C++ and unlike Java, you have features like value types (struct).
I would hope that blab would not be the point. I've always thought to myself that, when I see a link to a video or podcast about some technical topic, I know that some large chunk of that cast will be "er, um, is this thing on?", stupid jokes and laughter, and I think to myself, "Are they incapable of writing this down?".

I don't have time to watch or listen to these things and ignore them.
Since we’re on the topic of podcasts and the article at hand has been pilloried to my satisfaction, I have an unrelated question for other podcast listeners.

Have you ever listened to the same podcast twice and experienced strong, even intrusive visual recollections of what you were doing the first time you listened to it? I find it particularly true from when I’m walking or driving while listening, but my memory is usually terrible and to have these photographic experiences is alien and awesome at the same time.
My pocket is already a sleeve, because I don't carry anything else in the pocket where I carry my phone. But the problem is that I drop the phone occasionally (for me, it happens maybe once in a half a year, but it would be cumbersome to replace the screen every half a year, so I use a protective case).
Yep. I initially was pretty excited by F# feature list (type providers?!) but saw how small teh ecosystem was, and couldn’t really get into it.
Employers in the US provide healthcare if you work full-time. You may pay a premium, but it's probably similar to the taxes you paying EU, if not lower.