skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Would this be considered anti-competitive today?

Let's say you control a major internet browser (or have good knowledge to believe that your iPhone's Safari will become a major internet browser) and specifically exclude support for a competitor's platform (forcing people to the App Store/Apple ecosystem to create similar experiences). On its face, and outside the technical considerations of Flash as a platform, it seems like a move to directly subsume a huge market share.

I'm surprised this angle hasn't gotten more discussion. Personally, I think the bar for anti-trust in tech is very, very high and this doesn't meet it (and neither would current shenanigans du jour) but interested to hear what others think, or how they think it's different. It's kind of nuanced since it's more like one vendor not developing support for a competitor, rather than impeding them after-the-fact.
If a government is committing genocide private enterprise would be coerced into cooperation. The government would have gone rogue.

Besides, GitHub probably does offer services to the Chinese government bodies and it will be no surprise to anyone if it turns out they are committing acts of genocide against the Uyghurs. They are probably hosting code related to research and commercialisation of the facial recognition programs that various governments will be implementing.

To draw the line at Ice but not withdraw services from the Chinese mainland showcases the level of myopic politicisation that is being lobbied for here. They are a platform, they should act like one.
Or not even an arm of the government. The same reasoning would be applied by other companies buying services. Vendors with a reputation for stopping service to clients because of bad news coverage are a risker bet.
PSA: Hertz stock is already worthless. The only thing keeping it afloat are retail investors that keep piling in. They are pretty much guaranteed to lose money holding it.
It’s sine qua non. You are arguing against the very essence of something having that essence.

Please don’t insult me and then call me “friend”. It’s passive-aggressive and not suitable for this site.
Stumbled upon this tool when it was linked from a recent HN post (Six levels of interaction with a system). Have been using this ever since.
It's not absurd at all for many people as their very identity is quite entangled with their employer and the work they do as they spend the majority of their waking hours doing something work related.

Since employment-as-family was not relatable for you, how about: if you disagree with your HOA/neighborhood watch/city council, is your first instinct to sell your house and move away? Wouldn't canvassing support for your PoV be more reasonable, as an initial action?
[1] https://www.shippingandfreightresource.com/hmm-algeciras-lar...

“HMM Algeciras” is the first of twelve 24,000 TEU class vessels scheduled to be sequentially delivered until September 2020 out of a total of 20, with the balance 8 planned for delivery from second quarter of 2021 onwards."

BAM!

edit: [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyundai_Merchant_Marine

Living in Hamburg with its port since 2004 it was exiting at first, to see these large ships come and go, and the rumbling sounds they make when they are turned around by tug-boats on the river, to even fit into their berths. Altough they weren't that large by then. Then the little economic hiccup [3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Financial_crisis_of_2007%E2%80... happened, and it seemed to me like less ships come and go. Anyways, they got larger, and larger, and then it was almost boring, like almost every month in the local press: "Largest container ship ever first time in port!" Oh, really? Again?

Anyways, when I'm at home, awake and hear some fog-horn honking from afar, I open
[4] https://www.marinetraffic.com/en/ais/home/centerx:9.846/cent... to see who it is :)

Right now [5] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CMA_CGM_Alexander_von_Humboldt is leaving port destined for Rotterdam. Made headlines also, a while ago.

It reminds me a little bit of the very incremental improvements in CPUs since about 2005. One could do this and that, but it would be uneconomical. The same goes for these giants. Any larger, and they have less ports to dock, because they don't fit, can't pass through channels, or twist and warp too much in rough seas with current materials. So it is slow steaming with greener engines instead.

[6] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slow_steaming

Funny Captain playing Star Wars theme on the horn of MSC Zoe in 2015 :)

[7] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V8DMd1ddl68 (4m33s)

HMM Algeciras a week ago in Hamburg during docking

[8] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pZdIJFdP3AM (5m16s)
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Could you please not post in the flamewar style to Hacker News? It's entirely possible to make your substantive points without it, and we're trying to stave off the self-destruction of this forum.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu...

https://news.ycombinator.com/newswelcome.html

Also, we've had to ask you numerous times before.
Actual systemic progress happens through legislative changes. Social pressure is used by the public to show which issues they care about, and what politicians should be working on. The protest are one strong signal here.

Support by major companies, while admittedly less effective, is another signal that helps. Claiming that it's useless is false and claiming it's cheap is ignorant - the OP clearly demonstrates that a good deed never goes unpunished.
It also signaled the end of the golden era of amateur 2D games and drawn movies (i.e. what Newgrounds was famous for).

I feel like the modern creativity has been channeled into YouTube, IG, and TikTok. Not as much interactive content, unfortunately.
> "I know it sounds counter intuitive, but I think getting rid of the line item veto has helped to cripple Congress even more."

that's an issue, but the linchpin is the influence of money in politics along with a voting system that tends toward 2 parties. legislators spend much more time chasing dollars than considering legislation, and hewing to party lines than independent thought. 'politician' is too much of a career rather than a duty.
What if developers find it morally wrong to automate away jobs? Do they get a say?

Is it within their moral rights for backhoe operators demand manual ditch digging too because that will benefit their friends who lost jobs to powered equipment?
Yes, I'm glad that GitHub workers are allowed to protest this. It is heartening.

That doesn't change the fact that I'm personally disappointed that they're executing that privilege on this particular issue.
Until there is a tornado or a flood then they have to pay 11 figures to cover damages.
I'm curious, if Github does decide to end their ICE contract, if this will follow the 'slippery slope' into then combing other companies ICE works with. Surely there's a bank ICE holds their money in, do they have a Github contract? ICE had a contract with Chef (they don't any more), but if they still did, would Github threaten to cutoff Chef's Github contract if they didn't drop them?

And that's all assuming ICE really is the worse Company/Organization that Github has a contract with. As soon as you open up this can of worms, how do you define the line? And even once you do define the line, there will always be edge cases. And once there's enough examples, companies are going to stop going with Github just to avoid the possibility of having to move forcibly later. After all, what Github provides not only has a large number of competitors, both paid and open source, but is a frontend for an already free source control tool (Git itself). Cancelling the ICE contract is an inconvenience at best, ICE's day to day activities wouldn't be affected in the slightest.
I'm pretty sure that's it's criminal in every country on earth to violate the immigration laws of that country
An expert can be wrong, but a layperson is more likely to be wrong. "Experts are wrong" is sometimes common knowledge, but "I know better than experts" is an extraordinary claim that requires extraordinary evidence.

Appealing to an expert should not be an instant win, but an argument can be valid and useful without being sufficient to end the discussion.
Yeah, I have considerable experience with Go and Python, and my experience with Go has been consistently positive for all of the problems we're facing with Python; however, my org is not interested in considering other languages presumably because of the beliefs that it will take years to come up to speed on a new language and even then a statically typed language will be inherently slower to iterate with than a dynamically typed language (these assumptions are probably overfit to senior engineers' experiences with C++/Java in college or early in their careers).
Flash didn't die a natural death, it was murdered by companies that resent any loss of control over their users. Complaints by Jobs weren't in good faith overall - Flash worked perfectly fine on Android back in the day. Jobs was just a control freak along with wanting to keep games/interactive content in the walled-off app store (plain web capability wasn't there yet at the time), Google can't collect data from Flash content as easily and wants its developers more focused on advertising than supporting the ever-dwindling feature list of Chrome (who cares about features like extension capability or viewing flash content when we already captured a ton of users bundling the browser with random installers and we can advertise on the google home page), and Mozilla sadly adopted a strategy of blindly following everything Chrome does. We could still be in that brief utopia of new HTML5 capability coexisting with first-class Flash support if the politics played out differently.
I stand corrected, not sure why i was under impression gifs dont work.

But as I said, it's unfortunate that comments sound and video have to be hosted externally.

In my mind , my domain is where I make the rules.
I do not want my self-hosted blog to be subject to flavour-of-the-month demonetisation, copyright and censorship of like 5 different teams. Think of youtube banning any video mentioning corvid.
I wouldn't say completely--loosening the restrictions on hearing only "cases and controversies" so that SCOTUS could rule on constitutionality in more settings would be preferable to me.
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Well, I disagree. I have more of a "live and let live" or "golden rule" type philosophy. I wouldn't want someone denying me service because they disagree with my beliefs (and by extension, actions), so I don't deny service to people who have beliefs (and by extension, actions) I disagree with.
I didn't, but the good news is that data is freely available here: https://github.com/statsbomb/open-data/

Try it!
I dunno. I've kind of found in my experience that some of the most unethical people are precisely the "it's just a job" types. They take that viewpoint to that extreme end of the spectrum. It's not only "just a job," it's "just a game," to be won or lost, through any means necessary. This is not a deep emotional connection with the company where they personally feel hurt at the criticism, it's a complete emotional detachment from reality. The criticism is just one input into the system to be dealt with in whatever way improves the company's position (and thus, their own) the quickest. The company is a means to an end (power over others, money).
I’m starting to wonder if “politics” in english has a different meaning than in spanish.

“Everything is politic” is meaningless to me, in the same way that “everything is top priority” is. If everything is top priority, nothing is top priority.
But isn't it a scale problem? If you happen to have Softbank-sized cash heaps to administrate and you try to invest them by the single million in almost bootstrapped companies you will inevitably become a handout machine. You can't industrialize investment decisions without exposing exploitable patterns and they will be exploited. Survival rate won't stay at .44 for long once people learn how to push your buttons. Unicorn-scale investments are far from immune to exploitation as well (what happened to Wework anyways?), but at least they can't hide in the masses.
I'm unqualified to determine whether or not sexuality is a choice so please do not interpret this comment as making any claims one way or another.

That said, your comment implies that it is not possible for someone to hate themselves for decisions they've made and it implies that if sexuality is a choice it would be simple to change. As far as I understand sexuality is a core part of most people's identity and so, hypothetically, changing one's sexuality would be a long process of teaching the brain to treat sexuality differently. (Which would never pass an ethics board, so we may never know.)
employment is not consensus like HOA, yes you can get your voice heard in HOA by participating, its by design.

Correct analogy in this case would be HOA where all the decisions are made by chairman of HOA. In that case yes, packup and move.

you don't choose your family members by interviewing with them.

> Since employment-as-family was not relatable for you,

In my family we(adults) are all equals and make decisions that are agreeable to everyone.

In you family you have "head" who makes all the important decisions without checking with family members first?

I don't want to think of myself as a child family member at my employer who gets no say in anything major. I can't relate to that at all.
Why will we have to see? It's not like this is the first time anyone has worked remotely. People have been working remotely for decades, which is proof that it works for those people. In fact entire companies recently (last 5ish years) have created entirely remote companies.
Have you considered a monorepo? Normally only good for large, mature (infrastructure-wise) companies but it couldn't be worse, could it?
Purely anecdotal, but having lived in Canada for 5+ years now, I'd definitely say Canadians tend to be more averse to risk.
Virtual commie coins - even more worthless than usual.
Where can I sign up?
Hmm it's probably my media queries, the menu should show up at the bottom of the screen at 507px

https://github.com/swlkr/ridgecss/blob/master/ridge.css#L970

but since they aren't for you, it's the first bug!
I take their meaning as; The court’s role is to interpret the law in letter and spirit at the time at which it was enacted. It is not to invent legality or update definitions with modern social norms.

The argument in dissent is that none of the members of either house or senate intended “sex” to include orientation or identity in 1964. Despite society having a different opinion on that today, redefining “sex” is not the courts prerogative.
Their market cap / PE ratio implies that they could grow to net income around 2-4 billion per year. Apple is at ~11 billion, MSFT is at ~39 billion.

I guess it is plausible that with excellent execution they could somehow build a moat around their business and get to some type of monopoly status for video conferencing.

They do seem overvalued in that their current price indicates that they are on their way, there is little risk to that happening. But there seems to be huge risk, there are lots of competitors and I can't see how they differentiate enough to escape the competition.
Even though I am an employee of a so-called “hyper-scale” cloud vendor, I really am rooting for Oxide. There are actually a lot of hard problems in this space, and Oxide are inherently more agile than a big cloud vendor. As long as they focus on problems that aren’t enormous monetary black holes (which I’m assuming would end Oxide), they are making the world a better place. Also very much appreciate the podcast.
That Flash should be deprecated wasn't controversial (at least amongst tech savvy people). What was controversial was not supporting it at all, because doing so locked out a lot of the web of the time. Especially certain enterprise sites but also a lot of video sites or even ordering a taxi in some cases.

That said, the iPhone was in a particularly unique position to push through a change like this and force websites to adapt. iPhones were becoming popular with upper management so a website that didn't work for them was actually considered an issue worth addressing.

Nowadays Chrome would also have a good chance of forcing similar changes.
I do mean quickly, but I like the colloquial "fast"
Does case law invent law or does it narrow or broaden the scope of how law already created can be applied and interpreted? Surely it’s the latter? Or are you suggesting the difference is immaterial?

I don’t quite understand your response.
Simple: some customers are more expensive to serve than others.

Maybe they use a lot of a free service you provide that costs you money. Maybe they require too much customer support. Maybe they return most of the products they buy from you. I've looked at a few datasets where profitability by customer varied pretty widely, including many that were clearly in the red. Most companies just don't break out their costs by customer enough to see it.
It is actually just more of the stock that's already out there though. People want to buy it, Hertz wants to sell it to them.
"Corporations are people" comes up quit a bit, but corporations don't have three strikes laws that sequester their life for multiple decades.

That being said this sounds like something the people involved should be held accountable for.
Or don't like current email clients
I knew Flash would not be supported further, but did not know that Adobe planned on totally removing even the old versions from their web site at that point. It seems like an unusual approach to the end of life for previously gratis software, even if there are special reasons for it in this case.
... the Line Item Veto was immediately challenged in court and ruled unconstitutional 2 years after it was enacted. And it should have been. Removing parts of a bill changes the bill, and executives already have too much power, much less giving them the power to legislate.
Get one of these 12->230VAC boost converters. Had a 1 kW one in my VW van a decade ago, that thing could run anything except flourescent tubes.
Maybe the point at which diminishing marginal returns really kick in, and "benefit"... with respect to what metric are worthwhile factors to consider here. The graph shows mortality rate but perhaps other cardiovascular disease markers would be meaningful to look at here.

In general, it would be nice for one to know some correlation between how the number of steps taken reduces one's risk. From what the article suggests, presumably these would be non-linear relationships.
Somewhere you can get a masters (or doctorate) degree; "grad" here is short for "graduate", which is used to describe degrees one gets after receiving a bachelors (or "undergraduate" degree). Most major colleges in the US offer both graduate and undergraduate degrees, but the admissions process for a graduate degree is separate; once you get an undergraduate degree from an institution, you still need to apply to enroll in a graduate program there or elsewhere. It's not at all uncommon for people to attend grad school somewhere different than they went to undergrad, especially if they don't attend grad school immediately after undergrad (as some people work for several years before deciding to go back and get a masters degree).
How clean is the code that runs 80% of the Internet?
But you can export in mbox format.
There's no positive stereotypes. Given the stereotype that Asians are smart, what happens to impoverished Asians who did not have a good education and upbringing and aren't as smart as others? They get demoralized and are cast aside in many cases.

I don't see how you could ever come to the conclusion that Asian people don't have it harder than white people given the wiki links I've provided. Given how American/white culture often disrespects and mocks Asian culture and classifies them as uncreative followers unfit to lead.

Asian success is not proof that Asians are privileged or have it easier than other people. Asian success came in spite of everything done to them in this country. They put their head down and gave their sweat and blood to get where they are now.
Post graduate (meaning college) education. Masters/PhD
I didn't realize you could do something like:

big {font-size: 73pt}

And now you can use a <big> tag. Very cool.
Calling ICE nazis is idiotic.
I understand the sentiment, and you are right on many fronts, we cannot absolve the reality that people do have agency over their decisions.

But, I’ll suggest a testable number. You can buy the 10k TV, no problem. I just don’t think that idea is scaleable indefinitely. Over 250k, I want to force you to make a 5k deposit and agreement with a bankruptcy lawyer so if it goes bad, we automatically bankrupt you. And I want to hire a nice Frontend and product team to make a seamless one-click bankruptcy agreement contract for both sides in a user friendly app. Both the lender and buyer agree to this outcome. Let’s see how that hard limit impacts things. Let’s have you get on the phone with the bankruptcy lawyer to also give verbal consent.

These edge cases can be covered. Go try to get a gun license in Japan and see the types of hoops you have to jump through. It is a prohibitive process that probably reduces gun ownership by a lot.
Good point - I meant that as hyperbole but if you want to start counting shorts and swaps on swaps and swaps on shorts and shorts on swaps and reinsurance and swaps on reinsurance and so and and so forth, well, that gets really big really fast. Let's just say there was a reason we were so worried about AIG going under during the previous financial crisis.
IMO, this is the most interesting comment here so far (the second most interesting one being the rant saying "don't use CSS frameworks").

What other potentially unexpected consequences are there for using semantic markup? I would definitely not want to use the <aside> element if it makes my site less accessible to the visually impaired. Are there any other potential traps lurking here?
Being a low margin business does not equate to no one cares about PC business any more.
10.6 was also Apple's peak server OS. Open Directory + Workgroup Manager set my standard for how OpenLDAP ought to be managed.
Yes but they understand that in free market, they have to spend money on quality employees to make money. Hence, people still invest in companies where employees are treated better than their competitors.

Unhappy employees is not good for business over long term. That is why you see in news that racist, sexiest, or other bad actors getting fired even when they were top performers.
Yeah the spacing needs some work.

Good point about the range, the whole thing moving down doesn't make sense
Google should have written seasons 7 and 8 of Game of Thrones.
I think that message could be extremely productive, if refusing a government contract means not assisting questionable or immoral or even unsupported actions by _any_ agency.
it's clearly anti-competitive, then and now.

whether it's an abuse of monopoly power or an anti-trust violation is open for debate (particularly, how you define markets for analytical purposes).
The tk, gq, cf, ml and ga TLDs offer free registration, so they're widely used in scams and fraud.

In most cases you can safely block all traffic to/from them, as well as email addresses using them.
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> Microsoft's best OS of all time was Windows 2000. Imho, Snow Leopard was Apple's best.

Windows 2000 was very good, but I'm also fond of Windows for Workgroups 3.11. It had a certain simplicity and directness that they lost in the move to Windows 95. (And WfWG could run both 32-bit drivers and 32-bit software, as long as Win32s was installed.)
I didn’t use 200 much, but I feel this way about windows Xp. It just worked. It seemed super stable and not bloated.