skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>it's a mistake to only consider (perceived) market share (100%, 51%, or otherwise) as the primary metric of monopoly.

It is according to US law. Without a larger percentage, no court will consider anti-trust charges, due to Circuit and Supreme Court cases on what percentage of market control is required. Here's relevant portions from DoJ:

"In determining whether a competitor possesses monopoly power in a relevant market, courts typically begin by looking at the firm's market share.(18) "

So the typical case starts with percent control....

"Although the courts "have not yet identified a precise level at which monopoly power will be inferred,"(19) they have demanded a dominant market share"

So the courts require a threshold.....

"the Tenth Circuit noted that to establish "monopoly power, lower courts generally require a minimum market share of between 70% and 80%.""

There's ample more court citations on the DoJ page.

Amazon doesn't reach these levels in probably any relevant category they are in. Certainly not for retail sales (Amazon is a tiny portion there), or online sales (less than half), or web services (Amazon ~ 40B out of 350B market).

For any company, if you shrink the categories far enough, you can always find a monopoly - Apply has a (near) monopoly on Apple watches, for example. But this is not a monopoly.

https://www.justice.gov/atr/competition-and-monopoly-single-...
> There are infinite numbers between 4.0 and 6.0 but only one of them is a prime.

Primality only applies to natural numbers, so there can't be primes between 4.0 and 6.0. There is one between 4 and 6, but that's a finite range.
I like your advice. I'm often asked myself if people understand me when I explain something to them. I will try your advice!
That is not an unanswerable question at all. To clarify, I am literally asking for a simplified threat model. Take an existing threat model, reduce it to cost of doing those actions, done. Order of magnitude is fine. If there are parameters, pick a set of parameters within the non-totally-stupid range and state them. Estimate when reasonable. The question is just me looking for broad strokes anecdotes.
Handheld consoles have lots of serious games. You just need to be on a platform that values serious gaming, not 5 min play sessions.
So, will he return the taxpayer money?
That looks interesting - is this a mud client of custom browser-based game?
In my experience, the rhetorical behavior you describe is far more common of the deep swollen center mass of the in group, than those on the peripheral edge. Those are the idea-carriers who have every incentive to preserve the ideological hedgemon, and so they do what they are incentivized to do: protect the orthodoxy by any means required.
Too bad the storage is sdcard.. Would've been more robust if it's some ssd, with block-device emulation for easy transfers.
Does anyone know how this compares to the megaAI chip which seems to be for a similar use? https://www.crowdsupply.com/luxonis/megaai
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“ Ackerman grew up in Burnsville, a drab suburb of Minneapolis”

Spent my middle and high school years living there. Can confirm with the exception of the Minnesota Valley Natural Wildlife refuge. It was in my backyard and the saving grace of the otherwise bleak suburbs.

On a different note, growing up there you’d hear every year or so of someone who died in the St. Paul caves due to trapped gases (maybe co2 or methane? ). Are gases a similar concern in the driftless caves?
I would surely read "Code: The Hidden Language of Computer Hardware and Software"
Usually the easiest solution to solve most Wifi problems is having multiple access points.
Tech company heads predict the future of APM
Good way to put it, but I feel its incomplete without adding

>And being able to effectively and quickly incorporate feedback from consuming teams into the product.

Without that, you can have a quality platform team pushing out good products, but if it doesn't align with what other teams need or you don't expose good override hooks, then the end effect is the teams will fragment into doing what works best for them.
For MBA, there's also Arybo[1] from Quarkslab. Never used it and seeing the reference to SSPAM, I assume the author is aware of the tool.

[1] https://github.com/quarkslab/arybo
Electron and How Cross-Platform Apps Will Save the Mac
Thank you for taking the time to explain things!

> The margin of error is huge for 1, and 1 and 3 are within margins of error for the V8s, so my guess is that you ran them in the same order every time and the difference is just an artefact of being the first to run. You should wait for the page to settle down to start tests and try reordering or separating them.

You are absolutely right about the larger margin of error for 1 being artefact of it being the first one to run. In fact, the point I made about the difference between Entry 1 and Entry 3 no longer stands because the higher average (and error) is actually an effect of inflated times at the beginning.

I've learnt something new! Thank you! :)
Everything So Far at CVPR 2020 – Part 2
This reminds me of Opera Mini (not the same as Opera Mobile).

It server-side rendered pages (on Opera servers), and converted them to a lightweight HTML page (with OPML extension IIRC), and then sent to the browser.

I presume the server costs were high, because you run a giant proxy that did a lot of things for users, but for end users, it meant semi-interactice web pages that were 10-15kb in size.
Dog meat festival opens in China but activists hope it is for last time
This may be useful to you: https://github.com/adguardteam/hostlistcompiler
After thinking about this for a while, there’s a pattern to games that might be useful to think about:
Games generally follow a pattern of:
- presenting a pattern to look for.
- presenting tools to solve that sort of pattern.
Then task you with implementing and reiterating that sort of solution.

This is close to how we teach STEM, but games tend to start breaking their own patterns (or the contextual clues for the patterns) in a smoother way. (E.g. portal where you’re gradually asked to think more and more (laterally) “with portals”)

So if we take a dichotomal view on education vs learning, we can say that games will encourage you to learn more effectively (in the context of the game, typically)

I suspect this can be helped with the concept of gameplay loops/cycles.

What games are good at is aiding the reinforcement cycle at the core of learning a skill.

(This cycle is also in any technical skill.)

Games are fun as long as they avoid this repetition and reiteration cycle feeling like a grind. Which is where Educational(tm) material quickly becomes stuck.

Grind is, in a sense, a qualifier of your experience. How the repetition feels to you.
If you’re “grinding” with a purpose, and it’s paced so your progress feels steady towards a self-elected goal, then it does not feel like grinding.

If it’s dry-repetitions, then you feel the grind. And that’s the trap of educational (I think)

(The ideas here are still mostly half-cooked, but hopefully it can add to the discussion)
I wrote this here a few days ago:

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Wirecard has been accused before of fraud by so called "short sellers". The document published (2 years ago?) showed a tremendous, extraordinary complex network of international corporations. Such complex setups have a very limited purpose. It can basically be only tax "optimization", hide fraud or hide ownership (UBO). After having seen this PDF I would not touch the Wirecard stock.

By the way, I think Alibaba is opening two new corporations. Per day. You may also want to read at Bronte Capital about Alibaba.

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"the company is worth ZERO in my opinion)"

This IS a possibility. But the stockmarket exaggerates always in both directions, "like a sausage dog on a leash, sometimes walks in front of you, sometimes behind you but always comes back to you" Kostalany

If you want to make a gamble there could be buying prices now or soon. But it stays a gamble.

"Even a good company can be too expensive" Buffet

"Even a shitty company can be cheap" me
I don't think that that inferred CV from the quote says anything about the "herd immunity" in the sense which most of people would like it to be. If you have an outbreak where people start to suffer, people react, they stop behaving in a way they would do without he outbreak running. The "curve fitting" you quote, the way I see it, therefore doesn't say anything about the inherent resistance of human body or something like that, but about when different communities resort to locking themselves down or taking some other drastic action as the response to the "rising wave", even without any official ban of some activity.

Just reading, in one meat processing plant in Germany, from 3000 workers tested they have 1000 PCR positives (Rheda-Wiedenbrück meat processing plant, 1,029 cases so far (1)). It's already 30% of the tested and almost sure an "infection in one wave" (after some weeks a lot of people are PCR negative again). If it stays at 1000 (they will maybe test more: "On Friday morning, addresses of around 30% of the workers were still missing") it wouldn't mean it would have stayed at 1000 hadn't they closed the whole plant.

1) https://www.dw.com/en/coronavirus-german-slaughterhouse-outb...
Agreed on the sentiment.

There is zero chance of getting it into the base, C or even M sets, as they have existing implementations. But maybe a lone Z (without the usual lowercase letters) could mean just this instruction.

I found this to be a helpful discussion: https://www.embecosm.com/2019/10/22/gcc-risc-v-bit-manipulat...
AI could reduce stops in traffic lights in an intersection by 30k annually
GrandPad. Ninety four year old grandmother uses it and loves it. Easy to use tablet, great customer support that only works with seniors and their app for other family managers is surprisingly good. It’s literally made for this purpose.
I was watching this Studio Ghibli movie, The Red Turtle, which is a very calm animated movie with basically no words.

And the guy swims through an underwater cave and gets stuck for a moment.

just a silly animated scene.

...but in that moment I went from relaxed to heart in my throat.
When they run Docker that's precisely what they do...
> The attacker gains superuser access on one system, then tricks admin to log in and gain root privileges, disclosing their password during that process (by swapping binaries, process injection, reading memory, rootkits, etc).

Just gaining access to the admin's login account (ie. one from which the admin runs SSH) is enough - alias sudo=/home/admin/.trustmeimadolphin.sh in .bashrc and wait.
I’ve always owned laptops with 17” monitors and don’t remember having issues with the off-centre keyboard. It’s only since I got a laptop from my employer for working from home that I noticed it: I had no problems using the reduced keyboard on the work laptop but I found that when I move from it to my personal computer, I have to consciously shift my hands slightly to the left.
Numpy Arrays Compare for Equality
I disagree with the inevitability - but it does seem to be the future that we are barreling into in some countries - and of course already there in China. @segfaultbuserr is right in that a lot of this is due to blind opportunism, and an apparent inability to see it as the trap that it is. The books looks very interesting - thanks for the recommendation.
So we're talking ethics and social issues with Tim Cook and we're going to touch on BLM but not going to even mention about how in very recent history they were seemingly using Black child labor? [0]

If your electronics company is going to choose to participate in political discourse you can't just pick and choose what is convenient for you to address.

Also not seeing any mention of how they remove LGBT/Pride branding from markets [1] where it's illegal rather than actually just pull out of the market entirely which one of the richest company in the world can certainly afford to do and might enact real change. Seems like LGBT only matters when you can happily shout about it, change your social media icon rainbow but not when the rights of those individuals are truly under attack and not when it may have have an impact on profits.

[0] : https://9to5mac.com/2019/12/16/child-labor-in-cobalt-mines/

[1] : https://twitter.com/_inside/status/1035319938641276928
'I Lost 125 Lbs. With Rachel Hollis' Last 90 Days Challenge and Intuitive Eating
Sadly no. We are pretty much done at that point because we often need Windows specific programs to fulfill grant requirements. I might buy one for myself, but I get the feeling some Higher Ed is done. Government contractors don't really do Macs or cross platform.
For myself, a quick debriefing after something doesn’t turn out the way I’d liked seems to speed the process of learning from experience. It’s basically just taking a moment to answer a few questions:

- What did you set out to do?

- What actually happened?

- Knowing what you do now, what would you have done differently?

- How does that generalize to a wider class of situations?
I didn't miss that point. I explained why a video game or any kind of simulation is never going to be better for many subjects. No matter how easy video games become to create, they are often not the best teaching tool at hand.
The one time when I did continue drinking heavily while tripping (when younger and more foolish), it seemed like the alcohol had no effect. I finished an entire bottle of gin and several beers. Once I did come down it hit me like a bus and the next day I had exactly the hangover that this stupidity deserved.
It doesn't.

And I finally took the time to test it; git does the wrong thing.

Idk if it's display only (in which case I guess a 99.99% solution is fine), or if it's actually used somehow say when applying a patch, in which case it may lead to security issues.
I'd spend some on screencasts, but then again I would say that. Check out:

- https://laracasts.com (PHP, Vue, related topics)

- https://gorails.com (Rails and other tech useful for Rails devs)

- https://vueschool.io (Vue, Nuxt, etc)

- https://fireship.io (Angular and Firebase)

- https://alchemist.camp (Elixir, Phoenix and complementary skills)

I'd also strongly recommend spending a good portion on books. No Starch, Pragmatic Bookshelf and Manning are all great publishers. Books are so cheap there's no reason not to buy a dozen or more a year and refer to them only as needed.

Manning regularly runs 50% off discounts and I've gotten at least 20 No Starch books in Humble Bundles for even less. Pragprog discounts are rarer, but they're still a great value.

For the cost of a single US conference, you could literally subscribe to every screencast site I listed above, buy 25 tech books and still come out ahead.
eBay’s Harassment Campaign Didn’t Happen in a Vacuum
In article 101, "anti-competitive" is not defined as 'deciding the terms on which you will offer a service you produce and own yourself', but as an "abuse of a dominant position" in particular:
(a) directly or indirectly fix purchase or selling prices or any other trading conditions.

I think the 30% IAP tax meets this condition.
amusingly: back in 2019, when journalists pointed out irregularaties in the company's accounts, the German Financial regulator's reaction was to ban short selling of their shares... and then issue legal proceedings against the journalists

> On Monday, BaFin banned further short selling of shares in Wirecard, the Dax-listed payments services group. The stock has dropped steeply after FT reports raised questions over the validity of accounts. The German financial regulator said its first ever ban on shorting a single stock was needed to prevent a loss of confidence in financial markets.

https://www.ft.com/content/f04793df-43a2-4d69-a39f-e04dac36c... has the full details (but paywall)
Intel L3 does not equal AMD L3 cache regarding latencies. Depending on the application this can matter a lot. https://pics.computerbase.de/7/9/1/0/2/13-1080.348625475.png
I Tried 80 Airbnb Online “Experiences,” and It Was an Adventure
Why is it that anytime someone simply points out the ethical issues about animal rights he gets downvoted? I've seen it more than once here.
What I don't understand is that python2 and python3 are still advertised as the same language. For Python's developers, this is arguably the case - basing on Python2 source code, they made some changes and just published a new version which they called 3.

For some short-lived buzzword tech start-up, this does not matter - with overwhelming likelihood, start-ups from 2008, when python3 was released, will be bust by now. Also, most web code which was written in 2008 will be rewritten by now.

For the big internet companies, this also does not matter: They have the manpower to just rewrite their code. Likely, the second version is even a bit better.

On the other hand, for research institutions and companies which use complex, long-running enterprise applications - that type of companies that run COBOL, too - the situation is entirely different. A python program for Python2 will not run on Python3. A Python3 program will not run on Python2. The code needs to be rewritten and tested again, and in many cases the people who wrote it originally, and all their implicit knowledge of their domain, are not around any more. Perhaps most affected are scientific organizations which use a lot of code in long-running projects. For these users, Python2 and Python3 are, for all intents and purposes, different languages.
Is there a good summary of Wirecard for those of us who haven't been paying attention? Was it an inherently fraudulent business, or a regular payment processor whose managers were skimming, or what?
>you’d be stupid not to switch over to Graviton2

You overestimate the AWS customer base. Lots of them do silly things that cost them a lot of money.
But that is Intel! Intel does do a 24-core chip for apple. (and amd does a 64-core chip, though not for apple)

I'm saying - if apple does ARM, will they make a 24-core arm chip?
A little more formal would be "half past eight" which clears up the ambiguity, as does "quarter til eight". Not sure who uses that aside from occasionally in US.
Live VR concerts beyond a pandemic?
Disclaimer: haven't seen the video (I never click any video link, sorry), but I did read the text links provided in the thread. That said: one of the big reason to use mice as animal models is that we've obtained a bunch of pure-bred, homozygous lines for a bunch of different genes, and that process is expensive and above all lengthy. Mice have both (a) a relatively short generation time and (b) been experimented on for a very long time. This makes them particularly suited for experiments involving knocked-out genes and suchlike because you have near-perfect controls at your disposal.

Now just because we have a bunch of pure-bred homozygous mice doesn't mean mice behave the same way as humans with respect to e.g. metabolic pathways, immune system etc. It's just that we often don't have better models.
Another:

* They tie big names into the firm to get credibility. Hire them into the board, or pay them good money for short term consulting gigs.

Examples:

1) Gen. James Mattis was in Theranos board. So was Henry Kissinger and George Shultz.

2) Enron paid Paul Krugman $50,000 to attend at least two times in advisory board meetings, nothing related to Enron business. What Enron really bought was the ability to say Paul Krugman was in the advisory board. https://www.princeton.edu/~pkrugman/enron.html
Of course. Why would I want to make my MB worse by installing Linux or Windows over the Unix (macOS) which is optimized for hardware it runs on?
That's part of it, but there's also the part that values shout-outs or references for their own sake. There's much more of that now than there was in MI2's time.
Google Boosts Internal Diversification Efforts
Berlin is very different from the rest of Germany.
Arthur Andersen went out of business after Enron and the big five became the big four. Maybe that was a good outcome in terms of accountability but there needs to be some effective process for promoting new members if we are going to keep culling this club.
Well, the Dockerfile says exactly how to start the software and how to install all the packages etc. locally, so why not use that? :)
> Many people think that software engineering and programming are some inscrutable thing

It's not inscrutable, but it's not something everyone can do. And among those who can, not all of them necessarily enjoy it. It takes a high enough IQ (whatever reservations you might have about IQ tests, there's no doubt they match with programming ability) as well as an appropriate disposition.

I mean you wouldn't expect every single person to be able to play music or paint well enough to make a living out of it. I sure as hell wouldn't want to be a lawyer, I doubt I could even do the job at a mediocre level if my life depended on it. (Not that I dislike the field: I watch more law-related Youtube videos than I'd normally care to admit, which reinforces my belief that I'd suck at it.)
Russian Involvement in America's Race Wars
Hey look we interviewed Seifert about this.. months ago :)

https://www.titansoftext.com/28
I'm not understanding why a smartphone, with parental controls enabled to prevent her accidentally changing settings, would not work?
Key Steps to Unlock Healthy and Fit Habits
the first macbook pro didn't have THAT long a throw.

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/76/MacBook_...
Deleting Tables with Referential Integrity
I finished university some time last century; so, most of what I know is self taught at this point. Also, software engineering is more of an apprenticeship thing than something a university professor without relevant software engineering experience can do.

I'm being harsh here because I used to have software engineering as a topic for my Ph. D. studies. Part of the reason I left the academic world (after a postdoc) was a bit of impostor syndrome where I realized I was telling others how to engineer software without having much experience engineering software. This always struck me as odd. I've since learned a lot about software engineering that was definitely not part of any computer science studies I know off.

I always think of college being more about learning to learn than to learn anything specific. Also the difference between university and a technical school is that the former tends to be exactly about being less about practical skills and more about skills you need to learn new stuff and ask critical questions. Quite a few projects I've been on over the years have also required me to dive into other domains. I've had to read up on metallurgy, geo spatial algorithms, and medical stuff at various points for different projects.
Are you sure it does not carry same margin +/- as everything else ?
>Certainly if we hold these kind of ethics we've got no excuses if an advanced alien race wants to use us in their medical experiments.

If an advanced alien wants to use us in experiments, I doubt they'd care much about what we say on the matter. And for all we know, the aliens might come from a predator background and only consider vicious species as true equals.
How retail investors are beating the pros at their own game
Is it still actual and worth time, or paid trainings is already sold? Because slack link is broken =\
During the Cold War, the Kremlin similarly sought to plant fake news and foment discontent, but was limited by the low-tech methods available at the time. “Before, the Soviets would plant information in Indian papers and hope it would get picked up by our papers,”