skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Warren's blog uses the Microsoft antitrust case as a precedent:

> In the 1990s, Microsoft — the tech giant of its time — was trying to parlay its dominance in computer operating systems into dominance in the new area of web browsing. The federal government sued Microsoft for violating anti-monopoly laws and eventually reached a settlement. The government’s antitrust case against Microsoft helped clear a path for Internet companies like Google and Facebook to emerge.

https://medium.com/@teamwarren/heres-how-we-can-break-up-big...

And then goes on to confuse the Web browser with search:

> .. Aren’t we all glad that now we have the option of using Google instead of being stuck with Bing?

There are three reasons I'd avoid this comparison as a selling point:

1. Little of substance came from the Microsoft case:

> On November 2, 2001, the DOJ reached an agreement with Microsoft to settle the case. The proposed settlement required Microsoft to share its application programming interfaces with third-party companies and appoint a panel of three people who would have full access to Microsoft's systems, records, and source code for five years in order to ensure compliance.[30] However, the DOJ did not require Microsoft to change any of its code nor prevent Microsoft from tying other software with Windows in the future.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_v._Microsoft_Cor....

2. The market handed Microsoft its richly-deserved smack upside the head with the introduction of the iPhone in 2007. There's no reason to believe that Google, Amazon, or Facebook will be immune to this process of marketplace disruption.

3. The AT&T Anititrust case seems more applicable in that it deals with a network. After the successful breakup, long distance rate fell.

> The breakup led to a surge of competition in the long distance telecommunications market by companies such as Sprint and MCI.[5] ...

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

From Warren's blog again:

> First, by passing legislation that requires large tech platforms to be designated as “Platform Utilities” and broken apart from any participant on that platform.

This raises the question: what's actually new here? What about the named companies is so different from previous monopolies that new laws are required?

The discussion in the New Yorker doesn't seem to address this issue. There are antitrust laws on the books. They have been used in the past. What specifically prevents them from being applied today, other than political will?
Moreso that OP was noting that people can believe they have good social skills, whilst belittling others for their apparent lack of, whilst not catching on to the irony of the whole shebang.
> "Access to healthcare" is similar. Why do people in Sweden have universal healthcare while people in America do not? Is it corporations? No, Sweden's corporate tax rate is quite a bit lower than ours. (It's similar to the current federal rate, but in the U.S. most corporations also pay a state rate. In Delaware, for example, it's an additional 8.7%.) So who benefits by Americans not having universal healthcare? It's middle-class Americans who don't pay the high middle-class taxes that middle-class Europeans pay.

I believe that the argument here is that insurance companies are the unnecessary middleman gumming up American healthcare. Making $21b in 2018, insurance companies exist to make as much money as possible--by denying coverage when they can and paying out as little as possible. They complicate the process by requiring both the providers and consumers to get tangled up in paperwork, also slowing the process (and quality) down. Her argument there is that we could provide a better experience for all and invest that $21b of profit being leeched out back into actual coverage by going to Medicare for All.

> intended to make people falsely believe that you can have universal healthcare and a cleaner planet without decreasing your material quality of life

I don't think that's what she's intending. Her plan for cleaning up the planet involves scientific investment in clean/green industries and becoming a leader in providing those services commercially throughout the world. The US is only 20% of the problem, which is why we need an industry to really push this throughout the rest of the world--something that other countries are currently leading in.

In case your curious about Warren's approach here: https://medium.com/@teamwarren/my-green-manufacturing-plan-f...
IDK according to my kid it's "his ipad".
Well the same thing applies. WeWork can step in and allow Netflix and a hedge fund to save money on a floor in a remote destination where both companies don't know anything about the region except for how many people they plan to employ there. When one of them needs a bigger office, they move out and another company moves in

Again Netflix is equipped to have office managers, find people/firms to scout nice neighborhoods to remote cities, and stock kombucha, but all of this requires hiring people to do a job that Netflix fundamentally doesn't care about. WeWork will save money for companies not ready to commit to long term leases, and it will certainly save time for companies that don't want to have to think about this
There needs to be an app that has the ability to connect ( via oAuth, whatever ) with DigitalOcean / AWS and that can generate a static website out of a WordPress(-like) editor, keeping the state in the cloud - again DO or whatever in a managed database.

The app should cost <20$ ( or be open sourced ) and it should have a huge eco-system of themes / plugins, including paid ones.

Sadly this app will never have an IPO or growth rate worth investing, but it will fix the problem ( for a while ).
It feels like you are splitting hairs. I've worked with people on the spectrum and I'm a software developer; I've had the bare minimum of managerial training and interacting with people is not one of my core strength areas. Still, I put in some minimal effort and we worked together and it was fine.

If you are trying to say that this minimal amount of effort these managers would need to spend to work with people on the spectrum is just too much work for us to expect, specifically someone like the person in this example who refused more tasks when asked because their schedule was full, then yeah, I guess we disagree. I have personally witnessed a painful amount of bending-over-backward on the part of management for so-called "heavy hitter" developers who, in my opinion, were far more work to get along with and far less an asset to the company. If managers can find time in their busy (and expensive) schedule to pander to these kind of high-cost employees then they can spend a little effort on people who happen to fall on the spectrum.

After all, the "heavy hitter" who chooses to be hard to get a long with because of their legendary awesomeness is making a choice. Many people on the spectrum are doing their best to fit in and deserve a little more effort from their supervisors and management. After all, that is the job for which managers have signed up.
Previous discussion (2017): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14191577
How do you create a new branch? Still git checkout -b?
Instead of contrived, low-ball numbers, you could use the real ones:

> Congress appropriated $11.4 billion for the IRS in FY 2018 and IRS enforcement programs collected $59.4 billion, for a return on investment (ROI) of about $5.2 for every $1 invested in the IRS.

https://home.treasury.gov/system/files/266/02.-IRS-FY-2020-C...
And finding that place also means you will never be anything more than that. Thats what always strikes me about these complaints about having to do a little extra, or stuff thats not directly in your job description etc. And then complain about how your manager sucks because you are not valued or promoted fast enough.

Trust me, most engineers are not THAT good that their code writing contributions alone would justify high career leaps. Even the highly technical leaders need to do a lot of brain work thats not necessarily coding - like architecture design and whatnot, and most of that requires a lot of interaction, discussions and other soft skills.
> PulseAudio mostly works

I regularly kill PulseAudio to get bluetooth headset pairing to complete.
Mercurial is officially dead.
Equal playing field.
Are they really, though, or are they meant to appeal to folks who want to change the taste of their municipal tap water? This is a good-faith question--I don't get a strong sense of science or testing from their website.
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will this hurt or help her chances at winning the California democratic primaries? if the tech industry does not want her then what are the other options out there?
Feature request: Electron native extensions?
This is an aside to the main point of the article, but I have to take issue with a couple of quotes:

> For a long time scientific computing has kept machine learning at an arm's length because its lack of interpretability and structure mean that, despite it’s tremendous predicitve success, it is almost useless for answering these kinds of central scientific questions.

> However, the recent trend has been to merge the two disciplines, allowing explainable models that are data-driven, require less data than traditional machine learning, and utilize the knowledge encapsulated in centuries of scientific literature.

Recent trend?? This is the norm in every scientific field I've even slightly worked in... This quote just described what we call "inverse theory" in the geosciences. It's the root of pretty much everything we do and has been for many decades. Those of in the scientific computing world have hardly been keeping machine learning at arm's length... A lot of machine learning methods come from scientific fields (e.g. gaussian processes).

There's more to machine learning than CNNs, and many fields have been using machine learning much longer terms like "data science" and "AI" have been around. We just trend towards parametric approaches or approaches that can be reasoned about more clearly. (E.g. lots of convex optimization problems and interpolation/"super-resolution" problems.) Those are machine learning methods as well.

All that said, most of what they're talking about in this article is about approximating solutions to differential equations with purely non-parametric approaches. That is somewhat new and is a much narrower topic, which this article does a nice job of describing. (I don't really take objection to the article as a whole, but a few sentences in it strike me as presumptuous.)
I think you did a fine post but a wrong generalization. The advice you mentioned is bad because it's not generalizable and possibly not reproducible, but IMO claiming that the advice being ex post is the cause of that was a stretch.
> but some would be up in arms about the inconvenience caused

Sometimes you have to have your priorities straight. If you found the password, someone else can find it.
I remember this! It is quite hilarious.
It looks like they rotate the ID for third party data every 24 hours, but only if you opt out.

Presumably, their tracking is more effective if you simply don’t create an account (so they never rotate the ID).

/Insert a rant about perverse incentives and dark patterns here
IFTTT Cautions Nest Users Not to Migrate Their Accounts to Google
But keep in mind the 3 year smear campaign followed a multi-year media love fest for Big Tech.

The Tech industry has spent billions on PR. That spending propped up a massive media infrastructure — how many reporters cover the tech beat? How many of those reporters exist because their publication host events and conferences, run advertorials, print “Special Features”, etc. paid for in large part by the tech industry? — and the industry naively thought they had the leverage to control the narrative. They were wrong and now the massive infrastructure they built to help them market their products has turned on them. The amount of noise being generated is a function of the size of the “problem” but it’s also a function of the size of the media-industrial complex built by the industry.

Ag and Oil are also under scrutiny but you shouldn’t be surprised they get less attention. They haven’t spent nearly as much over the last decade twirling shiny objects to distract from poor business practices.
the World Health Organistion seems to think that it's important (but also reasonably easy to fix). https://www.who.int/water_sanitation_health/dwq/nutrientscha...
In Apple's case I think it would be more like they can't set up the App Store's rules or iOS to privilege Apple apps as the default for things. So like, default mail clients or browsers.
Phoronix ran benchmarks and current Talos II systems run hotter and slower than equivalent x86 systems but maybe they will improve over time.
POWER9 only supports 128-bit vectors, which is a big disadvantage.
Can someone weigh in on why CentOS lags behind Red Hat?

CentOS is blessed by Red Hat these days and I was under the impression that packages are essentially new compiles from the same sources as Red Hat. What causes delays?

(Asking out of pure interest, not malice in any form.)
U.S. advertising for Ebola screeners at airports
The Greta Effect
Netflix isn't a marketplace.
> “But it’s not a slam-dunk case, as the precedents go both ways, and it’s not an area the Court has opined on for a long time.”

Sounds like she might have a case, rather than just naked pandering.

I think it’s good to have a variety of intellectual positions and to work the best possible policies, and to ask if we would be better off without some some sacred cows
I've been thinking that a natural way to split up many large corporations that are anti-consumer would be to require:

1. Hardware manufacturers be separated from software manufactures

2. All hardware sold must have available appropriate documentation to write software for it.

3. Hardware and software be purchasable piecemeal, even when also available as a pre-configured bundle.

For example, for Google to sell a Google Home device they would:

1. Have to have a company, Google Home:Hardware, that produces the physical device and it's documentation

2. Have a company, Google Home:Software, that implements the software for that device, and perhaps bundles it.

3. These companies can collaborate, e.g., through support contracts, but any documentation made available to Google Home:Software must also be made available to purchasers of the physical device, separate from Google Home:Software.

Advantages of this approach:

1. This supports the "Right To Repair" movement.

2. Production of hardware has a very high cost-of-entry relative to software, making it prohibitively expensive for new entrants to compete. This allows smaller entrepreneurs to build software on existing hardware designs, bringing new features to consumers.

3. New competition will help to naturally break the anti-consumer monopolies and oligopolies currently existing, because they will have to compete with features that they currently refuse to implement, fix issues they currently refuse to acknowledge.

4. As a re-iteration of 3, would provide more consumer choice. Where as right now an individual may like the hardware features of one television set, they may dislike the software features if it (privacy invasion and phoning home?). Consumers could mix and match.

Although I've focused on tech with Google, this is applicable to many industries: smart phones, TVs, smart home devices, farming equipment, vehicles, robotic vacuums...
The Koch-Fueled Anti-Transit Crusade Hits Phoenix, Is Seattle Next?
> Also unmentioned is the very real negative externalities that IRS audits cause. Audits disproportionately affect poor people [2], who are also the least able to spend time dealing with them. The United States already has extremely low tax evasion rates [3]. Rather than spending money to catch more of the very few cheaters by audits, other country's tax authorities have found "nudge" letters were found to be similarly effective and vastly cheaper.

That's not a strong argument against audits. I'd just take that to mean the IRS should mainly audit people or businesses based by how large the underreporting was.
Also here: https://www.careerbuilder.com/job/JCL2215Y935XFNT3WD6?ipath=...
While any electron app can have malicious code injected trivially into it, the contributor who closed the ticket seems to think using node native extensions is actually enough.

What do you guys think? How would you go and add anti tampering measures to an Electron app?
A town is more open to competition, anytime a third player can open up a store with relatively small investment. Meanwhile to take on a dominant player like Amazon is extremely hard.

I believe the line is drawn at ‘large-scale winner-takes-all players’. It doesn’t necessarily have to be fair but it is supposed to benefit the entire economy. As long as there’s a relative balance between the economical power of competitors no measures are required.
Other than the time Apple and Google (and others) got sued for exactly that[1], some economists believe that the large size of many companies is why wages have been stagnating. Specifically, that they've become big enough that there's essentially a monopsony on hiring[2].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High-Tech_Employee_Antitrust_L...

[2] https://www.npr.org/sections/money/2019/06/18/733510647/appl... which references https://harvardlawreview.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/536-...
Even that article shows it's not as clear cut as you're making it out to be, because the 16th amendment covers direct taxing of income.

Like everything involving new laws and the constitution, it will fall to the surpreme court to decide whether or not it is constitutional.
You have to imagine the eccentric orbit, 114 km perigee on the far side and a long wait going out to 18k km, toward and away from Earth, looping past the moon's poles.

Over time the eccentric orbit will swing away from pointing at Earth. They will do burns at perigee and the eccentricity will gradually contract until the orbit is about circular. After a week it has Earth in view full- time, a good time to do the final burns; after 2 weeks it has swung around to going behind the moon again, still going over the poles. They will land during the first period when the orbiter is in view full-time.

Congratulations to everyone from India. This has to be a proud moment.
MS is not included? How about breaking up many other monopolies as well?
> I started using it years ago and it was fine.

You are not a full blown development team, and beta software works for many people. That doesn't mean it's ready for prime time.
I can’t work out when the party of Mediterranean people died, it says a thousand years after 10th century, so that means a few hundred years ago.

No mention is made of the Greek kingdom in Bactria that lasted until Two thousand years ago, but I imagine the genetics would have intermixed with neighbouring peoples within a few hundred years.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greco-Bactrian_Kingdom
We already understand that pretty well. Trying to hug it out with people who are already committed to killing you is a fool's errand. There are several groups devoted to deradicalization if you want to research that in greater depth.
> the law is written to allow tax evasion

That is not tax evasion. If the law is used to avoid paying a tax it is legal. Tax evasion is when you don't pay taxes that you should have paid and somebody often goes to jail and/or pays penalties for it.
Sometimes using Shift+Insert instead of Ctrl+V can allow you to paste into these fields.
"Ceteris paribus" is the magic assumption under which it works.
It would take forever (or $$$) to train even 117M model from scratch.
The World War of the Ants – The Army Ant [video]
The issue is that in this case they're specifically and willfully being engineered to foster irresponsible behavior.

>Blaming the engineer who built the machine makes for an easy scapegoat, of course, but if the issue isn't addressed on a societal scale, there will always be another engineer to replace him.

We can still say theft is bad regardless of the legal enforcement around theft. Some things are just morally wrong.
We = kd3 + jazoom + whoever else kd3 was referring to.

"We" doesn't have to include all 7 billion human inhabitants of Earth. You were not included.
> when we normalize food as a means for self-medicating depression

I don't think literally anybody is normalizing that. Everyone knows that's unhealthy. You won't get criticized for pointing it out.

> Finally, I never said shaming, nor did I imply it.

> Mention anyone else's unhealthy habits (e.g., weight or lack of exercise) and you're label a bully.

You specifically mentioned not just habits, but weight, as something to be criticized. I think we've gotten pretty good as a culture about encouraging the right habits, but the weight itself is what many people have limited or no control over.
usually original investors get stock in the split-up companies correct? In the long run the aggregate value of the split up / smaller basket of independent companies could be larger than the original quasi monopoly.
The targets of extremism.
Why in the world would you want another company to run the App Store?? I for one have no interest in returning to the PC days of crapware.

A part of Microsoft’s 2001 consent decree with the DOJ was they couldn’t dictate what middleware couldn’t/ should be installed. The second order effect of that is bloated terrible PC’s with massive security vulnerability surface area.
We can say, however, that there is something wrong with making vehicles that are inherently unsafe when on public roads. That's more in line with making products to foster addiction or compel people to behave in ways that are against their best interests.
Right, telecom is a great example of where breaking up an entity benefited the consumer and prevented monopoly. /s (all the bells merged back in some form or another into present day AT&T and Verizon).
Clever! I hadn't considered that at all. I suspect you mean decrement by one, though.

On Linux:

`sysctl net.ipv4.ip_default_ttl` (mine was 64)
`sysctl net.ipv4.ip_default_ttl=65`

Done ;)
Current signs indicate that it is not for the next feature update version (19H2), but some later one. It's not even default in current Insider builds (currently in the fast ring) for the following feature update 20H1 yet.

When it will become the Windows 10 default is an interesting open question right now, and the exact roadmap doesn't seem entirely transparent yet. This move to the Beta release channel seems to indicate possible confidence in it.

Windows 10 isn't the only target market though. Microsoft has made it clear they want Windows 7 users, the odd minority of users still on Windows 8 and Windows 8.1, and even macOS users for this new Edge. This "cross-platform vision" was supposedly a key reason to rebuild on top of Chromium in the first place.

(Interesting rumors even state that Microsoft is hoping to push it as the "final" default browser for Windows 7 in a final security/feature update/mini-service-pack roll up sometime before the April 2020 end of security date for Windows 7 in a hope of leaving Windows 7 at the end of its ordinary security support life and the start of its extended support phase in a better place than Windows XP was left.)
Given that pagerank had its origins in citations it should not be surprising to find link farms and other spam in scientific publications.