skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
C'mon.

Microsoft controlled Windows, an operating system. A browser is a thing that can be included in an operating system. Google controls google.com, a website. A browser is not something that can be included in a website.
should have named it differently;

Don't sweat it. I would guess that the name will amplify the amount of media attention it gets.
I think it depends on how you categorize the act of "choosing". It could be cognitive and evidence (more traditional idea of "choosing") based or it could be faith and/or feelings-based (it's not clear if this is "choosing").

There are a thousand religions/sects in the world. Most of them are exclusive (as in the 1st Commandment). You have to make a choice to affiliate yourself with one of them (although not everyone chooses to be specific to one denomination).

I don't think it's reminiscent of "1984" to say that people choose their religion. I think people choose who they want to be around and that tends to be among the largest predictors of religious affiliation.
My story: an interviewer stubbornly insisted that my code had to be O(n^2) because it had an inner loop, even though the inner loop was only iterating over the substructure of each element, rather than every pair of elements, and then demonstrated that he had no idea how to resolve a disagreement of that kind, and then immediately vetoed me from the rest of the day's interviews.

https://www.reddit.com/r/cscareerquestions/comments/1ilh7o/w...
I'm not really an anti-abortionist. You can replace 'child' with 'fetus', if you like; my point is just that the word itself applies to any preference over world states.
I would agree Fiber to the CAB is really all that home users need. A lot of the whining in places like Faringdon Central London is one or two business wanting to do freeload off consumer BB.

I helped my last company move at super short notice < 2 weeks and we got Last mile ethernet 70Meg as a stop gap before our 100 Meg line was delivered a month early
You know how long your budgeted for it. Which is fine up to a point, but when things go over budget then corners get cut. And that costs in time further down the road.
But the failure mode is different. Float breaks the illusion, but an overlay showing e.g. tagged objects, or dimensions of a box, remains intelligible even with some 'float'.

Meanwhile, latency in VR gives the feeling that 'the entire world is slightly wrong'. I imagine working despite the first problem is a lot easier than working despite the second one.
Google were sanctioned in 2017 for exploiting their dominance in the search market to promote their other services.

https://www.theverge.com/2017/6/27/15872354/google-eu-fine-a...
Thank you for the links - I appreciate it!
> doesn't imply an SLA

Without an SLA it's just a different label on the same package. If it offers the same (lack of) guarantees as any residential contract, and only costs marginally more then why would it be better? Why are they giving you substantially better service for just slightly more money if there's absolutely no contractual obligation? You're probably just in an area with better service.

When the service is crap do you threaten them with the label on the plan or with the SLA in the contract?
None of the other providers wanted to serve low value customers is the blunt reason.
It's interesting the internal memer used the "Unpopular Opinion Puffin". This meme image was banned from Reddit because it was frequently associated with racist ideas.

(See https://www.reddit.com/r/OutOfTheLoop/comments/26m7uq/why_ha... )

It almost seems like someone is trolling by using it. I wonder whose leg is being pulled here.
Here's an extremely detailed refutation that was published about two years ago: https://medium.com/@tweetingmouse/the-truth-has-got-its-boot...

It's on the first page of google search results for "refutation of james demore memo", as are several other similar pieces.
I pay around 8 dollars per month for unlimited internet. Speed varies between 90-100 Mbps + they gave me a free Wi-Fi router.

I live in Moscow. I've heard you can find even better deals here, but it all depends on your location. One block of a city is usually covered by 3-4 internet providers, so you have a choice, most of the time.

Customer support is top notch, they installed it the same day, never had any problems.

My providers is OnLime is you are interested.
This is not particularly new concept, but the internet is a huge market so the cake is big enough I guess.

His project reminds me of Marina Abramovic “The artist is present” she held in MoMA (https://www.moma.org/learn/moma_learning/marina-abramovic-ma...).
No, it’s been like that for decades. Only recently, with the rise of social media and public identities, have we seen such blatant representation and direct exposure in the workplace. I don’t think it’s healthy or productive.
Being on Amazon's Marketplace (the largest in the world), every sale gives Amazon all the statistics needed to pick only guaranteed profitable products. The sellers actually pay Amazon for the privilege of providing Amazon with these market tests!

Then Amazon requires the seller to produce invoices showing purchase of the items, usually with some sort of vague threat of suspending your account if they can't "verify the authenticity" of your products. The invoice, of course, has everything needed for Amazon to start sourcing the product themselves - and now they know your cost.

So they proceed to purchase the product, sell it at a loss until you can't hang anymore, and now Amazon is the sole source for the product.

It's brilliant, actually. But it's definitely Anti-Competitive.

Just like the "dumb pipes" argument with Net Neutrality - If you wanna run a Marketplace, you shouldn't be allowed to "compete" in the very same Marketplace. You should not be allowed to collect and then abuse all the data the Marketplace produces.
>Should Cloudflare be forced to host 8chan?

If they have a monopoly on a necessary infrastructure, yes.

Alternatively, should the local power company be forced to provide electricity service to a resident in their area they do not like?
Europe has had fantastic public transportation for a long time. I lived in Germany for three years in the 1980s, never had a car, and never felt I needed one. I traveled all over western Europe.
I would like to see where my tax $’s are going -itemized. I would like to see where any donations for any non profits are going - itemized...
"Medishare" programs work this way.
If you are offering your employees a paycheck, that is all they will work for. If you give them your companies assets, capital, and control over the org structure, then that is what they will work for. If you're offering them the opportunity to work on interesting problems, then maybe guarantee it in an employment contract. There is no reason to blame anyone for working to acquire the only things you're actually offering.
As abusive, anti-competitive practices continue to be improved on, we should not be constrained by outdated theories that only focus on 19th and 20th century phenomena.

The same applies to censorship. Manufacturing Consent described how the western powers could have the effect of censorship without outright censorship, and that's from over 3 decades ago.
I don't hate paying taxes. I hate that I have to "decide" how much I owe. I hate the persistent, nagging feeling that I did it wrong and the IRS may come after me a few years later.

I really wish the legislation allowing the IRS to actually tell you how much you owe would have survived...
The Desk-Sized Turbine That Can Power a Small Town (2018)
Why would it be?

I wouldn't put too much stock on the exact predicted delta, but more on the direction and rough order of magnitude of the change.
> I also hate large companies avoiding and shirking tax and leaving it to people to pay - I really hate that. Apple, Amazon etc etc all guilty of this

The method by which most of these companies avoid paying taxes does more to help their local and state communities than is appreciated.

It's profits that are taxed and they reduce profits by reinvesting those profits. Reinvesting profits results in more jobs. More jobs allow those that are employed as a result to put food on the the table for their family and a roof over their heads. It also allows those people to pay local, state and federal taxes and participate in those communities.

As a member of the communities where these companies operate, I'm happy that they do what they do to reduce federal taxes because much of what would have been federal taxes ends up in state and local coffers and increases employment opportunities for my neighbors and friends.
> Telekom has little incentive to invest in upgrading its infrastructure because it has to lease it out to its competitors anyway.

that's not always true. It's still not clear if they are allowed to upgrade without putting new cables in.

if the last-mile is on copper you can replace it with vectoring (FTTC+Vectoring) the problem is that it is only legally allowed if there is a second network, because LLU and vectoring is currently incompatible. and the telekom of germany needs to sublicense. and fttb (or better) is basically not feasible.
(exceptions prove the rule)

actually all cities between karlsruhe and freiburg will be gradually changed to use fttc+vectoring which will improve data rates up to 300mbit/40mbit (most often to 100/40 or 50/10)
smaller, more readable, faster, safer.
The core problem here is that you see the “thing” as “bundling a browser”, so your logical conclusion it that it is the “exact same thing”.

In reality, Microsoft was accused of several different acts - monopolisation, unlawful tying arrangements, unlawful exclusive dealing arrangements. It was not merely the fact that Microsoft bundled a browser, but the whole ecosystem and market position around that action. It is perfectly possible for two people or companies to perform the same action, and for it to be unlawful for one of them, because of the other circumstances surrounding the action.

It n a modern context, Google is not in the same position as Microsoft of the 90s. Microsoft, as the only viable provider of consumer operating systems, was in a unique market position. This alone is reason enough to scrutinise decisions to bundle products.
I’ll give your analogy a try.

Google could do that because the basic components were so cheap due to consumer imaging.

On the lab side, there’s no similar downward pressure for making more accurate automated pipettes cheaper - I fully believe it’s possible, but the market isn’t there. Also, with imaging books, you can get away with a lot since ML/cheap labor/etc can be thrown at the distortion correction problem. With lab tests, you can’t really accept that same amount of error (ok, you can iff you understand the distortion and can process more samples to compensate).

I do agree that most companies just want a service that works. The issue is that there’s no standardization. Depending on the assay you do, you will need wildly different setups and sensor systems. When you optimize whatever you are doing, often you have to re-tune your entire assay to bring it line with the new dynamic range of your output.

If that weren’t the case, companies like Emerald and Transcriptic would have succeeded years ago.

Selling things like DNA or cell lines have been the closest to a standard, scalable product. Otherwise, it’s just replacing armies of people at a CRO (Contract Research Org) with a custom project for automation and assaying (Zymergen’s model).
Zoom has a lot of UI/UX problems
> Anyways, this is just the hip thing of today

Observing that Amazon may be monopolizing isn't a new observation.

When they began competing against their vendors is when they crossed the line, in my opinion. The same goes for any marketplace. It is one thing to provide your vendors the tools and information they need to operate better, but then to act on that information yourself - the operator of the marketplace - that is pretty shady.
Are you seriously suggesting that China's angle here is to purchase economically-significant quantities of Bitcoin?
I always took "I'll know it when I see it" to actually mean "I want to see a whole lot of it!", as Edwin Meese demonstrated.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meese_Report

https://www.nytimes.com/1986/10/21/books/some-say-meese-repo...
Could we leave a helpful message for future civilizations in case we die out?
Also, "Voice" comes in two variants: Internally, or externally.

Much more preferable for the company if employees complain on an internal board rather than Reddit, HN, or Blind.
There's an Asimov short story called The Red Queen's Race which deals with this question: what if the ancient Greeks had received a few hints about modern chemistry? I won't spoil how it relates more directly to your question.
For those curious, IRS reported that in 2016, just over 16,000 people in the U.S. reported an adjusted gross income of $10 million or more.

555 of them took the standard deduction instead of itemizing!
The question was, IF science would present him with the gift of intolerance (considering that he put science as the arbiter for moral truths), would he accept it?

If Yes: he´s an ideologically driven twat.

If No: why bring up science when it literally has 0 to do with the domain of value-claims?

> "Evidently you believe science and rationality is the path to evil."

I am not sure how you got there considering the fact that I am part of that group myself but yea... seems like the concept of an if/else statement is a bit too hard to grasp
> I think at some point it goes up against the "yelling 'fire' in a crowded movie theater" exemption of free speech.

I would like to point out (not necessarily to parent) that this was an example of speech that was not protected by 1A in a case where a man was prosecuted by the government for trying to tell young Americans that they don't need to join the draft for WW1.

Also important: yelling fire in a crowded theater is entirely protected speech if you don't believe it to be false.
> There is more freedom in Amazon.

I have a friend who has been an online merchant for many years selling through their own website, Ebay, and Amazon.

I suspect they would burst out laughing, fall down, and start rolling around on the ground in hysterics if I repeated that to him.
Iran Seizes Oil Tanker Near Farsi Island
Is there anyone that has attempted to make an interactive map where you can see when the latest record temperature was set or something along those lines? It seems like records are being set every other day, which might not be very surprising considering the changes being done to our climate.
If this is about photolitographic 3D printing with resin, then I say not much is being disrupted. Those printers aren't that expensive now; the resin itself is quite expensive though.

The price of resin isn't directly comparable to the price of plastic used for FDM printing because one can print most models nearly hollow with FDM in an automated way (e.g. with honeybomb-like infill patterns), but I'm not aware of doing the same thing with resin with ease now, making the resin prints 10X the price of PLA ones.

Better software would disrupt that tech though.
What's the recommended gmail alternative for personal email?
The EU forced them to unbundle, not the US. We’re discussing US anti-trust cases which Google has not faced after years on dominance. And regardless, it’s too late. Google has already established dominance so unbundling now won’t stop people from downloading Chrome on Android. And how are they unbundling google search when it’s built into their voice search and google assistant?
Hogwash. The elected officials absolutely have control of the institutions that they are responsible for.

“Deep State” nonsense is a trope that is just plain dumb. Brought to you by the same people who cry and whine about judicial activism and appoint people specifically to change the law.
Good! Americas obsession with cars is one of its most glaring deficiencies. Every city should be accessible without a car, however unless you are in NYC, Chicago, or LA, or San Fran, well then that just isn't true.|
> I would say this example is also flawed because ...

1. I do not present any "example". I present only a fact within the parent's example.

2. None of the reasons you cite in the continuation invalidate my claims. "Accept the reality" does not erase anyone's rights.

> ... and making the parent feel even shittier than they already do ...

I do not see where I said anything remotely related to making any child's parent feel anything
If sub-divided into how they do it perhaps? One would be "things that anyone with enough scale and willingness to take low margins could technically
do" as opposed "things that serve only to lock out competition".

For the later if there is a proprietary format on something major and it shuts out competition for no benefit like say "screws only they manufacture and cannot easily take other standards" that would be "anti-competitive" as it does nothing to compete better.

For the previous say "better infastructure to lower per unit cost" and producing at an industry standard percentage profit margin could be called hypercompetitive as it does nothing to stop those with sufficient capital from scaling up.

In practice however both are classically anti-competitive. The later would by definition reduce the number of potential competitors to those with more resources.

There could be some arguements about how they are relatively bad they are and should be treated. Even if both should be "illegal" they are two different types like say arson and murder.
> Look at the graphs

http://tylervigen.com/spurious-correlations
What makes you think the managers are being renegades? They know the company details that you don't know: we have too many women claiming maternity benefits, we have too many people with skill X and not enough Y, etc. Again, HR's job is to handle the needs of senior management, and only until then will HR act against a manager.
My bank (BNP) opted to force me to click on big clear text buttons instead of typing my login code. And yes, it's a six digit numeric code. So the username is a clear text field, and you could read my code from 5m away without zooming while I login.

Should I ever get scammed on this account, I'll claim that their security BS must have been the entry and let them try and disprove that.
There are rules of engagement... and they are generally followed.
What evidence you got to the contrary? I can't give evidence because it is not possible to prove or disprove, hence the problem with all this diversity propaganda, it is a religion, not a some scientific conclusion.

But I can give examples of very homogenous societies or industries that succeeded beyond expectations. The funny thing is that unconsciously your example just prove my point. The tech industry is a phenomenal success and you know too well that it was mainly white (and some Asians) males who created and developed it. It is not without reason you bring this example of woman in a team. Japan or Korea is an example to a racially and culturally homogenous countries which succeeded.

If you look at almost any new idea in industry, science or arts, it was always a group of like minded people, not very diverse racially or sexually or culturally that pushed it forward. From blues music to hip hop (black man), from the personal computer to social media (white man) from anime to gaming (Asian man) etc. Homogenous groups is great.
I'm pretty confident it is the beginning of the end of civilization as we know it. Check back in 50-200 years I guess.
Sure, and that would be a fair criticism, to say, "is there a version of this that's more intuitive and easier to read with the same load on the server?" But the interviewer (assuming the OP faithfully represented the exchange and the domain) is insisting that the query does not do what was asked -- when it does -- and is saying so based on the interviewer's own incomplete understanding.

That's not a good reason to reject a candidate, even if there might be other good reasons in this case.
Yes but EVERY retailer does this. Every single store brand product you see (Costco, Target, Walmart, CVS, Walgreens, etc.) is a result of this. Cheaper products that meet the same demand as brand name vendor goods.

In fact customers are already trained for this. I walk into a store and I immediately price compare against the store brand. So if people doing the same on Amazon, why shouldn't Amazon be allowed to fulfill that? This was a thing in retailers a long time before Amazon started doing it.

If you look around in retail stores today its easy to see how everyone strong arms vendors just the same. For example, ever notice that all of Target's pen section all have a certain color and text printed on the bottom of their packaging indicating the type of pen (Gel, ballpoint, etc)? Target has forced every single vendor (massive companies like Bic, Sharpie, etc.) that sells writing implements in Target to change their packaging, create new SKUs, do different production runs, and handle the logistics of different versions of the same pen. All to be undercut in price by the Target brand pen.
There was a Hangouts on Air ? Its funny that some of these discontinued Google products seem to get more attention at their ending then at their start.
I agree.

Religion and politics.

Both super important. Both better discussed outside the workplace.
Yes but is Google search not the default search engine for Chrome? Just like IE was the default search browser for Windows.
That doesn't make it better.
In the last winters it barely snowed in Berlin, so I know quite a few people who kept riding their bikes all through the year.
Of course, use your head - if it is damp and then below zero, be careful. Common sense, really.

If all fails, public transport is decent enough to get you anywhere on foot. It's not perfect, I think mostly because Berlin is spatially huge and comparably empty. Cities like Paris have a much more dense public transport infrastructure. But I think you never need to walk more than ten to fifteen minutes (compared to a max of five minutes in Paris and London), which is acceptable.

There really isn't much of a reason to own a car if you live within the S-Bahn ring.
Proving that features are important, native controls...not so much.
Those numbers feel oddly very meaningful. Do you have an idea if you would:

> dedicate your adult life to meeting everyone currently alive on Earth, 7.3 billions, you can dedicate just over a quarter second to each.

How many people you haven't meet would be alive when you are done?

Edit: based on current rate there would be about 7,884,000,000 people born in those 60 years.
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i mean material science, computer science/ee (guidance) and many other disciplines are important to launching a useful rocket
https://reason.com/2013/04/18/taxation-is-theft/
Irrelevant.

The Secretary is accountable, and has people working for him or her who serve at the Secretary’s pleasure.
You'll still be able to bike, a life-pro tip is to get some gloves for winter biking.
From https://support.google.com/youtube/answer/7083786?hl=en:

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It was a razor scooter held up in such a way as to look like a gun.