skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I upvoted your comments based on a good faith belief that you're open to learning more about how antitrust law works. It has little to do with market share, and everything to do with a concept called "market power."

Market power is the ability to coerce people into paying more for something via a mechanism other than actually offering a better product or service. A textbook example which most people would agree is bad is a trust/cartel situation where a few players artificially limit supply, and then can raise the price on consumers because there are no competitors. But if a firm is able to drive up prices with impunity for any reason, it's likely they possess market power.

When a firm possesses excess market power it's good for that firm, but bad for the market, consumers, and society. By definition a firm with a lot of market power has very little competition, so even as their margins grow, product quality will decline and price will increase. (Sound like Apple in 2020?) And new firms will find it difficult to compete in that market even as the firm with market power grows very rich, which exacerbates the problem of wealth inequality. (Sound like America in 2020?)

A society which doesn't place some sort of checks on a firm's ability to acquire market power ends up being a place where the way to get ahead is to find an unfair advantage, abuse it, and screw everyone else. (Again, sound familiar?)

At this point it's almost certain that Google is violating antitrust regulation by abusing its market power (proven in the EU, and the US looks poised to start filing lawsuits this year). Apple, Amazon and a few others are up for debate and it's also fair to say that antitrust regulations should evolve to address the tech industry more effectively. The antitrust problem isn't limited to tech however, anti-competitive behaviors of questionable legality have proliferated all over the US since the 80s due to a lax regulatory environment.

If you want to learn more about this topic, Matt Stoller's newsletter "BIG" on Substack is a phenomenal place to start.
We commonly consume most available resources and try hard to destroy much competing life... in a given part of what we consider as our territory (our planet), for example when establishing then maintaining/growing a city.

Earth may be part of what an alien species consider as their territory.
SketchUp Virtual Escape-Room
Nobody is building anything based on Firefox. It's not like Rails or .NET that gives your application a head start.
> They should create legislation to control access to all app stores to prevent this rent seeking

The same could be said by taxi drivers about Uber.

It's the exploitation of the platform-economy that is the problem, really.

An extra problem is that this platform-economy is a pretty new concept. I don't even know if economists have good models for it. From this, it's no wonder that governments are lagging far behind, and we shouldn't expect much change in the near future.
Brings to mind the ongoing battle between John Deere and the Ukrainian hackers. I haven't kept up with the fight but if I were a gambler, I'd put my money on the Ukrainians. Non-tech companies tend to write dreadfully poor software. Can't imagine their software locks are any better.
A company that was subject to antitrust because it colluded with other companies in the market has nothing to do with what’s going on in the app market. Collusion is always illegal -except for the sports leagues.

Yes and consoles makers have control of their consoles, Roku has control of their platform, as does LG with their WebOS based TVs.

Yet and still when you were challenged to come up with an analogous example, the best you could come up with is multiple companies colluding.
This is actually true. The fake news is over the limits.

The elder generation believes some WhatsApp forwarded message so easily that WhatsApp and Facebook are political propaganda machines. Google about "Whatsapp University" meme. I honestly wish anything should not be allowed to be forwarded more than N times where N < 4. And I wouldn't care end to end encryption breaked on forwarded messages in order to fact check them.
$10 per month is too costly for many, we are happy with 30 GB per month 4G data which costs around $2.
Scott Alexander was thinking along the same lines here when he wrote "Radicalizing the Romanceless"... almost 6 years ago.

https://slatestarcodex.com/2014/08/31/radicalizing-the-roman...
I do, and think people who don't are morons. COVID represents a clear and present danger, what's the clear and present danger of Google is the nature of my question.
And pyrite (fool's gold) crystals: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pyrite
Nice, I'm looking at getting a PC that I can game on for similar reasons. I wish I knew the terminology that you were referring to, but I hope you give it a try and reach out with any questions!
Libertarian thought is complex, non-static, and (importantly), non-monolithic. This is especially true for the relationship between people, government, and corporations. The generalizing statements in this thread reject vast swaths of ideas for no reason at all; even ideas that generally agree with the ideas in the thread. My guess is most people hold in their minds a caricature of libertarianism informed either by "that one libertarian guy from college" or social media postings. That's somewhat deserved, but also a shame.
Millions died first. And if we take a domestic example of mass delusion, the Confederacy, left ~650,000 dead.

The idea death cults just casually come and go without chaos and massive asset destruction is at best wishful thinking.

People who believe in conspiracies in which the central thesis is the opposition is inherently illegitimate, can't ethically accept losing. Violence is mandatory if the civil process is so corrupt that the outcome can't be trusted. And that's what these people believe. And that's what Trump has encouraged for four years. He stated explicitly four years ago that the election is only legitimate if he wins. If he loses it's rigged. It's not a surprise he's saying this again 4 years later.
Very well said. Of course, I couldn't help but notice your username too :-)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanislav_Petrov

It was interesting how the Soviets had built a dead-hand system caller Perimeter https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dead_Hand, but then didn't seem to advertise its existence to the West, which would make sense to do typically. And some believe (wiki has a quote from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aleksandr_Zheleznyakov) that it was to give the people at the top a better chance to react more rationally. In a way, it was to allow the possible "Petrovs" in their midst to do the right thing.
Well GP is wrong. I have a 10 year old girl, I’ve bought a dozen of these, and she loved them each time. Yes, she may play with them only for a few hours each, but if it brings a smile to her face & makes her happy for many hours, then I think most parents agree it’s worth it.
They had internal propaganda too. Just like all US military produced World War 2 era documentary and training films describe the conditions as downright cheery.
Can you black box framework code. How does it work with react context or redux
'I downloaded America's first coronavirus exposure app. You should too'
Relevant extract:

> Unlike other software, RPCS3’s PPU & SPU threads need to communicate constantly which results in a major bottleneck if these threads are split across multiple CCXes / chiplets. That ends up with the CPU hitting this bottleneck constantly with all the data moving around. This is why we do not recommend Ryzen CPUs unless they have a 3 or 4 core CCX design (6-8 core Ryzen CPUs, or a 4 core Ryzen APU). A 4 core CCX design is ideal as RPCS3 can fit all the PPU & SPU threads onto a single CCX, allowing users to bypass inter-CCX latency bottleneck entirely, provided the PPU & SPU threads are being scheduled properly to be placed on a single CCX.

> While later Ryzen generations have greatly improved latency, it’s still a major bottleneck for RPCS3 if all the PPU & SPU threads cannot be placed on a single CCX. Another thing to note is that Ryzen users should definitely update to Windows 10 1903 or later, as Microsoft improved their scheduler which helps to avoid this bottleneck as well.

> The Intel CPUs on the other hand are quite the opposite. They do not suffer from the latency issues explained above due to its monolithic design and when you combine all that with a faster single core, you will notice that they do often perform better than their AMD equivalent.
The irony here...
Yeah the Japanese seem to operate under the impression that the entire world lives in Japan. I'm a semi-pro Super Smash player and I've desperately wanted to play it online, since like forever. But every version, the lag is unbelievable. It's always some p2p bullshit where one person lags, everyone lags.

I remember when the Wii U Smash was coming under criticism for the unbearable lag, the developers released a statement in which they literally said: we tested the online play in development, and it works great. Are you fucking serious? How can they care so little?
Custodian was already there , they have a strict pipeline but what I hear is that the environment where the hack took place was bypassing the normal organisational pipe governance and did not even have coverage of the custodian on the account. Basically shadow it. I still put a lot of blame on the way AWS Iam makes it incredibly hard to stop the use of the credentials outside the vpc in the event they are stolen , for example source ip restrictions do not work if the bucked it using kms encryption because kms will decrypt on users behalf appearing to come from a different ip than the user . The called via is a farce that only work with about 4 services out of hundreds and the meta data v2 with its ip level TTL is a marketing gimmick
Most of the "administrators" can work from home, or in fact be laid off outright. The quality of education will only improve, and cost would decrease. Older professors could social distance and wear PPE if they are so inclined. I think charging $40-50K/yr for a glorified MOOC is ridiculous.
WeChat Verification Help Center Discord Group for Foreigners
I thought to create a group where we can help each other out as Foreigners for this app. A lot of us are getting issues for various reasons where we have no control over and it is almost impossible to get it back unless you have friends who also have WeChat accounts.
I made a Discord group so if I can get people in here as friends, we can help each other to get our account unblocked.

https://discord.gg/VbgpqF

P.S. This is a group where I hope that we can assist one another and not asking money to sign up a new wechat account.
I use it (and similar tech) because I don't want to think about individual boxes at scale, rather instances of an application. Containers + orchestration allow me to develop and test in the exact same environment my apps will be in in prod, which allows me to mostly remove the hardware and OS as a variable that could affect its runtime behavior. They also make it easier to spin up a local copy of my services' runtime environments for testing, as I need only describe it in a simple yaml file and spin it up w/ docker-compose in a single command.

I found at first testing was arduous, but you learn to adapt. In my case, I increased the amount of debug logs my application throws (can also be useful to enable in prod when trying to hunt down an issue) and invested time in creating unit/integration tests that run outside of the container/lambda to validate specific paths/features. Worst case there's always docker exec and language-specific debugging when I want to dig in manually.

I'm still pretty skeptical about serverless (I mostly use it for cloud-specific automation), but as much as people like to shit on Docker it's been pretty great to use from an ops perspective. I interpret most negativity about it as curmudgeonly reactions to the admittedly excessive hype in the technologies, with some fairly pedantic complaints about the (imo minimal) overhead such technologies incur thrown in as an uninteresting justification.
Low administrative overhead. When I left my last employer earlier this year, HR had moved to monthly mandatory training sessions that were the kind of stuff that HR usually comes up with. They also added in a requirement for monthly written "check-ins" between every employee and their manager, accessible of course by HR. I talked to my manager several times a week, and sometime multiple times a day, so a monthly "check-in" was of no value to either of us but no one has the spine to stand up the HR departments anymore and many of them are running amuck with their greatest fantasies of how HR centric companies should be operated. With 30,000 employees, I can't imagine how much money and productivity is being spent on all of the HR imposed overhead.
If you're interested in implementing a hash table I would assume you're also generally interested in data structures and algorithms. I'd highly suggest the Algorithms, Part 1 class on Coursera. It's totally free and offered through Princeton. It covers hash tables in the last segment, albeit implemented in Java, but still very thorough and is a great introduction to common data structures/algorithms and analysis, like linked lists, union find, trees, quick sort and time/space complexity. https://www.coursera.org/learn/algorithms-part1
Ketamine that's injected during arrests draws new scrutiny
> has yet to drop in any kind of meaningful way.

Minority Report? Just give it some time.
There are a lot of mobile players who lease towers though, and prices are still high.
A textbook example which most people would agree is bad is a trust/cartel situation where a few players artificially limit supply, and then can raise the price on consumers because there are no competitors.

A cartel implies collusion and unless you have evidence that Apple is colluding with Google and all of the console makers this is irrelevant.

But if a firm is able to drive up prices with impunity for any reason, it's likely they possess market power.

Every company that has a differentiate product is able to charge more than commodity prices. Nike is able to charge more shoes. Apple is able to charge more for the AppleTV than Roku. Does Apple now have a “monopoly” on set top boxes even though it’s share is a nothing? Apple charges more for Macs than the equivalent PC. Should Apple also be investigated for having a “monopoly” on computers?

The antitrust problem isn't limited to tech however, anti-competitive behaviors of questionable legality have proliferated all over the US since the 80s due to a lax regulatory environment.

If that’s the case, where are all the lawsuits? HN users can’t imagine that they might not be legal experts.
> EDIT: I'm not sure why all the downvotes, maybe because it looks like I Godwin-ed the thread? I was just paraphrasing the rest of the wikipedia section:

Well in a thread about the re-emerging dominance of idiocy in silicon valley, consider it more supporting evidence.
> Alphabet uses this information to expand its influence, be it soft power, political power, or economic power.

All companies do this, not just Alphabet, all large companies have PR guys, all large companies have lobbyists.

>For strong democracies to flourish, you can't have one corporation control the way its citizens access all information, from sea cables to browsers to proxying all the web through AMP.

AMP and all of the other Google servies don't control access to information, they just collect it. You can find every political view under the sun on Google, and if you don't like that for some reason you can use Bing or DDG or whatever floats your boat. But with the exceptions of platforms with explicit moral agendas like DDG, all those other service options are collecting your data too.

>But eventually, your needs, or the needs of someone you care for will be at a cross-roads with Alphabets best interest. Feeding them the information and critical mass they need to continue to exist now is what will allow them to take advantage of you in the future.

I'm deeply unconvinced of this, corporations are made up of regular ol folk just like you and me. I've worked for the government and corporations, and underneath the politics and the branding they're all just people. I would need someone to demonstrate a clear motivation and mechanism for why and how the people at Google are going to start harming others.
> any submissions have to be reviewed in a reasonable amount of time and if declined must receive specific violations of the guidelines on which the denial is based

Competing app stores solves this 100% because there would definitely be a market for a developer friendly app store.
As noted in the article, this was the company also responsible for Bratz, the 2000s (decade) fashion-doll phenomenon that served as the Sonic to Barbie's Mario: hipper, edgier, and ultimately flash-in-the-pan-ier. They're like experts at no-holds-barred marketing to kids.
Well it's easier, cheaper, and healthier to feed your kids chewy whole foods (and it's what they should be eating anyway!) rather than them getting plastic surgery as adults.
There's a lot of great lessons here.

(1) Billion-dollar companies are often built on products that consumers don't know what they want, until they see and experience it.

Plenty of MP3 players pre-dated the iPod. But the iPod changed the market and put Apple back on the game board.

The iPod had an experience, the form-factor, the capacity, and the horizontal integration -- being able to buy music directly on iTunes -- and once you experienced it, you realized that this was just better.

(2) Find your blind spots and fix them.

A wide variety of dolls, covering the full palette of skin colors, opened up a huge market for all the girls that didn't just want an Industry Standard Barbie Available In One Skin Tone.

Rhianna had the same problem -- she could never find makeup that worked with her skin color. So she introduced her own makeup brand -- marketed as being for all women -- which is now valued in excess of three billion dollars.

We see this a lot in Japan, by the way -- Silicon Valley companies come here, and engage in what I would say are aggressive levels of cultural ignorance.

(3) Recognize the context around your customers.

MGA recognized that Kids These Days spend a lot of time on YouTube, so they built a product designed to be YouTubed.

Glock is a great example of this. The founder, Gaston Glock, didn't come from a gunsmithing or firearms manufacturing background.

To create the first Glock pistol, Gaston put together a cross-functional working group, including metallurgists, plastic-manufacturing specialists, and members of the Austrian police and military that would actually use the design.

Focusing on how the pistol would be used -- from both a tactical and logistical standpoint -- they created something which was a total departure from everything else on the market. A completely integrated safety system. Tool-less takedown and reassembly. Easy maintenance. Most companies require a unique magazine for each different type of pistol -- Glock magazines are totally interchangeable within the same feed mechanism.

Today, Glock is the biggest pistol brand, and every other pistol manufacturer carries Glock-inspired design.

Being able to look at problems from the outside is powerful.
From a security perspective I think this results from a single person being able to act unchecked. Reminds me of the McDonald's game system cheat in which a single person controlled the entire country's game pieces unchecked.
> For many kids, this kind of toy has a short window of novelty

This one takes it to the next level. It "hacks" that by selling these toys in an opaque plastic container and they have "rare", "ultra-rare" etc types. So kids get hooked on wanting to collect all the dolls looking for a specific ultra-rare one, and having to buy lots of these things including duplicate ones.
I would miss all the games. Slay the Spire, Darkest Dungeon, Bastion, FTL...
Right: the fantasy Mach 4 missile that maneuvers with the engine shut down, does not experience compression heating from hypersonic flight, survives Mach 4 impact with tungsten 20mm shells, can track an enemy through a cloud of 100 incoming 20mm shells, and can maneuver with zero turn radius without losing energy.

I'd like some of that.

Phalanx CIWS was prototyped in 1973 and has been in service since 1980. Shooting down incoming missiles with machine gun fire has been viable for a very long time.
You might be able to do just that after this Apple/Epic ruling. That's kind of why NFTs/digital ownership is so exciting. You might be able to buy or sell your dances on any store you want to and use them in the game.
What do you use for it?
Couldn't they decide on a mechanism that does not have the code in there by default, and then electronically deliver it as a module when a customer pays for it?

Maybe the problem is harder than that, but I doubt there is no solution. It's not a new problem, as we've seen with John Deere already.
Thank you. It is silly to convert everything to USD, unless the list is built to know how much who earns their salary in USD would pay in those countries.
The YouTube Music Disaster. Another Google Failure
Uber does operate in many cities, but its revenue is disproportionately concentrated in California:

> “In 2018, we derived 24% of our Ridesharing Gross Bookings from five metropolitan areas — Los Angeles, New York City, and the San Francisco Bay Area in the United States; London in the United Kingdom; and São Paulo in Brazil,” Uber writes in the S-1. “An economic downturn, increased competition, or regulatory obstacles in any of these key metropolitan areas would adversely affect our business, financial condition, and operating results to a much greater degree than would the occurrence of such events in other areas.”

[0] https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2019/04/uber-s-1-new-york-ci...
And apply updates to it...
Haha, completely fair. Though outside of cities, 30 miles == 30 minutes.

I meant minutes.
Chromium devs want the browser to talk to devices directly via TCP,UDP
Trivia: Google IPOed in 2004 during the housing bubble with 99% of the revenue being advertising. I have a Wikipedia article on this matter: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Draft:Effects_of_the_2007-2008...
Coincidentally, I have been watching this YT channel about machining metal where the presenter is attempting to build the same mechanism while staying true to its design:

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLZioPDnFPNsHnyxfygxA0...
Hey, just want to say thanks. Fantastic point, and comment. I completely concur. But then I’m basically an Austrian who also likes math so I’m really just choir here.
Thanks - your stuff is really great, I’m a happy user.
I've read that this is due to the lack of sunlight. There was a surge of people moving to the cities. Suddenly people were spending 12 hours a day working in a dark factory instead of working in a field. Even now, in 2020, look across the world. There are some very poor areas of the world that have bad health care, but people are safe from certain problems because they are still working in fields, even as children, and they get plenty of sunlight.
Words only have meaning because of the way people use them. See how the meaning of "literally" has changed in the last decade for an example.

To most people the term gamer does not precisely mean "one who plays games." The type of games and immersion in gaming culture are factors that people consider when labeling themselves and others "gamers."
Definitely, although my idea is to keep the plot point and characters somewhat fixed, but having geography and in-game item placement be procedurally generated. You could probably inject some additional randomness my having certain plot lines be optionally incorporated. That would reduce the spoiler effect and maybe add some replayability.