skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Being a monopoly is actually irrelevant. The anti-trust law in the US focuses on regulating anti-competitive business practices. You can implement anti-competitive business practices with any portion of the market, and you can have an outright monopoly without implementing any anti-competitive practices (and therefor without breaking the law).

But to successfully implement anti-competitive practices, you do usually need a significant portion of market share. Which is pretty much what’s being discussed here, even though it’s not a very accurate use of the word. You can also do it by acting as a cartel, which is another situation commonly (though not very accurately) described as a monopoly.
It's on new devices in an installer context for a RAID-1 as the text you quote describes, so yes I do know what I'm doing. But fair enough, it might give other people bad ideas, so I'll remove it from the examples.
If you buy X you pay tax.
If you donate to provider of X and get X in return as a gift you don't pay tax.

For example donating money to keep your local church running is paying for a service without paying taxes for it.

Another thing you can do is donate earmarked money that they will use to buy your products. For example Google donating chromebooks to schools. That is marketing dollars.
Eerily similar to how the Challenger tragedy happened
But they still do have ABB.
>> But fintech doesn't take deposits. The one central problem with banking is gone.

> All banking regulations are due solely to the fact that banks take deposits? There is no other reason one could imagine for why banks, FinTech, or other financial services providers need to be regulated? All financial crises are runs on deposits?

FWIW, the way I interpreted this was “crises are caused by over-leveraged systems becoming insolvent”, which sounds less wacky.
Not sure how I still get them. I did get a message that it is EOL when I was on the developer/beta channel a while ago. But then I switched back to main, and kept getti ng updates.

It’s the first Samsung Chromebook (iirc 2nd Chromebook ever), one of the last ARM ones. Perhaps they are keeping it alive because it’s an ARM.

Regardless, I put it in developer mode and used it with straight Linux (although the sd card borked recently and I haven’t set a new one up yet)
I like Go because of its fast compile times more than anything. It's like a scripting language that compiles to fast native code.
NVidia will make CUDA cores available across the whole ARM ecosystem, from Cortex-M? on up.

NVidia will integrate Arm cores into their GPUs where the GPU itself will start to become server hosted on a PCIe bus, potentially with its own Infiniband connection.
Since we're sharing views on the writing style - I found it off-putting enough that I had to quit halfway through.

It's very tiresome to read, with _way_ too many digressions and jokes.
They were just desperate to do a better job of screwing up than Perl with it's 5 => 6 updates...

<grin>
Or if you operate there.
Sorry to play the bad boy here.

But we have 2020 these 2 Apps (Android and iOS) are looking like websites from the 90s.

I don't get the point why everyone wants to add a framework to write one codebase and deploy on many platforms.

There are great working frameworks out here why we need the 100 framework doing this?
golang has much more libraries available to be reused (not as much as java but still much more than rust)
If you’re working on a professional project as a freelancer, something to consider is the ease with which you can transfer ownership of your project to another developer. I can’t say which is better, rust or go, but just wanted to mention this consideration
Yes, you're right. actually not most, but more close to 95% of them apps could be done as web instead. Yet, on mission critical apps while they can be done as web apps, the decision to make them native it's not a choice, is a must.
Since I've bought the Surface Pro X, I can't go back to laptops with fans and poor battery life. The hardware is great.

But Windows is still bad. It can't even display the good clock, as an example of inacceptable bugs.

If I could find the same tablet-laptop format, with ubuntu support, that would be perfect, well until Android gets proper desktop support.

Wireless Dex by Samsung is very promising, but the perfect portbale monitor isn't there yet.
This is probably done with LaTeX or one of its variants

See here: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/LaTeX
They are. There's little-to-no benefit derived from these arbitrary fees, especially amongst all the other high taxes in the state.
> Starbucks didn't kill it. Consumers did.

Starbucks seems to act as if it has a habit of making quarterly plans and mostly executing according to that intent.

But when I look at Consumers as a single entity it seems remarkably undisciplined. It can't seem to hold any plan in mind, coordinate its actions with any moment-to-moment follow-through on, or even _agree_ on a single intended plan. -- Consumers acts like it has no Chief Executive Function!
Yes! I call it cat-like thinking, after watching our cat walk all over the keyboard. She wouldn't look at the keys or the screen.

I can't remember how many times I've heard "I can't log in, the machine is locked", when there is literally 1 button Switch User, and clicking that 1 button does it. "Oh, I didn't think to try that, it said it was locked.."

Entering newlines in a textbox? It's.. shift-enter, or alt-enter, alt-shift-something. Multicursor? It's.. shift-up? Alt-up? You just try 'em. Cat-like
From the outside Go seems to be the clear winner in terms of popularity for back end web development and services. Maybe that will change for Rust in the future, things like Rocket look very nice but overall I think Rust is targeting a different area.
Ada doesn't have compile-time-safe dynamic memory allocation and deallocation (i.e., tracking a pointer so that you know statically that it's no longer used elsewhere in the function that frees it). Rust does it through the lifetime system, which is based on Cyclone, which long postdates Ada.

The usual alternatives are to statically allocate all your memory, to convince yourself it's safe to use Unchecked_Deallocation, or to use a GC/refcounting library. Static allocation is usually not a problem for special-purpose embedded control applications: e.g., your airplane has two wings and one set of landing gear and its position is described by three coordinates, and you'll never need more of those. You probably want to avoid malloc anyway for both predictable performance and not having to worry about whether your allocation will succeed. But if you're writing, say, a CSS engine or a grep replacement or a terminal emulator, that approach won't work.

GC works for those use cases, but there are a number of excellent memory-safe GC'd languages already in wide use for many things, like Python and Java. You can get very good steady-state performance with Java, sometimes higher than equivalently-complex C, but it's still not a language you'd want to implement loadable libraries or OS kernels in.

Rust solves the problem of making writing high-performance, C-drop-in-replacement code feel much like (definitely not exactly like :) ) working in a higher-level language like Python or Java, including the memory-safety parts of that experience. Ada addresses memory safety, but for most of the use cases people are excited about Rust for, they want the combination of those features. For things like flight control software, picking something extremely mature (usually the companies in these press releases have existing Ada code from previous projects dating back decades) is valuable and having safe dynamic allocation isn't really a requirement.
AMD is going to "own" x86 for the foreseeable future. AMD will have to either produce cut down x86 cores or start using RISC-V to compete with NVidia across their larger portfolio.
Material Shell – A modern desktop interface for GNOME
By choosing "expert" mode you can choose between any of the partition types (much more besides mbr and gpt). In standard mode it will pick mbr if none of your devices are bigger than the mbr partition limit (2TB?) otherwise it will pick gpt, without offering you a choice.

You can choose expert mode at the start when you boot the installer or you can switch to it from the menu once it's started.

I think you may be right about the other things, but this is not uncommon amongst OS installers. It is very hard to offer the full range of configurations available from all of the tools used to install a Linux system, without just putting the user at a shell prompt and letting them get on with it. Luckily that option is still there!
One can construct cases in Rubin's framework that DAG can not solve and vice-versa

Example?
> you're really straightjacketing yourself with your first v1, or you're a genius who got everything right the first time and never have to make any changes

In my head - that's what v0 is for. Many people try to jump the v1 gun well before they've allowed the real world to impose itself on the unwarranted assumptions that should have been shaken out in v0
> in places with legit coffee culture

What about places with a newly-growing coffee culture?

What about places with a coffee culture whose strength is starting to temporarily weaken?

What about places which occasionally undergo change?
clang is supposed to have a compatible ABI with MSVC as long as you use link.exe for linking. Is this not the case?

http://blog.llvm.org/2018/03/clang-is-now-used-to-build-chro...
I can't believe I read this whole thing only to find out at the end that this dumbass thinks the earth revolves around the sun. I wish I'd known we were dealing with a wacko from the start so I could have saved 20 minutes of my life.
A differentiable error diffusion loss would dither the image with quantisation (like in the post), but then minimise the difference between the blurred dithered image and the blurred original, instead of the dithered image and the original. This would tend to distribute errors so that the average colour in an area is the same in the dithered image as the original, similar to Floyd-Steinberg.
Fb is also a problem, so relying on them isn't going to solve anything. A cartel or oligopoly is not a better situation than a monopoly. For there to be a healthy market, it needs to be possible for small business to compete. If that's not possible in a market, then it needs to be regulated like a public utility.
Because Ada is not a language for quick and dirty. It's a language that is only fun and usable if you apply engineering methods to the whole project (a.k.a requirements, documentation etc.). Most projects out there don't. Quite frankly, it's not a hackers language.

EDIT: Oh and the price tag.
Good question, the market salary is based on an offer I had at the same level (L5) from a larger startup (100 people, series B).
From the footage I've seen (both the footage Uber released, which portrayed the road as much darker than it actually was, and from videos of people driving around in the same area after it happened) I can only conclude that an attentive driver would've been able to prevent the crash.

However, I don't think it's reasonable at all to expect someone to remain attentive while looking at a self-driving car. This is the same problem train drivers face, which has been mitigated with all sorts of methods, least of which a dead-man switch. Some countries let their train drivers mention every signal they come across to themselves, with Japanese train drivers even pointing at signs to ensure they're paying attention.

This was a vehicle that had been modified to reduce certain safety features (because Uber couldn't get them to work properly) with someone at the wheel expected to be 100% focused on the road while giving them nothing to do at the same time. You can only go through so many hours of sitting in a card doing nothing before you go crazy.

From a revenge-seeking perspective it's easy to blame the one person who could've stopped the car for her obvious disregard for safety (streaming video on the job), and I suppose a criminal justice case might be in order. However, I think Uber should be mainly responsible for the loss of life because their flawed design not only made the car less secure but also completely disregarded the human psychology when they designed how their human safeguard driver should do their job. Even human-operated cars will beep and yell at you if you don't pay attention while you're driving in cruise control, if such safety features were omitted in the self-driving design then clearly the driver was set up to take the fall when something bad would happen.

I strongly believe Uber only put that woman in there because local law wouldn't let them test their car without a human at the wheel, not because they wanted to ensure their car didn't kill anyone.
I'm glad to hear it's helped you :)

> Willpower and personal responsibility are great, but better yet is not even having to try.

I think as humans we overestimate just how much power we have over our minds. Especially up against these algorithms that have been trained and honed with billions of compute hours by thousands of engineers, we just have no chance.
So the reasoning here is if there are dumb legislators we should just defer to Google on how they should be regulated?
> I think algorithms have less power than people think they do, even the computer scientists.

Algorithms are powerful because they can cause tiny, incremental and often completely unnoticeable changes of opinions and perception. These changes adds up when they affect large enough populations. I agree that people who gather in groups and share information makes up the bulk of this equation – algorithms do not operate in a vacuum.

I do think that the negative effects caused by algorithms are largely unintended consequences. Profit is the motive, not malice.

> People are leaving these algorithm ran places in droves especially now because they already believe that the government is working with these companies to track their movements and radical plans.

A tiny fraction of the technically literate people escape the big platforms, the rest stays on even though they are somewhat conscious of the negative effects and ruthless business practices.

> That all came from 4chan/8chan/etc. There are no algorithms there, no AI, and anyone could basically code something on that level of complexity in a day.

Many people joining extreme communities have been nudged by algorithms, especially Youtube's. What happens from there is usually just plain old group think and tribalism, feeling the comfort of finding a community to belong to. The point is that those nudges from suggested videos gently pushes you down a rabbit hole you otherwise would not be exploring in such a rapid and captivating manner.

Like they say in the film; algorithms are not evil on their own, they just tend to enable and amplify some of the worst tendencies in people who know how to exploit this tool for their own gain, political or otherwise.

> Information should not be free. It should have limits.

I disagree. What I do think is that the many "information outlets" should be held responsible for their editorialization. Newspapers, TV and social media platforms do all editorialize, only social media has left this task to the algorithms – which is rather careless and naive. These companies have indeed moved fast and are now braking things.
The harder Apple tries to kill Spotify. The harder I will hold onto Spotify - signed up outside of the AppStore like everyone should.

I already spend £7 on 2TB iCloud, and £15 on Spotify family. So it would kinda make sense to swap. But I won't

Partly principle, but I also think they're really stingy with iCloud storage amounts. Only 200GB for the medium tier? And I have to spend £30 a month for 2TB?
I agree. The problem with the estate tax is that it does a poor job at what it tries to accomplish. There are better methods of wealth redistribution.

The primary way inheritances concentrate wealth is through the "firstborn son rule" where the first son simply receives all of the wealth. If you were to split the wealth among the children it would disappear within a few generations. So simplify the whole ordeal by codifying that no single person may inherit more than 50% of the wealth of the deceased. If son and daughter receive half the wealth of their parents they are unlikely to collaborate for the sake of maintaining generational wealth. Even if the son kills the daughter he will only receive 75% of the wealth of his father.

No liquidation is necessary and therefore it is easy to implement. Paying taxes on inheriting a family business is far more difficult than simply splitting ownership among the living who are still working in that business.
Emutos 1.0
Proper bounds checked arrays, possible to opt out, integers with bounds: Turbo Pascal had that too.
Microsoft Powerapps
I generally edit the sensitive part out and match it to the background of the document looks much cleaner IMHO.

However, I agree that it requires some quick hand in image manipulation software.
WSL2 is a simple virtual machine. Nothing you couldn’t do on macOS with e.g. multipass.
Note that pinephone's kill switches are not as useful as librem 5's ones, because you can't easily switch them on the go. The switches are inside the phone, so you have to open it, and they're so tiny that you need a toothpicker or a needle to switch them.
I hope that goes away with ipv6
This is cool, but I'm surprised by the flip in endianness. If pointers agree in their left part when printed in hex, I would also expect them to agree in their left part when printed in words, not in the right part.
Search for "tl; dr". It's a section at the end of the page with the summary.
Most STEM papers are written with latex, this book likely is too.
This sounds promising, something closer to OSX would give apple competition for devs like myself that want a linux based system and a fluffy "it-just-works" gui

I switched from macOS to Linux. GNOME and others are pretty good these days. I did try Windows + WSL2 out of curiosity, but my brain is just fundamentally incompatible with non-unix systems. Moreover, I was really annoyed that when Windows installed drivers automatically, it also installed a lot of Realtek and Intel crapware with it. Why?

It would be really nice though if Microsoft could make a Linux version of Office (even if it was just Wine-based), because the web version is too limited. Oh, and the Affinity suite would be nice as well ;).
Perhaps its an English proverb which caught on amidst a community of Serbian expats/immigrants.
Did anyone notice the line, “Update: I have been arrested”? Chekhov’s gun is just hanging there.
Canonical reading on how to properly fuck with the nature's ways:

The Gift We Give To Tomorrow https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/pGvyqAQw6yqTjpKf4/the-gift-w...

Meditations on Moloch https://slatestarcodex.com/2014/07/30/meditations-on-moloch/
Nope. Still causing problems.

It's messing with my displays (I use an eGPU and an LG Ultrawide 49-incher), and I am getting more crashes than usual.

It's def iStat Menus. When I removed it, all the issues stopped.
I shared this with some of my friends, and we all agreed it was obnoxious.

So, where do we go from here?
See Richard Geldreich's Twitter (@richgel999). He has a lot to say about that (when he says "flat-structured tech company", he means Valve).
Every 6 months, actually.

In practical terms, unless you want to test out Java features (which can be removed with the next release), you only need to track the LTS-releases every 3 years and actively upgrade every 6 years to stay on a supported version.
There are far more extensive possibilities than what you export - almost every change can be breaking change, often without the producer knowing about it. This is why nobody uses strict semver in practice.

https://www.bennadel.com/blog/3501-when-is-a-change-a-breaki...
To remove the BBL from the devices that make up the array that the root filesystem is on you would need to boot into a rescue environment and assemble it there.

While the debian-installer does provide the rescue environment that you need to do this, it is by no means trivial.

Speaking as the article author I find it way way simpler to create the arrays from the shell at the start, rather than have to remember to reboot into d-i again, choose the rescue mode, tell it not to automatically assemble, drop to shell and assemble there. It's also faster — most of my servers take more than 60 seconds before even the serial-over-lan starts to display output!
I am working on it. But as a web developer this "small app" and everything that comes with it is easily hundreds of hours of work, just to clumsily recreate functionality that's already working in other browsers.
UI Elements and Their UX Value Web Developers Should Know About
Web developers should understand the UX value of UI elements they use. Useful comparison of dropdowns, radio buttons, multi-select, and toggle switches.
This means that with JS, for the same amount of time spent on development, my code would have been tested 5 times more often (especially with TDD approach).

This is only true if you code fast enough to keep your test suite and bundler at 100% utilisation.
LabPlot 2.8
Yeah it's nice and everything but don't tell that to your boss or bosses in general otherwise most of us will be unemployed in a few years /s
Also because our pyramid shaped tax structure favors vertical integration.
Not defer to Google, but a smarter legislator.
The fact if you don't lie to support a cause you are the enemy is part of today's problem.

Expecting people to know intricacies of something further in the past but nothing about the ones after is not normal.

Sarah Silverman on the Holocaust -

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j8z5wBwY5Zw&feature=youtu.be...
I still have mine. I fully intend to have it in my pocket next time I travel to the US. "Sure, you can see my phone. Here, I'll unlock it for you. Go for it! <watches security goon's head assplode>"
>Does that require millions or billions of dollars to be hoarded, unused, passed from hand to hand, contributing to a skewed money supply that forces the fed to print more, play with interest rates etc to try to keep the system stable?

I think you got cause and effect mixed up. Every dollar that the fed is printing is being hoarded because the fed decided to only give dollars to people that hoard money.
I know next to nothing about virtualization, are these patches Microsoft specific, or do they benefit others as well?
275 € in Finland, when done online (+you’ll need a bank account for the company). AFAIK many people DIY.
Ada 95 was the language for 1st year Comp Sci at the University of Glasgow at the start of the millennium. There was a small revival in Ada at that time.

I remember the first lecture introduced a little graphical rocket simulation in Ada and us students would write code to land the rocket. I liked that.

Then i think the semester after this they introduced us to Haskell (ghc = Glasgow Haskell Compiler). Another good course but one i wished i’d paid more attention to at the time!