skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
But that’s not an argument for making Google a public utility. That’s an argument that they are being anti-competitive. That’s a whole other discussion. And even then, the question isn’t are competitors being harmed, but are consumers being harmed. So long as their products are free, it’s hard to argue that consumers are suffering harm.

(I haven’t heard privacy brought up as a legal measure of harm to consumers, which would be an interesting angle, but I’m not sure how that plays with current law…)
The problem is that an old money power elite halts this progress. Big oil and polluting industries hold ginormous wealth and hire thousands of lawyers, PR people, astroturfing groups etc. to stunt progress.

I'm sure this will eventually shift - as far as i know multiple golf states are heavily investing in "green tech", not sure what the US elite is doing, but i hope that a critical mass will be hit at some point.

Until then there will be no governmental push to save earth because the richest elites writes the laws, and unless their wealth isn't dependent on dirty energy they will rather kill everyone on earth than give up their generational wealth.

Stupid when the tech is literally ready and prices are falling so much.

We need extreme global bans on all dirty energy 30 years ago, and stop using trillions of subsidies for family dynasties, military black budgets, and other black boxes that siphon money from everyone to a hidden elite in offshore tax havens - and instead take those money and subsidise saving earth / gren tech / neo manhattan like projects.

Unfortunately the oligarchs, and especially the tech elites will rather flee to New Zealand and live alone in bunker than imagine any happy ending. It's dark.

Maybe they don't count on the transition being possible and to be fair i don't either. The amount of energy stored in fossil fuels is so massive, so portable, so cheap that even with a revolution in batteries and tech everyone in the world will pretty much have to live as third worlders - unless fusion and batteries undergo a deus ex machina like event.
It's a bundle of 24 high quality games, by talented, diverse and motivated game developers for ~$8 each. And it comes with a free console. Art is worth paying for.
>In my opinion, do away with income and capital gains tax and have a pure consumption tax instead.

That turns out to be incredibly regressive as the poor spend almost all of their income, where as the rich spend a fraction of a percent.

So you end up with them paying even less, and the worker paying far more. It's called a "flat tax" and it's a horrible idea.
Grilling is cool. TLDR is I'm a copywriter turned comms consultant. I work mostly with tech companies. My interest in journalism review came just from years of diving into stories on topics I knew and finding them grotesquely misrepresented. This then kicked up a gear when I wrote about Elon Musk and the Thai cave rescue in 2018 and had a bunch of newspapers/journalists shit on my work. I wrote an exhaustive rebuttal to all their points (and offered them money for any mistakes they could find) and they just didn't read it. I came to realize that they have the privilege of just never having to engage with criticism no matter how rendered. So I started my substack to effectively pre-publish chapters of a book I'm writing with a list of examples of really bad journalism from top outlets. Then going to segue from that to my own journalism-esque platform to put my money where my mouth is a far as building a news org with better incentives and more accountability.
Yeah it’s interesting this got me thinking, lossless compression is just removing redundancy right - like it doesn’t introduce any ambiguity in the data (?)

So feeding AI compressed data might allow it to be more efficient with its limited resources … I had never considered that, it’s very interesting idea
No, but bad knees and diabetes hastens the inevitable. Hell, they might not even hurt as bad as the depression.
Most of those systems are designed to target dozens of incoming targets. It’s entirely reasonable and plausible for drone swarms to number in the thousands of targets.

That ciws will likely exhaust its magazine before it can take out all the drones unless I’m missing something.
Is it possible that not everyone in the company had transparency and decision making power on this?
No, but they likely realised the fragility of the semiconductor supply chain, and anticipated that a whole range of global events could cause logistical problems and shortages.
Yea, and you can make bombs in your house and mail them to people. You can buy drugs online. You can trade child porn, you can abuse your own children. You can commit all sorts of crimes easily and secretly but you'll go to jail if you get caught.

You can also see if someone's breathing by noticing condensation on their windows in winter or seeing them enter their house one day and come out another day. They must have spent the intervening time inside breathing. If that's the level of invasion, it hardly matters.
Most cars still default to incandescent bulbs for many uses. Few cars attempt to understand the situation around them, beyond a rear camera and maybe ultrasonic reverse sensor for parking. Engine control units have gotten more complicated, but unless high end or EV, It’s mostly mid 90s tech. Disagree?
I have no idea where you get the type of iphone you describe online for $250.00. If I was an apple guy I would want to buy new and pay full price so apple had more money to make the products I love.

I didn't upgrade since 2013, and since getting my new phone I found no new features important or even that useful. Having more memory allowed me to download more. Bigger screen doesn't fit in the pocket. Features like split screen or shake twice for the camera ti show up or the new ways to lock and unlock your phone don't really matter.
As I’ve been working on my own projects, on my own schedule, at home, I’ve taken to having breaks; sometimes, even short naps.

I don’t really have a fixed schedule. I generally start the day with some goals, and usually take breaks between work on each goal. Sometimes, they are an hour or more. I may do errands. I tend to start the day quite early, and often work until bed.

If I am stymied by a nasty problem, I will often take a break, and maybe watch a part of a movie, or something, then go back to it. Bugs never last more than a day, with me.

If it’s a big context switch, I may have a “take it easy” day, where I take care of administrative crap.

I enjoy more productivity than I have in my entire life.
> It is not hard to produce something completely inscrutable and non-replicable in Python and R the same way it's been done for ages using SAS, Stata, MatLab etc.

It’s possible to write inscrutable code in any language, but some languages sure make it easier.

Syntax issues aside, the main advantage of Julia/Python/R (the latter’s syntax might even be worse than Perl’s) for scientific computing is their ecosystems. A language for a particular use case is only as good as the packages available for that use case. The scientific package ecosystems for Ju/Py/R are far richer than that of Perl, simply because their userbases are much larger. Thus, a scientist using Perl would likely be forced to roll a lot of their own functions, which makes the code idiosyncratic and more likely to contain bugs. (To use one of your examples, people might implement OLS regression by manually computing the hat matrix because no stats package exists for the language they’re using. Now imagine their language lacks something more complicated, like a robust MCMC sampler package à la PyMC3 or STAN, and they have to roll that themselves. Yikes.)

And that’s not even getting into the value of the languages for interactive scientific computing, which is how most of it gets done these days. For instance, there’s no official Jupyter notebook support for Perl (although unofficial plugins exist, they don’t support inline graphics/dataframes/other widgets), and the REPLs for Julia/Python/R are much more modern and fully-featured than PDL2.

BTW, I agree the GSL is great for building standalone tools, but it’s totally irrelevant for any interactive work.
It is worth pointing out that Yann LeCun, a prominent ML researcher, also worked with DjVu, an image compression algorithm.

cf. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DjVu
> Ijsemeer

Minor nitpick, it is 'IJsselmeer'. Double 's' and 'IJ' is both in capital letters when its part of a name. Otherwise great links, thanks!
> creating a competing utility company wouldn't make sense competitively in any way, so naturally there's a monopoly

So how come there are countries without a natural monopoly and with competing utility providers?

Also running your own generator with oil isn't a few orders of magnitude (i.e. at least 100x) more expensive. I wouldn't be surprised if it's not even one order of magnitude more expensive, but maybe just twice as expensive.

I also don't think GP's simile is good, but some of your arguments against it are just blatantly false.
I was under the impression that twitter replies with more retweets/likes were displayed higher up in the reply list, similar to HN?
This is a naive solution. What IP is being held back?
Some are. We live in an area where annual taxes are about 2% the value of the home. Home values have been skyrocketing and taxes along with them. Some people on fixed incomes can't afford it so are forced to sell. I think property tax should be abolished in general, but the problem with taxing ownership of a company is that owners are then forced to spend that much less on expenses to cover their tax burden (fewer jobs, or lower salaries for employees).

A lot of companies operate close to break-even or even at a loss. What happens with the owner of a $2m / year company must come up with a 10% wealth tax amounting to $200k, but the company is operating at break-even? Expenses must be cut to pay the tax. Ultimately hurts the lower and middle class the most.
Is that also a realistic alternative for a business?

To just place their ads on DDG? Where only about 2% of consumers are? And a huge part of DDG's users have ad block?

That would be a death sentence for a business, when the competitors have access to >80% of consumers on Google.

The lawsuit is about Google and their customers (the advertisers), NOT their users (who are actually part of the product Google sells).
Hard questions that require philosophers or priests to answer competently, and every human to make an effort. I'm only asserting that law and ethics are not synonymous: lawful evil is a box in the meme.
A CDK-style Terraform seems perfect. Seems a bit early days but I look forward to it gaining traction.
Did you compare EU to Singapore or Thailand in terms of tax and the life cost?
Anyone know if this shows up as an actual GPU device? The last tensorflow-macOS thing did not. If you list devices using that, you’ll see only one: CPU:0.

Does this give a GPU:0 device? You can check via:

import tensorflow as tf2
from pprint import pprint as pp
tf = tf2.compat.v1
sess = tf.InteractiveSession()
pp(sess.list_devices())

I’d check myself, but I’ve been so burnt by tensorflow 2 and M1 problems that I just don’t have the energy to figure out the inevitable compilation issues, and it sounds like at least one other person already has it running. Plus I’m on mobile.
Only Python?
Not if the only penalty is a flat fine.
> There are only two clear, non-arbitrary rules

I don't see any problem with having arbitrary rules so long as they roughly capture the spirit of the outcome people want. The eight-hour workday is an arbitrary rule. The age of majority is an arbitrary rule. Zoning boundaries are arbitrary.

They all capture something we (most of us) fundamentally want, but the specific lines are approximate or convenient or customary.
I wasn't familiar with it, but I'll check it out now, thanks!
How to live better without Dependency Injection
ASML is a supplier for one part of the overall process yes, but their core innovation is also somewhat limited. Their EUV technology is actually based on a license from the US DOE (from 1999: https://www.eetimes.com/u-s-gives-ok-to-asml-on-euv-effort/), as part of a consortium of companies that were allowed to benefit from early US R&D into EUV. This is also why the US is able to require ASML to not export EUV machines to China. In my opinion from limited knowledge, being a leader means also being able to change the industry in significant ways. You could argue ASML has contributed to that but I think their dependence on US research indicates they aren’t independently set up to be a leader in this space.
Show HN: The FlagPlanter – open-source simple protection from fake deepfakes
They don't even need guns. Drones can just lift a rock or metal sphere up a few hundred feet and drop it over the target. Imagine a fleet of 50 drones dropping dense objects onto a house or car: would be more destructive than an automatic weapon, and harder to avoid.

I wonder if standard BBs or ball bearings could achieve sufficient terminal velocity to pierce skin - would mitigate accuracy requirements if you could dump them by the dozens or hundreds.
Which book? She has quite a few published.
The warrant has the address (well, with the first part obscured.)

https://www.justice.gov/opa/press-release/file/1402051/downl...
Here's the underlying reason why the thesis in this follow up from savingjournalism is HORRIBLE.

A person that has 1 trillion dollars or makes multiple billions of dollars a year, probably only needs $100K per year during their rich lifetime to make them "personally comfortable".

That speaks NOTHING of the extra billions that NEVER EVER need to become liquid to pay for the things that keep them in power, pay employees, buy homes. I think the person that wrote this piece is forgetting that it SHOULDNT be done this way. I don't care if it's the "way all the countries do it" of course it is - the rich copy and paste the rules that work for them across the nations.
Well you cannot change a git history without completely changing the hashes. Which is similar to blockchain.

I see it as similar to CBC in crypto, where the previous block’s value plays a huge role in the next block’s encrypted value. Change one and you change the entire chain after that “block”
The only thing I don't like about my Brother HL2170W is that it doesn't have duplex (and that's because I didn't think about it when I bought it).

I put a piece of tape over the window on the toner cartridge like 5 years ago, it's still printing with nice quality.
Dealing with Integer Overflow
> So how come there are countries without a natural monopoly and with competing utility providers?

Local governments own most U.S. utility lines and pipes, so a competing for-profit utility would have to go against the not-for-profit public service, leaving low to no room for profit and no reason to even compete.

Fiber/cable/dsl lines are one of the few U.S. utilities with competition because the performance/reliability/features of the service can vary greatly and because almost no local governments ran their own ISP before private companies came in and ran their lines. I can bet that any area with a municipal ISP has a very low chance of seeing xfinity/att run their own fiber if they're not already servicing the area.
https://www.homeaffairs.gov.au/about-us/our-portfolios/natio...

At least there’s this:

> The Assistance and Access Act contains an express prohibition against building or implementing any weakness or vulnerability in software or physical devices that would jeopardise the security of innocent users. This is found in section 317ZG of the Act which also makes clear that any assistance that makes a system's encryption or authentication less effective for general users is strictly prohibited. This same section prohibits the construction of new decryption capabilities and rules out any requirements that would prevent a company from patching existing security flaws in their systems.
Grep is so handy. I want to say I also used something like 'ar -i' on one of my systems for a while, but then it went away and I never looked it up again.
In estate planning, there's a saying, "own nothing but control everything." The approach is to transfer 99% ownership of the private company into a non-profit trust and to retain 1% ownership which has the controlling vote. The 99% non-profit trust has tax benefit and asset protection benefit. You only have to pay estate tax on the 1% of what you own when passing down to next generation. When someone sues you for your asset, you only have to pay 1% worth of the money since that what you own. But you still retain control of the company and reap benefit from it (directing dividend payment, hiring relatives, etc).

Edit: a more proof version is to put the 1% into another entity like a C-corp or a trust that you control. Estate planners have a field day dreaming up these schemes.
Do you Google shoes to find shoes,some workout shorts or any consumer product line? Search is irrelevant for any consumer brand from a discovery standpoint point. What do you Google from a consumer perspective?
As the Tampermonkey devs put it:

> Every little userscript would then have to become an own extension. Anyone who wants to do that has to pay $5 to be able to publish an extension.

So this seems like a good way for Google to make money...and to exert more control by moderating the contents of userscripts.
What Are Japanese Particles?
Mozilla cut a bunch of jobs and the servo team was one of the teams cut. The servo project is not officially canceled but there is no clear future for it.
>What's wrong with an unequal society?

Because if you let the inequality to get too bad, the millions of poor murder the rich, to restore the balance.

>“THERE were two “Reigns of Terror,” if we would but remember it and consider it; the one wrought murder in hot passion, the other in heartless cold blood; the one lasted mere months, the other had lasted a thousand years; the one inflicted death upon ten thousand persons, the other upon a hundred millions; but our shudders are all for the “horrors” of the minor Terror, the momentary Terror, so to speak; whereas, what is the horror of swift death by the axe, compared with lifelong death from hunger, cold, insult, cruelty, and heart-break? What is swift death by lightning compared with death by slow fire at the stake? A city cemetery could contain the coffins filled by that brief Terror which we have all been so diligently taught to shiver at and mourn over; but all France could hardly contain the coffins filled by that older and real Terror—that unspeakably bitter and awful Terror which none of us has been taught to see in its vastness or pity as it deserves.”

― Mark Twain, A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court
They explictly sought the warrant to allow them to use the private key that they already had to seize the funds, yes.
When I moved to the US my nominal salary tripled but my quality of life dropped noticeably. The first part I knew going in, the 2nd part came as a total surprise.

Taxes actually come out about the same when you add the multitude of separate tax systems in the US (federal income, social security/medicare, state, local), and then in the US additionally have to pay extra for things that are paid by taxes in Europe, health care being the biggest such expense.

And then there is the expectation of working 24/7, nobody has much vacation and nobody takes what they get, etc etc etc. Yeah, quality of life for Americans is nowhere comparable to Europeans, unless you're in the "I no longer work for money, my money works for money" set.
I use a keyboard with a very light and springy feel, and low travel. It also helps to not think of individual letters but rather entire words, so you can be pressing multiple keys nearly simultaneously and "buffer" multiple words ahead.

(You'll know that you're buffering when you take a typing test and by the time you see that you've mistyped something you've already typed several more correct words, so it pays to be accurate before you try to buffer ahead.)
I'm also in Japan. While I don't have any formal English school experience, my experience with casually meeting people pretty closely matches this.

Though, I've actually met some group one folks who can't write very well, despite being extremely proficient in conversation!
> My trick is to make sure the printer actually can be plugged in (USB or Ethernet)

This article is specifically about dropping support for USB printers. Which is bananas.

I've never had any trouble with my USB-only Brother printer in linux since I bought it like a decade ago.

CUPS will need to be forked, unfortunately.
Yes, you have to use the municipal electricity. You cannot lay your own power lines, it's illegal. And in most urban areas, you can't run your own generator for emissions restrictions. You also can't power your home with a bicycle. Even champion bicyclists output 50-100 watts.

Using Bing, DuckDuckGo, or other Google alternatives are incomparably easier than not using utilities like electricity and plumbing. I struggle to see how one can honestly make this comparison.
Probably, but they'd be missing the point. The kind of plodding work at a company rarely overlaps this sort of passion work PG is talking about.

So if they give you that speech, you can turn around and demand proper skin in the game plus a huge amount of freedom and autonomy. Fair is fair. No company will affect my work life balance unless they've made it worth my while.
Not really, I mean, it says No JS on one hand and then it says you can add JS, and you can even build your whole website using your favourite JS framework. So it is a little contradictory no? At least it does confuse me a little.
You don't get to deduct interest for personal loans, and mortgages interest deductions have been limited to interest on 750K principal since 2017 (this article is picking examples that are no longer relevant.)

The whole article is full of logical fallacies and focusing on the wrong thing to drum up outrage. E.g. I do not care that Bezos didn't pay any taxes in some year where he sold no assets and received no income. What matters is what the tax brackets levy on wealthy people when they do liquidate, which are currently a complete joke and cap out at a number thousands of times lower than the highest earners.
I guess I used too extreme an example so you misunderstood. The distinction I'm making is that those things you mentioned put the person doing them at risk of arrest because they must be physically present while hacking from Russia doesn't.

Cellphone jammers are probably a clearer example of cheap tech that can be used covertly but it's illegal and people usually don't.

Another important factor is that they aren't scalable because it takes a human a lot of work to hack only extremely local targets, not a program that can scan computers all over the world automatically.
It's a business unit now, but it would need to be a separate company in my proposed breakup. AFAIK, Google doesn't operate Android as a wholy owned subsidiary, it's just part of Google, Inc which means any separation is at the whim of management; in a wholy owned subsidiary, there would be some structural barriers at least.
Well.. I already have all my HTML in one file, and using plain JavaScript with actual template elements in this current application.

But I do need some JavaScript. What I want is just an easy way to drop excess packages from the webpack bundle ("tree shaking"). Seems a little manual with the default webpack process for that.
And the only public shares are the weak voting ones, so in order for the lawsuit winner (or the state for taxes) to reap their returns they lose the voting power of the shares. I see a lot of the newer IPO'd companies using this type of scheme.
A Mind for Numbers is the one I read. It also goes well with her Coursera course Learning How to Learn.
Vega 20 should be ~13.8 TFLOPs (single precision): https://www.anandtech.com/show/13923/the-amd-radeon-vii-revi...