skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"Coders: who they are, what they think and how they are changing our world" by Clive Thompson, 2019. I think this is exactly what you are looking for.

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/44037236-coders
Instagram Tools for Growth in 2020
Below is a link to a list of mergers and acquisitions by Google over the last twenty years, many of them were search engines and online portals. This is the type of thing that the Antitrust Laws were meant to prevent. However laws are only as good as the government's willingness to exercise them. Hopefully this signals the end of the second Gilded Age, and a return to the creative destruction that has made the USA's economy the strongest in the world for almost a century.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_mergers_and_acquisitio...
Both American Airlines and Southwest Airlines would like a word with you.

The definition of a monopoly isn't "really big". It's not even "the biggest of four major companies".
> There have been civil lawsuits, for example Lenz v. Universal Music is famous for establishing that failure to consider fair use when filing a DMCA complaint constitutes misrepresentation under the DMCA.

That's misrepresentation rather than perjury. It's a different section. That changes it from criminal penalties to actual damages, but then what are the actual damages to Joe's Blog from having a link delisted from Google for a few days? A hundred bucks to make a federal case out of it? That'll be more trouble than it's worth to most everyone and then nobody does it and there are still no consequences. Meanwhile if you did have major actual damages, then what? You have a valid claim against a judgment-proof DMCA spammer who just files for bankruptcy?

Whereas perjury charges that had the spammer spending a few nights in jail and were regularly enforced by well-resourced government prosecutors might actually make a dent in the prevalence of this sort of thing. But that hasn't been the case in practice, one way or another.
This has been a major gap between the American understanding of monopoly protection and the European one.

In the European space, protection of smaller business' ability to compete is factored in. But the US space, in general, has not cared if smaller businesses can compete and tends to take a laissez-faire attitude towards business-on-business market pressures. It's the effect of the market on consumers that's paramount.

To be honest, I'm not sold on the European-style philosophy. Guilds traditionally empowered tradespeople, but they also had a reputation for holding back innovation and punishing new ideas that didn't fit the existing paradigms. Amazon, for example, has made book-buying so cheap nationally that individual bookstores have trouble competing. Amazon's other failings aside (which should be addressed by sweeping employee / labor protections, not by breaking up Amazon): should Grandma's books be more expensive in general so the local bookstore owner gets to enjoy the lifestyle of self-business-ownership to which he is accustom? Why / why not?
I'm thinking about asking to sit (haha) in or call into a standup, next place I look at, after I have an offer but before I take it. If there's even a hint of this kind of toxic shit I'll know to run, fast. If the manager I'm talking to is like "well I guess we can arrange that, but they're usually under five minutes so there's not much to hear, and I'm not in them so I'll put you in touch with [team lead or maybe project manager] who runs them" then that'll tell me what I need to know without even bothering.

I'm increasingly convinced that if you 1) have standups, and they're 2) more than the teensiest bit dysfunctional, you've probably got some badly fucked-up processes and attitudes in general. I mean it does not get simpler than a standup, so if you've decided to have them but can't get them mostly-right, then that's not a good sign. Sadly, this may describe most businesses.
There's no "stealing" or theft here. Based on this article, and the comments on this thread, advertising is part of the package/contract. Restaurants can simply not partner with these services.
There's a lot of ills in this world, I see where you're coming from, but this is a really weird hill to die on. How about, let's agree to take a deep breath and take a break from the internet for at least an hour today.
As usual, no one responds, just tries to grey it out.

For those whose minds aren't so already made up, here's a virologist doing a Q&A debunking all your conspiracy theories about where it came from and its origins.

https://www.reddit.com/r/science/comments/gk6y95/covid19_did...
> Doesn't [text-to-speech] satisfy both?

It does, and I've 'read' 10s of millions of words like this in the past year. I read long-form articles, nonfiction books, and fiction books like this. (The one thing I don't read like this is formatting-intensive PDFs, such as many text books, and that mainly comes down to limitations of my current setup.)

For content on the web I use either firefox's reader mode, which has TTS, or emacs' eww browser with the read-aloud script. For ebooks, I use nov.el and read-aloud. Either allows me to seamlessly switch between visual reading and listening to TTS. This make binge reading easy since I can avoid eye fatigue.

Incidentally, I think a lot of people dismiss TTS after trying it briefly because they underestimate neuroplasticity. Normally sighted people can become very proficient at listening to TTS at high speeds, but for some reason I've seen a lot of people assume only blind people can become accustomed to it. Once you become accustomed to it, the 'robotic' nature of the voice evaporates and it becomes as easy and intuitive as riding a bike.
> I mean, your choices for flying somewhere are what - Delta or United?

Both delta and united are operating very high capital cost businesses on thin margins.

What can we gain by trust busting them?

> What about for internet service - just a single ISP in most areas.

ISPs can be dealt with effectively at the local level - and they are not as invasive or as politically powerful as the tech giants.

I’ve never had my searches for coronavirus related content restricted in any way by my ISP for example.

> Your choices for searching something on the internet, hosting a video, doing email, etc. are innumerable.

You are ignoring network effects and the advertising monopoly.

But maybe that’s a good way to trust bust them?

Perhaps YouTube should be made to start showing my dlive streams in the search results?
Yak shaving ifdef-style conditional compilation in Rust
Come on now. Both sides will do what it takes to get their ideologically bent Justice in place. The leadership on both sides is complete trash anyway.
The overall death rate for 2020 will probably be even below 1%. The old will still die, but the young are no longer driving, smoking, etc and social distancing is preventing other diseases like the flu.
Re: Amazon, many companies do the same thing (e.g. CVS, Target, Costco). With Costco in particular, Kirkland products are higher quality and cheaper than the competition in almost all categories they are in, which is a benefit to me as a consumer. Should Kirkland be broken off just because other companies can't compete with it? If not, what's the justification for Amazon?
You know what else could have the same effect? the right set of words. those are untraceable and they take up little bandwidth.
Idea is cheap.

edit: Beaker browser is what youre looking for
Because goo.gle is run by bit.ly?

host goo.gle
goo.gle has address 67.199.248.12
goo.gle has address 67.199.248.13

host 67.199.248.12
12.248.199.67.in-addr.arpa domain name pointer cname.bitly.com.
I don’t have any suggested reading material but my rule of thumb is to just assume that anything which appears simple to build is about 10x more complex for “reasons”. The simpler a feature is to use, the longer it will take to develop. And any major change in scope/priority adds 2x to the original timeline.

If you want to understand the details behind these general statements, you’ll need to spend the next several years in the trenches delivering dozens of technical projects.
> I'm sorry that I long ago coined the term "objects" for this topic because it gets many people to focus on the lesser idea.

> The big idea is "messaging" - that is what the kernal of Smalltalk/Squeak is all about (and it's something that was never quite completed in our Xerox PARC phase). The Japanese have a small word - ma - for "that which is in between" - perhaps the nearest English equivalent is "interstitial". The key in making great and growable systems is much more to design how its modules communicate rather than what their internal properties and behaviors should be.

https://wiki.c2.com/?AlanKaysDefinitionOfObjectOriented
> Without having a source to back it up

There's a bar chart in the link I provided, "Individuals Tested in the Last 40 Days."

Also, it's not my job to provide you a personal corona briefing.
Thanks for reply. No disagreement about the US health system from a command and control perspective.

There actually isn't even a US health system, in the sense of other countries having a (public) health system. The US has a ton of private health systems, plus some large public ones for the elderly, poor, and veterans who are unable to buy into a private system. It is a mess.

Issues with this mishmash of public and private systems aside, the primary failing I would argue is political- as a coordinated response to a pandemic involves education, housing, supply chain- lots of systems that have nothing directly to do with health.

I would be curious if points you raise from a health system perspective were to some extent covered in the pandemic playbook that had been created and was handed over to the new political leadership following the election- then abandoned by them, as is well documented. If they were, it points even more strongly to political failure, as an aggressive political approach, building on prior planning work, could have greased so many administrative wheels- instead of, as is clearly happening now, simply and shamelessly lining the pockets of political allies.

Cheers.
As I understand it, the solid propellant is hard and hollow on the entire length: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solid-propellant_rocket. Also check this wonderful Applied Science video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TLPWqCMb7DE
There's been plenty of computer-throwing and crying, but all worth it.
Now I can get directions without my phone highlighting every Mc Donalds and saying things like "turn left at the People's United Bank". I started to wonder if google chose routes which specifically sent me passed advertisers' stores.
> Amazon should have won in very few of the markets it entered. Instead, its competitors just decided to lie down and die, with a couple of yelps on their way to their death.

Once AWS started really making money, there's not many companies that could realistically beat Amazon. How do you beat them when they can use tactics like what happened with diapers.com? How many companies can afford to run what is likely their main revenue source at a $100,000,000+ loss every three months just to keep Amazon out of a market that wouldn't even be a top 5 revenue stream for Amazon?
Honestly? And I'm genuinely surprised that this wasn't the first course of action: keep the staff locked in with the residents. You're either locked in at work, or you're locked in at the nursing home so it doesn't much matter does it?

For what it's worth there are less drastic options. Kingston, Ontario for instance was able to avoid having even a single infection within a nursing home. [1]

[1] https://www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/article-with-an-early...
> if you are under 45 and healthy your chances of dying from covid-19 are exceedingly small.

Yes, I did say that.

However,

> as the ONS figures only a additionally include out of hospital deaths primarily form care homes and hospices in which the average age will be well above 45

The ONS figures include all people where coronavirus was mentioned on the death certificate no matter where they died.

Care homes isn't just elderly people, although that's a common misconception. Care homes here are using the Care Quality Commission service specification definition. This includes residential services for people with learning disability and or autism, but also other settings for children and working age adults.

Care home services with nursing (CHN)
Care home services without nursing (CHS)
Specialist college services (SPC)

NHSE+I have only just started including this table in their daily death count reports. https://twitter.com/chrishattoncedr/status/12609675671555153...
Gonna need a citation on that. NHTSA says 27, with ~100 lawsuits filed against Ford.
Doesn't matter if it's so hard to manufacture that the generics miss the train. If they did the same for the other drug then I'd trust their motives more. If you were a generics manufacturer would you invest in a complex process that will definitely turn into a wasted investment within just a few years when Gilead starts demanding royalties?
Nvidia accused of concealing $1bn in coin-mining GPU sales as gaming revenue
> We saw the outcry regarding @BitPay and no longer intend to support it. In the coming weeks and months we'll keep exploring options that will work for us and will be convenient for our community.

https://twitter.com/thepine64/status/1261360519266676737
If I was an evil hacker I would look at that port and other variants of 22 like 2200, 2222, etc for people's ssh.
That's true. The terminology has gotten a bit confused; most people who say they want to follow a "herd immunity" plan really mean "I don't think we can avoid it". Country A achieving containment doesn't necessarily mean Country B can achieve it, at least not without impossible or unacceptable costs.
what if the measures you take because of COVID kill more than 0.024% of the population should you still take those measures?
Show HN: Unskew My Search, a web extension for peaking into the Google black box
Unskew My Search is an experimental browser extension that seeks to help you discover how your personal search results are being skewed by Google recommendation algorithms.

Problem: Google notoriously collects and leverages an immense amount of user data to better improve ad targeting, click through rates, and ultimately their bottom line. These algorithms are largely a black box, meaning we as users don’t have insight into how our personal data is being leveraged within them. Unskew is an attempt to identify how our search results are being impacted by unique data associated with our accounts.

How it works: When a Google search is run with the extension installed, Unskew takes the search term and sends it to our servers. From there, we use a network of proxies to run the same search from a user agent with no connection to you or your account. We scrape these unaffiliated results and return them to your browser where the extension compares them to the results you yourself received.

Hypothesis: By controlling for the variable of user identifying information and removing it from the equation, disparities in search results represent attempts by the recommendation algorithm to personally tailor results. Identifying the extent to which this occurs is vitally important, given Google’s near monopoly on the search space. Potential negative impacts could involve users increasingly becoming encased in an echo chamber of their own making in order to maximize click through rates, or could indicate the willingness to engage in even wider scale manipulation of search results across user accounts which are more difficult to detect.

Feedback: We hope to hear and engage with feedback regarding our methodology, UX, and how this tech could be better leveraged to benefit users and the UX, and answer any questions. Outside of our immediate peer network this is our first attempt at gaining wider feedback.
The big tech co's have become politically active by infringing on people's freedom of speech, etc. You can argue they're private, but that doesn't really matter. The telcos are private, but they can't drop your connection if they don't like what you are talking about. They can't drop the account of an organization that agitates for things they disagree with.

The big tech co's have made their bed, now they get to sleep in it.
Also "Gilead is providing the entirety of this existing supply at no cost, to treat patients with the most severe symptoms of COVID-19. The 1.5 million individual doses are available for compassionate use, expanded access and clinical trials and will be donated for broader distribution following any potential future regulatory authorizations."

https://www.gilead.com/stories/articles/an-update-on-covid-1...
That it may be, but it is still the easiest way to have group chats with anyone with a smartphone and a US carrier.
.. and (as Michael explains on the book) it’s literal meaning in Martian is “drink”, or in other words “to make part of yourself”. It used to really annoy me when people used it to mean “understand”, but I’ve got over that now.
I'm so glad I don't live in France. What a ridiculous place. People need "non-essential" Amazon deliveries and drivers need jobs now more than ever.
You can get even fancier things with the inner hole to inflence your burn profile. For example, it can look like a star - this will give you high initial thrust as the burn area is big. As the inner spokes burn off, the burn front will star to approximate a circle, reducing thrust. This can be important to get you rocket the initial acceleration it needs to lift off but to avoid excessive acceleration destroying the rocket later on (as it it burning the rocket get lighter but the solid motor thrust would nornally stay the same or even grom slightly, due to the circular burn front being a bigger and bigger circle).
> 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. And each time a universe branches, it creates a child universe that is slightly different from the parent universe, e.g., universal constants such as gravity and the speed of light might differ.

Pretty sure this is flat out wrong; the Many Worlds hypothesis does not include universes in which universal constants differ.
> I think most apps will need a transaction involving more than 25 rows at some point

I ... can't think of a single time I've ever needed this.
I'm curious why you say this.
I spent the past two weeks using Bing (which is the source of DDG results, but a little faster and more accurate). For most queries it was fine (finding things on Wikipedia), but last weekend I got into a project that required a lot of css and html (not my day job). There were a lot of cases where the search results were not even close to the thing I wanted. The experience led me to switch my default browser back to Google.
Seriously, how is this not comprehensible to people? If you or your family members are going outside, you HAVE NOT been in isolation. You've been interacting with people outside and bringing in germs from your visits.
This is what I was told by two different people in Jakarta last week.

Not sure what the downvotes are about in this case.
There's a great moderately-popular opensource extension providing a desktop-quality image viewer interface: zoom, rotate, stretch by default, all that jazz. Specifically, ‘there is’ this extension for Firefox. It was also there for Chrome, but the dev received the same crappy letter and didn't feel like playing the guessing game. New CRXes are still made available on the site.

Since Big G's treatment of extension developers is incompatible with their self-respect, I wholeheartedly support devs who decide to dump the web store—despite me making some use of two Chrome-based browsers.
The digestive tract doesn't need to be infected to be effected. AFAIU, in some cases non-infectious viral particles (i.e. non-viable segments floating around in your body) have evolved to make you cough and sneeze through irritation, so it would be unsurprising if in some people they irritated other tissues or possibly even effected gut flora.

If this is in fact the case, then fecal material wouldn't necessarily be a transmission vector. Although it could be; it could be a vector even if the irritation was not by infection.
Excellent work by the team. Hope to be able to use this soon!
Didn't we have call in party phone numbers like this in the 90s?

How is this worth 100m?
> If you treat DynamoDB as a DBMS, you’re going to be disappointed

Did you mean to say "as a RDBMS"? Because I don't see how it's not a DBMS.
A guide on powering Pi Zero directly from LiIon batteries
Secret Computing for Animated GIFs (SCAG)
The news of Giphy’s acquistion has inspired the following revolutionary product--Secret Computing for Animated GIFs (SCAG™). Let’s be honest, humans loooove animated GIFs. In fact, it’s such a novel concept that FB wrote a check for $400 million; it may seem like a lot of money (unless you’re FB), but as the saying goes a picture is worth a thousand words while a GIF is worth a $1000. So, you may wonder what the heck does Secret Computing and GIFs have in common? I am glad you asked.
Steganography has been around since the ancient Greek times; in fact it’s one of the oldest technologies known to mankind. Some of the most highly-educated criminals have mastered the art of Steganography through electronic communication. But to an average person, it remains virtually unknown. By combining GIFs with Steganography we will enable humans to continue to enjoy their favorite social activity while secretly communicating with their friends. SCAG™ is the only technology which allows end-to-end encryption via the most popular social embedding. Hence, it is uniquely positioned for en masse adoption.

Quick PoC is available here: https://gist.github.com/srosenberg/dd01bfa35f36a305a866551bdfcb3cc5
Microsoft was specifically deemed a monopoly in desktop operating systems. That was OK. The problem was that they were trying to use that to "leverage" their way into dominance on the internet, by pushing (really quite aggressively) users to use Internet Explorer, and by pushing (even bribing) websites to include "IE-only" elements. "Try to make using Netscape a jarring experience" was the way they put it.

It's that "leveraging" bit that was the problem - trying to use a monopoly in one area to destroy competition in another area.
Its not really like sand, its more like toothpaste that is dried up. Its essentially a rocket fuel where the fuel and the oxidizer is premixed in the same 'paste'. This makes clear why its a pretty dangerous substance. You need to be very careful manufacturing those, as they can explode pretty easily.

The way it works, is that it burns from the insight out, like a hollow candle. The trajectory of the booster is basically molded into the hole in the middle. Once you light in on fire, the booster is gone fly its trajectory whatever you do.

Here you can see all that pretty well:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k_JULlA_9Mo
It looks like that doesn’t work in the regular version of Firefox – only Nightly, Developer, or one of the unbranded versions. Is that true in your experience?