skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Thank you. Agree COVID is a catalyst for global change, probably only the first of many more to come. I expect climate to continue to present more systemic challenges in the coming years and decades. And I don't expect the collective "us" whatever that collective is to get "it" right in response to COVID.

I am still an advocate and supporter of rule of law rather than rule of man, and recognize that many of the issues Chaos Monkey is finding have to do with scale and the legal and administrative equivalent of technical debt. I like solving for scale and debt problems and while we are in a real shitstorm now, we also have millions of us triage agents working to bring back rationality and accountability. Our day to plan and rebuild will come.

Cheers.
They might not be related but the second one is a relevant question I think.
When I think of harmful monopolies, I think that the worst ones are where a company owns a patent to a drug and refuses to sell it for less than 100x cost. But people every day can choose to type in any website into their search bar... and they choose to type Google. I don't see any reason why Google should be punished for that--unless they've done something bad elsewhere. It seems like a lawsuit will objectively make customer experience worse.
This has has always been my concern.

How many people have died because they couldn't get life saving elective procedures?

How many deaths will be attributed to the economic slow down?

As a counterpoint though I must also ask:

How many people have NOT died because of reduce automobile travel? Or from COVID19?
How is that different than any other distribution platform?
Well, not to put too fine a point on it, but I'm only saying that the africans have had 500 years of experience "trading" with us. So I'm not sure you could get an african to say that trading with the US has been more "trustworthy" than trading with, say, Russia. I'll even go out on a limb one step further and say that we'd be hard pressed to find even black americans who would say that africa trading with the west has been, "trustworthy".

I mean, maybe you could find a few here or there, but for the most part, I'm guessing they'll have their guard up when they trade with us. They'll especially be on their guard with any american who struts into africa telling them, "How ya' doing buddy? We're way more 'trustworthy' than that other guy you want to do a deal with!"
No worse than your average winter in the northern US. We get that for 4-5 months at a time in upstate NY.
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Ask HN: Dark mode for HN please?
Of all places, HN should be dark mode by default, without any of us using a plugin or specific browser. I don't want my eyes to burn when I'm browsing HN at night on my phone. Anyone?
I agree with Comcast, they need to be broken up, and Amazon could do with some scrutiny. But Apple, Boeing and United Airlines? The aren't monopolies by any definition.
`_=>_` is technically more than two, but not by much.
> Every industry I can think of with entrenched monopolies sees almost no innovation until things get so bad that they are finally disrupted: aerospace, energy, advertisement, telecommunications, and the list goes on and on.

Intel's virtual monopoly of microprocessors has led to AMD's recent advancements: https://seekingalpha.com/article/4247790-intel-vs-amd-battle...
https://www.tomshardware.com/news/amd-vs-intel-cpu-market-sh...

Check out the historical market shares in the links. Markets have changed in time with respect to computing. People are opting for mobile devices which use arm processors(even breaking into server space). Unless the behemoths in the industry adapt, their industry may not exist in the future. That is innovation and disruption happening right now.

Intel had in 2018 90.4% of the desktop/notebook/server market with 96.8% of the server market share. Maybe this is only Intel vs. AMD stats. Are servers run with other processors?

Standard oil(Arguably the most notorious monopolistic company in the history of the United States) by comparison: "At one point, it was believe that they controlled somewhere between 88% to 91% of all the oil in the United States"
You should label your axes.
Not a fan of creative destruction in the software sphere, personally.

In a lot of sectors, sure. I'm all for someone building a better car.

What benefit does mass competition in the software service space give me? How many bespoke APIs am I expected to integrate against to build something useful?

Different for difference's sake is the curse of our industry.
I expect the "ethically licensed" attempt will fail the open source bar. Anything that selects out a group as having different requirements ought to.

Free as in speech, without bias or contempt of others, will win in the end (I hope). This is why FSF "free" software (strong copyleft) is different from "open source" and they have different governing bodies. We are already seeing a pull back from copyleft and the overreaction the other direction (to non-compete) will both lose out to best in class humanity found in truly "open" source ideas.
yes! we already have teams from Asia, Africa, and Europe participating in Spring.
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AFAIK TS is pretty committed (at the expense of possibly-useful functionality) to being very, very simple to strip out, leaving vanilla JS in its wake. Unless you're minifying, the compiler output typically looks almost exactly like the well-formatted, sane, and readable JS you'd have written instead. That escape hatch is part of why I've not worried a bit about taking it up. Turning a TS project into a JS project, should you ever need to, is functionality that's essentially built-in, and you do it every time you run "tsc".
> Both delta and united are operating very high capital cost businesses on thin margins.

You are right, the capital cost of millions of servers worldwide, with security guards, and buildings, and cooling is zero.
> However Chromium is open source and it's still impossible to do so.

I don't know if it's true that the official Chromium or Chrome don't allow sideloading at all—but the rather popular ‘Ungoogled Chromium’ build certainly does (in fact, it probably still doesn't work with the web store directly): https://ungoogled-software.github.io/ungoogled-chromium-bina...

However, the security of these builds may be questionable.
I disagree. And sure, the new thing comes along and isn't really all that new or bad until it actually is. Sometimes a new thing really is bad. Sounds like a fallacy to think that since every past advance was a good thing that every future advance must also be a good thing. You don't think digital media has caused a huge and rapid shift in the way humans entertain themselves and communicate?

I'm not sure if it's for better or for worse but this is vastly different than anything humans have dealt with for all of history.
HFT isn't essential services.
That matches my experience: the pitch was writing less, safer code but I found that JSHint (back then) had a comparable effect without a stop-the-world migration and a lot of the size reductions weren’t significant compared to following any style standards for naming, comments, etc.
> Usually when I see somebody arguing against object-oriented programming, I don't see them arguing for functional programming, but instead arguing for procedural (like Cobol, Basic, or Pascal) programming.

That's not what I'm seeing. The usual discourse around OOP is that some parts of it are bad. In particular, overriding concrete methods, and in general Java-like inheritance brings a lot of pain. "Everything is an object" from C# and Java also gets a lot of well-deserved criticism (https://steve-yegge.blogspot.com/2006/03/execution-in-kingdo...).

Other parts, like polymorphism, incapsulation, binding data with behaviour - I don't see that much criticism against this. For me, modern languages like Go or Rust (yes, I know it's almost a meme at this point, but still) bring sane OOP approach: while not being strictly OOP, they take the parts that work, and remove the parts that don't, while at the same time adopting many practices and abstractions from functional languages that proved useful.
I don't think all of those will be viable businesses on their own without VC money will they?
Last I had heard the FBI and Royal Canadian Mounted Police were investigating the QuadrigaX situation so it definitely happens.

It seems law enforcement doesn’t really have the time (and maybe lacks the interest/expertise) to investigate most cryptocurrency cases until they become major news.
That’s exactly right - we have plenty of options for redress against an ISP abusing its power at the local, state, and federal levels.
Happy to engage and exchange and learn more. HN is not really the best platform for this (opportunity for a startup! :).

Cheers.
So get two people to text-chat over WhatsApp on a subject for an hour, and clean it up after the fact. It's still easier to produce than a conversation podcast.
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Negative flags sucks.
This is going to be next the big thing after lambdas in Java.
So cool! Mind sharing what tech you used to build this?
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The video explains the rise in number of deaths over time worldwide.
I think you've hit on the core reason cryptocurrencies aren't going to take off as currencies. They've taken the governance aspect previously enacted by the federal reserve and enforced through the banks and replaced it with a shadowy cabal of exchange owners.

Ultimately I think it's a people problem that can't be solved through technology. But cryptocurrency does happen to be quite useful for money laundering...
The case against Google is "whatever we can throw together to pressure them to stop pushing end-to-end encryption we can't break". Google is by far the biggest proponent of this, and they have both the most popular browser and some of the most popular sites on the Internet, so they can very easily do so.

Whether you think Google is a monopoly or not, and whether you think they've done harm with that monopoly or not, I think this case is going to do net harm to Internet security.
DuckDuckGo has better human-centered results, but they miss a lot of the more technical stuff.
How does functional programming allow you to avoid reasoning about state? Don't you always have to reason about state, no matter what paradigm you use? Otherwise, how are you going to build anything useful if you're not keeping track of any variables?
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.

What you use them for is liquidity. Since you probably won't find a private party to buy/sell from. Realistically if you want to buy, or sell coins you have to go through one of them. And yes that kinda sucks because none of them are trustworthy., so you have some amount of risk there.

The larger problems comes from the risk they inject in the market just by existing. They will be hacked, fail KYC, or straight up scam exit with all their customers money and that will impact the value of the market as a whole.

For my risk tolerance, crypto is completely uninvestable
Market concentration for all of those companies is much less than for Google. Google has 91% of the search market. Boeing has 45% of the global airline market. Amazon has a similar percentage of the e-commerce market, and an even smaller percentage of the retail market. Apple had 39% of the domestic airline market. United has 15% of the domestic airline market. Comcast’s market penetration is under 50%. (That means they have less than half the market in the areas they serve.)

I don’t know if there is a political angle to this or not. But Google is objectively differently situated than the other companies you mention.
How many people will not die due to the cleaner air?
A recent change I made to podcast listening was to stop playing at faster speeds.

I noticed that my natural speaking pace increased so much that it was confusing people who are used to slower cadences and listening to others who speak at a natural pace was grating to me.

Switching to 1x speed has helped me slow down a bit and digest as I go instead of racing through everything.
I'm not sure which Sean Carroll talk you saw, but I think he only mentions the differences between worlds in terms of different "choices"-- and these universal constants don't "choose" to be what they are, right?
It's not clear what technical content this post has. A cubic polynomial vs time would be a terrible idea, but the dashed and/or dotted red line (that people seem upset about) is obviously not a cubic polynomial vs time.

At that point I run out of guesses about exactly what's being said by anybody.
That sounds like a fine plan.
right. it's more like copy-on-write than a completely different replica. also, the probability of the outcomes is not the same (ie some worlds may be more equal/present than others).

it's questionable if it's one world or a split happens and we have multiple worlds. I would lean toward one world with phenomena that we don't really understand.
> But I wonder if Goog wasn't a majority "blue" company would he aggressively go after them.

If Google wasn’t a majority “blue” company they would have been trust busted under Obama.
Thanks! That was my learning nugget for the day.

I`d always heard the phrase "it`s running as intended" when explaining the intricacies of a dumpster fire. POSIWID works even better!
This is freaking genius!
The antitrust investigation is focused on online advertising. So Outlook, iPhones, maps, AWS doesn't really apply there. "Many people" might use Bing, but Google dwarfs it in market share.

I'm not particularly familiar with the infrastructure of the ad business, but my layman's view is that alternatives are slim outside of Google for search engine and the more general web and Facebook for specifically social media.
A common one is cascading deletes when you delete a user or a ‘project’ or something else that has a lot of stuff associated with it. Those will exceed 25 rows very quickly. Also any kind of bulk update or data import... hell even just initializing a new account can easily require writing more than 25 rows in a moderately complex app.
Right? That's the thing; it's not. Not by consumers, anyway.

Now, French book-sellers, on the other hand, appreciate the law that keeps them in business for aesthetic reasons, whether or not it makes economic sense or they can stay financially competitive when the price of data transmission has crashed past too-small-to-meter-per-word.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lang_Law
The post seems to misinterpret that Doordash + Grubhub are somehow in cahoots with Google to skim off of restauranteurs. What Doordash & Grubhub are doing is an extreme form of "growth hacking" that doesn't have any considerations for the collateral damage it creates - they should be held accountable for that. Google here is just the provider of a tool that they abuse, they need to work on ensuring that this form of abuse should not be possible.

To deduce that there's a conspiracy between Google + Doordash is taking it a bit too far..
> But I wonder if Goog wasn't a majority "blue" company would he aggressively go after them.

"Majority blue" is in a majority of their employees vote Democrat? That's just what happens when you're headquartered in California, in a metro area, with a workforce that skews younger.

I don't think that Google is somehow pushing liberal objectives in a meaningful way.
The Commercial Crew and Cargo programs are far, far cheaper then the Shuttle.

The Shuttle was one of the most expensive ways of getting to Space BY FAR. As every flight had to be a human flight.

Having a vehicle that could do everything, even when 90%+ of the mission only required a small part of the capabilities made it untenable.

With one simple Dragon like capsule you can replicate both crew and cargo up and down transportation for most of the things you need. If you need to transport big pieces, you can just put them on top of a rocket by itself as most station outside of part of the ISS were built.

The way the Russian designed the Buran and Energia system was far more capable of doing all those things. This was mostly because most in the Russian space flight program thought that Shuttle was a terrible idea and they didn't want to handy cap their next generation rocket to a Orbiter.

Had the Soviets not collapsed, their launch capability would have outstripped the US by 4x.

> Of course, that level of capability wasn’t needed as much after ISS was built

It wasn't needed to build the ISS in the first place. Its rather that the ISS was designed TO REQUIRE the Shuttle.

It would have been far cheaper to use the cheapest commercial rockets and the Ariane to build ISS.

> Not bad for tech developed in the 1970s, tho.

A lot of the technology was great, but great technology doesn't make a great product.
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an example would be the speed of light is different. or the mass of certain particles is different. or the dark matter to normal matter ratios are changed.
It's election session, corporate clients need to pay their dues.
It "should". That's not good enough.
I prefer Reader Mode in Firefox and the Narrate feature, it turns every web article in a podcast. Samantha voice on macOS is real enough and speeding it up to 150% is faster than reading the article.
This is a good way to get people to hide their infections and make stopping spread harder.
Yeah, I paid for SH and I'm happy to see that money going to the broader ecosystem, but I could see having a parent "advancement of FOSS" organization that then also contributed to sourcehut in addition to others. I could see an argument for sr.ht being the central entity, but it feels like an unnecessary commingling of concerns. By analogy, it feels like shipping a sha256 function in libc: It makes some sense, but I'd rather see it factored out into a crypto library.
Isn't ECS just a specialization of OO?

I thought it was an aggregation (as opposed to hierarchical) model. I've been doing that with OO for decades. It makes a great deal of sense, in some cases. PoP has similarities to that, but, in my experience, there is absolutely nothing that can compete with polymorphism and/or inheritance -and, here's the kicker- in some situations.

OO, in my experience, is a lot different from just polymorphism. I think that it's a way of conceptualizing the model. I used to write OO in straight C, in the late 1980s. I called it my "Faux Object" pattern. It even had a rudimentary form of polymorphism (no vTables - just function pointers that could be replaced -Poor man's vTable).

My experience is that lots of people have difficulty adapting to hybrid design. We learn one tool, and we learn it well. We go to conferences, where we are told that we are über-programmers, because we use this tool.

But try using a screwdriver to drive a nail. Most of my friends that are (building and construction) contractors are quite used
to hybrid design. They use one technique and set of tools on the foundation, another on the walls, and yet another on the roof.

Some of these aspects are a large enough field that they can specialize (like framers or roofers), but there are quite a few "general" contractors that are capable of building a house from scratch.

I started off with Machine Language (the original "ML"), and have written device interface code for a long time, and am quite used to a lot of limitations (like "lite" versions of languages for lower-layer work or embedded content). We use the best tools for the task at hand, and don't sneer at others that don't use them.
No, I meant a DBMS. Almost all the things you'd expect in a DBMS are not there. Take a look at most of the comments in this thread. Everyone expecting DBMS things, and complaining that they're not there.
This is classical whataboutism
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No, the lesson here is that the marketing "industry" is, to a first approximation, an evil cancer on society.
Democrats didn't remove the SCOTUS filibuster, the Republicans did that to get Gorsuch on the bench. The Democrats removed the filibuster for regular judicial appointments during Obama's tenure because Republicans blocked all of his nominations, using the judicial filibuster more in two years than all previous Congresses combined.
And on the flip side of the coin, we can change our search engine if we don't like the results it vends.
you seem to be conflating like 5 issues at the same time, elevating crypto to a fictional higher standard for areas it wasn't made to excel in.

"crypto" isn't acting differently here because this article is about centralized financial institutions.

and then there are expectations of those centralized financial institutions that are higher than non-crypto centralized financial institutions, simply because we can partially trace the destination of the funds

ironically, the only reason we can even do this is because of the hacker not following best practices, and the exchanges not following best practices. exchanges should be rotating addresses upon every deposit, and there should be no way of knowing that an address belongs to an exchange.

the hackers actually might be following some normal money laundering best practices, without taking into account how to improve them with crypto. the accounts they send the funds to may not actually be in their control. Like the funds may have changed physical owners through invoices and real services, and simply following onchain transfers won't tell you anything except "look ma, BLOCKCHAIN!". The new physical owner sent their address and that dumb person got their funds frozen because it was a custodial centralized exchange flagging origin transactions.

So the reality is that these investigations don't show anything, except try to advertise their work to get government contracts or private plaintiff's lawyers to pay them.
I feel like you can quote just about arbitrarily high number for an SF engineer salary and someone will come out of the woodwork to tell you that it's actually low.
Honest question: would you say "NoSQL modeling is way more restrictive, labor intensive and painful, but in turn gives you consistent performance as you scale" is a fair characterization?
if you read "Our Mathematical Universe: My Quest for the Ultimate Nature of Reality" by Max Tegmark, many worlds falls in the bucket of L3 multiverse. What you're describing is a L4 multiverse (see comments below. seems it's L2, not L4. will leave my mistake in, although i'm sure there is a parallel universe where i did not make this mistake)
> The telcos are private, but they can't drop your connection if they don't like what you are talking about

With net neutrality gone, an ISP absolutely could do that.
yes, plenty. national authorities are fully capable and familiar with crypto currency transactions and how to request coordination to subpoena foreign exchanges.

its happened plenty of times and funds have been recovered, its usually in Department of Justice press releases and an associated court filing. Other times you can just talk to people that were involved in an investigation. Not really news, stuff happens way after the event.
How would you get the public key to verify such a signature?
Great to hear, thank you!
>"In the last 15 years there has been a hard move away from these architectures."

It's been longer than that for router vendors. The move to hardware based forwarding was in the 90s.
> The ones that you know were pwned.

Breaches like this one give no indication of which password is exposed, if any.

AFAIK, there is nothing actionable.