skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You see, Google exists because there are governments willing to acknowledge that they have a right to exist.

It's the Zeroth law of the Economy. There's economic activity when you aren't getting shot at. If Google starts making sufficient waves that enough diplomatic pressure can be put on their host country to start tightening the thumbscrews, Google will be faced with a situation where suddenly a lot of it's worth and value start to disappear. If they start having to hire lawyers left and right due to scrutiny by the government or other governments, it becomes a less attractive asset to the market, and opens room for intrepid disruptors to replace their services.

Google has 'won' by being willing to play ball. Once hard ball starts being played, make no mistake. Google will get tipped.

...and if it doesn't, God save us all from the paths that leads to. I'm pretty sure they won't be pretty.
It's a backronym. retronym is a different word.
[1812.04877] Quantum Statistical Inference
It’s very interesting that the founder of 4chan ended up being super liberal leaning.

I remember when I first visited 4chan sometime in 2006. It was totally unlike anything I had seen before. I remember feeling as though I had found an entirely new universe to explore and exist in. Back then, when you refreshed b, no matter how frequently, there was essentially no recycling of threads. The volume back then was so high that browsing b was like swimming in a vibrant ocean of the future — a relentless torrent of human thought and memes. Back then, memes were exclusive to 4chan. Nobody knew what a meme was and you could only find them on 4chan. I remember when memes starting appearing on clothing and mainstream places it felt very weird. B is now a shell of what it used to be. In life, every once in a while you get to experience something like early b. I hope I get to do it one more time before I die.
Ad blocking users are a net negative to Spotify, why shouldn't they ban them?

It's not unthinkable that ad blocking users are keeping money and attention away from Spotify's competitors, spreading enthusiasm about Spotify to more people who will become paying customers, and giving Spotify more ears and more user information to inform their decisions.

Ad blocking users cost, but only as much as a low-bitrate audio stream - and that should get cheaper every year. At some point, will it cross so they're not net-negatives?
The countries start seizing your assets, which for Google would be their Datacenters in Europe.
It would still be illegal for kids
The standard counterargument is that the current welfare system uses a shambling bureaucratic apparatus which forces people to go through an onerous, dehumanizing process of filling out endless forms to determine whether they're the "deserving poor" or the "undeserving poor". UBI, in dispensing with with this expensive process, is claiming back money that's essentially just being hurled into a void for no reason.

I have no idea whether that's enough to make up the difference.
If you go to your local supermarket, you will see many branded items with varied fonts and pictures. This packaging is essentially an ad for the item. If you removed that, which you could do, as some brands like Brandless have done, people would not know what to buy. The packaging itself provides value. So too with ads online.
A pattern of behavior is evidence. All evidence is circumstantial.

That realization is actually foundational to our system of criminal Due Process. It's why nearly every piece of evidence entered into trial, even simple documents and scientific analyses, requires a witness to vouchsafe. Facts cannot be divorced from their human origin, and any fact can be challenged by challenging the credibility of its origin.

All facts are messy things, and while some are messier than others there's no avoiding careful consideration in light of the available context. It follows that the distinction between fact and conjecture is one of opinion.
I'd just like to add carbohydrate withdrawal is no joke. It will make you feel "hungry" in a very specific way, even if you've just eaten and are physically full.

Seems to be the hardest for the first 14 days and you'll be mostly beyond it after about a month (YMMV).

Feels almost like the flu at times (lack of energy, headaches, general lethargic, etc). But once you're through it you'll have more energy than you did before you started, and less up/down swings.

If you want more information read people that either went full Keto, or did things like the "potato diet."

edit: Just to be clear, I'm not trying to discourage anyone. I was just trying to let you know what to expect so you don't worry there's something wrong or are surprised at how challenging it can be.
Given that Google execs were having another crack at entering China (and all the “compliance” that comes with that) last year, my guess is that Google has a pretty high pain threshold for compliance.
It's a valid option when the others are also content and advertising products, or trying to sell your data. All with known horrible service.
DJI is going through a rough patch right now via a $150m internal theft scandal. Even if they are catching up on tech pretty quickly, Chinese companies still have a long way to go in catching up with management and business practices.
In order to do cool science you need to get funding. To get paid you need to get your citation metrics up.
Since you asked:
“nobody is denying that a large company creating jobs, is a bad thing”

I think you meant that “nobody is asserting that a large company creating jobs, is a bad thing”
US bombs. China builds.
The "ridiculous levels of strength" is a good thing. It means you can consume far less to get the same result.

If pot is five times stronger than it used to be, then you only use a fifth as much. That's not "weaponizing". Nobody I know sits around smoking joint after joint any more, you just have a little bit and you're done.

Actually, no one I know smokes any more. It's all vaporizers and edibles now.

Modern cannabis is much healthier than the stuff we had in the '60s.
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> who receives those returns? Is it going to help New Yorkers who need help, or to the already rich?

The net new revenue can be used by the city and state to pay for whatever services they deem fit (e.g. infrastructure, health, etc.).

> we've seen these kinds of wildly optimistic plans time and time again with companies promising tax revenues based on straightforward filing, and then using the wide variety of loopholes to (legally) avoid the projected taxes

The company is not promising tax revenues here. The city/state are. They are the ones who commissioned the economic analysis, and I am sure the findings informed their negotiations. The tax sources are not just Amazon either - it includes things like taxes from the additional jobs and businesses that will be created outside of Amazon.

> I don't really care to hear about ROIs.

The ROI is what matters, though. If you were a city that is looking to increase your budget to provide more services to your constituents, you might consider what sort of investment choices you could make to get there. The ROI here is well beyond any other conceivable option. It is so large that even if projections of a 9:1 ROI are way off, it would be a big win. To put it into context, the NY Film Tax Credit program had a 1.15:1 ROI but was still implemented. Also, most of the subsidy to Amazon is not an up-front lump sum. Rather, most of it takes the form of credits for prior actions.

Taking all this into account, this seems like a super safe path to greater tax revenues, which will improve the city and state as a whole.
I'm pretty sure that At&t beat them to the punch when they oversubscribed pppoe servers with dsl.

Or more recently, when the only hardwire internet you can get has 384kbps up stream.
And the point he's making is that "wanting your business to grow" has almost absolutely nothing to do with wanting a billion dollar business.

It's like an athlete saying "I want to increase my endurance" vs "I want to be am ultramarathoner".

The way you train, what you do, how you spend your time, how much time you spend, the risks you take - entirely different worlds. Wanting a billion dollar business is not remotely in the minds of 99%+ of business owners.
Simon Singh's "Code" also has an approachable description of the decoding process.
Yes

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luna_9
I don't like this fatalistic attitude. Privacy is not black and white. I switched to signal, duck duck go, and Firefox. And since then, no one knows how to target ads to me anymore. That's a privacy win, even if there's a long ways to go.
I don't think it's good for communities when they became echo chambers and alienate people with different opinions.
1. It's not a race. Make small changes that you believe you can do for the rest of your life. Try each change for at least a week before introducing new changes, and keep monitoring old changes to make sure you're doing them. If you make a big change like a whole diet plan, you likely won't stick with it. And time-bound plans are useless: people who do 30-day diets are usually fatter six months later. The best plan is the one that you actually do, and keep doing.

2. Diet to lose weight. Exercise to feel/look good, and become more capable. When you look into how many calories various exercises burn versus how many calories are in even small portions of foods, it becomes clear that it take vast amounts of exercise to burn the same amount of calories as a small reduction in caloric intake.

3. Look into mindful eating. Slow your eating. Don't do other things while you eat, like watching TV or reading: just eat, and pay attention to your food. Enjoy your food (which increases satiation)!

4. This is more my own personal experience than anything I have evidence for, but changes that are clear and don't require a lot of research to enforce work well. Gathering caloric information on everything you consume is prohibitively difficult, but things like "no caloric drinks" and "no red meat" are clear rules that eliminate some large sources of empty calories. Those might not be the right rules for you, they're just examples of things you might try.

5. Consider adding portions of low-calorie foods whenever you reduce portions of high-calorie foods, as this makes it easier to feel full. Carrots, bok choi, and arugula have worked pretty well for me, and you can eat virtually unlimited quantities of these without consuming significant calories.
Yes these are great to start with.

On osx the fastest way I found to get sound happening was to download and run SimpleSynth - orca detected SimpleSynth and I had sounds playing.
Simply childish.
I'd put the first couple of weeks of pokemon go in that category.
I looked at their US websites just now and will say they are certainly worthy of being in the conversation. I have never used either one though in my 20+ years of being a 'netizen'.

I think China may be ahead of the US in AI and space right now, I don't know to be honest. What do you think?
That depends or your definition of pornography. AFAIK nothing on /r/jailbait was technically illegal.
You mean SAIC-GM (51% SAIC, 49% GM JV of course). Buick is considered a decent brand in China.

American brands are more competitive with Japanese brands in China due a fluke: as all of them are made in human labor intensive factories (vs. using more robots), the quality of Japanese designed cars has gone way down to the point that Toyota and Honda aren't thought of as being very good cars like they are in the states.
The crazy part is people conflating starting up a business with trying to build a billion dollar business.

Thinking anything not a grand slam is a strikeout is idotic and perverse incentives.
I find it to be very similar to match point, and just as good. It’s a funny coincidence that both directors are who they are isn’t it?
My Anker battery is definitely a must-pack for me whenever I travel.

China seems to making serious strides with clean tech, AI, and space exploration. This is definitely an area of concern for the rest of the world.
>Philosoraptor.jpg>

https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/philosoraptor/photos

>There is a prototypical technology postulated that can read auditory cortex and translate to synthetic speech,

E.G https://www.digitaltrends.com/cool-tech/ai-thought-to-speech...

there is another tech that involves stimulating otic organs with a laserbeam or phononbeam:

E.G. http://www.thelivingmoon.com/45jack_files/03files/Sonic_Proj...

so if every thing that every other person thought was available to be heard by any other person in a mutually anonymous manner, what would we have?

would it be like 4chan? is there something inherent about human nature, or about the medium itself that promotes the degradation of a hivemind situation to something so negatively primal as 4chan/b/ ?

we could conduct this experiment in reality very soon.
would the physical consequences be any different, in the 4chan scenario there is a disconnect, victims are given some respite by simply logging off. How would this "evil_skullnet" differ when it is in place 24/7/364.25/ ?
I say it's not much different from what it is in states: Old Rich People Drive Buicks.
Different Types of Paper
there's not a lot of information around the best practices of such a thing.
Could you talk a bit more - is it used in all meetings ? what should you NOT DO in these memo ? are they paragraph prose or bullet points ?
etc
True, corruption is one of the biggest problems in countries transitioning from developing to developed. Yes, we haven't quite fully cracked that nut either, but I think the issue is one of degree, not kind. There's probably some inflection point, where corruption crosses a 'herd immunity' like threshold, and the entire system gets sick.
Right. You are free to trade with Iran, as long as you don't mind disconnecting from the US financial system. Or you try to set up a shell company that does the trades but keeps the parent company from violating the sanctions (to be fair, Chinese companies learned how to do this from American companies).
> ... people aren't willing to pay for 1-2 coffees for a month...

Lol it's $10 per month. Who pays $10 for a coffee?
Fwiw: I believe it should be “I credit my success to these early years”.
could you explain what do you mean by this ? why would a Google Doc not work as well?

Any other rules of thumb for people who are trying to adopt this ?
Oh god. The second weekend after it launched I had to go to the local mall. That was the most infuriating walking experience of my life. Nobody was looking where they were going and would stop randomly.

Looking back, it was pretty cool how that went down - but entirely pissed me off at the time.
I was ready to agree with you but Kevin Spacey was a really bad example.
> Sure but China inflated its currency

China inflated the value of its currency, they didn't inflate it by printing more (quite the opposite actually). This makes it harder for Chinese companies to do trade, not easier, so I don't see what your point is.
I would classify Pokemon Go as a fad that was just big enough to get the media’s attention, something more like fidget spinners or Furbies. 4chan was a long-running part of the internet that would never have been mentioned on the evening news. It was somewhere between being taboo and under quarantine.
Not sure why your comment is getting downvoted. It's absolutely true. It was obviously said as a joke.
It might seem crazy but I also have to agree. For one, LSD can't be really used on a daily basis as the body's tolerance increases much more rapidly. Furthermore, marijuana's most harmful effect is that it makes you complacent with being bored. Its effects are so subtle over the long term that users might not realize how much it inhibits their mental growth.
> Google is a business, it has a responsibility to make money for shareholders. This is its sole responsibility.

Uh, where'd you get that from? The company has an obligation to act in the the interest of shareholders, but "interest" doesn't necessarily mean "money." Moreover, that's not its _only_ obligation. This guy seems to agree:

https://www.cultofmac.com/268413/tim-cook-tells-profit-obses...
They aren't international brands. Alibaba gets some traction outside of China for those who want to buy cheap Chinese goods, while Tencent has bought some foreign game companies, but otherwise no one outside of China really knows who they are.
You have an extraordinarily complex web of payers and providers that takes PhD’s in regulation science to unwrap, and the solution proposed is “more regulations”.

Some better, free-market oriented solutions would be to remove patent protection from drugs discovered from tax payer funded research, or auction the right to be the exclusive distributor.

It’s very sad that a large contingent of intelligent tech people, who have made small to large fortunes operating in one of the few unregulated industries in America (software), begging for yet more regulation in biotech and pharmaceuticals. The system is extremely distorted as it stands.
You may find some places on the web talking about this:

https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/beauty-amazons-6-pager-brad-p...

https://www.anecdote.com/2018/05/amazons-six-page-narrative-...
Young rich people might drive Buicks in China. My 40ish boss had a Buick luxury minivan that they don't even make in the states.
Could you talk a bit more about the "rules of thumb" for these documents. is it used in all meetings ? what should you NOT DO in these memo ? are they paragraph prose or bullet points ? etc

I've been trying to find info about this practice (to use in my startup), but didnt find any.
This is a case of the unfortunate omnipotence of titles over discussion. The title frames the topic as a nationalistic opposition; the subtitle does not. Therefore we have replaced the title with the subtitle above.
I've never been anywhere near obese, having been skinny and malnourished all my life, but I do have much experience indulging in self-destructive behavior such as eating and drinking junk to sate my depression-fueled cravings. My normal weight for my height before was around 120-125 pounds, but I found that I had become 145lbs at some point two or so years into my depressive state. I wasn't working and I didn't have enough money to eat a well rounded diet. Ultimately, instead of spending my money wisely, I bought junk that could sate my cravings and give me short-lived kicks of joy. Long term health doesn't really matter for someone who was planning to die. I believe this is very much a mental fight. I was not someone who cared to weigh myself regularly because I had a consistent idea of who I was and how I look. I didn't know or even could tell I was gaining weight, because I avoided even looking at my reflection. I avoided even turning on the light in the bathroom to avoid seeing myself clearly. Then the day I finally decided to weigh myself, seeing that I had become 145 pounds was a punch in the throat. This isn't me. That was what made me start living healthier again. I started by doing stretches everyday. Then I added a few pushups and squats here and there. It's good to have a routine and schedule so that you can discipline yourself. A undisciplined person will choose to sate his cravings every time, with any excuse necessary. He will make himself depressed if he has to even if he wasn't feeling that bad that day, to create the conditions necessary for him to justify his shitty decisions. Even if you can't go to the gym, stretch for 10 minutes every night or in the morning. You don't have to change your diet right away, I didn't do that. Start by changing the portion size, start by adding healthier stuff and maybe trying to eat that before you eat whatever you normally eat, so you'll be too full to have eaten too much of the bad stuff. Forget the diet, just use common sense. If you're stretching every day, controlling your portions, and gradually eating less every week, then you're on a good path. Gaining discipline will give you more confidence, and you'll start to want to add more to your routine. Just stretching gets boring right? To summarize, it's a mental battle. There's no diet plan, workout regime, or any other trick that can save you. Because the way you are, you will find a way to justify doing bad things instead of good things. Good luck.
> Under drug IPR rules no market price can exist for many drugs because they are single source. If you want to admit a market permit Indian generics into the USA and watch prices tumble.

There is still a market price because the customer has an alternative. There is a second best drug. In the worst case (e.g. the only alternative is death), there is still a price because the drug company can't demand a billion dollars if the customer doesn't have a billion dollars.

The fact that we get into this position of no alternative but death is problematic, but it's also how the patent system is designed to work. If the drug didn't exist, you would die. If it does exist, you have the choice between death or bankruptcy. This is still not ideal, but it's better than the original situation, and eventually the drug patent expires.

There are a number of implementation failures with this, like public funding going to drug research that is subsequently patented, and a regulatory system that gives no one an incentive to do clinical trials for promising treatments they don't hold a patent on, and so on.

But the basic idea is not without merit. It costs a mint to do research and trials. If there isn't money in it then companies wouldn't do it. So if there is a patented drug which is the only thing that can save your life, would you rather have to file for bankruptcy paying for it, or have it not exist because we said they're not allowed to make enough money to get them to do the R&D to begin with? In some cases there isn't really a third option.

In principle you can have the government fund the research instead of depending on the market, and then not patent it so patients don't have to pay a lot. Which works fine when that finds the cure. But if it doesn't, do you still want the system that allows the market to find it as a backup, or not?
In practice, I'm sure we won't need anything remotely resembling disorder. Google is a monopoly on the search market, but not a holder of a unique resource. One can have pretty good services, be that from Bing/DuckDuckGo (watch how fast they'll upgrade their indexes) or Yandex and other international players. Other than search, Google is even less relevant.
The EU could conceivably force them to choose to do business in all or none of the countries in the EU.
A movie doesn't need to be released for the crew to get credits.