skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I did it. I switched from Chrome to Firefox this week. Problem was that I broke my advice I give to all my friends/customers : "reinstall Windows at least every 6 months". And I had Windows for the past 2 years watching it becoming more and more bloated, with more and more quirks. At the same time I had Chrome. Sure, I had Firefox in the past too, but was slower then Chrome. For reasons unknown to me it seemed Firefox loved flash, and I was watching in Task Manager how Flash component of Firefox was growing more and more in memory until it ate all of it and required me to restart Firefox entirely. Which I hate it to do that. Hence why I used Chrome instead. With ad blockers and DuckDuckGo as default engine. But once I've reinstalled Windows I was like "OK, time to see Firefox again".

Let me tell you brothers and sisters, it was a blessing to see Firefox having the same speed as Chrome, and no bloating. Sure, for each tab opened it alos creates a firefox.exe in task manager, but so does Chrome. I can live with that. Now all I need is to move my entire productions from Windows to Linux and I'll be really free. But that's gonna be at least an order of magnitude harder then switching from one browser to another.
That's not such a far-fetched idea, and it's more relevant than it sounds:

https://www.wired.com/2014/06/silk-road-study/
>The data that the economists presented don’t match the chronology of the decline of homicides, especially considering that their proxy variable—how many antennas were up—would almost certainly precede cellphone usage by some period of time. The timing, he said, is “not even close.”

So the response to the post title is "No, not really"?
Why would Google sell Youtube to Facebook?
Undervalued Engineering Skills: Reading what your coworkers write
Encouraging people to write better is a great, worthwhile goal.

The other side of that- reading what coworkers write and listening to what they have to say, irrespective of their title, is also a valuable skill.
Here's a screenshot from Edge.

https://i.imgur.com/iwymopx.png

Sometimes it's in a new top bar on the page but cannot remember if that's only on Gmail.
I’m fairly sure strong arming your clients does fall under anti trust, regardless of how hostile google is to its ad targets.
But doesn’t using the profits from one part of the business to subsidize giving away a product in a tangential business amount to dumping?
>There are limits as to how much customers must hold in their accounts, which Brex monitors.

That doesn't strike me as all that difficult or ... something someone else couldn't just do.
The opposite is true. If you are a freelancer, healthcare premiums are an above-the-line deduction, which practically has the same effect as a business expense. This is better than a regular deduction because you get it even if you don't itemize deductions. See https://turbotax.intuit.com/tax-tips/home-ownership/deductin...
Amazon is using it's profits from AWS to 'dump' on other, low margin businesses.

The most recent FT Alphachat podcast with an official from the Fed talks about Uber this way: Uber (and Lyft) are taking money from somewhere and undercutting the classical taxi business. This is a problem for competition. They could feasibly try to run losses until 'regular cabs are pushed out' (or largely) and then lock up the business.

Amazon can do this with any number of products, they can do it to shipping companies, to grocers.

More abstractly, Google does it with mobile OS, possibly browsers etc..

In our new world of globalization, it's a serious problem.

All this money from Saudi Arabia, under the control of Softbank is coming back and just throwing markets upside down in what is arguably tantamount to 'dumping' which is a bad business practice generally.

Even we work is like this - it's losing tons of money, ultimately selling stuff below market value.

In some cases it's much more clear than others, but it's going to pose a problem.

This issue very well highlights the problematic idea that business is about 'better products and service' or even 'free markets' due to the fact that so much cash provides leverage that distorts markets quite heavily.

Alphachat with Robert Kapla @ FT:

https://ftalphaville.ft.com/series/Alphachat
The EU regular pretty much sums it up[0]:

> “If a company is dominant, that’s fine,” Ms. Vestager told reporters. “But if that dominance is abused, then we have an issue.”

Having a monopoly and not abusing it is impossible when you're dealing with humans. Maybe in a hundred years where business decisions run through a DLNN and are cross-referenced with the law to make sure they're in compliance, a monopoly that doesn't abuse its dominance will become a reality.

0: https://www.nytimes.com/2016/04/21/technology/google-europe-...
Competitors did. Netscape charges for Communicator Suite for example. There was a monetization model that involves eventually charging for the product once they had a monopoly in browsers. That’s easier to explain than how browsers are monetized today.
Game of Types: A Song of GraphQL and TypeScript
The initial release of IE was sold as a separate product in retail stores. Microsoft only added it to Windows later. If IE had been just another Windows feature from the start then it would have been more difficult to make an antitrust case against them.
Right but what if the java API is nominally “secondary”: “oh use this Byzantine Android api we have ... but if you just treat it like java, it’ll guess what you mean, ruby-magic-method style”?
Is this copyability issue for software APIs or more general? I feel like if I copied the full user interface of an iPhone (the way it looks and interacts with the user) and provided my own imementation I'm still liable?
Building a YouTube Clone Live in 7 Days
GRRM (George R. R. Martin) comes to mind
Oracle's remaining claim is that functions having particular names and belonging to particular packages is copyrighted by them and was replicated by Google. For example, the function to calculate the sine of an angle is named 'sin' and belongs to the Math package. They don't claim any particular text was copied, they claim that this structure, sequence and organization (SSO) of the functions was copied from Java. Supposing Oracle's legal theory were correct, this would give rise to two major categories of problems.

If you accept that the organization of a library of functions is copyrighted and requires a license to reproduce, it leads to the question of whether a program which merely uses said library would be considered a reproduction. When writing a library I might declare that 'sin' is in 'Math' by writing "namespace Math { float sin(float); }" which programmers call a declaration. Someone using the library might write "float sine = Math::sin(angle_as_float);", but as a programmer you can look at that call and see that it tells you that 'sin' is in the 'Math' package, same as the declaration. If Oracle's lawsuit is successful, and we agree that using a function is a reproduction of its SSO, all programs which merely interface with any other program through a library of functions would be copying the SSO. Given that nobody in the industry has ever considered SSO of an interface to be copyrightable, we've never made technical decisions or built legal agreements around it. The immediate effect is that decades of software written to run on top of Windows would suddenly discover that their code is jointly copyright Microsoft, users of an SQL database would discover that their database queries are jointly copyright the SQL server vendor or the SQL specification authors or both, and on and on across the entirety of computing.

The second issue is that Java was not the first language to put the 'sin' function in the 'math' package. For example, C places 'sin' inside 'math.h'. Is there someone with standing to sue Oracle for copying C? It's not like people really create interfaces out of whole cloth very often, you can usually find the incremental progression and improvement over time.

I expect that corporations will simply ignore the bad ruling if it does come down. If they didn't the number of new license negotiations and lawsuits would be staggering.
> strong arming your clients

You're describing any business, that's how business works.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20054150
Fin width is around the same size as the node name, but yeah gate length at 7nm is nowhere near 7nm.
To Safe or Not to Safe?
Google isn’t a monopoly and using a competing search engine is quite easy.

Pretty sad that providing an excellent service that customers love is seen as a bad thing, especially on HN. Sad bitter people celebrating the thought of Google being punished for being at the top of their game... get a life.
> You can exercise your first amendment rights while still breaching antitrust law.

Go on... example?
I think you're still assuming it's less open than it is. There's a (well documented now) culture of what might be be described as direct and open insubordination when management does things that are not well liked.

I think your question was answered, but you don't really believe it, because it's difficult to believe.
I'd love to see the benchmarks you used. I've done a bunch over the years, mostly I/O focused because that's the most common bottleneck for the kind of work I do. While Linode does pretty well, especially compared to the cloud giants, DO has pretty much always come out on top.
Exactly, and I've kept an eye on Nature Materials and other journals that cover advances in semiconductor cooling but so far there hasn't been anything very exciting. I was hoping the ultra thin silicon guys would use diamond as a substrate for its thermal properties (sort of like silicon on sapphire but silicon on diamond instead) but apparently not a thing yet.
Show HN: Dnote – E2E encrypted command line notebook
> The micro-USB connector was designed with these past failings in mind and has a rated lifetime of about 10,000 insertion cycles

I find it hard to believe that. Micro-USB in my experience has been the most unreliable cable type I've ever had. Doesn't matter if it's an expensive one that came with your premium phone or a chinese one from alibaba - something breaks with then within a year of casual use.
If anyone's interested in learning more about the history of the telegraph, I recommend reading The Victorian Internet by Tom Standage[1]. It's an approachable and fairly short book (200 pages) that tells the stories of all of the people involved with it.

If you want to know what it was like to be a telegraph operator, check out this cheesy 19th century novel about a romance that develops over the telegraph, called Wired Love: A Romance of Dots and dashes[2]. I don't know how accurate it is, but it was certainly entertaining.

[1] https://www.kobo.com/CA/en/ebook/the-victorian-internet-1

[2] http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/24353
Seems like this is posted every day

Feels like someone has an agenda
> Warning: it's a Mastodon instance whose management seems willing to tolerate speech that most of the rest of the Fediverse finds objectionable.

All right, so there is at least one good reason to use it over other instances.

I sounds like Gab and LS could be federated, so these communities could become very large.
Largely in how companies seem to store and transmit information either verbally or via PowerPoint rather than the written word.
> The difference in support DO vs Linode is probably due to DO being cheaper.

What? Most DO and Linode plans have exact same specs and cost exactly the same, and IIRC it was DO matching Linode. Although DO didn't seem to enforce their egress budget while Linode does.

(I've been a customer of both for many years, and only dropped DO a few months ago.)

EDIT: Also, according to some benchmarks (IIRC), for the exact same specs Linode usually has an edge in performance.
FWIW: It sounds nefarious, but the DOJ/FTC/etc quite often meet with all parties prior to taking antitrust action.

That's because (at least in the number of times i've been invited to meetings with these sorts of regulators) the relevant folks are not idiots, and in fact are trying to understand all sides of the issue before deciding what they should do.

This is actually what you want them to do, as there are rarely, if ever, truly disinterested parties in these sorts of things.

As an aside, i'm pretty sure Matthew was not the top antitrust counsel at Google at the time. I believe it was Nikhil Shanbhag. Job titles on linkedin seem to confirm my recollection.
Yeah, I've got a nano 4th generation, no moving parts in there, it should last forever, or until the battery goes, but battery still going just fine for me, can play more music than I've needed without a recharge.
Two years ago, I built a simple command line interface to instantly write down notes in a JSON file. I have been using and building it ever since, and now it has become more mature with useful features such as:

* Sync across multiple devices

* End-to-end encrypted backups

* Weekly email digests for spaced repetition

* Web client, browser extension, IDE plugins

The whole thing is open source and optimized for command line usage.

What I have noticed in the past years is that this tool can be used to build a personal knowledge base. The reason is that it provides a way of quickly capturing new information without switching environment. Also, it sends you automated email digests. (i.e. if you are in a command line, just jot down your thoughts and get email reminders later).

I wanted to share the progress I have made so far.
I don't think either sale is possible, I'm merely using it as an example of what wouldn't be permissible.
SFO sounds like a real mess. Code enforcement is a revenue maker
I feel like about 2/3rds of hn commentators are going to be very disappointed when we learn this investigation is whether it's an antitrust violation to regularly list new york times and cnn news results above breitbart's.

The Trump administration has threatened this a couple of times now...

edit: I'm not sure why this is less plausible than the Obama white house personally interceding on the earlier case because they sought Google's "talking points"
Here is the first example I came across:

https://www.rbr.com/six-broadcast-tv-groups-settle-doj-antit...

No one is saying these broadcast groups don't have 1st amendment rights, just that they were going about it in an anti-competitive way.
A thread from 2015: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10400123
Well, I'd say there's literally no barrier between employees that prevents 'resentment' born dialogue. In fact, there's an internal site which is specialized to accelerating that 'resentment'. (joke, but it's true)
It's not so much an interpretation of what happened as it is a leak of what happened.

>The Federal Trade Commission on Thursday faced renewed questions about its handling of its antitrust investigation into Google, after documents revealed that an internal report had recommended stronger action.

The 2012 report, from the agency’s bureau of competition, said that the agency should sue the Internet search company for anticompetitive practices, according to several people who saw the report but would speak about it only under the condition of anonymity. At least one other staff report, they said, recommended not to pursue a lawsuit. In early 2013, the agency unanimously voted not to bring charges after an investigation.

https://www.nytimes.com/2015/03/20/technology/take-google-to...

Google has already lost several antitrust actions in the EU. It's not difficult to imagine that the investigation by FTC career officials found sufficient evidence of wrongdoing to recommend taking action.
Well sure but that costs a fortune. Drug development is already extremely expensive.
Because the incentives aren't aligned. If the requirement is "One paper", then why would you try to publish in a reputable journal, go through peer review, need to revise and resubmit, etc. when you can just pay your money and check the needed box.
What is Microsoft's new 'modern OS' all about?
It shouldn't be a whataboutism, it's true. They gave too much of a pass to ISPs and that needs to stop. But it doesn't stop by relaxing on tech companies like Google, that would only further normalize it.
This is an accurate statement. The relevant exceptions are in section 4, and are quite broad.

https://mainelegislature.org/legis/bills/bills_129th/billtex...
> Take a look at google AMP

The argument here is its unfair to bias ranking towards a preferred format. In this case, something about excluding competitors, except AMP is completely open-source[1] so...?

The counterargument is yes you can, because it's your pamphlet/newspaper/website and you're the editor, not the government.

[1] https://github.com/ampproject/amphtml
Implementation of EfficientNet model in Keras
Another method is to limit access to timing mechanisms: https://www.infoq.com/presentations/cloudflare-v8
Route Based VPN Between Cisco Firewall and Amazon AWS
I find that a good feature to have.

Much better than dropping my phone or headphones to the floor as it happens with the micro-USB cables.
The fact that the brain exists says absolutely nothing about the future of chip manufacturing. It is on a completely different plane than Moore's law: neurons are only as small as .004mm at minimum. What you're suggesting isn't an improvement, it's starting over completely from scratch.

But just to humor you, today's best processors have a transistor density of roughly 25M transistors per mm^2. The human brain has a neuron density of 14K neurons per mm^3. And of course, the human brain has a volume 250x the average desktop processor.
That's a price fixing/cartel case not a first amendment one.
I like those math questions captcha. Fun and I doubt a bot or even a real persona spammer will waste time on this. Make the question appear on an image instead of text and the bot will also have to do OCR on top of being wolframalpha to defeat your captcha.
"Frankly I had thought that at the time Roe was decided, there was concern about population growth and particularly growth in populations that we don’t want to have too many of." - Justice Ginsburg (July 7, 2009)

https://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/12/magazine/12ginsburg-t.htm...
A small thread from back then: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9112762
A Work Light for Hacker Events
No, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LLmO1GE4GvI

> search quality in general does not use Google Analytics in ranking

> it won't affect your ranking
Water Intoxication: It Takes Only 6 Liters of Water to Kill You
The reason these loans can be made without collateral for the rates they are is the loans are not discharged easily. They’re still a benefit to both parties, because both gain from them on average.

No one is stupid here. Stupidity would imply a net loss on one or both sides, which simply isn’t true.
Is anyone truly 'part of a society's by choice though?
Would it be reasonable to see a WebAssembly VM that is implemented in silicon? Perhaps on an FPGA as a first step?
I would report the CC being stolen and get a new one. Technically, it was stolen, together with the AWS account.
The EU has different rules (and extra motivation to go after US companies) they also don't need to win in court, their enforcement action in unilateral.
This is true for gmail users, which is about half of the email market in the US. Amazon by dollars has over half the ecommerce market, but by any intelligence we have on sales sales they're much closer to 80%.

Even if Google can get some of that data, its still Amazon's data, Google just happens to get some of it.
“Any rational person who learns that people are fleeing the country as a result of their student loan debt will conclude that something has gone horribly awry with this lending system,”

I agree. The current system is built to shovel money into ever-growing college bureaucracies. Kids are being given loans without a fair chance to repay and are being encouraged to live lives they can't sustain.

The whole thing needs a good reset. MOOCs might help.

One thing I strongly oppose: foisting the payoff onto the entire population (taxpayers). That makes non-college people (who make very little) foot the bill for this boondoggle.
What's the point of such a nihilistic viewpoint?

Space exploration excites hopes and dreams, promising expanded horizons and to avail ourselves of new resources with which to improve our lives, and the lives of our loved ones, and their loved children, and their loved children, and so on and so forth. Do not let universal truths override your personal intuition as to the value and meaning of striving towards these goals, even if someday the eventual heat death of the universe will almost certainly put an end to it all.
After having two phones fail due to the mini connector I switched to only wireless charging and I love it.

I understand the charging performance hit, but that's much more easily mitigated than sketchy cords/ports.
Viasat is aggressively blacklisting Digitalocean IP addresses
I just talked with the NOC at Viasat and confirmed that they block a huge amount of Digitalocean IP addresses due to malware. I don't think their normal support agents are even aware they have IP blacklists so requests for unblocks have to be escalated to their security team(which I'm still waiting to hear back from regarding removing the block).

They seem to be blacklisting entire /24 subnets even if only some of the IP's are sending malicious traffic. I've found this to be the cause of many websites not working including some of my own.

The best way I've come up with to test if Viasat is blacklisting an IP from a non-Viasat connection is to try and ping one of the core routers such as 64.125.54.230.

What should one do in situations like these?
The fact that the companies in that suit were radio stations seems irrelevant to the facts of the case; they could have been hamburger restaurants and the legal question would not change.
I’ll note for the audience that such meetings are common for many types of prosecutions, even for relatively low level criminal ones. If you’ve every watched a TV show about a murder investigation, you know the police will talk to you and get your statement before they arrest you. The SEC will also send a “we’re thinking of suing you” letter (Wells notice), where you can respond with a PowerPoint presentation of “why you shouldn’t sue me.” When you’ve got complex antitrust and securities issues, that up-front discussion becomes even more important.
That's not a particularly logical reason. If the CIA was that hell bent on extrajudiciously killing Assange, then he picked a terrible place for protection. The Ecuadorian government is rife with corruption and England is part of the Five Eyes intelligence alliance. The CIA would have had no problem getting to Assange if they really wanted to. He would have been safer in Sweden.
"But 5% of Americans take public transit to work"

I used to live a 10 minute drive from work, and I never took the bus because it would take close to an hour.

Now I live a 10 minute nonstop bus drive from work, but the fare is the same, which means it's several times the cost of gas for my vehicle even at 16 mpg. And it still takes about 15-30 minutes by bus, net, because of the time waiting for it.

I can walk home after work before the bus even arrives, but the only way to get there is across 3 highways with no crosswalks and people going 50+ mph.

I'm not happy with any of my choices, but driving my gas guzzler kind of seems rational after I've tried all the options and weighed them.

For the moment, it may make sense to not use my car because if I don't commute in it, I'm less likely to go somewhere after work, but that's more of a psychological trick than a logical consequence.

...and while I'm not in a mega-city, I'm in the middle of a medium to smallish city that's part of an area with a million people or so.
Scott Hiett: The Next Generation of Computer Science