skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Google’s deal with Apple is def problematic but apart from that I really don’t think it’s a monopoly.

Google leadership (according to public info) was in a panic about ChatGPT and rightly so. It was eerily similar to what Google once was at its inception: a no bs way to get better answers to your questions.

Luckily for Google, hallucination is a significant issue. Just “GPT it” is already in the modern vernacular. Google is in serious danger of becoming Facebook: only used by boomers (now millennials) while the new gen gets their adds on Insta, TikTok and could soon be served Llm generated product reviews and comparisons with link to buy from ChatGPT.
They don't have to actually do that should Google bbebroken up. They can still use that as an argument to rouse public support against a breakup.
I find it funny that the safety standards are for the drivers, not everyone around them.

Small trucks = not safe

Massive modern trucks killing cyclists and pedestrians = very safe! (For the driver)
How does it compare with N.Wirth's?

https://onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu/webbin/book/lookupid?k...
I’d pay for consumer tier (which we’ll pretend was the former free tier) if I got proper customer service number I could call. I don’t use it enough to pay for a business tier
First we have to agree on whats a criminal.
Usual: very

Good: Not so much

Unfortunately, cloud provision isn't very competitive and is very US/China centric.

I was at a talk recently around how one of the UKs major infrastructure providers was building their architecturrle, and I was pretty freaked by the level if vendor lock in.

Would love to see more governments viewing this as the security risk it is, but I'm not holding my breath.
it was. he chose freedom and trusting people. if you go to jail for that you can be sure that it already created a precedent that put into jail a lot of innocent people
Not needed. It's tax payer money down the toilet.

But hey I'm a pacifist and will be told that I'm a weak man who will lead to the downfall of civilisation so oh well.
Agree but there are important points that the article doesn't address while trying to be very assertive, including:

- At the core of PMF is the idea that you are producing something novel in some business and/or technical aspect, NOT that your are selling a product or service that already exists and PMF is there. For example, if you want to compete with Salesforce you already know there is a PMF, it is a CRM! Your startup will have issues with GTM because PMF is already there.

- PMF is always risky. Not only for startups but also for corporations. GSE is the top search engine and one day OpenAI eats part of their cake. This is the innovation dilemma at play all the time. It is obvious that a startup will have a different financial impact from a moving PMF.

Finally, these discussions are fruitful when you start with more formal definitions [1].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Product-market_fit
I don't understand your line of thought. The question with Kim was not about open-source, was about copyright and intellectual property all along.

As other comments noted, the man literally made millions distributing copyrighted material, while completely aware of what he was doing.
No, it's because the US has a different set of regulations entirely.
Car insurance companies are already generally legally required to give notice in writing 30 days before cancelling your policy, even for material changes in risk.

Let’s try to stick to the real world.
The public would have been against breaking up Standard Oil because they kept oil cheap.
Nice! Another method is to go straight to the company's job post - searching words like "posted", "published", and "created" in the source code.
Getting in the way of powerful people getting more power is always punished more harshly than anything else, including murder.

In this case, he annoyed powerful IP owners, and those people in our current society are as powerful as they get.
Until you start paying for it on cloud deployments per GB transfer.
Are you talking about The Register here? That's a fairly strange accusation for a news outlet that goes out of it's way to be provocative to the entire industry.

At least it used to - I haven't kept up much recently.

If you know better then please tell - but I'm not clear at this point whether you have an informed opinion - or whether you have no idea what The Register is.
Google has collected multiple businesses in its conglomerate structure that gives it far too much power and control over society beyond the simple monopoly charge.

YouTube, Search, Email, advertising, are all controlled by the same people and that is a problem for freedom and the economy.
Because of a quirk of emissions controls in the US. Longer wheelbases and heavier vehicles can get by with poorer emissions. It was done, at the time, to help semi trailers and other huge trucks meet less restrictive requirements without specifically calling them out but now has led to each manufacturer making vehicles as large as possible so meeting emissions restrictions is more economical.
I assume governance is the art of the possible, and banning motorbikes is impossible for political reasons, where banning hobby vehicles looks pretty straight-forward.
Yeah, just like with Standard Oil...
If what comes after is not better, then we waited too long to break this monopoly up.

We either start ripping this band-aids off or we will just continually have a worse and worse internet.
Sure. I propose...a trial.
> if safety was the overall concern, then motorcycles would have been banned a long time ago

And horse riding on the road - it’s still legal. I believe you can even ride cows in most countries

Safety of the driver, mind you, should be lower priority than safety of others, I.e. pedestrians.

Driver chose to drive whatever that is, but pedestrians didn’t. From that perspective motorcycles are great, they are least likely vehicle to main a pedestrian or child.
The comment he's responding to speculates that he is being paid by russia to post on twitter, as if people couldn't come to their own conclusions based on their own views and their own biases, which are very very strong against the US if you're Kim Dotcom with good reason.
I'm very curious to see what a breakup looks like. Past breakups involved "uniform" businesses:

- American Tobacco: Commodity

- Standard Oil: Commodity

- AT&T: Utility

- Northern Securities: Railroads

- Swift & Co: Meatpacking

- Kodak: Film

- Paramount: Movie Theaters

Google is more of a synergistic conglomerate. How would spinning off an individual business like Chrome, Android, or AdWords reduce their respective dominance?

I support this ruling and more across all industries, but I'm trying to square how a breakup should work that actually drives competition.
Need the money is rarely sound reasoning strategically
Thanks to everyone that contributes and uses Godot Engine!
I bet that too is a ton of what drives interest, the platform angle was just the primary thing that came to mind now that that’s more the world I think about

The piracy discussion is also hugely fascinating; I’m sure a good portion of HN remember Napster and friends, and the endless discussions had about that. We don’t seem to talk about it a lot.
Megaupload had lots of grey/dark patterns, namely people could upload whatever but downloading anything big, each Downloader had to buy credits.

Actually to that end he got millions in cash facilitating piracy of movies/tv/software
Would love to see data otherwise but I don't believe this is the case. I hear this argument a lot for kei vehicles but its still a niche compared to the broader truck market. 2023 units sold, ford ranger 40k, f-series 760k. The kei market is vastly smaller than the ranger market.

I am sure that profit margin/advertising plays a mix into the decisions but I also think the consumer largely does not want small cars.

Edit: And for small work trucks, most of that market seems to be eaten up by the smaller commercial van vehicles at this point.
Yeah I don’t know how this will go, but I’m not too optimistic.

It feels like one of those situations where we “get exactly what we asked for”. Like those movies with an Evil Genie who delivers on their wishes in the sneakiest way possible. “You wished for $1M, so I burned your house down - but look at all the insurance money you got!”

Or maybe a bit like how everyone wanted their cable bills to be cheaper (“just let me pay for the few channels I watch!”) and what we got was 15 different streaming services at $12/month.
DOJ/FTC cannot possibly sue every company at the same time, and probably shouldn't.

Depending on how this goes, companies will need to change how they act in fear of the hammer coming down on them next.
One huge question is whether or not you took the time to read the T&C yourself, or got ChatGPT to analyse that for you too. Regardless, I'm in awe of your approach to being a serial contester.
Like the C and C++ compiler fragmentation, each with their own flavour of ISO support, UB and language extensions?

Or the Go compiler fragmentation, where only the reference compiler supports everything, tinygo a subset, and gccgo left to die in Go pre-generics era.
no. he gave people a way to send stuff and they sent what they wanted.
So, you can work your entire life and then not have to work any more i.e. retire. Rich is getting a retirement now??
Your statements are framed as arguments, like in a debate. But it’s clear to most, at least clear to the down voters and the other responders, that you haven’t thought about or investigated these concepts. Instead of writing many argumentative paragraphs, spend that time asking ChatGPT specific questions or skimming some Wikipedia articles. Some people don’t like to read, they’d rather explore ideas by arguing about them. But that’s a drain on discussions, not an addition to it.

E.g.(paraphrased) “my point is the Fermi paradox is dumb”- no physicists think that is the case. Some people on the outside, looking in, with no understanding think so. A child walks into a theatre halfway through a movie that is geared towards adults, watches for 3 minutes, and announces defiantly that the movie is dumb. Is it worth arguing with that child?
Standard oil lacks the ability to shape the narrative that google has.

If standard oil had control of the information space history would be very different. Not even Ma Bell had the power that google has
If someone's a weirdo and wants to stuff their millions into a mattress, that by itself should not be sufficient to presume them guilty of any illegal activity, or justify seizing their money.
Thumbnails can often be misleading but it’s one way to attract a new audience, although the method is quite irritating
The best way to tackle this is enforce right for repair and require opensourcing of various components. Breaking up google will be an impossible job.

If we mandate that our electronics and software must be repairable then these companies will automatically no longer be able to hold monopolies on their platforms.
The submarines are almost certainly useless. We won't get them for decades. We're not even allowed to service the nuclear reactors when we do get them. And the technology is already an old one and will likely already be superceded by the new much quieter air-independent fuel cell and lithium battery technologies which other countries are adopting.
The breakup that needs to happen is ads and search/youtube/etc, everything else would work itself out after that.
He hasn't been sentenced, let alone seen court yet. You don't have a right to flee a warrant for your arrest?
This sounds like a massive conspiracy if I have ever heard one. Evidence would be helpful.

Foreign markets are often very different and those vehicles don't pass safety in the US. My favorite was the death traps that Toyota Mexico made up until a couple years ago. Brand new vehicle but absolute death trap.
Again, if I am allowed to dream, we can have a community around the exchange of these list files.
I don’t think the money in question was forfeited in the sense that the US uses, only seized pending an investigation. The lack of a corrupting incentive alone makes the seizure less suspicious in my eyes.
Nah, he built a file sharing service and people paid for that.
I just wish people would stop using the phrase "seconds since epoch" (or equivalent) unless that is exactly what they mean.

I wonder what does

select time_sub(time_date(2011, 11, 19), time_date(1311, 11, 18));

return?
As far as I remember, not only aware, but activly uploading warez themself (not officially).
Rongorongo has roughly double that number of glyphs. The descendant (Rapa Nui) of the language it encodes is still spoken, and there's a whole family of related languages. But we haven't made much headway in deciphering it. Linear A has one advantage though: we have some understanding of how the script works, and can (or think we can) pronounce parts of the text. There's also Etruscan, which is partially deciphered (about 250 words are understood with any certainty), but it has no surviving relatives and only a couple of bilingual texts, one very short and the other not a literal translation of the known language. So all we have to go on is textual and archaeological context.
New Zealand source: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41253465
Show HN: Tonbo - Embedded DB for structured data storage
"LLMs" are really general-purpose sequence models. No reason it can't work, but so far results have been mixed in practice.
Your comment appears to have been downvoted for being inconvenient, despite its truth.
Individualized cancer therapy demonstrates safety and sustained immune responses
As long as they finally start adding plugin hybrids to the lineup. I'm itching to buy a PHEV tacoma, but it looks like midsize trucks will be the last form factor to get any decent options.
The fair thing to do would be to bring proceedings against him the New Zealand. Extraditing him to the U.S. isn't accountability: it's a flex.
Good news, the Fifth Circuit court just ruled that Geo-fenced warrants are illegal!

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2024/08/5th-circuit-rule...

Since this is in conflict with a Fourth Circuit ruling, we will probably see it in front of the Supreme Court.
I'm not a fan but do you have real proof of this conspiracy theory? It's very popular to accuse people of being on Russia's payroll now. Rather unfortunately it dumbs down the movement to hold Russia responsible for invading Ukraine.
That's referring to the same "toothpaste laser", yes. The discussion never arrived at a satisfactory algorithm -- I tend to agree with the gist of the incremental "steering" ideas, though.
How would you know? How would they know? Okay, sure you will have a hunch based on the answer, but it seems something that only experience can tell. (Okay, you can ask them about their experience.. and who know how forthcoming and honest and relevant their answer will be, right?)
Ah yes, the classic. Everybody who opposes american foreign policy is labeled. Tweet about opposing the genocide in gaza? Oh dont listen to him -- he is pro khamas. Tweet about opposing war in ukraine arguing that NATO is outdated and not in the interest of Ukrainians? Oh pay no attention to him -- he is on the communist payroll.

I understand when leaders in politics or industry make these character-assasination attacks as they do it for their own interests (political or economical) but why do you do it? Why would normal people throw baseless accusations like this? What is your motivation? What skin do you have in this game? Is your argument really "Kim Dotcom is an agent because he is opposing the ethnic cleansing of Palestinians and he is against a forever war in Ukraine"?

He is presumably some guy that youve never met that happens to be fighting against the US government and its copyright laws so why are you making these comments? Are you so passionate about copyrights because you are an artist that has lost money because of mega? What motivates you?
The guy has a lot of money, so therefore he is more guilty than normal men?
Kangaroo court it is. We say you're a movie pirate, so you are one. Life in prison for you.

...that is a summary of Kim's trial. Movie companies own the government.
Well, ya know - it could be. Not needed until they are... risk management. Most should hope that their weapons are never "needed."
> Part of the problem is that tech products tend to be natural monopolies.

Middleman platforms often become natural monopolies due to network effects, but how does this expand to tech products in general?

I don't see any structural incentives that lead to natural monopolies in search, email, or a wide variety of other products that Google is dominant in.
Wasn’t his problem that the platform was itself seeding copyrighted material to attract users? It’s not a neutrality issue.
The F35s we have are pretty sweet but we are paying a shit tonne for like 5 submarines that we are going to receive in the 2040s. China already had 10x that many attack submarines. The subs deal stinks.
Compiler based Autodiff ("Backpropagation") for nightly Rust
The whole point of the AUKUS submarine deal is to never get them. It’s a political manoeuvre, an emollient for national security hardliners.
I've been looking forward to them going back to the single-threaded shader for web exports. This is a huge step forward for Godot 4 and browser games.

https://godotengine.org/article/progress-report-web-export-i...
Motorbikes are hobby vehicles.
Google's "search results" are the textbook definition of a monopolized good/service. The whole thing is almost a casino, rigged to the point of absurdity.

There has been nothing in my life so disillusioning as working on a Web app for a company that is more or less required to play Google's game.
Chloroplast also have layers, but my biology is too week to know if it's related https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chloroplast#Structure

Does someone know more about the topic?
Where in the article is Trump mentioned? The article is about extraditing a person, who could just fly to a USA country that doesn't have a extradition pact, such as Russia or China. Dotcom has been saying pro Russia war things on twitter, which is easy to read. So OPs comment is consistent with the theme of the article.

Equating it to possible Trump Russia connections however has nothing to do with the article.
I wish someone has taught me that. It really boils down to that most of the time.
BulletML was developed by ABA Games (aka kenta cho, creator of the classic rrootage, which is now open source).

It was rrootage that sent me down a rabbit hole and eventually stumbled onto fal-works and firedancer after someone suggested their works had the same aesthetic appeal.

The libbulletml c++ library is still somewhat used in some niche vertical shmup games (mostly Japanese indie games). You can read a little about bulletml and the history of it all in the libbulletml readme file.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ABA_Games

[1] https://github.com/abagames/rrootage

[2] https://shinh.skr.jp/libbulletml/README.en.txt

[3] https://www.fal-works.com/solid-aether
> I think it's clear for everybody that one cannot get away with this kind of stuff, once governments get involved.

I'm far more concerned with the stuff that governments get away with, including infringement of the freedom to share information.
I think it was more than ignoring the DMCA.
He didn't "share songs on the internet".

He created a site where you can upload anything with complete privacy and anonymity. And then used it for racketeering, allegedly, which is where the government interest starts. The RIAA/MPAA want their pound of flesh, too, and it gave plenty of fertile ground for the US DOJ to build a case around so that they could get discovery and find out what they were really trying to get access to. But the piracy is not the point; not by a long shot.

As with anything that allows absolute anonymity AND absolute privacy, it's bound to attract bad actors. Yes, the "pirate music" types. But ALSO the "sell humans" and "provide criminal services (hitman/fraud agent/patsy agreement/etc)" types.

Dotcom can turn blind eyes all he wants, but if won't take responsibility for the damage he is facilitating, it is in the public interest for him to be held accountable against his will.

I'll never stop pirating media, and I'd never want a media pirate to go to jail. But I'll never defend a human trafficker either, no matter how "innocent" they allow themselves to remain via intentional ignorance.
People say this but there's nothing "natural" about Google's monopoly, to get to where they are today, they had to make a dozen major acquisitions, and if the last few administrations hadn't been bought and paid for, the FTC could have said no to any of them. In particular they should have looked very very hard at Doubleclick. I mean who are we kidding, they should have said no to Doubleclick.

So we are in a world today where things like Android, Chrome, and the default search experience on an iPhone are all what they are because of Google's need to build moats around the GooDubClick cash cow. More importantly it's really hard to compete with these things unless you have a GooDubClick cash cow of your own, which guess what basically nobody does. Decouple them and that will start to change, there will be many businesses that will take all sorts of novel approaches, and that is what we refer to as "innovation" when we are being pragmatic and un-cynical about what innovation is, it's a dozen or a thousand companies throwing new stuff out there and sooner or later some of it sticks and the world changes.

NOTHING is natural about what Google is today unless you consider the FTC not doing its job for 15-20 years "natural."
Google would need to get public opinion on their side first.
The context is more nuanced that how presented by K.D.:

the obedient US colony in the South Pacific just decided
to extradite me for what users uploaded to Megaupload"

See Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Megaupload_legal_case#Basis_of...
DMCA which is not even a law in New Zealand, or indeed in most countries. If the US can extradite someone for ignoring DMCA takedowns, why couldn't Russia extradite someone for ignoring Russian censorship takedowns?
File sharing is not a crime.

IP holder damages should take in consideration what the actual buying power of pirates is, not just multiply downloads by dvd costs, and copyright laws need a huge reform.

He's a modern day robin hood, people would prefer him to win over eg. disney... and disney is not doing itself a favour these days :)
Yes, everybody is still super upset that Microsoft got hit by antitrust in 2001 and shifted heavily to B2B. We've really missed out on having more fantastic Microsoft software forcibly intertwined in our daily lives. I wish Microsoft owned all of desktop AND mobile computing AND the internet so I was forced to do everything via the fantastic Microsoft Windows!

Darn these regulators for trying to allow competitors to enter the market. Everybody knows, competition only makes things worse!

/s
He kept breaking laws with large penalties (or provided others a platform to do so, depending on your point of view) knowingly and repeatedly on a massive scale for many years.

Whether you think the particular laws are ethical or not, if you publicly break them, they will catch up with you.
>I understand when leaders in politics or industry make these character-assasination attacks as they do it for their own interests (political or economical) but why do you do it?

Thanks for articulating this, similar idea behind my sibling comment. Sadly i think the conclusion is that the vast majority of people are small minded, spiteful, and more or less accept whatever narrative the empire feeds them. Wish it wasn't like this