skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There are no legal penalties just for filing false claims, only if it's false and made in bad faith. This is an important distinction because "I hold the copyright and disagree that the usage qualifies for fair-use protections" probably doesn't fall into the category of "bad faith"
That sounds like you agree with me, though...

My point is that art is meant to share the non-universal experiences. Art can be universal but not everything universal can be art.
Beluuga was a pretty basic app. Sure they acquired that. But Messenger is mostly and created by Facebook. Especially because Facebook Chat was already around.
Let me ask if you've read Homer, Aeschylus and the rest of the classics, because assuming that is the case, you really should know the answer to your question.

All the classic writers fundamentally write about the human condition. They are not concerned with anything other than that.
They are masterpieces that capture essential truths and have the power to transform human thought and civilization. Which is whey their works have endured the test of time for thousands of years.

Compared to the classics, modern superhero films are garbage. They are focus-grouped, market-tested, mass-produced filth aimed at "everybody" (a close approximation of Nietzsche's "last man" [1])
They possess no intelligence, do not want to make you think, rattle no cages and aim at nothing but pandering and exploitation.

Do you see the difference?

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Last_man
I signed up, was waitlisted (number 180-thousand something on the list), sent out a couple of invites to friends with the url it generates, as soon as one of them accepted, it gave me access. So I guess if you don't want to pay the $13/month, you can avoid it by getting a friend to join.
Nope, that's tinnitus. But it's a fairly common condition.
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I suppose that's to be expected from the North Koreans, but it's rather funny, since the ship is actually very lightly armed. Wikipedia says it only has 2 M2 Brownings aboard, does the North Korean museum claim it was armed with more, or do they claim that's heavily armed?
How would you write this piece differently if you merely wanted to relay an interesting bit of tech news, and had no manufactured PR motives?
You're welcome. I recently set up a wireless and headless pi [0] and recalled there where two ranges.

[0] http://johnbokma.com/blog/2019/10/17/wireless-headless-raspb...
Your world view is terribly idealistic from a govt perspective. We are in the midst of a whistle-blower leak right now where an army colonel no less is being threatened to the extent that the US military is looking to take that person to a secure location. This after having the US congress AND the army on his side.

Imagine being a contractor and having no established procedures to go to, and when you blow the whistle, they just bring the hammer on you. Have you read about what Katherine Gun went through for blowing the whistle on a completely illegitimate war where an ally - the US (not her own country) - was pressuring countries in the UN to join the war?

You speak in black and white for Snowden and Manning's morality, but refuse to acknowledge the downright terrible greys of the govts involved.
“Dogwhistle?”

English has plenty of words. Use some that convey something.
> No, it doesn't. I know people from developing countries. I'm married to one. Universally, every single one of them wants to get the fuck out, and they do everything in their power to get out.

> That's reality in a developing country.

> The US is not in any way like a developing country. Comparing it to one is an act of such entitled privileged whining it's absurd.

I think you just argued against your own point?

1) You're saying that people from developing countries are desperate to get out. (I have no issue with this claim.)

2) Then you say: the US is not like a developing country.

The post of yours that I responded to effectively says to US citizens "why don't you just move?".

I'll note that: Point 2 (as stated by you!) means that the entirety of point 1 is completely irrelevant if you want to argue against what I said.
Yeah, I suddenly woke up with tinnitus a few months ago and while I can ignore it most of the time there are days where it's louder with a constantly changing pitch and it drives me insane
pretty trivial to get around with a VPN, or might be Chinese expats I suppose given that they're commenting in English.
I live in New Zealand with family in the UK. I have spent the last 10 years flying the other way around the planet instead of via LA because the airports are worse than places like Malaysia.

I can't speak to living in the USA but I have lived in Milawe and Fiji, and honestly being poor is definitely bad but some of the stuff happening in the US is a whole other kind of dystopian terrifying.
Chinese organ harvesting is surely beyond what the US is doing.
it's the old saying: "if you're not paying for using a product or you're not being paid to use a product, that means that you're the product".

Deciding to pass on a service that asks you money to offer you a service is completely fine, as long as you don't later complain about "privacy issues" and "massive surveillance".
Just what I've always wanted. A social network where others can edit my posts, competing reversion bots, and all power concentrated in a few super-users with nothing else to do with their time.

What a compelling experience...
His point was to move the genre away from movies he likes into a box with things he perceives to be lesser. But he's wrong, a movie has more in common with other movies than it does a physical location where you go to have fun.
I'm surprised that it is so popular but lacks a web interface. I heard a lot about it so I wanted to try it. But I didn't want to try enough to download an app so I have yet to see what do the hype is about. Maybe if the web interface was good enough I would have downloaded the app
You visited North Korea?
Does that apply also to nuclear fuel? The byproducts of fission with uranium is less radioactive, or has a shorter half life, if I recall.
>Even "The Godfather" is escapist in the sense that they really are just about their families in the end and aren't really that bad, except to the other gangsters who are worse. They're protecting us.

This is a pretty weird and shallow interpretation of the movie.

I don't dismiss stuff for being "for kids", I love manga and cartoons, hell just this weekend I binged "green eggs and ham", still I'm perfectly aware that almost all of this media has a bad execution, shallow themes and well it is for kids, and if I get a discussion with my friends (specifically about superhero movies) is about how blatant the topics and absurd the topics are.
Yes, the superhero culture was definitely much better before, in the olden days when

Greed was abhorred, it was taboo to snatch

Radish tops, aniseed, or parsley before your elders,

Or to nibble kickshaws and giggle and twine one's feet.
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If your car gets a flat every other day, the driver's seat is stuck in the reclined position, it's constantly trying to steer you off the road, and the heater doesn't work, then maybe it's time to give up on fixing it and buy a new car.
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Americans already have co-pays, deductibles, coinsurance and whatever other terms the insurance industry has cooked up, with no visible effects on costs. In addition to your other changes the following would also help:

- Allow competition. Don't give hospitals the power to veto new hospitals in their area.

- Disallow regional consolidation of hospital systems and medical practices. Regional monopolies are bad.

- Increase resident slots and supply of doctors. Make foreign degrees easier to transfer to the US.

- Outright ban pharmaceutical advertising. Nothing whatsoever of importance would be lost and all the pharma companies would save millions every year.
Imagine if Elon wasn't smoking pot, but mentioned he was just drinking a ton of coffee to work longer hours. Boss works 18 hours a day, which suggests that his workers might want to do the same. Employees also stop sleeping, make mistakes, suffer health problems leading to more mistakes, rockets crash.

The idea is that behavior at the top sets an informal company policy. There have been a lot of articles about how Enron can be understood as a culture problem [1]. I think it's less about pot per-se, and more about the cultural signals of the boss thinking it's a good idea to be recorded committing a federal crime[2]. Does that set a standard that breaking rules is ok if they're dumb rules? Does anyone at SpaceX think that safety requirements are dumb? It's worth saying that a lot of the reporting around Boeing's recent failures have been chocked up to culture change[3].

[1] https://scholar.google.com/scholar?hl=en&as_sdt=0%2C39&q=enr...

[2] Though I think it is very dumb, smoking pot is still a federal crime.

[3] https://www.npr.org/2019/10/26/773675393/boeings-cultural-sh...
This is not an obvious example of 50 cent army; in fact you're unlikely to find anything that you can incontrovertibly call the CCP. This was an example of Chinese nationalism in general. I watch a ton of US China trade war stuff, the closest thing I could give you to an example of what legitimately appears to be a state actor was triggered by something like this:
'yeah China might be good but gdp per capita america = 60k gdp per capita china = 9k'

Followed by an 8 paragraph monologue about American imperialism, the prison industry, etc.

Of course this isn't verifiable, and maybe you're right, perhaps it is just one angry guy in China. I do not really care who it is, I am just trying to point out how we're quick to flip out about Facebook ads bought in Rubles, yet when it comes to Chinese troll artistry we are completely silent meanwhile Russia is a declining power and China is a mercantilist adversary.
There's a nice long (!) format discussion of this in the last two episodes of the General Intellect Unit podcast.
Of course, play it first if you don't like spoilers.

http://generalintellectunit.net/e/045-eliza-part-1/
I have tinnitus because of beta blockers. One I switched treatment and it disappeared, that was a huge relief.

Unfortunately, without beta blockers my pulse hovers at 100BPM when sitting, 120BPM when standing and 220BPM after climbing 10 stair-steps. So I have not much choice but live with tinnitus...
I think people that sit in the offices that directly face customers are told not to discuss price. I think they prohibit any verbal pricing because they want that to go through the insurance system, so they can maximize profits.

If they told you the real price in person, especially before you finished the procedure - they would fear you cancelling before the work is done.
First it’s not an invasion, it’s an incursion. Like I said upthread, it’s got lots of downside but little upside. But the upside would be quite triumphant.
The simple explanation for the lack of positive news regarding this administration is that it's very hard to pay attention to the small list of broadly-beneficial policy proposals it has generated relative to the endless deluge of corruption and incompetence it is responsible for.
I got the same procedure at a cash-only walk-in clinic. (Eight stitches, actually -- a chunk of flesh was literally dangling from my finger.) $200.

We will never get control of the insane cost of health care until we force medical facilities to actually compete with each other.
> Previous commercial concentrating solar thermal systems could only reach temperatures of 565 degrees Celsius, the company said. That’s useful for generating power, but can’t meet the needs of industrial processes.

Or we could build more nuclear power plants, which have the duty cycle necessary for industrial applications. It's no wonder that the more conservative politicians seem to love nuclear more: it's a pro-business, pro-industry carbon-free energy source, unlike wind and solar (or the insane amount of batteries to make it work.
I'm guessing this is going to show Alyx first interacting with G-Man.
Or a language that doesn't let you overflow buffers.
I'm more about "fitness and heath" aspect of such devices

And probably just hate small displays in general
> I think we can criticize both the Chinese Govt as well as our own government.

In the west we can criticize our governments and are arguably more free. in china you can't and are arguably less free. I know where i would prefer to live.
This is curious, because I definitely remember someone recanting their allegations. It was a big deal. It's hard to find clear information on it now. Was there a second accuser maybe?

Edit: based on some other comments there may have been two accusers. In that case my original comment was misleading, thanks for the correction.
> Canada has been involved in every war that the US has been in my lifetime

Since the US is Canada's largest trading partner, this will always be the case, but there are huge and important differences in the level of involvement. Famously the level of involvement in the Iraq war was almost non-existent. Canada's involvement consisted of patrolling surrounding waters, and approximately 100 Canadian soldiers who were embedded in American forces as a sort of culteral military exchange[1].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canada_and_the_Iraq_War
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Right? I always find myself wondering why antitrust isn’t applicable?

The hospitals clearly work together to ensure that consumers don’t have accurate or correct pricing information, which has always seemed like it should be classified as anticompetitive behavior.
Last week, a PC in my wife's medical office wouldn't boot, with the dreaded "no drive detected" error message. Figuring "what do we have to lose", I turned it off cracked the case, started whacking the C: drive with a screwdriver handle, and punched the power.

It booted.

The office manager who was watching me had to pick her jaw up off the floor. We proceeded to copy everything possibly important off it onto a USB drive, knowing that may well have been its last spin-up ever and it's next power off may be the final one.
It's amazing what tiny tidbits of knowledge like the urgent care thing can save you.

Recently when picking up the tab for a relative who went to an out of network hospital I discovered another one. The first was an enormous discount for paying same day (so if you're well off but have bad insurance they just pretend you have mediocre insurance). Combined with the power of saying "Really??? Isn't there anything you can do?" to as many people as possible, $1,600 became $360.

So the lesson is on one of the worst days of your life focus on what really matters: haggling, being an informed consumer, and obscure policies.
Depends.

The first two seasons of Pretty Cure looked like religious education to me.

The first season was about Shinto and the second about Confucianism. The series systematically worked through about how you would feel about your place, your town, nature, the people around you, history, work, community, etc.
What!? A few thousand migrant families arrested at us border is bad. Agreed. But million minorities in re-education camps with organ harvesting is really bad. Not even close on the scale of shittyness.
You don't pay 25000€, you invest them in the company. And from what I can tell, there's a "mini-GmbH" model that avoids even that requirement.
This commentary gets the psychology of superhero narratives entirely wrong:

> Primarily, mass-market superhero movies seem to be abetting an audience who do not wish to relinquish their grip on (a) their relatively reassuring childhoods

It’s the exact opposite. Superhero movies speak most strongly to those whose childhoods were traumatizing. The misfits, the rejects, the nerds who were bullied and had no protector. These narratives are about downtrodden heroes discovering their inner strength and standing up to evil and abuse. Look at the archetype of the mild mannered geeky protagonist who hides his incredible abilities - Spider-Man, Superman with his Clark Kent glasses and persona.

The reason these movies are resonating so deeply in this cultural moment is we have an entire generation of traumatized kids, now adults, who are searching for stories to help them make sense of their reality. This is directly linked to the rise of so-called mental illness, aka trauma.

I’m not saying that all of these mass produced movies are works of art, but you need to understand where the appetite is coming from. The root is in collective trauma.

The only connection to DW Griffit’s racist film is surface level - literally just the fact that masks and capes are involved. Pointing to that film as a forerunner of superhero movies is frankly absurd.
Right now healthcare in the U.S. is the worst of capitalism (basic health is tied to income/employment, perverse profit-incentives) and the worst of anti-capitalism (anti-competitive monopolies/cartels) at the same time. I don't think improving its ability to function as a free market will ever be a real solution, but it certainly can't hurt.
I have empathy for where you're coming from, but to me it feel like the following:

Imagine that in America, husbands are allowed to beat their wives, and the government proposes a law that they may not use a stick with a girth bigger than their thumb.

Alice says, "This is insane. Husbands are not allowed to beat their wives in Canada, that is the correct solution."

And then Bob says, "Well, that's just unrealistic here, so please do not undermine our efforts to make things better for wives by limiting how hard they can be beaten."
Agreed. And also add, "may have the unintended side effect of alleviating tinnitus symptoms. These statements have not been reviewed by the FDA. Wash device before applying to the skull."
It's funny how alcohol is objectively the far more dangerous and destructive drug, yet weed gets treated more harshly.

Disclaimer I drink but don't smoke, so if anything I'm biased against my point.
What does smoking weed have to do anything with any “values”?
Adding on to Moore's point about superheros and clinging to childhood, the director Pedro Almodovar makes an interesting observation^[1] that the Marvel movies are neutered and almost sexless. All of the relationships shown in the films are practically chaste. The characters who display sexuality
are considered immature (Tony Stark in Iron Man, Peter Quill in Guardians of the Galaxy), until they "graduate" to a relationship that immediately removes any trace of sexuality from their being.

[1]: https://www.indiewire.com/2019/04/pedro-almodovar-wants-sexi...
That is a great guide as well, most of my setups are headless and wireless. Cheers
Normal countries do this by imposing price controls, and it works remarkably well to contain costs. Why can't the US do the same?
It's both. A combination of propaganda and propaganda doing its job
YouTube is in dire need of competition.
But not if you don't get charged and can't be blackmailed over it.
This is exactly my problem as well. How would I actually be able to differentiate high pitches (which I hear constantly) from noisy electronics and power supplies? The times where I'm out in deep nature with utter quiet (e.g. no airplane flying overhead at 30,000 feet) is so rare that I couldn't say I'd achieved homeostasis with silence. So really I spend 99% of my life in near proximity (within 30') of some cheap electronics that could very well be the source of this constant high pitch background noise. Or it's me.
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Thing is, this was self-pay for a single routine lab test. It's the simplest possible scenario.
This is very deeply unsettling. Solitary confinement is torture, wherever it happens.

Doing this to children should be treated as a very serious crime. The psychological damage this must inflict is surely on par, or worse, with other types of assault.

Also, the fact that this happens to disabled children paints a very dark picture about who gets to be treated as a 'human'.

Establishment educational authorities of one kind or another round the world have a history of enabling and fostering child abuse (of one kind or another). That doesn't just stop by magic.

It can be a lot harder to work with special needs children, but torturing them is no solution.
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for comparison: steam & the app stores take 30%.
The reason people call a flat consumption tax regressive is that poorer people, even though they're often buying cheaper things, generally spend a much larger proportion of their income on "consumption."
Software developers are allowed to have discussions about "integer" types without being constantly interrupted by number theorists to remind them that those aren't really integers.

Perhaps one day we will be able to have similar discussions about sum types without constant interjections by functional programmers.
Code is open source: https://github.com/duckduckgo/smarter-encryption
> Transparency is not going to work where there is no competition, Emily Gee, a health economist at the left-leaning Center for American Progress, told Healthcare Dive.

That's bs. I will drive to a further away hospital if it saves me $75 an hour of time spent...

(edit: clearly I'm talking about non-emergency here)
> Several years out, I no longer trust Google - not because I trust my former (immediate) coworkers less, but because the direction

It makes me uncomfortable that the data is always there, and the direction of the business just needs to change. Perhaps they're not being profitable enough for wall street? And on a time scale of 10 more years, I'm sure there will be a number of "incidents" in which teams were given approval to use the data in unsavory ways.
Non-paying patients are, while frequently trotted out, not the reason for why prices are 3-4x higher in the US.

Outside of the ER, if you don't have insurance, and can't pay, you'll get shown the door. The overwhelming majority of medical procedures that take place across the country are not done in the ER.
> ...the serial entrepreneur and investor.

I still don't understand the virtue of being a "serial entrepreneur", especially with no indication of what businesses were created. It just sounds like someone who bailed on several previous companies that aren't even worth mentioning.
Your comments seem at odds with the popularity and the sales figures for Marvel movies. If their content is so "shitty" and their franchises are doing poorly, yet their profits and film attendance are huge, those seem to directly oppose your opinion.

Their films are successful, profitable and they are making more of them. The audience goes to films they find interesting. They vote with their dollars. Big budgets do not guarantee success or profitability.

Popular as boring makes zero sense. Avengers Endgame box office had international sales of $1,939,427,464 vs $858,373,000 for domestic sales. The point being it was extremely successful and profitable worldwide. Facts like box office appear to negate your supposition.

It is unclear who the publishers are that you refer to. Marvel publishes their own comic content. They decide what movies to make from their IP. They hire writers and directors to adapt that IP to movies.

Do you mean their stockholders? Or the press?
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