skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Anti-trust is about companies using their market power to exclude rivals, raise prices, and hurt consumers. It's not about consumers overwhelmingly choosing a product because they like it more.

Antitrust doesn’t care about how you got market dominance. It cares about what you do with it. To use the browser example I used elsewhere: maybe Google’s dominance in search is because it’s indisputably the best. But that doesn’t mean Google can use its dominance over search to get you to use Chrome.

To address your other examples, say health insurance or cellular, that market dominance is absent. Google has 89% of search market share. Verizon has 35% of cellular. Likewise, no health insurance company has more than 15% market share. That’s a completely different market. And I can’t get a discount on cellular because I’m a FiOS customer, nor can I buy car insurance from my health insurance company.

As I said elsewhere, I don’t think an antitrust case against a Google would succeed at this point in time. But lots of things that are common in the web tech space (cross selling products, giving away products for free, etc.), become potential antitrust concerns when you’ve got 90% market share in an industry. For example, giving away Android for free to push Symbian and company out of the market and cement Google search dominance in mobile. You wouldn’t be crazy to try to make a case out of that.
Because that's what you need to do for a career in research and teaching.

-- the optimist, probably
It depends upon the subject. General bug reports must be clear and to the point. However, at times you need to have some impact.
If copyright only lasted a year, you can bet the industry would move to much shorter release cycles and still capture most of the value.
So to paraphrase what you're saying, in both your comments:

"But if [something other than what I said], then [something different would happen]."

Yes. I agree with your conclusions about the things I didn't say. But I guess I'll have to ask that you stop posting them as though they were responses to (or related in some way to) things I did say.
To the detriment of people demanding their "freedom", it turns out people don't always make the best choices for themselves, and for their societies at large.

Maybe we can take the lessons learned in adtech et al., and apply them to governing irrational people.

That will mean less "freedom", though...
Then almost by definition the movement prioritizes an anthropomorphized planet over people. The movement, in effect, advocates for killing people.
Pow’s law at work here for me

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poe%27s_law
> he moved so fast I could barely read anything or follow him.

Same here. So

1. I downloaded the gif
2. ffmpeg -i screencast.gif foo.mp4

Now watching in vlc at decreased playback speed. (Press `-`)
Hydrogen-powered air taxi? Yup, it's real
Don’t German companies penalize you for quitting sometimes?
Ask HN: Hush-Hush Testimonial
I asked a South Africa based client for a testimonial yesterday and this is what they said: "We're very happy with the quality of your reverse geocoding but we'd rather keep the fact that we're using your API secret from our competitors. "
Could this still qualify as a testimonial if I keep it anonymous?
Ah yes, legislation from a "helpful government" which will ultimately drive companies which depend on quasi-contractors to develop their robot replacements at an accelerated rate.

Classic political short-sightedness.
Using Hugo, Gitlab Pages, and Cloudflare to Create and Run a Free Static Website
Is it safe to use for multiple nodes if etcd is removed? Won't the cluster become incoherent without it?
I was hoping these would be wind powered like his larger sculptures, but I guess it makes sense that it wouldn't be possible with paper
> have no faith that those people would respect my rights of free speech at all.

This sounds like a defect-defect equilibrium taking shape.
> You can tell that you're fit after you've attended classes, had talks with parental psychologists etc. There are many ways to confirm, and in most nations these societal "tools" are completely free of charge.

A couple classes don't say much. Talking with a psychologist for an extended period might work, but that's quite a leap to expect; currently an analysis like that is relevant to almost nobody.

> Can you tell if you can drive a car when you've never tried? Maybe you will sit into the car and it will just click. Maybe not - that's why you don't just go but first go to a driver school to learn.

Learning a straightforward skill is not at all like testing if you're fit to handle an extremely difficult long-term stressful trial.

The equivalent is more like saying "I could learn to drive a car within five years." Which, you'll notice, is not even a challenge for 99% of people. The general population does not need to preemptively check if they're fit to be a car driver, the answer is just 'yes'.

You can take classes on how to raise a child before/after they're born. That's the easy part! It doesn't tell you if you're "fit" or not.
How hard should it be to pass algebra? (2015 - but timeless)
They are talking about patents here. It has nothing to do with copyright which concerns music and which is perfectly alright.

It certainly does not help that they use the ambiguous term IP that does not really mean anything.
The ResMed S+ is a commercial product with these capabilities (Disclaimer: I was on the team that built the data collection backend in Azure)

The algorithm team was working on an advanced version that could be used to monitor seniors and other immobile patients throughout the day, but they had to refocus on another product. One of the algorithm guys told me that they could get heart rate with the sensor, but not cleanly enough that it could be a medical product.
You're asking the wrong crowd here, really. HN is far more aware of privacy issues than the general Echo-buying public. In my experience most people don't think twice about it.

That said, I do think twice about it and I have a Google Home. I also have a baby, and it makes it very easy to play music, turn lights on and off etc. without using my hands (which are usually busy).

I wish Apple made a HomePod Mini. I trust them far more with my privacy and Siri can do all the things I do with my Google Home anyway. But at this exact point in my life I'm OK with the privacy trade-off of my Google Home.
If you really wanted to align your clauses, you also could do:

if (false){
} else if ($var=='possible value 1') {
echo $var;
} else if ($var=='possible value 2') {
error_log($var);
} else {
// do nothing
}

Now we just to find somewhere where it would be a good idead...
Godot and its documentation is great! Was able to wrote a working mobile app under 5 hours with GDScript. As of version 3.0, C# support is available, haven't check it out tho.
So basically your answer tldr is "gig economy workers are dumb and financial/life decisions must be made for them in group and disregarding their particular situation and free will"
Let me get this straight.

All this shit, not for a full app, but for a premade REST API wrapper?

Seriously?

Sounds just about as terrible as the C#/.Net Azure SDKs.
This is a fast way to kill mosquitos and an even faster way of creating toxin resistant mosquitos.
Common gotchas with Golang, and how to work around them
A previous HN discussion on the subject from a decade ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=993253

The link has changed: http://www.petermichaud.com/essays/the-secret-about-writing-...
The Winner’s Wisdom of Silicon Valley Stoics
Switching on a comparison result has nothing to do with dependent typing. You can do this in Rust, where dependent typing has barely left the planning stages, last I checked.
I’ve heard it pronounced as “keys.”
I completely agree. In fact I created https://www.dailywritingtips.com/ (more than 10 years ago) for this exact reason.
The headline "Why" argument is hardware-independence, but aren't nearly all competitors on the backend just as hardware-independent?

Ruby, Python, JVM languages (Kotlin/Clojure/Java/Scala etc), Node platform languages (TypeScript, ClojureScript, ES5 etc)... Go comes to mind as the only exception, delivering native binaries, but it supports cross compilation really well.
China has almost 400,000 electric busses.

https://electrek.co/2019/03/20/chinese-electric-buses-oil/

How are those working?
All I want is a thermostat with a better screen and a UI that doesn't require cycling through abbreviated options. Beyond that, I don't want a "smart home", and especially not one connected directly to FAANG. We don't need these devices, and even non engineers aren't exactly clamoring for them. It's more like everyone just likes the novelty of it all, but is generally disappointed when the devices under deliver.

People should reject devices from Amazon. As I have mentioned in other HN threads, I am speaking as someone who quit their job to build a business based on Alexa. You have no real control over such devices, they are prone to flipping on randomly, and most of the advantages are in Amazon's favor.

One day, these tech companies might become our literal governments. I'm not going to help them do this because controlling my house with my voice is a neat parlor trick.
> imho you should have taken the support position and schemed your way into development internally

> This was my plan at eBay before they fired me

I guess you answered yourself.
Dear+God+by+Xaphan
To be clear on your application point, you could use the same algorithm (theorem) for a different purpose, and it wouldn't infringe the patent.
> Sometimes misunderstandings happens and it can be a bit slower but that is all.

So your position is that support that's a bit slower, with some misunderstandings, is exactly as good as fast support without misunderstandings, even in downtime-sensitive applications.

Well, okay then.
The article mentions that running kubernetes over WiFi is not a good idea. What's a better alternative for IoT with RPi that can ease deployment in a similar way but over WiFi? Is docker swarm a better idea?
I sometimes think that programmers come in two types: mathematically inclined or linguistically inclined. Think sorting vs parsing.

I only realized this after testing out of and skipping all English and writing requirements easily, but having to retake several mathematics courses during my time in engineering school.
While I agree switch on true might be an 'abuse' of the switch statement, I'm not sure about the last example.

In Elixir, I find myself using:

if x do
<blah>
else
<bleh>
end

only in situations where I'm almost certain I won't end up having more cases, and in practice I tend to limit myself even to conditionals that are short, where I can do:

if x, do: y, else: z

But in many, many situations I go for:

case x do
<condition 1> -> <stuff>
<condition 2> -> <other stuff>
end

because it looks cleaner, and because I often end up adding another condition.

Furthermore, there's also 'cond', which looks similar. using 'case' and 'cond' often just seems clearer to me over having a quite different syntax in the one situation where there's only two options ('if').

(not having to 'break' makes a big difference though)
> How could you compare someone voluntarily engaging in employment to slave labor?

The gig workers I talked to basically told me „it’s either that gig job or starving“, so I‘m not so sure about the voluntariness anymore.
Your phone company can actually record your conversations so long as they ensure all parties to the conversation are aware they are doing so.
I remember going to a talk where the head of synthetic biology at MIT talked about his work. One of the things he is working on are educational kits for young students. You might want to Google search BioBits.

Last time I checked, the product wasn't readily available for sale, though I wish it were. Aside from that, there really isn't a kit the way you would purchase a chemistry kit.

If you were to pursue this as a hobby and would like to approach this without a kit, I would suggest you at least make sure you have the money to do it. The equipment, reagents, and analysis is incredibly expensive.
Who stands to gain when Google is weakened? Conspiracy time. Maybe there was a concerted efforts by media conglomerates and other tech firms (Oracle, Microsoft, Amazon, Tencent, etc.) to bombard Google with bad PR for the last 5 years.

Oracle is fighting to stay relevant. Tencent/Baidu will dominate AI if Google gets nerfed. Microsoft and Amazon will take over all of western tech once Google/FB is out of the way.

/tinfoil
The distinction is between the speed of propagation (e.g. how fast between a light switch flipping until lighting the room) and the physical movement of subatomic particles through the wire.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drift_velocity
I believe that would be the case if the node that runs SQLite goes down. There's also an option to run k3s with etcd though.
The screen shot could use a little work. Looks like the dots and letters don't line up with the pieces. Very cool though.
Short term was scary, some folks put in more hours, systems too longer to recover if something went sideways (which they did, a lot). Long term, it was great. A whole team of people who were able to keep systems green and diversity of opinions on how to improve systems. It worked out better than I could have expected.
They're selling it to landlords as a means of social control dressed up as a feature for tenants. There have already been legal scuffles around landlords using facial recognition to control their buildings more tightly against poor people. Only organizing can help us here.
They compile from source code elegantly, sure. But you don't always have the source code available. Removing implications of the underlying platform makes it easier to change out hardware in the future. It's so that once the next Intel bug comes out, you can just shed Intel CPU's in favor of ARM, RISC-V, or even big-endian POWER.

Go also doesn't cross compile with cgo that elegantly. Having the platform run the output of C compilers means that you can remove that from your runtime assumptions as well.
If this does turn out to be a rewrite, I assume they’ll handle it like the iPhoto -> Photos transition, where if you already had iPhoto you could keep using it (supposedly iPhoto still works on Mojave), it just won’t get updated.
The current algorithm includes PageRank as its component.
Google could be targeted in the first antitrust probe of Big Tech under Trump
The whole point of a voluntary exchange of labor or goods is that it has to benefit both parties for it to take place.

Companies, including Walmart, don't set wages arbitrarily. Despite their size, they can't control the market for labor. They don't pay what they do because they are generous. There are frictions with hiring and onboarding people. They want their employees to be happy. And even if they were a significantly large employer, the market is not a closed system and things change

Regarding your welfare claim, it depends how you look at it. Walmart is offering these people the best employment opportunity they can get, otherwise they would work elsewhere. If they lost that opportunity which certainly some would with increased costs, they would likely be moved to more generous government benefits.
What did you expect? It's built on a graphics chip that had some ARM cores sprinkled over as an afterthought.
This is part of why I want to make a custom OS where each WebAssembly process can be in its own hardware protected memory space. I'm looking at building on top of seL4.
You could leave a computer playing synthesized speech at Alexa all day just to fuck with it.
I hate you guys
> You should throw out all the games.

This resonates a lot. I used to be a huge gamer, but as I moved along my career I had less time and less mental bandwidth to game.

In a pique of nostalgia I tried one last hurrah recently and built a gaming PC (documented here https://www.leonroy.com/blog/2018/10/teeny-tiny-workstation/ ) but even with a machine which 20 something me would’ve drooled over I find I no longer have the patience to play something like the new Assassin’s Creed, Breath of the Wild or Witcher 3. It leaves me a little sad because gaming brought past me a lot of joy but after sinking 80+ hours into a game you question whether that time would have been better spent doing an online course or heck spending an extra hour each evening exercising instead of twiddling thumbs on my controller.

Same goes for TV IMHO - I ask myself what was the last TV show which affected my outlook or moved me in some way and heck The Wire maybe, Battlestar Galactica perhaps? I’ve watched all of Dexter, Chuck, Game of Thrones, Greys Anatomy, Castle, the list goes on and not one of them feels like they had a measurable improvement on my life. I do wonder when we go too far the other way though.
There was that running Bill Cosby joke in our house: "I brought you into this world, I'll take you out, and make another one just like you." It sucks, having to figure out how to validate emotions yourself and find intrinsic value in yourself at a young age. It sucks realizing your old man is using you for the butt of a joke as a 10 year old.

But I can never bring myself to say "I am the victim of childhood trauma" when friends of mine were sexually abused by their fathers, or other friends were violently beaten by an uncle or a sibling. I didn't get the emotional support I felt I needed, but that is way different than being actively traumatized by a malicious adult.

>It sucks to feel like you cannot escape your childhood even as a grown adult.

It does, it really does. I used to deal with that a lot. This is a hugely unpopular opinion but I needed to hear it to move on and finally be whole: as long as you frame things the way it seems like you're framing them, namely: "it's my parents' fault that I'm unhappy as an adult," you'll never be able to 'escape' your childhood.

Trying to escape didn't work for me. The only thing that made me feel whole was acknowledging the past, accepting that my parents are humans trying their best, or suffering from huge amounts of stress, and it may have been tough for me at the time, and moving the hell on from it.

Said another way: there's no Karmatic Force that is going to reward me when I die because I silently suffered from emotional pain. So I might as well figure out how to put this behind me and live the best life I can, since God isn't going to give me a primo seat in heaven just cause mommy and daddy didn't love me enough down here in the pits.

I'm not trying to minimize what you're feeling or the pain this brings or how difficult it is to be whole after this. I've just found that perspective helped me tremendously in this situation.
I gonna ask on discord
It is also very nice when you are visiting a country with unreliable taxi services for work. Just skipping the hassle of learning to avoiding the scams, getting the correct price, getting a receipt is annoying and all that is removed with uber.
Same here(though not a mathematician). Patenting algorithms is so horribly wrong on every level, it's still beyond my comprehension how this could ever be allowed. Some of the patents are ridiculously absurd and luckily rarely enforced. I remember the guy on sci.crypt who had a patent on "cascading ciphers", which covered almost any cipher build out of smaller cryptographic building blocks. It basically concerned almost any stream cipher mode and any attempt of combining more than one building block with XOR somewhere. Luckily, the guy never had the money to enforce it although he might have earned some royalties from doing nothing.

Heck, Siemens used to have a German patent on the Internet, except that it wasn't called Internet but something like "making available of structured textual data representations via long-range data transmission", etc.
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Every content site implements AMP for fear of losing Google traffic, not because customers wanted or demanded it.
What is the way to do it?

I like having functions with expressive names to encapsulate/hide complexity, and to comment what I'm doing. If it is not obvious why "20" is such a big deal in your code, then that's where I would trip up.

I don't mind having a few ifs if they look like this:

if (isHoliday()) { }
else if (isWeekend()) { }
Like any other video game, there's a blurry line between just enjoying Dark Souls a lot and being addicted to it. Is a speedrunner addicted? Maybe? Maybe not? I would bet that a speedrunner who isn't addicted to the specific game might still play more than someone who is.

I think the important question is whether playing is impairing the person's ability to function normally.
Tottenham vs. Liverpool
https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/t3jAHq5Qfzh95EXfm/watch-tottenham-hotspur-vs-liverpool-live-on-bt-sport-s

https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/EtSbJTmQDNdCY7now/official-final-tottenham-vs-liverpool-live-stream-reddit

https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/82sCFzJ9ZBkksAXKF/watch-tottenham-vs-liverpool-live-stream-reddit-soccer

https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/ZMFQR7oFvwRWruCC7/streams-tottenham-hotspur-vs-liverpool-uefa-final-live

https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/DWGgkWS9iZfQgFfTm/total-sportek-liverpool-vs-tottenham-uefa-champions-league

https://www.reddit.com/live/131qoqo9nkyny/

https://www.reddit.com/live/131qozcil8tqw/

https://www.reddit.com/live/131qp5us170o6/

https://www.reddit.com/live/131qpmlgc8vck/
The problem with this is the likely fragmentation of the programming languages and tool support.

Eg GPUs have been around for ~25 years and there's still no decent way to portably program them. We have Metal, Direct3D, OpenGL, OpenCL, Cuda, Vulkan, ... all of which have small market shares. It's markedly worse than microprocessors at 25.

(Not even getting into quality issues like driver quality problems and the closed&proprietary nature of most of the SW stacks).
>it’s either that gig job or starving

You could say the same about every American living paycheck to paycheck. Are they all slaves?
Moscow Publishes Photocopies of Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact, Secret Protocols
I think you're right. We can also add .NET (C#, etc.) to that list, as a popular hardware-independent language on the server (in enterprises at least). So, yes, most server languages are already hardware independent I believe.

Wasm does provide that property for C++ & Rust. I'm unsure how important that is in the server space.
Also recall that mobile carriers and OEMs were opposed to Android

I agree with the other claims (about Microsoft killing Windows Phone through their own actions and choices), however this one is a bit weird. Apple gave essentially no ground to carriers, which was a huge change. Which is why carriers all embraced Android, at a time when it was horribly uncompetitive, because it returned control to them, letting them preload any nonsense they wanted, making it undeletable, etc.

Apple updates come through Apple alone. If you have a Samsung phone on a carrier, they still matriculate through your carrier.

Add that of the 30% cut that the Play Store takes for apps and games, historically one half of that went to the carriers (it was always very nebulous, but again was one of the reasons carriers pushed Android when it was not good).
OP could also have meant he went from a private Russian funded private school for elites to a school for disadvantaged children (such as children with poor parents or recently immigrated) in a ghetto like neighborhood.

It'd still be another single data point though.

Edit: just another variation of "children these days" and "when I was young we used to go to school on foot and swim through the river"
You just use the lowest common denominator, depending on your definition if “everywhere”. When in need use shims.

It’s not literally “run anywhere” it’s “for all intents and purposes run anywhere”.
There's more forest in Europe now than a hundred years ago.