skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think the general impression is the opposite: people talked about breaking up Microsoft, they lost an anti-trust suit for overplaying their Windows hand to try to corner the internet, and ever since they've been using their OS to gain a foothold in new markets as opposed to cornering them, and being happy with being the boring second or fifth placed option. So what was done worked well enough. Sure, MS has acquired large minority shares of lots of markets, but they're not exactly setting the agenda the way Google does with Android, Amazon does with logistics or Facebook says it wants to with currency and it also isn't a de facto moderator of any significant arenas for political debate, so nobody's interested in that angle either.

Agree on the whole meh thing. I don't think journalists care about Google hurting their publisher's ads, but I do think they care about not pitching a thinkpiece from 1995...
Better not to count the chickens before they hatch. In general, with companies that are doing well, I'm doing as well as any investor would. With companies that failed, I walked away with $0 and no hard feelings. There are some in the middle that an aggressive investor could have gotten more money out of in return for some hard feelings. But as you say, most of the returns come from the big wins so it's best to spend your effort on finding more of them.
Lack of competitive pressure?

You can run a few Linux distros as a reasonable desktop OS, with corporate support and all, if you want.

You can run Apple machines and software for desktop computing, as many companies do.

On servers, Windows is a minority.

MS Office is, of course, a one of a kind thing. Still it's interoperable with other software, within reason, and just reaps the benefits of the network effect, much as other specialized "industry standard" software.

As a monopoly, MS's position is weak now.
You can be arrested for driving on a suspended license, and it can be either a misdemeanor or a felony.
> Laundry. That just might be the perfect example. What a huge division of experience between the wealthy and the less wealthy.

While a bit off-topic: I never understood why a lack of washing machines in flats is such a huge issue in some countries.

In Germany, most flats come with a connector for your own washing machine, those that don't have on inside the flat often have them in the basement, where every party living in the house just adds their washing machine.

Public laundromats do exist, but from what I can gather they are quite underutilized because there's barely any demand.

Does anybody happen to know why these vast differences in "washing machine availability" exist in other countries? Is it really that much more expensive to lay the water/wastewater lines for washing machines inside the flats? Doesn't all that just plug into the same plumbing that's already there?
* A cross-MacOS platform Reddit client ...

It is not cross-platform in the normal sense as in supporting Windows and Unix flavors.
Just yesterday I downloaded a couple of kind-of-documentary-videos from Youtube about submarines, for example https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FwTS3FYGhOc (the doc itself is not great but the resolution/detail of the video is good).

I was astonished to see that they have screens (touchscreens?) everywhere!

I was naive in this area and thought that at least submarines would rather have physical switches or at most something similar to the screens of jet fighters (e.g. http://falcon4.wdfiles.com/local--files/avionics%3Amfd/mfd_m... ) where any switch/option/selection is displayed at the border of the screen and mapped to a physical button on its rim, but that's apparently not the case.

I thought so because I thought that whoever uses the controls would like to have a physical feedback about switching a switch/button especially in a critical/stressful situation - but maybe they still get some kind of feedback (e.g. some external sound or vibration?)?
I like Teams for a similar reason: it is replacing Skype for Business. Properly persisted group chat is a must have for remote teams, and SfB didn't really have that. Or actually it did ("chat rooms"), but it's one of those bolt-on features that requires cooperation of an administrator to set up. Impossible to get done in a big corporation.

(Now if only if I could convince my colleagues to use Teams properly with N people in a channel instead of continuing to have N^2 one-to-one chats about the latest crisis...)
Find a permanent job at BigCo. Take mortgage and buy a house. Spend lots of time with family and support your wife morally, but do not "spoil" her. Start saving for kid(s) education. Plan for 2. Congrats and good luck.
His memory is remarkable. Even when he talks about politics he seems to know and remember more than virtually anyone else I’ve ever seen.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20679387
you know of something like this in Python? I know enough js to read that but I'd prefer python
There are plenty of countries that have cheaper and better internet right now.
As the NSA and NRO have gotten more PR, I think the NGA has taken the mantle of "biggest intelligence agency you've never heard of".

Probably the most famous thing about the NGA is the time when President Obama was doing a meet-and-greet at a Five Guys in the DC area. He asked someone in line where they worked, and when the answer was "National Geospatial-intelligence Agency" it sounded like it was Obama's first time hearing about it Edit: Link to video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X1TxMKaYHYA&t=5m55s
Because PCs and Office productivity software are a niche, and it’s hard to argue their market leadership in a niche is being illegally exploited to take over other markets.

What markets? Well, the only one that matters right now is cloud, as it’s gradually eating the entire enterprise software and hardware industry, with hundreds of billions of dollars at stake.

Put another way, Microsoft certainly bought their #2 position in cloud with Azure by being early to market relative to Google, but also by having a huge sales field with Microsoft Windows/Office licensing true-ups to use as discount incentive to buy Azure credits.

Is this illegal? It would be a difficult argument to say so. Given Google’s position with search and Android, Amazon’s market position in cloud, Microsoft is a middle pack player everywhere now. Huge, but middle of the pack.

The only argument that holds some water (per this article) is that Microsoft is big, and big is bad for consumers, therefore, they shouldn’t be big. But it’s vague and really would depend on the judge hearing the case. Amazon has the same argument against it as with Microsoft, but it would be hard to prove they’re harming consumers.

Windows use has very little ability to drive Azure adoption beyond pure financial sales games - you give me a few percentage points more off Windows and Office and I’ll buy some of your Azure. That’s common in any sort of industry transition. Oracle is doing the same thing just very late, with a questionable service and with less success. IBM too.

What’s interesting is most posters in this thread are still fighting 20 year old battles. PCs are maybe 27-28% of the market of computing devices these days. The battle has moved on to cloud services (Amazon being the far away leader) and mobile devices (mostly setted there too, by Google, though Apple’s iOS business alone is larger than all of Microsoft).
I think the real answer is that relatively few people use GNU/Linux
This is an issue with SAML pass through and should be fixed soon.

Not a Microsoft developer or even read the road map before posting this comment. Ouook, Zoom, etc already do this and it would be foolish of M$ not to fix this soon.
Just FWIW, the Strong Towns team would mostly agree with what you're saying.[1]

Chuck would liken spending public money on things that don't have a measurable return on investment to "ice cream." There's room for ice cream in life. The problem is when its your entire diet.

What we're more worried about is that cities are losing so much money on bad investments that they're increasingly unable to afford "bread and butter," let alone ice cream.

And to be clear, as a response to this problem Strong Towns doesn't advocate stopping all spending/investment, but rather to take a careful approach that seeks to invest in things that produce a return, so the city will have more resources over time, so that there's money to pay for ice cream :)

I understand why you might get your impression though. Strong Towns content mostly is a blog stream and you can read a lot of it without getting the entire picture. Chuck's book is coming out pretty soon [2], and I think that'll help. The book boils down the entire Strong Towns "philosophy" (if you will) into something you can read in a day.

[1] Source: I'm on the board.

[2] https://www.strongtowns.org/strongamerica
Is the AMP cache any different from any other CDN caching assets other than that it is owned and prioritized by Google? Does that fact alone make it faster? If so, are we as a community okay with this imperialist strategy by Google?

And prerendering is absolutely viable and in practice all over the place apart from AMP. Here's Chrome's own docs on it: https://www.chromium.org/developers/design-documents/prerend...

Is the AMP-specific prerendering another abuse of Google's position despite them using the technology elsewhere?

It just seems like this is not technology specific, but prioritization of tech created by a giant company that owns nearly everything and must own more.
"All the parts falling off this care are of the very finest British manufacturing".
I thought it was interesting that there is a kind of positive feedback on conspiracy theory stuff - people share it so it trends and goes exponential in a way that boring factual type stuff might not. I was wondering if you could use machine learning pick out stuff that looked like that and damp down the spread by mechanisms similar to HN where you move it down the list and so on.
> So that theory doesn't seem to pan out.

There are many reasons why my theory could still be valid but the circumstances have not yet kicked in. Awareness of the potential for profit could be missing. I assume the cost of installing EV charge stations is still coming down. EVs are definitely still largely a luxury item in north america, so usually owned by drivers with garages. and of course, the percentage of EV cars could still be too low to justify the infrastructure.

So, my theory may be wrong, but I'm pretty sure it's still largely untested.
>If the deepest call yields, what code is executed? Does it “jump back” to the top ala “longjmp” or it needs to return back up the stack frame by frame?

It goes back frame-by-frame. Yielding (ie returning `Poll::Pending`) is essentially returning "I'm not ready yet" and it's possible the parent future wants to do something else in that case.

The simplest case is a future that wraps a collection of futures and resolves to the value of the first one that resolves. In this case it would cycle through each child future and only return `Pending` if all of them return `Pending`.

Another case is that of a timeout future that wraps another future - it would resolve to `Err(TimedOut)` if the wrapped future returns `Pending` for too long.

>And what happens when it resumes execution?

The top-most future of the task is all the executor knows about, so the executor has no choice but to start from there.
> Or perhaps Microsoft has successfully avoided receiving the same level of antitrust scrutiny as the Big Four because it is neither primarily consumer-facing like Apple or Amazon nor does it operate a platform with a significant amount of political speech via user-generated content (UGC) like Facebook or Google (YouTube).

I can see it being that. MS is not as much in the business of manufacturing consent, using Chomsky and Herman's famous book title. But, all those other companies do it to some extent, though, maybe Apple less so. The journalists from traditional media see these companies eating their lunch, so to speak, and they've been taking jabs at them periodically.

Regular consumers, perhaps mostly the conservative ones, also think they are being manipulated so it resonates with them. So in a way the tech companies managed to make enemies on both sides of the aisle. However, I imagine they'll be fine. I don't see any of them actually getting broken up, especially when they've been spending close to $20M/year in lobbying https://www.opensecrets.org/orgs/summary.php?id=d000067823.
> I have never once seen someone say that it's irresponsible for security engineers to point out flaws in software.

I've got news for you, it happens all the time. I can't open my mouth without some Microsoft lackey shouting irresponsible at me.
Yes, displaying "Stripe (The Real One)" would work pretty well too. Nobody (that I have seen) has proposed any way to summarize the asinine world of trademarks into either.

And that is just one, US-centric, piece of the puzzle. We got into a terrible situation with corporate legal entities; trademarks will not help either.

(Also pretty disappointed you are not going to point out the fact you run a company dedicated to selling EV certificates: https://certsimple.com/)
Please educate us on your compliance requirements that allows you to 'throw the baby out with the bath water'
Argentina Exposes the Market’s Inner Snowflake
Nix/Guix are quite cool to tackle this.

They are progressing quite quickly towards reproducible builds, so you can avoid compromised servers sending malicious binaries.

Also, since package definitions are quite declarative, I guess it's easier to perform static verification to spot malicious code getting introduced there.

There's e.g. Vulnix that scans for CVEs [1].

[1] https://github.com/flyingcircusio/vulnix
Live Dashboards on DynamoDB – Using DynamoDB Streams with Lambda and ElastiCache
Microsoft has already weathered an antitrust suit. That's likely a big part of why it doesn't come up.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_v._Microsoft_C....
Currently #3 on the front page: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20676904
Insane comment!
A small set of well-placed cameras, image processing, and some number crunching. You know... draw the rest of the owl ;)
> Unfortunately Rust cannot use the same trick as is is llvm based and llvm doesn't support that technique.

This is a bit mistaken; ancient versions of Rust (but not so ancient that they weren't using LLVM) were, like Go, everything-is-implicitly-async, and Rust used the same strategy as Go to manage stacks (to the extent that the old language reference listed Go in its (rather long) list of precursors, specifically calling out its split stack approach).

The ultimate reason that Rust switched away from Go's approach is for interoperability with C. If your stacks are the size of C stacks, and if your language doesn't feature a pervasive runtime, then interoperability with C is nearly trivial, and this was something that Rust dearly desired (and has benefited greatly from, IMO).

Ultimately one should not look at Rust's chosen approach and assume that it represents some grand rebuke of alternative approaches to asynchronicity. If you have different constraints, then a Go-style approach is lovely. For a language at the level of Rust, different tradeoffs may dominate.
Buybacks are just money changing hands. A company has extra money that they can’t invest well, so they buy out some of theirs owners instead. The money doesn’t disappear. It goes to owners who can pay taxes with it, invest in bonds to make roads, invest in startups, buy cars.

The idea that companies that can’t invest well should be forced to spend like drunken sailors is a bit silly.
Good for him, I hope he finds happiness. BUT...

My ex worked for [MAJOR VIDEO GAME PUBLISHER] and if he gets a job like that: say goodbye to your friends, family, nights and weekends.

I had dinner with my ex yesterday -- even tho [MAJOR VIDEO GAME] has been released for a while now there's DLCs coming out before the holidays and it's crunch AGAIN...my ex is working 6-7 days a week, 10am-10pm. The co has offices in several timezones so work is always flooding in, 24 hours a day.

I don't want to discourage anyone from following their dreams, and maybe indie vg publishing is a different beast, but I feel like this post potentially under-represents how crushing working in vg publishing can be.
The "businesses renting out their lots after hours" is an interesting model, though in high-density areas it's not clear that this would be enough, and might not be well co-located with residential demand.

City-owned public infrastructure (i.e. lamppost charging) makes a lot of sense too, but infrastructure changes are slow and expensive, and will certainly lag far behind demand. It might be a way for municipalities to earn revenue, though.

One could also imagine how much self-driving might help this: The car could pilot itself to a nearby charging station/lot without any inconvenience to the owner. But we are not there yet with capability, so this remains a near-term problem.
"But for a lot of perceived problems, there will simply be no supplement-based solution."

[Citation needed.]

This is an interesting question, actually- what problems is the research cited by Examine claiming to improve, which you have evidence cannot possibly be improved by the use of supplements?

As far as I can tell, too, your critique of Examine is really a critique of scientific papers in general. If the scientific studies have a flawed premise, you are right that that flawed premise would carry over to Examine, since they cite lots of scientific papers.

Which is sort of like critiquing Examine for not having God-like omniscience as to what is universally true and not true. This is not a fair critique.

And I also think that a lot of criticisms of Examine and other websites basically want to absolve the users of all personal responsibility.

I am extremely informed about health and supplements, and I have a ton of trust of Examine based on past experiences, and I also would never take its summaries as the gospel truth.

I always check a lot of other websites, sometimes skim the scientific papers themselves, and then use a personal experimental protocol if I think an experiment is warranted.

You must assign users some responsibility. (Although even if we hold users responsible, Google should not be giving higher search rankings to such comparatively crap websites.)
Many people who are not programmers per se come into contact with databases that use SQL enough that they might absorb a few random concepts or names for things.

So, some bureaucrat might in fact know "NULL" because they type a command into a database every Tuesday to run a report.
Well, going out on a limb here, there should still be some way to give a statistical apprehension of how likely such mutation could be over time. But I'm not aware if there's any feasibility of doing that today.
I'm ignorant? Do you know how many supercharging stations there are in my area?

Google "Tesla Chargers BC". The closest one to me now is literally hundreds of kilometers away. There are places near me, places that I sometimes work, that are literally a thousand kilometers from a tesla supercharger. Please do not assume that everyone lives in teslaland.
Yes, and we need ones that aren't in the USA's jurisdiction, too.
Interestingly we do not have issues like this within our company. Recently switched from emails to Ms team and have never used slack. We are pretty happy with ms team with for few reasons: screen share, seems video or audio call, great support on desktop and mobile app, connection with everything Microsoft like word, excel, onenote etc. we are greatly enjoying it.
Puh. The photos are really disturbing. I really recommend anyone not to do what I just did...
None of these are examples of "apolitical" stances. They are people on the margins who are not able to vocalize what they feel to be in their best interests, either way. To hold an apolitical stance under duress is not really to hold an apolitical stance.
I am not a lawyer, but I likely have had more at-bats with the credit reporting agencies and financial institutions on this and related issues than almost all lawyers and, I mean this literally, every other person on HN.

I think you will, if you consult an attorney, be advised that you are unlikely to prevail in your cause of action under a libel theory. Your lawyer is likely going to point to the pre-emption parts of FCRA, specifically 15 U.S.C. § 1681h(e) and 15 U.S.C. § 1681t(b).

The general tenor of this conversation is going to be "When Congress wanted to regulate the credit reporting industries, they and interested parties made a trade: a very consumer-friendly state machine and freedom to operate the state machine. Part-and-parcel to this trade was radically reducing legal risks to the financial industry and CRAs outside of the state machine. If you're going to claim that Congress didn't want to pre-empt state laws, you're going to be walking uphill against legislative history, the plain text of the statute, and every canon of statutory construction."

Separate from the legal issue, I think HNers might be surprised to learn that the state machine pretty routinely achieves the objectives. A determined, literate, and well-organized person will routinely achieve the outcome they desire from it, even with the other side of process being the largest lenders in America. This is a surprising result in consumer lending when reasoning from first principles ("Shouldn't Bank of America's legal team always or approximately always crush a Kansan grandmother?") but I believe, from a few hundred at-bats, it to be true.
I initially thought you were wrong, but you are not.

“Monopolization” [0], which a Wikipedia section on “Sherman Act of 1890” [1] lead me to, is maintaining a monopoly “through conduct deemed unlawfully exclusionary. The mere fact that conduct disadvantages rivals does not... constitute... exclusionary conduct.”

I am most surprised that the Sherman Act explicitly targets monopolization, not monopolies.

[0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monopolization

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_antitrust_law
There is a fundamental issue here. Some people (with understanding of 101 stats) see the results of 12/8 of false/true outcomes and read it as a confirmation of null hypothesis - 50%/50% of guessing the cord.

Some other people, however, see it as 8/20 you can hear the inferior product, they think that they are not peasants to get 8/20 feeling of inferior product, so shut up and take my money, cause $900 cable will guarantee 0/20 of hearing bad cable, totally worth it. nuff said
except, how does one just magically land one of these specific pages? usually, that would be from a search result page, but that's the point of the post. after that, it's using their site's main landing page, and then browsing/searching/etc. so the main page still has to be usable, and not just the individual articles
> By artificially limiting user options, Google is creating scarcity where there is none.

Does this refer to only the default selections screen, or will users be unable to choose a search provider that doesn't participate in the auction? I.e. there's no "other" option to type in a URL?
Really? No offense Dang but don't you think that is patently ridiculous if a mere mention of skin color for a relatively benign story invites trolling and racism?

Why is mentioning the fact that they're black somehow flamebait here on HN? This is a story written by a black man, under 'Black Voices' about Black beekeepers with their race explicitly mentioned in the title of the article.