skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Whether you're /s or not, I wholly agree; I both fully support using public policy, tariffs, and other economic mechanisms to support "at home" companies over those abroad, as well as supporting local labor over that outside the country.

If internet companies are the future of the economy (see: Stripe's opinion), why wouldn't you do everything you could as a country to support your own companies?
"I honestly can't believe that for a moment."

I can't speak for the majority of the world.

In rural Texas, it is a widely held belief that there were WMD's found by the US in Iraq during the 2003 war (IME, anecdotally, YMMV, IANAL, whatever... I have no hard numbers just my lifetime of living there).

A second and slightly less widespread belief is that "knowing what they knew at the time, thinking there were WMD in Iraq was a reasonable conclusion".

I don't hold that second belief, but it seems more rational than the first even if I find it suspicious and unsupported by the facts.

In any case, I can attest that the first belief is in the majority in rural Texas and between both beliefs I'd guess that 95% of the population holds one or the other.
Calling it a utility token doesn't really square with the deflationary monetary policy created by capped supply. This is basically a "number go up" dog whistle. I appreciate the attempt at volatility dampening in the new mining algorithm, though.
If you want raw data: out of the 1000 audio recordings the journalists could get their hands on, 153 were recorded without the trigger word.

Google provided those audio recordings to language experts for transcription without account information. The journalists managed to track down several people using only the audio and confronted those people with the audio. They confirmed it was indeed their voices.
Belgium(65) and Switzerland(63) are definitely western world.
First, your premise is false: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Distribution_of_wealth#In_the_.... As of 2007, the top 1% owned 35% of wealth, while the next 19% owned 50%. The top 20% is a net worth of about $500,000 including home equity, which pretty much any household making $200,000 will as they get older. Moreover, the wealth of the top 20% is going to comprise to a much greater extent ownership of scarce resources (housing in desirable areas, etc.) than the paper wealth of the top 1%.

Second, what we care about at the end of the day is the distribution of access to consumption. Income models that better than wealth. Mark Zuckerberg might have an unrealized gain of $1 billion, but he can't out-compete someone else for access to scarce resources unless he realizes that gain. Indeed, Zuckerberg's wealth in particular is just a proxy for the right to receive a portion of Facebook's profits in the future based on the future labor of Facebook's employees. It doesn't represent anything tangible that exists right now. It's realized capital gains, not unrealized paper wealth, that is the proxy for goods and services that could be used to meet peoples' needs in the present.

Third, the folks paying "15%, 10%, or 0% in taxes" represent an extremely small portion of total income. Eliminating the preference for capital gains, for example, would raise just a couple of hundred billion more in taxes (compared to the almost $7 trillion we already raise). It's something that makes a few people very rich, but they don't account for a very large portion of overall income.

Fourth, and finally, someone making $200k/year isn't paying "close to 50%" of income in taxes. In Maryland, it's just over 30%. We're one of the few developed countries that taxes the top 5% so little.
Perhaps you would like to share your feedback with them https://sciencex.com/help/feedback/
The last image of Disney carrot characters is absolutely terrifying.
Well, it’s an article, not a quiz-covered listicle with twelve exclamation points.
> What? The blowback from that would be huge. Why would they do that?

For the same reason Apple removed VPN apps from the Chinese iOS app store and multiple news organisations. Because they feel that the money from China is worth obeying oppressive regimes. I really don't think the backlash would be any worse.
It's a 7 part series: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Secret_War_(TV_series)

So, you know, eat it in chunks
I'm sure if you surveyed Shopify customers, many of them couldn't handle any of that, nor could they afford to pay for bespoke services to handle that.

And there may be a split between the most successful and least successful customers of Shopify, but Shopify gets to make money off both.
From the description it's probably a Bacon cycle collector. The basic idea is that it checks to see whether reference counts for all objects in a subgraph of the heap are fully accounted for by other objects in that subgraph. If so, then it's a cycle, and you can delete one of the edges to destroy the cycle. Otherwise, one of the references must be coming from "outside" (typically, the stack) and so the objects cannot be safely destroyed. It's a neat algorithm because you don't have to write a stack scanner, which is one of the most annoying parts of a tracing GC to write.
You are aware that there are shortcuts ?
In our local stores (NL), they are clearly marked, so one can more easily get to the sections one is interested in, and skip those that aren't.
reminds about enterprise systems, at least the ones i've worked with and the roles i've performed. The Sales and the high PMs and suits helicopter in and take a huge [censored] what we're supposed to deal with. Since the early morning today has been doing emergency plumbing on 3 Fortune500 class battleships from corporate navies across the world (and clock). Probably should update my LinkedIn with such an informative title.
in a perfect world this would be correct. when I was younger and more rational I was brief in emails out of respect for the reader's time ( "had I more time a shorter letter would have been written") . it did me a disservice.

but in reality this only works with those of whom you have a prior relationship. CEOs can do this because (a) they have power over you and (b) you have an image of them that a short email will not tarnish.

but for you the plebian, people will judge you based on whatever perceptions they have, and for 90% of your peers it will be a curt email.
Any FAANG would happily pay him a 7 figure salary if he was interested.
It was certainly not ironci
At first, probably not. Until that one firm comes in using the technology to undercut everyone else's prices. In fact, I believe Atrium[0] is doing exactly that. I'm not sure if their prices are lower right now, but since they built up around technology, they certainly have that lever available to them.

[0] https://www.atrium.co
That’s only because the US isn’t under the total control of a single party. If, say, the Democratic Party took over complete control such that it became almost synonymous with the nation, I’d expect “Democrat base” to become fairly common terminology.
Specifically, how is a pin which is usually shorter, more secure than a password? Or how is it different from a password if it has the same characteristics?

Edit: to me it seems like microsoft is using a password for their cloud account, and a rebranded password for offline access.
I'd assume they used some pretty solid statistical methods for reducing the atmospheric noise to a relatively negligible amount, based on covariance of their dish readings.
I doubt they bother wasting their resources on optimizing for the 0.001% of people who have JS disabled.
> I don't get why author's customer would launch a dispute over not completing a 10 minute survey.

... so they don't have to pay for the work?
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Like for the context-keeping? I know it’ll record post-response without an additional trigger phrase instance and that’s fine.
Maybe I'm just old, but this:

> most of them are just trying to monetize the content they create so they can continue to create that content

...is something I don't really understand.

Why must they believe they need to get money to make such content (whatever "content" is?)

I mean, at one time I had a personal blog at my personal domain, hosted on a shared server (right now it is dormant - I really need to get something back online). I coded the CMS myself in PHP, made code updates as needed, then created content using that CMS, and published it for public viewing. I did all of this for free.

Now, one could argue:

"You spent time, and time is money, so you paid something to do that. You deserve that money back."

I can't fault that argument, other than to say that I put my site up to give out information to others on the internet, because I had consumed so much of others free information that they had put out on the internet. In effect, I didn't see my content as product to be compensated for, but rather as my own form of compensation for consuming others content.

But it seems today that a lot of people don't see it that way. They want their cake to eat it, too. They want and almost demand that they get paid for their content. Sometimes they go to extreme stupid lengths to achieve this. Most of time they just nag and complain.

For certain content, I can perhaps understand - but at the same time I would feel kinda "used" paying for it - however that payment occurred. For instance, those IG peddlers who take great photos of beautiful places in the world. I'm not sure what they sell - some are obviously selling clothing, or at least the clothing brand. Others are shilling for other products. The only ones I can really get behind are those photographers selling the photography itself in the form of books or other media.

Even so, it still feels like I am paying someone to have a great vacation while they take photos from around the world.

Or am I the fool? Have I been "leaving money on the table" by not monetizing my content? I'm not sure how I would monetize my content (my site was mainly about hobby robotics and similar) - but having seen other sites with similar content which was monetized in some fashion, I could see how I could do it. I'm not sure I would make much money at it, but it could be done, I suppose...

Again, maybe I'm just old.
That's incorrect. You can sell products and charge sales tax as a non-profit.

Just look at the American Red Cross, they sell the blood that is donated to them.

You of course can't have a profit that is distributed at the end of the year. But you can keep "profits" in the organization for furthering the goals of the 501c3.
Big technology companies are doubling down on New York City
more than 4 milion on $11.3bn of revenue

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2018/aug/02/amazon-ha...
North Carolina may be violating secrecy of the ballot
Correct in theory. But have you looked at french tax policy? The issue with new taxes is that often it starts at 3%, then goes up gradually to 5, then to 7, and before you know it you have a 15% turnover tax.

France is a lovely country, but one of the worst players when it comes to tax policy. The never ending appetite to increase the spending of the state does not stop...
I agree with you that the crypto industry in general over-hypes, and everything is a "revolution." The scalable infrastructure and developers tools still require a lot of work and getting "killer apps" is a whole new phase of traction.

With that said, I'm optimistic as all signs seem to point to the fact that security and privacy are going to become more and more critical. Facebook Libra is a great example. Even FB wants to enter this space and rightly so. They have the userbase and are trying to build a decentralized (well federated really) network. Blockstack is open vs. permissioned (Libra). We've done 4+ years of R&D work and are now in the developer traction phase. We want thousands of experiments to happen and organic usage of apps to emerge.
Be wary of poorly-designed wrappers around tc. They often make very wrong decisions: https://www.bufferbloat.net/projects/bloat/wiki/Wondershaper...

sqm-scripts is generally a much better option than wondershaper derivatives: https://github.com/tohojo/sqm-scripts
Norimaki: CircleCI Client App for Android
Finding out how the sausage is made is uncomfortable.
> The idea behind taxes is that you use some public resource and you pay for that service.

That's pretty clearly not the operative principal behind most taxation. Even the examples you gave mostly contradict it: if the point were to make people pay for services they use, then public schools would just charge tuition. As for gasoline taxes, I mostly hear politicians discuss them as an environmental measure; it never even occurred to me that they could be a fee for using roads. And that's not to mention things like income taxes, where the the poor, who use the most public services, pay the least.

> The other theories of taxation is that it should be used to raise revenue from the best means possible. I disagree with that framework…

This seems like a very radical position. "x should be done by the best means possible" is almost a tautology. Can you explain what you mean?

I think that France should levy any taxes that would benefit its people. Some taxes are bad, because eg. they hurt the economy enough to outweigh the benefit of increased revenues. In other cases, it's the reverse. In any case, what matters in the end is the public welfare. Do you disagree?
> You think older movies were better because of the time filter - we remember the classics and forget the crap.

No you're making excuses. I don't think they were always better, but that they took from a FAR wider selection of production styles. Hollywood has been afraid of variety for decades, inserting the cliche "family values" ending in every movie, or even demanding the neat happy end every time, or some cliche camera technique, whether the Dutch angle, or today's overhead rotating zoom-in. Habits and techniques that run in eras. Those homogenised 5 or 15% of the film, with half of that always the cliche ending.

There have been shite movies in every era, but both good and bad provided a far wider variety of production styles. Emphatically not saying that every film became crap - though they often seem tired and boring because even a good or perfectly directed and produced film feels tired when its 5th or 15th in the franchise. Everything feels like it's in the same franchise now at 70-90% homogenised.

Maybe you don't see it, but my kids and their friends seem to and regularly take the piss about movies they saw. They can't compare with earlier eras but they can, and do, come back and take the piss about the scene or idea lifted straight from the last movie they went as a group to. Not always - they can rave about some film I thought awful too. :)

> Hollywood is a business, it exists to make money. It have always been like that.

The point, that I could have expressed better, is that it always existed to make money, but didn't completely sacrifice everything else on that altar. Yet despite scifi, yes even Star Wars, usually being western in space the theme book had more than one page. Maybe there were a dozen or so common, cliched themes and production styles, but clearly more than one.

The point I suppose boils down to: every movie now has become a super-hero martial arts movie. A horror film has become a super-hero martial arts movie in a cabin in the woods etc. The book must say that's what encapsulates the perfect movie, so that's the form given to every movie.
> A common mistake (those who see themselves as) clever people make is that they believe that if you win an argument, you are correct.

You contradict this later by saying "We often care more about winning arguments than about finding truth." This is right - it's not that people think that winning the argument means they're correct, it's just that it feels good to win an argument. Winning does matter more than finding the true. Why? Feelings. Feelings govern everything. Life would literally have no meaning without the feeling tones that give it meaning.
When I vet candidates I do an image search on their profile photo, look at their resume (and other projects they’ve done on the platform), along with the number of hours worked on the platform. Focusing only on a rating system is short-sighted.

Re: it being an imbalanced marketplace in favor of customers, I guess you’d also say the same about eBay?

I understand your motive is driven to compete with Upwork, but it’s the most built-out and legitimate platform out there, and given their size, I trust them over some smaller operation.

P.S.: I read the OP’s naive writeup. He didn’t follow the platform rules and was surprised that it went against him. Shocking. $400 is a lesson to do more research next time.
>significantly less likely to catch fire, slower to burn when they do catch fire

Citation please. This directly contradicts the anecdotal experience of literally everyone I know who deals with crashed vehicles (10 < sample size < 20, ~66% tow truck drivers). Compared to other EVs Teslas definitely seem to be the most flammable. Everyone who handles crashed cars seems to regard a mangled Tesla as a hot potato unlike a Prius, Leaf or ICE car.

The NHTSA stuff and crash safety I believe, that's well documented by reputable sources (e.g the NHTSA). Nobody except Tesla and their fan-base seems to be saying EVs are less flammable on a per crash basis though and even then nobody says point blank that crashing a Tesla is less likely to result in fire than crashing something else.

Edit: I am specifically talking about the likelihood of fire per serious crash. Not average number of fires per vehicle or per mile.
What is the purpose of Racket? Is there any use for web development?
This. She seems to think email has to follow a strict format when in reality it's just a message.
Well, the SQLite might have been more scalable if you needed to deal with much larger YAML files. I've been in a similar situation with XML. It's fine to hold in memory until you end up running out of memory, at which point you need to look at other approaches. There's definitely an overhead to changing, but it might be worth paying if the tradeoffs make sense.
The parent is pointing out one possible motive for a large carrier, who has to deal with what I call the "general public".

> Which is why I prefer to buy my phone independently from the carrier service.

You're clearly a tech literate person, which is great! But I've worked at a phone/computer repair/resell store for 2 years, and let me tell you, the "general public" can be very interesting.

It's common for many people to not know that their "phone runs android". Let alone the which version LOL!

What I'm trying to say is, it's great that you buy your phone that way, and that's the smart way to do it. We've had plenty of customers looking for unlocked phones too, but even then many don't understand how there's different radios in the phones that work with different carriers, some didn't actually know what being "unlocked" means, etc.
You assume he's optimizing for money.
That was the discussion about the actual incident, not Google's response.
How else would they improve their search algorithm?

There are lots of ways. Ways that other industries test and refine without violating privacy.

One example: Having a group of people who sign up to be part of your testing. That way there's informed consent.
https://adnauseam.io/ is a tool for doing that. I wonder if it would make them money or be detected as fraud.

I suspect Google is much less conservative about ad fraud determinations than they lead the public to believe - It's in their financial interest to do as poorly as possible without damaging their reputation.
How much of that money is money that was going to be spent anyways? It's only money Google "made" for the French if it wasn't going to be spent in France in the first place.
My mother remembers getting lightly boiled potatoes which were let to cool, put on a stick, then sprinkled with sugar. (Korea in the 50's.) Unlike the little girls in the picture, she says she was delighted to get one of those.

With regards to WWII and night vision, the Imperial Japanese Navy (IJN) at the time had the most effective non-radar night fighting training and techniques. Some of the worst defeats dished out by the IJN to the USN were due to their excellent night fighting and an over-reliance by the US on nascent RADAR technology.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XWEEHOKcTnA

That said, the US radar-laid guns were a game changer. In some interpretations of the Battle off Samar, the US destroyers created such a high density of hits, that Vice Admiral Takeo Kurita mistakenly identified those ships as cruisers and mistakenly identified the whole group as much stronger, which ended up saving the landing force.
If I have to work a job to keep a roof over my head, I'm definitely not rich.
I would think most people would think that they write software that can understand human speech, the same way they write software that can make a web page.

For the people that do realize it needs to be trained, most of them probably think that it's trained using internal data. Data created at Google or such.

Only people that really understand ML are likely to realize they need the scale of data only their customers can provide to do a really good job (_if_ they even do need that).
Republican stronghold believes Republican propaganda, no surprise there.

This can’t be extrapolated to the rest of the world. The vast majority of the rest of the world didn’t believe it at the time and nothing ever happened to change their mind.
> FB et al shouldn't be creating a coin but join with companies like yours who have a solid footing and create new stuff within existing ecosystems.

Its easy to say that while completely ignoring the lopsided economic incentives of launching your own thing

If there is a single 1 incompatible thing then the team and network wont let you launch on their network, wont give you any of the partner tokens or subsidies

And you did all that when you could have just used your clout to launch your own thing collecting literally 8, 9 or 10 figures of USD and the majority ownership of a precreated asset you granted yourself.

50 years of salary, taxed way lower, for any software engineering founder.

If you’re ignoring this just because “crypto”, while working on someone else’s adtech has-been, you are doing yourself a disservice.

The issuer side of all markets is heavily misunderstood. But especially in crypto markets. People view the whole concept from the speculator’s side.
Marketing Lessons for Building a Demand Engine from Lola CMO Jeanne Hopkins
http://two.sentenc.es/ conveys a similar idea but did so long before this story, and more succinctly:

"Treat all email responses like SMS text messages, using a set number of letters per response. Since it’s too hard to count letters, we count sentences instead."
Get a camera where the activity LED turns on when camera is active.
> That sounds arbitrary.

Administrative burden limits are not arbitrary. They are used in many places all over the world.
> Ignoring for a moment that this rationale can support any tax policy at all (including 100% tax rates)... This holds for all businesses, not just large tech companies. So why is the tax focused on the latter?

Other than the reasons the other replies have mentioned, it is also possible that enforcement isn't worth it for the smaller businesses (i.e. if they did apply to everybody they'd just lose money overall trying to get everybody to comply).
I’m getting downvoted and I’m not sure why. In case anyone misunderstood my comment, I didn’t encourage people to spy.

My comment was merely meant as a correction to an incorrect claim and making people aware that they can be spied upon, also on Instagram.
In both cases they only send what they heard after you used the wake word.