skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The law defines practices that, while they happen in a marketplace, are anti-competitive and thus problematic. It is not anti-competitive to own the gas station next to the airport and charge a premium for gas. It is anti-competitive to buy out surrounding gas stations and close them to extract higher prices, or to conspire with competing stations to coordinate pricing.

Single-firm anticompetitive behavior, as defined by FTC: (https://www.ftc.gov/enforcement/anticompetitive-practices)

Single Firm Conduct:

"It is unlawful for a company to monopolize or attempt to monopolize trade, meaning a firm with market power cannot act to maintain or acquire a dominant position by excluding competitors or preventing new entry. It is important to note that it is not illegal for a company to have a monopoly, to charge “high prices,” or to try to achieve a monopoly position by aggressive methods. A company violates the law only if it tries to maintain or acquire a monopoly through unreasonable methods."

Horizontal Conduct:

"It is illegal for businesses to act together in ways that can limit competition, lead to higher prices, or hinder other businesses from entering the market. The FTC challenges unreasonable horizontal restraints of trade. Such agreements may be considered unreasonable when competitors interact to such a degree that they are no longer acting independently, or when collaborating gives competitors the ability to wield market power together. Certain acts are considered so harmful to competition that they are almost always illegal. These include arrangements to fix prices, divide markets, or rig bids."
I believe libc is the only stable way to ask the kernel to do something for you.
While we do have a hook to intercept GA data, it is actually optional! You can use the self hosted JS tracker that we include with EventNative and serve it from your domain.
Look at this guy, he was wrong! Wrong wrong wrong WRONG! Look, he retracted his statement, that's how WRONG he was!
Before you rush to the conclusion that I'm trolling, or stupid, consider these

https://www.jstor.org/stable/188684?seq=1

https://www.cell.com/trends/cognitive-sciences/comments/S136...

https://www.edge.org/response-detail/11513

The question of what "causes" behavior is not as simple as you might expect from the ease with which you are able to explain (or provide a narrative about) your own behavior, or someone else's behavior. If it were, the mystery of consciousness would be resolved.
This, exactly this.
You did not retract them. You ghost edited them out of your post to save face. A retraction would be useful, and you should add one.
I believe a better analogy would be that the 11th company comes and is willing to pay higher costs while still selling at the same price. That company gets the best ingredients at that cost, the suppliers prefer to sell to that company, and denies it to the first 10 companies. The 11th company might even raise prices since their product is better. I don't think predatory pricing would apply in this situation.
The optimal solution is for management to not let high-productivity talent from leaving - increase their comp to whatever offers they might get in the open market. That's how labor economic works - it's a market.

Life is not that simple, and cannot be boiled down into "it's a market."

People are messy. They leave companies for all kinds of reasons. They just broke up with someone and want to start a new life. They don't like the weather. The have to take care of an ailing relative. They've picked up a hobby (surfing, hiking, skiing) that is inconvenient where you are, or more important to them than money. Very often they just want a change.

It's common for HN-types to try to reduce everything to a numbers game, but people aren't numbers. They're not strings of attributes that can be quantified by an AI. They're human beings, and human beings will always be unpredictable.
what in the 1993 is this
While I don't have the free finances to put a solar roof on my house right now I've been trying to organize a solar cooperative: pooling the investment of several people to make a very large solar array on some open land near where I live. The idea is that profits from selling electricity to the local utility, minus a monthly maintenance and upkeep fee, would go directly to investors in the project. The problem is getting the local utility to buy electricity at a rate that is better than just putting a couple solar panels at a time into a grid-tied setup. Unfortunately this is something where the utilities aren't required to offer a truly competitive rate to small producers compared to what they charge per killowatt hour.
Of course it's probably also possible for it to be that you're uniquely valuable to Google in the context of their other people, infrastructure, and strategy. Especially as people acquire specialized skills and experience, they can be worth a lot more to some companies than others.

This is true of everyone of course. Even a more or less commodity junior Javascript developer isn't worth much more than their generalized ability to do random tasks to a company that doesn't do any software development.

But some people have a skillset and track record that is very valuable to some companies but that would make it hard to be hired at most.
Getting the premiums on your malpractice insurance is certainly a strong effect on your income - if they were intelligent actors they would foresee this and wash their hands.

This is just plain old stupidity.
lol what? Microsoft did not get broken up. Attributing the dot com boom to the antitrust suit is a very creative interpretation of a spurious correlation.
For small businesses that are able to move online, there is no shortage of revenue available. In the article they mention a yoga studio owner closing up her shop. I agree that a yoga studio is pretty tough to move online. They also mention a jewellery brand, and that is exactly the type of boutique business that can be successful right now with the right marketing and ecommerce solution. My partner does online sales and marking consulting, and every one of her clients has at least doubled revenue within one month of onboarding. Most of them now have problems maintaining stock, not making sales. I don't know if these healthy sales will last, but for now I'm not seeing any ceiling for small businesses who make something or sell a service that works online. My guess is that a lot of SME owners just aren't aware of how to approach online sales.
Most procrastination is emotional management, a sort of self-medicating from stress. Having a skilled therapist working through it with you sounds fantastic.

I really like a technique called the "Sedona Method" for releasing difficult emotions.
I like https://github.com/warner/magic-wormhole as an alternative.
It's strange to see an Atom feed given as a sample "RSS" feed.

It's a nice demo though.
> I think one challenge is a lot of Mozilla's users see Mozilla as a browser company, whereas Mozilla sees itself as an Internet company.

Spot on. In fact, I think that without FireFox Mozilla might as well be dead, even if it survives as a legal entity and employs people. That's it's whole reason for existence as far as I'm concerned.
https://www.livescience.com/15938-earth-precious-metals-spac...

https://www.oakton.edu/user/4/billtong/eas100/cosmicorigins....
Once you accumulate a "small karma threshold" (quote from the HN FAQ) you can 'flag' submissions. Flagging is the closest to a "dislike" option available. But it is suggested to use it for items that are off topic.

The better way to make sure items you find to be "positive" make the front page is to upvote everything you think deserves to get there. Upvote the positive, ignore the negative, and the negative will fade from view.

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

[edit]: add additional clarity
It isn't an external gatekeeper. The kernel receives a syscall. The kernel looks at the user space instruction pointer to determine where the sycall came from. The instruction pointer is not in a blessed area; the syscall is declined. That's all internal to the kernel. User space perhaps just arranges it; it informs the kernel about the restricted area. That's essentially the same as any other limit, like setting a limit on stack size, core file size, execution time, whether the stack is executable, ...
So this affects rust-lang too I guess ? I found it strange that people started trusting a language with no open standard and one implementation.
If I hire Brad Pitt to be in my (post-pandemic) summer blockbuster film, part of the value he adds is that he is not simultaneously in your summer blockbuster film, and so people who really want to watch Brad Pitt will choose my film over yours.

I don't think what you're describing is anti-competitive behavior, rather it's omni-competitive. Pretty much all the money Google throws at anything is "advertising money" but if they are really trying to make self-driving cars, what's wrong with that?

Should my Brad Pitt Summer Blockbuster profits not be able to bankroll my Teletubbies Christmas Special?
Correct, if I place a market order for 100 shares I expect to pay a premium for current national best bid price. Same thing here - it's the price you pay for taking liquidity from an illiquid market (the labor market)
Can you talk about why you prefer server side page rendering etc?

It's VERY close to miniflux, both in terms of UI and styling!
Until the game checks its integrity?
Perhaps start everyone off with a guest/sample account?
I use Node w/ Express for my servers and in the ones that use logins I usually do something like this:

app.use((req, res, next) => {
req.user = req.user ||
usersBySession[req.cookies.session] ||
{
logged_in: false,
username: 'Guest'
}
}

app.get('/api/getfeeds', (req, res) => {
if (!req.user || !req.user.logged_in) {
res.status(403).send(false);
return;
}
}
Yes, R53 can help you build your own GSLB by using DNS health checks and georouting but it's not the full picture.
Ah, you're right, I was mixing up the DOJ action (not involving a fine) circa 2010 with a later civil suit [1]. In any case, it cost them hundreds of millions.

1. https://venturebeat.com/2014/05/23/4-tech-companies-are-payi... (adding to the confusion, Venture Beat incorrectly calls it a fine)
> Do you not see it as a problem that Google alone decides the cost of entry to an entire market?

This puts Google in the position of being a monopsony for the labor of programmers; that is, they're the only or primary buyer of that commodity. Part of antitrust laws is preventing that, so, yes, there is a problem if a monopsony arises, but Google isn't in that position anyway because jobs aren't completely interchangeable the same way programmers aren't completely interchangeable. For example, companies can compete on the basis of not being Google, which attracts some people. Companies can compete on the basis of being based in some other geographic location, or having other things to work on, or having a different mix of salary and benefits.

Google offering the highest salary doesn't mean they automatically get everyone. It means they get people who want the highest salary to do what Google's interested in as opposed to wanting to work on some kinds of technology Google isn't pursuing.
I know top tier dual masters grads who have received close to this right out of college.
I noticed that in the screenshots section[1], the Linux screenshots for the Netsurf site and Wikipedia are from this year, but the BBC one is from 2011. How does the current BBC site fare?

[1] -- https://www.netsurf-browser.org/about/screenshots/
I was literally asked "Do you think you are worth $x?" in an exit interview. Obviously I do, since that was the offer. What a strange question.
> Search engine web interface doesn't require users to accept anything. Search crawler indexes the web without any contractual relations with web site owners.

robots.txt is obeyed by (ethical) search crawlers, including the ones from big search companies. If you don't want to be indexed, you have many tools to block things or to be served only by specific search engines.
Ask HN: What are the alternatives to HN in 2020?
Hey!

What are the alternatives to HN in 2020?
Do you have suggestions?
You do not write that JavaScript, it is generated for you by the tooling.
Mastering Sed: Capture the Flags
Servo showed there was plenty of room for browser perf beyond optimizing JS engines

Mozilla getting rid of their main product's most relevant R&D makes me fear they'll eventually announce Firefox replacing its internals with chromium
VCs and startups consider HaaS model for consumer devices
The CAP theorem of domain modeling
Why is Netflix seen as such a tech giant? They serve videos. CBS, HBO, Vimeo, Youtube, Amazon do it too. Nothing special.
In case you were serious, Nick Bostrom is a philosopher with a background in theoretical physics, computational neuroscience, logic, and artificial intelligence. He is a Professor at Oxford University, where he leads the Future of Humanity Institute as its founding director.
I haven't actually used this but this looks very similar to Google GSLB actually, in which case that is great news.
I suppose that makes some sense; anyone who will fall for the most blatantly obvious scams will probably be pretty gullible, much more willing to hand over money.

Intentional or not, they have figured out a kind of clever selection bias.
That would result in more spam to be moderated. The spammers would see their content themselves, think it was working and mark your site as a target.

One point of manual moderation is that spammers know it is happening.
That poor person would then need rocket surgery.
Belarus mostly cut off the Internet amid protests, uses Telegram to co-ordinate
Craftsmanship and Modern Manufacturing
This is the same argument that has been around for decades - the debate over whether Bill Gates and the Gates Foundation were an agent for good or an agent for helping Bill Gates sleep at night was a huge thing when I was in graduate school.

The difference is the out-in-the-open, stark, startling, and seemingly completely baked in income inequality. I think people outside of academia are finally talking about the morality of a billionaire's mere existence.
This "having a conversation" is misleading because Luhmann uses a different definition than most people: https://forum.zettelkasten.de/discussion/1146/communication-...

My understanding is that Zettelkasten is a way of using a wiki. One aspect is "small atomic notes/pages". Maybe you use your personal wiki that way, maybe you don't. Another aspect are "sequences of notes" (Folgezettel) but I'm not sure if that is a side effect of using a physical slip box or a useful concept.

Overall, it seems to be illusive like Agile. You will always find someone who claims you are doing it wrong.
Mozilla can't afford a war on so many fronts at the same time. It can maybe afford one. Maybe.
Who's planning for the end of COVID by January? That sounds a lot like how when everyone decided it was over in May.

I've heard some optimism about the end of 2021, maybe 2nd half of 2021 for rich countries, but not January.
GNU Libc is only stable at the source code level, and tries fairly hard at the binary level with approaches like symbol versioning and whatnot.

Linux syscalls are more stable at the actual binary level. Some "int $0x80" code you wrote in 1996 in x86 assembly language will work today, provided the binary format (like a.out) will load.

The libc which was used then is not even around any more.
GPT-3: Why This AI Breakthrough Wont Take Your Job
> To all the people complaining that modern web browsers are too complicated for small teams to build and maintain, do you think WASM helped with that at all?

Kind of yes.

For simple browser as a general application platform you need a simple base technology where much can be shipped as library level. It would be fun to see WASM only browser with JS and CSS layouting solutions run as WASM compiled libraries.

So in theory WASM could be used as a first step to more simple browser but in practise it's propably just a fantasy.
>beholden to Google, I think that's a net positive

For the Mozilla Management, not the Company itself.
Immediately, the author assumes that everyone is playing a zero-sum game, which is the root of the problem with his viewpoint:
"We've got about 400 people in this room.... Imagine if dinner was carted into this room, and four people got half the food. The night would end in violence,"
I had no idea. Where can I learn more about this?

Are you sure they threatened to default of _Treasury_ instruments?
> Employees have agency, they aren't wild elephants who need your "protection" from "predators" who just want to pay them more.

I think your analogy is only slightly apt. I rather see the company being raided for talent as the prey. The employee as its ivory.

First, elephants are usually not being protected from predators, but rather from hunters (illegal ones). I know it might sound like a nitpick because the two words can be synonymous, but since this is about terminology, I think it's appropriate. At the time you lose an employee due to "poaching", they're often not unhappy with the conditions you've given them and are not actively looking for another position. But they have been spotted by a "head hunter" hired to find talent for a specific role in a different company.

Second, employees might not belong to a company, but some companies spend a lot of time nurturing their talent through various programs (knowledge transfer, mentoring, experimental projects, personal time), because they hope it will benefit them in the future. Time is not free, it's even dearer than money, but it's the currency we all have the same amount of. If we don't consider another company just swooping in at the 11th hour to simply reap what should've been your benefit as a form of legal "theft", then what should we consider it?

Maybe the solution for companies would be to put some of their employees under contract, like in sports. They'd pay substantially more for those services, but a clause would include them if another company was interested to acquire their talent. That or maybe some insurance companies may start offering some compensation against poaching.
You might have preferred it if I had written up a retraction in the article itself, but nevertheless, the statement was removed over 2 years ago and has no bearing on the present-day discussion. Stop being a bully and leave me alone! I am tired of your harassment.
I'll disagree for my personal preference. I'm not a fan of small keyboards. I really enjoy having my 104 key buckling spring keyboard. So to me it is nice to see a laptop with a numpad as I like having mine.

I was seriously considering ordering a Model F keyboard ( https://www.modelfkeyboards.com/ ) But the largest model is a measly 77 key model :( For desktop use, my requirement is to have a numpad. I realize why they did it as costs are a lot lower for 77 keys vs 104 keys. But still disappointed.
> So sinks being too short seems legitimate.

Before people get too carried away with this, it said “shortage of sinks”.
> Yanking something off of Usenet is akin to watching a baseball game or a movie at a drive-in from over the fence.

This is a excellent analogy that I don't recall having encountered before; thank you.
You may wish to consider Brave. https://brave.com/
Shame libraries like bs-json bs-css bs-express all exist...
How to Read Math as a Software Engineer
Yes it was. I don't really see the difference anymore, on any practical level. However, Chrome has been removing useful features and not fixing usability bugs while just being more and more invasive, privacy-wise.

I jumped from Firefox to Chrome with no hesitation when I saw Chrome blazing through multiple tabs without any slowdown. At the time Firefox was crawling on like a snail. Now, years later, I jumped from Chromium to Firefox because I could no longer use the browser to preserve control over certain web pages I needed to use.
Ok. I'm not an idealist. I like my browser, would like to keep it, even if that means that some of Mozilla's loftier goals will not be reached. Because once the browser battle is over those goals will be even further from reach.

So I think we want the same thing in the longer term, just disagree about what the order of execution is.
Dug in the source, I believe they're using Prism's Diff Highlight plugin:

https://prismjs.com/plugins/diff-highlight/
They're assuming RobinHood traders will just chase any prominent Gen-Z brand that IPOs and they are probably right. The trading can keep the ball in the air long enough for the insiders to cash out.
I'm a Fred. Not fired, getting good raises every year. Gets huge support from the team because they see I'm working for them.

Don't be in a job that fires Fred. That job is a ticking bomb.
>but it should still be enough to develop a browser

Yes, but not enough to pay the management staff (whatever they do)
There's actually evidence that running regularly strengthens your knees.

https://www.runnersworld.com/health-injuries/a32598733/is-ru...
I deduce that investment in software engineers == higher stock price.

Easy to do when you cherry-pick three companies.

Run your analysis on 10,000 companies large and small and you might have something.
There were manu polls done and most show very high pro joining numbers: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/2014_Crimean_status_referend...
It does not even pass the ACID2 test. It is however the best independently developed browser engine out there. If you want an alternative to Webkit and whatever Firefox uses, Netsurf is the only viable option at the moment.
The CEO mentions that COVID devastated their revenue but doesn’t elaborate. Did COVID somehow impact their market share? Are fewer people buying and as such they get less rev share? Something else?
Infectious Coronavirus Retrieved from Hospital Air
Sounds similar to what happened to my team. In our case, it was "only" two years of hard-won domain expertise, but we were also "trained" by the original founders (who had left at some point after the acquisition). The new team had zero domain knowledge and while we tried to hand everything over as well as we could, it seemed like a lost cause to me. A couple of months later, we found out our old company ended up buying the competition.
Even non-elite do-gooders 'fixing' the world are part of the problem IMO. For example, cancel culture is the end result of non-elite do-gooders banding together to "do good". I believe the net effect is actually quite bad, but the people engaging in cancel culture really believe they are helping fix the world.
We love Atom feeds equally.
I'm pretty sure at least one of those people were laid off previously in the past year.
Any company that becomes infrastructure should be nationalized
Have a look here (but page not updated in years apparently, so its compatibility maybe better in reality)

http://www.netsurf-browser.org/documentation/progress.html

The general impression I get is that it is not bad when it comes to HTML and CSS but not even close for Javascript (disabled by default because of minimal support apparently), so comparing this with Chrome is like apples to oranges, given the way the modern Web is going.
I like how delusion you are to pick maybe 3rd or 4th entry to prove your point while 1st and 2nd prove you wrong in almost every dictionary you've posted here.