skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> none of them actually found that the defendant held monopoly power.

This specific comment chain is about the concept of if there is a definite threshold, that a company must be larger than, in order for it to have monopoly power.

> The only thing these cases say is that it is theoretically possible for a company with 50% market share to hold monopoly power

Yes. That was the point that I was making. That a firm with 50% market share could hold monopoly power. That was it, and I was making no more points than that.

The other person that I was responding too has incorrectly strict definition of "monopoly power", in that he believes that there has to basically only be a single firm in the market, that is backed up by the government, in order for it to have monopoly power.

And thus I have provided definitive evidence, that the courts have held, that his threshold is incorrect.

And I was making no other points, other than to say that it is false to claim that in order to have monopoly power, a company much be "the only game in town", and backed by the government, as the person I was responding to incorrectly claimed.

> it's not relevant to Epic's lawsuit

It is relevant, because the courts have not ruled what the relevant market is yet. Even though Epic is initially trying to define the market a certain way, ultimately, the market could be determined as something else.

I agree that there are interesting questions here, to be decided, as to what the market is. But, unfortunately, it is not really possible to have a discussion with someone about the interesting questions, if they are going to spread misinformation on the uninteresting, and completely uncontroversial parts.

At this point, it took me paragraphs and paragraphs, when the original commenter who was engaging dishonestly, and ignoring court precedent and information on government websites, all in order to try and establish an uncontroversial point that they were contesting, which is that a company can have monopoly power, even if they are not the only singular firm in the market.
In the Kindle case I did pay the extra for the advertising-free version and they happily advertise on it anyway, including push notifications in the middle of the night that make noise. Infuriating.
I got "Sorry, you don't have permission for that!"
This was the late 1980s. A 680x0. Instruction re-ordering was not yet a thing.

But it was definitely a compiler bug either way. There was a POP (or maybe it was an UNLK) instruction, followed by a dereference of the PREVIOUS value of SP. That was bound to fail on any architecture that used the current process stack to handle interrupts. It just so happened that most of the development of both the compiler and the application code was being done on unix machines, which happens not to be such an architecture (interrupts are handled on the kernel stack) and so the bug never manifested itself there. But such architectures were common then, and are still common in embedded systems today.
In fact, Fortran is one of the oldest and newest programming languages in the world right now, with the Fortran 2018 standard released just recently.
I suspect lifetimes get you the vast majority of the benefit of immutable data for UI purposes, tbh. It lets you ensure that references aren't retained or accessed at the wrong time, unless they provide an explicit way to bypass that (i.e. the defaults for data types is safe).
Can you explain to me what constitutes "political correctness"?

From where I stand, it just means treating people equally and not being an asshole.

ETA: In considering all the worries of modern living, I have never once been concerned with using the wrong words for a group of people. Am I really the exception? It seems easy to call people by the terms they prefer. Not sure about which terms to use? Then I just ask.

I am struggling to see the burden of being "PC".
It's also sporting a GDP contraction that is... A little worse than some of its neighbors, a little better than others, but entirely in the same ballpark.
From the optimalized side we are always sorry that anything joiins the Matrix enclave. Matrix is so over-utilized and under-optimalized, I hope they will do something about it, since it's embarrassing that Mozilla co uses it as their war-room, and, wait, that it sucks so much. Mozilla is semi-corrupt so perhaps that's the CO'd answer. Matrix sucks, even Discord is danged better.
Unless you specifically need the funding/networking infrastructure in London, try Belfast and open your UK company there.

Much lower cost of living, decent tech community.

Most importantly, you'll be able to drive to the EU in less than an hour if for any reason you physically need to be in EU jurisdiction.

It'll always be in both the EU and the UKs interest to ensure smooth times between the North and the South here, both in terms of free movement and conducting business. The UK is trying to play hardball, but their US trade agreement relies on not upsetting the balance here on a bipartisan basis in the US.

In addition, you'll have regular flights available from Belfast to London should you need it, or you can be in Dublin airport in about 90 minutes if you need more far reaching links. (Naturally this is more useful when covid is less of an issue)

Hope that helps.
>Do you really want to make him jump and go demonstrate for/against your list of hot button topics?

Yes I do and countless of scientists and artists do exactly that, which is why a lot of them ended up being subject to McCarthyism paranoia at one point or the other. Brilliant scientists, more than anyone else maybe, need to engage the political world to understand what influence what they built has on it. Technologists being painfully unaware of the political ramifications of their work, if anything, got us to where we are right now.

It's no coincidence that the politically detached scientist is the archetypical citizen of autocratic countries. The technologist who does not care for politics is today, the most sought after person in China.
Please let me know if you find out. Finance is pretty secretive and doesnt have the open culture tech has had for so long.

One site that comes to mind is https://poetsandquants.com/ but it is career-focused mostly.

Another that used to be popular was is zH but the signal-noice ratio is terrible and it is too political.

There is a lot of finance talent here on HN, you should discuss and be pleasantly surprised.
It's perfectly reasonable to separate the workplace and the rest of the world. No need to ignore everything to limit your discussion at work.

You can also still take action - by leaving. That's exactly what this policy is encouraging with a generous exit package. Why is that not acceptable? Why does the corporation have to follow what you decide?
But that would only work if they had access to the icloud/google drive account, right? Not just any phone with his phone number.
I love the paradigm and I think the Narrator team has done a great job so far, but I'm unclear about the business model. Are you still operating as a consultancy, or are you providing tooling?
DEP allows you to clear Activation Lock with your MDM: https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT202804
>This is a tangent, but judging from the other comments here, I feel like everyone in HackerNews read the same set of articles saying facts don't matter

good luck convincing them any different.
Is it appropriate to give human rights abuses a pass until someone can appease your kneejerk reaction for rationalization?
I get semi-panic attacks if I know I can’t have access to a toilet if I really want to, and not in 2 hours’ time, but in 5 or 10 minutes’ time. That’s why I avoided taking inter-city buses before I purchased my car (which happened 6 years ago), and instead opted for trains (which were slower but had working toilets).

In other words asking grown-up people to just “keep it in” doesn’t work, just ask Tottenham player Eric Dier for the latest example (am on mobile, too lazy to link, but a quick web search should give you the whole story).
With a non-mainstream language, it is pretty much always a compiler bug

I use Pascal, because it is very fast and has automated reference counting (ARC) for most types, so it is almost memory safe. It was the only way to get C-like speed, fast compilation and no memory issues. With ARC you never get uninitialized values, you never get a use-after-free, and you never get a double-free.

A few days ago, I ran my program in valgrind's memcheck: double-free detected

That was hard to debug. Valgrind told me where the value was created, but not where it was freed the first time.

Turns out, FreePascal just put an unmatch refcount decrement after a string comparison: https://github.com/benibela/internettools/commit/4c510e8c977...

Time to update FreePascal. I use "nightly" builds of FreePascal because the stable version did not have Android aarch64 support (although the newest stable does support it. but there were other issues with the standard library). Last time I tried to update it, it stopped working on Android x86 and some floating point computations failed. But those issues have been fixed now.

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Even worse than compiler bugs are CPU bugs. Or emulator bugs if you run it on an emulated CPU. I just had the problem that my app did not start on the aarch64 Android emulator. JNI ExceptionCheck always returned 1. This function here: https://github.com/benibela/internettools/commit/d9fafc9274a...
Two instructions added to the assembly and it is fixed and returns 0, but those instructions should not have changed anything
You seem to believe hiring large numbers of bodies mean they hired the best people. I think that's hardly obvious, and more likely downright false from what we know about tech hiring.
The problem is that if you start with something simple like your do block then people start complaining "but what is a monad???".
Well, yes and no.
They have their own user agent, so they can get their own classification. e.g.

Mozilla/5.0 (iPhone; CPU iPhone OS 13_3_1 like Mac OS X) AppleWebKit/605.1.15 (KHTML, like Gecko) Mobile/15E148 [FBAN/FBIOS;FBDV/iPhone11,8;FBMD/iPhone;FBSN/iOS;FBSV/13.3.1;FBSS/2;FBID/phone;FBLC/en_US;FBOP/5;FBCR/]

Identifies as "Facebook Browser".

See: https://developers.whatismybrowser.com/useragents/explore/so...

I think Google Analytics picks this up as "Safari (In-App)"

If this classification was not possible, Edge would identify as Chrome. (since it uses Chromium engine)
Proportion is important - bringing politics up occasionally (rarely), peacefully, and in proportion to other topics .. is very different to crusading about it, bullying about it, being emotional and irrational and losing sight of others' perspectives.

Those strongly emotional actions are a whole different thing and it's dishonest to use mild language to describe those behaviours as 'bringing it up' and more accurate to call it something such a 'arguing about politics instead of working'.

Viewed in that light is it unfair to forbid employees to regularly argue about politics instead of working?
Thanks, I'm thinking of going the wp route. https://www.docker.com/blog/deploying-wordpress-to-the-cloud...
On Imaginary Girlfriends
In my opinion it's the closest we've come to "artificial intelligence" and probably the only true future path -- that of course only applies if GAI is possible, which is still in dispute
This approach sounds very similar to using a single table in DynamoDB: https://www.alexdebrie.com/posts/dynamodb-single-table/
My kids are still young (11,7,4) so we'll see how it turns out, but we've got a strong culture of asking questions in our house. I do it so frequently that when we sit down at the table I often get asked "can we do questions".

Sometimes they request specific questions (so they can show off what they've learned) and I lob them softballs (addition, geography, and other stuff they are learning about in schools often shows up). But sometimes I like to explore deeper questions that don't have clear answers. For example:

- Why are some people rich and some people poor

- What is justice?

- What does it mean to be a good man?

- Who should pay your teachers?

and so on.

A lot of the source topics are covered in classical books, particularly Plato's Republic (a dialogue where they go about conjuring up an ideal society), but I find that the kids will quickly take it in their own direction.

Honestly it's one of the more enjoyable things I get to do with the kids.
Movement to support the investor class is just another angle of politics. People forget this, since they are such a dominant wing in western society.
> I suspect the Bay Area is extremely nondiverse and homogeneous

Yes it's fair to say that about Bay Area tech companies. The geographic region that is the Bay Area however features extraordinarily diverse demographics: https://www.mercurynews.com/2019/10/14/three-bay-area-cities...
If you're interested in the current status of the backend, please have a look at this talk on Youtube:

> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-6zXXPRl-QI

Slides can be found here: http://m68k.info/assets/LLVM-Backend-for-M68k-Overview-and-S...

And a Bountysource campaign to support the project here:

> https://www.bountysource.com/issues/90829856-llvm-complete-t...

Disclaimer: I'm one of the people behind this project but not the main developer. So funds are going to the developer, not me.
use weechat, you fucking looser. irssi is outdated!
I'd encourage you to make a voluntary donation to the State of Washington Treasury's General Fund or one of about 750 account appropriations[2]. I'm sure there would be some that would help support your local community.

[1]https://tre.wa.gov/wp-content/uploads/waStateDonationForm.pd...
[2]https://www.ofm.wa.gov/sites/default/files/public/legacy/pol...
As a curious ignorant - what's used now instead of 5V? Why was there a transition away from 5V? I'm assuming this means 5 volts and not something more arcane.
It's basically just blogspam reporting that a YouTuber named NTDEV posted two videos. His build of Win2003 was successful: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bO0daYbti5g

I hope your company firewall does not block YouTube.
Companies are required to know where you live for tax purposes.
Cloudflare says they exclude "content servers"[1], I assume that means CDNs. https://www.verizonmedia.com/ says it is an ad network, including video ads, with brands like Yahoo, HuffPost and TechCrunch.

[1] https://radar.cloudflare.com/glossary#trending-domains
Health insurance only risk-pools as a side effect of its ignorance. In a high-information world, it risk-smooths but does not risk-pool.

It's completely bonkers that we insist on doing it this way.
TFA clearly states this launch facility is effectively deprecated, ULA is investing in facilities more relevant to their future needs.
Sounds to me like the "temporary" visa system has been greatly abused by employers looking for cheap labor and needs to be fixed so that people who wish to make life in the U.S. aren't left in limbo for so long.
I would take the payout and go get another high paying job.

Easy money. Not much to read about politics in the decision of getting paid for nothing.
I'm ashamed that HN's reputation is not reflected in your responses.

Specifically, it is very surprising that you're using the hospital's own press release to conclude that no injustice happens on their premises.

Also, people entering from the Mexican border are not all Mexican. Many come from countries further south.
Setting aside whether business can or should regulate employee speech: can you expand on how them doing so makes people more free?
Bible for product managers. Truly epic!
I'd submit that Linux being more choosy about what architectures it supported was a big factor in why it overtook, and ultimately surpassed, the incumbent open source Unixes.
luks or zfs.
Seems like a great way to validate your idea on someone else's dime. If it works out you can consider what your options are at that point, including leaving and setting up a competing company. If it doesn't, you can analyze why and either make the case for trying again at your company, on your own or decide to let it go altogether. I don't really see any downside at this point.
Something about this website makes mobile chrome scroll at low fps.
Occam's razor is a really fantastic concept for a kid to learn early on!
Actually Ryanair did suggest to make the toilet paying in flight at some point.
In my experience (raising my own children and being engaged with a bunch of parents at the same stage of child rearing) I observed that all of the children were very aware that there were things they didn't know. What is more they wanted to know things and that desire expressed itself as questions and curiosity.

As a family we have had two activities that have really bound us together, one is my wife's insistence that we always had dinner together, and camping. We also had a used copy of the World Book encyclopedia in a bookshelf near the dinner table, as a series of the Time-Life books on various topics, as well as various popular desktop references like the Scientific American Science Desk Reference.

At dinner we would talk about things. All sorts of things. And when we wanted details of a thing we would look it up in the encyclopedia and read aloud from it to share that knowledge. Anything could trigger a wide ranging conversation, from why to police officers give people tickets to people crossing the street to why are there parrots living in Sunnyvale, to how do cellular phones work. And model both learning new things as well has how to find things in available sources. We are fortunate to live within walking distance of the library so the kids could check out a wide variety of books.

My wife would often "auction off" the last tasty thing (generally one of her rolls which are super yummy) with an open ended question, best answer wins the treat.

Camping was sort of like dinner++ in that there are things to do while camping, like hiking and fishing and whittling different shapes out of sticks, but there was also a lot of time to just talk about things without the distraction of phones or computers or day to day things.

All of those things to feed curiosity, provide the time to explore the questions and answers, and try to understand things about the world around us.

For our family this worked out well. I don't know if it would work for every family of course. Feeding curiosity is something my parents did and I simply modeled it to my children.
The point of the film is to warn that the main goal of a social media silo is to extract maximum attention, while externalizing all costs. They don't care if their platform gives rise to another Stalin and Hitler, as long as it helps the next quarter's numbers. Any gain you get out of the platform is just their cost of supplying bait to get you hooked.

The algorithms deployed serve a simple purpose.... find a rabbit hole near where they measure your position in the space of ideas... and tilt what you see towards it... then measure how long you stay down there.... optimizing for maximum time in the hole.

The solution is simple, switch to systems where you decide what you're going to pay attention to. RSS, Blogs, human curated communications.

You might still fall into a rabbit hole that leads to extremism, but at least there won't be a billionaire incentivized to push you into it. Society, on the other hand, and normal social pressures, should be sufficient to help you find your way back out.
There is not-insignificant, if not huge group of site admins that take a "aha! more security therefore better!" approach and will just enable under attack mode (the 5s JS challenge) for everyone all the time.

Some are a bit more savvy and will take a still rather ham-fisted approach of doing so for most countries. That's not uncommon with retailer websites that realistically only serve a single country, and therefore have good enough reason to challenge all others to deter automated traffic from compromised machines outside their market.
I did, unfortunately. I haven't really followed the media's portrayal of it, but I do know that the Proud Boys' website now says "stand back and stand by" prominently on their home page above a call for recruits.
> a real judge hearing arguments about the facts on the ground

The real judge agrees with me, and not you, and agrees with me that the important question about this case is what the market is defined as.

> the judge brought up consoles and PCs as Epic’s market

So you are now completely agreeing with every single point that I was making, and admiting that you were entirely wrong, and now recognize that I was correct for pointing out that the judge thinks that the important question for this case is how the market is defined?

That is what you are doing for pointing that out, lol. The judge agrees with me that the important points about this case are how the market is defined, and not anything that you brought up.
People can use their mouths to say at least the fact of flaws the product and services you purchased which acts as an advice to not purchase them

The downvote button on Hacker News doesn't work like a dislike button by the way
At the individual level I agree that people are not 100% good or 100% evil. Corporations may have good people that work there and help with tasks that are mostly evil. But companies that are truly evil and offer no product, no benefit, no public good, no service, do not exist. A truly evil company offers nothing and expects everything in return. So from my perspective it's impossible for a company to be 100% evil. But some larger companies will get as close as they can.

Any for profit company that is sufficiently large enough will eventually behave in ways that are evil.

The problem here is corporate bylaws and shareholders. Many Corporate bylaws state the only purpose of the company is to pursue profits, everything else is secondary.

These things create a perverse incentive to continuously show growth.

It's not enough to be profitable as a company. The company is expected to continuously expand their market share.

If they own a relatively small market share they can innovate, improve their product, get better at marketing or sales and expand their share that way.

But eventually if they are already the dominant player in a market, to continue to grow they must snuff out competition with anti-competitive behavior and expand into to new markets often by buying companies already in those markets. And If a C level executive or board member refuses to put profits over people, they can be ousted by shareholders or sued for securities fraud.

This behavior pattern of infinite expansion of market share is the symptom created by the perverse incentives of shareholders and will eventually drive any for profit company that is large enough and has shareholders to behave in ways that we consider evil.

And while I am sure the solution is likely reclassification into B Corporations or non-profits, getting companies to reclassify is not going to be easy.
> I'm confused why stories about Sweden's success keep popping up here.

I'm not.
Postgres – EnterpriseDB acquires 2nd Quadrant
The Copernican Principle of Consciousness
What was their relative unemployment rate before covid? It doesn't make sense to compare absolute rates - you should compare the change.
If you could remove one of the two it would already be a large weight saving (and room for more seats). But you'd lose some redundancy.
That's the point. Why should a private business like Coinbase accommodate far-left ideologues against capitalism and its very existence? That seems incongruous.
Two questions:

- who pays $28 for icons you have to install yourself one by one?!

- most of these icons are protected by copyright/trademark laws, how is still legal?