skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is a fascinating and unresolved question in antitrust economics, but explains why very few people in the profession think FB is a monopoly. And indeed - the FTCs failure to make a plausible market definition argument which showed why FB was a monopoly in that market is why the FTC got slapped by the judge in January of this year.

~Antitrust Economist.
This has also been my opinion for the accounting industry. Just like c compilers before gcc were proprietary and poor performing the accounting software that exists has many limitations. That means there is a huge opportunity for an open source system to blow them out of the water.

Ive been building one myself but i know there are many more coming for this industry :)

https://github.com/darcys22/godbledger
When I worked in the auto industry at Buick/Oldsmobile/Cadillac Engineering , I got to see one of these while it was in prototype stage.

One reason this didn't take hold is that they found that this interface forced a driver to take their eyes off the road to do basic functions like changing the climate settings.

When I got to ride in this, there was a maintenance screen you could pull up by pressing three of the buttons. This screen had functions like displaying and modifying the throttle angle, fuel-air mixture, etc. While driving around, we were able to change the fuel air mixture such that the car started running badly and we could smell gas.
The traditional binomial assumption assumes independence of the samples, as the accepted answer states. The authors are acknowledging that this assumption does not hold.
> That region has had neo-nazi problems for many years

Source? I lived there for nearly 40 years, and can’t say I ever experienced such problems any worse than other places.
Maybe? Not sure.
The Bitcoin network has produced blocks every 10 minutes since January 3 2009 without fail.

It is a decentralized network that has faced the test of government, natural disaster, organizational and technical risk, etc.

So no, maybe blockchains won't last "forever", but neither of us enough information to confirm either way. My bet is on blockchains outliving everyone typing on this forum.
PDFJS is fantastic.

But PDFJS folks, how can you do such a subpar job at documentation?

There is really no documentation available on pdfjs. Or a proper changelog. Like in this article they talk about JS execution in pdfjs. And how they have a solution called quickjs. _no_ documentation whatsoever about how to use it.

This has been their documentation for years:

https://mozilla.github.io/pdf.js/api/

Had I created something as complex and magnificent as pdfjs I would've documented _the hell_ out of it.

I get that pdfjs usage in normal web is not their priority and what they care about is the Firefox pdf viewer but I'm sure they would've had a much better contribution rate had they done better api docs.
> Is it correct to say that an IPFS address can only point to a specific piece of data, and re-uploading that data will generate the same address?

Technically I believe the answers to those two questions are, respectively, “no (because hash collisions are possible)” and “yes (because the same content will always have the same hash)”.
That's not how modern warfare works.

Air-burst rounds beat trenches.

Armor piercing rounds beat tanks (and bunkers).

So the solution: have tanks next to your trenches. If your opponent loads air-burst rounds into their weapon, charge at them with your tank.

If your opponent loads armor-piercing rounds into their weapon, run into the trench. Armor-piercing (neither HEAT nor Sabot) can do much vs a trench. (I'm ignoring the AC-130, just assuming land-based combat for now cause AC-130 is beaten by a totally different strategy: air superiority)

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"Combined arms". Your opponent has to load his weapon with the right bullet for the right circumstance. Mix up your strategies (both defensive and offensive strategies).

* HEAT-armor piercing loses to reactive armor on a tank.

* Reactive-armor loses to sabot-rounds.

* Sabot rounds lose to long-distance battle (air-resistance slows down the round). HEAT is better at long-distance (HEAT always was kinda slow: most of the "power" comes from the explosion that occurs after-the-collision... which is beaten by reactive armor).

You can't guard against everything. Instead, you rely upon mixing up the strategies enough so that enemies are kept "guessing" as to which weapon to load / unload.
> I just know that there's something wrong or missing.

We know with certainty - since you tell us - that you have that feeling. People have strong feelings about lot of things. People disagree about things of the most intense importance to them, such as the existence of god. I won't list any more examples to avoid arguing about them.

But since people have mutually exclusive very strong intuitions/knowledge/feelings, it seems very clear to me that the presence of the feeling entails absolutely nothing about the further reality of the thing being believed.

A simple and complete explanation is that you have this feeling, and the feeling is all there is to it. Maybe the feeling has some functionality in a social ape. The feeling entails nothing.

Susan Greenfield has a nice expression of a similar idea: the only known functionality of consciousness is that when you ask yourself 'am I conscious?' the answer seems to come back 'yes'.

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Do they do that? It's been a long time since I installed Firefox, but as far as I can tell there are very visible settings for controlling the telemetry that they collect.
No, Facebook is not a monopoly. Your gumbo restaurant example gets at part of the issue: you need to describe the market correctly at a bare minimum.

Who are the competitors in the market OR, if there are none, why is the market definition you have offered the correct one?

This is why the FTC lost their monopolization case against Facebook this January. Instead of offering a market definition, they made vague, hand-waving statements in their complaint which all revolved around it being "obvious" that FB was a monopoly. The judge was not persuaded.

~Antitrust economist.
This is interesting but not as much a breakthrough as it sounds. Farmers have got quite good when spraying weeds post (when the crop has emerged) to not spray where there aren't weeds. Modern sprayers let you select right or left boom, some even center boom.

But where this could be really important is when we get to the point in the future where you've got a robot spraying the crop, it could just drive. But that will take a bit of doing for a robot not to destroy too much of the crop when it turns at the end of the row.
I don't know if this is exactly "bare metal". I think it uses GRUB as a hardware abstraction layer. AFAIK GRUB is not particularly high performant, so it will probably be somewhat slow.
Isn't that just a simple formula? I even seen planet destroyed/remains on some of stellar evolution simulators.

It all depends on orbit radius and star mass at the end of Asymptotic Red Giant Branch.

Note that white dwarves aren't stars but rather stellar remnants without energy source.
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Because the web is a revolutionary application distribution platform. It is a better platform in every way except that some things that should be applications are still behaving like websites (and vice versa) and that it is harder for developers to target than native platforms. But as a user, I don't care at all whether it is harder for developers.
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It took crypto to make them Web scale.
I don't understand why some people think it's okay to offend some groups and not others. Religious people may be deeply and sincerely offended by bad language, jokes about promiscuity, or jokes about religion. Should comedians be banned from discussing those topics because they might offend the religious? Trump supporters might be offended by jokes about Trump, Biden supporters, Biden. Are those beyond the pale?

It seems to me like some people have decided that the various 2SLGBTQQIA+ folks must not ever be offended but it's perfectly fine to offend some other groups. That doesn't make sense to me. If causing offense is wrong it should be equally wrong to offend anyone. Or, if it's okay to be offensive then it should be okay to offend anyone.
It’s more that they didn’t optimize for android cameras or invest any dev work in the app
Idris 2 has quantitative dependent types. As far as I know quantitative types contain linear types. Are a superset. Idris typechecks 0 and 1 uses of types (and many).

It’s a great language.

https://idris2.readthedocs.io/en/latest/updates/updates.html...

The locus of the research that Idris’ linear types are based on might be Conor McBride’s paper I Got Plenty O’ Nuttin: https://personal.cis.strath.ac.uk/conor.mcbride/PlentyO-CR.p...

It’s a beautiful paper.

There are other papers in between McBride’s paper and the implementation. They’re great papers too.

I find it telling that the Idris 2 source code for quantitative types in the Idris 2 compiler is beautifully readable and understandable. This is what tends to happen in Idris code. Clarity.
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False. The memory of light aided your perception.
Claims like these hurt your case against Facebook. For most people Facebook shows completely innocuous stuff. I have absolutely nothing political timeline, and the only political thing I have seen in 5 years was by an Aunt (who I muted). For those who love heated political debates and conspiracy theories, Facebook will serve up that content (trash). Other people hear about all the awful stuff on Facebook, check their feed, see pictures of their grand-babies, and wonder what the heck everyone is talking about.
Since I didn't really talk through this before, a bit of an effort post.

OFAC sanctioned Suex, a crypto exchange based in the Czech Republic, less than a month ago[1]. As far as I can tell it is gone from the face of the earth. Here's why:

> As a result of today’s designation, all property and interests in property of the designated target that are subject to U.S. jurisdiction are blocked, and U.S. persons are generally prohibited from engaging in transactions with them. Additionally, any entities 50% or more owned by one or more designated persons are also blocked. In addition, financial institutions and other persons that engage in certain transactions or activities with the sanctioned entities and individuals may expose themselves to sanctions or be subject to an enforcement action.

suex.io. 676 IN SOA ns-648.awsdns-17.net. awsdns-hostmaster.amazon.com. 1 7200 900 1209600 86400

suex.io's hosting is gone due to OFAC's ruling: Amazon is barred from providing them service.

They used to take Visa & Mastercard[2] – even if they were online today, they wouldn't find a payment processor in the world willing to touch them: that would expose the payment processor to OFAC sanctions which is as close to "existential risk" as you can get in finance.

Suex was listed on the SDN list[3]. As a result no US based exchange can touch any crypto from those addresses. If, say, you wanted to cash out that crypto by sending it to Coinbase, they'd be legally required to freeze it and deny you access to it: otherwise, they're at risk of OFAC sanctions.

Every bank in the US monitors the OFAC SDN list, and as a result, they will be monitoring transactions. If Suex attempted to move their money into a bank account controlled by the US, they'd be blocked. But most likely their accounts are already frozen, because OFAC jurisdiction attaches when funds pass through any US financial institution or any foreign financial institution owned by a US person.

OFAC has recently decided that the mere presence of US dollars in a financial transaction is sufficient to establish jurisdiction: if Suex had their entirely foreign owned bank process any transactions in dollars, this would cause a US counterparty to indirectly provide financial services to an SDN. This risks sanctions at their foreign-owned bank.

At the end of the day, most global financial institutions assume a US nexus is present and deny any service to targets of US sanctions – the risk is much lower.

To wrap this up, OFAC has published an interesting guide[4] to sanctions that directly relate to cryptocurrency, and it's well worth a read.

[1]: https://home.treasury.gov/news/press-releases/jy0364

[2]: https://web.archive.org/web/20210414074952/https://suex.io/

[3]: https://home.treasury.gov/policy-issues/financial-sanctions/...

[4]: https://home.treasury.gov/system/files/126/virtual_currency_...
I don't see where you see multiple nodes. I'd read the parent post as: There are 5 identically sized, beefy VMs. Each of these 5 beefy VMs run 1 instance of the nomad server. And then, there is 13k other VMs or physical systems, which run nomad in client mode. These clients connect to the server to register and get allocated allocations / task groups / practically containers or vms or binaries to run.

We're nowhere near that size, but the architecture is probably identical.
i only recently learned this. been big
"sterilizing" seems to get a different definition every time I hear it.
Yeah based on prevailing narratives it seems like trust busting is actually the sexy media answer, contrary to this article’s title
Yes, please continue, because all of these things are still a rounding error compared to Bitcoin, despite serving more functions and handling orders of magnitude more transactions than Bitcoin.
This, I think, is the core issue. The typical theft before the changes could have been of trivially low values. As soon as people know that the strongest negative incentives only kick in after a total value (e.g. 1000 USD) they may start to "optimize" for that.

I mean - if a person would shoplift item A; they may reason that there is very little additional negative incentive to not steal B, C...as well - to get closer to that threshold.

This makes sense even if you assume that thefts of total value under the threshold are being always reported (as commented elsewhere here). Lower numbers of instances, higher value of theft.

Then again, maybe there are underlying mechanisms in the motivations of shoplifting that make this completely wrong. I'd accept and appreciate the input of someone with expertise in this subject
You need to make money or “purpose” won’t matter. If you have to have a boring job to make money, do that and find purpose in your free time.

Unless the job is too boring or too long. A job you don’t love or even like is acceptable, but a job you hate isn’t worth it. Or you really think you have a better opportunity.
I keep seeing this argument and it makes ZERO sense. You still need to build infrastructure to read the NFT and incorporate it into your game. You can already do this without a blockchain and a global network of hyper redundant miners/validators.
Correct, for the non-financial sector, "money" is currency in circulation (created by the government) and then liabilities of the financial sector (created by the private sector). This is true regardless of whether they are checking accounts, savings accounts, certificates of deposit, money market mutual funds, etc. It's all private money and we not only allow it but we subsidize and encourage it.
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>Antitrust is much broader than "monopolies".

Yes.

> It's all about concentrated power.

No, absolutely not. There are many activities which violate antitrust law which have nothing to do with "concentrated power". Nor is "concentrated power" something which is banned in antitrust law (because it isn't clear what it is!).

~ Antitrust economist
I've always been sketched out by PDF XChange Editor (not sure if it's the name, the developer's name, or the model) but it's interesting to hear that it's legit. Will have a look!
Show HN: IndieFeeds.com, HN clone where submissions come from personal websites
I can imagine a unikernel running a browser.

I cannot imagine a unikernel with all the drivers ready for a reasonable variety of PC hardware, unless it's able to reuse Linux or at least FreeBSD as a source of drivers.
Hi,
IndieFeeds is a HN clone, where submissions come from personal websites only. For now I add feeds manually while reading HN. If I see submission coming from personal website I check if it uses RSS and in case it does, I add it to IndieFeeds.com. So now HN works as a filter of content for IndieFeeds :).
Site is probably lacking some functionality, but for now I wanted to share it with you and see what you think about this idea.

Besides that I love concept of RSS, so wanted to play with it :)
Exactly my take.
So stores should just accept being stolen from, creating highly unsafe situations for employees and customers, in the middle of economic conditions already hurting profit and supply chains?

Or maybe the stores should hire private security, sufficiently armed to deter theft? That's probably a minimum cost of $500k per year for wages and insurance and licensing.

I'm truly curious what the endgame is with this line of bleeding heart absurdity.
> The only thing I can't understand is why the price still pumps.

I know for a fact that there are private banks, the traditional ones (think Swiss banks), working on funds that'd let their HNWIs invest in crypto. We're talking about entry tickets to the tune of 1 million EUR minimum. It's not private/confidential infos: it's information some private banks are relaying to their very wealthy clients.

There are a lot of people who want to get in but have zero clue as to how to do that: now their traditional banks are going to let them do that.

There are simply people out there who want to buy.
> You have a racist uncle

I didn't have a racist uncle - at least not until he started spending too much time on Facebook and reading every piece of racist garbage the algorithm fed him.

I didn't have an anti-vaxxer mom, but guess what.
As a concept this is fine, mainstream will never happen with the current set of societal priorities. It’s not flashy enough, it requires some tinkering, and my friends won’t think it’s cool enough. Unfortunate, because at least in my opinion this is the direction we should all be going.
Two decades ago we also had natively compiled GC’d languages (VB 6 was the most mainstream one).

Sun spoiled their uptake by pushing Java the way they did.
> instead we got a natively supported, robust, easy-to-use concurrency paradigm built around green/virtual threading that accommodates both IO and CPU bound work

Minus the "natively supported" part, we have this today in http://www.gevent.org/ ! It's so, so empowering to be able to access the entire historical body of work of synchronous-I/O Python libraries, and with a single monkey patch cause every I/O operation, no matter how deep in the stack, to yield to your greenlet pool without code changes.

We fire up one process per core (gevent doesn't have good support for multiprocessing, but if you're relying on that, you're stuck on one machine anyways), spend perhaps 1 person-day a quarter dealing with its quirks, and in turn we never need to worry about the latencies of external services; our web servers and batch workers have throughput limited only by CPU and RAM, for which there's relatively little (though nonzero) overhead.

IMO Python should have leaned into official adoption of gevent. It may not beat asyncio in raw performance numbers because asyncio can rely on custom-built bytecode instructions, whereas gevent has "userspace" code that must execute upon every yield. And, as with asyncio, you have to be careful about CPU-intensive code that may prevent you from yielding. But it's perfect for most horizontal-scaling soft-realtime web-style use cases.
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So.... this party hat asset comes with a permissive license that lets world of warcraft distribute it from their servers down to players' clients, right? So that the people who are playing on the same server as the owner of this NFT can see the hat, being worn by that player, in their game?

But then if it's licensed that freely, what's to stop world of warcraft just using it in general? Put it on a bunch of NPCs. Let any player put it on their own character.

Or does the license have some sort of restrictions - 'you may only use this asset as a hat on the player character of the person who owns this NFT'? How's that enforced?

Seriously, WHY would WoW go to the trouble of supporting this nonsense?
> They totally botched the China response during Trump

On the contrary, it's generally agreed by China experts that Trump's addressing of the CCP and his policies (along with Pompeo and Bannon) towards China were remarkable, and far beyond what they expected after about four decades of tolerating the CCP flouting trade agreements.

Trump's staff were about 90% of the way to containing China, just stopping short of delisting 1,000 Chinese companies with fraudulent accounting from US markets. (BRI is funded by manipulating US capital markets.) It's a shame he ran out of time, as now we have an arms race in the IndoPacific region.

Trump accomplished that while being harrassed by Pelosi for even longer than his term.

You can learn more by following these Youtube channels:

- China Uncensored

- NTD Medai - China in Focus

- Sky Media Australia
This differs from using "View Source" to see sensitive information in that she was enabling someone else to hit the button?

Isn't enabling examination of the software on the voting machines a good idea? All the more so as the number of people crying about how its a problem that "the software isnt seekrit anymore" adds up.
Does Alfred have search? Also if there was a command line interface or an API with a language like Python, that would be useful.
Next lesson: bang commands!! https://www.redhat.com/sysadmin/bash-bang-commands
The entire point of TFA is that the ability to go fast is a force multiplier for being productive in the first place.
> the sites have publishing certificates, which gives them the same constitutional protection as the media. They are not covered by the GDPR and the Data Inspectorate can therefore not examine them. It is also written that the authority has been critical of the fact that the sites can receive constitutional protection through the publication certificate. [1]

[1] https://www-svt-se.translate.goog/nyheter/inrikes/jurist-tar...
>> Amazon online shopping has a "monopoly" almost purely because the monopoliness makes it much easier and lower friction than trying to find an online store that is 1) somewhat trustworthy 2) consistent UI 3) ships in a reasonable time 4) isn't going to disappear (and importantly, already has my shipping and payment information). I regularly buy stuff online from elsewhere, but I use Amazon more often because it reduces the cognitive load by centralizing/standardizing everything.

This is a firm being successful, not a monopolist. This is exactly what antitrust law shouldn't (and does not) punish!

~antitrust economist
Interesting... I'll investigate this. Thanks!