skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Interesting, I wonder if it has anything to do with this [0]. Google wanted to play politics by choosing winners and curating results...now they get to face the consequences for abusing such an enormous power

0.https://www.siliconrepublic.com/companies/google-diversity-i...
The turn of phrase "true spherical hackers in the vacuum" is quite clever and entertaining, but I submit that it is unlikely to be grokked by someone who does not already have familiarity with hacker-isms/culture. :)

(And of course they likely wouldn't understand "grok" either").
As some variant of millenial, I'm continually bemused by how many of my peers are on board with breaking up "big tech" and use "big tech" products multiple times every single day.

If I bring up federal contracting, which is an industry of comparable size, and which is dominated by companies founded well over 50 years ago [1], and which is way more politically opaque, and whose funding they cannot as tax-paying US citizens opt out of, the response is never anything more than "meh".

I understand that one is more relevant to daily in-their-face life. These aren't dumb people. They read, argue, write, vote. But the choice of what to agitate for is so odd to me.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Top_100_Contractors_of_the_U.S...
I feel like inheritance is the actual problem with OOP. Trees of types with increasing specialisations just don't describe many real world problems that well.

I firmly agree.

I wrote https://www.perlmonks.org/?node_id=318257 over 15 years ago. I still agree with the fundamental criticism of "OO everywhere" that I offered there.
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Is trying to protect as many people as possible an agenda? How about wanting to do one’s best in researching medicine? Or are agendas always sinister?

What’s your area of expertise? If someone asked you to give a talk about your area of expertise, what are some agendas you would choose from?

Or are you making the point that no human is 100% emotionally detached from their work?
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They have some advantage in technology, but so far they are just ahead, but usually not by leaps and bounds. They have the most experience with the drive train, the battery and the self driving. However the real 'moat' they have, is producing EV profitably, as far as we know, the other auto makers, at least until this year, were never making money of EVs. At least Ford/GM will probably continue like that, the new Electic Mustang on paper competes with Tesla but uses a battery twice the size, meaning that it can not be very profitable, if at all.

Tesla last Qt showed 25% margin on their cars. That is higher then most OEM get on their cars (usually its cheaper cars to be fair). Other OEM don't report the margins on their EVs, but most analysis shows that they make basically no money, and very often negative money.

Tesla is pushing on batteries like crazy and trying to vertically integrated and innovate both on the chemistry and on the packaging. Most OEM buy battery cells from the same 3 companies, and that often leads to delays for all of them. LGChem in Czech Republic had shortages and that lead to like 5 different EV being produced in numbers far bellow announcement. With every car maker claiming to massively increase EV sales, those battery companies are standing to make huge money but they will capture much of the margin as well, because the battery is like 1/3 of the cost of the car.

The next generation drive train Tesla has announced for their S, X, Cybertruck and Roadster will blow out of the water even what you can get from a 200k Porsche Tycan. Nobody else has announced anything like it. Breakdowns of Tesla shows that their cheaper drive trains are both lighter and cheaper to produce then the competition (see Sandy Monro).

In terms of Self Driving, among OEM so far as I know they are the only ones that are building their own self driving computer. They costume design their own hardware solution including their own designing their own dedicated chip and software to run on those chips. Plus, their tight fleet integration of cars that already have the sensor suited necessary allows them to query the fleet and use driver to train the network. Also, these computers are pretty cheap and light to build compared to the hardware that is in a Waymo car.

There are other things like software updates, business model innovation (no franchise dealership) that other car makers struggle with. The franchises is specially important because those dealers make their money on servicing, so they don't want to sell EVs.

All in all its fair to say that they do have a lead on a number of fronts. The competition has been catching up slowly, but mostly because they stared from nothing basically.
short of N95 masks, masks don't help you at all. In fact, they make it worse from the standpoint that as you touch it, you are applying various yuck on it to inhale.
It does attract eccentric people and spiritual seekers of all sorts ([1] gives a good historical overview), but also open-minded academics, like aforementioned Kauffman; Spencer-Brown's ideas were very popular in cybernetics at the time of Macy conferences, e.g. Varela's autopoiesis was heavily influenced by LoF. I also recall reading something about how Luhmann applied it to sociology.

There are some papers/presentations about applications of ideas based on these laws: circuit optimizations, query engines, various "iconic" algebras [2, 3]; I, like you, have a hard time buying all that (ditto author's claims about Reimann hypothesis), but still, it sounds pretty damn interesting and innovative, e.g. examples of multiplication/addition in 1st vol. of "Iconic Math" were eye-opening and intuitive for me, as a person with kinaesthetic learning style, in a sense that I deeper understood what "number" and "to calculate" mean; it also promotes the invention of various ad-hoc calculi and notations, of which I am a big fan of.

For me, the greatest thing about LoF is cross-fertilization: esoterical mumbo-jumbo benefits from formalization and mathematical approach, while technical disciplines find their root in the spiritual ground; that and the thought experiment of building the world from nothing. It bridges "above" and "below", and kinda reminds me of [4].

[1]: http://www.westdenhaag.nl/information/publications/Alphabetu...

[2]: http://iconicmath.com/

[3]: https://lof50.com/

[4]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fNCUIWhG4Ck
IMHO they're not a monopoly, at least not in the traditional sense of the word.

Traditional monopolies "control supply of a good or service, and where the entry of new producers is prevented or highly restricted."

In this case, the supply of a good or service (social networking, webpage indexing and searching) are not controlled by Facebook and Google because they aren't finite resources. Anyone can index the web and anyone can build a social network and Google/Facebook aren't going to crush you with lawsuits or some other nefarious tactic to maintain their position (AFAIK).

Entry of new producers of these services is not prevented or highly restricted. New social networks and search engines pop up all the time.

What Facebook and Google have is massive, large scale user loyalty. Despite alternatives existing (Bing, Mastadon, DuckDuckGo, Myspace, etc.), users are voluntarily choosing to use Google and Facebook. This is not a monopoly.

I think we need a new term for this situation.
chrome purposefully breaks some privacy oriented extensions.
For me the mindset means a lot of different things.

1. Go beyond what people tell you. Discover your own truth.

2. The love for tinkering.

3. The idea that what you bought is your own and you can do anything with it.

4. To use something in a way that is completely not how it is intended.

5. Deep reverse engineering dives.

6. The guilty pleasure of picking digital locks.

I think I've books in all those directions.
“Spend” has a better ring to it IMO
Show HN: Color Correct Underwater Photos
Couldn't we add some feature to upload the image / video on the fly and embed that into the SMS?
You really can’t compete against free. A large number of people use Google properties because they are free. Existence of a free product will pretty much decimate a large number of business models. Give it enough time and these companies will create gravity wells that start distorting society. Google’s network effects are so strong that as a consumer or a producer you cannot run away from them.

Want to use your own email server? Not going to be a piece of cake and good luck if gmail decides against you. Want to use firefox? Gmail and youtube really will move heaven and earth to make you use chrome. Want to preserve your privacy in any meaningful way? Good luck because rest of the society decided to hand over everything to Google and its free counterparts.

These companies gravity wells are so strong that they reduce meaningful choices to a consumer. In fact, give them enough time and they’ll coerce the market to behave in a particular way.

As of now, to operate as a business on the internet, you can ignore Apple, Amazon or even Facebook. You’ll have a tough time ignoring Google. Across the entire planet.

There’s no doubt that Google’s work has a lot of benefits to humanity. But that is not a license to ignore the dark side of the coin.
You should be able to let tsc do it for you with a properly configured tsconfig file. Mostly just want it to not emit any polyfills.
Aren't elliptic-curve signatures pretty short? (Though I may be blatantly mistaking the applicability of the curves.)

Also til that somewhere on Twitter, alt-text can be specified.
Religion comes to mind.
Don’t read this article. Save your time and go read Jason Lemkin’s SaaStr blog. It’s the “Joel on Software” of blogs for SaaS businesses.

Why? Because this article is grossly simplistic when it comes to SaaS pricing:

1- Despite its title, it Doesnt actually talk at all about how pricing models effect valuation.

2- it presents a laundry list of different models with “pros” and “cons” from the company's perspective, as if that is the most important viewpoint for choosing a pricing model.

3- nothing about aligning pricing to customer value. If you sell a product that improves, say, the conversion rate on a shopping cart checkout funnel, per-user pricing would be a terrible idea since that’s doesn’t align with value.

4- it completely neglects sales concepts. High CAC is fine if LTV is > 3x. Nothing about churn, let alone net-dollar churn, Nothing about incentivizing pricing or contracts to reduce the payback period, which can be without a doubt the largest throttle on SaaS growth, and thus valuation
Microsoft Azure is supposedly almost half the size of AWS already
> if Goog wasn't a majority "blue" company would he aggressively go after them

Certainly can't help them. However, I think that's a moot point if everyone can agree they are the most troublesome company in the "land of large companies". It seems like every few months I see outrage on HN over "Google increased pricing for $X service, but there aren't really any other options" situations.
```It is a genuine source of hilarity to me that “Darmok and Jalad at Tanagra” is a potentially really useful popcultural-reference shorthand for “a situation where two groups face a difficulty communicating because one group speaks exclusively in memes and popculture references”```

-- https://twitter.com/venatrixlunaris/status/11852863701068595...
Doom Eternal's Anti-cheat installs a driver to ring-0 kernel
The only people I ever knew personally who used CoffeeScript also used Rails. That was usually the combo then.

The shine has kind of come off Rails, and the cool kids followed the shiny to the next thing, usually node, and so they moved to Typescript.
Always a good reminder, what people think about as "rockets" is really mostly fuel tanks.

I mean intellectually people know that. Rocket = "Engine" + "Fuel tank".

But I still think that when people are imagining the awe-inspiring power of a massive rocket carrying humans into space, they're not dwelling on the fact that the majority is just a big cavernous vessel for fuel.
On one hand, the authorities are mocked for incompetency (see recently: surveillance cameras on the open internet, 26-year-old EMT shot by police raiding the wrong home) and yet we expect them to handle cases like this? This seems like a double standard. Is there a solution?
This idea seems like it might be useful for anonymizing code.
Once Trump is out office and Bezos is still in business Trump may be heading into heavy weather business wise. Imagine something like a Bezos Tower beside each Trump Tower but higher quality at half the price, etc.
You could also just have your router mitm or redirect connections to hn and sed the result.
I don’t think this is about search dominance.

It’s probably about Google stifling competitors on their own search results page.

Yelp has complained forever that Google ranks their own reviews above Yelp.

Things like that.
It's true that most of our recruiting is focused on a small set of top schools. But it's not because we think those schools magically make people amazing. We just have a small recruiting team, and the easiest way to find good people to interview is to let somebody else (i.e. the school) do most of the filtering for you. We're happy to interview people from elsewhere when we have reason to believe they'll be successful, but it's hard for a small firm to build the capabilities to find them.
Poker is still a game of chance with beginner's luck being a thing. It's a quote from Buffett, relayed from poker folklore: As they say in poker, “If you’ve been in the game 30 minutes and you don’t know who the patsy is, you’re the patsy.”
"If you're not paying for the product, then you are the product" is how the old adage goes. If users are the product, then couldn't one argue that it's a monopoly over the supply of users?
No one can build a search engine as good as Google without the data flowing through it every day. That have so many click logs to train their models and see what works, there is just no way to compete.

If all Google engineers left at the same time, Google would still probably end up dominant by hiring new folks to get things back up and running.

No amount of human labor will be able to close that data gap.
*Free with purchase: There's a membership fee and inflated prices for Prime. I'm glad for the competition since multiple retailers drastically improved their offerings.
The rich data types are also useful for partial updates, like adding items to a set, updating some fields in a map etc.
>and I would ask them about DoorDash's pay model.

Why is this matter though? at the end of the day, what matter is my final net pay. It doesn't matter if the company take all my tip or deduct something, or some other complicated calculation, all i care is the final amount. If I consider that amount too low for the work I did then I don't do it.
About fucking time. Search is the big one but please don't neglect Android and Chrome.

And take Apple to task as well - their app store policies and new app signing requirements for OSX are absurd.

Amazon has just started abusing it's monopoly so they'll be in the next antitrust wave I imagine and get away here.

Don't even get me started on Whatsapp.

Consistently anti-user and competition crushing behaviour in tech should be dealt with forcefully. Not some 5 billion $ chickenshit fine please.
I sometimes am bothered with how reading, or reading books in particular is used as a proxy for that intellectual life. A significant proportion of anything ever published is absolute drivel and is no better than whatever proxy we wish to compare with reading, like reality television.
Dominant platforms.

Platforms are defined as connecting two (or more) sides of a market.

There is a lot of economic literature in this space over the past several decades. Glen Weyl is pretty active in the area, as well as many known economists over the years.

It's not user loyalty that drives this, typically, but rather ease of ingress / difficulty of egress (adoption/switching costs) into the various platforms. Integration among common services helps too.
Uh... welcome to static typing. Yes, it's nice.
The existing mapping is ridiculous. A,D,J,L are all in a horizontal line, but are mapped to vertical motions.

There are many choices, but for example, using A/Z for left player up/down and J/M for right player up down would not require any mental work. Once you place your fingers, up is up and down is down.
"Monopolization Defined"

The antitrust laws prohibit conduct by a single firm that unreasonably restrains competition by creating or maintaining monopoly power. Most Section 2 claims involve the conduct of a firm with a leading market position, although Section 2 of the Sherman Act also bans attempts to monopolize and conspiracies to monopolize. As a first step, courts ask if the firm has "monopoly power" in any market. This requires in-depth study of the products sold by the leading firm, and any alternative products consumers may turn to if the firm attempted to raise prices. Then courts ask if that leading position was gained or maintained through improper conduct—that is, something other than merely having a better product, superior management or historic accident. Here courts evaluate the anticompetitive effects of the conduct and its procompetitive justifications.

"Market Power"

Courts do not require a literal monopoly before applying rules for single firm conduct; that term is used as shorthand for a firm with significant and durable market power — that is, the long term ability to raise price or exclude competitors. That is how that term is used here: a "monopolist" is a firm with significant and durable market power.

https://www.ftc.gov/tips-advice/competition-guidance/guide-a...

Your humble opinion has little relation to governing regulatory law.
Two arms of the same beast :(
Political games don't make sense to me. People play to escape reality, socialize and relax, not to drag alternate reality politics into contention.
I just prepend a secret letter to every possible ssh account on my server ('root' becomes 'jroot') and so that way "ssh root@myserver.com" can never work even if you know my root password. And this way my defense is opaque to attackers passively monitoring my network traffic (the username is encrypted in the ssh protocol).

Oh shit, I just gave away my secret on a public forum...

Ha ha, fooled you! I use a different secret letter in actual practice!

(Or do I?)

p.s. Pretty sure port-knocking offers less protection than this scheme.
The Apple iPhone has very close to 50% market in the US and you simply cannot have a successful mobile software business without releasing your app on the iPhone.

Apple already lost a preliminary suit that will allow them to be sued for their monopolistic practices - https://www.zdnet.com/article/goodbye-walled-garden-apple-ge...
I sort of wish I could trade places with the version of me in the universe where Flash wasn't murdered.
What do you mean by hostile? Do they ban non-Google crawlers?
It’s more like “how strictly do these judges interpret and apply the Constitution.” The more creative interpretations are what have allowed for progressive, or liberal rulings.
The answer's simple. You're looking right at it!

Don't give them Mythical Man Month or Eric Raymond or any of that stuff: dated and esoteric. My interpretation of your post is basically that the business founder is going to be (involved in) hiring, and will be working with several software engineers soon. And you want to help them understand what makes the engineers tick: the sorts of things they find interesting, the sorts of ways they talk about it.

So that's easy. Tell them to look at HN, pick an article with a technical theme that's getting a lot of attention. Read the article, and then read the comment threads.
Just bought the book. I've been working at AWS and using DynamoDB for years now, but I'm sure there are things I could be doing better. I love that you've dedicated attention to analytics and operations too.
"I think we need a new term for this situation"

Having the best product? Google and Facebook are just flat out better than Bing, Myspace, or duckduckgo for most applications. (Notice I said most, I get it, your super specific need does in fact fetch better results using ddg rather than google)
This is a great comment. I updated my post based on your suggestion.
> Americans are not fucking around

As a government with a consistent policy? I'll wait until 2021.
> This stinks of politics.

Yes, and Trump has threatened Google explicitly before.

For example:

> Google search results for “Trump News” shows only the viewing/reporting of Fake News Media. In other words, they have it RIGGED, for me & others, so that almost all stories & news is BAD. Fake CNN is prominent. Republican/Conservative & Fair Media is shut out. Illegal? 96% of results on “Trump News” are from National Left-Wing Media, very dangerous. Google & others are suppressing voices of Conservatives and hiding information and news that is good. They are controlling what we can & cannot see. This is a very serious situation-will be addressed!

(https://twitter.com/realdonaldtrump/status/10344562811202068...)

And on the same day he said this:

> Q Do you think that Google should be investigated?

> PRESIDENT TRUMP: Yeah, I think Google has really taken advantage of a lot of people. And I think that’s a very serious thing, and it’s a very serious charge. I think what Google and what others are doing — if you look at what’s going on at Twitter, if you look at what’s going on in Facebook, they better be careful, because you can’t do that to people. You can’t do it.

> We have tremendous — we have literally thousands and thousands of complaints coming in. And you just can’t do that. And so I think that Google and Twitter and Facebook, they’re really treading on very, very troubled territory. And they have to be careful. It’s not fair to large portions of the population.

(https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefings-statements/remarks-pres...)
-can't +shouldn't

My co-worker of that time did exactly that one week before I got hired.

Also, he told noone.

I just saw it one time, when I played around with a tool that would visualize Git commits, years later. Thousands of lines of code.

Absolute mad lad.
If you've ever used a firecracker rocket it has solid fuel in exactly the same way. It just burns from the inside out (I think) to ensure that the rocket's center of gravity doesn't change as the burn progresses.
I always used to feel this way, but I watched an interesting talk on emacs and learned about EVIL mode and a bunch of other really cool features and now I feel like there probably are some really compelling arguments in favor of emacs, that is if I ever could commit to the requisite couple of years to actually learn it.
I actually agree with everything you’re saying. My kind of meta point was that those content producers might have never made anything accessible to you, if they didn’t have access to audio or video publishing platforms.

I’m not making any statement on the average quality of audiovisual content, just the barrier to entry for the production of that content.

FWIW I do a lot of skipping and fast replaying too. My podcasts are usually around 2.5x. Most people perform-talk way too slow. If I weren’t able to listen that quickly while doing dishes or similar, I’d normally prefer to read.
How is your link related to antitrust?