skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think he does have a point. Thorough the social measures you take and depending what age groups you expose the most, you can (should) be able to skew the numbers in having more infections in a age group than he other. If you skew the numbers towards the younger population, the end result is _better_ than the normal, presumably uniform, distribution.

EDIT: I misunderstood GP's point. I'll still leave my reply as-is since i still think the general idea I was trying to convey is sound.
Of maybe the novelty wore off. Either way, we're all probably better off now that it has run its course.
Telecoms aren’t intentionally granted regional monopolies. It’s illegal under the Cable Act of 1992.
I don't need money and not interested in founding a startup, but I've been working on fixing the internet at least for myself, in particular, browser history. Have a working app & extension.
Anyone wants to take my idea? https://github.com/karlicoss/promnesia
You keep missing the point. The delivery apps are “stealing” the demand, so you have no choice as a single restaurant because your customers are moving to the app regardless. Saying “well, the restaurants are staying on the platforms, so it must be valuable to them” misses the entire context of the market structure before these demand aggregators arose.
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This still relies on content curation rather than on-demand generation, which means you will encounter the same issues as if you were Googling about it. Principally, you won't find what you're looking for if no one has mentioned it or someone used a different concept to describe it.

But it does sound promising as an exploratory tool if you understand that the Qs will be basic and the As straightforward.
> The antitrust investigation is focused on X so Y doesn't really apply there.

Antitrust prosecutions are heavily dependent upon shaping the "market" which supposedly is being monopolized.

There is no good argument for antitrust against the Apple App Store if the market is "all transactional marketplaces where software can be purchased", but there is a good argument if the market is narrowly defined as "all transactional marketplaces where software can be installed onto iOS mobile devices".

Look for similar shaping of the market by both sides (the prosecutor will attempt to narrow the market and the defendants will attempt to broaden the market).

Also worth noting that Amazon already chipping away at Google's market share dominance in online advertising[1]. By the time the DOJ's prosecution goes thru the courts, the market is likely to be significantly changed from where it was when AG Sessions (who started these investigations) started crafting an anti-tech-giants strategy.

[1] https://www.cnbc.com/2019/10/15/amazon-is-eating-into-google...
Ask HN: Are service providers breaking the login process for password managers?
They Keep changing the typing process for login in for no apparent reason.... for example, one just changed it from [type user]{tab}[type pass]{tab}{enter} to [type user]{tab}{enter}{delay 1000}{tab}{tab}[type pass]{tab}{enter}.
It has little to do with subtyping per se and everything with the way that implementation inheritance, specifically, breaks modularity. The whole idea of inheritance contra composition is that every call to a virtual method-- including calls internal to the class-- goes through a dispatch step so that the actual code that gets executed depends on whether the object is one of a "derived" class, where that method might have been changed in ways that might break any amount of expected invariants. This introduces brittleness both in base class code (which generally has to call methods that might get overridden in derived classes) and in the derived class itself (which has no way of knowing what invariants might be expected of it as part of base class code).

Implementation inheritance is often justified as a way of "reusing" code, but as it turns out, we've merely introduced undesired coupling instead of the seamless reuse we might have expected.
Yeah, just getting rid of the "interesting I guess but I'd never use them on purpose because they're just not helpful and likely to cause confusion or bugs" parts of JS, like direct fiddling with prototypally-inheriting objects (ew), worrying a bunch about what "this" means and shuffling it around for little to no useful reason, or entirely-unhelpful scoping rules. Most of those are better in regular JS now. For me, the syntax was at best neutral, leaning toward undesirable. I just wanted the extra ergonomics and safety, which didn't require such a departure from JS.
Google is partly winning because many sites are now hostile to crawlers other than Google's.

If we want real competition in the search engine space, Google's crawl should be opened up as a "common crawl", accessible to any company that wants to pay a nominal sum to access it for building an index.
True but both are prodrugs and GS-441524 is downstream on the metabolic chain from Remdesivir.
Ah, I see, you're of the opinion there's some way to eradicate this disease without immunization -- by continued lockdowns? Given the R0 could be 5 and millions infected, that ship has long since sailed IMO, to the extent that I don't really even consider that an option.
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The JS equivalent would be for this to use different babel, and node.js versions? Random compatible dependencies based on semver?
If you're on Windows, windows key + period brings up the system-level emoji picker. Just thought I'd let you know in case you weren't aware there was even such a thing as a system-level emoji picker (I sure wasn't until someone on my team told me about it).
Mondays could also work, since it would allow people an extra weekend to finish what they want to show. Also it will allow them to procrastinate at work.
Yup, totally agree. In 2012 when we adopted Coffeescript, it was less cut and dry - all the open source tools we love now - prettier, eslint, etc. - didn't exist. So the tradeoff was less obvious then.
That's hilarious. I should have done that.
Level 2 is universes generally like ours but with different physical constants: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multiverse#Level_II:_Universes.... Level 4 includes all abstract mathematical structures, like a universe embedded in a Game of Life simulation.
Because of network effects that turns out to be a lot weaker protection against much more powerful companies.

Edit: Perhaps network effect is the wrong term - but it’s a bit like saying if you don’t like guns don’t buy a gun - that doesn’t really limit the negative impacts from guns...
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So if FAANG isn't elite, what is?
Can you cite even a single case where an ISP has cut off an organization's account because of the organization's politics?

Even if you could, does that make it right that big tech companies are censoring people and organizations for their views?
This is an excellent point. Markets consolidate because mega-corps enjoy massive economies of scale. Do people remember what e-commerce was like before Amazon? You waited a week to get products in the mail. It was Amazon’s massive scale that made next day free shipping possible.
Apple's monopoly is unusual, because what they did was create a wall around a section of an ancillary market (apps) which caused it to be its own market. Walmart doesn't have a monopoly on bread because anybody can buy bread from Costco instead without having to buy a new toaster. Once you make buying $1 apps from not-Apple require people to replace their $1000 phone, that makes apps for that kind of phone its own market which Apple has a monopoly on. That wouldn't be the case if they had competing app stores, but they don't.

Boeing has a serious lack of competition. Their only meaningful competitor is Airbus and that's a foreign company. They have no domestic competition at all, which is inherently problematic, especially for a critical industry like that.

I don't understand why United Airlines is on that list either. Airlines are a weird market because it's extremely capital intensive but also aggressively competitive, so they sort of alternate between all going bankrupt from relentless price competition and all colluding to raise prices enough that they don't all go bankrupt and then getting in trouble over it.
Paul Graham's Hackers & Painters?
He was the best part of Vice along with other early members. They used to have AMAZING stories and documentaries during his time.

Afterwards, the company went straight to shit. Now, we're blessed with quality articles such as:
1)"Nintendo Switch's Joy-con Sync issue is Even worse if you put it in your butt"
2)"Three days of torture in a male chastity device"
3)"How to pick a chastity cage lock with a condom wrapper"
4)"Finally, a new emoji to mock men"

I will be celebrating when Vice (along with BuzzFeed and Vox) file for bankruptcy.
In my opinion, Microsoft became a much better company after their brush with antitrust. I don’t know how much had to do with the case and how much is just because of the quality leadership they have now, but I hope Google becomes a much better company in the future. They went from having great products to downright creepy and it’s difficult not to use any of their products or to be tracked by them. I’d like to see a different Google.
Why do you think back catalogs of nucleoside analogues exist?

Also, sure it was patented earlier than remdesivir, but patent term is 20 years - GS-441524 has 9 more years on patent. Plenty of exclusive value that Gilead can extract.
Your original comment implies that folks "slowly noticing" dark patterns is going to make some sort of difference in the grand scheme of things. I am arguing, based on my experience with humans, that it will not—and even if it could, that not enough people are paying attention for it to matter.
It seems you're mixing up MWI with a Max Tegmark Level II multiverse: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multiverse#Level_II:_Universes.... Tegmark considered MWI a separate idea from that and used the label "Level III" for it.

MWI is just one of multiple multiverse ideas. Most multiverse ideas (like Tegmark's Levels I, II, and IV) are basically what-if ideas without any direct evidence, but MWI specifically happens to be a more-grounded idea based on trying to make sense of what the (well-tested) Schrodinger equation says about reality.

The first part of your description of MWI ("The many-worlds interpretation of quantum mechanics imagines our universe as one node in an infinitely branching tree of universes where every possible quantum outcome exists in its own universe.") is pretty good, if a slight though common simplification (different branches aren't entirely separate, so envisioning it as a tree is only mostly correct; different branches can sum together or cancel each other out if their configurations are identical).
> As one technical cofounder to another, I think the most important thing is for you to understand the business side.

Totally on-the-point advice! The mind of a business-mate is often less ranged and logical than a techy-mate would prefer. So could be your biz patner's way of understanding and discovering what makes a techy mind tick.

If this is to improve understanding between you two, the best way is to agree on zones of responsibility and what it takes to come to trust in result. The hardest for biz folks is to relinquish control, while hardcore tech guys don't like to compromise. Somehow these need to balance.
Slight tangent but somewhat related. The amount of damage mobile phones and the tech industry have done on the human mind has been extremely understated. These hits of dopamine aren’t free. There’s a massive cost. Loss of privacy aside, the next battle has to be addressing the addiction of these platforms/devices and what it means for humans going forward.
Or tap the phone to pause and capture a response (I'm not a fan of VUIs).

Happy to get involved if you take the above route
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They are? Recent history suggests it's way easier for a random person to build a successful search engine (e.g. DuckDuckGo) than a successful telecom, and I have way more choice of search engine than telecom.
Even Thiel himself admitted exactly this. He helped justify the bankrolling of Hogan's lawsuit by saying "single-digit millionaires" have no access to the legal system. The more money you have the more power you have. It isn't a binary rich/poor.
Wonder if that's why they've gone the direction they have for the latest Bill & Ted movie.
Who are "these types of people"? Fed Chairmen are usually pretty level-headed.

Do you have an academic source for the global warming claim?
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assault and self defense were my analogy of something similar. im saying they are not different in kind. akin to self defense being government sanctioned murder.
This make me think how related are intercooler and knockout, functionality is quite similar
> I don't think that Google is somehow pushing liberal objectives in a meaningful way.

But true or not, it is perceived that way by those who are aggrieved (social conservatives in the USA)... which is what your comment's parent was discussing.

I'm not disagreeing with your comment, but you aren't disagreeing with your parent comment either.
By nothing, I think you meant: Build listening skills, learn some coding foundations, ace the job interview.

With good listening skills people will like you and you'll be able to pick things up quickly. It will help with the job interview too.
> customers of DoorDash almost always tip ahead of time

A tip before you receive a service is indistinguishable from a bribe used to prioritize your service.

I don't understand why this is the norm, and why so many people play along. It would be so much more sensible to tap the user on the shoulder after the delivery to ask them for their tip.
So its all about money for the generics manufacturers too?
Between the end of WWII and now, Western Europe, and now Eastern as well, have enjoyed American defense and economic benefits. Europe almost as a monolithic whole has been fixated on a different economic model than the American model, but that's its own choice -- the U.S. did not impose its model on Europe.

> The US needs a framework for smaller nations where we can build better relations.

What could that be? We've had the U.N., NATO, the WTO, and what not.
Stupid question: why would you be writing code that works at the level of TCP? Don't you usually want to use the OS's (or some popular library's) TCP software stack?
Definitely my experience. Implicit returns are just a breathtakingly bad idea and I have personally witnessed them cause countless bugs.
I'd suggest the reason for the valuation is exactly because we had this in the 90s (and earlier really) and it never made the transition to digital until now. So the market has somewhat been proven.
Death count is not the only way to measure how bad something is.
This is good to see as there has been tons of posts here on HN detailing Google abusing their power in the last few years.

Prior to I'm guessing 2013 to 2015, Google to many was viewed as the company who actually did no evil & a dream company to work.

Maybe them absorbing other company's and their cultures affected them?
How? What network effect is keeping Bing a poor alternative to Google search?
Good point. I did mean for commercial goods transport, but did not make that apparent.
About time. We need to claim back the free web from corporates like Google and Facebook.
Ah, I think I'm beginning to understand. Perhaps I should just remove the sentence about constants changing.
I worry about the long term viability of using an offshoot language of Javascript such as Coffeescript or Typescript. These types of languages have a habit of falling out of vogue and basically becoming a dead language, which is exactly what happened to coffeescript. If a company decided to write an app in coffeescript in 2010, today they have a big pile of code written in a dead language on their hands. If instead the company had chosen a mainstream language with a guaranteed future such as JS, Java, or c# it wouldn't be an issue.
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Meh, nothing exciting.

Doom 2016 v Doom Eternal: same shit
Valorant: it's in beta so I'll give it some slack but it's pretty boring
Half Life: Alyx: a VR game. lol Valve. Much rather get a Source 2 update for CSGO

Atleast GTA V is free on the Epic store.
Tonight We Riot Devs Wanted to Make an 'Unapologetically Leftist' Game
Other monopolies don't openly support and promote a liberal agenda like tech companies do in general. They should have stay out of politics.
There are a lot of options, but make is just everywhere.

Sometimes it's just simpler to bite the ancient bullet and go with a Makefile, with all its included pains and gotchas rather than try to figure out how to get the fancy new makefile replacement installed in all the relevant environments.
Not your keys, not your coins™ -- with that as the core philosophy of cryptocurrency, can you even say this was stolen, let alone laundered?

It sounds like the person with the keys transferred the coins into another wallet.

Resolved: behaves correctly. At least, as intended anyways.
Audio is superior for multitasking. It's hard to read while doing the dishes.
I am indeed writing it in Go, but I have somehow missed the race condition detector... So thanks for reminding me of it! Once I get back to programming it more I'll look up how to properly make use of all the tooling -- the last time I ran money on it I simply made a service which phoned me every time a trade was happening, so I could observe _any_ bug in real-time.
Because I, the user, don't want that. I don't have a problem subjecting myself to Content ID in exchange for the ability to just host all sorts of crap.
I'm not "missing" anything, I'm well aware that the delivery apps are "stealing" the demand. The value proposition to restaurants is two-fold:

1) delivery-as-a-service without having to manage that last mile delivery themselves

2) easy access to aggregated demand without having to reach customers directly and commensurate marketing costs

In return for that, they pay a transaction fee and lose some leverage.

If restaurants find letting go of (1) or (2) to be "too difficult", then that means that the apps in question are indeed providing value and convenience to the restaurants.

If the restaurants don't want to have to deal with the downsides of being on a platform, they will also have to forego the upsides that come with it. There is no free lunch (heh).
As a non-american, it baffles me that even justices are divided into conservative or liberals.

Just why? What’s the history here?
There's a lot we don't know about infectious disease.
I used to work for an ad network (BSA, Carbon Ads, etc) that does not intrusively track and believes in the effectiveness of quality one-ad-per-page. Try contacting @toddo on twitter or email me (in profile) and I'll forward it over.

Anyhow, I'd love to see something like this. I've switched to DDG but often have to reach for Google if I can't find relevant results.
The fact that "base pay" is lower than minimum wage is already setting up an exploitative situation. The laws were made by lobbyists who wanted to make sure the newly freed slaves they employed weren't on the payroll from the employer.

"Wrongness" and "illegality" are not the same thing.
What? The fact that they sell oodles of information about me to just about anyone?
This was made particularly clear to me when I tried to install AdNauseam [1] on Chrome. Google removed the extension from their web store (imagine doing something the user wants, like messing with Google ads, terrible!) so you have to sideload it via the developer options. Now I get a popup every time I open Chrome telling me that there's a dangerous extension with a single click uninstall button.

Firefox has its issues (the signing requirements because of malware and invasive antivirus companies suck but I can understand why they exist) but their addons aren't discriminated against. There's addons listing porn sites on there, something for which Google would remove the extension on sight, there's addons that mess with Google and their ads, and the list goes on. The browser is no longer independent from Mozilla, but it still remains much more free than Chrome.

[1]: https://adnauseam.io/, it's an addon that clicks every ad while still hiding them to fight back against advertisements and break the profile ad companies construct around your interests.
Just a couple of loose thoughts on this:

-The permissions that pushbullet needed originally where a bit overaching.

-We never knew which was the offending one.

-Reading the original article it crossed my mind that some of the permissions the extension asked could be used for marketing (I'm not implying that they were used for that), and maybe google just didn't wanted extension developers to have a cut on that.

-I really don't like how this marketplaces have made big companies gatekeepers for market share.
I started an open-source project in Python called Restless, to get more experience in both NLP / ML and security. Restless is anti-malware that's "always watching" (every time a file is modified or created, it's automatically sent to the classification pipeline, which uses a hierarchical attention network trained with PE header data).

https://github.com/jddunn/restless

Right now I'm trying to figure out how to speed things up with multiprocessing (Keras doesn't play nicely with that). It's definitely a proof-of-concept project as opposed to something that's a enterprise-level tool (otherwise probably wouldn't write it in Python heh). Mostly I just wanted to make a sick-looking CLI for once.
This looks like a good example of investing in the founders, not in the business. The business is very WTF, but the article makes the founder sound like a known quantity.
it is like saying in the 90s: we don't need open protocols like pop3/imap, because AOL is centralized anyway

(fast forward today: yes, most people still use centralized gmail/outlook.com, but I still have a) the choice to host my mails and b) lower cost to build a service that compete with the big ones, as I don't need to part of the big-players to plug-in to the open "email-system")

In "crypto" centralized" companies are not required for most stuff inside crypto (mostly necessary to bridge the new with the old fiat system)
Cofeescript will always be remembered as peak code hipsterdom.
The stimulus funds are to be reported but not taxed.

https://www.businessinsider.com/personal-finance/are-coronav...
> You definitely don't need to trust these players most of the time. Your coins can sit in an offline wallet out of their reach for the majority of the time.

In a sweet bird-bath somewhere, no doubt.
Yeah, p50, all use cases we have are single row updates.
Typescript is nice in that it's a superset (mostly) of js. That doesn't mean it won't fall out of vogue, just that in a lot of cases converting from TS to JS is mostly straightforward, so you can "just" remove some type information and end up with valid JS.
i guess i got it wrong
but it's still L2 != L3
Mythical Mammoth is a delightful correction.
For advertising it is, especially since they were allowed to purchase their only real competitor years ago.
>Have you ever heard of a for profit company gifting traffic to their direct competitor?

The #3 browser (Firefox) is (was?) massively funded by a half-billion-per-year agreement from the #1 browser's maker (Google) to add Chrome as the default search engine.

Sure, they could pull that deal. Unless you think it's a perfectly balanced deal, though, that feels like one for-profit company gifting traffic to their competitor (either Google giving money to Firefox, or Firefox giving traffic to Google).

It's more niche, but a lot of companies in my market donate to or fund their competitors for the sake of innovation and growing the pie.

Contrary to popular belief, for-profit companies (even those with scary board members in a competitive market) don't inherently have to be cutthroat.