skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Watershed moment in how we "price" monopolistic power. It's not "market share" or "barriers to entry" or even engaging in "anti-competitive behavior" anymore. But more about how corporations can control the free flow of information. Much harder to make that case for the government I should imagine.

I don't know if or how this fits within actual antitrust law, but it makes sense that the issue was never price gouging, the issue was one entity gaining too much power.

In a theoretical dystopian future, a megacorp could own 99% of market share of all industries in the country, but intentionally offer very low prices on every product to avoid "monopoly" concerns. It becomes clear: monopolistic pricing is just a symptom, not the real issue. The real issue is power.

If this suit (and followup suits on other megacorps) fail, the future may call for new laws to define monopolistic power in novel ways, as soon as we the people recognize that getting search and email and social media for free doesn't mean that the megacorps are on our side.
Signal is a honeypot that requires a phone number to even use it.
It's very sluggish on a large monitor
Students attending school are classified as "not in the labor force" because they are not available for work.

https://www.bls.gov/cps/cps_htgm.htm#ui
This doesn't seem like it's going to work. Given a choice between search engines pretty much everyone is going to choose Google. I think there are definitely areas that Google acts anti-competitively. But search? The competitors are a URL away. And few use them because Google is just flat out better.
So in this example:

loop 1..10 'x [
if? even? x -> print [x "is even"]
else -> print [x "is odd"]
]

I can't find any reference for what the arrow is doing. It looks like a lambda in the first part (x -> print [x "is even"]), except that would mean that's getting passed to "even?" instead of "x". But that doesn't make sense for the second one, so is the arrow part of "if?"/"else" or is it an alternate way of wrapping the print in a block? Or something else?
I wish this anti-trust action was around their dumping of free services (mail, docs, calendar) and not search. But no, thanks to Reagan era hand-waving that monopoly power can only harm consumers and not companies we can't have nice things.
Google definitely needs anti-trust scrutiny. The timing is suspicious though. Could political motivation be at play here?

And why didn't Facebook get sued too? They're just as anti-competitive. Was there an implicit protection agreement reached at one of those private dinners Zuckerberg had at the White House?

And what about Amazon? There's a whole laundry list of anti-competitive practices happening with their online sales and marketplace.
Swap miles for km. It’s about the same for arbitrary vastness.

Well under an order of magnitude off.
What about all the expenses she can claim? Does the business pay for her car? Does she work out of the home?

Does she have somewhat unlimited PTO? What’s it like having no boss?
What did splitting up Bell accomplish? The lab was destroyed and national monopoly became regional monopolies.
>> Worse for whom?

Worse for those in the real world where you have payroll obligations, rent, AWS bills, health insurance, and mortgages.

As a customer I feel the same way. However, having been a co-founder and CTO of a startup, let me tell you the real story:

- Most startups are not like snapchat, they are not once-in-a-generation unicorns.

- Most startups have huge burn, especially consumer-entertainment type startups (imagine how much network bandwidth YouTube was burning before Google purchased them.)

- Startups are at the mercy of funding rounds and sometimes the market itsself can get away from you, through no fault of your own startup

- FAANG provide a put option -- "whats the worse that can happen? we get acquired by X" which allows people to take on more risk while trying to swing for the fences.

- It is arguable how long darling consumer apps could survive as independent when consumers often dont want to pay money. It is a catch 22 -- the startup is told the product has to be free but they are also not allowed to seek bigger coffers to actually subsidize it

So in the end -- sure, I agree with you, but who pays? Esp if this is something massive with network effects. Perhaps I can pay for WhatsApp, but can my grandma pay for it with her meager overseas salary? And if she cannot, how is the network sustainable?

I'm not saying I disagree with you, but I dont know what the solution is other than the current one.
US Department of Justice to file antitrust lawsuit against Google
At various points in time 0.01% could be said about computers, Internet, Web, Ad blocking, 3rd party cookies. Pioneers pave the way.
[furiously googles “commenting on DOM”]

[finds nothing]

[smacks head in disbelief that this didn’t exist til now]
It's easy to tell in panning shots. I found a fairly neat site that demonstrates this. Even at slower pan rates it's quite obvious, and I think it would be even more obvious with a full frame rather than just a strip.

https://www.testufo.com/

E.g.

https://www.testufo.com/framerates-versus#photo=eiffel.jpg&p...

It is a little unfair because you'd hope film makers use a high duty cycle exposure (I can't remember the technical name, but basically it will blur the result), but I've seen plenty of films that don't.
Microsoft partners with SpaceX to connect Azure cloud to Starlink
Personal opinion? And this applies almost equally to Google, Microsoft, Yahoo and AOL. But that they all lost the messenger wars. Of the four, Google was the best positioned to take mobile, really the best positioned of any company in the world. And that blunder is probably a bigger blunder than Microsoft and Facebook arriving late to the mobile world. Because Google WAS the mobile operating system, they were the cross platform browser vendor, and they completely, absolutely, 100% failed to deliver a worldwide mobile first + desktop messaging solution that was better than the competition.
Measuring Progress in the 'Noisy' Era of Quantum Computing
Most hospitals are disgusting. Pricing is insane and profits are sickening.

Being Non-profit does not insulate hospitals from predatory practices.

For-profit hospitals with price transparency may be a better solution than we have now with extreme price gouging.
I thought I'd bother after reading your comment.

https://www.bls.gov/news.release/empsit.nr0.htm

and the numbers:

https://www.bls.gov/news.release/empsit.t01.htm

It's actually kinda straightforward, and very clear about what measures they're using. The numbers are bit scary - "The employment-population ratio, at 56.6 percent, changed little over the month but is 4.5 percentage points lower than in February."

"The number of persons not in the labor force who currently want a job, at 7.2 million, changed little in September; this measure is 2.3 million higher than in February. These individuals were not counted as unemployed because they were not actively looking for work during the last 4 weeks or were unavailable to take a job."

So that's 12m officially unemployed, plus 7m "not in the labor force" but who want a job.

So yeah, the article is kinda on point; that the numbers don't mean what they think we mean. But I have to agree: that's not because the numbers aren't available for anyone to look at and understand.
Take a look at the PEP - https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0617/
Microsoft launches Azure Space initiative; partners with SpaceX
So I REALLY don’t mean this to be cynical, but: other than this clearly being a beautiful product, and I guess the simple fact that it’s just not a Google product, what exactly does this bring to the table that Google slides doesn’t already do?

I say this as a guy who spends a lot of time in Google slides, both on my own presentations as well as collaborating on group ones, and it works pretty much perfectly. If I were to switch from it, I need something that absolutely crushes it in some way, but looking at the landing page for this product, nothing is particularly popping out to show it being all that different than what I already use in Slides, which is also included in my company email along with sheets and docs.

What am I missing?
The challenge even when "VCs do what China does and start pouring money into hard stuff, not just fluffy software" is that like Feynman's There's Plenty of Room at the Bottom observation, there is plenty of innovation room in the intricacies of "low-end", "low-margin" manufacturing. Divorcing that operational, get-your-hands-dirty aspect from your business closes off insights that arise from the ongoing software-eats-the-world wave still building up steam around the world.

The more you cram together the people networks, culture, knowledge, tooling and practices of how to create all this stuff into a single ecosystem, the more they start making Burke-like Connections. Thinking you can Jira-innovate your way to dominance on an ever-narrowing technology stack is architecture astronaut'ing on a strategic corporate scale.

If Amazon had outsourced their IT operations to an IBM, would their internal culture still have de novo evolved the nascent devops principles back then into AWS?

It isn't what Intel gives up now by selling this business that will hurt their innovation. It is the options that suddenly get a lot more expensive to investigate in the future for future innovation. Technology innovation is evolution: extremely messy, more dead ends than successful adaptations, enormously energy-intensive from lots of majority-repetition, and highly organic. You can certainly optimize around the edges to make it slightly less jagged-edge, but innovation sparks at the tiny interstices, usually not at the top.
FTLW Unemployment Rate (FTLW: full-time living wage).

Done. Wasn't that hard.

Now let's not get carried away with dodging the issue, and get back to the topic of real deception, happily perpetuated, treated as gospel, by the powers that be, since time immemorial.
I'm sure they can get in contact and discuss something more reasonable. I doubt RPi's stance is unwavering
So, it's like https://slides.com but collaborative.
Azure Space – cloud-powered innovation on and off the planet
I think not having a car in NYC is more of a convenience issue than a cost issue(due to parking etc) to a larger degree.
The assumption here is that you are not just barely getting by.
GDPR is about all processing and use of personal data, not just tracking.
This reminds me of the time when I wrote a web crawler which saved all unique HTTP headers along with their values. Turns out that those `X-We-Are-Hiring` headers are not so uncommon. I also found a misspelled content security header on some poor Brazilian Bank's website.
Is this a yet another election stunt ?
Vote blue and it’ll continue to be high.
"everything should be written in awk" is a rather dubious translation of:

a quick translation to straight awk gives cleaner code, more power, easier conversion to a script, and access to a small library of awk-based utilities I've acumulated.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24822697

You're not discussing what I've actually written.

Good day.
How are tiny names like Info.com and PrivacyWall are able to pay for slots over DDG? PrivacyWall has like 3 people on LinkedIn. https://www.android.com/choicescreen-winners/
The question I would posit is: Do the actions from Google that the Justice Department consider to be anti-competitive prevent competitors from becoming better?

For example, let's say I could be curious about DuckDuckGo if I had to choose a default search engine when I got an Apple device instead of Google being the default, then that could be revenue to DuckDuckGo for them to improve their search engine.
It's missing the bit where he explains that doing good work is in many fields (in precisely the ones that people are attracted to) is not enough to sustain yourself. You need to be super good or be lucky, have connections or some other form advantage.
Show HN: A dictionary extension better than Google's to help you learn languages
I have been working on a dictionary extension for Chrome and Firefox, to help me learn languages. When I just found Google has a similar one, I think mine is much better. Like Google's, just double click on a word, the definition will show. And click on the icon, a popup window will show to look up words in various dictionaries, which Google hasn't. Also not just English, CJK (Chinese, Japanese and Korean) for example are also supported. Actually my goal is providing a universal language tool for anyone to learn any languages in this world. So any language can be added if you are interested.

You will see more at: https://github.com/revir/dictionaries, I am desperately looking forward more feedback, thank you.

Chrome: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/dictionaries/diojc...

Firefox: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/dictionaries
> I know lots of folks who prefer C to C++, but still like Rust.

I'm one of those people, and, while I have yet to use Rust or Zig for any real work, at least so far I also see Rust as being more directly a competitor to C++, and Zig as the more direct competitor to C.

Or perhaps I should say analogue. Because, it's true, I might choose Rust over C. I'm even tentatively planning to, for one project that's still in the idea phase, and that I would normally have wanted to do in C. Though that's not really because I see Rust as being more C-like. It's more that I see choosing Rust as being perhaps more likely to be worth the extra effort than I've found to be the case for C++.
It's probably much easier, politically, to pay for everyone than to work on pricing.
Caution: if you rely on pybind11 or a project using pybind11 (many projects do, like NumPy/SciPy/Tensorflow/PyTorch..), hold off on upgrading to Python 3.9.0 for now.

A change in Python 3.9.0 introduces undefined behavior in combination with pybind11 (rarely occurring crashes, but could be arbitrarily bad). We will work around it in an upcoming version of pybind11, and Python will separately also fix this problem in 3.9.1 slated for release in December.

Details available here: https://pybind11.readthedocs.io/en/latest and https://github.com/python/cpython/pull/22670.
My sense is that wasn't something they considered relevant to their decision making.
>It's funny how many Americans conflate "living" with the possession of a car...

It's funny how out of touch many non-Americans (and to a greater than one would think extent, upper middle class Americans who live in a few select cities) are with the realities of day to day life in most of the US.

Except in a few select areas where transit is very good and the cost of owning a car is very high owning your own personal means of transportation goes hand in hand with a major quality of life improvement and it compounds your relative earning potential (by giving you more flexibility to work more lucrative jobs or reduce cost of living).

There's a reason it comes third after shelter and employment in the list of things you get as soon as you're out of jail (or a coma).
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Facebook controls Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp.

If you add those together, Facebook controls an overwhelming majority of the social media market share -- way more than the relatively tiny niche held by Reddit and Twitter.

Edit: Facebook has 2603 million active users, Instagram has 1083M, Reddit has just 430 million. Twitter is estimated at 326 million. TikTok is the closest thing to a true Facebook competitor with 800M users, and a large share of them are probably concentrated in China -- and the Trump administration already tried to get them banned. (I'm excluding messaging services and YouTube here since they're a different niche).

Source is Statista: https://www.statista.com/statistics/272014/global-social-net...
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2000 a month is really tight, even if you live in some of the cheapest rural towns in America. If you have a family, it’s poverty wage.
Sign in with Apple still works for Fortnite. [1]

According to Epic, Apple said they were going to turn it off and then changed their minds. Apple's position is they were never going to turn off Sign in with Apple for Epic.

[1]: https://twitter.com/FortniteStatus/status/130416143288864358...
The rest of this very first of the article is:

> finding after a year-long investigation that the tech giant wrongfully wielded its digital dominance to the detriment of corporate rivals and consumers.

The rest of the article has details too.

I agree that it's good to ask questions about anonymously sourced material though, and to hold it in a state of suspicion, and to suspect that it's not the full story.

Since this is a leak of something the DOJ will announce, the point of leaking it could be to spin it in a way that is less favorable to the DOJ.
>>When you have a system in which customers don't actually pay for the products and services they use, it is unsurprising that quality goes downhill.

That is not quite true. I used to do a lot of shopping at Sears and also Toys"R"Us but the investors pulled the same shit there as well.

It seems that we have an investor class that no longer cares to wait for a day for the golden goose to lay the proverbial golden egg; they will financial engineer that shit to extract maximum value right now.
What's the perfect environment?
If they were employed to do so, they would. A curated encyclopedia with paid researchers would not be bound by the whims of weebs.
Yeah, I literally couldn't even read the article without switching to Reader Mode. For a UX professional, this sure is fancy but terrible UX.
So is anyone using this ? How is this better than google slides apart from the video collaboration ?
That's a good question and it's philosophical. Perhaps it may/may not be wasteful, but it's meaningless therefore useless. If they said "we'll store it to the nanosecond because the kernel does" I'm OK with that if - very big if - they make it clear that it does not have accuracy in the last few digits. They need to say clearly what max accuracy you can expect. To then talk about storing it with finer accuracy after that... just what?

Also be careful about thinking machines having big everything. Caches aren't huge, storing an extra byte if a billion places can add up at scale. Nothing comes free, don't scrimp where you don't have to but neither assume anything's free.

HTH. IMO only.
I would totally be up for a realistic, near-future space game/sim.

Would need to:

* be set from now to 2200 or so

* have accurate physics and orbital mechanics

* use the actual planets and asteroids, in their correct orbits

* be based on current and reasonably foreseeable technology

* be solar system only — no interstellar travel, no portals or wormholes

* have no aliens or alien technology
While you are correct the Netherlands has a higher pop density it really doesn't matter, for a country as a whole.

See, Russia has a population density of 8.4/km2 (vs 33km2 in US).

But that doesn't stop Russian cities from building public transport. Just like how empty acreage and dessert wouldn't stop US cities from building decent public transport.

What matters is not the average density of the country, but the layouts of the cities.

A good example is NYC. According to your statement it shouldn't have public transport because the average of the country is too sparsely populated, but that doesn't really matter. Just like how the empty tundra in Russia doesn't prevent Moscow or St Peterburg from building public transport.
Would the structuring of Alphabet ensure that no solid change comes out of this case, even in the best case judgement scenario?
Regulation and/or state ownership?
slides.com is a products that targets developers. This targets everyone. So it's more like Google slides.
Facebook and Google cash in on misleading ads for ‘garbage’ health insurance
Americans seem to have a deep resentment of being taken advantage of. They're not un-generous, but their generosity is only for the "worthy", and they're afraid that the un-worthy are benefitting.

There are examples in this thread, where the poster personally knows people who do not wish to work and are somehow living the high life off of their taxes. The implication is that it's worth eliminating the program in order to avoid that; the abstraction of other deserving people who need it is less important. They wouldn't necessarily mind a system that managed to remove all of the malingerers, but even a very tiny number of them invalidates a system.

As you say, we can easily afford it: the country produces over $60,000 per person each year. It's more a matter of fairness than resources: people resent a system they perceive as unfair to them even more than they resent a system in which unfortunate people suffer.

That's certainly not unique to Americans, but from what I've seen, it dominates the thinking here more than in many other parts of the world. When you describe, say the UK's NHS or a UBI, the American mind seems to go first to "How many people must be abusing that system?"
nothing like butter + jam :)
32-bits is just a convenient round number to wrap everything around.
Rent is 12k/yr. Insurance is 2k per year. Software is 500 per year.

Cleaning supplies are trivial.

I can't think of anything else. We are considering getting someone to call insurance companies in the future. 40k/yr, but currently she does it.
Excuse me, whats the price of V1? Cant find it on your website.
I'm aware of that, but I was curious about real-world effects (the PEP is mostly theoretical).
This is the key.

The government and media largely rely on U-3 (IIRC) when reporting unemployment. The upside is consistency - they all use the same number. The downside is this figure may not be fully representative of the economy.

I would argue that U-5 or U-6 better represent the state of the economy (as it relates to employment), as both included some set of under-employed and recently-given-up would-be workers.

But, we'd have to make a concerted effort to cut over to those numbers to avoid confusion.
Some people tried to grab my young adult daughter.

Safe bet, if they had succeeded she would never have been seen again.

Human trafficking is alive and well in the United States.

Younger ones always go in pairs, and always with adult seeing them.

Crude we were out for a walk the Other day and one kid was several hundred feed in front of us. Car slowed down and was pulling up next to her. Car pulled away quickly when sibling came out of bushes.

May have been nothing, but still a good scare.
Spunk seems to be spreading everywhere.
>Heck, even selling the rights to this hack would have gotten them millions.

IIUC, the crackers did sell access to the hacked accounts[0]:

"Sheppard’s alleged alias Chaewon was mentioned twice in stories here since the July 15 incident. On July 16, KrebsOnSecurity wrote that just before the Twitter hack took place, a member of the social media account hacking forum OGUsers named Chaewon advertised they could change email address tied to any Twitter account for $250, and provide direct access to accounts for between $2,000 and $3,000 apiece."

But that didn't net anyone millions, but apparently that wasn't the point of the hack[1]:

"People within the SIM swapping community are obsessed with hijacking so-called “OG” social media accounts. Short for “original gangster,” OG accounts typically are those with short profile names (such as @B or @joe). Possession of these OG accounts confers a measure of status and perceived influence and wealth in SIM swapping circles, as such accounts can often fetch thousands of dollars when resold in the underground."

[0] https://krebsonsecurity.com/2020/07/three-charged-in-july-15...

[1] https://krebsonsecurity.com/2020/07/whos-behind-wednesdays-e...
But comptime is kind of LISP's unique feature, it's just called macros.

EDIT: In fairness, Zig's presentation is pretty likeable. You can do a comptime expression pretty trivially in LISP, a comptime parameter or block would require actual effort.
They like to say they are "unlocking value". How respectable!