skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
For those who don't click through...

There's really no detailed notes on any SpaceX subsidies.

The article talkes about $1.3B Nevada provided Tesla for a battery factory in Nevada. Digging a bit deeper, you find that these are mostly tax incentives commonly used by all auto mfgs and these are not actually cash payments.

Again, tesla is not unique in getting support from the govt (and likely has received relatively little over its lifetime compared to others).

From 2012

https://www.nytimes.com/2012/12/02/us/how-local-taxpayers-ba...

From 2008:

$80B bailout (not tax incentives - cash).

Ridiculous FIFO inventory valuation methods allowed for tax purposes. etc.

The actual incentives here are things like 10 year waiver of property taxes. That's not super uncommon if you built out somewhere that is less developed, which gigafactory nevada did.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giga_Nevada#/media/File:Tesla_...

Usually corp does have to pay some user fees and covers much more onsite stuff than you would see in an urban area for example (ie, Tesla would generally need to run onsite fire protection management vs Nevada building a fire station next to factory).

The idea is that after 10 years you've helped build a manufacturing base, the land and area is (much) more valuable, and long run your tax base in significantly increased. But since nothing much is there to start with you don't charge someone that much to develop it (you may even pay them in some cases though nevada may not have).

Note that businesses take this same approach with each other frequently. Intel wouldn't help Apple with chip for first iphone, Samsung (ARM) did. Was a good investment for ARM.
The most depressing thing is the lack of prosecution for the perpetrators of these crimes.

It sends a clear message that this sort of thing is something the country can live with.
I don't really think desktops are a real source of tech competition anymore. If the FTC isn't going to do anything about vendor lock-in on iOS, MacOS, Android, or ChromeOS, they really don't have any business doing the same on Windows.
You simply have more investible dollars to use. Therefore any losses can be spread across a larger base, or, alternatively, you have potentially more gains available to you as a result of more exposure.

It's similar to leverage.
Feast 0.11
Sundar is worth $600b, did an MBA at Wharton, and is CEO of a trillion dollar multinational. It's pretty funny to me that people would be implying he's Maoist.
Nobody would be this dense to do this deliberately. What follows from this I don't know.
How is Windows currently guaranteeing safety of DRM'ed media content? I seem to recall that you cannot play back some types of content on Windows for example if kernel debugging is enabled. Maybe they aren't that far from being able to guarantee that pixels aren't being grabbed for apps that do not want to have their pixels grabbed?
The article says he was audited.

> In 2011, Thiel caught the attention of the IRS. The agency launched an audit, tax records show. The records don’t spell out what the IRS was looking at or if it involved Thiel’s Roth. Whatever the case, the audit was closed years later and Thiel didn’t owe any more taxes, tax records show.
Been there won’t do it again.

I now have three laptops, two iPads and two iPhones on my desk all day though. Which is a complete fucking pain. Some days I wish I did something else for a living.
The Mac equivalent of xclip -i is pbcopy
$100k for him is a punt. Like me spending $10. In return he possibly gets reciprocity from future successful businesses.
There's a digital license way of activation that doesn't even need an active service like kmspico. Just a one time activation and you're golden.
If you do accidentally connect to a network, before you realise this, there's no way to get it to forget. Rebooting doesn't work. The only solution I found was walking 30m away to the other side of the parking lot out of range of WiFi.
User-level subscribable mute and block lists. The platforms could even offer their own mute and block lists for those who wish to have the same experience as now (which would have the advantage of being completely auditable).

This allows each user to tailor their experience as they feel comfortable. Outraged communities can have their moderated bubbles. Those open to alternative viewpoints are free to peruse an unmoderated stream.
Are you referring to the comparison between Robert Oppenheimer and Christopher Langan in Outliers?

From Christopher Langan’s Wikipedia entry [1], “In comparing the lack of academic and life success of Langan to the successes of Robert Oppenheimer, journalist Malcolm Gladwell, in his 2008 book Outliers, points to the background and social skills of the two men.” It seems to argue that intelligence alone isn’t enough to succeed.

I’m not sure how middling success is defined, but results from Vanderbilt’s study of mathematically precocious youth over a 49 year period seems to say, “by mid-life they were extraordinarily accomplished and enjoyed a high level of life satisfaction.”[2]

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christopher_Langan

[2]
https://peabody.vanderbilt.edu/degrees-programs/smpy_wat.php
> It feels more like a proof of concept, than an application for daily use.

Speaking personally, I used TreeSheets daily for years (thanks 'Aardappel!) to write and manage my lecture notes, to-do items, daily routine, calendar, shipment tracking, and other life things. I found it a very capable tool with a constrained but thoughtful feature set and particularly excellent keyboard-driven navigation. I only moved away (to org-mode/Orgzly) for mobile support.
I got the KBEAR Lark Hybrid earbuds. Incredible price to performance ratio. They wrap up around your ears so nothing is getting them off your head except deliberately removing them. The Chinese have massively upped their quality game in recent years, it’s no longer cheap shite that takes a month to arrive.
Potentially from the ~6x10cm computer
Where do I keep the Api key when I use this from a SPA?
The `portaudio` is a few years old, so I have a hunch that the comment refers to the old backend "Racket BC". The new backend "Racket CS" has a new garbage collection mode "incremental", which I understand is better for this usage scenario. I don't have any numbers though.
Aren't they 'virtue signaling' by pushing a 'virtuous' agenda? These don't seem mutually exclusive to me.
Government spending is almost entirely leveraged by debt and these documents prove that these "ultra-rich" pay a large absolute dollar amount of taxes (albeit lower than 30%). That is factually non-zero.

I am all for a healthy debate on the topic, but I disagree the reporting is responsible. Responsible reporting, in my opinion, would involve nameless "there is a $5 billion Roth IRA out there... the system isn't working", rather than naming private citizens who believe their tax returns from 2005-2020 are private information.

Edit: And I think it may be of public curiosity to know about what goes on in the billionaire class. I get that, to a degree. My original point was that ProPublica is admitting that they are in control of thousands! of American's tax returns for the last decade and a half. There is no guarantee that the IT administrator or summer intern is going to keep that data safe.
Unfortunately .onion is not a permanent address. All .onion addresses are transient and The Tor Project reserves the right to completely remove support for addresses whenever they feel it might impact the privacy/security of the tor network.

For example, on October 15th of this year all Tor addresses from the last 15 years of Tor v2 will stop being supported and will vanish into thin air.
I found a Google One subscription is helpful for that. It's only a few dollars a month, which in fact I fund for free using Google Rewards dollars. You then get to speak to a real live person that actually respond properly, even with handwritten emails.
I’m talking about filtering out malicious software ala Android App Store
Naps! Seriously, if you're lying in bed and can't sleep .... you're not sleepy. Get up, do something. (Listen to your body)

Hell, I can go a few days on 2 hours sleep, then sleep like, 8 hours or 12 hours. Or I'll sleep 5 hours (from 5pm to 10pm) then sleep maybe from 4am to 7am ...

There's plenty of chores to do, or a bit of DIY or watching tv...

Get a diary. Write the stuff in there. Next time you wake up, tell your brain, thank you for reminding me, but we already wrote this down - look. And read it aloud. Eventually your brain will get it and stop waking you up (you should read The Chimp Paradox -- about how your brain works)
Yes. Everything I do is designed to deal with those conditions. I never assume a powerful computer or a reliable connection. But nothing is ever "once-size-fits-all". There could be situation where, e.g., a website's authoritative DNS servers are barely functional, but a cache like Cloudflare's has a copy of the RRs. IME, that is quite rare.

I store the RRs permanently in a custom zone files once I retrieve them. Then query the data from a loopback-bound authoritative DNS server. No subsequent queries for those RRs leave the network interface. This is faster than 1.1.1.1 .
>Democracy is just violence in disguise. Pure evil.

Slightly better way to put it IMHO: Democracy is the tyranny of the masses.
This would be ideal, in my opinion.
I don't think a yes/no vote on a complex issue where there was blatant propaganda (bordering on misinformation) in support of either side really tells you much about how citizens feel about the actual complexities of case.

Phrased differently: no.
I do believe the UK is deeply split on whether to believe certain media/politicians though.
I think you have two things confused. % vs total returns.

Larger funds have a tougher time finding high returns. However if you are getting dollars on a lower cost basis (i.e. untaxed vs 0.8 taxed dollars) you have more money that can be exposed. Therefore allowing for more upside and alternatively any losses can be spread across a larger base.

In no world does not having more money allow for more money to be gained. In venture it also means you have more money you can burn at a loss.
As far as I can tell the KG is also the source for Google Home when it answers questions. That's even more rough since it sounds authoritative and there are no visual cues to imply that it may be inferred.
I understand that visual arts or being a writer are considered a different businesses than IT, that's a pretty common sense, but I guess if you're doing a website on a company property where their business is embedded systems this could be qualified as the same business (IT)?
are you sure you are not plain jelaous he's good at making money and you are not?
> Nearly everyone else pays their fair share of taxes.

It seems the whole point of these Roth IRA is so people don't have to pay their fair share of taxes. I'd blame the government for creating that.
Windows 11 upgrade requires a Trusted Platform Module (TPM) version 2.0
If you are going to make a point against Ethereum, I recommend this: It encourages scams, gambling addiction, people losing money accidentally, and the usual criminal activity associated with crypto.
since windows me it's been clear there's a product designed to be utterly unpalatable, a product whose purpose is to produce upsells by behaving rudely.
The permissions system I designed at work solves the search problem, although it is not as powerful as what's described in the article.

We have three main concepts in the sytem:

- Capabilities (eg. "read profile")

- Selectors (eg. "profiles belonging to customer X)

- Groups (eg. "profile")

All queries are of the form "Do I have capability X on resource Y" (where resource Y belongs to a particular group). A "permission set" is a mapping from a capability to a set of selectors.

Selectors can be composed (eg. you could OR two selectors together) but are predefined. Since they are predefined, our search implementation can understand a subset of the selectors, and translate them into an ElasticSearch-compatible query.

We then filter the results by evaluating the permissions normally: this catches any cases where there was no way to construct a query, or if the constructed query could not be completely precise. If this occurs, then we show a message on the page like "some profiles were hidden because you do not have permission to view them" and then we might show 19 profiles on a page instead of the full 20, so that our pagination can still work efficiently.
With zero knowledge of electronics or hardware, the product description seems to outline why it's interesting pretty clearly (and quickly; the lede is not buried).

TL;DR:

> Novelty clocks:

>

> Whacky clock - ticks once a second, but on a random tenth-of-a-second, so it's arhythmic.

> Wavy clock - tick frequency is proportional to a sine wave. Sort of looks like it's "surging."

> Lazy clock - picks a random interval and then ticks that number of seconds very quickly and then just stops.

> Crazy clock - runs at three different speeds - slow, normal or fast. Much more subtle than it sounds.

> Vetinari clock - runs slightly slow, but adds a periodic "stutter" tick to make up for it.

> Warpy clock - runs 10% fast for 12 hours, then 10% slow for 12 hours. Makes the days just fly by.

> Early clock - keeps time anywhere between 0 and 10 minutes fast. For those who like to set their watch ahead to avoid being late. This clock keeps you from trying to "compensate," because you never know how early it is at the moment.

> Tuney clock - ticks normally most of the time, but occasionally will tick out "songs," like shave-and-a-haircut, or SOS in morse...
FedEx Suspended Service for 1,400 Freight Customers
https://archive.ph/UxvFP
> Alignment to the bottom of the screen is the only location allowed.

That's incredibly disappointing! Having the task bar at the top of the screen makes a lot more sense for me. Application bars (tabs, urls, etc. in browsers) are at the top, so why place the task bar as far away from that as possible? It just doesn't make sense imo.
>> Windows.

Has anyone in the history of the earth tried any other operating system for longer than 1 week and decided to stick to Windows?

And no, vendor lock-in (e.g. games which only run on Windows) don't count... You can't use vendor lock-in as evidence of free will.

>> Office

What kind of person would use it instead of Google Docs, Google Sheets, etc... All of which are free and work just as well?

>> XBox

Do people still use that thing? I use my old one as a coffee table. There's something called a PC which does the same thing... But better.

>> Azure

Anyone started using Azure on their own free will?
All the cases I ever heard about, it was because the company had some legacy systems which could only run on Windows Server. I tried it and it was a nightmare compared to Amazon AWS.

>> VS Code

There are so many simpler, more lightweight IDEs which are free. Microsoft should be paying developers to use visual studio... Oh wait, they are! Most of these developers work at Microsoft.

>> a ton of others

You mean like patent lawsuits? Surely they are Microsoft's biggest cash cow, but unfortunately, they don't count as "products" and absolutely nobody wants them.
> Really? Which leaders? Haven't almost all countries affected by Covid reopened most of the way before the number of new infections reached zero? I don't think zero covid had any impact beyond being a talking piece. And how does widespread immunity figure in? Zero covid (and "no covid", another different but related proposal which they conflate) came up in Dec 2020/Jan 2021, when no place on Earth had anything like widespread immunity even in sight.

I believe Australia is taking this approach.
You can write Lisp in a way that you manage your own allocations, including avoiding the heap. It defeats part of the point of Lisp, but sometimes you can use that coding style for a subset of your program that shouldn’t be leaning on the GC too much.

I don’t do game development, but in scientific computing, I rely on the GC a lot for workload preparation and other administrivia, then adopt a GC-famished Lisp style for the hardcore numerical computing part.

To be sure though, GC-less Lisp programming takes a great deal of effort and knowledge. It’s not exactly an a la carte option. But the fact it’s possible means latency-sensitive applications are possible. Fortunately, Lisp’s primary benefit isn’t the GC.
Not everything that is plausible is true.
Just out of curiosity, what part do you find troublesome? TPM, UEFI or both? And why?
Google rolls out unified security vulnerability schema for open-source software
Just as an FYI installing Windows 11 requires a TPM chip on your motherboard.

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/windows-11-specifica...

A lot of consumer motherboards don't come with these chips, although some have a header where you can install them.

Some motherboards (such as Ryzen compatible) have a firmware TPM implementation that can be enabled.
But can it farm Chia?

Always cool to get insights into the business and technical challenges at Backblaze!
Learned about that when a co-worker did that about 20 years ago.
I owe you for calling me out. That was over the top and I'm pretty embarrassed. Thanks for being kind to me - you're loved and appreciated.
Depending on where you live in the country, you might experience any of the following things:

1. social response / cancel culture

2. theft

3. legal liability
Everybody knows that when presented with the irrefutable evidence that the Challenger o-rings would fail, they more or less just let the astronauts die. Definitely cut from same cloth as any other org.
Your link 404s, I think it's the extra character on the end.
That's still Google's fault. If their service is providing out-of-date information, it's their fault. Making it sound like the business's fault for not using Google's other service is just reinforcing the idea that Google's information is the only information that's real.

This is the problem with the web search and scaping provider also trying to be a thousand other services at the same time. It's a constant conflict of interest.
Taking things into their own hands is literally all that is left, unless you are a pacifist. I never made any statement about how people should take it into their own hands or what degree was acceptable or over what. Nor did I say anything about shootings being acceptable. So take your straw man out of here.

What would you do is if somebody was taking $1500 of yours along with your ability to provide for yourself for several days while your vehicle is out of commission?

(Or is it only when the government does that through civil asset forfeiture that you have a problem with it? Two can play at this game, you know.)

Remember, “call the police” isn’t an option.
I think this is important to Microsoft, and actually quite a smart move. By letting other people use the Microsoft/Windows Store app natively built into windows, with their own billing infrastructure, they basically kill off any reason to have other applications for buying/installing software.

Imagine if Steam allowed Blizzard/Activision/EA to sell their games on the Steam store, and as long as they pay their own hosting/billing infrastructure costs, Valve takes no cut?

I think that would immediately kill the need for EA/Ubisoft/Blizzard/etc. to ever need their own applications to sell software.
It starts to get pretty circular when you consider that GPUs can be used for ML.
https://hackaday.io/project/5880-crazy-clock had better detail for me.

I'm thinking "teacher mode" that goes fast for the first 45 "mins" of the hour then slows incrementally so the last 5 "mins" takes 15 minutes to pass! Evil.
I'm not gonna anthropomorphize the AI and say "the AI is the artist", but the AI is definitely an art style.

I see it as just an old-meets-new mashup, craftfully executed. Any artist/technique you use isn't going to be the original Rembrant, so the choice of what artist/technique you use is just a question of aesthetics and taste.

Here we're just exploring a new technique of the 21st century.
To me this title comes across as just factual and not diminutive in any way.
This was a fine enough message until corporations got us to forget that it was meant to be applied in that order. Reduction of consumption is paramount, but bad for corporate profit, so corporations promoted the idea of recycling being just as good if not better than reduction.
It is not legal to own an USA S-Corp and pay yourself a below market rate.
I can see that, especially since the Android emulators have been historically terrible (never tried the Intel one though, which maybe had some of this tech?).

But this was highlighted in the video clearly targeted at consumers with great fanfare, so I don't know...
> Keep communities small. You don't need to network with 3 billion people.

With federated platforms like Mastodon, PeerTube, PixelFed, you technically can network with 3 billion people, despite the lack of the central server.
I think you underestimate how much of the useful Internet is supported by ads, including affiliate links and the like.

The Internet isn't entirely run by volunteers with a hosting budget. Not by a long stretch.
I think the answer is usually that Apple are very sneaky in how they brand things (even small things) so the conversation is usually "I can do anything you can do on an Android" "What about [this]" "Oh I don't do that", and for an example of the branding point - the M1 is very very nice, but one of the reason it feels extremely fast is because people are upgrading from more than half-a-decade old hardware because Apple don't really make any distinction beyond the number after the i
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I think Gravity's Rainbow is significantly harder than Infinite Jest
(Sorry, too late to edit.. I meant "increase regulation of handguns" in case the mistake wasn't obvious)
The fun thing is too that a lot of old Win2k/NT tools / layers are the source of many security vulnerabilities. An example is font rendering in the kernel, was intended to be a performance increase back in maybe 3.1? Ended up becoming a major pain point from a security perspective.
> But the “brain fog” that is one of the key issues reported by those suffering long-term consequences after a case of Covid could be related to exactly what this new research has found.

I can relate to the term “brain fog”.

One of my side effects of Covid was being more dumb than usual in a very unique way. With many sickness I have felt tired and less able to perform intellectual activities. But, with Covid, the feeling was just being more incapable of reasoning, and also affected my memory.

But, this is a realization I had afterwards, when I got better. At the time I underestimated the effects that the virus had on myself.

> we don’t know how many of the 180 million people worldwide are suffering from this or have increased risk of dementia or longer-term issues.

Now I feel completely recovered, but this is the scary part. I know that the effect in my brain had a measurable impact, I can only hope that it does not have long lasting consequences.
Not for hyperscalers like BackBlaze. They have contracts with specific purchase quotas and guaranteed price deltas. Chia has certainly affected prices on the secondary markets, there hasn't been a better time in the past decade to be a secondary server "junk" seller on eBay! NetApp 4246 JBOD's are going for $1000! Absolutely insane!