skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Precisely because this is happening in plain sight, various members of our family, myself included, have been engaging with him to try and pull him out of Plato’s proverbial cave. This task is incredibly difficult. [...]

It's enormously difficult to deal with even for a family member that you know fairly well. Now imagine trying to deal with it at scale where you're trying to reach (likely) complete strangers who are not confused, but actively engaged as conscious information and/or real world warriors and smart enough to anticipate, avoid, and deflect counter-arguments.

There are already people who monitor these social groups but actively and algorithmically, and because of that are aware of where and how to locate them when a hub goes down.
Hi Alex! Congrats on your success so far!

What principles/rules did you stick to when growing your company that you thought helped improve the culture/profits?

Thanks again for acknowledging the Hacker Network community!
Might be like washing machines, which are a sort of a global prosperity indicator.

or maybe cellphones?
I am betting Stadia is on that list within 24 months of launch
I settled on ds.gy after a lot of searching. At the time I was hoping for as short as possible unless you operate a domain (it's one letter off for standard, 2 if you operate a 2 letter TLD like http://ai./) since it maximizes the efficiency of DNS tunneling. I was expecting a lot of similar uses or a log of clever things/url shortners like t.co but what I found was basically every single and most every dual letter domain was being squatted. Made me a little sad until I saw one that matched my initials and decided that was good enough.
This isn't a problem that will be solved by technology anytime soon. There are more guns in the U.S. than people. Even if you had a perfect tracking system for legally sold weapons, there are plenty of people willing to sell guns illegally, just like there are many people willing to sell drugs illegally.

A shooter can keep loaded guns in his car trunk, park in front of an establishment, and run inside in 20 seconds. It will be a long time before we have AI that can identify and subdue a gunman within 20 seconds.
How much farming have you done? If there is arable land somewhere (other than a protected park) then the infrastructure will get built. In any case it's going to take a lot more than $8000 to get a small subsistence farm going.

I'm still waiting for your list of free farm land.
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I mean, there are people named Molly. I definitely have a lack of cultural fit with people that freak out at coincidences, because I see so many every day. Accidental double entendres are a thing that happens.
> Unfortunately the media is calling Trump a buffoon,

Trump is a buffoon.

> when the trade war, and possible subsequent economic hit to the USA, is vital to our long term economic future.

If by “vital” you meant, on both accounts, instead “extremely detrimental”, you'd be correct.

Yes, there is an economic competition with China, but tariffs aren't the main weapon for fighting it productively, particularly not the tariffs Trump is using. We need to be organizing third party partners, not alienating traditional friends, and building newer, better trading relations with them.
When you reinvest your profits back into the company, your net profits are zero and you don't pay any taxes. This is where the distortion comes in. It's government subsidized growth. At this point it's grown over all the competitors and affects the market.
What are you talking about? We can and do arrest, charge, and convict "evil islamic imams" that "preach radicalization", and don't let them operate mosques. We tolerate and welcome mosques because they ban radicals and report them to the FBI:

"Monteilh eventually so unnerved Orange County's Muslim community that that they got a restraining order against him. [T]hey also reported Monteilh to the FBI"

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2012/mar/20/fbi-informant

You do know that Homeland is a TV show and not real life, right?

A mosque that openly fostered extremism like 8chan did would of course get shut down. By contrast, 8chan has not been shut down. Its operations have been disrupted, but it hasn't shut down, anymore than Cloudflare has shut down just because they had a site outage last month.
>Germany can't manipulate its currency as they don't have their own, they use the Euro.

And who owns the Euro? Let me tell you, it's not the poor countries of the EU.
Coincidental that you mention this. AMOS-6, launching tomorrow on an F9 is getting a free ride, since the previous version of the satellite blew up on the pad.
Imagine the ability to borrow any book in the world, on your iPhone, immediately, for free.

Well, thanks to Library Genesis (and SciHub) and archive.org, I can download 95% of the books and papers I want immediately for free. Same with music. It's just incredible--when I was a kid I couldn't have imagined that this would ever happen.
I feel like it has more to do with degree of urban planning.

Even before the car, a horse and buggy can get through a city faster arranged in a grid withoug having to turn a lot.
You can write all of the advancements off as luck, inspiration, or drugs and blend in until some brain scanning technology is invented that could find out that you're being disingenuous with high confidence. By then, the idea of time travel might not be that exotic. Maybe you send back a way to fool that technology and then it's a cat/mouse game.
> Perhaps they couldn't stop it

Pretty sure they could, at least early on. Come on, they had absolute power over company strategy. The most important people (their smartest developers, like Jeff Dean etc, by all accounts, didn't care much about stuff like this.)

> or felt that tamping down on employee discussion would cost more than it would benefit?

No-one apart from you is calling this tampering.

> Or maybe they've realized that Google cannot be neutral

Or maybe all of this bias is accidental because all they cared about was freedom, and while the two founders were away jetskiing, the company grew in a very particular political direction?
Exactly. I think that a lot of what is plaguing society right now is, in spite of how techno-sophisticated we have become, is in a sense a measurement problem.
> why shouldn't Amazon be allowed

Antitrust law used to address this. Monopolies are not allowed to do things that non-monopolies are allowed to do, because the effects of monopolies doing them are different than the effects of non-monopolies doing it.

Of course, Bork rewrote monopoly policy in a way that opens the door to exactly the sort of monopolies we now have. But it isn't as if this is some new notion invented because people hate Amazon; it used to be the rule.
This is great and all unless your domain drops and it is caught by something like dropcatch.com or competitors.
Sure, the present value of an asset is the discounted sum of future cash flows.

But if there is no expectation that shareholders will actually receive any of the future cash flows, then there are zero future cash flows to discount.
If that's your intention, ideological battle is not a good way to go about it, because that just leads to more anger and ultimately more blindness.
QE was a response to deflationary pressures related to massive deleveraging after the financial crisis. Inflation has barely touched 2% since then, and there was no devaluation of the dollar against foreign currencies. In fact the dollar has been appreciating against most other major currencies.
I think telsa is basically disruptive.

On the other hand, many years ago, I thought there was a complaint about foreign "dumping" to destroy domestic minivan production.
So far it has worked pretty well for the US and China has been suffering. 6 million jobs with 2 million manufacturing jobs alone created since his election. China has lost a lot of manufacturing jobs and a lot of manufacturers are moving away from China and either coming back to US or moving to places like India where IP theft isn't a huge problem.
> "To understand Thiel’s ideas, we need to"

Wait a second, why do we need to care about Peter Thiel's ideas about religion? Wikipedia says he's an American businessman.

> "I’ve never met Peter Thiel. The contents of this essay are based on public information and my own intuition."

This is getting more head scratching by the second...
Congratulations on your fast growth! It is always great to see examples of companies like yours actually solving real-world problems in AI with original ideas and obtaining large clients that rely on your work.

I'm really looking forward to more of what Scale will do in the future!
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Your hypothesis is extraordinarily unlikely. Google has continuously expanded benefits for men and women going on parental leave over these last years. It would make no sense whatsoever for them to also systematically harass pregnant women out of the workforce. If they were concerned about the costs of maternity, they could just have expanded those benefits more slowly. That would have had dramatically more impact, at less cost, than harassing a woman here or a woman there out.
I have this beat. My credit union used social security numbers as your login and your card pin as your password. And the only security question was date of birth to reset it.
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hey @ayw. your story is really inspiring! I am currently studying full stack web development via online courses as I have few startup ideas that I want to work on that I believe to be promising. Is there any Machine learning course you specifically recommend taking in order to come up to speed with the AI technology and also if you could share some tips on becoming a first time founder especially getting the funding from a silicon valley VC as in what do they really look for when investing in a startup started by someone with no prior startup experience then that would be really great! Thanks ahead of time!
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It's true that Trump is strategically blundering by being overly aggressive with the Europeans, however their economic system is under greater threat from China than the US is. The EU and Eurozone countries openly support what the US is doing in confronting China, even if they have their own disputes with the US on trade.

Most of Europe plainly has even more at stake in dealing with China than the US does. The greater European region is far weaker than the US as a whole (half the GDP per capita, far less wealth, less economic growth, greater economic stagnation the past 10-20 years), both economically and militarily. China has in recent years demonstrated its ability to directly purchase votes and influence among weaker European nations. China is an advancing superpower that is pursuing both tech and industrial dominance. Europe has no tech dominance for China to plunder or compete with, however it does have a large amount of high-skill, advanced manufacturing in Western Europe. China wants to own that. What's left of Western Europe's economy if they do?

Most of Germany's economy is built on advanced manufacturing and an extreme level of exports (~32% of its economy is exports), resulting in the world's largest national trade surplus. China's goal is to move up the development ladder and to own advanced manufacturing. If China has its way, Germany will be gutted. Most of Europe's interests on China are aligned with the US. The two can likely manage to keep US-Europe trade issues separate from the need to also deal with China.
Not even necessarily without cars... imagine if you could sell the populous on a car with limited range that took ages to fill back up. If they were gullible enough, you could probably even sell it at a premium. What a wonderful stepping stone to the post freedom era.
No, I'm intending to make it hard for sketchy third-party ad companies to track me. Some ad networks can't even avoid serving malware, it's not realistic to expect them to competently safeguard my data.

It just so happens that Google's method for telling if I'm a bot or a human isn't just to show me mangled text, but also to use ad-network-style tracking.

In Google's defence this is probably an attempt to deal with captcha-solving-by-humans-as-a-service or something like that. I can't imagine Google employs many privacy enthusiasts who would spot a problem like this by dogfooding.
It helps certain export business interests and generally hurts domestic consumers. It is in US consumer's interest to not devalue our currency. If china does it, it means we buy their stuff cheaper, but our stuff is more expensive to them and also in relatigve terms. Just more government, corporatist cheating and cronyism which has come to define modern politics but not modern political awareness. Also, think about this long enough and you realize how abusive the Federal Reserve is to the average US consumer. I mean, the Fed in the last 10 years ran up a 4 trillion balance sheet of fresh free money, at least go buy healthcare or something good with it and not this circle jerk of lending it to Wall St and buying US debt with it.
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84 companies in the S&P 500 index do not pay dividends.

https://www.dividend.com/investor-resources/sp-500-companies...
> Will there be more tariff increases or sanctions? And then China will devalue their currency even more. So where does it end?

Currency devaluation is, among other things, effectively a subsidy for exports, a little bit like the opposite of a tariff.

But it's not exactly the opposite, which makes doing it in response to tariffs a bit desperate. If you're selling something for $100 and someone sticks a $10 tariff on it, and that makes you uncompetitive, you can devalue your currency so that it gets back to $100, because now the same amount of yuan is US$90 instead of US$100. But there is still a $10 tariff, so then you only get $90 instead of $100. If the cycle repeats you have to take $80, then $70, with the balance of the total $100 going to the US treasury. And it makes it easier for the US to maintain or raise the tariffs because China is de facto paying them through currency devaluation rather than the cost falling on US consumers.

It doesn't really work as a long-term strategy. It could be more of a short-term political play to try to damage Trump's reelection prospects. But that's a dangerous game in a lot of ways. It may actually help him if he takes advantage of it well (and even if he does nothing it takes the bite out of the tariffs for US voters). And even if it hurts him he could still be reelected if the Democrats choose a bad candidate, and then China has put itself in a weaker long-term position. Then even if Trump loses, it's basically assuming that a Democrat wouldn't be smart enough to take advantage of the dynamic, which some of them could be.
Nope because the Federal Reserve can issue new Federal Reserve notes (aka money) to the US Government to buy their bonds at any price point. As the other commenter pointed out this would cause inflation (as it increases the money supply)
> It’s not going to work, but that’s what he keeps saying.

So far it has worked very well for the US and China has been suffering. US has been able to create 6 million jobs with 2 million manufacturing jobs alone created since his election. China has lost a lot of manufacturing jobs and a lot of manufacturers are moving away from China and either coming back to US or moving to places like India where IP theft isn't a huge problem.

US economy is also doing very well, GDP growth has beaten all expectations and what not.
Bit of an AI novice here, I did Norvig's course a few years ago and never worked in the field, but how can a machine take a "first pass" at labelling without being trained? What information is it using to apply labels to the first set of data? How does this approach differ from a conventional classifier? Would the initial guesses essentially be random?
I use Gandi - yes they offer auto-renewal of domains, configurable on a per-domain basis.
The federal government does too many things, and does them poorly. Our entitlement programs are broken by design, we spend an insane amount on our military, and there are countless federal programs that fritter away taxpayer money. The government should do more with the money we give them instead of constantly demanding more from our citizens.
Like baking a cake?
Promo: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VVpulhO3jyc
Startup business is show business, hence obsession with youthfulness and cheap drama.

Customers flock to fame, press and investors do as well - they “know” where the customers will be so they go there, increasing the chances of success in a positive feedback loop. That’s how show business works.

San Francisco is the new Hollywood, basically.
Good lord, that's an awful name for something like that.
Well, that's what I'm asking - game this out. How is the trade war and economic hit vital (I take your meaning to be a "long term benefit") to our economic future? What's the hoped-for sequence of events?

I can infer a couple of predictions - maybe the thought is that since China has already been very active in monetary policy (printing money), that they will eventually hit upper limits in doing so and will start experiencing massive inflation and will have to slow down their growth considerably. And that this hit will hurt China far more than it will hurt the US, thereby serving as a net benefit to the US overall. Is that on the right track?

(To make it really confusing you could point out how slower growth from both countries means less carbon emissions.)
It was caught by dropcatch actually. I didn't bid in the auction though. Eventually it was released.
This is always the one I forget about and have a hard time finding. It's not really great for editing but it's probably the best display I've seen in regards to debugging large regex.
Please don't use HN for nationalistic battle.

Would you mind reviewing the site guidelines? They include: "Comments should get more thoughtful and substantive, not less, as a topic gets more divisive."

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Using Twitter and speaking in a public place are not at all equivalent. You are not entitled to use Twitter's resources that they pay money for to amplify your speech. You simply aren't. Just because we have the means of broadcasting speech more widely and cheaply than ever before in no way entitles you to those resources.

Just as the Wall Street Journal is in no way obligated to publish your letter to the editor, Twitter is allowed to broadcast what they wish.

Nothing at all is stopping 8chan from hosting their content on their own infrastructure.
Let's say you run a business. You're still supposed to abide by laws in your location of business, despite how hard you work. There are laws to protect vendors against marketplaces. They're called anti-trust laws.

Amazon is a very big business. It doesn't need your sympathy.
But only Google is this outwardly politically aligned. You don't see these problems emerge at Microsoft, Amazon, Facebook, or Netflix.

Google's culture is uniquely subservient to politics. The organization's mission is very clearly secondary to the employee's personal activism.
Thank you! I don't remember which registrar I used back then, but I wish I had used something like Gandi. I'm using Google domains now
The individual has rights to speak and, sing and write freely.

If printing, a supplier has no obligation to provide paper or ink or typesetting.

The same is true for music producers. Make all the Nazi Punk garage band cassettes you want, but don't expect Jack FM to give you airplay.

Good data providers don't want Federal heat or the drag on the public perception.
The "megaphone" was simply a ranking of the most popular boards on the front page. There was no promotion of a particular community, it fell on the user to see a board description and think "Oh, I might find interesting content there".

So the crime is mostly in allowing individuals to connect with other individuals interested in a particular topic.

In that case, isn't Google a far more reaching megaphone? One can find far more vicious communities through Google. I remember browsing through racist forums as a kid because a friend had found it on Google (presumably because he looked for it). The community in there certainly matched the worst 8chan boards in their belief and conviction in hateful ideals.

The only difference is 8chan is a neutral rank by popularity, while Google also filters by a user-supplied search string. The same type of communities can be found through both sites.
Assuming the majority of their assets are in stocks, and they have around $1 million in stocks, they are around the 95th percentile of American households or slightly lower. Getting to the top 1% would require around $10 million.
She talks about how homosexuals are dangerous because of pedophilia, and that having an aversion towards homosexuals isn't the same thing homophobia; you can think something is immoral without fearing it.
Coddling their local allies, Israel and Saudi Arabia?
If you can't follow the scientific method most of the time, should their work be considered science at all?
Thanks for sharing.

Just wondering how did ones write an editor in one night.
Unfortunately “new cities” develop in places where everyone is used to driving, so it takes a lot to overcome a car centric culture.

I live in a college town in a rural area. The transition to public transportation happens when parking becomes expensive or impractical (such as at the university) so people park and ride on a bus.

But that still requires cars. Frankly cars have value that’s hard to replace when there’s a disperse population. Which maybe is the real problem in the US: there’s a culture around “I want my own land”. It pervades even in progressive circles...
> and is stll bound by the lower courts decision because SCOTUS only remanded the case back to a lower court.

Wrong, they are not bound by the lower court decision, because the Supreme Court vacated the judgement and remanded the case for further consideration in light of the SCOTUS ruling in Masterpiece Cakeshop (as stated in the order linked from the source you linked), because that decision set relevant precedent which the lower court did not consider in its judgement (for timing reasons, as the lower court decision predates Masterpiece Cakeshop, I believe.)
an interesting point but such a quintessentially american mindset imo. This thing could potentially used wrong so let's build in all kinds of hedges and failsafes; our freedoms could be impinged in these edge cases so this is a no go, etc.

cannot help but lament the inefficiency and stagnation arising from this culture of distrust
Interesting thoughts. My impression of the situation is that “freedom of ...” is colloquially internalized as “freedom from consequence.” If society had access to justice on the same terms, then I wonder if things like freedom of speech would be understood in the richer context of personal and societal responsibility.
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I see. Printing money to buy new financial assets would also cause greater wealth inequality and populism, although maybe those are seen as benefits to the current administration.