skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think what we're seeing on this forum at times is more emotion than rationality.

Regarding the original list, it's likely only 2 and 5 would pass muster as being issues that antitrust laws would actually be able to deal with effectively. Number 3? Might be an issue if you can frame the argument in a manner more consistent with antitrust concerns. 1 and 4 are probably just emotional frustration leading the poster to say, "These must be illegal because I don't like them."

We need to focus on real issues if we want to be taken seriously. Right now privacy and security activists just sound shrill and unconvincing. Part of that lack of credibility is the tendency to focus on things that are not true issues from a legal perspective as opposed to the slam dunk type issues that stare us in the face.

This is why these issues are so hard to build a consensus around in the larger population, because lawyers hear the complaints of some activists, and they just laugh. Then those lawyers go off and work on things that actually have a chance in Hell of working. So I applaud the move to have an antitrust investigation, but we shouldn't be under the impression that every little thing some guy doesn't like is part of it. There are very specific families of issues that are reviewed for propriety, and if action needs to be taken, it is.

Doesn't mean we should waste the time of these states looking into why some guy's youtube account was cancelled. That, and other ridiculously trivial issues like it, are not what this is about. So we shouldn't even set up those expectations. Particularly not in lieu of getting the word out to the larger society about real antitrust issues. (Of which Google and FB are the main offenders.)
What is sad is that these investigations are coming always way too late (after the damage is done) and probably won't be resolved until another couple of years.
One example - hedge funds.
Agree with this wholeheartedly. What's considered "basic functionality" should be present on the phone.

Pixel 3 lacks a basic pre-installed app which iOS includes: Voice Notes/Recorder. Scouring the Play store for a simple functionality like this seems silly, and it made me appreciate that Apple's pre-installed kit includes this staple feature.

Scrolling a dozen entries to find an alternate Podcast app, however. That's a joke.

While the pre-installed option is a convenience, it should be much easier to find an alternative, when desired.
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The similarity is ruining companies via abuse of their platform position, which doesn't depend on market share or monopoly or replicating Microsoft's particular malfeasance.
https://twitter.com/bakkt/status/1171040208105758720?s=12
Specially if one tries to do a GUI or game as the first step after going through the book.
Yes it is. Nintendo is a monopoly with respect to licensing games for sale on Nintendo consoles. Monopoly is market-specific under US law, and the regulators can get very specific.

From the DOJ guidance on antitrust law (https://www.justice.gov/atr/competition-and-monopoly-single-...)

Regarding the first element, it is "settled law" that the offense of monopolization requires "the possession of monopoly power in the relevant market."(5) As discussed in chapter 2, monopoly power means substantial market power that is durable rather than fleeting--market power being the ability to raise prices profitability above those that would be charged in a competitive market.(6)
basically hashcash (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hashcash#How_it_works)?
Yes, it is more similar to Hyder than FoundationDB if you persist the R/W sets to the log itself. FoundationDB gets around this by only keeping the lock table in memory. When any process in the transaction pipeline fails, the master (which holds the version number) advances the version far enough into the future that any in-progress transaction would fail because it is too old.
941 people! Wow! If Amazon employees truly were concerned they wouldn’t be working for a company that is a cornerstone of consumerism and waste. Good luck getting amazon to not do contracts with fossil fuel companies or donate to fossil fuel paid politicians. I would spend time trying to unionize. Also maybe walk out more in regards to amazon providing tech to ICE?
The science stack is also the one that starting migrating the earliest. Hell, numpy started supporting Python 3 eight years ago, while five years ago people were still complaining so much they got the EOL delayed. Not saying there are not some specific things that were late or never happened, but again, they are about a minority of projects. The thing is this minority is making all the noise.

Given the reach and popularity of Python, of course you will always find plenty of testimonies saying they suffered. Again, it's important to remember you can't make everybody happy, especially if your job is important. If porting is easy for 90% of projects, you did a great work, period. 10% of millions of users having it hard is still going to raise a lot of voices against you by the sheer power of numbers, but you did ok.

There is also dishonesty. Most people reporting this problem or that problem didn't actually encounter it. They are reporting somebody else experience they heard about because they wanted to make a point. Or vaguely tried something and ran away after they saw 10 minutes of fiddling didn't solve it.

In 10 years going from company to company, I met only 2 projects that were hard to port, but much, much more complainers. When I looked at what was really going on, the fact was just that they were afraid to port, and so just repeated all the stuff other people told them would go wrong. Or they tried running a few scripts for 5 minutes on Python 3 and gave up seeing too many error messages.

I know there are honest situations in the lot. But again, the most honest people are not making noise, because they just ported their code and noticed it wasn't the hardship they've been told.
The defaults in Django work fine for most people. I've used rails before and it's a great framework but python has a much better ecosystem, especially if you're doing anything machine learning ralated.
Alice in Wonderland is one of my favourite books, but I wouldn't be surprised if it was also the most read > 100 year old book (well, not counting any religious writing!)
From looking at code.. I think this is basically they bootstrapped all the rest endpoints..so you describe your 'Service' ..say Users...and add any custom configs, then pipe it through the Server and it auto adds the endpoints to create, update, store, delete, etc... So where you'd normally create a controller w/ all those in you can skip that.
Which is unfortunate, because the opposite is true: over the last few hundred million years, the Earth's climate has never changed more rapidly than it is right now, with the exception of the K-T asteroid impact.
941/647,500 (the 2018 Amazon employee total)
You are backtracking. The initial statement you wrote said that the value of the worker's labor = ALL the company's profit. If the workers "regain" it all, there's nothing left for an investor/founder. Since this is the scenario you endorse (you've said so three times), your position is that investors and founders should not receive any return on their investment, nor any gains from establishing the company in the first place.
This feels a lot more like a vaporware joke than a real product. And even if real, the GMO is hands down a better idea. I'm tired of everyone thinking having a trash planet is somehow okay.
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rails is a good technology that is more mature and boringish now. it's a solid choice to choose to learn. you can also go down the javascript route that changes faster than a more mature technology. realistically a lot of the concepts from any of them will be fairly transferable.
Best hope that hiQ prevails. The slope slips very fast without LinkedIn's defeat. If LinkedIn prevails, the "EULA" has the force of criminal law and not just an agreement that lacks the meeting of the minds.
We are in Spain, no San Francisco, so a fair bit lower than that. IF the startup goes well and we need to scale maybe it will be worth it. And it does give us the advantages of high availability.

Though one comment I saw about Kubernetes on here a few weeks back concerned an old schooler like me. The guy suggested that if something goes wrong, just kill the pod and let kubernetes bring up another. Apparently that's the way you are supposed to do things. Something seems really wrong with that approach to me. Just throw resources at the problem with very little understanding of why things went wrong.
This would just result in my yanking my laptop off the desk every time I got up.
Not the sum total of human energy expenditure. Of electricity expenditure.
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In essence, you are agreeing with me. "Fist of the North Star" is more a direct translation than a localization and most people, even fans, don't really care about that. When people say localization they mean something close to your first example, changing names, introducing local memes, etc. More to the point, people who dislike localizations tend to have objections to changing the games' content (particularly when it's controversial) like changing blood to green or people to robots, removing Nazi or Communist symbols, or in the case of Japanese games like some recent Fire Emblems or other, more risque titles, removing or changing "questionable" content.

I don't really have a horse in this race either way, but I do have friends who are quite invested and I can see their point when they prefer fan translations to first party localizations in some cases.
> I think the Spotify example is a good one; if Apple kicked off Spotify, there could be millions of people switching to Android just because of that.

We'll never know unless/until it happens, but I think you are 100% wrong on this point—most would just switch to Apple Music. Phones are much too expensive to switch immediately, and while some users might initially want to switch at their next upgrade cycle, they would need to sign up for Apple Music in the interim, and then they'll become accustomed to it.

iPhone users are a captive market. The costs of switching are too high, both economically and in terms of inertia.
Seconded. Eve's server architecture is amazing given the original constraints of the network... they managed to find a way to make a single worldwide server work and to make the game treat everyone fairly no matter what their ping was.

The architecture used has limitations (the biggest one is that fps-style real time isn't really possible) but it's aged very well.
So to program C in this special way I need C++, Haskell, and Python. No thank you. If/when I still work in C, it's with the aim of keeping bloat and dependencies to a dull roar at most.
> Is my understanding correct, that this is a GCC port that can target eBPF?

Yes. Though before a LLVM based eBPF target was available, so this adds the option to use GCC instead. So in principle you could use GFortran to write kernel code; ... profit!

> If so, is there any particular purpose in that, beyond making eBPF an easier place for people to write userspace software that would otherwise be kernel modules?

eBPF is an in-kernel virtual machine, with JIT for popular architectures like x86-64 (maybe arm64 and ppc64le too, not sure?). So you use GCC (or LLVM) to compile code into an eBPF compatible object format, load it into the kernel (with a special syscall IIRC, or maybe it was something netlink-based?), then an in-kernel verifier checks that it doesn't do anything that isn't allowed before it's enabled.

So what can you do with it. Quite a lot, it seems (disclaimer I haven't used it personally). The big use cases at the moment seem to be

- network filtering

- seccomp filtering (that is, check syscall arguments)

- tracing (see bcc/bpftrace) for performance analysis
In this case some parts of the economy are failing (or in 'recession') directly due to the president's actions regarding the trade war. Whether these are actually indicative of a macro economic change is debatable I'd say, but soy profits have fallen, for example, and that industry's failure is a direct result of the tariffs.
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Do you now understand why we need something like Bitcoin? (Even if it's gonna a be a newer version of it in the future, or something even more private etc.)
All currencies do. In exchange markets currencies are often measured in reference to each other, just pop open Bloomberg's currency page: https://www.bloomberg.com/markets/currencies

How would you rather track its value?
Totally disagree. There's rarely a good reason to break backwards compatibility. It's beyond rude to choose to break compatibility and then force all your users to fix it.

The Apple comparison is a bad one since Apple controlled the whole thing.
Make that 942 as i plan on walking as well
This is an important perspective. Many BTC investors are unsophisticated retail investors, and are often "true believer" and magical thinking types. They're this decade's version of gold bugs.
I have a scraper for a site that used to offer an API for their publicly available site but removed the API with no warning. The info is still available to the general public, but only through their website. I created a scraper for the public page, but shortly after they switched to loading some public information through Javascript so my HTML scraper couldn't see it anymore. I ended up having to write an application around Selenium to load the Javascript and import this public information. I'm just waiting for them to start randomizing the CSS classes to make scraping even harder. The content is static, even as data changes on the server it does not refresh on the page unless you reload the page.

There is no reason why your page should refuse to load plain text without Javascript enabled.
but this has runtime cost, where inconsistent order doesn't
Be interesting to see if Amazon supports the employee strikes as much as google - I think with google a lot of the strikes and walkouts were supported by management and/or no consequence. So it was a "strike" but everyone got paid still.

Is Amazon this progressive as well? Ie, will it pay everyone if an employee was needed but unavailable?
Being underpaid.
I had no idea that Canada had a Japanese relocation/internment program during WWII. I only knew of the one here in the US.
Haven't you heard? The USA owns the Internet.
From https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/nicolenguyen/google-ant... (which I can actually read):

> "Amazon Marketplace and Basics, and Google’s ad exchange and businesses on the exchange would be split apart. Google Search would have to be spun off as well," according to the [Warren] plan.

I'm all for busting up monopolists, but what would fund Google search? I mean, that's what arguably drove Google to build its ad business, in the first place. But if it could work somehow, maybe we'd get a return to more useful search results.

Edit: OK, I get it, ads.
I would recommend to consider using Go instead. Statically typed, native-fast, easily deployed. Everything that both Python and Ruby lack.
I'm not really following what you're saying. I believe you're making my point - if you are in Apple's ecosystem, you're in. And it is popular. But Google provides search and email and maps and contacts for "everyone." That's why when they actively blocked Windows Phone from their services, it was anti-competitive.

Other entities like Instagram were under no obligation to build for Windows Phone, but 6tag was built and served the purpose. I don't believe Instagram blocked 6tag from working. If they did, it might not be anti-competitive, but just anti-consumer.

Beyond this, Google's behavior had ripple effects. Developers could tell that Google was putting up roadblocks to make Windows Phone an undesirable platform, and that discourages contributions.

If iTunes only exists on iPhones, but not Android, then it doesn't matter if it also doesn't exist on Windows Phone. Apple, the iPhone and iTunes are not monopolies. They are a walled garden, though. That's just a separate issue.
Solution: allow these companies to bid for the spot. Like they're doing in the EU for the choice of default search engine in Chrome.

Allow power users to pick a default, so we don't have to suffer through terrible third party content and ads.

Disabling this functionality will be a net negative for the end user.
In the past, the tech companies could count on the Republican impulse to protect Big Business to shield them from a lot of these type of investigations (for example, see how the Microsoft Antitrust DOJ investigations got a lot easier for Microsoft after George W. Bush became President).

Now, large numbers of Republicans view Big Tech as the enemy, and combined with Democrats historic suspicion of Big Business, this has resulted in a very volatile time with respect to government regulation and investigation.
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Very true. I guess it is nice to know there are things done against SOME monopoly/anticompetitive organizations, but still I wish it would go further. After reading your comment I do agree with you though!
I'm curious why it took a few hours to swap out the base user model? Unless I'm missing something, it's fairly simple to extend the AbstractUser class with a custom user model, and then assign `Settings.AUTH_USER_MODEL = 'CustomUser`.

That said, everything is easy once you know how to do it. If this was the first time you've done this or there was research involved, it definitely makes sense that it would take longer!

I'm mostly asking bc I'm curious if you came upon a level of complexity that I simply haven't encountered.
I disagree with the career path question. Rising within the company does not necessarily mean that the same skills are effective at other companies.
Rails is a business tool. It allows developers to move quickly to build and iterate rapidly on the business vision.

This means a lot of interesting engineering work and optimizations are out of your hands. Some people think that's a bad thing, I think it's a great thing. Depends on your goals.
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I said "With enough control over the market ...", which is basically a way of saying I'm making these QB choices for not just my team, but some large enough set of the QBs in the NFL.
Generally the greatest way to increase bone density is to lift "heavy" weights. Compared to that any other solution pales in comparison but doctors never seem to prescribe that.
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Yeah, but Objective-C spawned NeXTSTEP, and C++ got us Taligent.
Do we even need k8s for a personal blog? What problem does it solve for someone coming from docker or a VM?

k8s is a building block one can use to provide a simpler service, and if you want to convince anyone it needs a refactoring, maybe provide some specifics?
Today it's pretty much just for launderers, criminals, gamblers, and people who don't know how it works/people looking to take advantage of people who don't know how it works.
The infographic shows 4 of Trump's swing states with job gains vs. 3 with job losses. My US geography isn't perfect, but it looks like losses vs. gains across states are pretty equal.

I read the whole article, they don't do a great job backing up their thesis, instead using anecdotes.

> His advisers argue that the blame for any slowdown rests with a Federal Reserve that last year hiked interest rates too quickly and a strong dollar that makes U.S. exports less competitive.

They're not wrong. Interest rate hikes reduce the amount of debt companies (or farmers) can take on to pay for equipment and rates that are too high are a drag on the economy. Low rates encourage growth.
Was astonished by your grandma's technical proficiency until the end
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Here are two possibilities:

1) It probably easier to measure density than strength. Additional measurement noise could mean the strength difference is not statistically significant while the density difference is.

2) The relationship between density and strength is probably not a simple 1:1 linear function. For example a 10% bone mass reduction may only result in a 1% strength reduction. Therefore one many be statistically significant while the other is.

Likely is is a combination of factors like this. Things are rarely simple in the lab.
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The author seems to be well aware, given that, a couple paragraphs later, Brad Cox's efforts become one of the key features of his argument:

> Once again, consider the C programming language in that thought experiment. Due to the difficulty of making C object oriented, only two serious attempts at the problem have made any traction: C++ and Objective-C. Objective-C is most popular on the Macintosh, while C++ rules everywhere else. That means that, for a given platform, the question of which object-oriented extension of C to use has already been answered definitively.

The point isn't that you can't do it. It's that, for a language like C, it's a big enough effort that it's only really happened a couple times, and nobody strays much away from those two options because the effort required to do so would be immense.

Whereas, I think that the difficulty of doing so in Scheme is overrated. We had to implement a fairly decent version as a Scheme homework assignment during my very first semester of my very first year as an undergraduate. It's so easy in Scheme that it's plausibly faster to write your own than it is to choose and then read the documentation of an off-the-shelf option.
In your document the Cat 4 exposure dose was stated to be 2.34 mg/L, a recent study[0] found that inhalation exposure at 0.442 mg/L resulted in slight irritation.

What's the exposure when vaping?

The document you link to actually avoids addressing Aggregate Exposure by stating there's insufficient information to draw any conclusions.

> "Since toxicological endpoints for risk assessment were not identified based on the available data, an aggregate risk assessment was not conducted for propylene glycol and dipropylene glycol."

Isn't Aggregate Exposure what we're concerned about with Vaping?

Additionally these studies all talk about aeroslized or nebulized pg, vaporizers are thermal in nature. Does heating pg matter?

The CDC is basically saying "We don't know what this shit does because no studies have ever exposed people to it in this manner. Until we know more you should probably not vape it".

[0] Dalton P, Soreth B, Maute C, Novaleski C, and Banton M (2018). "Lack of respiratory and ocular effects following acute propylene glycol exposure in healthy humans". Inhal. Toxicol. 30: 124–132.
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Yes, yes it is. Or at least become familiar with it.
Does anyone know of components to DIY this type of project? I like the idea and its size, mainly the laser tripwire.
In general, this is definitely something to watch out for.

As far as I understand it, that's not the case here, however. These coins were already in existence held by Stellar, who is now giving them away. I.e. no coins being printed.

I see airdrops regularly, and this is the first one I have not dismissed as a waste of time and attention right away. Unless they mess it up somehow, I think this is a great move by Stellar - I think the people using Keybase (especially combined with GH/HN) are exactly the early-adopters-power-users they want to extend adoption to.
How do we start?