skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
based on what I know about other engineers it's almost certain that no one used any leverage whatsoever and the only reason they even checked the license is because legal forced them
But functional connectivity is a fundamentally computational concept
Competition is good. Fracturing the market means it's harder for any one actor to have all the information, and encourages the industry to look for other models.
> The EU has previously found Google guilty of “systematically favoring” its own shopping comparison service, abusing its Android market dominance by bundling its search engine and Chrome apps, and preventing AdSense customers from accepting advertising from rival search engines.

The sites you frequent are more likely to stick around if they have more revenue options, and we all benefit from competition in the search and browser markets lest we wind up with IE6 all over again.
Europe would return to the dark ages if all American tech companies pulled out overnight. But it is a humorous thought that the only way there can be European alternatives is if there are no American companies to compete against. What is it about Europe that puts it so far behind the US and Asia in innovation?

>None of its services are critical to maintain a stable society.

Except Android, Maps, Search, Gmail, YouTube, Docs...
Yes, and that's great.
They don't want surveillance Capitalism.
I don't know the perfect answer to the question "At what point does a company need to be broken up, to protect the liberty of our citizens?", but I would wager it's somewhere on the near side of "when the mere suggestion that the company could shut down for 24 hours would cause unthinkable chaos".
Knowledge and Getting over Gettier’s Problem
now also go after the Amazon and more important Microsoft monopolies.
Some coffees with high caffeine have this effect on me as well. I find that different brands of coffees have very different effects on me, I can even get a good coffee feeling from some decafs. I'm convinced it's the other alkaloids in there besides caffeine that I like
The creditors are people's 401k's. The debt that gets issued is sold off to 'fund managers' that help enrich their friends. Until there's a law passed preventing retirement plans from forcing you into only a handful of funds, it's never going to stop.
It is a bad approach, but it's a bit of a prisoner's dilemma: no nation will be the only one NOT to pull BS like that...
That's arguably actually a sign of a hot hotel market; if any room will rent, then, really, why bother updating anything? (Caveat: in many European cities with very hot hotel markets, you'll see a lot of shiny new hotel rooms, but it's largely because hotels are redesigning themselves to put more rooms in the same space. This seems way less common in the US; I think Americans are way more bothered about how big the rooms are.)

Of course, covid disrupted that to an extent, particularly for cities which were heavily reliant on business travel for their hotel business (I'd be a little surprised if business travel _ever_ returns to pre-covid rates).

I'm in SF occasionally for work, and, yeah, the hotels are notably, almost impressively, dated. Beyond the presence of the obligatory flatscreen TV, most of the rooms probably looked much the same in the 80s.

If the market actually _is_ cooling down severely (based on the article, one could be forgiven for thinking this is more a case of a company abruptly discovering that property values don't automatically go up forever, which is a lesson that property investors tend to learn every couple of decades) then you'd actually expect that to change, as hotels have to compete on the product being offered rather than just taking a "look, here's a room, there are no rooms, obviously you will rent it" approach.
If Google's ad business was split from the rest, it would mean the ad business having to pay the search engine business and other Google businesses to advertise on them.
Social media platforms and their "policing content" caused major cultural degradation.

For example the loose girls who 25 years ago would have maintained web galleries of honest, mostly well made naked pics of themselves now post Instagram reels where they use a strong light source from behind to display the silhouette of their pussy through a thin dress: no nudity, but far more perversion.
Why Google Dominates Advertising Markets: Competition Policy Should Lean on the Principles of Financial Market Regulation
https://law.stanford.edu/publications/why-google-dominates-a...

>Approximately 86% of online display advertising space in the U.S. is boughtand sold in real-time on electronic trading venues, which the industry calls “advertising exchanges.” With intermediaries that route buy and sell orders, the structure of the ad market is similar to the structure of electronically traded financial markets. In advertising, a single company, Alphabet (“Google”), simultaneously operates the leading trading venue, as well as the leading intermediaries that buyers and sellers go through to trade. At the same time, Google itself is one of the largest sellers of ad space globally. This Article explains how Google dominates advertising markets by engaging in conduct that lawmakers prohibit in other electronic trading markets: Google’s exchange shares superior trading information and speed with the Google-owned intermediaries, Google steers buy and sell orders to its exchange and websites (Search & YouTube), and Google abuses its access to inside information. In the market for electronically traded equities, we require exchanges to provide traders with fair access to data and speed, we identify and manage intermediary conflicts of interest, and we requiretrading disclosures to help police the market. Because ads now trade on electronic trading venues too, should we borrow these three competition principles to protect the integrity of advertising?

Google Is Dominating Hidden Market With No Rules
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/06/21/opinion/google-monopoly-r...
How about an automatic nationalisation in stead? Where you take companies which have grown too big out of the private ownership’s hands.
Yup. I have an EU version, the heating element draws exactly 1000W during the pressurization cycle. It takes pretty much the same time to pressurize as the US version does.
I lived there for around 8 years, and specifically near City hall for around 6 of those. My neighborhood near City Hall became increasingly unsafe over time, and after witnessing a couple of incidents such as an unarmed robbery which resulted in a physical altercation with an employee at my local Walgreens, an accidental fire started in the encampment outside of my building which partially set fire to the building and broke my neighbor's window, and the realization that the leaders of the city were not in any hurry to make any improvements here, I decided I no longer felt safe or comfortable in this area and moved.

In my opinion it's not so much homelessness that is the issue, but rampant heavy drug use (methamphetamine and fentanyl). I think the term homeless is a misnomer. It's the debilitating drug use and the consequences of what that does to people's behavior that causes downstream issues to public safety. Working class people who are trying to do everything right (like the Walgreens worker) are the ones most impacted, and that to me is the most frustrating part.
Very cool initiative, i have developed inkscape extension for making creative pcb art, you might be interested in: https://github.com/badgeek/svg2shenzhen its a combination of inskacpe and kicad, so everything is open source
Please do DeBeers first!
The quality of google's search results going downhill is for me one of the signs that (as all monopols eventually) at some point they stop being a net positive for the society.

> The world runs on Google

Until it doesn't. No individual and no company is indispensable.
If you have a captive audience you can advertise to them. That's what all of this is about, and many companies have made billions with this strategy.

Whether the advertising is done by Geocities or MySpace or Facebook doesn't make any difference to the consumer, who's still the product these companies sell to their real customers: the advertisers.

Discord can make plenty of money selling ads too, and I would not be at all surprised to see ads in every Discord channel in the future, especially as (unlike Reddit) it doesn't have any third-party clients through which users can circumvent any ads Discord may want to show.
The hummer comparison is bad. More relevant, the bed is the same length as that of a short bed Tacoma.
Mattresses have ridiculous margins, so astroturfing is likely.
Ah I was responding to GP's comment which does say "minors in violation." You're right that the gov't doesn't use that language (and realizing GP probably just forgot a word).
well, that still means they have to follow Irish law. Just like shipping companies register their ships in other countries, that means they have to follow their laws too.
They is responsible for this! And We is gonna make sure They pay for the time We lost working on It, to fix They's problem.

We is out! No diggity.
GCD/libdispatch is a fantastic approach to concurrency and you can build and install support for non-Apple operating systems:

https://github.com/apple/swift-corelibs-libdispatch

Here’s a simple echo server:

https://github.com/williamcotton/c_playground/blob/master/sr...

Here’s a simple multithreaded database pool:

https://github.com/williamcotton/express-c/blob/master/src/d...
I'm no expert on US politics/taxes, but isn't the bay area already home to some of the richest companies on the planet? Mostly companies whose income comes from all over the globe, and hence is almost entirely independent of the state of San Francisco's streets?

And people on HN make it sound like the Bay Area is full of workers making several hundred of thousand of dollars a year, buying houses worth several million dollars, so income tax and property tax revenue should be off the charts too.

Isn't the bay area be absolutely swimming in tax revenue already?
I've thought about this in the past. If we model each user as a perfectly rational agent, the user will migrate once the perceived subjective value of the new platform is higher than the one from Reddit.

Since the network effect (the author calls it "feedback loop") itself adds value, you need to offer value that more than compensates the network effect, through: user interface, features, a better community (the Reddit community is disingenuous, petty, and worse - stupid), so goes on.

However at the moment at most those sites have a better community to offer. (It's rather surprising to post in Beehaw or Kbin, and see that users there are... rational people???). The interface however still sucks major balls, and the features are actually worse than in Reddit.

Good news for everyone though: Reddit will only become worse and worse after the IPO. Before it, too, but specially after the IPO.

>So, these “alternative” companies need to adopt protocols instead of building their own private garden. Unity is the only way they can fight against a giant like Reddit.

That is THE idea behind the Lemmyverse. (And the Fediverse as a whole). Its underlying protocol is even used by alternatives not in the Lemmyverse, like Kbin.
One of my friends works for a European adtech company. Unlike the companies I mentioned above, they don't do anything except manage online ads for brands. After iOS and Android enhanced their privacy settings, they lost a substantial portion of their business. I'm guessing that this is the type of business that the EU is trying to protect.
the result would be:

more ads, as competition drives down prices

worse ads as cheaper adds don't need to be as relevant but do need to be more eye catching / shocking to compete for attention.

That's exactly what happened already — because of Google.

Before Google AdSense, web sites used to be able to select high-quality ads from reputable advertising companies. You could get $100+ CPM for some campaigns from TribalFusion.

Then AdSense appeared, and drove CPM rates into pennies, which is why web sites are so loaded with advertising now.

You used to be able to make a good living running a high quality web site that served one ad per page. I know, because I did it for years. Google destroyed all of that. I won't cry if someone else does it to Google.
...also, not sure if this is the point you're trying to make, but nothing is aligned with human interests really, look at what economics and the governmnet has done with climate change?
> There's just no way anymore to directly combine an import statement with some other JS syntax, whether or not the module path is statically specified.

I always found this to be an anti-pattern that I tried to avoid, it felt way too “cute”.

I won’t pretend the switch to ESM has been completely smooth but it does feel like the better way to pull in dependencies. It reads better IMHO and makes more sense to me.
As one of those users who doesn't get it, the it I don't get isn't that Reddit would rather be TikTok or that people who are just looking to mindlessly scroll generic content are easier to monetise, it's what Reddit's value proposition is as a TikTok alternative.

As you say it's not hard to generate reasonably compelling content. There's no shortage of cat picture or funny gif sources. So it's not that.

TikTok supposedly has a killer algorithm to spruce up that generic content. Facebook/Instagram has your friends. My understanding is that the niche subs are what Reddit brings to the table as an add-on to the generic but monetisable content. People come for the askhistorians post that their google search surfaced and then some of them stay and scroll cat pics for a while.

If they get rid of the niche sub users, why do the 80% not go to TikTok?
America is insane? You might want to look at what cities in Europe do for their honelesss.

https://www.slowboring.com/p/they-have-homelessness-in-europ...
I often find it less useful to think in terms of intelligence than of cleverness and wisdom, which seem not just distinct but orthogonal. Cleverness is required to be a capable programmer. Wisdom manifestly is not.
Not to mention why should anyone anywhere trust google at that point.
Bullshit. See Facebook in Australia or Hongkong. See every company that went into china anyway. For the EU, google leaving would be a feature.
Oooooh that'd be a spicy move. Let's go EU!

Then do Luxottica and then Anheuser-Busch InBev!
Online store sells great products. But nobody knows about them.

Online store buys ads on Google to tell people about their products. People click the ads, and buy the products so the store can scale up and lower their per unit cost. Everyone are happy.

Now fast forward a decade. Google drop their "do no evil" motto and jack up ad prices. Online store now pays 10 times as much for their ads and have to raise prices to cover the costs. Google shareholders are happy, everyone else loses - it doesn't matter if they click ads or not, the prices are higher for everyone.
I've seen stuff like that before with a game called Factroio, The only game I've ever see that is optimized so hard that your RAM Speed can affect large bases rather quickly, same with faster L2 Cache. Their entire blog series[1] covers a large part of how they did this. but for a game written mostly in LUA they sure did a good job on it.

1: https://www.factorio.com/blog/post/fff-204
Discord only competes with Reddit partially, as much as going outside does. It isn't really suitable for the sort of forum-like discussion that Reddit has [or used to have - things are getting pretty nasty there.]
And microsoft is walking scot free. They can happily control operating systems, office tools, a slice of search, ides, ads within their os, are allowed to buy large game makers and soon ai. As a bare minimum they should be forced greater compatibility with running their software on linux and ideally be banned from doing ads, ai and gamedev.
For a bit more on the free energy minimization see https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Predictive_coding

A lot of parallels to machine learning
This is how it was taught to me in a CS undergrad class last week.
What we didn't look at though was, what happens when the hash table is full? Does everything get rehashed into a bigger table? What are the Performance implications of that? I wish it would have gone just a little further.
Most popular databases have change data capture as a feature. They read backups of the transaction log and extract events they care about (dml operations against subscribed tables) and then store the results into shadow tables. They tend to be relatively low overhead compared with many hand-rolled solutions.

One other benefit is they capture all the changes to the underlying data, not just the net changes.

It’s important to realize though that CDC records change information but isn’t a mechanism to move it anywhere. You would still have to devise a means to move the data to another system.

Debezium is a data movement tool that uses CDC for the underlying tracking.
Sure, they'd rather lose 50B+ than do this...
Definitely makes sense to force them to split between buy and sell side of the ad market. Ad exchange definitely is one aspect of that, but I get the impression there's a lot more than that in terms of "playing both sides." The lines have become very blurry.

It's been over a decade since I worked in ads, though, so I'm no expert. I did spend a short period of time on the Google AdX team after they bought the company I worked at (AdMeld) and sunk it. Itself a whole topic of anti-trust discussion.
The EU already made multiple attempts to get that under control, notably first with the Cookie Law and later with GDPR. The problem is that those have mechanism that allow the user to accept tracking, and Google does its best to get website owners to make their user agree by any means nessesary. In analytics there's some competition, and I can run self-hosted cookieless Maomo or plausibly.io if I want to get actionable insights without having the user opt-out of privacy protections. In advertising there's much less competition, and thus little in the way of privacy-friendly options. Forcing more competion might solve this.
TIL that SF politicians created the COVID pandemic and drove the WFH policies that emptied out the business district.

SF suffers from many of the same problems that other much-more-conservative cities suffer from, but you don’t hear about them as much because it doesn’t fit a narrative.

I live in NYC, and visit SF often for work. I’m fascinated in the similarities and difference between the cities.

For example, pre-pandemic SF public transport had half the daily ridership per capita that NYC had, implying workers there were much more dependent on cars. That, combined with the much lower housing density, meant that white-collar workers were much less interested in returning to the office.

NYC and SF have a similar unhoused percentage, yet one seems worse. Maybe a bunch of that is due to laissez-faire policing? But it could also be due to SF’s climate that makes being out on the street year-round slightly more doable.

Downtown has particularly low housing density. How much of that is due to SF government, and how much is due to big tech paying ridiculously high rents for buildings?
One actor may not get that information directly, but it will still be bought and sold, like any other commodity.

Unless the information is impossible to collect in the first place, it will be collected, traded, and consolidated.
You cannot really make a connection to antisemitism by certain key words. While cultural Marxism certainly has some baggage, but it does not infer any hostility to Jews. It can do so, but it shouldn't be regarded as doing so.
Are there photos anywhere? The 3D viewer's just showing black for me. (Viewer itself loaded, but as though no data specified/loaded - except what I assume are different views to jump to listed at the bottom.)
EMEA is Google's second largest market, and it's not even close for competition. There is no way Google would be willing to cut revenue by $90 billion annually. It would be corporate suicide. The single greatest loss event of investor capital in history.

They'll comply, just like Apple will comply with the DMA. They have a fiduciary responsibility to their shareholders. Unlike the U.S., E.U lawmakers can't be bought.
John Romita Sr. has died
I think what we’re seeing with “too big to fail” is that it also means “too big to succeed”.

Personally, I suspect that the 20 companies each at 1% GDP will out perform the 20% company in most or even all markets. (Setting aside the issue of relative GDP between nations.)

Often, the bazaar is more effective than the cathedral.
Stranded on a deserted island is bit radical, but I recommend going to a place with no internet connection for a week or so. I though I had a long reading problem. Turns out, I have an internet problem.
They need to cap how many ads get served.

Currently they can serve up ads for every possible search query typed or inject any number of ads surrounding every page you visit, so my grandma can barely use her phone without touching an ad.
Not sure what exactly they gave me, but I had 2 cases:

(1) In a hospital, when after injection with a syringe, I lay for maybe 5-15 minutes, wondering when it would show any effect and what would happen, if I tried to stay away, before it was suddenly lights out.

(2) Another one at a doctor for a check of something, which was injected into the bloodstream directly without a syringe, but a drip/line. That one affected me very quickly and I remember suddenly having a weird smell in my nose, saying something like "hm smells funny" and then I was out. It was an interesting experience. Not a bad one. Not a good one. Just interesting.

Afterwards I did not have memory of either one. But at the second one, I remember, that it took time, before I could reliably stand and walk and I sat down for a while, thinking, that the feeling was also "funny". At the first one it was an operation after which one usually does not walk and stays in bed for a while. Also the one for the operation must have lasted much longer, since I woke up much later, afaik.
The author could have written about churros
"I bought a churro, i didnt like it, not even the cinnamon flavor could change my mind"
> I disagree. I think this sets a bad precedence. Who's next? Apple?

Yes please. If we want healthy competitive markets, we need smaller companies that actually _COMPETE_ and their products can be mixed and matched so the customers vote with their wallets and not CEOs with their lobbying checks.
This is Hacker News, you can't say the N word here.
This same reasoning applies in basically all aspects of law. Someone or some people make a judgement call.
> Does it actually affect people negatively if the result is a positive online user experience?

More and more the positive experience is disputable. Both for users (result quality keeps falling) and advertisers (they're the ad exchange that matters).

> The world runs on Google and forcing that to change seems like a step backwards at first glance.

That's the monopoly part. There's more candidates who will get increased use if Google's search-ad feedback loop goes away. Every time someone too big to fail is finally broken up, we get a small step backwards... ideally we get a big step towards as a result.
yes, but that's not the point of GP comment. Saying "Ireland alone has $50B turnover" might make someone think: "Wow, if they make so much money from such a small country, then how much do they make in the entire Europe?". And the answer to that is: $50B. There's not a single euro-cent is earned in Europe that does not go through Ireland.
How does Google disallow competition? China managed to overtake the top spot for social media so it's not impossible. Europe just can't build, period.
> I expect open source will follow suit in either removing projects

This will just lead to forks (if your project was popular).
You know about higher order (meta) statements, right?