skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
An alternative to storage is dispatchable demand. This would require high-load activities or uses which can be rapidly cycled.

Storage batteries, pumped storage, and CAES are examples of this, though simple raw thermal banking (hot water heating, typically) is an excellent way to suck up excess Joules or GWh.

1 GWh is roughly the energy required to heat a pool of water 1 hectare * 1 m by 86 degrees Celsius. This scales to multiple GWh by increasing area, depth, or both. Conversion to steam is also possible, though that requires more engineering (pressure is A Thing). Substrates such as molten salt have a lower heat capacity per unit mass, but can be heated to far greater temperatures.

Storage at the scale of entire US generating capacity for multiple weeks using molten salt thermal storage, even accounting for Carnot cycle efficiency losses (about 20-50% depending on specifics, 30% is a good ballpark) is actually a tractable-scale concept. Existing petroleum storage facilities are roughly comperable in size, though molten salt would require somewhat more robust facilities and insulation.

Whilst it doesn't have the net efficiencies of pumped hydro (exceeding 90% round-trip storage efficiency), pumped hydro lacks sufficient developable sites, and has significant environmental impacts.
Well, we can create a wealth tax that doesn't have that problem. I'd wager there aren't many billionaires who actually are primarily invested in illiquid assets. I'd say the larger objection is the principle that we shouldn't be multiply taxing people. A wealth tax basically means re-taxing the same wealth every year.
You need your voter registration card

Where? This is never the case in CA.

or some other way to identify yourself

Meaning... you need ID?
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Healthcare, at least in the US, needs about 80 percent less "funding". The whole problem is that costs are out of control. Not that taxpayers are being insufficiently raped.
> More times than not that person is an overachiever - one who wants everyone else to be perfect, or one who wants to always be perfect.

This used to be me. For the early stages of my career, I perhaps was the smartest person / best programming in the room, and I definitely thought so. Perhaps because of this, I had very little patience for people who made mistakes I didn't think I would have.

As my career has progressed, I've managed to get jobs where my coworkers are increasingly capable. And truth by told, I've become a little less sharp over time as my brain has aged. Humbling experiences started to pile up.

Only because of those embarrassments did I gain empathy for the limitations / mistakes made by other software developers. And I believe that empathy was what helped me to curb my haughty, critical communication style.

+1 for the wisdom that can come with age. -1 for the pain I caused in others prior to that.
True for now... and when the global south further industrializes, modernizes? I don't think that the argument is flawed, but population is not an indicator of blame; it's a constraint on solutions.
Here's a thought experiment: You're a HN reader. You have had ideas to build a startup that can help the world solve a problem.

So you create it. You decide to fundraise, and that capital will help you succeed. You pay yourself a salary of $100,000/year, and put everything else into the company.

You raise $4 MM in a seed round, valuing your company at $20MM.

10-months later, your company is doubling growth YoY again, has a solid SAAS model, and low churn. You decide to raise again.

This time, you raise some more money for your company, and you're now valued at 70MM.

About a year later, you're growing just as fast -- but you see a new competitor is entering the ranks. It's time to scale even faster. So you go and raise again. In a fantastic series-B round, spread across TechCrunch and HN, you raise again, at a $200 MM valuation.

As the sole founder, you now own 50% of the company -- making you worth $100MM. Your salary has remained constant at $100,000/year though.

And then the wealth tax hits.

The new wealth tax says you're responsible to pay an annual tax of 2% on all assets over $50MM. Starting this year.

Which means that you, as a private founder with no liquid assets, are now responsible for $50MM * 2% = $1MM in taxes this year.

Even though your liquid income is $100,000, and you have barely that much in your bank account -- you need to come up with $1,000,000 in liquid cash this year. And since your valuation probably won't go down, it'll be at least that much, every year, for the rest of your life, until you shutter the company.

So you go and try to liquidate your shares. But unfortunately, it's not a public company --- and it's not that easy finding private secondary-market buyers willing to buy the half of the founder's entire stake.

So what do you do now?

As far as I can tell, this is how the wealth tax would work for startup founders.
Yeah, that's a super interesting idea that I'm also toying with in my head. One issue however is the "allocation-free" part. Sooner or later you typically hit a situation where you need to box a Future - either because you want to spawn it dynamically or need dynamic dispatch and type erasure. At that point of time you will need an allocator.

I'm still wondering if lots of the problems can be solved with an "allocate only on startup" instead of a "never allocate" strategy, or whether full dynamical allocation is required. Probably needs some real world apps to find out.
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This isn't an argument for or against anything, just some real data.

https://www.iqcomparisonsite.com/Occupations.aspx
>these companies are all foreign

Is there some reason you think they would not do this to a US company?
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Code that has not been reviewed. Worse is code that has not been documented. Code without proper test suite. Code without code management.
There is a growing community of game developers using Nim.

But Nim doesn't have a single GC, it has multiple and the default one can be compiled with real-time latency constraints so that you can use to make sure that you don't stop the world for less than 1/200 of a second for example.

Plus the GC is per type, you can mix raw pointers for manually managed memory and references for GC-managed objects. The GC can only be triggerred in code paths with references.
This is the core problem with social justice, which I support. When you have a very real problem, eg that some groups live their lives in a situation where they must police their speech and actions to fit with the dominant white male cishet culture. This is a problem, and should be noted and acknowledged. Do you not see that having as your solution "force everyone to act fake and robotic, just like excluded groups/cultures do around the dominant culture" just expands the problem?

This robotic speech is incredibly socially isolating, you end up with communities isolating into their specific groups not out of racism or sexism but because it is the path of least resistance. People in general don't want to expend time or energy learning the rulesets that each subgroup needs followed to feel included and safe. This goes for non-privileged groups as well, isolating themselves from other non-privileged groups. When going into a situation unknowing can get you shamed and called out, the path of least resistance that does not result in a negative outcome is not engaging with other groups of people unlike yourself. AKA the opposite of what our stated goals are. People don't want to act robotic, and they don't want to isolate themselves.
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What a productive attitude to have. I sincerely hope that everyone in your life tries to extract 400% more from you than you get from them.
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I'd wager there aren't many billionaires who actually are primarily invested in illiquid assets.

If that's true now, it sure won't be true for long after you pass the tax!
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Yep. For example you call:

config.load_from_file(....

And you can't know if it check if the file exist first or not. From pure habit you add checks... (what? looking at the code of the library? thats crazy!).
You can still use other tax return software, don't have to use windows with turbo tax and on top of it, use software that generates paper returns.
It can, but takes a great deal of effort. The bar for a constitutional amendment is much higher than, say, winning an election; this is a good thing, as it prevents the constitution from being re-written every four years. A politician may win a presidential or congressional election, but will not likely convince the other half of the nation to support any such policy. Income tax took a constitutional amendment, so yes, directly seizing money from citizens would take one as well.
Bill Gates also said he'd be willing to double the amount of taxes he currently pays, but you won't see that headline anywhere.
But that sounds like an inconsistently enforced rule which means selectively applied, eventually done so on factors that would be considered unacceptable if written down.

If a rule is written down, I'm prefer it be fully enforced other than being used as a club to selectively bludgeon certain individuals. Yes, at first it will be used against those who 'deserve' it based on some social metric. But how long before it is used against unattractive people more than attractive people (see Halo effect) or used against people with less social skills more than those with greater charisma?

I've seen it happen one too many times to think the new rule won't end up with the same abuses.
Btw, the link says the camera's capture rate changes in brighter light. I don't think that's right - I believe it's just the shutter angle that changes (the amount of time the shutter is open for each exposure).
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One thing that taxing billionaires will do is drive the wealth in "Foundations" that are controlled by them.

If you have a billion dollars, all your pleasures and needs are taken care of. The use for the excess money is ego and power.

Thus, if it is tax advantageous to put the money into a foundation, then you will do it. Does anyone really draw a distinction between Bill Gates giving money to a cause and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation giving money to a cause? While the Gates Foundation is doing great things, it is probably very ego gratifying to have the top scientists and philanthropists and heads of governments coming to you asking for money. It is also a very powerful position to be in charge of so much money.

Thus, if we have a wealth tax, we will see the money go from being the billionaire's personal money, into being part of a foundation named after the billionaire that they control.
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Because it will create a major incentive to take your money out of the economy and move it to a different jurisdiction that doesn't want a piece of it.
False negatives are a burden on your candidates, false positives are a burden on your organization.

You'd be surprised how often the answer to 'Should we hire' has more to do with 'He felt like he would be a dick' rather than 'He doesn't know X and Y technology'.
The emergency managers didn't tell them to save $100/day but failing to adjust the pH, they're just incompetent at their job. Democrats ran Flint into bankruptcy, but they're off the hook when the state has to try and clean up their decades of mess (including rampant nepotism).

The criminal charges have all been dropped give months ago.
It's going to be many decades before plastic cards go away, or the government is going to get really annoyed with old people screwing it up.
> Nobody hires somebody to tell them what to do, ever.

Uh, that's literally what my clients hire me to do. I don't do any of the work for them - I analyze the current situation, and give them a checklist of what to do in order to solve their problems. I don't do the work.
Once genetic editing becomes more fully developed, the approach of selecting only modal genetic variants is another not-so-risky approach because it would be relying on existing selection criteria and simply removing the mutations. Like a genetic spell-checker.

https://archive.md/cD1fn
When people say infrastructure they usually mean roads. Roads are perhaps overextended already and making more or bigger roads ends up subsidizing urban sprawl. Anyways, outside of interstates, roads could just be handled entirely at the state or local level and paid for via use taxes. If we are trying to combat global warming, not building more or bigger roads is an easy place to start.
Are you speaking of the AZ "show me your papers" law? As a white guy, I would so not carry ID. I can afford lawyers and a few nights in jail to make a stink about it, and others might not be so fortunate. But, of course, I'm not the target so it's easy to be Anonymous Internet Justice Guy.

Not that it would be a massive change in my behavior. With NFC payments and wearable communications devices, a lot of times I leave the house with nothing but an Apple Watch on my wrist (and at a minimum, running shorts; you're welcome). Dog walk? What am I going to buy in our suburban neighborhood? Go for a run? Same difference, though if I run by a 7-11 I can buy a Gatorade with my watch. I ass-u-me the EMTs know how to get my medical ID on an Apple device. Soooo, I kinda don't need a wallet a lot of times. Is it legal in the state of WA? I have no reason to believe that it isn't, but OTOH I don't really care. You want to know who I am? We have a legal process for that, at which time I will have my ID fetched.
And what makes it even more appalling is that you still have to pay interest. A zero risk investment should have zero return.
Did you or the companies you worked for or owned benefit from the US government providing things such as roads, education of you or the people you worked with, the government defending property rights, or ensuring that you had clean air to breathe and clean water to drink, non-poisonous food to eat and medicine to take? Or how about all the basic research that the US government funds that virtually every company and person in the US benefits from?

All of these have been funded with taxes, and odds are that you've benefited (directly or indirectly) from them. Did you feel you deserved these benefits? Would you feel entitled to them despite paying no taxes?
I was instructed to use my common sense and experience to interpret the evidence provided in court, and told not to seek out external references.
> So colleges and hospitals will finally have more administrators than students/patients? ([0], but you can google more). I think, the problem is not the lack of funding, but terrible inefficiency and lack of transparency.

This is one of the proposed ways to pay for things like universal health care.

Additionally, your citation (https://www.aei.org/carpe-diem/chart-of-the-day-administrati...) is about public schools, not colleges and hospitals as you suggest.
FWIW, your last paragraph is a little misleading. I think a better way to state it is that you can be 100% certain of selecting embryos that do not have diseases caused by specific, known single genes. Selection can still be extremely effective on polygenic traits (traits influenced by a huge number of different genes), it's just that there isn't a single switch that you're turning on or off. After all, you're selecting the most intelligent (or, more specifically, the most likely to be the most intelligent) out of several dozen embryos. That is like artificial selection on steroids. And I should add: in theory. Right now we still don't know all the various genes that are responsible for intelligence and, as I understand it, there's a good chance that a significant number of the genes involved in a polygenic trait like intelligence are what are called rare variants. IE, they're not widely present in the population and are instead specific to certain lineages. If that's the case, then it will be hard to identify those and select the ones present in you and your mate's respective lineages.
I think everybody expected it as people even booted EPYCs in TR4 boards.

https://www.techpowerup.com/241072/an-epyc-threadripper-der8...
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I heard about an interesting way to efficiently valuate vastly diverse assets: have the owners valuate them themselves.
With the twist that the state has the right to buy the asset at that validation.
That incentives the owners to be as precise as possible with their valuation, as they otherwise would either pay too much tax, or run the risk to have to sell property at a loss.
Loved it too. Was pretty challenging at the time. Watching it now makes me feel a little embarrassed for the enemies that can't follow you across ladders. :)
Exactly,
One BillG example is, how does one value his da Vinci assets? For one, the Codex Leicester:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Codex_Leicester
> Healthcare, education, infrastructure... all of which badly need funding.

Education is poorly funded? We spend more per student than any country except Norway as of 2015:
https://nces.ed.gov/programs/coe/indicator_cmd.asp

The education system is not poorly funded. The money is poorly and inequitably allocated, and the system is poorly run.
There's a flipside in another sport.

In Men's Lacrosse at the college level they wear helmets... in Women's Lacrosse helmets are not allowed, they wear ridiculous eye-cages instead.

Their argument is that they have less contact allowed and don't need them. I think the real thing is trying to look better and/or culture like hockey.

Women's college Lacrosse apparently is #2 for concussions after Men's Football.

Men's Lacrosse apparently has far fewer concussions even though it allows contact.

My wife had 3-4 concussions playing Lacrosse in College.. I definitely worry about some effect of it coming back as we age. Her concussions were apparently bad enough the effects lasted and messed up her schoolwork for quite some time.

I played a lot of pond hockey as a kid.. we somehow managed to not knock each other's teeth out or get head injuries without helmets but there was no contact and the level of play was very low.

First time I suited up in a rink with a helmet I got hit in the head by the puck coming around the boards. I was totally fine cause of the helmet but it scared the crap out of me, I don't think I ever really played pond hockey again.
Altice Mobile's unlimited (50 GB) plan just costs $20 for Optimum Home customers. Moved a month ago, so far so good!
> Just to clarify, do you tell them what needs to be done and do it, or only tell them what to do?

I only tell them what to do. You can check out my site via my bio to learn more - I'm really explicit about that in my sample deliverables. My consulting engagements are purely read-only - I don't make any changes to their environments whatsoever.
My one gripe here is that it's only available as an iOS program. I think it would be much more accessible if it had a web interface, or if it also had an Android program.
The NYTimes had an article today about the difference between an income tax and a wealth tax, and how there is a constitutional problem with the wealth tax. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21472442
90%... so the total cost was around 100K? Global capitalism is a funny thing, here in my country with that money you could buy an apartment and have enough money left to get the exact same treatment you got there.
Wealth taxes have issues. Wikipedia:

>In 2004, a study by the Institut de l'enterprise investigated why several European countries were eliminating wealth taxes and made the following observations: 1. Wealth taxes contributed to capital drain, promoting the flight of capital as well as discouraging investors from coming in. 2. Wealth taxes had high management cost and relatively low returns. 3. Wealth taxes distorted resource allocation, particularly involving certain exemptions and unequal valuation of assets. In its summary, the institute found that the "wealth taxes were not as equitable as they appeared"
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I've been using AMD GPUs since they first stabilized the radeonsi driver ~6 years ago.

7870 -> 290 -> 580 -> just got a 5700 XT yesterday.

They are good. It generally takes 6 months after a card is announced for the drivers to work properly, but I'm currently on linux-mainline 5.4r6 and mesa-git and the 5700 XT is working nicely. On 5.3 and Mesa 19.2 / LLVM 9 there were a lot of graphical glitches and crashes, so that series should be in place within a few months.

The other 3 just keep chugging along working nicely. The 7870 is too old to get AMDGPU / Vulkan support unless its turned on manually, but that has worked in light testing.

My only complaint is that hardware video encoding is awful - it hogs enough resources to substantially hamper game performance if used concurrently, enough that it makes more sense to software encode on a beefier CPU than to try to use the hardware encoder on the GPU.
Let's start to build this, no? The innards of a DTV, some 3D printing, a membrane keyboard with some DIY stickers on it. Hot glue, solder iron, patience and some serious hacking can get this done. Where are the design files?
>I also feel rather strongly that if children shouldn't inherit their parents' debt, then they also shouldn't inherit their wealth. The best way to accomplish that is a high inheritance tax.

There's a slight problem with this idea: how do you deal with people giving each other money? People frequently "inherit" money from their parents before they're dead, sometimes long before. If parents pay for their kids' college tuition, do you want to tax that as "inheritance"? What if they set up a trust fund? What about the money parents pay while their kids are under 18 just for their living expenses? What if parents buy their adult children a house? With today's housing market, a lot of Millennials and GenZers can't afford decent housing right out of college, so sometimes their rich parents will buy a house for them.

So assuming you don't want to tax some 40-60 year old parents when they buy their 18-30yo kids a car or house or college, where do you draw the line? What if they're 70+ and they give their 40+ kids a big cash gift?

Finally, you're also assuming the parents die at an old age. What if the parents die young? What if the kids are still in college and don't really have any money of their own, and suddenly their middle-class parents die in a car crash? Do the kids now need to drop out of school and get on welfare or try to find a cashier job because all the parents' resources go to the state?

The only way I see a high inheritance tax not being really cruel, and also not being rejected by the voters, is if it only targets truly wealthy people. Jeff Bezos's kids don't really need to inherit all his billions if he gets hit by a bus. If an inheritance tax takes 95% of his wealth, leaving his kids with "only" tens or hundreds of millions each, that's far more than enough for them to live on for the rest of their lives. But taking that much from even upper-middle-class people won't really leave much for their kids. But with so much of the nation's wealth concentrated in the hands of a relative handful of people, I don't think it's really necessary to target anyone besides them.
Maybe not the headline but it's right in TFA.
Yeah ridiculous
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It is mentioned directly in the linked article. I guess it's not a "headline", but it's not exactly hidden.
Let's close one loophole at at time.

Foundations can be tackled next.
Rust futures are just types that implement an interface providing a method to advance execution if possible and signal when they have more work to do.