skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is an interesting thing and we can argue about it, but it's a distraction from the fact we have a de-facto 'single source' for a considerable amount of information.

Google fits many of the criteria for the definition of monopoly. Once you consider both systematic issues (i.e. Chrome, Android, default browser choices, behavioural things) and even brand and mass-market issues ... it's a monopoly.

The control of most information by a single source entity simply is not beneficial to the world, even financially.

Google could possibly be broken up, at least the distribution of search entry points should be a different business than search itself i.e. Android/Browser, Search different businesses.

Google's control of distribution (i.e. Chrome, Android) is much akin to Standard Oil's control of the railroad system, which was really how they developed their monopoly.

Also given the inherent power here, we may want to at least have some regulation on how information is processed. We regulate so many important things, we can require certain things for tech companies as long as they are smart regulations.

Edit: put differently we have, without realizing it, put an enormous amount of trust and goodwill into Google - they are 'mostly' doing a good job with it, but there's not reason for us to believe that will continue indefinitely. Though I'm wary of the politicking and sometimes total lack of understanding of this stuff in Congress/Parliament ... at least theoretically we should be able to get past that.
People today seem to look back and think the tree-hugging era of moving away from wood products was misguided, but today we are blessed with generally having moved past the "gobble-gobble" era of logging. It's not perfect but timber is far more renewable & sustainably managed today than fifty years ago.
It’s not literally a market in any way.

But I agree that there are comparisons with a Gas station.

A gas station is there for one reason - to sell you what the owners find profitable. What is sold and what is displayed are chosen for that reason only.

Google is exactly like this.

What it is not, is a responsible organizer of the world’s information or a search service, or in any way responsible to the interests of searchers unless they align with the interests of advertisers.
I'm sure they'll eventually make a profit. The answer is simple: Volume.

https://www.nbc.com/saturday-night-live/video/first-citiwide...
I don't disagree - I really don't know what standard Amazon (in fact, all employers) are being held to here.

And I see a major challenge (logical and practical) for employers whose business requires employees to perform tasks that others find unacceptable, or "inhumane", but which are legal according to H&S standards.
Can you share some more details about what those optimizations are? Can you point us to a link?
Do you think this has the potential to result technologies allowing the exploitation (extraction) of deep sea natural resources (i.e. minerals and metals)?

It seems people are more excited by exploiting the Moon for resources, but deep sea should be more economical once extraction tech is figured out.
go is indeed slow, cd benchmarkgames website
We could start with what they had before they started biasing results based upon user activity.

i.e. What search engines like DuckDuckGo do.
Can you elaborate? I routinely get smaller boxes, but I also routinely get boxes that are comically oversized and contain an item that would easily fit in one of the smaller sizes. What requirements are making that happen?
Because you can't use any other browser in iOS. It's not AppStore rules. https://stackoverflow.com/questions/11259152/chrome-ios-is-i...
I’d hesitate to call anyone a rapist until proven guilty. But I have nothing against the broader use of the term in general.
I don't usually pay attention to things like this, but I have a younger sister who uses Snapchat. She used this filter and the output was essentially a perfect photo of our brother, but with longer hair. I couldn't help but be impressed.
Siri, Apple Pay, the Lock screen, the Home Screen, AirDrop, AppleTV, the Phone app, the SMS app, the App store itself.
No but there is WhatsApp, Fantastical, VSCO, Camera+, Halide, Google Photos, Evernote, Bear Notes, Google Maps, Spotify...
Snapchat have filters that do that too.
Payoneer closed down my account and took the money I have in it
Sometimes things have to get worse before they get better.
As a ~15 days shy of being a father, I strongly second this request.
I thought we'd have learned by now that security through obscurity is synonymous with "zero day vulnerability."
How does a browser “compete” with a non revenue generating Safari?
"A foo just bar" appears to be a fully acceptable title template. And sticking "now" in the previous sentence would make acceptable title too!
While that's appalling, I'm pretty sure he wasn't married to any of the two women.
I feel a better solution would be a QR code at the bottom that combines each product's UPC and price with the name of the store, date, etc. From there it would be easy to feed that into an app. Whomever created the app could fund it by selling the consumer spending habit data. They could incentivise the app's use by providing analytics, directing consumers to cheaper alternatives and integrating coupons.
Agreed, but I guess I'm saying basic architecture stuff like:

- "How do I render things?"

- "How do I integrate sound?"

- "How should I handle events?"
This is a very weak argument. The internet has created a new environment for speech to occur, and this new environment needs to be treated fairly. Just because things were worse before does not justify the misuse of the tools we currently have to continue letting things be "worse".

Before humans figured out agriculture, people regularly starved. Would you walk up to someone starving to death today, shrug at them, and say "we used to starve all the time"? Your position is inheritly anti-progress.
But can you count on their tractor DRM servers not being DoS'ed, or hacked and taken down for an extended period?
If we take all the money the Netherlands spends on social security, welfare, pensions, etc, and add extra money from increased taxes (make it flat 50-60%), every single household can have a UBI of about 42 000 euros/year.

The numbers are similar for other western economies.
If Apple were to be required to allow third party App Stores or side loading apps, could it legally deny interoperability with Apple services as a “security measure,” like a sandbox? For example, you can download a game, but it won’t hook into their gaming social network. No ability to share in iMessage, or sync data to iCloud. Basically cripple the apps so that for the end user it isn’t worth saving the money on the apps that don’t have the 30% markup.
Too bad it costs $5 + $0.10 per GB.
The article and photos show that relative prices are shown within categories. So it could be that your less expensive alcohol purchases seem insignificant, but each other category still visually demonstrates useful comparisons. (But that's an option; they might show the relative bar graph across categories, making it potentially less useful. Except for the original question... How did I spend $180? Oh! $100 wine bottle!)

ETA: OK you're right - in the example they show, the prices are relative across categories. Not sure if A/B testing could be done to figure out which way is better!
Yeah, Google news is effectively a left wing rag
They dominate the market in big tractors. New Holland probably sell close to as many units in the US (can't find good figures for this now), but John Deere have the bigger and more expensive ones and have 4x the revenue.

I'd guess farms and fields tend to be bigger in the US, making the economies of scale work in favour of bigger tractors.
How is that fundamentally different from a leased vehicle?
> It should be something the government mandates for x years -- so that it has a timeline to get its act together and build society towards the future.

Be careful what you wish for. Social Security was supposed to be temporary too, but here we are, 50 years later. As Milton Friedman put it:

> Nothing is so permanent as a temporary government program.
The only description I found was during several acts of consensual intercourse she fell half asleep and she thinks that he might have ejaculated without a condom. I don't think she's was saying the sex was non-consensual just that he if he did ejaculate inside of her that was without her consent. If this is incorrect I'd like to know because in my mind I'd labeled him as "dirtbag but not rapist". But happy to label him a rapist if he is one.
If it’s a feature for making people who try your system at a trade show feel good about themselves as they said, it works best if it’s not measuring anything at all.
I've been waiting for the Windows client to get finished off before switching to WireGuard.

I've been using SoftEther in the mean time, and man is it flexible. Punches through NATs with wild abandon, doesn't get blocked since it communicates through 443 (if you should so config it), is super portable, and offers solid security and performance as far as I can tell.
I can't really imagine black hat hackers being a problem as long as local access was required for servicing.
As every mutual fund prospectus will tell you, past performance does not guarantee future results.
> The day JS stops making ’1’ + 2 a string and throw an error

Please, no. I'm bitten by this in Python every other day, with its otherwise weak typing. It feels like you can do many horrible things with types in Python, but no, you shall explicitly cast those numbers to strings. It is being more pedantic than Java by doing this. This never caught a real error in my code but it did make it needlessly fail at runtime because I did not put "str()". I know that the newer Python 3.x versions provide a nice bash-like way to embed expressions in strings and would let me avoid the problem entirely, but this would prevent my code to run in many places (and "Hello, I'm {}".format(age) is painful, hence the new feature by the way).

Thank you for trying to save my back from unwanted implicit type casts, but provide me with static typing instead if you want to do so, and fail at compile time.

If you want '1' + 2 to fail in JavaScript (You might want to, especially when keys of objects are coerced to strings in Javascript, which is actually crappy, and when you are constantly fetching numbers as strings from the web page), use TypeScript. It's amazing and provides a far better way of handling silly type errors.

edit: and by the way, C++ is a bit surprising in this respect. "Hello" + 2 is equal to... "llo".
In the case of Miss A, he had reluctant consent. In the case of Miss W, he had consent for sex, but not explicit consent to initiate sex while sleeping.

The thing that both of these women reportedly felt violated by was his disregard for their explicit request to use a condom.
Thanks - that's a great example. As a non-expert, I'm frankly amazed that such working conditions aren't already outlawed by health and safety regulations.

However, to be specific, it does seem somewhat geography- and time-dependent - i.e. it's not so much a standard condition experienced when working for Amazon, and so perhaps not an example of Amazon's warehouse job conditions being consistently "inhumane".

It is, however, an interesting example that would support that Amazon perhaps cares too little for its workers, and/or is insufficiently responsive to changing conditions in safeguarding their well-being.
> When comparison shopping all anyone really cares about is the price

While I certainly also care about price: it's not the only thing I care about. I care about length of warranty, user-serviceability and/or ease of return for defect or repair, and reliability.

Why should I spend $800 on something that the manufacturer only warrants is useful for 30 days? Why should I spend $80 on something that I can't repair using my own tools? Why should I spend $8 on something that breaks within a week and it's more expensive to return than buy again?

I take pride in the things I've acquired. I provide care and maintenance to them. I think only the poorest and/or un-savviest and/or lavish of people worry only about price.

> and you're comparing like for like in most cases so Google works really well.

I've found that most "marketplaces" provide really poor experiences for customers like me. Amazon is right at the top of the poor experiences. Google Shopping comes next in line. Even something like Newegg will frequently have some pretty iffy deals going on.

It makes you (me) really wonder about other "marketplaces" such as the ACA.
This would kill the entire economy almost immediately.

How many "paid positions" does Microsoft Excel replace every day? A single for loop could replace a thousand jobs doing manual computation.

How many farm laborers are replaced by a single piece of modern equipment?

You can't "strive for" automation, while at the same time essentially locking in labor costs by taxing that automation as human labor.
I use it for the same reason I use bash history--to view, edit, and reuse ex commands. I'm not surprised that there is a way to customize evil to get to something similar, but my point was that it doesn't work out of the box the way vim does. I've no doubt that it could be implemented, and could file an issue as you suggest, but as someone who uses vim as my daily driver all I can say is every time I fire up evil I run into something like that which immediately turns me off. I guess I just don't have enough appetite for customizing my editor to take up emacs. Just noticed that :h doesn't open the vim help (of course, why should it, this is emacs), but there again, something I use several times a day. I could go on. A big reason I haven't tried harder is that there is no easy path to converting an existing .vimrc to elisp, and over the years I've spent enough time configuring vim to work just the way I want.
> Or at least to have sex without bc if she made the guy think she had it?

Isn't it?
Got it, so it's the recipient who matters. If whatsapp let you send it out as a plain old SMS from a number you can select, and receive their SMS as a whatsapp message, would it solve your problem?
Aren’t the tax breaks often tied directly to the number of jobs? I believe that’s how the incentive structure for Amazon’s new NoVA headquarters works for instance.

If the company doesn’t create the job, the tax break is reduced by a certain percentage per job.
> If you think that the US DOJ hasn't spent a million man-hours to find some way to keep everything as secret as possible, you haven't been paying attention to their actions thus far.

I'm pretty sure that they have neither spent that many man-hours nor would get much value from spending anywhere close to that, because the parameters of “as secret as possible” are, while always subject to further litigation around the borders, not so mysterious or difficult to assess that it would take that much work to get a solid idea both where the boundaries were and what the relative risks of various ways of probing the areas where there is remaining uncertainty.

> They will find some way to kangaroo-court him out of the public eye. They do it with foreign nationals all the time.

Not with foreign nationals subjected to formal criminal extradition they don't. Foreign, allegedly unawful, combatants detained by the US military or transferred to their custody by America’s cobelligerents in the context of military conflict, all completely outside of the civilian criminal justice system, sure; foreign parties where the government covertly intervenes with overseas regimes to detain them without involving the US criminal justice system to, that too. But none of those are applicable here.
If I had to guess, he knows that when things turn back around, he wants any and all reasons for people to be on his side. Keep a close eye on his decisions post 2020.
Cool. After all Amazon's product isn't "jobs". It is customer service, and robots are better.
Because they can't. I was going at this to the parent post. What JD offers in addition to the warranty riders, is a logistics and service network that's INSANE. when you buy a big tractor/combine/machine you get white glove service. Tractor breaks in the field? A field tech will come out and fix it, quickly. Have a dumb question about the length and width of cutter heads? they'll answer it. When you only really have 2 weeks to harvest 1000s of acres this service network can not be under stated. This is what's really locking people in. The software is a contributing factor, but it's not why farmers buy green.
I think that’s why you cannot buy kindle books from the amazon app on iOS.
More CO2 in the atmosphere today than any point since the evolution of humans
Yes, the proofs have been published at peer-reviewed conferences. Let me look for the exact references tomorrow.
thank you very much for this !!
Largely because most of the remaining old growth is locked up in parks, wilderness area, or private reserves.
> and am supposed to be doing a site today, check my comment history for how well that's going

I burst into laughter when I read this, holy shit if I'm not doing the exact same thing right now. You could probably graph my mood by HN comments frequency.
You expressed what I was trying to get at so perfectly and so much better than I ever did.

This is what I'm talking about. Not just "Hey can I see your codebase? Oh, you don't have 100% test coverage and I've seen some variable names that don't make sense, no thanks bye", which I feel is how some people have interpreted my post but I probably could have made that more clear.
A few hyped companies with bad business models are not necessarily representative of all tech IPOs. But the problem is that these few bad apples can poison the perception of the entire sector for retail and institutional investors. Nothing wrong with a $1 billion B2B SAAS company going public.
> Kavanaugh is highly anti-consumer. That he's sided with consumers in this case is very surprising to me.

I think it's a bit disingenuous to assume partisanship on the basis of a <1 year voting record. That's a serious charge to levy against a judge, as it implies he/she is violating his/her judicial oath by failing to "administer justice without respect to persons, and do equal right to the poor and to the rich".

It's rather unfortunate that courts have become the foci of partisan politics. It reflect the reality that Congress has been effectively abdicating their duty as the ones who must write the law.
the best places for advice are reddit.com/r/wicked_edge and reddit.com/r/wetshaving

I would do a very poor job compared to all the knowledge there.
Right but from a recycle / waste perspective, its a great thing. If manufacturers and distributors use less materials in their product packaging, that's less materials that end up in landfills. Not everyone recycles (even if the material, like cardboard, is recyclable), so the best way for Amazon to help fix waste is by reducing the raw output of cardboard.
Enforcing Alpine Linux Docker Images Vulnerability (CVE-2019-5021) with Anchore
Knowing nothing about the specific terms of any Uber investment, I'll just say that in every deal I have been a part of, the liquidation preferences and associated protections went away at IPO (when all shares convert to common).

It will be interesting to see if the Uber IPO (if it doesn't bounce back) makes the late-stage pre-IPO investors less supportive of going public in order not to have to give up those protections.
BuzzFeed and BuzzFeed news are very different things
They could if we reallocated the resources currently wasted on advertising to them.
Cool. That would be a good place to stick plastic bags.
> ... Consider this from yesterday, where one of the foremost experts on the field of transsexualism, a major contributor to the DSM-V was suspended from twitter [0] for explaining transsexualism.

Which was revoked as soon as a human got a look.

This happens all the time on Twitter. Here's a liberal Twitter user who got suspended for saying "you really wanna die on this hill huh", which the algorithm interpreted as a death threat.

https://twitter.com/justkelly_ok/status/1125287351192698882

The current AI state-of-the-art is extremely stupid, and once you get past that the first level of human review isn't much better - it's unrelentingly boring minimum wage work. Confirmation bias turns this random capriciousness into conspiracies.
> Aren’t the tax breaks often tied directly to the number of jobs?

Usually, no, though the public justification for the tax breaks is usually in terms of expected jobs.
> Or a grittier, LSDier Adventure Time

Oh boy, that's actually a fair description!

Any tips I should know about? I haven't even been able to complete either the watervine or the copper wire quests.
> Practically, if you have two random variables then you can take their joint distribution.

If they are defined in the same sample space.

> a "conditional random variable" does not correspond to any subset of the event space

I would say it's exactly the other way around, the domain of a "conditional random variable" is a subset of the domain of the "unconditioned" random variable (the subset where the conditioning holds).
The best proposal is a more accessible social safety net that includes things like free higher education (or technical training) and healthcare. I don't think automation should be slowed, but the US is not equipped to handle the ensuing job displacement. Chop up the foreign invasion and domestic spying budget and reallocate toward uplifting the average worker.
I think the case is too exposed to just shrug and say “well we could reopen it now, but nah we’re not going to bother”. After 9 of 10 years during some of which the defendant has already been de-facto under house arrest, it doesn’t seem likely that prosecutors would have reopened a case that wasn’t as visible as this one.

I don’t believe for a second that this is related to US pressure in any way, I believe the prosecutors simply want to show that they do things by the book and want to show that they are capable of prosecuting “international” cases like this one. Assange isn’t going to be in any deep legal trouble over this. It’s a formality I’d say. That doesn’t make it pointless though. Formality is important.
I only have the data point from my major-ish city: Boston's public transit has been suffering from deferred maintenance, and from projects postponed. We're catching up on some deferred maintenance now, but there are daily failures. Uber comes up in conversations about that. Paraphrased typical examples: "Why should we spend all this money, when we can use Uber," "Public transit sucks; I just Uber", "We should let [worker-exploiting and unsustainable] Uber manage transit," etc.
It doesn't "keep happening", it's happened exactly twice, in the two industrial revolutions, in each case the new type of work that needed millions of human hands was obvious. There is no guarantee that it will happen again, especially given that new industrial inventions require no human intervention at all.

To fall back on an example that is not my own, imagine a conversation in 1900 between two horses:

Horse 1: I'm worried about these new automobile things, they might take our jobs

Horse 2: Don't worry, every technological development that displaced horse work in the past has led to more newer and better jobs for horses, there will always be work for us. Just look at trains, we don't have to pull big loads anymore, now we just draw carts and support riders, who knows what great jobs are just around the corner.

The world's horse population peaked in 1915, and is now down by 70% in the US.