skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Potentially; infrastructure is quite a broad term, and some sectors of the economy are pretty maxed out. Spend it on telecomms, and how much would flow overseas?

I'm in the UK and we're increasing spending on 5G, but lots just goes elsewhere. Our constrution sector has limited capacity, and has less now we have EU staff leaving (and not arriving), so any extra spending will just lead to price inflation (and wages for already well paid people). Actually getting new people (and companies) in to these sectors is hard, not as sexy, and as a result doesn't seem to happen.

The US may be different, but there are few really easy answers in economics. Almost everything has second order effects that you might not like! That said, having been to the US a lot, there is a lot of infrastructure that does need attention...
Good for them. Bug, mistake, bad data, or whatever. Glad they fixed it.
The tax rate is 2%, and it is estimated to bring in about $100m annually,[1] which is about 5% of Eritrea's $2b total government revenue for 2017.[2] For comparison, US annual revenue from overseas taxation is estimated at $870m.[3]

There are about 1.5m overseas Eritreans,[4] and at least half of them are estimated to be in compliance.[1]

1. https://www.researchgate.net/publication/320584172_The_2_Tax...

2. https://www.cia.gov/the-world-factbook/countries/eritrea/

3. http://www.offshorenewsflash.com/2015/08/19/is-fatca-chasing...

4. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-47934398
I used to be alone, so being lonely is boosting my productivity, i can do whatever i want
When ddevault said that "no one loses anything" when something is copied, they did not mean that they had looked at all the studies and determined that "piracy is good, actually". They meant that simply by examining the nature of intellectual property as such, we could know that no one ever loses anything when something is copied. This is an implied deductive argument which does not hinge on what conditions actually exist in the world.

In response to a deductive argument, it's always acceptable to try to present a possible world in which the premises of the argument are true and the conclusion is false. It simply does not matter that quite a lot of angry people in this thread are insisting that the world I presented in the example does not actually exist. If the world could exist, then that's enough to show that there's something wrong with ddevault's point, and that's what I wanted to do in my comment.

Ironically, ddevault understood this when hardly anyone else did. They replied to my comment with a slight pivot on the original take. They said that while people might "lose things", it's not the kind of "losing" that matters, because if someone loses something that was never legitimately theirs to begin with, we don't care or worry about this. (The example of Nestle stealing water is used as an example.)

This was a great response from ddevault, because it actually understood what I was getting at. I disagree with the response, but the point is that it understands what is happening at the theoretical level here, and that's crucial.
> Printing 10^8 dollars would not quite do it because of the inflation that would cause, but if it printed 1.11 x 10^8 dollars then the government would have enough to buy 10% of the inflated economy.

This makes it sound like you're treating 'size of the economy' (GDP) and 'size of the economy' (amount of money) as equal. But they're not. In the US, GDP is about $22T/year and amount of money is about $7T (so the average dollar is spent about 3 times a year). So if the government wanted to spend 10% of GDP, it would have to print $2.2T which would cause about 2.2/7 = 31% inflation. In fact the government spends 35% of GDP, so inflation would be around 100%. The value of the dollar would halve every year.
I was pleasantly surprised to see that this article discusses the Psion 5, which I had and loved. I recently acquired a Gemini PDA, which has a similar form factor and keyboard, and runs Linux and/or Android, (I run just Linux). Alas, it doesn't take AA batteries. It has an internal battery, which is recharged in the usual way. Battery life isn't great.
I'll give it a shot – and you might already know all of this.

So let's say you're Van Gogh, and you just finished painting "Starry Night." Let's say in this hypothetical scenario, you made it in a context that already celebrates your work and is willing to pay you insane sums of money for it. You sell it to the top bidder and there's all the papers that say X buyer now owns "Starry Night," bought the original painting for $70million. But you as Van Gogh still own the rights to licensing reproductions of it, even if there's only one original. The entire village you're a part of now buys printed copies of the painting. You get to hang the original painting on your wall. Everyone else also gets to hang a printed copy on their walls. Everyone, including Van Gogh and you and the village people, all know who owns the original one. The copies maybe can be resold for perhaps $1.00. Maybe even $10.00 if you're a shrewd negotiator. But the original can resell for a bajillion dollars.

So I know people throw this example around with variables swapped out. And for me, I'm a digital artist, and it didn't click until I saw artists I genuinely respect and admire and have followed for years post their GIFs on NFT sites. Other artists' work that I'm not interested in, I thought to myself, "This is stupid; what a load of crap." But for the artists I genuinely admired? I didn't go so far as to want to buy their GIFs but I definitely was rooting for them to get top dollar. For me, I already valued their work before any NFT stuff. So when they posted it on auction sites, I knew it was worth something and had power to it. I could see myself saying, "It would be cool to own that GIF" for the first time ever. It's a feeling, that is different from right-clicking. It felt more like a personal connection to the artist.

So if the artist were to then mint the exact same GIF on another platform because the ETH 1.0-based ones collapse, OR, this who NFT art speculation thing goes bust and it becomes worthless? I'd feel like the mad left with the bag, so to speak, and feel a bit dumb. But I can't deny that I wanted to own rights to GIFs from artists I deeply respect, and that seeing many others ascribe real monetary value to said GIFs completely changed my perception that GIFS can be imbued with value. Again, if the bubble pops and these become worthless? Then yeah, everyone who paid any money for these GIFS looks like an idiot.

Long story short it feels like a kind of personal connection to the artist. Might just be some woo woo nonsense, but seems like many people buy things from a visceral emotional reaction, rather than cold hard logic and reasoning. Not saying everyone does. But many definitely do.
> Your link is full of hateful lies.

In my opinion, that link expresses a humble opinion of a middle-aged woman. I don't necessarily agree with her opinion, but I'm certain there's nothing hateful there. Also, I'm not certain but inclined to believe the OP is sincere therefore whetever's written is not a lie.

Apparently you have different opinion. That's fine. What is not fine, Facebook suppressing opinions they don't like.

I grew up in a communist country. You don't want a society where you only allowed to express one opinion, the official one, and go to jail or a psychiatric hospital for expressing disagreement with that officially blessed opinion.

> you are ultimately using their property and do so under terms set by owners

Same arguments apply to phone networks.

> until you get sufficient support from the general populace

Given what FB/twitter have been doing lately, that support won't take too long to build.
> take charge of it, solve its problems

The metaphor is most strongly correlated with Bucky Fuller [0], who was explicitly advocating exactly that (including but not limited to ecological sustainability).

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operating_Manual_for_Spaceship...
Just an honest question: do you think Manifest Destiny and killing native Americans was justified or in any way legitimate ? If you answer with a no, how can you support a country that arose and expanded exactly the same way ?
is it the "old homeland" bullshit Israeli propoganda loves to spew ? If so, why not be completely fair and give back the balkans to the turks or spain to the Greeks or the whole mediterranean coast to the Italians?, the last two in particular were a true homeland for their conquerors for at least a millennia. What's the difference ?

Its ridiculous and pathetic you want to frame this as an attack against jews. I guess you took a page from ultra-islamists calling every criticism of islam "Islamophobia". But that's just you closing your ears and shouting "Blah Blah Blah I don't hear you.. Israel good, Israel good, Israel good", _Every_ Nation State in existence is an organized crime organization with a seat in the UN, Israel is just unlucky enough to have come late to the game, when Universal Human Rights were recognized as a good idea. You don't gain points for pointing out how this country or that killed n millions more than Israel, at least those other mobsters got a claim to the territory they rule that is more solid than "Well there is this book that a sky daddy wrote and it says right there that this piece of land belongs to us".
As an Italian, let's talk about spaghetti code then :)
And the window size for gzip is only 32 kB -- it "forgets" context pretty quickly. gzip was written in 1992, so it had to run under much tighter memory constraints than necessarily make sense today.

Modern compressors like xz (LZMA) use much more memory for context. Under extreme settings and when working with large files, they can use gigabytes of memory.
That's a fair argument but only if you embrace the logical conclusion of the stance you are taking.

If you are arguing for unbridled free speech then fair enough (Personally I wouldn't but we can have that conversaion).

If however you have your own feelings about sane limits on free speech - then you can't take this position without someone else using your argument against you.

It's fine to make these kind of grand statements but I'd like you to clearly state that you're going all the way with it and not just being slightly less inconsistent than the person you're calling out.
I can't find it, but I have a memory of him commentating "The race order is 1, 2, 3, 4" - it made me laugh at the time... I could be completely making it up, but I smile and think of Murray every time.
He didn't come up with that one (he wished he did), he just worked on the Mars account at the time
No it's more like the opposite of buying land. Land is non-fungible, "digital art" is exceedingly fungible. A land deed is perhaps not fungible, but it is reproducible, unlike an NFT.

I heard the bozos on the A16Z podcast (I think it was) compare NFTs to land deeds, but they very seldom know what they're talking about.
That’s not an excuse to not explain wtf the name means. It’s literally one of the first questions that always comes up when I explain ebpf to people.
It depends on a lot on the compressor. Ancient junk like gzip/deflate only has a 32kb window, more modern compressors like zstd can do 512mb or more.

Larger window means potentially much more work during compression, and larger RAM requirements during decompression, so its not exactly free
I think it's important to be inclusive. I'm not against this but there are definitely situations where this has gone too far. I've started to notice some companies completely excluding white men from PR images and not sending them to events which is super weird and definitely not inclusive.
Wouldn’t they want to continue building them to some extent just so they don’t lose the institutional knowledge of how to build them? Or is the expectation that Starship will render it obsolete soon enough?
There was a thread the other day here on HN[0] that discussed how the brain isn't actually broken into discreet sections that govern different parts of our biological process.

I'm not sure how big an impact that has on this author's philosophical thoughts, but it's worth noting.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26341218
"The violence Calvin inflicts on snowmen could alone earn it an R rating" sounds toungue-in-cheek to me. Regardless, the author immediately it was a "classic parenting mistake" in the next sentence, and lets their kid read the books.
Unrelated but, how to unsuspend my account, my account got suspended maybe because it got detected as spam because I'm doing some retweet tasks
The Fed has an inflation target of 2%. That is precisely when printing money shifts from being a good thing to a bad thing.
I hope similar efforts at genetic modification can save American ash trees, which are being wiped out by the Emerald Ash Borer.

In my childhood town in the Midwest my street was lined with massive 80 year old ashes that shaded and sheltered the neighborhood. Most of them have now died and been cut down.
>the optimal leverage being below 1 in all cases involving multiplicative processes

This is wrong.

Instead I should have written: "there is an optimal leverage point, most likely close to 1. The optimal leverage point does not depend on the individual risk preferences of the investor".
Having spent around 18 months of my life working on a top 5 blockchain, it's pretty disheartening to see so many comments on HN suggesting I'm some sort of MLM Ponzi Scammer when I'm actually just a guy who's interested in various CS subjects and few industries involve them all the same way blockchains do...
Is it particularly noteworthy that an anti nuclear article was written by an anti nuclear author or am I missing something?
The only way you can insult fascists is by comparing them to communists, who are objectively worse by the metric of democide.
There is an even better way. Never look at your timeline, so never see any pushed material at all: https://lee-phillips.org/howtotwitter/
It is not a matter of context or definitions. It's a matter of the underlying physical process.

Typical computer displays generate colors by adding light of different wavelengths. However, paint pigments generate colors by absorbing light of different wavelengths.

Whether a system emits light directly, like a computer screen, or reflects incoming light, like a painted canvas, the perception of color is still determined by the wavelengths of the photons reaching the observer.
It's not public. I don't really open source most of the tools I write for myself because there's basically no incentive to do so.
FWIK, compression works by de-duplication. Finding duplicate patterns is limited to a window.

If similar patterns are close to each other, there is a higher probability of finding such duplicates in the window leading to better compression.

When the files are not sorted, this randomly distributed files with similar patterns beyond the compression window leading to poor compression.

If there is an option to increase the size of window, that would be a good experiment.

This is very similar to `git repack` window and depth parameters. Larger the window and depth, you get better compressed packs.

Wonder if a sort based on diffs (group similar files together) would help get best compression. The cost of such sorting might outweigh the benefits.
This isn't really an answer to your question, but under Gnone3+Wayland "ssh -X" works as you might expect. Which amazed me at first, because I wasn't expecting it.

Turns out it's because most applications are X11, Wayland supports X11 applications via XWayland, and X is doing network transparency like it always does.
I would be surprised if it was that simple. Countries like Russia and China are going to want a very visible method of knowing whether a given ground dish is the normal version or their countries specific version. Anything that is just cosmetic would be too simple to fake. The biggest problem is that if any other entity controls the satellites themselves; they could turn routing the the GFW on and off which would be a huge security risk for these countries. (i.e western countries pressure Starlink to turn GFW routing off).

I wouldn't be surprised if China just started their own state sponsored low orbit satellite internet.

Another decent, cheaper middle ground would be operating just the 'first-hop' satellites that ground units communicate with and adjusting the technology such that the dish units used in china are substantially different in terms of the actual RF. Then these China run satellites enforce the GFW and then route traffic to Starlink and other 'non-china' satellites.

The biggest downside I see to that setup is that this satellite technology has to in a non-geostationary orbit which means you need a lot more satellites to get 24 hour coverage in a specific location. This isn't a problem if you want to provide service to the entire planet but for country specific networks; the extra satellites are a bit redundant.

The even safer option is to make running a ground dish itself a government enterprise. Private/non-state ownership remains illegal but the state uses Starlink et al. as just another backbone in their state network. This is probably the most likely since it is far simpler to integrate and control.

Starlink's stance on the issue is probably enough to satisfy countries like the UK that have some unique internet laws but are still satisfied with using the normal western legal process to enforce their needs.
I just listened to a podcast with Patrick Collison in which he listed the ways in which Stripe's market seemed unattractive when they started out. Dauntingly complex, highly regulated etc.

Anyone looking to compete with Stripe will have the same thought process and probably won't bother.

And if they do then they will have to execute as successfully as Stripe over an extended period.

Edit: Just to add that the podcast was "The Knowledge Project" [1] - just a fascinating conversation.

[1] https://fs.blog/knowledge-project/patrick-collison/
As Bastiat once said, there's a thing that can be seen and the thing that cannot be seen.

Maybe parking ticket will be the same 1 pound as it is now.

The UK's bill out of this will be ± half trillion pounds over coming (3 ?) years. Rishi Sunak is already rising taxes, they will raise them even more.

So even if "optically" the prices will not grow, you will do the same amount of work, create the same amount of value, but after HMRC taking their cut, you will end up with less quid in your wallet. You will be able to buy less.

And paying of all this will take decades. If it is a whole career, whole life, it's equivalent of permanent inflation.

Or did anyone think they can just print money without raising taxes? Come on!
Pa. woman created ‘deepfake’ videos to force rivals off cheerleading squad
Yeah 1 GB will limit you out of running Android TV on it straight out, I think it requires 2 GB minimum.

If you go fully open source on any device (Android TV or not) you lose full levels of Widevine (or whatever DRM) support. Apps like Netflix work on open source builds of Android TV but you won't get high quality streams as a result. I think Disney+ was one that refused to work at all, the rest seemed to run. So if you're doing "open source" for purity reasons those are the types tradeoffs you have to make regardless of the hardware or software you choose.

OTOH if you're just looking for a decent unrestricted first party external Android TV box that gets updates (old model is 6 years running on updates now) and has full play store/app support the Shield TV is $150 new and will run all of the apps at 4k 60 HDR out of the box. It can even be officially unlocked and rooted but again some apps will stop working (e.g. Disney+) if you do that. Shield TV Pro is $200 if you want additional RAM and built in app storage. Comes with a nice remote too.
I feel empathy for the store owner. He legitimately got in a situation in which people get whacked like in the movies. After he disclosed the laptop to the FBI, the FBI threatened him. So in such a political case, judges and the whole corrupt system is legitimately out to get you. The fact that he made copies that he gave to press may have saved his life. So I can't really blame him for any leaking anything either. Under the circumstances it was probably the smartest thing he could have done.

The judge in the lawsuit, already made some rulings invoking section 230 protections
They're tested much more frequently than the general population which I assume makes some difference in the observed infection rate but I'm not sure how significant
Even if that were possible, it wouldn't BE the original. Digital bits, unlike physical matter, has no identity, so the concept of "original" makes no sense.
If a truck full of solar panels crashes on the highway, that highway doesn’t become a superfund site. It doesn’t cost hundreds of millions to clean up, the local community doesn’t see a massive spike in cancer.

You cannot say the same about nuclear waste.
By accident, lockdown has shown the secret of closing the achievement gap
Forcing work arounds in implementations so your spec is simpler is the epitome of why standards and specs fail so much.

Design is hard. Good design makes implementation simple.
‘There is a cost to doing nothing,’ strategist warns of aging infrastructure
The philosopher Arne Næss once argued that cannibalism practiced by eating the fallen would be a moral good because it would serve as a strong incentive to limit war.

The idea is the same - war should not be sanitized, because it removes pressure to constrain them.

It's important that the cost of war is visceral to both sides.
No matter where it is, rainbows are amazing. Just thinking about how light gets scattered, it's just amazing of universe
What's the advantage of having IPv6 disabled?
You don't seem to have much of a grasp on history.

Had Hitler stopped after winning the Battle of France, he would be considered a military genius.

And Stalin and Mao saved their countries from literal enslavement.

Note that the US helped liberate both Russia and China, despite US Marxists/DNC vilifying the US today as "an evil country."
What are some examples of nft early adopters on Twitter? As far as accounts and specific tweets.
Maybe https://www.leocad.org/docs/history.html would be good, contains all the release notes going back to 1998 on one page.
Python match-case (switch-case?)