skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
“The issue central to the case was whether Microsoft was allowed to bundle its flagship Internet Explorer (IE) web browser software with its Windows operating system. Bundling them is alleged to have been responsible for Microsoft's victory in the browser wars as every Windows user had a copy of IE. It was further alleged that this restricted the market for competing web browsers (such as Netscape Navigator or Opera), since it typically took a while to download or purchase such software at a store.”

That’s straight from the wiki. It was mainly about bundling. Yes market dominance was a factor but Google has dominance in the search market and they were never forced to unbundle any of their services in the US. They also “bundle” search with Chrome so how is that any different?
There's a passage where Frank Herbert compares the hierarchical structure of corporations to the hierarchical feudal structures.
There's any number of words that are used to rationalise companies paying little or no tax. I'm not interested in any of those words.

It's a fair system if corporations are paying tax contributions proportional to their profit as reported to the stockmarkets.

Anything else is just rationalisations and excuses. Citizens pay the money - companies should too.
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I had never heard of this before, anyone in HN has used this before? If yes, where and more specifically what was your use-case? Thank you!
Cases like that are another good reason to flag articles from Vox Media if you see them on HN.
Censorship's not really partisan. Whoever's in power has a motive to censor. Right now, the gatekeepers of the internet tilt left-wing; so it's left-wing censoring you see more of on the internet/in colleges. Back when the institutions were right wing, it was reversed.
It's a lot easier for Europe to go carless than the USA. They have better intra-city public transit for one. Also, most (all?) of their major cities laid out their grids before the invention of the car.

In the USA, even older cities had all but their city centers designed around cars, and if you look at the top 10 cities, 7 of the 10 saw >90% of their road construction after the invention of the car.

That being said, I don't understand why new cities in the US aren't being planned around being carless. I guess it's just so engrained in our culture that it will be hard to overcome?
If evidence-based thinking is radical to you then I'm not sure what to tell you.
How many times is this tr[oi]pe going to be blindly repeated before its promoters bother to look up the definition of free speech and find it's a more general concept than simply the first amendment to the US Constitution?

I suppose this misbelief is itself a demonstration that truth and justice do not necessarily prevail in open argument. Still, we are better off with many terrible ideas persisting than to further allow those in power to arbitrate truth.
Something like this needs to happen. As long as the (expected) benefit (to executives) of cheating is greater than the (damage to executives of the) fine, we can expect cheating to continue.

Admittedly, though, figuring out exactly what the right fine is will be a challenge -- if it's too high it will discourage socially-beneficial business.
I think you're underestimating how complicated that is to do. If you've worked at any massive company its easy to understand how freaking hard it would be to have the sales department, the manufacturing and product design department, finance, business analytics, and seller auditing teams all working together in unison to pull this off. Yes its worth their time doing this for a few commodities everyone buys but theres no way the can do this for every single product category. In fact Amazon doesn't even make much margin off ecommerce. It's AWS. So it probably isnt even worth their time.

Is it theoretically possible? Yes. Practically? At scale, its hard to say for sure.
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You are ostensibly correct but basically incorrect.

If you sell a product on Walmart and Amazon, Amazon forces you to sell it at the same price or they will not offer it immediately for sale. They change the page to make it look entirely out of stock.
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Gives a 404 for me, but my understanding is that YouTube Webcam is streaming of your own webcam and that’s it.

The feature that made Hangouts Live so good was that groups of people could instantly stream together from anywhere in the world, and the focus shifted to whoever was talking. It made multi-person casts incredibly simple and didn’t require having someone running OBS and managing the stream.
There is pushback against car-impacting measures in Europe too, make no mistake.

The yellow jackets in France started as a protest against increase in tax on petrol. The previous president in France, Hollande, had to roll back a toll system. It took Paris 2 years of legal battles to close the roads along the Seine.

The major difference, compared witg the US, is that at least in an urban setting, in Europe you can imagine other alternatives.

The problem of the US is that outside of major cities, the entire country was designed and built on the premise of cheap, individual transportation. Everyone has his own little house with a little garden. No town centres. This lack of density means that public transport or bikes will never be able to be able to provide a serious alternative to the automobile, and so people will never given them up.
Can you put a comment in bold in hacker news?
This seems too easy, if the thought experiment played out with anyone remotely intelligent I would bet they would purposefully make 'mistakes' so as to not gain too much attention from a perfect track record.
This is ridiculous, how many people in the comments appear to think this can be considered good in any way. I'm honestly shocked, like WTF I'm even reading...
The employees creating
memes on the company’s time is not the issue here, the issue is active discrimination against pregnant women at said company.
In Vienna in 2010 the city decided to transform a huge shopping street into a pedestrian area. There was a lot of fuss and heated discussions. Media reported on it for months. Some people feared the proposed change will lead to fewer customers and this in turn will lead to stores having to close. Public opinion was split but leaning towards the transformation. One segment of the shopping street was kept a street as compromise iirc.

Fast forward to 2019 and people love it. Also the stores are thriving. Now the part that was kept as street feels odd. Change is difficult.

https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mariahilfer_Stra%C3%9Fe#Mariah...
Right, you string the signatures together. "This image was generated by Tom Fipples on a Nikon D610, working the Washington Post, and edited by Jane Wizzlepans working for AP by X copy of Photoshop. Certs include Nikon, Washington Post, and Adobe. Signatures include Tom and Jane. And the whole chain has to be in sequence. Just like intermediate certs in all the other parts of your browser.
> This is only for trademarked products where the trademark owner has registered with Amazon

I can tell you first hand, this is not true. This is the "official party line", as it were, but not true in practice. Particularly if you FBA anything.

Get enough returns of a product and Amazon will freeze the listing until you provide an invoice - FBA and FBM.

For us, "enough" returns was 4 on a single ASIN in a week, out of the thousands we carry. It's a totally random system.

> I have a viable business that is growing

I wish you best of luck! In our case, we're an ecommerce company operating our own warehouse and multiple sales channels including our own websites. Amazon is but one of those channels, and we don't rely on it for company livelihood. I would be terrified to live solely off Amazon, knowing the rug can be yanked out at any time for any reason and with zero recourse. You can do everything right and still get canned.
Biking in the snow can be quite fun, I enjoyed it last winter up here in Seattle. Good gloves, glasses and rain pants are useful to make it an enjoyable ride tho :P
Do you seriously think that taxation solves that problem?
There are also numerous third-party places one could hang out and discuss exactly the same things.

The infamous Border Patrol facebook group comes to mind.

At least Google leadership can see what people are saying.
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the concept is really cool, congrats!
Can the prototype actually print? Do you have some photos of the printed stuff?
It's not the fault of free speech that some mentally unstable person killed people

Assumes facts not in evidence
8chan incubated hate speech because no one challenged hate speech on 8chan. 8chan welcomed everyone, but everyone ignored 8chan.

>The concept of freedom of speech falls apart if universally reprehensible speech is allowed to be publicaly espoused without being firmly challenged. Forums like 8chan and 4chan effectively incubate hate speech by providing a safe space for anonymized, like-minded individuals to congregate, espouse their basest thoughts and feelings and receive gratification for it -all without challenge.
I got a couple of months' gardening leave (as it's known in the industry). The most senior guys would typically get six months off work: three paid, three unpaid.

It's just an industry-standard way of doing things. I didn't leave for a competitor but still got a paid vacation (though in principle I was "on call" while I was on the books).

To be honest, it sort of felt like a courtesy they extended rather than a means of protecting their IP. There's already a huge amount of lateral hiring in asset management, so everyone already kinda-sorta knows what everyone else is doing.
> The tendencies revealed in 8chan are a reflection of core values of US civilization.

To some extent, yes. But then, US civilization is sadly not all that unique.

The major issue is that the US is collapsing. Gradually, over the past few decades, but steadily. And that always creates lots of angry, nihilistic young men. Eventually they'll become cannon fodder.
In Stockholm it was decided to connect all public housing, which was ~25% of the housing stock at the time. Owned apartments being coops, and presumably being able to make majority decisions, probably helped as well. That said, I don't think it is that impressive these days. Most digital or infrastructure things are very "1.5" compared to for example some parts of Asia.
FTTb, unlimited 100 Mbps for about 7 euro per month. Not Moscow.
Wall Street Bets follows this philosophy - it's only a loss if you sell.
Wish Mozilla would go down this road.
How Far 31 light-years away is?
> So if today its Amazon and tomorrow someone else, why be up in arms about it?

Because - I believe - people are overwhelmingly reactionary, easy to excite and short-term focused. Microsoft was the end of the world. Google is the end of the world. IBM before them. Yesterday Walmart was the destroyer of worlds that was going to kill every small business in every town in America. Countless articles were written for a decade espousing that as fact, inevitable, unstoppable. They were pure evil, everyone knew it. Nobody could compete with them. That reactionary emotionalism against The Corporate Overlords, is now retrained on Amazon as the destroyer of worlds, the evil entity that will crush everyone. Tomorrow it will be someone else.

The most interesting story about Amazon - which is being almost universally ignored - is that the growth in their retail business has already mostly stopped (some shareholders are finally noticing). In the next few years that growth will continue to trend toward between zero and low single digits. The mighty retail conquerer of worlds is running out of retail growth and mostly that is being ignored because it doesn't bolster the story of the moment that Amazon is going to eat everything.
In many ways, they've out Walmarted Walmart.
If you ever want to reverse that opinion, I suggest taking London's tube and/or Paris' Metro or RER at peak hour in the morning.
Honestly, Hotmail isn't too bad these days. I have to use it for a mail account I manage for someone else, and it's pretty on par with Gmail. Not quite there, but pretty close. And since it's from Microsoft, you know that it will be supported for a long time.
> Allowing people to murder human beings is intolerant.

You see, this kind of behaviour is why I feel this discussion is not between two honest parties under good faith. Your rhetoric here and above (about religion of anti-abortionists being encroached upon by abortionists) give me the impression you are being unfair and disingenuous. If this is true, there is simply no way to discourse.

But I could be grossly wrong, and under that faith I will try to point out how you assuming that everyone automatically shares your views is wrong:

Take three people:

1. A Muslim who claims that all consumption of porcine meat is bad;

2. A Hindu who claims that all consumption of bovine meat from a female is bad; and

3. A Christian who claims that all consumption of shellfish is bad.

If these people tried to prevent everyone (including you), no matter their religion or beliefs, from consumption of all these three kinds of substances; they'd be imposing their own views and assumptions on everyone else (including you), and thus be intolerant of everyone else's (including yours) views.
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One example, if I'm understanding the exuberance idea right, is tech valuations like Uber - in the billions, but also can't make a profit.
There are a plethora of investing choices, including not investing. Bitcoin, Gold, Bonds, etc. If someone is investing in HENS right now, it's not unreasonable to suggest they may want to change their strategy for the next couple of years.

Similarly, if someone is planning on planting SOY, I'd try to talk them out of it.

Would you seriously not try to talk someone out of planting soy?
I work in the area of new intellectual property generation, and you (as was I) would be surprised to learn this is not actually a sad feature of the system.

There have been countless advancements in the sciences when people have been forced to work around existing IP and have uncovered hidden benefits when working through the actual implementation.

It is a hidden benefit of the western system of IP that China et al. have not yet caught on to.
I think there's a growing realization that designing around car traffic is a losing proposition going forward. There's still a lot of political inertia to overcome, but we're starting to see bills liks SB50 (legislating to build housing around mass transit) be proposed and get traction.
you can get an Anycubic Photon under $500, its a decent resin LCD printer.
they just switch web hosts and CDNs right?

literally anyone looking for a large customer right now is salivating.

Its like how all those encrypted data stores have employees that love the vision and have no idea that all their customers are porn companies until one day they realize and also realize leadership doesn't care and is highly entertained at this reality

get those revenue numbers up
> Is there evidence of Amazon driving a company out of business by abusing this position? If there is then that could be a problem.

No, it really is not a problem. Amazon does not have a monopoly on consumer purchases. If your livelihood is dependent on selling on Amazon, a company which sells tons of products first party, then you need to be prepared from day one for the possibility that Amazon is going to bring a product to market in your category under the Amazon Basics brand, or that they will go directly to the manufacturer whose products you are selling.

Period.

Amazon isn't running their business so you can make money. They're running it so they can make money. As long as they think their interests are aligned with yours, then there's a chance for you to participate profitably on their platform. The minute that changes, you better have a plan B.
Comparing U.S. presidential administrations by arrests and convictions (2017)
I think the spirit of what Syon is writing about is the root issue of taxes. It's not about paying for education, roads or safety. Syon is addressing the root issue of taxes in his view is about force. Why must citizens of a free country be coerced? Thats the premise he things most struggle with. If you want to solve for paying for education, roads or safety toss this issues into the private sector and Syon can agree the quality of those services would go up and the USA would be more free. So it just depends if you believe in freedom. Some do. Some do not.
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Netflix is now asking for access to activity data (for some users)
Two stations close by report an increased temperature in the past 50 years:
http://berkeleyearth.lbl.gov/stations/157729
http://berkeleyearth.lbl.gov/stations/19998

In all three cases, the data in their DB ends in 2013.
The comment you're responding to said nothing about "1st amendment". You're the one that brought up that narrow codification of the wider concept of Free Speech.
Are the actions of Amazon any different from what Walmart has done in the past? Just about all you describe, Walmart has been doing for 20+ years (probably closer to 30)
Perhaps they couldn't stop it, or felt that tamping down on employee discussion would cost more than it would benefit? Or maybe they've realized that Google cannot be neutral?

That's the thing about values -- if you won't stand up for them when there's a cost, what good are they?
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Sadly most of the public has no idea what scams that publishers are pulling on libraries for the "right" to offer e-books. They think a) they're really cheap - after all it's just a digital book and Kindle books are cheaper than physical books b) even if it's expensive you can lend them out as much as you want c) they're cheaper to maintain in the library.

Of course none of these are true. Publishers charge exorbitant prices for an e-book compared to the physical book (sometimes 10x the cost). There have been attempts to restrict how many times a library can offer a book for loan (after all a physical book eventually wears out but an e book doesn't). Libraries are restricted to simultaneous use of a digital book to the number of copies (each one at full exorbitant price). It costs a library just as much to maintain and catalog a digital book as it does a physical book.

It seems sadly that only libraries are in this fight - I don't hear very much from the public except when books they want aren't available because we can't afford to buy multiple copies of electronic versions.
I hate taxes because I'm getting poor service for my dollar and I have no choice of alternative service providers.
I mainly found buyers from inbound emails and via SharesPost, EquityZen and Equidate (Forge).
I am not on the board.
The way I approached this, was to be upfront with the potential buyers and letting them know that the board is not allowing any transaction as far as I know.
Then we would draft a contract with their broker team and I would be sending it to my previous company's general counsel or CEO.
Each time it was received and responded to with "We do not authorize any transactions for now. Thanks, bye" which was very frustrating.
No recent outside investment AFAIK.
IIRC, the US hasn't done much at all, until pretty recently. I think recent actions of Google/YouTube, Twitter and Facebook are catching a lot of regulatory attention at this point.
SFPD don't even enforce homeless laws properly and let people live in same street in tents for years. However facial recognition wont fix any of this, and just make things worse.
I think you misunderstood, I was agreeing with you and expanding on your point. Not arguing.
Even restricted to the subset of what can be codified legally, you're wrong: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pruneyard_Shopping_Center_v._R...

Once someone sets up their "private property" as a public forum, they're on the spectrum of operating as a de facto government. If there were ideological competition between reverse proxies like Cloudflare, the "private association" argument would have weight. But rather Cloudflare seems to be acting due to pressure from an concerted effort to implement censorship across every such business.
I don't think it's useful to look from an individual standpoint at taxes aside from income tax. If you keep going you can say you pay 'tax' when you buy something on sales tax, but also on a companies profits which you are contributing to.

When you get to this point I think it's ,more useful to look at what proportion of a countries GDP is taken in by the government.
Yeah that's fair, from ppl I know at AI drug discovery companies it seems like selling to big pharma is tough. Potentially bc the people who assess the technical feasibility of your product may be put out of a job by it :/

Have you tried selling to startups? From what I've heard they are better customers for AI drug discovery services as there is less entrenched interest in manual med chem and they value lower cost / fast iteration more
More like "if you sell a product that they already have because it's from the same distributor and is the exact same product".

Well then what do you bring to the table for their consumers and why on earth would they pay more for yours. Don't like it? Try ebay.
Celery tasks vs. Microservice for long running periodic tasks
NOTE: TASK = makes some rest calls to a IAAS provider, updates various tables in Mysql database

I am currently using celery to manage the task queue. We have large (500 tasks per minute) number of adhoc task requests and long running periodic tasks. After some profiling and instrumenting the workflow, the task launches is adding latencies to the background job to accomplished. Also, based on celery beat, periodic poller tasks are long running ones, taking up around 6 to 8 minutes in duration, with periodicity of 10 minutes.

In the above scenario, would it be better to move to microservice's (async i/o, leaning towards starlette) that would be listening/subscribed to topic, pulls the request, completes it, and then waits for next request. Microservice runs forever. For every periodic task (celery beat), there is a microservice replacement. planning NATS for pub/sub

What would be the best approach for a scalable architecture (from 500 per minute to 4K per minute)?
This is what I use, and it is a great keyboard.
How so? Nobody invited them into his bakery.
EU has the advantage that most of its small and old cities are very dense. I think it makes a lot of sense to start removing cars from their city centers. Cars are not particularly efficient or convenient anyway in narrow streets. That being said I really wonder why Amsterdam still allows cars to drive in its rings.
Interesting. Not sure if it's location dependent, but I've had a considerably better/faster/stabler experience with cable. With DSL the connection keeps breaking all the time. And yes, Vodafone definitely has support/quality issues.
look up PSD2, which is an EU directive with the same objective, coming into effect in september this year. But I'm not entirely sure if 2fa is also necessary for login and not only for transactions.
Agree 100%. I'd believe that the DHS has identified Satoshi, but very very skeptical that they could use mass email collection to do it. Stylometry could work though if you limited your search to the set of people active on niche pre-Bitcoin lists/forums where Satoshi was likely to be active under a different name.
You shouldn't buy that ancient artifact