skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Firefox is developed by a company with hierarchies. Those other ones have the advantage of being very old and lots of time to iterate on them. Open source produces lots of gems, the problem is that it is very slow moving and IMO the effectiveness is cut in 10 by duplication of effort and lack of coordination. For every successful open source project, there are about 20 stubs and 5-10 less successful open source programs that do basically the same thing.
The real head scratcher is that after all that, they said "Ah, you have rent of $160/week? We're glad to offer you $110. Perhaps I misunderstood but paying rent is very much a binary situation so I wondered what was even the point of such a system
The term 'monopoly' is confusing because the pedantic definition is that there's only one player but this isn't the legal definition.

It's not actually illegal to be a monopoly but to illegally abuse your market position leading to anti-competitive behavior.

Unfortunately, it's never enforce properly as the FTC doesn't have any teeth.

I think the only way we're going to solve this is to actually TAX these companies appropriately. This is one of the major reasons they metastasize.
That's good for you, but your tone is a little self-congratulatory here.

Not everybody's mental model of the world matches how events play out. It's a hard problem and a lot of folks conflate ideals with reality. It's also hard to see the big picture if you focus on certain aspects. It also doesn't help that not everyone plays with the same rule set.

Sometimes the more you know the harder it becomes.

It's hard.
I'm not sure how easy it would be to implement/ensure that a single function is side-effect-free in an extension given that the rest of the extension needs to be able to use the network and download filter lists.

Safari went with an even more restrictive solution for content blockers and it seems like at least Chrome has been working with various developers to iron out the kinks with their solution before it goes live.
> If we define success as cashing out, sure, success.

That's the only definition of success that matters to VCs.

Even if the company is not around in a year, if they were able to dump their stock to investors^Wspeculators^Wsuckers before the meltdown then it's bagged as a win.
I wholeheartedly agree. Private companies should be free of regulation and be free to do whatever they want, like refusing service to whoever they want - nazis, flat-earthers, homosexuals, anti-vaxxers, conspiracy theorists, blacks, etc.
Long long before the internet and portable computing devices I remember how I (and most people) would reach for whatever was closest to hand during long bathroom breaks.

If you were lucky there would be magazines (Readers Digest being common) or maybe a book or even a mail order catalog.

If you weren't lucky then you'd reach for a shampoo bottle and read the ingredients out of boredom.

Kids these days etc..
Android is really the worst platform for developers. Context? Let's make a god object, and also create application context and activity context, and screw liskov substitution principle. Also create a library to fix all our bugs in all versions of the platform, but also have a shit ton of bugs.

Microsoft did nail windows phone apis, 10 freaking years ago, too bad it didn't survive.
This is a constant misconception in these discussions but antitrust litigation and penalties don't require there to be a monopoly.

The allegation here is anti-competitive behavior. There are plenty of things you an do that are anti-competitive and illegal without actually achieving a monopoly. The classic example is price fixing but there are many others.

Unsurprisingly, the actual linked article in this thread spells out these allegations of anti-competitive actions on Facebook's part.
Not sure this is the case - Houdini is about styling, while React (vdom) is about making a DOM out of some state. Is something "surpasses" React then these are the vdom-less temlating libraries.
Pandoc can even generate Word docs?! Well dang
Yes, corporate welfare [1].

[1] https://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-hy-musk-subsidies-201...
Lol. This is terrible advice.

Starting a company does nothing to prevent others from stealing your work. Just puts more effort on the business owner to source business and protect their IP.
Because the people in charge were happy with them at the time
Oh 100% agreed. It's my biggest annoyance with the platform. I don't want to contact support to change my tip, whether to increase or decrease it.

Every other service lets you change your tip up to 24 hours after delivery if they ask you for it up front.
The "specific details" are a plethora of court rulings, election certifications, and statements from Trump's own lawyers that they are not bringing fraud cases.
I think it's 9 indicating they want to join now. I don't have an official source.

Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Dakota, Missouri. They may get Indiana and Oklahoma as well is my understanding.

And they are (at least some of them) interested in joining.

https://www.newsweek.com/alabama-louisiana-ags-want-join-tex...

This is a big deal no matter what your political persuasion is.

It's not just some crazy people claiming voting machines are controlled by the Chinese using mind control and a local judge throwing it out.

If they take the case it's going to be a very historic event.
Based upon my existing preferences, I already never see these conspiracy theories on YouTube, nor Twitter or Facebook, for that matter. Yet I'm quite familiar with them via a panoply of other sources. So I think you have to do more then just baldly assert that these platforms monopolize information distribution. The fact that there are a lot of platforms with different editorial rules is the exact opposite of a monopoly.
I think divestiture would mean a full spin-off to an independent entity.
Ah. The premise of "let people hack you, and pay out a bounty, not just once but dozens of times so you get decent statistics" was not explicit in your proposal, but definitely makes it even less attractive.
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Ah, now I follow.

But that's actually predictable. Banking is built on trust. Trust is a societal construct. "It's hard to open my porn shop because the banks won't give me a loan and the town won't zone for it" is an issue older than the Internet.
This is interesting, I have never heard of this. I thought all food/drug allergies (as opposed to environmental allergies) were IgE-mediated.
100%. Don't believe in the cyberpunk AR/VR future.
Why does anyone want cold food delivered by a rando? I never understood to value proposition because I never got the value proposition of delivered food, outside of coldcut sandwiches and pizzas, especially once you stop being 18 living in a dorm. To each his own, I guess.
You’re right! Stupid scroll bars :-)
You should fire this behind CloudFlare or a general cache provider immediately. Get the settings for Nginx figured out later, you don’t want to miss your moment on the front page..
We have a new lines drawn on acceptance for behavior towards sexuality, religion, women's rights and race since the 90's. The line has moved. The 90's was 30 years ago.

I don't know your exact situation at all and criticism of you may indeed have been unfair. But for fucks sake don't try to make a case that you're not far-right by looking to the behavior of people in the past. That indicates strongly you may indeed have backwards views that are 30's years out of date.
> I think it's just the population growth that was the main cause of price increase

Population growth without commensurate growth in housing. You can add people, but you gotta let them build houses. If you don't, then prices rise, for reasons that are very easy to understand if you're not financially (or otherwise) motivated to find them confusing.
Which is confusing, because the premise of these delievery services is that the advanced routing algorithms would make it cheaper to provide delivery than it had been before.
> The complaint also alleges that Facebook, over many years, has imposed anticompetitive conditions on third-party software developers’ access to valuable interconnections to its platform, such as the application programming interfaces (“APIs”) that allow the developers’ apps to interface with Facebook. In particular, Facebook allegedly has made key APIs available to third-party applications only on the condition that they refrain from developing competing functionalities, and from connecting with or promoting other social networking services.

On one hand, forcing Facebook to open up its social graph would have serious privacy implications.

On the other, it would provide an incredible boost to any new social network, which could quickly bootstrap off your existing friends. That's what Instagram did with Twitter and what Vine did with Facebook.

The most important feature of a social network has always been whether your friends/family use it. If any new social network can take advantage of Facebook's social graph via API, that neutralizes this advantage. Now Facebook is forced to compete by being a better social network, not just a bigger one.
The survivor / confirmation bias is my biggest issue with a lot of these books.

I listen to a lot of "How I Built This" and have noted that the vast, vast majority of the founders on that program will answer the "what percent is luck vs skill" question with 90 (or above) for luck.

This rarely seems addressed, specifically in the entrepreneurship segment of these books. Which is understandable as "get lucky" is not a pitch that is going to sell a lot of books. But it's unfortunate when some of these folks use blanket advice like quit school or quit your stable day job because it worked for me.
I live in TX. I am very, very careful when I'm out in the sticks since the shitkickers are dangerous. I also lived in CA and even in the sticks out in central CA there's just nothing like the scale of xenophobic belligerence in rural TX (or the rest of the Bible Belt).
Neither you nor the media are in position to disprove or prove anything. If Trump (empty rhetoric aside) has any claims about the election he needs to ask the competent authorities to review the case, there are regular channels for that. If the authorities(not you, google or twitter) determine there is no case, then Trump has to leave no matter what he says on twitter. If he does not leave, the problem wont be his Twitter account.
Coming from the outside world and looking (back) in, I simply can't ever imagine being in the kind of environment where discussing the choice of web framework or tool language would last more than 10 minutes, before whoever spoke last basically wins. But then, I'm the kind of techie who has lost their love of and has actively grown to despise tech.

"Is it supported?" "Yep"

"Can we hire for it cheaply? "More or less"

"Does it support the weird InternalSuperWidget it must talk to?" "Essentially"

"Ship it!"
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Here is the link https://github.com/robertdavidgraham/hunter-dkim/
Agreed. Hierarchies are an advantage only if the people on top of the hierarchy are either unusually right or unusually good at hiring and deferring to people who know better than they do.
Where is the evidence?

Https://hereistheevidence.com
Agreed yeah.

There's a whole bunch of complexity that goes into whether or not your should trust an entity.

In general though, my opinion, if you use reasonably popular and thus regularly audited packages, you have protective monitoring, and a defense-in-depth framework, there is obviously still a risk of you being first to pick up a bad commit, but you can mitigate those relatively well.

Front end has different considerations. I believe you can defend against the magecarts of the world with CSP but it's not my own forte.

The big thing is, of course, if you're not willing to do your part scanning, reviewing and auditing, nobody else will. Tragedy of the commons and all that.
Do whatever you want, but the caveat with that is that according to him, the journalists didn't even bothered to ask him about his actual findings, so don't expect the articles to be unbiased.
Just wait until you slip into the Oculus 5 and enjoy a movie night with your friends anywhere in the world!

Oh what’s that? Your eyes looked at the logo on the shirt the hero is wearing, are you perhaps interested in learning more about where you could buy it?
> There are _plenty_ of news outlets that still respect their role in society.

Like?
It says they found the same thing: a lack of sufficient evidence that the Trump campaign conspired with the Kremlin to impact the outcome of the 2016 election.
the code isn't the only infrastructure that can intermingle.
I think whatsapp runs on facebook's massive server farms with customized chips - which would hurt whatsapp probably if they need to find a different hosting.

I imagine there are probably a lot of other services that are shared or interact in some way - maybe shared email/notification services, 2fa services, data analytics/BI, monitoring etc...
> There is no "buts" regarding freedom.

This is clearly not true. You are an intelligent person and can probably think of half a dozen counters to this without trying too hard. You may wish this were the case, but it just isn't. Not under any conceivable society that we could structure.
If your order is completely missing, they'll refund it. If it's late, even exorbitantly late, they will only do a paltry credit for the inconvenience as they consider their job done, even if it was done horribly.
Airbus predates the EU, it was formed as a consortium between Sud Aviation, VFW-Fokker and Hawker-Siddeley back in 1966.

It was fortunate for Europe that the consortium had a longer-term objective as opposed to other pan-European aircraft projects like Panavia and SEPECAT.
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The revenue generating customers of Facebook are not the social network's users.
Exactly this. There is precisely one entity[0] who can legitimately certify a particular public key as who `example.com` belongs to, and that is whichever entity controls the (definite article, globally unique) DNS servers for `com`, exclusively in a capacity not detectably distinct from the rest of the process of registering `example.com` as a resolvable domain name.

0: Mumble mumble namecoin, mumble mumble not technically a entity, but that's not particularly relevant for most cases.
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Good. Facebook owns so much of the ad market now, and their support is non-existent. They have run ads that I didn't want running at all, haven't let me pause them, and haven't responded to support requests through their platform or through social media. I am really worried about what happens if they keep growing.
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In the long term, Deepfake won't make people believe in fake videos, it will just make all confidence in video evidence disappear.

People will trust some fake videos until they see stunningly realistic videos of themselves hanging out with Hitler, or whatever.

Later we will have some video devices that use some kind of encryption and network connectivity to validate frames of video faster than they could be post-processed, creating trustworthy video. However, crazy people will just say the organizations running the validation are illegitimate.
Thanks for sharing that. It provides much more insight and context on the situation.

For me, the whole thing comes back to the news article. It is absolutely bonkers no matter the circumstance. Huffington Post should not have published anything without verifying that she was actually a criminal.
Clearly Tesla thought they screwed up as well or they wouldn't have fired the guy responsible for it two days later.

I completely understand wanting to have her removed from the company and the way it was done. It's just that you cannot go around labelling someone a criminal for life if all they have done is make a few middle managers angry by going over their heads. If she truly is a "criminal" for secret recordings then it's on Tesla to take that to the proper authorities.
Once the proper authorities (i.e. the justice system, jury of your peers, not power tripping middle managers) determines that you are a criminal, then feel free to share that for reference checks and write as many news articles as you want broadcasting it. But not until then, and if that kind of rule is broken, the penalty for those that do should be very severe.
I think for a host the question is. Do I host content in the name of freedom of speech ... that could conceivably lead to anti democratic type content / action that ... inherently restricts speech / worse.

I don't find such a scenario easy to answer at all.
>HW RAID with red blinking lights seems more likely to survive than a SW RAID that works until it doesn't, because you lost all the redundancy and noone there knows how either work.

Well if one ever sees your red blinking light because the new printer stands in front of the server :)
Antivirus software is quite strong in EU: Avast and AVG (acquired by Avast) come to mind.
Collusion in the context of election campaigns has no legal definition. If I'm the one who believes in fake news I wonder why you're the one sourcing your beliefs from controversial and disavowed summaries and partisan actors.
Thank goodness Dorsey, Zuckerberg, Pichai and the Democrat party are here to save us from brainwashing and partisanship
Oh, I missed that- good catch.

I was reading the blogpost linked by OP criticising the coverage of the paper (https://rogueclassicism.com/2016/05/16/problems-with-the-sci...) and it has an image of the poem as it's cited in the paper. Indeed, it says "δέδυκε" and "παρά δ' ἔρχετ‘ ὤρα".

I suspect someone tried to copy the poem from the original paper and left behind a few characters, because LaTex. Or in any case some kind of transcription error occurred and nobody noticed because, well, ancient Greek.
For sure.

I guess it comes down to your risk appetite.

In South Africa you the most gorgeous landscapes that are freely accessible public landscapes on everyone's doorstep - irrespective of their financial position in the steadily recovering historically unequal society.

Yeah, there will continue to be crime until balance is had, but there are plenty SaaS opportunities, and the forested cliff-side hiking trails ending in tranquil beaches are an awesome way to experience nature.

Refugees are welcome in South Africa. The media has its paws in everything.
>maybe as the UK is out of the EU the English language can become the lingua franca

I hope I die before that ever happens.
They'll still get sales taxes, corp taxes, and income taxes from people working at those companies... it's not a "free rider" problem - CA made an investment and it's paying off...
They said oculus would fade, not VR/AR in general.
https://www.wired.com/story/behind-paper-led-google-research...

The odd thing is the paper itself is rather innocuous. Fairly standard stuff really. It seems clear to me that it was a pretext to force her out.

Many other Brain researchers (including on here) have indicated that it's quite common (perhaps ~40%) to submit for approval a day before conference submission, or even after submission. Given how many papers Google researchers submit, the intent was to give papers a once-over and make sure no IP was being disclosed. The fact that this paper went through an elaborate and secretive review process delivered by HR should tell us that this is, ultimately, not about the paper itself.

This has to do with a long-standing desire within some in the org to get rid of Gebru. Notably, this does not include Samy Bengio (research director, and her direct manager) who posted on Facebook his support and that he was kept out of the loop - I think there are tensions between the research teams and management also here.

However, by making it about the paper and the publication process, Google is certainly making it seem like they want to hide something (and perhaps they do..). Really goofed up on this. To the extent that Sundar Pichai had to write an email to all of Google about it today.
The reason we have specific protected-class carve-outs is because the default, outside of the need for protected classes, is exactly that. Private companies are free to discriminate except in cases where society has determined that discrimination is harmful to society.

Now, if one wants to have a conversation about the societal benefits of QAnon, or broadcasting information that is re-enforcing the President's overt attempt to thwart the American election for his own benefit, we can go through the front door and have that conversation. But if one wants to fall back on general principles of "Businesses should be required to associate with everyone, all the time, forever!" we quickly find society has never actually agreed with that line.

No shirt, no shoes, no service.
I love the concept, but I don't know if 5 years is even enough time for people to have gotten over current events. If you made it 20+ years, I suspect that would work better.

In any case, good luck, and I hope I'm wrong. :-)
> What is going on in the US just now is unprecedented in modern Western democracies - we've reached "peak fake news" in the USA. Mainstream news networks like Fox have talking heads spouting venomous lies that are demonstrably and trivially proven as such. The POTUS is lying on an hourly basis (many of those lies just brazenly, ridiculously false), and has millions of people believing his every word - he's personally profiting hugely, while brainwashing them and whipping them up into frenzy. It's fucking dangerous, especially with the US' lax gun laws.

Yeah, don't see a political slant here...
Hilarious that FB is being targeted for Instagram and Whatsapp when there's plenty of competition in the market. And somehow Google get's a free pass and so does Amazon.
VR isn't a thing, and won't be. Just like 3d TVs. Nobody outside of tech cares about it.
Not a lawyer, but I'm really curious to see how this plays out. This case has a lot of confounding factors:

* other companies/entities that can be considered "competitors" (Twitter, TikTok, LinkedIn, etc)

* the acquisitions in question (Instagram and WhatsApp) being approved by the suing entity (namely, the FTC) themselves back in the day

I wouldn't be surprised if an outcome of this were to be say, limits against cross-linking acquisitions together or the like in the future. However, having existing companies be forced to be spun out in their entirely... I have a hard time imagining that being the outcome, given the chilling effect it could have on the rest of the industry.
> The state has gone downhill on every metric possible.

Mostly because it got more crowded. As a CA resident, if you don't like CA, please DO move out. It will help traffic, for one.

If ALL you care about is a big house and taxes, then CA is probably not for you. As soon as you walk outside your TX McMansion, you may realize why CA is so crowded.
>What about accidental deletion and incorrect editing (done too long ago for "undo" to work)?

Eh? We're talking ZFS here. Built-in atomic low cost snapshots are part of the core feature set. If we're talking using a pool and backing up another pool it's a reasonable baseline assumption that one would be using either their own or one of the many mature scripts to have regular automatic snapshots and retention schedule. Ie., once every 10 min for a day, once an hour for a week or two, once a week for a year, and monthly thereafter (or whatever fits your use case), along with preservation of any manual custom snapshots. I mean, it's right there, for free.