skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You're right. The US government spends so much, and owes so much, that even raiding the wealth of the billionaire class probably wouldn't do much in the overall scheme of things.

But how much of US economic and fiscal policy has been influenced by billionaires (and "the rich" generally) to the detriment of the country's finances and those of everyday citizens? It's the policies that are the problem.

If you counted the costs of the tax loopholes designed specifically to benefit big corporations, real estate developers, Wall Street titans, the 1% of the 1%, etc., subsidies for the most powerful special interests, and regulations that actually stunt innovation and economic growth to protect large corporations, I suspect you'd be looking at many multiples of the wealth of individual billionaires.

In other words, to get one astronaut worth a cool $100 billion, the country probably "spends" many multiples of that.
Yes absolutely. On AWS you can use spot instance fleets to implement this strategy https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSEC2/latest/UserGuide/how-spot...
>>> If Google delivers users the thing they want, ads by definition have to be things users don't want.

Ben Evans has a tweet something like "half of facebook devs are working out how to code the algorithm to serve you just what you want to see, the other half are working out how to get the algorithm to serve you what advertisers want you to see. "

We are doing something wrong
Isn't the theory that 10x the population would mean 10x the tax revenue, and 10x the infrastructure? The same reason a lot of people like to look at per capita measurements over absolute figures?

Or looking at it another way: with the assumption that a country of 30M people can have good infrastructure, and is not an outlier, and there can exists more than one of such country, what is different between 10 countries of 30M people each with good infrastructure and 1 country of 300M having bad?

Governments are big, so it's difficult to just point a finger at a specific cause of an issue, but it would seem to me the issue is not continuously building out infrastructure. That, and poorly written, but possibly well meaning, legislation that leads to regulations massively increasing administration costs on every and all areas of our infrastructure (healthcare, general construction, transport, housing).
Oh great, another terrible company.
Are the content teams at FAANG ridiculing and ignoring the people they consider to be wrong? Or are they going out of their way to censor perfectly legal and possibly correct things they just don’t like using an ever changing and intentionally ambiguous terms of service to do so?

> Basically, I don’t think the BBC refusing to give time to flat earth era is cancel culture

No one is making that argument. Talk about a Wuhan lab leak and see if it doesn’t get a lot harder to speak from your position.
> try their damndest not to track you

This is questionable. Brave has injected referral codes into typed domains and other really suspect things.

I haven't heard too much controversy around vivaldi, but until 2020-ish they did assign a unique ID to each install and track that.
Cannot understate how influential the OG Star Trek was for me. Never saw Shatner in anything else (was too busy reading Clark, Heinlein, Dick, et al). So, he is still Captain Kirk, to me. His words are profoundly moving.
Is it possible to replace the drive inside of the enclosure or is it proprietary? I wonder if it’s just an M.2 adapter to USB.
Yes, that was the beauty of the 8 bit era, and many people lost it without even knowing that they lost something very precious. The total control is a very nice feeling.
Well said. I propose therefore that we ban Boltzmann for his crime of false belief in statistical mechanics. /s
> You belie this with your statement that any such skepticism is "bad faith".

I really didn't, and I feel that you did not attempt to engage with a charitable interpretation of my argument.

I used climate change denial as an example, because there clearly are people that make those arguments in bad faith, for monetary compensation. The same was true during cigarette legislation. I made no all statement at any point.

> Well, if you think YOU have a lock on what's true, and everyone with varying opinions is an obvious quack or a shill, then I think it's you who doesn't understand science.

Dude are you arguing with me or a million other people?
There are some things the government just shouldn't be able to do, regardless of the justification. One of those things is locking people in their homes for an indeterminate amount of time.
> Almost all the issues where related to users installing it on older systems that didn't have drivers (new driver model) or couldn't handle the graphics.

This is extremely revisionist. Microsoft did a two-tiered badging program for Vista: Vista Capable and Vista Ready. They originally only had a single tier: Vista Ready.

Vista Ready hardware had WDDM drivers, adequate RAM, and capable enough graphics to run Aero. Such hardware could run any version of Vista. Vista Capable badging was introduced later which meant the hardware could only really run Home Basic which didn't support Aero. This badging program was for hardware sold contemporaneously with Vista's lease.

Millions of Vista Capable machines were sold that were honestly barely able to run even the Home Basic version of the OS. OEMs ended up having to offer downgrades to XP because of Vista's performance problems. Out of the box it ran slower than XP on the same exact hardware. Lots of third party software ran slower on Vista vs XP.

Vista was a terrible release of Windows. People that had problems with it weren't just people with old hardware upgrading. If you ran it on a high end system you probably didn't run into many of its performance issues. It basically brute forces it's way to usability. For many millions of others Vista was a shit show.
Save us? I'll be thankful if they just don't kill us off.
Facebook's Nick Clegg Makes It Clear: Facebook Wants To Undermine Section 230
Tesla is how you make everything for Mars. H2, petrol, they need O2.

Mars needs solar power, batteries, motors, and the ability to build vehicles of labour.

Guess what Tesla does? It supports Mars.
> Lets ask this question in the other direction. How is it in most modern economies you are able to have good healthcare, a robust safety net...

Because they tax the middle class intensively.

In particular they have tax regimes built more around the Value Added Tax (which taxes consumption) and less around the income tax (which damages incentives to save and invest and which is easily bypassed by billionaires who simply borrow the money they spend without realizing income). If anything, the Nordic states with their lauded safety nets are more market- and capital-friendly than the US, and less economic-interventionist, and happy to say so.

It's not all roses. Competent government still matters; there are plenty of debt crises and pension crises and the like in certain nations without it. Overall, families are somewhat less well-off financially, and high youth unemployment remains a chronic problem.
Thanks! I am putting this on my wishlist:)
The problem is it's not what's sold on the tin - the promise of pay per click advertisement is often that you can track the results of your spend more easily, and also that it can get buyers at the time they are searching for a sale. The article seems to contradict those two points at least.
The same people I knew who were buying canned food and masks in the beginning of 2020 while the governments and health organisations said it was nothing are now the "antivaxxers". Humans are rightfully afraid of the unknown. I fit into this group

However, the next pandemic could be very different now that covid has been used as a political tool and people think of such a relatively mild illness when they think of 'pandemic'.
Is it though? What if I have my TERM set to 'dumb' because I'm running your CLI command inside a very limited console embedded inside a text editor or other tool? At the very least you should `test -t` in your script to ensure STDOUT isn't being redirected to a file so you don't fill it with garbage escape sequences.
I wish the parent had taken the time and effort to actually make his point, instead of leaving an easily misunderstood, single-word non-comment in the hope of some easy fake internet points. This is how forums degrade.
It's ignored because it hardly seems relevant. Is providing healthcare to ~80m people (France, Germany—numbers off the top of my head but I think that's close for both) or, what, 150m or so (Japan, again, IIRC) really that different from 350m? What part of the difference in scale makes it impossible for the country of 350m with a higher GDP-per-capita than those other examples? Some parts of our country are sparsely populated, yes, but it's not like passing that off to a mix of highly-funded public ventures and market forces (i.e. our current very, very expensive system) magically solves that problem, so how's that relevant to preventing us from having universal healthcare? Plus, Canada's got that problem nearly as bad as we do, no? I know most of the population's down near the border, but you've got the same issues with large areas that are still lightly populated, but you manage. So that can't be the reason.
Being the front line of the Cold War, while both the US and USSR developed battle plans for where nuclear weapons would be detonated in your country during a war, probably lends shades to the debate that aren't present in other countries.

(Yes, nuclear power / nuclear weapons, but in the 70s that wasn't a clear distinction)
> I was standing there on the stage for the announcement, with BillG, and there they were right there, front row, looking so sad. I’ll never forget it. They had helped so much with the prototypes. Prototypes that were literally running the launch announcement demos ON AMD HARDWARE.

Wow, that's brutal and sort of heart-breaking.
Only if the "skeptic" is acting in good faith.

Consider the skepticism regarding the health effects of smoking cigarettes.
> The Bitcoin project's developers still get the benefit of the doubt

Doesn't seem like a sound argument for perfect immutability. Sounds reasonable as an argument for better immutability.

> Bitcoin is worth considerably more than Ethereum

Ethereum is the second largest cryptocurrency. To imply that it hasn't been successful is disingenuous. Of course Ethereum doesn't need to "flippen" Bitcoin to still have demonstrable value.

> Why would anyone park capital in Ethereum for the long term if they can't even be sure what their dilution will be next year?

I guess its $400bn of irrational market participants then. Funny, because most of the institutional world would say the same of Bitcoin. One can ignore both at their own financial peril.
> There is no assertion in my post that the nazis invented unethical medical experimentation which would be absurd.

But you asserted it's why we stopped. So your logic is we were okay with experimenting on black slaves, aborigines, natives, etc, but it was the nazis that made up stop? Even though we recruited these nazi scientists after ww2 and even though we continued with unethical human experimentation after ww2?

Why not admit you were wrong and just move on?

> It is a famous example taught in medical history classes.

Then you should ask your school to provide a broader/complete view of history.

We are still carrying out human experimentation on poor people - especially in africa and india. In case you were wondering.

https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/industry/healthcare/bio...
To me, space means orbit and this is just a PR stunt by a pretty nasty company: Blue Origin.
I don't care if Musk is good; I think he does worthwhile, cool stuff. His moral standing is no more interesting to me than yours.
The ideology of naming buildings after scientists.
The entire Pacific Northwest FedEx operation is in shambles. Had several packed over the last few months show up 2-4 weeks late up here in Northern Washington
What am I supposed to be critical of, beyond what the authors themselves are saying? Judging by your quote, are you critical of the notion that vaccines slow the spread of covid - great, but I haven't heard that as a main talking point.

"Vaccines don't slow the spread, therefore..." what, exactly? What I've consistently heard since the vaccination campaigns started was that they reduce your chance of severe illness, hospitalization, and post-covid syndrome. Which is still absolutely true, in spite of the fact that (as the authors note) this effect has waned with the Delta wave. So, so what?

I've been listening to the "this week in Virology" podcast, along with Dr. John Campbell on YouTube, since Feb 2020. The difference between what I hear from the actual professionals and what I'm told by people online who use phrases like "Neoliberal agenda" that the professionals say is striking to the point that I wonder if those people are even bothering to listen to science communicators before making straw-man fallacies.
I looked and didn't see any answer to... is there a difference in performance of the gcc vs llvm compiled kernel?
How are you accomplishing 1 second deployments??
Overall I'm glad Shatner got to see space, and that Bezos didn't kill Shatner with this publicity stunt.
My favorite treatment of this subject comes from the film Contact, which manages with these six words:

Eleanor: "They should have sent a poet."
Along with the telephone sanitizers.
Yubikey would probably be a better alternative.
Full length headline (too long to fit):

Facebook's Nick Clegg Makes It Clear: If You're Looking To Undermine Section 230, That's EXACTLY What Facebook Wants
I agree about the performance plateau, I'm using an FX-8350 for gaming, and I'm fine. Even handled Cyberpunk 2077 well, and that only came out not even a year ago.
Two things: couldn't the sonar pings be detected if you're close enough? And does anyone actually have a detailed enough map of the sea floor to do navigation based on it?
CGP Gray's simple solution to traffic and good visuals.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iHzzSao6ypE

The real simple solution to traffic is no more monkeys driving cars. Also, implicitly, fully isolate cars from human powered forms of transportation.
A number of military aircraft have incorporated systems as well, and they can be combined with automated celestial fixing systems for a hybrid astro-inertial navigation system. The SR-71 Blackbird used one, the Nortronics NAS-14V2 [0], and it was pretty amazing for the time (same as everything about the SR-71 granted). Even with a much less accurate INS then this one and primitive computer/star tracker it could maintain high accuracy to enable the precise flight paths and camera activation needed for a spyplane like that to get exact images from 85k feet going Mach 3.2. At altitude an aircraft can always see the stars with the right filter even in the day, which can be used to precisely correct drift.

I'm glad this piece itself got some attention, the AIRS system to me is one of the most impressive pinnacles of electromechnical technology and fine machine crafting, feels kind of like the ultimate evolution of efforts dating back to the earliest days of watch making. But there are definitely a range of other systems from the 60s-90s still incredible in their own right but all the more so for what was made to work without all sorts of tools and modeling we take for granted now. And I think ongoing research to allow production of modern such systems at a more mass scale (perhaps a modern AINS using laser or fiber gyros and taking advantage of advancements in cheap quality digital cameras) is worthy of continued effort, just in case. Precise navigation via GPS has become central to an enormous range of modern human activity, but it is relatively fragile and easily jammed. If we can use tech to also create a reasonable fallback that seems like a valuable hedge.

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0: https://airandspace.si.edu/webimages/collections/full/NAS-14...
Great, so now we'll adjust our aimbot to slightly overshoot the target, and swing back. Give it a little bit of randomness. A random delay of 50-100ms. Make it flat out miss a small percentage of the time.

It'll still be better than 99.99% of human beings at clicking on heads, and will still win you 99% of fights against non-cheaters.

Now what do you do, in your correctly coded game?

Keep in mind, as a cheat developer, I can keep moving these goal posts.
That doesn't make sense to me. Win 10 programs compiled against SSE2 will still work fine on Windows 11, so they can't force developers to choose.
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According to your CNN source, the GP is wrong and the glaciers have shrunk.
XMMS supported ALSA via a plugin. XMMS was dead anyway, at that point (when ALSA arrived). It had a GTK1 interface, for example, and barely got updates. At some point, the plugin ecosystem was more alive than XMMS itself, and they extended the software a lot (think of it like Sublime Text's plugin system, or Winamp's). XMMS2 took way too long to arrive. In the meantime, better iTunes-like audio players were released, such as the ones default in GNOME and KDE.

The post also fails to mention JACK, a low latency audio server for Linux. Which is now replaced by PipeWire. JACK was programmed by the same person as Ardour, called Paul Davis. You might've seen him around here. He's been doing using Linux audio professionally for a while.

There was also a Linux live distribution aimed for being used as a Linux audio workstation, called dyne:bolic.

FreeBSD was and is a niche, not the reason why Linux wasn't used much for professional audio work.

The ALSA debacle was a short lasting transition period (eventually ALSA even got OSS emulation).

The reason why Linux wasn't used much for professional audio work goes to Apple. macOS is just easier to use than any Linux distribution, so it got the momentum in that scene (and in the artistic scene in general). The rest is history.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dyne:bolic
What happens when there are 10 million citizens demanding their million dollars, who won't take "but that's not how math works" for an answer?
Waste.

The US government spends as nearly much on healthcare as a national healthcare system costs in the UK as a percent of GDP. Medicare, Medicaid, and the VA are 1.5 trillion in spending. Or about 7% of GDP.

In normal years, NHS spending in the UK is 8% of GDP.

I am sure there are substantial coverage differences for a lot of procedures, but all the life threatening stuff for an entire population is handled for what the US spends on just the elderly and poor.
It's interesting the OP appears to accept they're in the uncanny valley of "well FB knew somehow I was going to buy that one and showed me the ad".

For me it just made me think, well I'm doing something right because Facebook mostly offers me shitty white label stuff that's being sold using fraud (I've made complaints to Advertising Standards [UK] a few times about Facebook ads) and that I would never buy.
Are you trying to imply that these other countries have those things you listed because they have no billionaires?

There's millions of reasons why that isn't happening in the US. Billionaires are almost certainly not one of those reasons.

The US subsidizes so much for other countries. Without the US, these other countries wouldn't be able to have the same success.

Just look at the numbers:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_research_...

As an aside, I think the biggest irony is commenting this on HN.
I know tons of SDEs that come from other countries because they get paid fractions of the salary they would get here.
Sure, why not both
It's even worse. They're not cheap at all. They're cheap to build but expensive to maintain.

https://www.strongtowns.org/journal/2018/2/5/the-true-cost-o...
Wow, total brain fart writing that above. Too late to edit now, so I'll just say:

s/enough that/enough, even though/
Ultimately I think it decreases google's value as a search engine (to the user searching) by a very small amount, but nets them a high immediate return. I bet it's hard to quantify the net effect over time, and it would be a really hard sell internally to not allow it.

I've noticed the quality of google search decrease drastically over the last 15+ years or so. I don't think that's directly tied to ad buys though.
> both the US and USSR developed battle plans for where nuclear weapons would be detonated in your country during a war

Do we know if younger Germans are more open to nuclear power than Cold War era ones?
Safe nuclear power needs German engineering.
I agree that the discrete wavelet transform is analogous to the discrete Fourier transform, but they are calculated differently, and present very different information in a very different way. I think most people find DWT results much more confusing than FFT results.

If you're very familiar with both of them, it can be easy to underestimate how confusing each is to a newcomer.
The downside of that is increased meta.

And the reason is simple:

They did not agree and or lack shared perspective before the down vote and that being true after the downvote starts another disagreeable discussion.

It all gets worse when people know who downvoted them...
Yeah, once the plane has been diverted, everyone has been evacuated etc, the incentive to find something "bad" he might have done to justify the disruption & the expense is serious.

Will this cause anyone to critically examine the actions of the passenger, the flight crew, and JTTF?

Likely not.

Because once person A points a finger in the direction of person B, everyone's incentive is to make sure they are not the one who allowed the "terrorist" to go free.

Easily avoidable false positives like this are security failures. They slowly erode trust instead of allowing a literal big bang demonstration of the failure and therefore they are insidious.
In Canada, a few years back, disaster preparedness exercises were to be held by a branch of the government.

The point was to test emergency response, processes, etc.

To make it fun, they chose zombies as the cause. Within a week of the media hearing of it, the entire exercise was canceled.

Zombies, plague, natural disaster, nuclear accident, it mattered not, the tests were for existing response mechanisms, but oh no! Can't be fun!

Bah.
> Isn't this just the usual problem with advertising?

Not quite: OP's point is about searches that specifically include your brand name. The "usual problem" with advertising in the zero-sum
sense you propose is for eyeballs in general (billboards etc). The google tax here is more invidious, being specifically about searches that include your brand.
Havana syndrome reported at US embassy in Colombia
The integrated graphics on AMD is more powerful than Intel with better driver stability in games. Framework doesn't have a dedicated GPU to offset that consideration. AMD in current gens has a better performance per watt, cost and core counts. Biggest issue with AMD on laptops is availability of chips and thunderbolt support.

Hard to compare what is coming with what is currently out, so I won't comment on Alder lake/etc. I am really interested how Xe does as a dGPU but that's outside a laptop context.