skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> You've seen those links? Have you read them? The third one is a link to the most extensive literature review ever undertaken,

I did read those links. The first two conspicuously did not make a claim about a physiological origin, and the third gave a "report" link that led to a paywall.

https://www.nap.edu/catalog/19012/beyond-myalgic-encephalomy...

> and their conclusions were strong enough for them to state flatly in the abstract that this is not psychological or psychiatric.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25695122

Thanks! This new link was super useful, and is probably the strongest evidence available on this thread. Do you think that the CDC would endorse the claim about physiological origins in this report? (It's from 2015.) It's notable that the report introduces yet another name and set of defining criteria. As far as I can tell this report does not yet reflect an expert consensus, but I've updated my opinions significantly.

> I'm left wondering exactly what it will take for people to back off this stuff about this being a psych illness.

Can we agree that, given the social and economic implications, there is a huge demand from patients for doctors to issue a diagnosis for various collections of self-report symptoms (not just CFS/ME/SEID)? And that this leads to the potential for bias in the system? Are you not unsettled by the fact that the report you link admits that replication and validity are still big open problems?

I'm generally very worried with the anger and political bent to this thread (though your comments in particular have been very productive and are much appreciated). It just seems more productive try to convince skeptics based on the merits of the evidence, and admit when there remain significant disagreement and uncertainty among experts.
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Governments, like most living things, want to be at the top of the power hierarchy. Families are similar organisms that accrue power similarly. Where families are powerful, governments and corporations are weak. So, governments do things to cripple families so they cannot become powerful enough to be dangerous. Retaining wealth across generations is a thing that makes a family powerful.
Because in most environments it's unusual that a developer would go back and change the code after shipping it -they'll have e.g. another high priority bug to fix.
Reviewing and refactoring code prior to shipping helps to keep development going sustainably, reducing build up of technical debt.
"2021 is a [wonderful|interesting|prime?|...] number." - That's hacker news.
Sounds pretty reasonable.
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Can you help me understand the pullqoute? I didn’t understand what he’s talking about at all. Is it about not having to recompile?
That's a good point I didn't consider. Hope you'll never ever need those factoids though! :)
Check your credit. My second son was born a month early and spent 3 days in the NICU. 3 years later I was getting fresh bills from doctors I couldn't remember. Spent another year arguing with the hospital, the doctors and the facilities people(hospital and floor space and doctors all are different bills!!!!!). After a year they "wrote off the bills" what they actually did was stopped chasing me or accepting my calls, and put a knock on my credit report for the debt. it was another year of fighting those.
You can usually negotiate that after you've confirmed that the product will actually do what you need it to do.

When I took sales calls, I would usually sit through the intro pitch from the salesperson, and if it seemed in the ballpark, I would cut the call short and ask to be put in touch with product/engineering by email. And if I liked what I saw, I'd go back to the salesperson for pricing, etc.
The reality is that the large US tech giants this is aimed at are essentially mercantile companies. Paying little or no UK tax on significant UK revenues, which are then remitted via tax efficient structures to the US parent. Profits are a Will-o'-the-wisp which appears and disappears in whatever tax jurisdiction is most efficient at the time. For this reason I don't see corporation tax (which is <10% of total tax receipts) being something future governments can count on (unless that government is home to the mercantile company). TLDR: Find somewhere else to get the 9%.
They'll raise prices on advertisers in the UK, who will subsequently raise prices on consumers.
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> Could you explain the rationale for excluding such unearned income, other than privileging generational wealth against wealth earned by personal work and investment?

If I buy a round of drinks, do people have to pay tax?

(I assume there's some minimum threshold)
I don't believe the economy is zero-sum either but handing $10B in capital to your child gives them a significantly unfair advantage compared to most others.

Image that the economy is a field of wheat. It grows bigger every year as workers become more productive and learn how to fertilize and water more efficiently. At the end of the season, everyone gets a chance to head into the field and collect some wheat.

Some people don't have any tools. They pick the wheat by hand. Others have managed to fashion scythes and can collect a little more. But, the kid who inherited $10b has a fleet of combines that race into the field and collect 75% of the wheat in a flash.

The economy (wheat field) grew bigger and everyone had a little more wheat but the $10b kid got way more than the others and can now buy another combine for the fleet to get even more next year.

Without some rational tax on inherited wealth, we will create (and already have created in the United States) a plutocracy.
From the report:

> "We did not evaluate native public cloud container or Kubernetes services."

In which case AKS doesn't show up because the report intentionally excluded it.

Again, I don't understand anything about the methodology of this report, it's very clear it's designed to present some bias, but there isn't enough transparency on what/why/where, and every time I skim it I come up with other questions as to the validity of this report towards any market size determinations whatsoever.
I wouldn't choose Windows Home for Ruby on Rails development for the same reason that I wouldn't choose CentOS for gaming.
Those 'intermediate' media companies can be purchased. Who exactly is holding them accountable and to what? I'd argue that both Fox News & MS NBC are biased to the point of being useless for informational purposes and objective thought.

I also wonder how much of this 'fake news' people actually believe vs. using it as justification for their existing beliefs & non-rational biases.

Globalization, LGBT rights, open trade, open borders, etc. have happened relatively quickly and people resist change.
> How exactly will Facebook raise prices in a way that it will hit the average consumer?

The average consumer is also a worker and depends on an employer that will be paying higher advertising costs for the same benefit.
I doubt that and I'd like to see a source to back that asertion up.

Here's one for Ed paying more than Amazon

https://www.fastcompany.com/90251523/ed-sheeran-paid-more-uk...
IBM sold their laptop business to Lenovo years ago.
Nope. https://www.kickscondor.com/satya-nadella-'reads''games'-hac...

Like you say: I think it's a waste of time to condemn entire platforms - there are really interesting people in these places that can be always discovered. Here and on YouTube. Just be aware that there you might occasionally find yourself in a zone besieged.
I’m pretty sure FB already maximizes their profit per user based on what they think the user can tolerate, and I doubt it can be arbitrarily pushed further on a whim.
I don't think it's 'conscientious' at all to not negotiate.

That's apprehension, fear, excessive humility.

It's actually conscientious to negotiate a fair price.

In any event, it was beyond their means - and there's no reason for it in most cases.
Factory labor might be shit, but it typically comes with good health benefits and will put food on the table for your family.

I get the feeling that people who snub factory jobs live too high on the economic ladder to realize how much of a step up that sort of job can be for a person.
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> WhatsApp and Instagram acquisitions needed approvals from EU before they could continue.

What would it mean for a US based company if they decided to acquire two other US based companies and US regulators approved it, but EU regulators didn't?

What would happen if the company went forward with the acquisition anyway?
I briefly skimmed some of the comments before posting, but did not see that one. That makes perfect sense, thanks.
I think "fill" means "fill in with other soil so you can treat it like normal land" not "fill with toxic waste".
As someone who basically reads only technical pdf's and long form articles, your software looks cool, I am definitely going to check it out!

IPFS/Filecoin/SIA would be a neat way to go. I would urge you to look into mastodon as well as twitter and fb. It is growing, its federated, and generally more in line with our privacy beliefs.
Bolsonaro wants cops to kill more. Why are victims voting for him?
I agree re: the sftp point; people often refer to it as ftp given the interface mimicry.
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More to the point, if Facebook isn’t selling anything to UK consumers, will it pay any tax?
How about maintaining some sense of balance, responsibility, and austerity in our societies, instead of forever marching towards a fictional leisure-filled utopia?
It's a problem if you care about any of the measurable real-world consequence of wealth inequality.

It's also a problem if you view it as a symptom of a system that isn't functioning well at giving everyone a fair shake in life, in participating economically or politically.

The number itself isn't a problem, it's what it causes and what it's caused by that's the problem.

Get money out of politics, get everyone a vote and the capacity to use it, make sure everyone's fed and housed adequately, everyone has access to health care and education ... make it so we're living in a Star Trek TNG universe, and I don't care about how much the next guy has either.

Until then, it's worth looking at, at least the very least to help us to see why we don't have all those nice things.
Firstly, "linked to sugar" is not "squarely caused by sugar".

Secondly, sugar use is extremely widespread. Much more so than use of heroin. Few people avoid ingesting some sugar.

Even if there were 4 times as many deaths confirmed to be squarely caused by sugar, that alone shows sugar to be far safer, since it has far more than 4 times the users.

But never mind, let's look at, oh, the lethal dose (LD50) info. For sugar, that is supposedly something like 30 g/kg. The LD50 for heroin (intravenous) is something like 20 mg/kg: more than a thousand times less.

Plus there is copious sugar in your bloodstream without which you'd be in hypoglycemic shock leading to death.
Not at all. Genuine observation.

My last game of chess was three weeks ago and I lost. This was after a 3-4 year break from the game as my chess buddy moved out of town. I know what it is to be rusty!

Due to an increase in world population it can be pedantically argued that chess is more popular now than it ever has been.

However, when The Turk existed people did not have video games to play. People had to make do with board games including chess. People also played card games such as Bridge, a game that is practically extinct in the current era.

A different level of concentration is required to play chess than that required for Fortnite, Candy Crush, Forza Horizon and other popular titles. Nowadays most people do not know how good their friends are at chess, in previous times people did know who was worth playing and who was not worth playing.

Everyone from the Baby Boomer generation should have some knowledge of chess as it was part of growing up, it is what people did at some stage of education if you were in the 'top sets'. However, playing chess at school or even university is a long time ago for Baby Boomer vintage politicians. Knowing how to play the game fifty years ago is not the same as being able to play today.

Bill Clinton is from a generation ago, he is not a current politician. As for Obama I am sure he can play chess but in his photo opportunities he spent his time playing golf, not chess. I am sure he knows the rules of the game and can play extremely competitively, however I doubt that he would be queuing up to take on The Turk or today's IBM chess monster equivalent.

So in today's crop of Western leaders there is The Donald. Casinos and golf, not chess. I am struggling to think of anyone in UK politics that is known for playing chess. It is not in their culture. David Cameron playing Candy Crush, that was a thing though.

As for Russia, the home of the game, Putin is not known for playing chess. He is known for judo, horse riding and many sports, not chess. I doubt you would have to go very far in his cabinet to find sharp players though.

You read in the Wikipedia page about how many powerful leaders sought out a game with the Turk. I am not politician bashing at all by my comment that the world has changed and that I can't imagine the current crop of Western leaders queuing up to take on The Turk.
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I can sure relate to this. Or my favorite question: "What happens when I click that magnifying glass in the top nav?" and they say, "Oh, I didn't think about that!"

I doubt the real answer is for the designer to code (though it's nice when you get to work with someone like that), but you sure have to ask a lot of questions, and you never manage to check everything up front. Especially anything that doesn't immediately open a new web page, at every step there are just so many input possibilities: the user clicks this button or that, clicks elsewhere, types a bit here then a bit there, presses Enter, presses Tab, presses Escape, has a screenreader, is on a phone, is on an iPad, gets an error, gets 1000 results, changes the dropdown that enabled this other control. . . . I guess you do the best you can imagining flows up front, but plan on having some iteration as you discover gaps in the design.
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Most of the benefits you ascribe to Twitter aren't exclusive, are far more likely to take place on other media and are, in fact, slowly being eroded by the global and noisy nature of Twitter/Facebook.

On the other hand, Twitter created a new set of serious problems that didn't exist before. Heck, Musk was in court and lost a portion of his control over Tesla because he was on Twitter.
That's no excuse. If they needed a connected, veteran executive now, they also needed one when they decided to promote someone who didn't have those credentials. So this indicates poor leadership qualities in multiple ways. Not the least of which is treating a valued employee like garbage.
Turn it upside down you get Hewlett-Packard :-)
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>> in the civilian world, he'd be similar to a squatter.

No and no. This is the civilian world. An embassy is an outpost of a civilian government. Despite all the spycraft associated with them, they are not military outposts and government cannot conduct military operations from them. They are armed only enough to defend themselves.

He is also definitely not a squatter. He was invited in. Squatters by definition enter without permission.
That's the weight of the bullet, not how much or what kind of powder, which both can make a world of difference.
"A study of young, urban injection drug users interviewed in 2008 and 2009 found that 86 percent had used opioid pain relievers nonmedically prior to using heroin... Of people entering treatment for heroin addiction who began abusing opioids in the 1960s, more than 80 percent started with heroin. Of those who began abusing opioids in the 2000s, 75 percent reported that their first opioid was a prescription drug."[0]

What if they're being intentionally coerced by pharma?

[0]: https://www.drugabuse.gov/publications/research-reports/rela...
I wonder what will happen when neural networks can generate illegal content, like child pornography.
Better question- why is the Board allowing his incompetence to run this company into the ground?
> So we think he deserves something in this whole situation. And then, I considered even more. What can we really do?

Maybe give him a part of the $432k?
I'm not 100% sure on how diplomatic immunity works here, but couldn't Russia send a diplomat in an official vehicle to the Ecuadorian embassy to pick Assange up? I think official vehicles get the same diplomatic protections of an embassy, so as long as he enters and exits the car inside embassy walls, he should be ok, right? Or does diplomatic immunity end entirely at the embassy walls?
This is brilliant! Thanks a lot. Are there more such scripts that you use for some other purposes?
> Note that the article did not mention a smartphone. The article mentioned any phone, include pay-by-minute or similar.

If all you need is a commodity phone, that is quite cheap and isn't really going to impact your playing of the "long game".

> Unfortunately, the stress and pressure of poverty or borderline poverty is a wonderful bed for which addiction can take place. Especially given that the culture of america promotes drinking regularly as a past time.

So just don't engage in it? The point of this article is that through power of will you can achieve great things. You've got to actually exercise some will to do them, though.
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This was inspired by apps like DevRant. Problem with those apps is that everything you post is linked to your account. What if you post a story, somebody you know reads it and recognizes you? That person would know all your secrets and shouts.

I wanted to create something where I could post without worries: no accounts, no censorship, automatic expiry (so things don't stay forever and you can have no regrets).

Regarding spam: that's a hard problem for sure. To stop bots, I'm thinking about adding a captcha. To stop spammy humans, there's already a "flag" button below each post. I'm thinking about adding a machine learning module that maybe can learn from the flags and then identify spam automatically. We'll see how it goes. If this thing gains some attraction, I'll surely add moderators from the community around it.
I wonder if you could even sell your own direct to consumers insurance. That would be one way to shake up the US healthcare market, but it need a hell of a lot of initial investment.
> it's only available to the super wealthy.

> I kid here

Indeed, you don't have to be super wealthy to dodge taxes.

In the UK some people who consider themselves poor will happily talk to a solicter about "inheritance tax planning".

https://www.moneysavingexpert.com/family/inheritance-tax-pla...
Totally. That's why I said 'latest' smartphone. You can get lower end smartphones for a pretty reasonable price.
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Compare yourself to who you were yesterday, last month, a year ago. Stop comparing yourself to others, remap comparing yourself against others to comparing yourself against your past self.
" They're just using it as a point of negotiation for a new US trade deal after Brexit."

Is this really that useful in that case? Not to say the UK is irrelevant, but after leaving the EU the UK won't be as big a market, is a 2% tax on a market dominated by the US really much of a threat to, anything?

Not to say the tax has no value at all in other ways (revenue) but as a negotiating tacit, not sure what it does.
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I don't think it is appropriate to put it on the front page of a newspaper though, because there is no control over who can see it.

If your husband/wife/son/daughter/parents were killed in that crash, would you want your young child walking past a news stand in the street to see their mangled bodies in a field displayed for all and sundry to gawk over? Would you want the rest of the world to see and remember your kin like that?

Somewhere in the mix, there has to be an element of basic human dignity and respect towards deceased people, and their loved ones who have to come to terms with that fact.
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Here's a write up of a GPU passthrough solution involving two GPUs: https://medium.com/@dubistkomisch/gaming-on-arch-linux-and-w...
This is genius. Give the network a bunch of photos with a persons' face censored (donald trump, for example). What would it replace the face with?
If you had to pay a fee to post a comment, the bots would not scale. Even 1 cent would work.
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And now %X of that cost will return to the economy instead of going overseas. Ad costs should stay roughly the same, since they are the result of bidding. It's not like Facebook leaves $2 on the table and says we'll keep that there for you guys unless we get taxed.

When something has near zero marginal cost, it is all just about demand. The only scarcity is caused from other bidders.

Why should a country send %X margin on all of their consumer products overseas (via ad costs) to someone who is selling their own citizens' content and capturing the users/locking them in with network effects? There is a lot of innovation at Facebook et. al., but they get a massively outsized portion of the network's value when you compare what they put in vs. what users are putting in.

Where it could hurt would be a service that can barely break even using ad revenue and goes under as a result. But for big corps with network-effect lock-in in their segment, it seems like a net win for any country that does this.
I don't know, but if the standard of comparison is Napoleon he doesn't need to be particularly good. There's even a bad opening named after him because he was known to be a mediocre player.
I know so many people who call into this in NYC and LA.
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> The tech giants are free services!

No - See [0] which is Facebook's own page about their charges. Either Facebook will soak the additional costs up and / or pass them them on their paying users - the advertisers. Who may in turn pass the increased ad costs to the buyers of the advertised products / services and/or cut internal costs. Something like that.

[0] https://www.facebook.com/business/help/201828586525529?ref=f...
Having companies that worth 1 trln isn't ideal. I don't mind tech giants breaking down into smaller, still huge though, companies. Facebook, Google, Apple, Microsoft, Amazon... Why the hell do they need to do (own) everything?

Too much power.
You want to raise money without voting rights? Sell bonds.
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Yeah, that confusion is made clear by the earlier statement that he made `1/5` the profit.... he did not make $400 million, which is 1/5th of 2 billion. It says he made $37 million.
I'm fairly certain the United States Internal Revenue Service would consider the drinks received by others as income they should technically report on their taxes. For practical purposes, I suspect that almost no one ever does report this type of gift, but yes, technically it would qualify.

If I give someone $5 for their birthday, they should report it but won't. If I give them $50,000 for their birthday, they better report it or risk the IRS finding out and coming after them.
This will start out as 2% in 2020 but probably be 10% by 2030. That's usually how these things work in the UK.
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Government, like Soylent Green, is people.

The US government has been the pet toy of a small cadre of powerful families for a long time now.
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