skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As I learned at my first company when we were sued for (bogus) anti trust reasons -- You do not need to actually be a monopoly to run afoul of anti trust laws. You only need the speak and act with the intent to do so. Using your market share to harm your competitors without a clear benefit to customers is enough to get you even if there are other large companies in the space.
Amazon and their line of Fire and Echo devices.
Yes, but back then we had the party organ of the American Nazi Party and the party organ of the International Workers of the World, and a couple more in between. You could buy them, and you know what you would get. Now you just have Youtube. That is a problem.
https://openjustice.doj.ca.gov/exploration/crime-statistics/... is great for this, and separates arrests and crimes and covers the entire state, not just LA/SF.

Property arrests and crimes are actually down, while violent crime has increased.

Interestingly, just as a comparison, Texas has as many rapes despite having somewhere around 10M less people.[1]

1. https://www.dps.texas.gov/crimereports/19/cit2019.pdf
The problem with these recent FAANG antitrust cases is that action is pretty narrow.

Google lost its Adwords case in the EU: using data gathered via the adwords advertising monopoly to support its search monopoly. $1.5bn fine. Google will happily pay this for anything that meaningfully strengthens their position in this market.

Besides the fine, all they have to do is stop doing the specific, narrow "monopolistic behaviour" that prosecutors were able to prove. This just isn't how monopoly works, and modifying some specific behaviour doesn't affect much.

Whack-a-mole is almost pointless. Antitrust is about structure, inherently. If antitrust action doesn't lead to structural changes, I don't see any point in it.

Similar cases will likely be prosecuted against Amazon (and google) in multiple jurisdictions with the adwords case serving as a (very narrow) template for prosecuting data/marketplace monopolism. Hence amazon. We can probably expect a similar result. A cost-of-doing-business fine and some updated policies about sharing data between the marketplace and retail arms.

If prosecutors prove both a monopoly position and monopolistic abuses (it did, and will), this needs to be deemed proof of a broad problem. Other monopolistic abuses need to be assumed. The fix needs to address the problems, known and unknown broadly. For example, by separating the marketplace and participant (adwords & search; amazon marketplace & retail) into seperate businesses.

In this FB case, it's about buying all the competition: whatsapp, instagram, etc. A fine or a policy update don't fix this. Force a sale of these companies. Ban FB from acquiring companies entirely, or social media companies at least.

Ultimately, the regulator has already failed here. Those acquisitions should not have been allowed in the first place.

Antitrust isn't about punishing bad behaviour. It's about dealing with bad structures.

That said, it does feel like antitrust cops are working up to it, gradually.
I know that this was a joke, but physically healthy people should definitely still be visiting their doctor on a somewhat regular basis too.
As an alternative, the SEUS PTGI shader for Java Minecraft works and does basically the same. It will absolutely hammer your GPU, though.
Honest question: how so?

I don't follow usa politics all that closely, so i'm honestly curious how specificly were they cozy?
I was sold on hey.com's UI design already because it's using <details><summary> for dropdown menus.

The really fun part, though: the summary content isn't just a menu icon, it's a trigger for some (currently unpublished) Turbolinks variant. The menu content is loaded (and subsequently 304'd) dynamically as a server-rendered partial (sans layout).

Most tellingly, if you visit the menu content's XHR URL with regular browsing then hey.com renders that menu as the sole content in a page layout.

We can't see the server-side parts yet, but if that becomes an out-of-the-box end-to-end behaviour within Rails, then in conjunction with Stimulus 2 and Action Cable I'm stoked about the possibilities. Especially so since I have a mission to replace all my dropdown & modal boilerplate with <details><summary> and <dialog> elements, and I like to build services that still work if JS is disabled. But it's also good for mundane stuff like progressive form validation in line-of-business apps.
In theory, you are right. No freedom can be absolute because sooner or later it will undermine somebody else's freedom.

In practice, the particular "but" the GP was referring to was concerning. We are not talking about freedom in the abstract, but the freedom of a Youtube user to express political beliefs opposed to those of Youtube's executives and stockholders. I do not presume to be able to disentangle the ethical and legal implications of that case, but it is a debate worth having in this time and age.
We're talking about Elon Musk here - effectively all of his income is going to be at the 13.3% rate
Texas, 17 other states file SCOTUS lawsuit to overturn Biden wins in four states
As an American, you're absolutely right.

Both parties have dumb justifications for why they think the voting system should stay the way it is, but the reality is simply that the person/party in charge has no incentive to overhaul the system that go them there. They call foul and make a big fuss when the system doesn't work in their favor, but then they don't have the power to fix it. They've realized it's easier to just undermine the legitimacy of the winner and just patiently wait for the next opportunity.

I wish I knew what it would take to get the support necessary to fix it without endorsement from a political party.
That is a very succinct way to put it. I doubt it will be fixed in our lifetimes as there isn't enough willpower or trust in the state government to make the needed change.

People who want change are free to leave. Only when there are no other places to leave to will there be change.
Yeah, I hear ya. I'm definitely not happy with the current state of affairs myself. I'd like to think there can be some level of precision in our use of language. But sadly, the rest of the world don't seem to care what you and I think. :-(
1) Didn't happen. https://www.reuters.com/article/uk-factcheck-georgia-rejecte...

2) Both Democrats and Republicans had greater turnout. This was expected since Trump is a highly polarizing figure. Not relevant to claims of fraud.

3) Like, say, Utah, which voted for Trump? https://www.fox13now.com/news/election-2020/utah-reports-90-... Please show relevance.

4) Expected, due to increased mail-in ballots and delay in counting mail-in ballots required by law in several states.

5) A glitch that was fixed. Relevance?
> For sure Elon Musk is a very smart guy and he works really hard and he knows how to deliver amazing products and his PR skills are amazing...

And again, don't ignore the part where he used his entire PayPal fortune to build a company that he thought had a high probability of failure. That's key to this conversation about risk.

The government chose to take on the risk of providing subsidies in order to get the benefits it enjoys today due to Musk's efforts, which is a growing electric vehicle industry. That wasn't Musk's choice to socialize risk, it was elected officials'. And that choice has paid off well for everyone.
There will always be fraud going on in every election, in every country.
It's just stupid to think otherwise, now the question is to what extend and would it have changed the outcome. The answer is obvious.
Finally but this such a young development it should be cherished by not taking it for granted.
I'm out of the loop. what is New Magic?
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Just in case you weren't aware, uMatrix has been deprecated and will receive no further development, including fixes. It still runs fine now, but it may not in the future.
The "fire in a crowded moviehouse" argument is really bad. Ken White (the Popehat guy) does a much better job of explaining this than I could: https://www.popehat.com/2012/09/19/three-generations-of-a-ha...
It doesn't have to be side effect free, it just has to run in an execution environment that cannot exfiltrate data.

Make it into a special kind of "content script", that gets a blank javascript environment that does not have any of of the usual means to communicate with the outside world (no XHR, no access to any DOM, no access to any message passing, and so on).

E.g. a browser could have a special kind of "content blocker" script environment that gets fed request objects by the browser. The script can then examine all the data in the request object (the requested URL, the headers, etc) and make a decision to DENY or ALLOW and communicate this decision back to the browser in a single well-define way, and that's the only communication to the outside world it is allowed to do. No way for it to exfiltrate data. Extensions can be allowed to pass data into the environment via some form of uni-directional message passing, e.g. to update filter rules, but the content script cannot respond (and thus cannot exfiltrate data in a response).

Browsers already define different execution environments with different APIs available in them for different purposes, e.g. you have the same-origin limited environments for websites that feature Web APIs such as DOM and XHR, and those environments come in different flavors (no access to certain APIs such as the location API if you're not "secure"), Proxy-Auto-Configuration (PAC) scripts have yet another environment, extension scripts get yet another environment, extension content scripts yet another, internal browser pages such as the settings pages of browsers often get environments with access to some privileged APIs etc. To define a few more specialized environments for privacy-sensitive stuff shouldn't be too hard.
"Should" is not a principle of law or of reality, for that matter.

I should be immortal, all knowing and beautiful but I'll have to make do with what nature gave me.
Then how is it that election security was backburnered his entire term? And his accusations aren't that "voting machines may be vulnerable" which is at least defensible, but rather that "Voting machines were deliberately configured to flip votes for Biden based on a planned conspiracy involving the manufacturers, democrats and multiple foreign governments" which is utterly ludicrous and deserves nothing but scorn.
Word has it Marc Raibert is not the easiest person to work with as an acquiring company, in a sense that he will keep control of the company, and do whatever he wants with it.

Good for him, I think.
I used to have a basket of magazines. This was probably one of my favorite things to read though: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_American_Bathroom_Book.
why is it cringey to not want to see too many homeless people? the existence of homeless people is a failure of the state and it’s perfectly reasonable to want to avoid them on the basis of personal safety.
I have no issues with this. Cable networks have been spouting false information for several years now, hurting the very foundations of democracy. Banning obvious and pernicious lies from a platform is, in fact, a step forward.
... and a wide variety of Trump appointees in the judiciary.
How's the US response to COVID-19 going?
Nobody made the obvious comment that in ten years Reddit would still be dominated by dumb jokes and film quotes.
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As a counterpoint, this isn't always the case. My local sheriff has gone on record saying he will refuse to do things he believes are unconstitutional. It has come up. I'm actually a big fan.

I really hate the "my hands are tied" attitude that leads to stupid things like children getting arrested by the school resource officer.
What exactly makes it 'great?

No password access, login through SMS which can be intercepted, no 2FA, no access from another device while you phone is dead, compresses video to 2 pixels, no real crypto auth to speak of.

It does not seem to have any features that are better than Signal, telegram, messenger, or a dozen other apps. Why is it worth any awards or special consideration, besides being popular?
They would be valuable to people who kicked people off visible platforms too, no?
In my experience, RPM is a bit more resilient to this kind of stuff, because I've never had such a problem on SUSE or Fedora. CentOS is different, because tecnically you're not supposed to upgrade it to a newer version, so it has less chances to experience these issues.
What happens when the social contract goes a bit off the rails, perhaps warped by those with power and influence? I guess these things don't last forever, because we don't live in a perfect world, right? Maybe sometimes people fight over this stuff, because it's worth fighting over.
The biggest problem with doordash is when there's a problem with your order. They can't resolve that problem adequately, all they can do is refund an item and that's not the right solution. Someone needs a meal, and if that item is forgotten or wrong to the point where the person can't eat the meal then I still have a problem after they've given me my money back. I don't need that money, I need a meal to feed someone.

Ya sure, I can dig around in the fridge and find something for that person to eat but by not replacing that meal, Doordash makes that person feel completely unimportant. Yes, of course it would be expensive for them to dispatch another driver to bring one meal. But, that's the right thing to do. Even if I pay another delivery fee and another tip to reorder the refunded food, then I'm taking the hit for someone else's mistake.

When it goes right, it's great. When it goes wrong, it's one of the worst customer experiences you could design because nobody wins, not even DoorDash. Well, maybe they win a little bit in the short term, but not long term.
But you could get your own data and the list of people authorized to see it, and pass that to a third party. If you and one of your friends both move to another network, you get to see each other's data. Any problem with this?
There has been election fraud. To the extent it was organized has yet to be determined, I'm very skeptical of conspiracy. The fact YouTube will delete complaints, and evidence is very scary. This should scare everyone.

How do we know it isn't true if they decided what the truth is?

You might agree with Google, on this issue, but wait until they have interest in something that kills people, and Google decides to take down evidence to persuade the public.

Apple does this crap all of the time.
I’m not aware of any party requirements to have participated in the summer protests. I would guess that most of them were democrats, or greens, or socialists, but I didn’t see anything partisan about them.
You didn't debunk anything but only posted some open-border ideology.

Feel free to actually respond to the specific policies that are affecting the state of California instead. Here's just 1 example to get you started: Illegal immigrants have free healthcare until the age of 26 in California, however tax-paying law-abiding citizens are fined if they don't have health insurance.
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>I am not 100% committed to that being an impossibility, but I have yet to see any evidence to make me question the final outcome of the 2020 US election.

Are you also 100% not committed to the 1969 moon landing being an impossibility? Big Foot?

There's no evidence of wide spread voter fraud, there's lots of a wide spread fair election occurring.

The burden of proof is on the accuser, because "absence of evidence is not evidence of absence." To say you can't be sure fraud didn't change the outcome of the election at this point is ridiculous, and is exactly why youtube is banning such opinions.
Well, recreating a hamburger without an animal having to suffer and die for it. People enjoy hamburgers. They just don't want to think about cows while they do.

It might be better for their health and the environment if they learned to eat a wider variety of foods. Vegetarian food is incredibly diverse; more so than the fake diversity of putting 20 toppings in 2^20 different combinations on top of ground beef. But that's not nearly as strong as cognitive dissonance people have to sustain around knowing that animals suffer and die for their dinner.
Do you pledge this to be nuanced because it currently favors your political view maybe?
1) Volume I of the report concludes that the investigation did not find sufficient evidence that the campaign "coordinated or conspired with the Russian government in its election-interference activities"

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

2) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25365017

3) He is talking about using light and other things to kill the virus and specifically being performed by medical doctors.

Here is a technology where light is brought directly into the body https://aytubio.com/healight/

https://apnews.com/press-release/accesswire/b44f4531071e6204...
Certainly gives the phrase a double meaning.
That's a great point. I'm in the US, so this isn't an issue for us in the same way, though I've heard fears of "we can't put code in the cloud, what if it gets out!".

My response is "what's your threat model?". For a small company, our only security advantage is being a small target; there's no way we're competing with the Gitlab.com team on security.
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The disinformation is the notion that police are targeting black people (they're not). The entirety of BLM is built on disinformation. The violence is widespread and easy to find evidence of. There's plenty here, just scroll back to late May:

https://twitter.com/MrAndyNgo/media

I was going provide a long list of specific examples but I am very skeptical it would have any effect, I'd rather not waste my time.
Nor did nearly twenty Democratic-controlled states sue in federal court to overturn the results of the election, as just happened today!
And that's exactly the problem. Republicans are indeed benefiting from the backwards or technically legal but scummy tactics you outlined.

Democrats are not trying to fight fire with fire, they're just trying to make it easy to vote for anyone who is entitled to vote. It just happens that there are more of those people than there are people supporting Republicans. Quite a bit more.

You just can't imagine someone wouldn't stoop that low when you would.
Bringing up "Social contract" is a weak argument to people that don't believe in it.
> If the election was totally normal would Texas still be suing four other states?

Yes, because the election was normal and Texas (joined by 17 other states and the defeated candidate) are suing four other states hoping to overturn the manifest will of the people (both nationally and specifically in the target states.)

What's abnormal isn't the election but the radicalization of much of the GOP behind an administration that cannot accept defeat because its head, and much of its upper ranks, face potentially severe legal risk if and when they are no longer shielded by possession of the Office of the President.

A radicalization serving personal interest of the Leader above not only national interest (which is, sadly, perhaps not that uncommon) but even partisan interest (which is much less common), causing significant difficulty in the ongoing Senate runoff campaigns in Georgia.
Then why is homophobia still a winning campaign platform in so many states?
They're not going to get anything from this. When federations attempt stuff like this, each participant will want something out of it besides the final product. i.e. they'll want some phase of manufacturing to be done at home. This will break them.
Property rights inherently derive from the state. Unless you subscribe to "might makes right", the idea of property rights is inherently a social construct which the state is a formalization of.

Limitations on rights is precisely the foundation of any society. To claim otherwise is just the semantic game of "oh, I don't mean those rights".
Doing what you want works until the money runs out.
It's kind of amazing how most even tech people don't seem to understand this.
> don't try and single out California as this bad actor that can't manage its finances

California's 2020 budget shortfall is projected at $54 billion.[1] Florida's 2020 budget shortfall is projected at $2.7 billion[2]. In other words, on a per-capita basis, California has ten times the shortfall as Florida.

[1] https://www.gov.ca.gov/2020/06/29/governor-newsom-signs-2020...
[2] https://www.heraldtribune.com/story/news/politics/state/2020...
My son is severely allergic to peanuts. Wonder how this will play out.
Marc is no longer CEO
I would posit that you don't use that data to decide whether or not you should buy Instagram. You use that data to decide if you should clone Stories, build an events platform, etc. IOW, it's incredibly valuable to be able to see aggregate user behavior, which is why Amazon's ownership of so much of the commerce experience makes their introduction of competitive "Basics" so interesting/anti-competitive.
>Volume I of the report concludes that the investigation did not find sufficient evidence that the campaign "coordinated or conspired with the Russian government in its election-interference activities"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mueller_report
There are plenty of families in SF proper. If you don't have kids, you understandably aren't spending much time in parks, playgrounds, and kid-friendly neighborhoods.
Yes, you can send me an email to discuss this further.
Below query says there are 40 threads, not 80, and ram for Clickhouse is limited by 20GB =)

select * from system.settings where name IN ('max_memory_usage', 'max_threads'); -- 20GB limit, 40 CPU
-- 40 threads, 20GB RAM limit
If you didn't say it was Obama and polled Democrat's based on his actions/views I'd be pretty confident they'd say "far right".
DHH has been teasing something called "New Magic" on Twitter but beyond that we don't know much.
Time to move to Firefox or to a Chromium-based browser that will continue to support current extensions.
How can so much prose be written and not clearly define what the product is...?
You encrypt user data and provide decryption keys to the service once a user actually signs up.