skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> The current view of antitrust law has been operative since the 1980s,

So since the beginning of the Regan/Thatcher era and the birth of Neoliberal politics? Interestingly, that timeline lines up pretty well with the rise in income inequality (https://www.forbes.com/sites/louiswoodhill/2013/03/28/the-my...) and when wages became decoupled with productivity in the US (https://www.forbes.com/sites/timworstall/2016/10/03/us-wages...).

> and has encompassed administrations on both sides of the fence.

What is this evidence of exactly? Neither party would be immune to an incentive structure which prioritizes corporate interests.

> It's rooted in a large body of academic scholarship that has withstood the test of time.

"Withstood the test of time" by which measure? Which metrics are targeted by the current approach to antitrust law, and which experiments have been done to prove that the system is working?
It is a common feature in vimperator-like browsers.
Buster Keaton was the jackie chan of the gilded age. 100 years later and very few people have reached his level of stuntwork.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buster_Keaton
> The threat isn't corporations

In a thread about surveillance, why are you drawing a dichotomy between different surveillers and basically giving one a pass? They're both prongs of the same threat! On the collection side, every bit vacuumed up commercially is available for use by the government. And on the use side, there is little difference between a government proper and corporations that have achieved enough power to exert de facto governmental control - especially when colluding through a common third party.
Nothing to Hide (2017)
Snowden will absolutely be revealed as a HUMINT asset.

I am extremely grateful for his revelations but I always found his justification for his actions to be rather flimsy.

He worked as a CIA operative and then NSA contractor helping build global surveillance infrastructure (as well as allegedly designating targets for its use) but only realized his actions were unethical because they spied on US citizens and lied about it? What about all the other people he spied on or stripped of their privacy and rights? They don't count because they weren't born on the right soil? Suddenly lying becomes an ethical issue for someone who worked in the espionage world...

He took a lot more documents than just the NSA surveillance disclosures. Thousands of emails, IMs, and other correspondence between DoD officials unrelated to NSA that blew several agents cover. These fell into the hands of Russian and Chinese agencies..somehow
That may require waiting to become a Kardashev III[1] civilization so we can do experiments where we know General Relativity and the Standard Model give different results. The energies required for the disagreements to show up are really insane.

[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kardashev_scale
Just because you can only remember specific parts of a few books, doesn't mean the information from those books hasn't been incorporated into your mental model of the world.
> They run a market-place in which others operate;

A marketplace generally allows those who operate in it to set their own pricing. The fact that Uber exclusively determines both cost and pay for the drivers would run counter to your 'marketplace' argument.
>If you're not being stupid about it, you're cutting down mature trees and not trampling the volunteer seedlings.

Most of the time I can drive around my family's property and find many trees that have already fallen and are down without having to even cut mature trees. It's just the extra work that goes into it rather than calling up the gas company for a refill. I am lucky and my great grandpa/family has been passing the farm/land down through the generations and now it's a 'family' farm with about 1500 acres, and about 2/3 of that is forest with trails.

Worst case scenario I contract out some kids/young adults in the area to cut/haul/stack my wood if I am short on time and unable to get enough for the winter myself.

Lots of Maple trees in Upper Michigan :D
Really? That's interesting. Good for you then :)
Control over one of the world's biggest stock exchanges? Access to data? That seems like it's worth a lot of money in today's world.
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And the article even moreso:

> "We follow all individuals who day traded mini-Ibovespa futures contracts for their first time from 2013 to 2015, a total of 19,646 individuals."

I know nothing about the Brazilian equities market, but it seems like it might be harder to for individuals to reliably make a profit on something heavily traded and fungible (Ibovespa is an index), where you're competing with much bigger players. Smaller stuff might work better--for one person--because it doesn't scale.
I disagree. Just like with pretty much every aspect of life governments are lagged behind with regulation. It used to be not required wearing a seatbelt while driving a car. Now it is. It used to be that Google and Facebook could use anything they wanted to conduct unwarranted surveillance on you, not it is getting harder and harder.
Not really sure about that. Physicists are getting really frustrated by the fact that the LHC has found exactly the missing piece that the SM predicted (the Higgs) and zero evidence of any physics beyond that, anything that would get us closer to quantum gravity. No strings, no supersymmetry, not even any hints as to the nature of dark matter. All it has done is give new lower bounds to the energy scales at which something interesting might start to happen. For all we know, we might need a solar system size collider to attain the required energies.
"whether a company’s dominant position in an industry hurt consumers (ie created higher prices)."

Exactly. Thank you. It's a bummer that the rest of the topic turned into some kind of healthcare talkathon (like the topic on California employment law for contractors).

I picked up the same overview on antitrust from The Age of Surveillance Capitalism. The new, scary angle is that defacto monopolies are being built around surveillance, not building cars or pumping oil.

A quick wikipedia quote concerning Bork's book on the matter:

"Bork argues that Congress enacted the Sherman Act as a "consumer welfare prescription."[4] The Supreme Court embraced this view in Reiter v. Sonotone Corp., 442 U.S. 330 (1979) and in all subsequent decisions."
I've read really fast since I was a kid, I usually read 100 to 150 books a year, but I def read non-fiction a lot slower as its a dif reading exp.
I assumed this meant outside the EU, similar to HK’s status compared to mainland China.
I don't doubt the headline, but "We observe all individuals who began to day trade between 2013 and 2015 in the Brazilian equity futures market" seems like a weird way to come to that conclusion.
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The Sun's “Carrington Event” of 160 yrs ago would be devastating today
I wish a physicist could explain here how the very notion of "diameter" has any meaning for an object whose size (IIUC) belong entirely to the quantum realm.

Is the hydrogen atom two hard little balls of matter orbiting one another, as we were taught in primary school, or are they a probabilistic soup with various, vaguely localized extrema?

If the latter, how do you even define the notion of diameter?
> accepting GMOs on the precautionary principle of approval as the EU does for conventional use.

Where "precautionary principle" means not using them because people actively lie about how safe they are and then agitate to force labels on them. You might just as well label vaccines with WARNING: PROTEINS and then spread misinformation about how injecting proteins causes autism-cancer.

Precaution, taken on its own, is fine. In the context of GMOs, it means implicitly accepting a whole raft of lies.
We can totally trust UK lawmakers and politicians to do what's in their population's best interest here, as always.</sarcasm>
Just 160 years ago this month, after a period of unusually quiet sunspot activity (much as we are going through now), the largest solar flare of the industrial age lashed out at the Earth. It interfered with the still fairly small number of electrical systems and communications worldwide. A modern replay would be much more damaging...
FWIW, to arrive at my numbers, I used hourly sun data for a single site for a whole year and then optimized the amount of solar versus storage to minimize costs and prevent total depletion of the batteries while assuming a constant load for the whole year (and then iterating so that the amount of energy in the batteries at the beginning of the year is the same as that at the end). It turns out that even rainy days produce some solar power, which helps stretch the 48 hours of storage.

To make it work, it's cheaper to throw away about 2/3rds of your energy than to build 150 hours worth of storage. Some amount of "curtailment" is going to be optimal, and in my case, because solar is so cheap and my starting assumptions allowed no other energy sources, a LOT of curtailment is used. Literally most of the energy is unused.

If you ignore massive curtailment as a possibility, then yeah, haha, it's not going to work.
The unfortunate/fortunate truth is that law must always be altered in letter or interpretation to work against those that would willingly circumvent it.

What if we state that a monopoly that makes up 75% of market is worthy of being broken up? Then some wealthy business owner will gladly split their company into two companies which they both own before hitting the 75% mark. And that doesn't solve monopolies as we know it - it just hides it from public view.

Enforcing the law and producing the law simply becomes a big cat and mouse game. If we were smart, we would simply state that we know someone is not following the spirit of the law and we have evidence to that effect and that should still be punishable, though maybe not to the same extent until it's been established in caselaw.
I disagree on the basis that a hacker news account has no intrinsic ties with a personal identity.

It also has no notion of relationships between users.
Is there a reason to assume the pound will rebound any time soon?
Other than carbon footprint, there are good reasons to give up meat. 90% of Amazon deforestation is due to cattle ranching[1]. Raising cattle also uses a large amount of water [2]. So if you're concerned about these two aspects of the environment, giving up beef is a good option.

The techno-optimist in me isn't worried about the environmental impact of cattle in the long run. I think plant-based & lab grown meat is going to take off in a decade once it can be engineered to taste better than natural meat. Once this happens, the lower price will cause people to shift away from real cows unless they want to pay a premium for organic, non-GMO meat.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deforestation_in_Brazil#Causes
[2] https://www.usgs.gov/mission-areas/water-resources/science/l...
Yes. But an LLC can be an s-corp.

The article is referring to true LLCs, i.e., those which have elected pass through treatment.
Because the EU is still, 3 years after the vote, blocking us from conducting such negotiations for ourselves.
FP2 still gets Android security patches - the main problem by now is that the drivers for the hardware are not properly updated to Android 7 (due to the manufacturer not providing any updates)
I've been buying insurance on the individual & small-group markets for almost 20 years. I've done this across three states. Which is to say I am keenly aware of how much healthcare has cost in both the pre-ACA and post-ACA timeframes.

> The sudden and dramatic increase in premiums, deductibles, and co-insurance was effectively a massive pay cut for the entire American middle class.

This is just a misrepresentation (or overgeneralization) of facts. One thing that was true before the ACA is that insurance rates increased monotonically every year, often by large percentages. This also applies to deductibles and co-insurance.

What changed was compounding. In 2002, a 20% increase on a $150/mo policy added $30 to the price. The same 20% increase in 2007 might have been on a $400/mo policy, so it added $80. A 25% increase in co-pay from $40 to $50 is barely noticeable, unless you're old enough to remember when insurance didn't have co-pays. (As an aside, that pre-ACA policy might not have covered actually getting sick or needing medical care.) This compounding had been going on since at least the 1980s, and it was inevitable that it would get large enough to notice at some point.

Anecdotally, the policies on offer here (GA) on the individual market are markedly less expensive than the trend line circa 2007 would have predicted for 2019. And they cover more, since the fake insurance has been outlawed.

Curious what others have noticed, but this has been my experience.
Looking at how bad these results are, the career gamblers in the casino seem to have an edge. They have various strategies that actually do work to greater or lesser degree - e.g. Playing poker which is a game of skill against other people with a house rake instead of a house mathematical edge.
personally i do change my birthday and mother's maiden name for every service i sign up for.

i make up random answers and write them down in the notes of my password manager. i always try and recommend others do the same.
The article is flawed, because for example it takes for granted that the footer needs to scroll with the infinite scrollable content pane, which is just an absurd thought to begin with. Similar statements hold true for memory management, of course a naive implementation will eventually fill memory, but the same is true for a bad implementation of an single page web app with paging UI. Same for bookmarks, of course if you bookmark page 1 of a multi page list, eventually the articles you saw will be pushed to page 2. And if you have a single page application and forget to have the url change to the articles you read, you will have issues, on the other hand if you read an article in an infinite loading list, it would be no problem to change the url as you read articles and make them linkable. If you take away all of these statements you end up with the following:
a) it is easier to mess up infinite scrolling than to mess up paging, don't think its easy or you can build it quickly 'on the side'.
(my take on that point is) -> We need better best practices and tooling to build infinite scolling for popular frontend frameworks. In my opinion it is on the level of complexity as building a state library such as redux including the react integrations and redux tooling and needs a similar amount of contributors, support, application feedback, bug reports etc. until it can provide a satisfactory mainstream user experience.
b) the article traps into the same mistake most medium/hackernoon articles make: not more explicitly discriminating between real web apps and web pages that just happen to use a js framework. A real web app is something like calender, mailclient, taks, slack, fb messenger, trello etc. They have completely different requirements and expectations and it would be absurd to click to older pages of messages on slack and is really annoying to do so in gmail. Even though the article just mentions the term "web site", it does sell its advice as a kind of universal truth independent of context. For a web page, something like new york times or medium articles or some informational page for a company offering, i agree that especially autoloading of next articles at the end of one opened post can be really annoying and in the context of articles infinite scrolling is even easier to get wrong, but not because of an universal law, but because the user interface has more things to take into consideration and requires better planning.
Tons of unfilled jobs that pay at or below minimum wage...
Good point. Is there a way to see when an address was created?

To date the opening of the account?
With the ongoing China takeover of the fragrant harbour, is that really a good idea, I wonder.
It becomes a sort of data monopoly - already, consolidation of exchanges has limited the number of financial data offerings directly from exchanges, and driven prices up substantially. Further, licenses have become much much more restrictive with regard to use.

I feel that the more free and accessible public market information is, the better it is for all forms of investors and other market participants. Consolidation (in my experience at least), has served to move things in the opposite direction. I do not view further consolidation as a move that helps anyone but the executives and shareholders of the two exchange groups.
How to increase users on Public Beta and get a feedback?
We recently launched the Public Beta of our App beCon Live (http://becon.live) on App store and Play store.
The app lets the users track their carbon footprint from transport, utilities and products purchased. We would like to test the proof of concept and also get user feedback for making improvements. How could we get more users to test it?
It may be unlikely to see progress in a subfield even if there are major unsolved problems. Particle physics is one of those branches.

But see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_unsolved_problems_in_p...
A surprising amount of CSS development would probably fit the bill as well. So many times I've produced unexpected results that looked just as good or better than my original intent.
Ugh. I'm not sure what are you talking about.

Manhattan, especially the midtown, is probably the dirtiest part of New York City. Better subway stations in Manhattan? You must be kidding, right?

New York had its share of democratic mayors. New York had a black mayor. I doubt they all were trying to keep non-white people at bay.

Racial issues do exist and they do affect many parts of American lives, but they should not be used to explain all the problems of American society.
Don't forget that our engineering ability grows as well. I guess that when Einstein proposed his relativity theories, it seemed totally inapplicable. But fast forward a few decades, and we got GPS which wouldn't work without them.
>I get a sort of "movie in my head" when I'm reading

I think this means you're doing it right! In Polanyian terms, your subsidiary awareness is on the particulars of the typography and the words allowing your focal awareness to be on the fun bit, i.e. on the meaning.

This ability, I think, depends just as much on how interesting and enjoyable the content is as it depends on your reading skill.

For more Michael Polanyi I recommend this superb (audio, non-fictional) lecture:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rVx8KhsZYPw

>I don't read non-fiction like that, though. It just doesn't happen, and I don't know how to make it happen.

This may be because the books are boring. For instance, textbooks. Here the reading is mainly about searching for the relevant material, so the focal awareness is on the text itself. However, Feynman's Hairy Green Ball Method seems applicable:

https://www.e-reading.club/chapter.php/71262/21/Feynman_-_Su...

I had a scheme, which I still use today when somebody is explaining something that I’m trying to understand: I keep making up examples. For instance, the mathematicians would come in with a terrific theorem, and they’re all excited. As they’re telling me the conditions of the theorem, I construct something which fits all the conditions. You know, you have a set (one ball)—disjoint (two halls). Then the balls turn colors, grow hairs, or whatever, in my head as they put more conditions on. Finally they state the theorem, which is some dumb thing about the ball which isn’t true for my hairy green ball thing, so I say, “False!”
> Even if the whole population came out, so what? You do not believe a population can be radicalized?

If you meet one radical on the way to work, you met a radical.

If you conclude that the entire population of a large and established polity is radical, you're the radical.
Then a bunch of unfilled jobs would do the opposite (it would raise wages).
NY Payroll Company Vanishes with $35M
> Probably the CIA didn't kill them

You are kidding right? Those two bullets in his head were a clear message.
Where's the profit part? How did you monetize stolen data?
You say short sighted. Brexiteers say it is long sighted, so long sighted in fact that Remainers struggle to see any sense in it. Which is where all the "populist" "nationalistic" "racist" "they didn't understand what they were voting for" labels came from.
On wikipedia [1] it says "Multiple gunshot suicides are rare, but possible. In one study of 138 gunshot suicides, 5 (3.6%) involved two shots to the head, the first of which missed the brain."

I think that when Gary Webb commited suicide the CIA had already successfully disrupted his work and had no need to kill him. Example had already been given. However, was he still a threat and messing with his life wasn't an effective option, would they have killed him? They have done far worse things.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multiple_gunshot_suicide
It could also imply that they simply have related experience or skills before starting.

It's difficult to, for example, learn how to become a brain surgeon on the job.
You don't have to look that hard to find that this is not true.

Boris Johnson (the UK Prime Minister) was a US citizen until sometime in 2016. His UK political office roles until then included serving as a MP (2000-2008), Mayor of London (2008 - 2016), and UK Foreign Secretary (2016 - the time he relinquished his US citizenship). Reports indicate that he gave up his US citizenship to avoid the IRS taxing him.
The title of the post should definitely be changed. Nutritional value is very much a side note in the article, so "The rare ingredient that's healthier than meat" is pure clickbait.

My suggestion would be "Mexico’s ancient 'insect caviar'"
https://energynews.us/2015/02/13/midwest/blowing-away-myths-...
(Macmillan employee)

Confirming, it is a Macmillan title. Metropolitan Books is a Macmillan imprint.

https://us.macmillan.com/books/9781250237231
There's a significant gap between "cleaner than a Copenhagen-style collapse" and "clean enough to be a good part of our fundamental theory of nature" :).
> Number porting should require an SMS to the existing SIM with the ability to respond NO to cancel the process and flag the request as fraud

This would work to the thief's advantage in the case of physical device theft. The notification should definitely be a thing, but it should not be possible to cancel the process without talking to the carrier directly and verifying your identity to them.
No, they're both taxi services that happen to use software.

Core business is understood to mean primary revenue generating activity, which is getting paid for facilitating rides. They don't charge any money for the use of the software.
If you agree on that math/science then this point you're adamant about whether it is or is not a "world" reduces to a semantics/ontology/philosophy question, which we're not going to get further clarity on in a thread about trying to gain a proper or better understanding as laypeople of the scientific theories, unless you want to advance the conversation to the understanding of those scientific theories into a semantic/ontological/philosophic realm.
By not dying after the first. It happens.