skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The interviewee didn't define monopoly by anti-competitive behavior.

> Is Amazon a monopoly?

> Yes, monopoly power is defined as the power to control prices or exclude competition. Amazon has the power to do both. But being a monopoly on its own is not illegal under the antitrust laws. Illegal monopolization requires both 1) monopoly power and 2) that the firm acquired, enhanced, or maintained that power by using exclusionary conduct.
Governments and corporations will happily have majority of society not thinning and just following
Europe already benefits from lowered tariff and relaxed ownership rules that China made so far. The only thing that China seemed to be willing to entertain further is large purchase of US products, which means less purchase from everyone else. So Europe and other US allies like Canada and Australia should actually fear a US/China deal. There is a reason why this negotiation is bilateral -- in a multilateral setting you can not demand China to just buy US.
It can. System-wide it's one extreme or another. With overcommit enabled, you'll pretty much never get refused. With overcommit disabled, you'll get refusals was soon as you reach the max memory, which means lots of mapped pages wasting space.

The middle ground is your own config unfortunately - cgroups can limit available memory, but you'll have to set it up by hand.
Option-clicking on things, e.g. the wifi status symbol, will give you more detailed/different information.
Most of my friends are moving toward pirate TV boxes.

I'm thinking about it for my mom: the cableco's STB shows every channel in the guide, whether you get it or not. And you only realize it when you try to go to the channel.

They have updated the box to show more ads in the guide though... Argh.
Nice! This looks like a similar idea to [1] Zero Width Shortner, except you can actually see the characters!

[1] https://zws.im/
> More like "if you sell a product that they already have because it's from the same distributor and is the exact same product".

"More like"? That is a completely different scenario.
Agree, but this is only a decent bug report.

A better one would just make a C program that mallocs more memory than is available. The "open enough tabs so that it crashes part" is like "banana for scale", it is incredible unspecific. You could probably open HackerNews 50x more than espn.com
I think you are thinking of geosync?
Economist Israel Kirzner insisted that monopoly analysis is only applicable when the possibility of competition is eliminated, either legally or by the producer's sole control of the total supply of a resource necessary for the production of a good or service, and that the term should therefore be defined as such. In which case Amazon is not a monopoly, and we shouldn't be surprised to see continually falling prices and increasing quality.

http://rationalargumentator.com/issue118/Kirzner3.html
Seems like they are trying too hard, and actually made the message more cryptic than it needs to be.

Why not say "nuclear" or "radiation"? It seems very unlikely that the entire species will completely forget about the concept of nuclear radiation.
All things aren't equal because the company doesn't have the money it used to buy back and cancel the shares any more. If the shares were appropriately priced before then each outstanding share is worth about the same after.
> Religious freedom doesn't come before...

It's literally the first right in the Bill of Rights. I'm not saying anything about gay rights, just that freedom of expression lays the foundation for all other rights
In the book Singularity Sky [0], mankind invented the first time-looped computer, and it cycled up to a godlike overlord. After making a lot of very disruptive changes (which of course seem to be immediate to everyone else) it seems to have become surprisingly disinterested or uninvolved.

Anyway, it has only one hard "commandment": Nobody can violate causality anywhere inside its own historic light-cone, since doing so could be a potential attack (or competition) to its own existence.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Singularity_Sky
1st amendment issue. As in persons, including those that own companies have the right to associate or not associate(1) with whomever they choose. As upheld in USA with https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NAACP_v._Alabama

1) The "not associate" is not clearly as protected and is frequently abridged to protect "protected classes" eg housing, employment, ADA laws. I doubt any US court will uphold "bigot" as a protected class.
There's the rub. Different people in different situations will want different outcomes from a low-memory situation. One of those different outcomes has to be the default.
I thought Higher Learning portrayed that quite well too.
My MBP is late 2016, and just a few weeks ago they replaced my butterfly "second-gen v1" keyboard with the "second-gen v2" keyboard.

The tactile touch is noticeably different (more "rubbery") and some of the modifier keys (ctrl/opt) look different. It definitely feels like a welcome upgrade.
The behavior is even worse if you leave swap enabled, as I already detailed in my post...
learn how the world works kiddo
What's the other option, though? It gets a fault for a page somewhere, it needs memory, and it has none. You have to evict something. What's your choice if not swap or filesystem-backed pages?

Systems have never operated well under true VM pressure. Not in the 90's, not now. When the working set goes beyond available memory performance falls off a cliff.

And the report in the article doesn't seem to have a good comparison anyway. I mean, do we seriously believe that Windows or OS X can handle this condition (4G, no swap) better? I mean, swap is default for a reason.
You're thinking of Kelvin. Celsius does indeed require the degree symbol.
Canning is a fairly recent invention, too; I believe it was Napoleon who sponsored its invention to support the needs of his armies.
The tech giant is its own judge and jury.

IMHO to be complete the law should require web widget providers to serve what it says on the tin.

AND NOTHING ELSE

If it is a button so that users can bookmark articles on the facebook website then it shall only do that, nothing else. And so on: the webmaster must host the image himself. If the functionality can be accomplished with html there shall be no javascript. If there is a need for javascript it will be hosted by the webmaster and shall require consent before calling home to the mothership.

For example, visiting a store doesn't give the store owner the right to search your bag.

Then lets not stop there and include all advertisement???

The advertiser knows the topic of the website he is advertising on, he knows what kind of audience is attracted by a specific article. He can place his advertisement at the top or the bottom to further filter down.

This gives him everything he need to advertise his product on that website. The web master can host the images. A neutral 3rd party, preferably a government agency, can track impressions and provide the advertiser with a crude estimate of traffic by region.

I think it shouldn't stop at having other people do all kinds of things and pay for it. The EU could easily fund its own technologies.

THE EU could give you [say] a Facebook like button in html and require you use it. That they have their own TOS is just irrelevant. Or worse, Facebook shouldn't have to invest in terms of service. We should have detailed laws removing the need for a TOS. Standard laws for social networks should apply.

A restaurant owner doesn't have to clutter up his place with 100 no smoking signs. There is no contract to sign before you can eat.
android has something similar, the low memory killer daemon (lmkd).

both use the recently added pressure stall information (PSI)[0] infrastructure in the kernel to determine when the system is overloaded.

[0] https://lwn.net/Articles/775971/
Not a shortcut exactly, but remap caps lock to ctrl.

So much easier in terminal and for using shortcuts like ctrl-A & ctrl-E for beginning and end of line, etc.
lkml.org is not official
Further to the comments about the pager hammering the disk to read clean pages (mainly but not exclusively binaries) even if swapping is disabled: In many cases adding swap space will reduce the amount of paging which occurs.

Many long-lived processes are completely idle (when was the last time that `getty ttyv6` woke up?) or at a minimum have pages of memory which are never used (e.g. the bottom page of main's stack). Evicting these "theoretically accessible but in practice never accessed" pages for memory frees up more memory for the things which matter.
I'd much rather have OOMkiller trigger than have my system sit completely unresponsive for huge chunks of time, while I slowly struggle to kill something.
How many people die from crashes related to delivering packages in our current form?

I'm guessing its != 0
This is allowing perfection to be the enemy of the good. It's not necessary for an action to completely solve a problem to make it worth doing, it's OK if the action just helps.
Trump asks social media companies to ‘detect mass shooters before they strike’
Violence has generally fallen since the early 90's, or at least data collection of violence has fallen, and the suspected reason is technology. Cell phones, internet, video games, might not only lower street crime (by changing drug distribution) but also, through social atomization, by giving people alternative social outlets than ones full of people they'd get into altercations with.

So one angle is direct social technology designed to somehow lower the crime rate. Just spitballing here, how about some improved version of NextDoor?

Another angle: Make it easier to talk to the police. For example, in Baltimore, a lower proportion of murders are getting solved than a few years ago because people won't give police information, and there is now a higher rate of murders, too. To improve the rate at which people report crimes, make it much easier for people to talk to the police. Have the social networks expose the local police department as part of the community in some way. (I don't really know how to make this work.)
> I had thought that this was a great opportunity for blockchain, if identity could be solved reliably.

If identity could be solved reliably, you wouldn't need a blockchain.
Stephanie Kwolek, the woman who gave us bulletproof vests and yoga pants
It happened with smoking.

The pattern will repeat with flying, decreasing population growth, and moving the economy from producing so much disposable stuff.

But we're still in the stage where everyone thinks of what they'll miss, not what they'll gain.
I don’t expect a service delivery company to use hobbyist components. That’d be s recipe for disaster. One would think they’d put something like this though its paces before testing it out in public. I’d expect they buy aerospace grade components where possible and build their own to spec where needed.
Apple isn't the most cash-rich company in the world anymore
Ok, then you don’t need the new MBPs.

There are people that need them, get the most out of the least weight, frown at the bad stabilities of the 2015 era switches (and yes, I love the butterflies), not using the fn keys, e.g.

I get that, you’re not the target market. That doesn’t justify reverting everything the new MBP has.

I just can’t understand why all HNers get from ‘I hate the MBP’ to ‘Apple is wrong!’.

There is a reason why the MBPs from '16 -'18 is one of the most successful ones; the touchbar, the butterfly keyboards, soldered SSDs are there for a reason.
This can benefit the consumer at the expense of the supplier. The lower Walmart can lower the price, the lower Walmart can offer the product.
Another curiosity you get is difficult to spell/pronounce names. The article mentions Phtheria which is already tricky. A few other fun ones are Cnidaria and Ctenophora (both phyla containing some varieties of jellyfish) where in both cases the c is silent.
Commercial drones can push to 10^3 hrs but that's still far cry from aviation standards of 10^5 hrs. According to this nav system and fuel+actuators are two big failing components: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6165073/pdf/sen...
I think the difference from a psychological point of view is that getting a drone drop randomly on your head feels, well random. Therefore it does not feel like you can do much of anything to avoid it, unlikely though it would be in practice. Getting killed by a terrorist or mass killer feels equally bad because it is random.

But something like sky divers getting killed does not bother me because I can avoid it, by not sky diving. Just like I can choose not to drive and so avoid almost any chance of being killed by another driver. It is the randomness and the fact you cannot avoid it that, I think, makes to less acceptable.
NPP is a joke. There's a limit of $1,000 for transfers. It doesn't always work if you don't use a PayID.

Compare that to Faster Payments which easily works with 250k with or without a PayID
Are you using some sort of ML trained on Cultural/Media Studies papers to generate this? I'm struggling to work out if this post actually says anything. Granted, I've never been a strong reader and struggle with verbiage.
I don't think it's that disruptive. One thing that the 2009 roadmap for additive manufacturing has emphasized is the need to move from point to line and area deposition[0]. This still scans a point like stereolithography has done since the beginning. We now have stereolithography machines capable of area deposition by using a DMD projector[1], often called DLP, that are approaching manufacturing products at high volume[2]. Some DLP stereolithography machines now have resolution on the order of 10 micrometers over a 160 mm by 50 mm area[2]. We're having to develop new ways to describe 3d geometry just so that we can take advantage of this resolution. So there is potential here for both fast and incredibly high resolution using DLP stereolithography. We've also seen the development that the 2009 additive manufacturing roadmap couldn't anticipate: volumetric deposition[3].

In addition, there are some potential disadvantages to prism scanning. Prism scanning can only do raster scans, we can't define the outline of a part in vector mode. Although I will admit that this may not be as much of a problem if we can control the brightness of our laser. In addition, in stereolithography it is advantageous to carry out raster scans perpendicular to each other, this is because the photopolymer contracts as it cures and scanning in both directions helps make this contraction uniform.

[0]https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/4716/c69f0b90a158589e54248a...
[1]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UpH1zhUQY0c
[2]https://www.carbon3d.com/case-studies/adidas/
[3]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=31xHZvUP1Ls
Show HN: Sell Access to a Private GitHub Repo in 20 Seconds
This is an emotional answer: "any failure...potential... large weight... person... show stopper". That's emotions speaking, we need probabilities and reason instead (because a delivery truck should trigger the same fear with you but it doesn't).

Planes ARE the safest way to travel: maybe drones are the safest in certain conditions, like for these urgent hospital deliveries in Switzerland, or in dangerous/isolated settings. And maybe drones will become safer and safer, like with parachutes in the article.

Okay the parachutes will need Dyneema strings instead of simple ones, just like parachutes were used before Dyneema was invented. Oh wait, someone's working on Dyneema parachutes for drones: https://www.textilemedia.com/latest-news/mobiletex/drone-par...

As you can see, there's no reason to throw the baby out with the bathwater. Find how you can save lives and make the world better, not how to use emotions to exert power and kill Freedom. The world needs innovation more than ever, be it electronic cigarettes or self driving cars or drones.
I wonder if biometry (e.g. a fingerprint) could be reliably used as the private key (and thus the identity on the blockchain). That is, without a 3rd party / external system.

For trust, the network (as any blockchain network) would have to be properly decentralized, and (good or at least benevolent) people would have to be incentivized to run the network. I.e. there would be a monetary value (a coin, or a token), which would have its own pros and cons as seen by various parties.

(Mentioning fingerprints, I cannot but reference the movie Southland Tales, which in my view was the most prophetic movie ever made.)
People getting hit on the head is not acceptable whilst the technology and standards mature. A few rockets blowing up, without hurting anyone, is acceptable whilst technology matures.
U.S. Senator Sends Letter to Amazon CEO on Capital One Hack
Linux resource scheduling and prioritization and is pretty awful compared to its popularity.

TBH, there are very few OSes that get high-pressure resource scheduling and prioritization right under nearly all normal circumstances.

The hackaround for decades on Linux is always adding a tiny swap device, say 64-256 MiB on a fast device in order to 0) detect average high memory pressure with monitoring tools 1) prevent oddities under load without swap (as in OP example).
Which is why I called it 'extreme'.

I'm not advocating Japan's strict societal ideology, just pointing out that Western society's "intolerance is bad" (i.e. therefore I can give "zero fucks" about my bad behaviour) is also a problem.
Only if the billionaires don't spend, invest or hold it in a bank.

Any of the three, it will go back to the market and result in inflation.
New NOAA app brings earth and space animations to your phone
Not a shortcut exactly, but get some app that adds shortcuts to snap the current window to various presets. I use Spectacle, but there are several.
You would, because without blockchain, you can still lie about what was done by (or with) that identity, and when.
>But in the meantime, is a $13 keyboard cover a good idea to fix a $1,300+ machine?

No.

That cost, what, $5 to make and ship? Or, at Apple's scale, $.50? I think it's inexcusable.
Step 1) Make sure the guy in charge of bringing election security bills to vote on the Senate floor can't accept campaign donations from voting machine companies [1].

Step 2) Bring election security bills to vote on Senate floor.

[1] https://www.newsweek.com/mitch-mcconnell-robert-mueller-elec...
If you hold down option in Xcode while cleaning the build from the menu, "Clean Build" turns into "Clean Build Folder" which applies to all targets.
Can we please stop using the "alt-right" euphemism for racist, backwards, literal Nazis?

Edit: seems we have some Nazi-sympathizer downvoters on HN.

Go figure.
Why not ask the NSA to do so?
I don't understand how you can ever have a just society if society can deem at any point that your property is too valuable for you to hold anymore. Of course they happens in society today, but I don't see how making it easier for property to be forcibly reallocated would help create a more just society.
That social process is exactly why freedom of speech matters.
The system has already exist, that is the one who can force (persuasively or physically) other their rightness get to decide. In this case cloudflare has the power to decide whether 8chan is allowed or not in their platform.

If you think they are wrong then you have to gain power to be more powerful than them to override it (by gaining mass support, government support or any other means).

I don't think it's possible to have any other system.
I mean, there's like 40 days to renew a domain once it expires. So you want to extend 40 days to 365? [1]

The thing is, if you forgot to renew your domain, and didn't do it even 40 days after the expiry date, are you going to do it 365 days after?

I think 40 days is a lot of time to check your email and see 20 emails from your registrar screaming at you to renew...

[1] https://www.dynadot.com/community/help/question/renewal-grac...
The US constitution does not have a monopoly on the definition of "censorship". Just because government censorship is the only kind it talks about doesn't mean the word doesn't extend to censorship imposed by other entities.
If there are people, there are politics.
I think paper ballots should be collected at each polling location.

I also think paper ballot totals from each polling location should be published publicly in a variety of forms, so that the totals can be added independently.
That article seems to be referring to winged UAV drones (e.g. Predator) not the quadcopter-type drones used for deliveries.
People often miss a big point here. Delivery truck crashing into car is a human mistake. There was another human involved who could have severe punishment including death, loss of job, loss of wealth etc. Humans killing 10,000 humans each day in driving mistake is not same as drones killing 10,000 humans each day due to random tech failure. Even if drones killed only 1000 humans and there was a net reduction of 90% of deaths, I bet it would not be acceptable to larger human society.

You can do a thought experiment: Let's say airplanes failed at 100X of current rates but it was relatively still less number of deaths if people drove that distance by themselves. Would you be able to argue airplane failure rate was still acceptable? For drones, I bet there would be an immediate movement for banning the whole thing if there was a single drone ever fell on playing kindergartners randomly. This is one situation where just bringing data and making rational arguments don't work.
The department of defense, and any contractors in the running for that "cloud-agnostic architecture" do not have the capability to provide a service the would be 50% as good as what they would get out of the box with AWS. (or azure, or GCP).
> Amazon has the power to do both.

No they don't.

If Amazon significantly raises prices it charges customers, or lowers prices it pays suppliers, to above/below what Walmart or a hundred others do, are the customers and suppliers going to stay with them? No. When they don't put you in their store, can they also prevent you from reaching the same customers through any other store? No.

The fact that they can choose not to buy from you, or won't pay more than a given price, doesn't make them a monopoly. Anybody can do that. The mom and pop coffee shop on the same corner with six other mom and pop coffee shops, a Dunken Donuts and two Starbucks can do that. But the fact that they won't do business with you doesn't mean you can't sell your goods for a similar price to the same end customers through a hundred competitors, which is why they're not a monopoly.
When I’m feeling particularly trollish, I sometimes ask those recruiters “what specifically impressed you?” I have yet to get an answer.
Shift+Cmd+4 for screenshot(s)
Also his short story, Calorie Man: http://www.sfcenter.ku.edu/Sci-Tech-Society/WINDUP-STORIES.h...
To Catholics, as with all Christians, God is Jesus Christ.[1]

The Islamic view is that Jesus of Nazareth was a prophet.[2][3] (The audio answer is a bit long, but quite good.)

The argument that Allah is the same as the Father in the Christian trinity depends on various heresies[4] (incorrect claims), maybe one of Monarchianism, Sabellianism, Tritheism.

So, no, neither religion accepts that they are one and the same. And this is due to central tenets of each respective faith.

[1]: http://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0015/__P1I.HTM

[2]: http://www.askislam.org/people/prophets/jesus/question_566.h...

[3]: http://www.askimam.org/public/question_detail/40921

[4]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_movements_declared_her...