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Chrome does not even come close to meeting the definition of a monopoly. Google is not "unreasonably restraining competition" nor is it even selling its browser.

Besides that point, you have to be keen to distinguish between a situation where there is just a clear market winner versus a company attempting to monopolize, e.g. do people just prefer to use Chrome at the end of the day? Most internet users today are aware of Microsoft's browser. Almost all millennials and under are additionally aware of Firefox. The definition of monopoly isn't just "people choose to use this product in lieu of others" but something closer to "people are forced to use this product in lieu of others" or "people have no other choice than to use this product"
I use https://github.com/merbanan/rtl_433 on the tire pressure monitoring system (TPMS) band used by my car (315 Mhz) to trigger home automation like turning on the lights as we're pulling up. (rtl_433 publishes to MQTT, which triggers actions in Home Assistant for certain serial numbers.)

Side effect is that it also logs the tire serial numbers of most (but not all) cars pulling into my driveway.
I've looked into putting Cactus Comments [1] on my website, but I kind of had to can that plan when I found out that it requires the slow and resource hungry Synapse homeserver implementation at this point in time. I was hoping to use Conduit or Dendrite, but those are simply not ready yet.

In my opinion, the biggest problem with the current Matrix platform, especially if you self-host, is the server implementation. It's not buggy, but it's just awfully slow. The "dpt of ping" [2] section at the bottom of the weekly Matrix updates show that five seconds of latency between servers (measured by basic ping bots) is far from uncommon. The latency is still significant in the non-synapse version of the graph, but it's much better already.

With the speed new MSCs are accepted every month I don't think any alternative server stands a chance at catching up to Synapse any time soon, and I don't know how I feel about that. Yes, Matrix is an open platform with an open source spec, but it's effectively impossible to develop an alternative backend implementation with the way development is currently done, unless you've got a lot of developers and money to throw at the platform.

I'll probably look into Conduit again in a few months, hopefully the project will keep up it's impressive pace so that it's useful for my purposes.

[1]: https://cactus.chat/

[2]: https://matrix.org/blog/2021/12/17/this-week-in-matrix-2021-...
More recent info: https://www.jpost.com/science/apophis-what-you-should-know-a...
Thank you for reposting this, it is still after so many years one of the most interesting results from computing that I am aware of the way that something that looks entirely alien to my electronics designer eye actually works is pure magic.
It won't accelerate anything. And in the meantime it takes a huge amount of reliable, non-carbon-producing, 24/7 generation capacity offline. Which is a very bad thing.
You probably never heard about Bhopal disaster, one of the world's worst industrial disasters, killing 3787 people.
The web also isn’t just desktop browsers anymore. It’s much
harder to make the case that Google Chrome is the only major
browser of concern with MobileSafari running around, and per
Apple’s policies, WebKit the only useful browser engine on iOS
and iPadOS.

Yeah and, perhaps I'm giving them too much credit for strategy/foresight, but it feels like this all plays precisely into Google's hands.

There is just enough competition, and Google's web apps are just functional enough on Webkit/Firefox, for Google to sail clear of accusations of monopoly.
Does Google even have to look at the content? I assume most pirated content will also have a massive number of anonymous downloads, and shouldn't that trigger some fair-usage clause somewhere ?
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In my anecdotal experience, vaccine hesitancy, or whatever you call it, cannot be attributed to a party allegiance in the US. There are as many if not more liberal vaccine refusers as there are conservative ones
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Ask HN: What's the best inexpensive way to gather product data?
I have a few ideas for providing a service based on product data. I've seen various data companies selling data (which is generally very expensive), APIs and scraping data. I just need basic data such as brand, product identifier and short description but the data should be relatively up to date.

What are some other alternatives or sources for getting this data? Ideally, a freely available data dump of consumer product data.
Virus just wants to replicate and spread as much as possible. Sometimes the side effect of this is death etc.

If this one spreads super fast, has generally more mild effects... it will ramp up faster, infect all, and may get more severe so that it can last longer in the host and spread more.

But the combo of high infectiousness and more mild side effects might be a net negative for this one. If we get a good amount of herd immunity, it may be a few weeks of heavy spread and then very little.
Germany has never really used oil for producing electricity.
This is an important point.

People don't easily forget when they had to avoid fresh fruit, vegetables and meat for a year because it was radioactive.
There's something to that, and I skew towards democratic socialist. Doing nothing because it appears to target a perceived "foe" attribute or other demonstrates a lack of integrity in the bystander. Fair is fair, while selective impact games build resentment. One love and so on.

We have to get past putting people in boxes for arbitrary disagreement/animosity. Formalized politics must be made obsolete.
For me it’s certainly a big thank you to the Codecademy team!
That's not what the position was. They didn't want to take a vaccine solely approved by Trump because he has been proven to lie about the pandemic for political gain, and politicized once independent institutions like the CDC. They wanted other apolitical, credentialed, highly trusted authorities to say the vaccine was safe before taking it. I don't see why that's an unreasonable position. The position was never "we are not taking the vaccine ever". It was "we're not taking a vaccine only Trump says is safe".
In what way is the federal government not being allowed to fund public education a violation of the 14th ammendment?

It's certainly not equal protection under the law because there is no law authorizing congress to provide public education.

It's not the repayment of debts because the US hasn't committed to paying debt for the future (we would have to pay off current obligations).
Please correct me if I'm wrong but my understanding is that nuclear doesn't ramp up/down very well either. Most nuclear plants use fission for the base load but gas or other fossil fuel generators for the variable part. Since in Germany green power in the form of solar/wind are even more variable, this makes Nuclear + Solar/Wind a bad combo.

Wind and solar don't even make sense for Germany given their climate/geography.

Germany should ditch the green and use its amazing engineering to build better nuclear reactors, IMO.
> I think if you don’t understand that already, it’s likely I can’t help you understand either.

But expressing your reasoning here doesn't have to be predicated purely on your percieving my capacity to understand it. You could just express it in a token of good will. I've switched three countries with three different languages so far. Coming from one of the currently non-existing Soviet states, I think I've got a pretty useful cultural and political background to understand and see the real difference between welfare- and small-government states than most of westerners by birth out there.
Great timing, right as Russia is cranking to tear us apart from the europeans through energy and any other means available.
"Too many to list"? It's a pandemic simulation--there aren't that many variables to manipulate. And misinformation was already a huge talking point several years ago, after the 2016 election and the Mueller report. Saying you're not a conspiracy theorist and then suggesting a conspiracy is a little discordant, to say the least.
They all run with the official power supply.
They were talking about JBIG2, not PDF.

JBIG2 has been in the news periodically for a different sort of problem - you can't trust it to accurately represent what was scanned:

https://www.theregister.com/2013/08/06/xerox_copier_flaw_mea...
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Those activist teachers are also teaching the kids about MLK, Jr. and civil rights. Learning how to function within a heterogeneous society isn't what we send our kids to school for!

But seriously, if society is failing due to not enough citizens understanding math, and the parents don't want their kids to learn math, but society has deemed it important that the schools teach math to those kids anyway, that's part of the social contract for public schooling. Here we have a case of sections of society perpetuating violence on an outgroup, and the voters as a whole deciding that one prong of the fix is educating the children. This technique has worked before on the same type of problem.
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> Germany intends to take all coal-fired generation offline by 2038

Good if they actually mean it maybe?

> leading to a likely increase in renewable-power assets in the long term... Yet in the short term, coal is helping to bridge the supply gap.

This just seems asinine. But what do I know...

Is there something impassably / chronically dangerous about nuclear power or is it just public fear that pushes us away from it? It seems like a solvable engineering scenario from an outside perspective. I just dont get it.
If over 50% of people (and growing) say their relationship started on OLD [...]

I just skimmed the article, but it seems to say that even among the youngest age group only 48% have used dating apps and only 17% were in resulting relationship.
The core Go team has been working on generics since the pre-1.0 days and have submitted many different generics proposals over the years to reflect that. They all, until the latest one, failed for one reason or another, but shared property of them all was being created by those who were not experts in the domain. It is why the latest incarnation brought in an external consultant to help guide the team in the right direction.

There was clearly always interest from the project itself. There may have been some random naysayers on the internet who act like they are opposed, but you'll find people acting every way imaginable on the internet. I really doubt anyone actually refrained from working on the project because an internet troll wrote something silly.
Okay so the chunks are distributed, a follow up question is are they duplicated to multiple copies per chunk? I ask because if one chunk is lost then the data would be unusable wouldn't it?
Longer insanity is not less insanity!
I didn't whitelist anything, maybe that was a source for issue.

> Disagree. Sure, UX can be improved, but compromising here defeats the purpose of why we’re doing this in the first place.

The thing is, as I ran my own server in my office, SSL (with no E2E) is already a good privacy. And even with that setup, the server users got "harassed" by the UI asking them to sync devices keys.

For many users, a single prompt about security is enough to discourage them.
This is a simple political cycle. Guns and ammo fly off the shelves during Democratic administrations, then gun shops go out of business during Republican administrations. This is purely a psychological phenomenon (many aspects of American gun ownership are), since e.g. Trump would be perfectly happy to take everyone's guns if he benefited somehow, while even a hypothetical 70% Democratic Congress would decline to limit gun ownership since the electoral effects would be disastrous.

I don't have any prejudice against guns, but probably less fascination than seen ITT. I have fired a single shot in the last six months, and the result is in my deep freeze.
Parser combinators are just a nicer syntax for implementing recursive descent parsing†. That's not enough academic content for the subset of academia focused on Algorithm and Data Structures. But of course if you are interested in another subset interested in Programming Languages and Types, you'll find plenty of people interested not in the algorithm (which is easy) but also the way it's written in a real programming language, and leveraging type systems to make the code nice; that's where you'll find most of the academic discussions on it.

Also, higher-kinded types are pretty much required to make parser combinators nice, so that restricts the appeal of parser combinators to just Haskell and a few other niche languages.

Yet another reason is that like all recursive descent parsing with backtracking, it's easy to accidentally make your parser run in exponential time. It certainly requires discipline and deliberation to avoid that.

†: I only know of one library in Haskell that has a parser-combinator-like interface without recursive descent parsing, and that's https://github.com/ollef/Earley but I'll quote from its README the difference between that and typical parser combinators:

> The grammar language is similar to that of many parser combinators (Parsec, Attoparsec, parallel parsing processes, etc.), providing an applicative interface, but the parser gracefully handles all finite CFGs, including those with left-recursion. On the other hand, its productions are not monadic meaning that it does not support context-sensitive or infinite grammars, which are supported by many parser combinator libraries.
> In my opinion, the only useful metric is profit generated. Everything else is just an emotional safety blanket for uncertainty.

This too can be a toxic metric. Only focusing on what looks good in the quarterly report encourages a type of short-sightedness that has been the undoing of many businesses.
That’s not a useful distinction. Market monopolies, if they exist, where they exist, are usually tied into those same government granted monopolies. Facebook the bare bones public domain Technology stack is a lot less valuable to investors than Facebook the service on the Facebook servers presented to Facebook account holders on Facebook’s private servers at Facebook.com paid for with Ad revenue generated by Facebook’s copyrighted (and maybe partially patented?) adtech and backed by Sales Reps on Facebook’s payroll.

And despite all of that, they’re probably still not a monopoly for anything (haven’t heard a convincing argument on this one yet!), at least anywhere the DoJ and FTC have jurisdiction.
wouldnt call these rude necessarily, but definitely among the anti-patterns I've experienced:

- being coy about pay. "lets hop on the phone!" "it will be competitive!" "well we're just about to get a big funding round and when we do..." "well first we'll need you to jump thru hoops A,B,C... and maybe after that we might tell you..."

- in general, wanting to tell me things in a call vs a quick concise async email

- in a call, they repeat things already conveyed on their website and in the job description, which I will already have read

- no job description/profile (though this can be overlooked sometimes if its truly a broad profile, effectively "smart people who ship, and are nice, and sane")

-"requiring" me to do coding tests or challenge projects despite me having mounds of public evidence that I'm a real programmer, and not my 1st rodeo

- compounding the above by having the gall to assume I'll gladly spend my valuable free time doing that for them, for 0 pay

- saying I can work remotely but NOT from my state (I'd be free to move to a different state and then be allowed to work from my home. what the---?)

- my pay will not be private, in the interests of "transparency" -- ok, lets go ahead and make sure every employee and shareholders total financial picture is public, in that same spirit, goose and the gander, etc. no thanks

- putting their end on speakerphone - notorious for cutting out speech sounds and worsening audio quality. forcing any part to have to say "what?" or ask to repeat is irritating and makes folks sound a little dumber than otherwise -- just say no, folks. we live in an age of crystal quality telephony audio if we simply choose to use it

could add dozens more. again, not sure I'd call any single one "rude", but definitely lots of folks out there who don't seem to think or care about their impact on others. curse of more life experience and care is you increasingly encounter bigger gaps between how things "should be" vs how they are?
// had no concept of "abstraction", adherence to standards or even a logical, coherent design.

I see your point. But I would like to make a counterargument.

If you consider the time scale with which biological systems have to work, you probably won't call their design illogical or incoherent. Computer programs have been around for not even a century. Billion years is a whole different ballgame. Can anyone even imagine writing a computer program with any guarantee that it would be readable by someone 1000 years from now? We have a tough time figuring out what our our own code does a few months after writing them.

And wrt fault tolerance, resilience, I don't know, the design language of nature definitely seems far more evolved..
The sentiment on HN on this topic has traditionally been negative, and comments that support the move get downvoted.

The fear of nuclear energy is deeply rooted in Germany and cannot be simply ignored. The "Anti AKW" (anti nuclear power) movement was huge since the 80s, it predates the fear of global warming, and it was at the core of what became the Green party. And Merkel, who has a doctorate quantum chemistry, came to the conclusion that nuclear power is too risky. And this sentiment had the backing of the parliament. And the parliament had the backing of the population. These are the facts. It is likely that her party, traditionally pro nuclear, will change its opinion now that she's stepped down. But they're not in power for at least the next 4 years, and the new governing coalition has agreed on nuclear being a non-option for energy policy.
GP probably meant Russian gas. They are also going to become net buyers of coal electricity from neighboring countries as a result of this. It's not a good move for the environment.
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This reminds me of a project I worked on that had an interface with draggable boxes just like this. The library that we used rendered the boxes as divs while the arrows were drawn as SVGs. Apparently there was a bug on Internet Explorer 11 where CSS transforms being applied to SVGs would cause the browser to slow to a crawl, or crash entirely if too many were happening at once.

To get around it, I switched the line drawing function for IE11 so that it would draw two divs that would extend from the middle of each box and touch corners in the middle (basically figure 4 in the article), then style them with a curved border on the appropriate side. While not as elegant as what's shown here, it was convincing enough that nobody noticed any visual difference between it and the regular version.
Others have explained how power is not the issue, but also RTGs are not a cure-all. This whole sunshade thing is necessary to shield the sensitive electronics from the heat and radiation of the sun - putting an active radiation source on board would present huge problems for the same reasons.

RTGs are also very heavy and do not generate much power; they are useful for the outer solar system because solar power is not viable there due to the inverse square law. At this distance from the sun, solar is a no-brainer.
This comment is parroting Chomsky.
Last time I checked critical features were not supported, like read receipts.
if paid via Apple, ask Apple directly. I've gotten subscriptions refunded for Match.com's dark patterns, for example.
This is fantastic if it happens elsewhere as well. The only reason I am not super pumped is because SA is in Summer, and we’ve seen that sars-cov-2 is impacted my seasonality
Depending on how things go with what is widely believed to be an impending Russian invasion of Ukraine, with hostilities potentially spilling beyond that sphere, I have to wonder if this will go into the history books as another historic strategic blunder for Germany. Surrendering a large amount of your domestic energy production, placing your fate in the hands of a hostile power is a real head scratcher.
Is asking someone to follow the law a threat?

I know people like to take it that way, but it's literally saying (whether true or not) "you are required to do this, so do this." I'm a bit more lenient of things that could be classified as implied threats when it boils down to "follow the law" and the threat is only relevant for those not following the law.
Valve (with the help of kernel and Wine contributors) have been making great progress working with the anti-cheat vendors. BattlEye [1] and Easy Anti-Cheat [2] are already working on Proton.

Each game's developer has to opt in to enable it. There's a community-maintained site tracking the status of each game. [3]

[1] https://store.steampowered.com/news/group/4145017/view/31046...

[2] https://dev.epicgames.com/en-US/news/epic-online-services-la...

[3] https://areweanticheatyet.com/
Of course. Commoners have more in common with each other than the elites. But which system is better for the health of society etc? The autocratic corrupt spying apparatus gov? Or the falted, less efficient, but generally much much more open and representative gov of the US?
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What more you want? This is an unique thing happening at unique moment of time. There clearly cannot be no other. With NFT you can prove that you "own" it -- in the universe of other NFTs. The physical or visual format of this thing has no relevance.

NFT universe is like antique car owners club, where people come to show their useless old cars. Other people cannot understand the value of rusty junk.
people who have families working in healthcare would beg otherwise
I'm guessing you've never worked in healthcare.
Here is an pretty good NPR article that discusses the same concept:
https://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2021/10/29/1050465...

Also the article in Science by the computational biologist interviewed for the article:
https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.abe6522

They predict that SARS-CoV-2 will eventually become something akin to the common cold, as long as 1. immune protection against severe disease persists, and 2.) the virus continues to be relatively mild in kids.
All math or programming tasks become oddly hard. Something simple that I had done 1000 times before in seconds became a week long project.

After I had been on blood thinners for a bit and my mind recovers I sat down at a problem that I couldn’t figure out for six months. 10 minutes later it was done.

Had an ER visit were I was getting all questions wrong. Year, president, etc. I knew my answers were wrong. But I didn’t know why, or what they should be.
Ok I know it's off topic but I have got to ask, what is up with archive.md links? I have never in my life successfully loaded an archive.md URL. I either get straight up DNS errors or very occasionally I see a spinner that never finishes loading. Yet they must work for others because they're constantly being posted here.
I don't know if it's possible to assess the infectiousness and deadliness in isolation from the collective social immunity.

Each wave is less deadly because:
a) we're getting better at treating it
b) the most vulnerable populations have been killed off in previous waves.
c) through vaccination and prior infections our individual immune systems are primed to deal with it.