skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I would argue that markets tend towards greater "order" over time. The idea that regulations are something only the government does is somewhat misleading and it leads most free market proponents to turn down sub-optimal pathways.

Instead, it is more useful to see the initial state that new "green-field" markets are in as desirable. Open for anyone, including small companies, to come in, build something ground-breaking, and then grow.

Overtime, the system tends towards a steady state where one of the companies, or a set of companies start to dominate the others, leading to the formation of cartels. These cartels then impose regulations, be it on the lifespan of bulbs, or on the particulars of the ad market, which are then enforced using the capital and power they have obtained.

These are regulations in all but name. They're enforced by an implicit threat of economic consequences and by restricting access to resources by changing the landscape. In this case, it's Chrome and FB, which are pushing their dominance to ensure that the web becomes theirs - explicitly. They're doing this by buying out the 'land' (Chrome, Android, Search, Social Media, Ads), the 'suppliers' (think about the sheer number of open source projects that Google funds and nudges their way), and the market ("it's all free!") thereby making it practically impossible for anyone to pose a threat to their dominance.

Google is controlling who becomes a competitor by enforcing rules – in this case, secret rules – that only they know of and about. They are, in essence, regulating the market, except towards their ends.

Power abhors a vacuum. If a power hierarchy doesn't exist in a new space, then a new power structure will organically develop in place. Whether or not this new structure is aligned with the incentives of the broader community and new entrants/players/innovators is dependent on who and how the structure is formed.

This is why I would argue that at least with Governments there's a theoretical method of incentive alignment and accountability when things wrong. Methods that have been exercised in the past to course correct. Corporations lack that.

It would be the lesser of two evils to create ways to reverse stale fields to the original green field state every once in a while to allow new ideas and companies to grow. It might be more valuable to do so than to allow the continued monopoly of these companies.
Disambiguation at re-reading: «Surely, feeling alone does not constitute any basis for rational exchange» is to be read as "A mediated (unfiltered) expression of feelings in a language which does not work for rational exchange, consistently is noise when attempting that (information exchange, insight and debate)".

Expressed in my unedited (too late), it «feeling alone» ("feeling" alone) could have been read as "when feeling lonely". Which is not what was intended, but seems almost a point: if somebody is here for the greatest laughters, enveloping warmth, or tickling, I am not sure it is the place. Some language and thinking is fit here, some elsewhere.
Looks impossible, my thumbs don’t bend that way. Hopefully nobody being abused has similar thumbs.
Rant:

I am only 41 and don't care about these articles anymore.

I was able to explain the problems this article raises, to a 20-year girl who knows almost nothing about technology, in a 15-minute conversation. And she agreed the current situation spells doom for future buyers and that she still wants to be able to buy a pink laptop and put whatever CPU, GPU and RAM she wants in it.

Quote from her: "Why must I buy a VAIO or Acer when I need some more colors? Why can't I buy a lime green ThinkPad and then replace the CPU?".

So look, we all get it just fine. Can you start doing something? This endless virtue signalling will not achieve anything, is this not glaringly obvious at this point?

You all really underestimate the unbridled relentless greed of the shareholders and their servants. They will NEVER stop.

If you want a change, pioneer it.

And to the general HN audience: please understand most devs and hardware guys here are almost literal slaves. A good chunk of you (especially Americans) are privileged beyond what like 80% of us here will ever have, in terms of income and job security.

Please start using your free bandwidth to do good! Patting yourself on the back like "hey, I can articulate the problems, I am helping!" is just you being a quiet accomplice in a future state of affairs where there will be no recourse.

Oh yeah, and I almost forgot: get off my lawn. :P

Seriously though, those articles don't help nothing. Awareness has been raised a long time ago. It's time for action.

Corporations only understand one thing: coercion. Especially if you hit them in the wallets. Everything else they ignore.
I don't think you need to put a whole lot of thought into why this article was posted. I think you already know the answer in fact. It's a terrible article and it's written in a terrible way. Who might want to post that here?
> And yet, I rarely hear people suggest or even evaluate the solution of embedding a native module that most of the times will be faster.

Because there's rarely a real benefit to this approach.

I have yet to found use case where C/C++/Rust library is useful AND spawning process to do heavy work is not a viable option AND JS-only library won't work.

I can think basically only about communication with external resource like database.
This classifies as language hacking, no?
Who on HN is upvoting this kind of garbage article?

> CNN continues to lose trust for its biased news against whoever did not vote for Biden, and its promotion of an extremist hate-culture against "the other" 84 million American voters.

... what??

This trash doesn't belong here.
Everyone takes it, routinely? Or gets prescribed it easily in the case of certain symptoms?

My surface-level, limited perception in a couple countries I have friends/family in (Cameroon, Kenya, Nigeria) is that there's little to no testing, but also not apparently a hospital emergency. Then again, these same people also seem to go to their local hospital for what is understood as typhoid and malaria every year or two at least. As a born and raised North American I get told by them that's normal.
Low population density, a largely outdoor existence, and a very low rate of testing and reporting.
If you are being taking out by trams of all things you are not paying attention to the road layout and markings. Probably similar with bike lanes. People in Amsterdam have very little tolerance for tourists walking in bike lanes because it happens so much.

This sounds like someone complaining about being razed by cars while strolling in the middle of the street.
I didn’t have the reset option for cached settings so I still have a large banner ad. Oh well cool stuff.
As opposed to completely reasonable utterly sensible sources like One America Network News, Newsmax, and Russian Television?
I first joined HN ten years ago.

So that was sarcasm? Wow that went over my head. Makes sense though.
My first Thinkpad was a T41P, in between a series from the Xs, then back to T now that the Ts are so easy to carry. I never used Windows on them, first a mix of different distros, then when Ubuntu was released, Ubuntu.

I never had any issues, only on the X220, the SD flash reader was borking my cards and I had to get an external flash reader.

I cannot imagine using something different. So my experience is a bit like yours, this for 20+ years.
> the resulting code is always upstreamed and open source

Are you saying there is 0 binary blobs involved in running a modern Thinkpad? I find that hard to believe (although i would love it). I'm guessing there's a few blobs in the kernel tree itself, and even more firmware blobs the kernel doesn't even know about.

On the topic of how Linux deals very little with actual hardware on modern machines, i really enjoyed this talk called "It's time for operating systems to rediscover hardware" [0]

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=36myc8wQhLo
Not yet they don't.

Currently the only internal parts actually for sale are RAM, a subset of the SSDs, and the heatsink. I can't wait until I can buy some replacement parts for my framework laptop from their marketplace, but that day is definitely not here yet.
And a few more:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28900180

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28886814

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28626361
I wonder what the quality of life is like. How much manual labor is required? Does their local climate require much air conditioning and if so, how much air conditioning do their residents get? What happens if someone is too old to work or just no longer feels like working/contributing?
This. The amount of trouble one has to go through to break the % cap on internal raises isnt worth it.
Especially when you have recruiters lining out the door for your applications to companies who won't quibble about salary expectations.

Switching jobs has now become the path of least resistance to get what you want.

Maybe it's because of all the recent success stories? People are emboldened to take the leap.

Maybe it's because if you're remote working, you're somewhat distanced from the people you're moving away from anyway, it's less uncomfortable than hanging around the office for 3 weeks before you split.
Bikes get stolen all the time in Amsterdam. Just earlier this year I forgot to lock my bike and it was promptly stolen. Bike theft is so common that the police can't even dedicate resources to the problem. I can't imagine a city like The Hague being any different from here.
TBH this runtime can be replaced, and Arch ships a package which makes it very easy to do

https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Steam/Troubleshooting#Steam...

Sometimes it works better than what Valve ships. It saved me a couple of times.
A huge part of this document is about how Google has exclusive access to user ids. If nobody can use user ids, then they don't have those advantages anymore.
Looks like a murloc.
> I’m not willing to go all the way to Linux for my main system since my wife has to be able to use it.

What is the problem with using it? My non-technical relatives are quite happy with their Debian which I installed for them.
This is what I was wondering also, and it makes me think other people look at a much larger range of sites with different icons than I do.

I use Chrome at work because I have to. I often get into the situation with icon-width tabs, and to me it's bad because a lot of my tabs are the same few sites. So the icon doesn't always help me, and I end up using the 'close all tabs to the right' feature a lot.

In addition, a lot of the sites I use at work have time-limited sessions, so going back to a tab from even a couple of hours ago isn't useful because I have to reauth anyway. I guess I could find an old tab and refresh, but I usually just 't' (with vimium) to open a new one and retype the address instead. Maybe for me this is more a preference for the keyboard vs. having to move a pointer around?
I haven’t seen reports of CVS closing a store in SF from 2020-2021. Where are you seeing a disproportionate share in SF?

Walgreens also closed ~70 stores in NYC, a similar % as the SF closures.

I don’t think anyone is defending shoplifting, or crime, but I think the story deserves some scrutiny. Shoplifting did spike in 2020, but it also seems possible that Walgreens is covering a strategic shift with the shoplifting story.
That doesn’t mean they aren’t all being price-gouged (per the AG’s complaint) for instance. Paying protection to the mob also strongly correlates with your store not burning down in the middle of the night. We just don’t know how different things could be without this level of monopolistic distortion (which I admit could mean that without Google things _could_ be worse?)
Former US President Donald J. Trump Raising Investment for New Social Media
When I say removing cars, I prefer banning them or making it very difficult.
For point a, the growing democratization of ebikes really help flatten the terrain.

For point b, the cold in itself is not really a huge deal, if you're dressed appropriately. As for the heat, it really depends on the amount of efforts you have to do.

I see the lack of adequate infrastructure as a much bigger impediment. If you risk getting hurt, you won't cycle, even in the most perfect weather.
If the most important stats are active viewers then perhaps we should get our news from PewDiePie [1] /s

But seriously there are a lot of long-form youtube hosts discussing news topics and current events taking the lead over traditional channels. Is there any speculation that traditional news platforms will reform and adapt, or would they have already done that? Is anything holding them back?

[1] - https://www.noxinfluencer.com/youtube/channel/UC-lHJZR3Gqxm2...
Higher Vitamin D levels due to more exposure to sunshine is a possible explanation.
A thought experiment I often perform in Manhattan: Look at the road, and imagine that every car is two pedestrians. Consider how much empty space would be left on the road.

Now, look at the amount of empty space on the sidewalk. Notice anything?

In cities, cars take up an inordinate amount of physical space—far more than their fair share. And then drivers still complain they don't have enough room and are stuck in traffic, because of course they are, cars are huge!

Screw cars in cities. In busy areas like lower Manhattan, you shouldn't be able to drive at all unless you have a documented need (commercial vehicle, physical disability, etc). Make sure the people who truly have to drive can actually get around without waiting in traffic, and then leave the rest of the space for pedestrians, cyclists, and others who can use the resource efficiently.
Is the market hot or do people with 20 years of experience have to still work on additional signals like a portfolio / github profile / side projects?

Those things seem necessary as a way to signal competence when you're lacking other signals like experience or education.
Precisely speaking, no, I don't know of any grep tools that use a DFA engine. However, both ripgrep and GNU grep use a hybrid NFA/DFA engine (also known as a "lazy DFA") for some subset of regexes. I'm not too familiar with all of GNU grep's strategies, but for ripgrep, it will fall back to an NFA engine. (And I don't mean Friedl's bastardization of the term "NFA engine.") For ripgrep, see the --dfa-size-limit flag to try to let it use the hybrid NFA/DFA engine for bigger regexes. Whether it helps or not depends on your situation.

Now, this will do much better than a backtracking engine, but if you get up into the tens of thousands or hundreds of thousands of regexes, it's going to get pretty painful. Finite automata just doesn't scale that well. At that point, you really start wanting a more specialized solution. Probably the best answer to that that I know of is Hyperscan. And you're in luck; someone maintains a fork of ripgrep with support for Hyperscan: https://sr.ht/~pierrenn/ripgrep/

(A special case is tens of thousands of literal patterns. ripgrep will notice that and should use Aho-Corasick. It doesn't help so much with search time since it's just a NFA or a DFA like with regexes, but the machine itself is constructed much more quickly.)
F Twitter threads. Seriously... just... stop.

It's worth noting with all the revelations in the last couple of days, that at least some of them aren't new. For example:

- "Jedi Blue: A Scandal That Highlights, Yet Again, The Need To Regulate Big Tech" (19 Jan 2021) [1]

- "Facebook and Google allegedly cut a deal that reduced ad competition" (17 Jan 2021) [2]

- "Google acknowledges it foresaw possibility of probe of 'Jedi Blue' advertising deal with Facebook" (7 Apr 2021) [3]

I mean this is all fruit of the same tree, the states' suit, but it seems there's some revisionism here. What is new is parts of the suit that were redacted were recently unredacted.

To be clear, these are fairly damning allegations and revelations.

Personally, I find the most troubling allegations to be about AMP and ad market price-fixing.

[1]: https://www.forbes.com/sites/enriquedans/2021/01/19/jedi-blu...

[2]: https://www.engadget.com/facebook-google-jedi-blue-ad-deal-1...

[3]: https://mlexmarketinsight.com/news-hub/editors-picks/area-of...
It's a Gnome-specific thing
Insightful analysis, though "oppressively deny" sounds harsh to me. There is not a blatant malice in TCG per se, mainly a neutral desire for control and by proxy profit. The treacherous versus trusted computing debate really does boil down to control. Do we trust vendors to be stewards of control on our platforms? Do we even have a choice?

I do not recall giving the keys to anyone, and yet it feels like the person building your house is telling you that they can pop in for dinner and lock you out should the need arise (deny you the ability to run your choice of software and your control is forfeit).

There is something flagrant when the question is brought home to the personal computer. No user complains too much about not being able to replace the firmware for some faraway BGP router, yet that router is also part of the infrastructure like the PC and the OS installed on it. If a consumer thinks about the PC less as providing a personal computing service and more as an Internet terminal, then the problem goes away a little. Naturally, the PC does both, but since the two are at odds with one another, the PC has conflicting interests, serving two masters.

A similar issue exists with cell phone debug, where the carriers log into your phone to troubleshoot. Granted, debug is control for the sake of helping the user and does not deny the user the ability to run software (the OS and app store do that).

This just leaves the problem of where can a user actually go to do secure compute. An abacus works nicely, but is impractical. Free open source hardware (FOSH) is really the only option.
Oh the new movie definitely has a look around the military vehicles and personnel that reminds me of recent middle-eastern wars.

That combo of religious tribesmen in desert robes with traditional weapons, on the ground; and expensive, hi-tec military hardware overhead, which has a distinctive look, is quite the contemporary version.
> but I am honestly astounded by people who think it's a good reason to switch to Chrome

Who says switching away from Firefox means you have to switch to Chrome, the Google-controlled browser?

That seems like a false dichotomy to me.
Strange comment. Seems like you lashed out because you think I am praising those networks? Those are all terrible sources of news. What if I told you that you can criticize one while also criticizing the other? It is liberating.
Meanwhile this article is ACTUALLY propaganda, contains no sources, and is on a site where anyone can submit "news" via a form.

And yet you believed it, because it agrees with your preexisting view.
It feels a bit Black Mirror like to be honest. It kind of reminds me of the episode where people are dating each other. And in the end the dating turned out to be a simulation of many simulations so that a score could be determined between the real people. That episode (forgot the title) has a neighborhood that feels a bit like this (though more high tech).
Incorrect and illogical on both points.

Did you not realize that the repo contains a copy of every third party lib they use? It didn't go from 5 to 35 LoC in 5 years buddy xD.

Imagine also thinking that Brave will go through the trouble of leaving the webRequest API in place and then sit on their hands and not finish the other side of that equation. Too funny, sonny!
I'll second this. "Evil" is a subjective judgment, so using it clouds people's emotions.

The non-villain org I want to start is dedicated to "Meeting all needs while denying none." I'd love for people to parse it for hidden villainy.
> Lastly, I don't think this is a conspiracy, either for money or politics, going for vaccines was just the easiest sell for both people and governments, and doing anything different would have been extremely difficult (see Sweden and lockdown policies).

This is not true. Governments were and are being hammered by their inability to manage COVID. There is a massive incentive to find a therapeutic that can treat the infected rather than just a vaccine, which is how crazes surrounding Ivermectin and other unproven therapeutics got started to begin with. Not only that, but generic therapeutics that could be easily manufactured and transported to poorer nations are clearly the best option to solve this problem. Vaccines were the hardest sell and the worst option for governments given their long developmental timeline, the FUD surrounding them, and the clear complexities surrounding distribution and scarcity.
I'm not a very trusting person. The custom stamps I purchased were ordered directly from the government's official website. I simply didn't know the product existed before I saw the advertisement.

The rug was from ruggable.com (which seems fine) and the water bottle was ZOQQ (which looks questionable no matter what store it's purchased from).

I can't control the behaviour of others, but it's somewhat beside the point. I was giving examples of when the advertising worked. Whether it should or not is a whole different topic.
Not sure about this particular case but I think there's multiple different ones going on so just looking at this might be a bit misleading of whose taking an interest. Eg. there's an NY case mentioned here: https://ag.ny.gov/press-release/2021/attorney-general-james-... The Biden DoJ is also digging: https://www.nytimes.com/2021/09/01/technology/google-antitru...
In the Dallas-Fort Worth area of Texas, the city of Richardson is very bike- and pedestrian-friendly. The area around the Univ of Texas at Dallas is especially so.
I still use my iPod Nano 7th Gen. It's just beautiful. Very lightweight, no Internet distractions, the hardware buttons for volume and next/prev are excellent to use when it's in your pocket, the screen is just the right size for showing and navigating names of albums and songs.

Only thing its missing is LDAC for Bluetooth. The difference is noticeable when you have headset that actually supports it.
if anyone doubts what's going on, you can stop by the 24th and mission bart station.

tens of vendors with goods spread out on blankets:
o big plastic jugs of laundry detergent
o hand cream
o toothpaste
o hair dye
o shaving cream
...etc.

this is your new Walgreens..idk what happens when WG shuts down the last store
The problem with Ivermectin studies is that people will actually review them, so no academic can build a reputation on fraudulent data.
Since there is no way to fake thousands of data point, now expensive research studies and clinical trials are getting done, all the research studies that get done will be of higher budget and subject to being called "basic science"

How about just properly reporting and studying the actual facts that some scientists will just make shit up, publication bias exists, and they can draw the wrong conclusions, like that one on Ivermectin?

P.S. I would be happy if Ivermectin turned out to work, but statistically you expect a few false positives to emerge from doctors in the field doing small studies that agree and appear to point to a cure. If Ivermectin was as effective as say, antihistamine pills, you would get a flood of agreement.
The problem is that if you carry the string '2021-Q1' across countries borders, the days it represents change. That makes for a very bad time interchange format.

I agree that this feature makes quarter indicator necessary. But it also makes it required that the string is something more complex.
Where's the 33 come from?
Looks like you can use the back button of the browser for this. And a redo can be done by using the forward button of the browser.
Curing serious disease? That’s rich.
Indian entrepreneurs are returning from Silicon Valley to invest in Bengaluru
...and on smartphones.
Spotify works fine offline, you just have to download the tracks ahead of time.
I would read a couple issues of the Robb Report for some ideas.
What's this refer to?