skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I like the headline. Nobody really knows how the economy works. Economics is an attempt to explain how wealth and prosperity are created. That also means some branches are biased towards what we already have. It gets especially bad when morality is used because from the perspective of something as uncaring as an economy there are no meaningful morals, they are all made up. I personally think the vast majority of economic problems are caused by modeling errors. The model we use to look at the real economy is too rigid to represent it.

The laziest way to explain the rigidities is to just blame someone else, most of the time governments. However, getting rid of goverments doesn't seem to get rid of all rigidity because, as it turns out, our physical world is constrained by more than just politics. What's often forgotten is that governments can also fight against natural forces that reduce flexibility in the economy. Therefore the answer is neither more government or less government. No it's the usual boring answer. What we need is better governments. It's like a supply and demand situation. There is demand for a certain size of government and the supply is often either too high or too low. The goal is to find a balance.
Can confirm. As others have pointed out, they do not last forever and they pick up grunge if you are not careful about storing the headphones. But they work really well. I prefer moderately priced IEMs with Comply eartips for air travel vs noise cancelling headphones. Just don't drop them on a gross airliner floor.
But if you use it to pay someone else offshore, presumably you get something in return at the home country, right? And you didn't pay for it there, right? So isn't the fair market value (or something along those lines) of whatever you eventually receive in the home country therefore taxable income? I don't understand how the value loop can legally close without taxation one way or another.
> Imagine how an Orthodox Jewish rabbi would feel if a gentile pop-music multimillionaire made a music video in which he used the Kaddish to mourn a Maserati he’d totaled. The offense isn’t appropriation; it’s the insult entailed by trivializing something another group holds sacred.

Interesting hypothetical, if unrealistic. See for example "the best Christmas songs" [1], which teach us that Christmas is mostly about red-nosed reindeer (invented by the song-writer's brother-in-law), snow, chestnuts, marshmallows, and silver bells, rather than having anything to do with any Christian or earlier pagan festivals.

[1] The Best Christmas Songs Were Actually Written By Jews - https://www.newsweek.com/best-christmas-songs-were-actually-...
https://xkcd.com/386/ didn't get the reference
To be clear, stopped supporting robots.txt noindex a few years ago.

Combined with the fact that Google might list your site [based only on third-party links][1], robots.txt isn't an effective way to remove your site from Google's results.

Sorry, could have been clearer.

[1]: https://developers.google.com/search/docs/advanced/robots/in...
I have a small ear canal on one side I wish there was a product that could cater to my one ear is different in size issue. I haven’t found any that fit. My ear canal is small but not abnormal or anything surely there has to be a brand that has dealt with this before?
Same, I was thinking about implementing a bloom filter myself, but when I put in the hit ratio and the frequencies, a simple LRU cache was going to be close enough. It's hard to justify the complexity sometimes, which is a pitty cause they are so cool.
> unless you're talking about actual economic orthodoxies like lowering corporate income tax and preferring VAT to personal income tax.

Those are more political ideologies than anything.

By economic orthodoxy, I simply mean that it's a fairly common economic teaching that bad things happen when parties are uninformed. For instance Akerlof lemons is about information asymmetry.

I'm not referring to any specific model (monopolistic competition etc) but to the general observation that a fair few economic models point out that having wrong information causes problems.
In which language?

In Rust iterators are actually the fastest way to safely iterate over arrays, because they will elide bounds checks. If you use `array[index]` you will get a mandatory bounds check (branch) on each access. Using pointer arithmetic would avoid that, but is unsafe in Rust for obvious reasons.

In C I would assume indexes and pointer arithmetic to have exactly the same performance, since the `array[i]` is the same as `*(array + i)` and there are no mandatry bounds checks. Might be interesting to move your code in godbolt and see what actually changes here.
> This outrage is warranted, because it underscores how tiered the legal system is World wide (The US is least represented in the Pandora release but 2 Federal Reserve Presidents have just stepped down due to insider trading [0]) for those closest to power, whereas tax evasion is one of the most effective ways to get a criminal indictment for the average citizen in most of the World.

For those closest to the power, the easiest way to get around the law... is to follow it to the letter.

Biggest, and most famous Russian mafiosos live in the open in London, while diligently paying taxes on their multi-billion ill gotten wealth, and without using any offshore structures, or shady law firms at all.

And the British establishment, Downing St., is very happy with this arrangement.

What people forget about these things is that those offshores are a refuge for at most second grade rogue economic players, whose main rationale hiding their wealth is to hide it from other much bigger gangsters, and mafias from their home countries.

They themselves choose places like London not because it's a rich city to live in, but because of London offering much better protection from being gunned down in broad daylight than cities in their home countries.
>noindex in robots meta tags: Supported both in the HTTP response headers and in HTML, the noindex directive is the most effective way to remove URLs from the index when crawling is allowed.

Seems clear enough to me
Mission to Mercury sends back photos of the planet’s cratered surface
Yes we liked the elegance of both the tool and the docs. So it's very much inspired from it.
I must also give credit to another great tool https://spotty.cloud/ from which this project was adopted.
I think it’s because most people actually don’t want to pay taxes. They understand that the rich are able to go offshore and are somewhat jealous of them. But people want access to this, they don’t want to participate in some kind of class warfare against a group they want to be a part of.
Not really. For example, a model can accurately explain variable X as a function of Z, Y but if Z and Y are exogenous variables, i.e. outside of the scope of the model, then the future behaviour of X cannot be known, despite the fact that we may understand very well the mechanisms by which Z and Y cause X.
Makes perfect sense. Thanks!
Explanations are useless if they can't make predictions.

Non-falsifiable explanation aren't worth the paper they're printed on.

While it's a nice quote above, I suspect many economists would disagree with that reduction of their field to being only backwards looking.
Transportation today is highly efficient and the energy required per ton-mile of food is tiny. But go ahead and grow your crops in the city if that's what you want. No one is stopping you.
They usually do. Even money parked in remote islands in companies end up as investment in their home countries. Except now with another layer to hide their identity and ability to dodge taxes.
Of course it's about prediction. There's no point spending time trying to understand something unless you're going to use that understanding to try and anticipate the future.
Well.. yeah? That's what happens when you allow organized crime to attack foreign businesses with impunity, encourage your citizens to murder gay and trans people, and destabilize every neighboring country by instigating false flagged 'civil' wars in them.

Of course, there are also important factors like the average worker being dirt poor. Who is buying an iphone on a 300-400USD/mo equivalent salary? It would take years and years of saving to afford one, or a choice to put yourself into hard to repay debt for a status symbol? I would imagine the average person there buys the cheapest phones possible and not the highest end name brand phones every few years like working and middle class westerners do.
From the article

>So when Fabien Pottier and several colleagues at the Museum of Natural History's Research Center for the Conservation of Collections (CRCC) took on the task of uncovering the censored portions of letters between Marie Antoinette and von Fersen, they naturally turned to similar techniques.

That doesn't sound like developing the method was their primary goal.
Quote from the linked article:

“ For those of you who relied on the noindex indexing directive in the robots.txt file, which controls crawling, there are a number of alternative options:”

The first option is the meta tag. It does mention an alternative directive for robots.txt, however.
China sends record number of warplanes towards Taiwan
Here: https://3e.org/vvannot/

is Vinge's *ANNOTATED* copy of A Fire Upon The Deep; all the editing notes he, his editors, and test readers sent to each other during the writing of the book.

This should be mirrored more widely before it gets lost...
People continue to study metaprogramming / representations of syntax especially with binding, and category theory applications to programming.

Yes, the blog post is bad and just rehashing old aphorisms, but that doesn't mean the broader research agenda stalled out.
Or even better, iptables rules :P
> athlete

I've heard of strength training regimens that call for a middle of the night protein shake supplement. But given how crucial rest is, I've always been skeptical of that idea.
* Their studio show is by far the best

* Nantz and Romo are by far the best broadcast crew

* NBC is old hat at this point. Nobody wants to listen to Collinsworth anymore
Breaking Through the Guard Rails
Handling Secrets in Vercel with Doppler
Philosophical sophistication is rare, especially among those who get off on fantasy. Too many people in tech make utter fools of themselves in this regard without realizing it.
The only issue is if the private key of your root Cert gets leaked. Then you won't have a way to issue a new one to your device.
I think my daughter will benefit from the fact that, unlike when I was an adolescent, she gets to read/hear a lot of stories like this before she goes into the job market. When I was preparing to graduate from college, I still had only the very vaguest idea about what work would be like, and most of what I thought I "knew" was incorrect.

Of course, this only helps if she has the slightest interest in such stories, which she doesn't. But perhaps as she approaches high school graduation, this will change...
The Guardian article does read like sensationalism and is suspiciously devoid of actual crimes. On the other hand, this full report direct from the ICIJ is much more damning and relates each leader's tax evasion directly with the poor conditions faced by their citizens.

> “If the Jordanian monarch were to display his wealth more publicly, it wouldn’t only antagonize his people, it would piss off Western donors who have given him money,”

...

> Marwan Kheireddine, Lebanon’s former minister of state and the chairman of Al Mawarid Bank, also appears in the secret files. In 2019, he scolded former parliamentary colleagues for inaction amid a dire economic crisis. Half the population was living in poverty, struggling to find food as grocers and bakeries closed.

> “There is tax evasion and the government needs to address that,” Kheireddine said.

> That same year, the Pandora Papers reveal, Kheireddine signed documents as owner of a BVI company that owns a $2 million yacht.

> Al Mawarid Bank was one of many in the country that restricted customers’ U.S. dollar withdrawals to stem economic panic.

> Wafaa Abou Hamdan, a 57-year-old widow, is among the regular Lebanese who remain angry at their country’s elites. Because of runaway inflation, her life savings plummeted from the equivalent of $60,000 to less than $5,000, she told Daraj, an ICIJ media partner.
I like the way you view it. A lot of non-rich people do not feel responsible at all for their wealth management. Some get lucky, and are very happy using their extra money to pay people to keep not thinking about this.
Their sub-scale prototype was claimed to be ready in 2019 at one point. And as far as I know its still has not flown.

So as for the 'can they make it', I am very skeptical. Even assuming they can make it, can they make enough of them fast enough to actually be a return on investment.

Even assuming that, is the market large in-enough that a real manufacturing line is going to be possible?

Could the company exist maybe, will it be widely profitable, questionable.

In my opinion the coming revolution in Electric airplanes is going to be 100x more disruptive and with a much larger importunity for profit.

I don't think Musk competencies (Tesla, SpaceX) have any interest in Supersonic Jet engines. Musk himself has often talked about wanting to build a Supersonic Electric Jet for shorter domestic route. Something that could really fundamentally change the industry.

The competition for Boom from that direction is actually rocket power transport in the form of Starship.
Tax evasion is a potential threat to national security, drugs are a potential threat to national security, protests are a potential threat to national security, q-anonsense is a potential threat to national security, especially when it culminates in an invasion of the Capitol.

You don't just get to sprinkle 'potential threat to national security' to turn criminal activity into a problem for the extra-judicial arms of your government. How about we let the police do their core competency - policing, and the military and the spooks to stick to their core competency - extra-judicial violence, and kidnapping random people to hold/torture without trial in Gitmo.
Usernames is a nice example. Just as a demo, we could make things simpler:

Look at all the usernames in the input, keep track of all the letters you’ve seen. When you get a new name, if you’ve seen all the letters before, you might have seen the name before. If there’s a new letter, it must be a new name.

Obviously that isn’t a great hash function, some letters are more common than others, so real Bloom filters use better ones, but it works basically the same way.
[wheels, plans].forEach(x => x.push(x))
This page has a little more detail: https://developers.google.com/search/docs/advanced/crawling/...

"If other pages point to your page with descriptive text, Google could still index the URL without visiting the page. If you want to block your page from search results, use another method such as password protection or noindex. "
I actually have already gone pretty deep. A few years ago I got a teensy, molded shells, specced out a nice set of 3 transducers, modeled passive and DSP crossover networks (tradeoffs of low latency IIR mode and high quality FIR mode on the DSP side), and a measurement apparatus. I got to the point in the project where I had to manually solder tiny wires onto tiny surface mount connectors and put the project down. Idk if I'll ever be able to finish it, but it was a fun project.

Edit: Oh I forgot to add that I also got tiny microphones and lodged them into the IEM blackplates for ANC or pass-through. It's an ambitious hobby project. I'd be happy to see a proper company do it (or at least incorporate elements of it).
I thought you were being sarcastic, but giving the benefit of the doubt I looked it up, and, well... No sarcasm. That happened. Wow.
Maybe part of solution is higher sales taxes , and less (or zero) other taxes.
Ie tax mainly (only?) at the purchase of a good or service. I don’t recall seeing massive sales tax fraud scandals, atlease at any meaning scale.
This would be fun to visualize! If someone is doing a jupyter notebook of it, I'd love to try doing some GPU graph views, let me know!
Shor's algorithm works fine for the Elliptic Curve Discrete Logarithm Problem (ECDLP)[1]. So it'll break ECC.

There's no indication that it can be used to break several other types of problem that can be used in asymmetric cryptography. These other problems are less efficient and have different trade-offs (some have huge keys, some have huge outputs, some are really slow) and picking appropriate parameters to make them usable while still being secure is a difficult problem. Solving that is the aim of NIST's post-quantum standardization effort.

[1] https://crypto.stackexchange.com/questions/51346/shors-algor...
Agreed I'm completely sick of effect systems too. It's entirely the wrong framing of the problem.
PwC announces nearly 40K US employees can work remote from anywhere in country
No, they're just going to try and cheat the system because 'everybody does it'. It sends the wrong message that corruption is okay.

I like the photo of Ilham Aliyev and his wife though. He looks like a villain from James Bond movie.
They are making it look bad or controversial, but offshore banking in itself is not wrong. They should concentrate on corruption at the source level. This report is worrying from a privacy perspective, looks like generalized blackmailing, and attempts to generate attention to ICIJ who benefits from it.

Edit: please articulate why you disagree with my comment instead of downvoting, as this comment is on topic and downvoting should be reserved for irrelevant or offensive comments.
Or maybe they think that words matter and if you care enough about something to be calling people to action maybe you should care enough to phrase your words so they're less ambiguous.

Not everyone reads things the same way, even if you think it's the obvious and only way to interpret something. If they did, there would be a lot less misunderstandings online.

Someone pointing out ambiguity is possibly helping you refine your point and message, so if you encounter it maybe try to read it less as someone being a pedantic asshole and instead someone helping you express your message more successfully. At a minimum it will likely help you keep a good attitude or emotional state, which is nothing to sneeze at.
> The broader question and sentiment of this piece is: how exactly have people who supposedly work in Public Service amassed such wealth when these positions are paid so low

Usually, those folks come from money to begin with, which makes the situation even worse.

I saw this a lot living down in Texas, state congressional pay is so low that you basically have to come from money in order to run and hold state office (base pay is $7.2K annually and tops out at $40k for a two year period, depending on how many days they're in session, basically minimum wage). Even though it's technically not a full-time job, it's demanding enough of one's time that they need a prior career with enough flexibility in order both hold office and make extra income, which excludes the vast majority of the population.
I doubt there are such people, they know at least nominally. The thing is, it is not illegal, so unless you re an active politician it doesnt register as something materially unethical
No, no.

Ukraine paid the 'entry price' that was asked of them to be protected by USA, (and France, UK, Russia, China) by surrendering their nuclear weapons.

This was a level of vulnerability and trust in third parties the good citizens of USA (and the others above) would never for a second countenance.

The USA (and the others) willingly signed up to the deal [1]. And then failed to do any deterring when it was time to walk the talk.

[1] See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Budapest_Memorandum_on_Securit...
> On the other hand, I can get an open-source bitcoin wallet on my PinePhone and just use it.

I rest my case.
Every day life is fine enough, and the majority has something to lose if they do act out. That threat to take what people have away is what works.
The desired way would be that you correct them as domain expert and give us all a change to learn.

Did you?
> We simply hear too much about "selling IP rights" to subsidiaries and similar schemes that are clearly meant to lower tax rather than increase revenue.

Huh. Made me wonder if advocates of IP reform could claim improved tax sanity as a benefit.

Happily, not an original thought.

Here's the first hit via ddg:

Intellectual Property Law Solutions to Tax Avoidance [2015]

https://www.uclalawreview.org/pdf/62-1-1.pdf

"Multinational corporations use intellectual property (IP) to avoid taxes on a massive scale, by transferring their IP to tax havens for artificially low prices. Economists estimate that this abuse costs the U.S. Treasury as much as $90 billion each year. Yet tax policymakers and scholars have been unable to devise feasible tax-law solutions to this problem.
This Article introduces an entirely new solution: change IP law rather than tax law. Multinationals’ tax-avoidance strategies rely on undervaluing their IP. This Article proposes extending existing IP law so that these low valuations make it harder for multinationals to subsequently litigate or to license their IP. For example, transferring a patent for a low price to a tax-haven subsidiary should make it harder for the multinational to demonstrate the patent’s validity, a competitor’s infringement, or entitlement to any injunctions. The low transfer price should also weigh toward lower patent damages and potentially even a finding of patent misuse. Extending IP law in such ways would thus deter multinationals from using IP to avoid taxes. Both case law and IP’s policy justifications support this approach."

Also...

> How can we have free markets when we don't even know who owns what?

Yup. Open markets require symmetrical information.
"At best, these stories get a good chunk of the airwaves for a couple of weeks, and then it's on to the next thing."

This is the true power of the media. It isn't whatever lies or truths they may tell, though those are impactful in their own way... it is the way they decide what we think about at all. The true power of the media is to inflate some tiny incident that happened to one person to a national-scale, multi-week crisis... and to be able to take national-scale, multi-decade crises and bury them to the point that it's right down there with "conspiracy theories" to think about them.

If you pay attention, you can see this sometimes in action. They'll push a story expecting a certain reaction, but if they don't get the reaction they expect, poof, it's gone. There's always a huge pool of stories to draw from, far larger than they need to send any message they want without having to necessarily lie at any point. They just have to control the spotlight of attention to get the results they want.

Sometimes HN denizens talk about breaking out of the filter bubble. This might be a better way of thinking about it... instead think of it as breaking away from the attention spotlight being pushed on you by the media. Almost the entire world is taking place outside that spotlight.
That clearly isn’t what they said.
Wonder if the person who leaked it will be killed in a car bombing like the journalist who broke the Panama papers.
Pretty sure at one point that demonstrator was supposed to fly in 2019 if I remember correctly.

The same kind of delay for the main plane would put it close to 2030.
I'm surprised it uses a hydrocarbon fuel. I thought that scramjets pretty much had to use pure hydrogen to keep the flame front fast enough to maintain ignition.