skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As someone who has been responsible for a bit north of $1B in profitable, attributable digital ad spend in my career, I can say with conviction that the problem comes down to analytics and misalignment of incentives, NOT the performance of digital media channels.

1)Agencies charge on a % of total media spend, and are thus incentivized to spend more.

2)Advertisers net benefit from expected lifetime value and revenue generation, but are often reticent to share this type of information to an agency.

Agencies are commonly unable to get access to business-level health metrics such as churn, RPU, LTV, and thus optimize to top of the funnel metrics that often do not correlate with attributable lift but do correlate with showing the value of increased levels of spend. Such metrics include click-through rate, viewability, brand awareness and safety, fraud mitigation, etc.

This, combined with the improved ease of use for major digital platforms (I know quite a few startup CEOs who manage all of their PPC/Facebook ad spend), is why the agency model has started to fail. And that is a good thing.

The less intermediaries that touch an advertising campaign, the less likely it is that we as consumers will see an irrelevant ad.
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You have already seen genetically engineered pro athletes. https://www.smh.com.au/news/basketball/yao-ming-the-basketba...
Both code and benchmark are open sourced. We'd love to hear how it performs for you.
> Too much inequality reduces economic growth.

Too much of anything is bad, though. That's kind of my concern. Opponents would be making the same arguments if income inequality were half of what it is. Or a quarter. People will always be able to find a justification for why someone else shouldn't have what they do.

The key question is how much is "too much," and more importantly, if the proposed fixes for that are worse than the "problem."

> Large amounts of money and power are interchangeable. Large inequality leads to political instability. Even if people have enough bread and circuses, they may not want to be just observers and see to what direction the wealthy move the society.

I don't think the situation is as clear-cut as this, at least in the US. No matter how wealthy you are, you still have only one vote, and both sides have no shortage or rich benefactors.

> Relative poverty is also a form of poverty.

I don't think it is, though. If someone has 1000x my assets but cannot use them to make his lifestyle notably better than mine, that in no way makes me "relatively impoverished." His additional zeroes in his bank account can only make me feel bad if I choose to feel bad about them (and many do).
I would agree that SMS 2-factor isn't as secure as we would like, but the OTP and app-based alternatives have their own problems. They're much harder to remotely exploit, but the procedure for how to recover your account in case of sudden loss of your phone is a big hole. It's too common for phones to be stolen, lost, damaged, or corrupted with no warning, and then you need a recovery procedure that isn't just as vulnerable to malicious exploitation as any of the others.
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Why would it be any different? Qualitatively speaking, such that you have the right to do the former but not the latter? If it's your property, why shouldn't you be able to give it to whoever you choose?

Of course, as others have already pointed out, inheriting wealth does not guarantee a life free of all financial difficulties. That depends on how the recipient uses the gift.
Raising the price also means being less competitive.
It was good for us because we have a toddler/infant so going out to a restaurant is really difficult and we like variety without a whole lot of meal planning effort. Adding the blue apron techniques to our repertoire made it a lot easier to throw stuff together from our CSA box and have a pretty focused shopping list for the grocery store.
>If someone was harmed in the making of the content, then use it as evidence to deal with the root of the issue; otherwise it's none of your concern.

I think you're missing the larger picture, though. It's never isolated to singular instances. If the content is decentralized, then so can the problem be.

You wouldn't say smallpox shouldn't be completely eradicated because "it never hurt me, so it's none of my concern."

Your solution is reactive. The problem with reactive solutions is that they don't solve the problem, they can only continually try to keep up with it.

Your comment inspires another question: what is everybody so concerned about having censored? It's not exactly a problem [in North America or online].
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Refer to my other comment. If you must, any constraint optimization solver will do. Here's two:
[1] Example http://apmonitor.com/online/view_pass.php
[2] HN Thread https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15530630
Causation vs Correlation.

My own belief is that the majority of those who rate films online tend to be of a younger demographic. As members of the Academy themselves get younger, it's not completely outside the realms of possibility that the two tastes become more aligned.
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I was reminded of this:
https://mikesmathpage.wordpress.com/2016/04/29/a-strange-pro...

which I solved with this F# script, while learning F#
https://gist.github.com/jackmott/bec1e4c7e84904702bac1dae97c...
I'm surprised the price for the unlimited mode is $30,000. I would think they would want to price that at more like $100,000.
I agree with you the current versions I've seen feel this way. But I like to think of it as programmable money: it can be whatever we want it to be.

Imagine an ICO that gives more reward when users provide a proof-of-income, and more tokens go to those worse off (sort of like a graduated income tax, but for ICOs). Not saying it's a good idea, just that it's programable so we can make it do whatever we think is best, it's up to us to determine what's best. The right model would require some iteration and experimentation.

There are hard challenges I don't have an answer for -- eg, the less well off probably overlap with those less likely to be engaged with weird internet experiments -- but they feel surmountable, if we want to solve it.
If you run a loss you're still on the hook for taxes? That doesn't make sense to me

But what if by SHEER COINCIDENCE the profit you would have made by normal accounting standards just so happens to be EXACTLY the licensing fee an overseas subsidiary charges to use your own brand?

Google spent a billion quid on their new HQ building in London. That's an awful lot to invest in a country where you make no profits...
Worth a read, or three:

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/67977.The_Sane_Society
It's much more useful then Strunk & White in my opinion.
Thank you for the information. I don't understand legalese that well (many colloquial things mean something different in legalese) so I will take your word for it. That changes my view on RtW
I guess the country where the actual profit is booked (i.e. Ireland) will allow these payments to be deducted from the gross profit, before taxing.

But you're right. A business selling airline tickets online from Ireland, running on razor thin margins, will pay a lot of tax. A business selling software licenses at 90% margin will pay very little.
That practice is not only the standard in accounting, but somewhat impossible to move out of. As I mentioned in another post:

Profit is a complex calculation when talking about cross-borders. If your company spends $20B in country A, $0 in country B, has revenue of $10B in country A and $10B in country B, how much profit did it generate in country B?
Becoming 'fat adapted' reduces this cost significantly as you can get approximately 120 fat calories in a tablespoon of high quality coconut or olive oil for about 10 cents in bulk based on my last trip to costco, and as long as you supplement that with an inexpensive protein source you can get by on a very cheap diet. I splurge on high quality veggies simply because we don't know enough about phytonutrients' effect on health to rule them out. This in combination with skipping meals (intermittent fasting) causes the food bill to drop significantly and has some potential health benefits.
Exactly. And compare this to 1980. Or 1960. Or 1920. Or 1860.

The trend is clear. Despite wealth inequality, the quality of life enjoyed by the average American has become dramatically better even including relative to the wealthy.

Focusing on dollar amounts as the only relevant measure disregards how much progress has actually been made to focus on counterproductive tribalism.
> profit you would have made by normal accounting standards

These are normal accounting standards.
This is why you pay tax on your income and not on how much is left at the end of the month, right?
When a mind that has no business thinking about some thing starts coming up with ideas for it, you get lots of half-baked little gems like this.
Ads offend me. They're an imposition, distracting, mind pollution. So I block them. And even when I see them, using a browser in a LiveCD etc, I pointedly ignore them.

Now maybe I'm unusual. Long ago, I did get used to an Internet without ads. And was sad when malware and ads started showing up. But given the increasing prevalence of ad blockers, I'm not that unusual.

So anyway, average view time of 1.5 sec for ads seems about right. Especially if that average includes lots of zeros.
It's going to kill me.

Anecdote of one.
What's up with Google selling all these cool properties? Are they running out of money? :). More likely it's just management getting too short sighted for creative and quirky startups to thrive or even survive there. May be thanks to Ruthless Ruth and clueless Rosenstein blessed with penny pincher Page. I've heard stories about Boston Dynamics being treated with such a heavy hand to contribute to bottom line and give up on their long term vision that they rather just wanted out. Google used to be a very cool company. It stopped being cool on the day Boston Dynamics left the building.
I suspect the size of the phone screen isn’t large enough for distance information to affect the rendered output significantly.
I've had alot of luck with boardgame meetups. Atleast in my city there is no pressure to buy anything. They're typically weekly with more events interspersed throughout the month
tax wouldn't apply to competitors?
Have to pick a small nit, not entirely correct to say that no one else has put a jet engine in a street legal car, there was in fact a "production" jet-engine based car 1962-64, the short-lived Chrysler Turbine (seen on "Jay Leno's Garage", CNBC)
There's a methodological problem with some of this data: the top 10% of income earners is a statistical category. The share of income going to the top 10% doesn't tell you much about actual inequality as experienced by real people unless you know how static the individuals making up the top 10% are.

Imagine that everyone gets a year in the top 10%, but that the top 10% has 90% of the wealth. That's not that problematic because the benefits of being in the top 10% are evenly distributed throughout society, despite this being a highly unequal society if you use share of income going to the top 10% as your inequality metric.

Basically, looking at the top 10% isn't helpful for understanding income inequality because the top 10% is an unchanging statistical category. You need to look at the people who are in the top 10% (at any point in time) and look at how their wealth changes over time.

Edit: Last time I mentioned this people thought I was arguing that inequality isn't a problem. I'm not saying that. I am saying that you need to look at how individuals wealth changes over time to see how much of a problem inequality is.
> As someone who's built a couple of personal electric vehicles I can attest, the US has plenty of regulations of what you can do on the highways and byways.

It depends. If you're starting with a rolling chassis that's already road legal 99% of the work is done for you.

In CA you can drive a death trap as long as it doesn't pollute.

In MI you can drive a vehicle that burns tires and is lubricated with whale oil as long as it has mud flaps.

It's not like some places in Europe where applying for a mortgage has less paperwork than installing aftermarket control arms.

I mean, I'm all for less regulation for DIYers but we do have it pretty good here.
I know you're getting a lot of unsolicited advice here, but I'd like to throw in my suggestion since you don't seem interested/capable of a lot of the suggested hobbies. I found myself in a similar situation in the past (health + geographical isolation) and becoming heavily involved and eventually and admin of a web forum was one of the best things that ever happened to me. I'm no longer involved, but it was a wonderful place with a really supportive community better than anything I've experienced in real life outside of college. If you find yourself on your computer for a large portion of the day anyway, it's a great way to make those hours more productive due to friendship :)
> but that, certainly in the UK, healthcare professionals seemingly lie (by omission at least) in order to further vaccination.

I mean, you can't just leave a claim like that dangling. A source would be ideal, but at least explain the claim of what the lie is would be nice.
“No one recommends these diets for anyone, let alone everyone.”

But surely there must be some hacker out there who has decided to try it.
> Taxing on revenue rather than profit feels wrong

This is for companies that make money in the EU but don't pay taxes here. If Apple decides to pay taxes here like we all do then they will get taxed on profits. Revenues is just far simpler to calculate if you know/assume 'tax optimization'.
A BLE fence maybe?
I feel like there's still a lot of potential for this type of a business to pivot/grow as they try to improve the unit economics in multiple ways.

It sounds like (based on the thread) a lot of people picked up Blue Apron as a starting point to cooking. So why not create an interesting skillset based/gamification of cooking product where you learn new skills all the time. I'm sure everyone can dice/cut/bake/fry/sautee etc in a few meals but there are probably other advanced techniques which you could subscribe to, to learn new/interesting techniques/recipes.

Also, you could have a community based thing where different people compete for skillset or you order blue apron for a party and cook together etc (larger quantities -- less wastage, better economics).
I'm sure we could attempt this today with a larger dataset of foods and nutrients. I know that there's nutritiondata.self.com and the usda's nutrition database, anyone know of an average price dataset for food?
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Or to put it another way: what is the viewability of the side of a bus? A digital campaign with the same stats would have serious complaints.
Nah, it gets cut like sales tax but the deductibility is different. You deduct VAT from sales tax. You deduct taxes you have to pay on profit from that 5% tax you paid (or was paid for you).
Biking and walking to work are a couple of the loneliest activities I've tried.
Thank you! It's funny you should mention that because I've been thinking about continuous optimization a lot lately.

That's a great video, I really like his slider method for understanding the coordinates. Thanks for linking it!
I have read a lot of papers and usually, you end up in the original one if you check the references. But you have to check papers in specific areas. I am not aware of any good document where everything is there.
Without tax incentives, our ability to attract foreign direct investment is massively reduced

The Irish government hit upon a very clever strategy of collecting subsidies from the EU, spending that money in lieu of tax in its own territory, therefore being able to charge lower corporation tax, luring jobs away from the very economies that were paying those aformentioned subsidies in the first place! Unfortunately the other EU countries have figured out what was happening now.
I'm pro EU. But there are only two options: either you merge the EU into a proper union (shared taxes, no tax competition within the bloc, shared money streams and bonds) or you disband it (or at least reduce some of its responsibilities).

The issue in part is that the euro, while great to use for consumers, wasn't thought out properly. The Euro Germany needs isn't the Euro Greece needs. And that has significant effects throughout local economies.

Tax competition can only be solved by throwing everything in one pot, and then dividing it again so everyone wins. But I can't see that happening with all the populism rising across the world.
You don't even have to go through Unsafe. ByteBuffer.allocateDirect() gives you a chunk of off-heap memory.
> Google spent a billion quid on their new HQ building in London. That's an awful lot to invest in a country where you make no profits...

Not really, if it's a regional talent center; Google needs physical locations where it wants to spend money by hiring people more than it needs them where it makes money, since it's moneymaking operations are not high-tech in-person interactions.
You can lose money this year, but still owe property taxes. This is not an unheard of concept.
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Certain industries have a much slimmer margin than others. Automotive manufacturing (and many other types of manufacturing) hovers below a 10% profit margin. Agriculture is similarly low-margin. The tech giants have much larger margins.

If you tax revenue instead of profit, you push low-margin industries (the ones that are operating the most efficiently/ competitively) out of your country. It is a very silly thing to do.

It is unusual that the tax plan in the article targets the specific high-margin tech companies. I wonder how the implementation will accomplish this.
The did a numberphile video on this exact topic a few months ago:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mceaM2_zQd8
ByteBuffer.allocateDirect is another off-JVM-heap solution that's not marked unsafe.
Not a tax expert but I believe lots of taxes work that way. Wealth tax for instance (an individual may end up paying more taxes than it has revenues). All taxes based on employee salaries. Corporate taxes on unrealised capital gains. Not defending these taxes but they are not uncommon.
Isn’t that essentially the same as VAT, which also is a local tax on revenue?
I'm always afraid of the negative attention with such political statements, but I most definitely feel left behind by America and am not a fan of it's priorities. I did what I was "supposed" to, paid into the system, worked hard, and when I needed help it wasn't there and common things available to me before, like medical care/insurance, were suddenly out of reach. I find that incomprehensible in a first world nation.

I have seen friends in similar positions in countries with robust social systems rebuild their lives and live/contribute again in ways not possible without that healthcare/education/living support. I lived abroad for some time and was able to access medical care there I simply cannot afford here but wasn't able to emigrate fully. The "rugged individualism" attitude of the culture doesn't seem to have much room for people once they lose their independence whether it's their fault or not...which frankly I don't think should matter...but especially hurts since I am not at fault for my situation.

I gave up arguing about it a long time ago as I've never succeeded in changing anyone's view and just get depressed at the debate. Only suffering it directly seems to ever change people, and some of those people still seem to attack other victims rather than the cause of the issue. It's a bigger problem than I can affect but I hope one day people aren't left behind in such ways.
Does it? Profit is what determines the value to shareholders (of mature steady companies). 10% profit tax is the same amount for comapnies with the same amount of profit.
When you scale a figure, say by doubling all distances, the area quadruples. Scale by factor k and the area goes up by a factor k^2.
So if the area proportion between the triangle and the square is T:S, and we scale both figures by the same factor k, we get areas k^2* T and k^2* S respectively.

But k^2* T:k^2* S = T:S.
I think you're right that it is just a stepping stone, and it may work like that, but I also see another option.

With Amazon's Whole Foods acquisition and penchant for turning everything into scaleable infrastructure, I wouldn't be surprised to see an API for groceries released in the near future. Then every single recipe blog out there could simply have a button to "Buy this meal" and get it either delivered or assembled and ready for in-store pickup. It would be a game changer.