skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
They made a detector that can convert one photon into more than one electron (about 1.3 electrons per photon on average). Note that this is not energy efficiency as in the 2nd Law of Thermodynamics; they haven't created a system that generates more energy out than it receives. The electrons have lower energy than the original photons. This "efficiency" is purely about the number of particles involved.

More electrons per photon means more accurate detection of low amounts of light and also lower power requirements for light sensors in general. That would include, for example, the cells that make up a digital camera's sensor grid. Economics permitting, this could lead to better low-light performance or more efficient optical equipment (e.g. fiber optic transceivers).
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Billionaires are not bad for society. However they are a magnate for those who seek to mold society in a particular direction and as such they have to either be exploited or expunged from consideration.

Billionaires are in effect about the only means to challenge the political machine that runs each country. They only occur in countries that protected property rights to the point people could amass sufficient wealth so as not be subject to all the pettiness of the political class.

Their power is their mobility but only if they have staged their wealth in such a way it cannot merely be confiscated with a single action. Billionaires who come into effect outside of those created by the armed forces of countries being used to enrich their leadership are signs of wildly successful economies that others want to be part of. Yes there is disparity between them and the bottom rungs of the society they are part of but those bottom rungs are usually as far apart from those in nations with no respect for property rights.

America isn't suffering from a lack of tax on the wealthy, their wealth or income. America is suffering from misuse of the money taken from all sources used to prop up two political parties so that they are immune to their own actions.

When we talk wealth we need to understand how the political class is fleecing America. All this talk of fair wages, $15 an hour, while they lavish pensions on their public employee buddies to the tune of a 100k or more per year, while they gain seats on various commissions and committees paying them 200k a year for part time work all on our dime.

The real money issue is the theft by the political class. However they have the best marketing and are adept at playing people against each other.
Let me know how that goes for you.
only under the shadow of weakened unions.
I've briefly played around with it and it seems alright. I just don't trust Microsoft from a privacy perspective, and I don't want to reward their shitty behavior of pushing it on users.
1. no electronics in your sleeping room
2. refuse to work before having your breakfast and having read the press
3. big lunch from 12am to 3pm
4. a pause at 5pm, potentially a siesta and some time out
5. don't hesitate to work late but have a bath
6. sleep at 11pm max in your electronics-free room
Yes, bad PysOrg, (or bad physicists), not to point this out!
> Indonesia and the Philippines pretty universally considered southeast asia

"...will be forced to flee Southeast asia"

OP says it right there in the same sentence you quoted...
Mozilla created something extremely valuable and long-lasting here.
I have never heard of people denying germ theory or western medicine, but there's wide belief in the effectiveness of Traditional Chinese Medicine. They take a syncretic view to medicine just as they do to religion.
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Every person has the same political power, though. One vote is one vote, one voice is one voice. Why do politicians pander to the wealthy and influential? Well, precisely because they are influential and connected to many of the people in society.
I get why it is this way, but it'd be cool if I could hook it up to a >500k website for cheap or free and you limit the account some other way unless I upgrade it -- maybe only a couple of alerts or reports per month.
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> That they've eradicated coronavirus in Wuhan? The photos are pretty self-evident. If there was a government cover-up and people were still getting sick then we wouldn't see people putting themselves at risk to go to a music festival.

I think you underestimate the power of government propaganda.

If Chinese citizens are told by their government that covid is no longer a risk to the general population and that western media outlets are fear mongering to damage China, they will believe it regardless of the truth. The CCP is the truth in China.

It's not like covid is the black plague, bodies don't pile up in the streets no matter how bad it gets. Some elderly die here and there and life moves on (and plus it doesn't spread all that fast because mask usage is a cultural thing there anyway).

I just have a hard time believing that a country with as much corruption, pollution, and just general lack of sanitation as China does has "completely eradicated" the virus, meanwhile South Korea is taking containment measures for its latest wave.

I think more it's more likely China just put on a dog and pony show for the world, but really they haven't eradicated covid at all and the citizens are just kept in ignorance. This is, of course, gross speculation with no evidence to back it up. But in my mind it's like "the most populous country on the planet claims they've only had 4,634 deaths total due to covid, hmm..." and I start to think I'm being lied to by a country that wants to save face on the world stage.

Then again, maybe this is a scenario where having a dictator is advantageous to having an inefficient collection of bumbling democracies. When you have a god king that can force 11 million people to take a medical test within 14 days (or else?), you have an upper hand over countries where stuff like "due process" and "deliberation" slow down policy making.
"I think we urgently need global legislation"

That would require a world government. Not likely to happen and not something I would want to happen for the various potential negative side effects.

It is already very hard to control our national governments.

International treaties and boycotting and embargos of violaters, maybe yes, but currently the trend is into more confrontation and not collaboration.
Humanity will never becoming multi-planetary. Billionaires might become multi-plantery.

The US was founded with an extreme class system -- slavery, and aristocratic-only male-only voting. The founders judgement is not sacrosanct.
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On top of that, I got tested last month and it took 6 days to get the results, 7 from day of scheduling the appointment. Doesn't matter how many tests we perform if they're rendered nearly-useless by being out-of-date by the time they come back. In fact, I worry about "security theater" use of these that falsely give a sense of confidence.
And even if you know how computers work, sometimes things just escape your attention because life.
This is a thread about worrying about seafood scarcity already. Not-anytime-soon has arrived on a food-by-food basis. In the case of seafood, it’s an entire food group!
Yes I would think that you are dealing with sparse matrices with little clusters of nonzero values in a model like this.

One could say that I'm "part of a terrorist matrix", and that my value in the matrix is zero. We are all part of a terrorist matrix. I hope the CIA is not reading this, because they probably are not mathy enough to know what I'm talking about, and they may just take my quoted statement at face value, but in a mathematical sense we probably all actually have some nonzero value in our rows and columns of the terrorist matrix. You know someone, who knows someone, who knows someone, who is a terrorist. It really just depends how many people and how many degrees of separation you want to include in your matrix.
> I'm not sure why you think having more people to fill a role wouldn't drive the price down.

Immigration indeed lowers wages for competing workers, but it also increases wages for complementary workers and generates surplus to owners of capital – which in the long-term constitute a net gain to all of society, but at a minimum does constitute a net loss to workers at large.

Research suggests negative wage effects are concentrated among low-skilled workers.

Immigration can indeed have disruptive effects, but it can be managed, and its net gains for the whole of society are fairly well established.
Yes, it is the case here as well. Reducing terms can be tricky because of distributive laws. The graph-like representation makes reduction algorithmically easier.
I believe Data actually needed an 'emotion chip'. I recall some episode where he received one. Sometimes I think that's a pretty good description of most men (we need an emotion chip). I say that as a man, FYI.
The software competence may be a commodity at this point, but there's a lot more to streaming than that. The botched launch of HBO Max is merely the latest in a string of poor performances by the classic industry. Sure they can get a video to the end user, but that's useless if no one wants to watch it.

Netflix has been collecting detailed information on how people select what they want to watch for a decade. Their recommendation algorithms may seem impenetrable, but they obviously work on some level. They are refined enough that they can optimize the content they produce for consumption by streaming - they consistently have a show release every month which no one can really explain why they just have to watch but nevertheless millions of people do. No company has produced a better streaming UI than netflix and most are just straight up copies.

There were no technical hurdles preventing Kodak from creating a competitive digital camera, nor for IBM to keep making competitive personal computers. These giants faltered because they thought the technical problems were all they had to deal with, and did not recognize the non-technical changes they would need to make to stay competitive.

Some of the old studios will figure out that the streaming content market is neither about the streaming nor the content; they will adapt and even thrive. Most though are making horrible strategic blunders, and by the time they learn what they should have done it will be too late to recover. None will be as successful as if they had just stuck with netflix, made it the one and only must have streaming service, and maintained their oligopoly on content creation while cashing fat licensing checks.
Start with vegetarianism (with B12 supplements only). No cheat needed, plus you'll be in your best form.
well for wealth tax, you don't need more than a percent or two. It wouldn't be a problem at all.

You may not consider leverage, but it's fairly known & well used practice to take loan out of equity. People do it with their stocks as FANG employees. Founders with the wealth could have access to even cheaper loans.
Dude, you don't need to buy an iphone, you don't need to by an xbox, you don't need to buy a playstation - if you do though you will be using their stores / they will be getting a cut.
I guess the first question is how much people spend.

Millennials spend a fair bit it seems.

$112 a month

https://venturebeat.com/2019/06/06/superdata-millennials-spe...

This makes a console between 2 and 4 months of gaming budget.

A network focused console still requires sone hardware or runs on a pc that costs more than most consoles.

The big benefit would appear to be killing the secondary markets for used games dead which is a hard benefit to sell to your users. It also only saves you money up front as they pretty much must charge more than a console over time to cover their own costs.

Then you have the problem of latency which can only be rendered slightly less crappy with substantial hardware at the isp, unpredictable demand hello covid, and annoying Netflix like account sharing.

The real problem is that the more money your target audience has the better off they would be buying a desktop pc. Nothing up front sounds great to someone who can afford to pay 20 a month but then you can't eat. If someone can pay 99 why not buy a Playstation or pc?

I predict it's a bad idea whose time will never come.
The "Ferrous Foundation" is appealingly alliterative. But it also makes it easier to expand the focus beyond Rust — which is probably a negative, because it makes it harder to concentrate on core competency.

Every foundation is engaged in a perpetual struggle over whether to expand its mission. But in the vast majority of cases, mission creep weakens the organization's ability to achieve its primary goals.

(Crafting a concise mission statement will help inoculate against mission creep, and should be done regardless.)
I physically unplug my monitors and keyboard from my work laptop and plug them into my personal computer, which is not in any way set up for work. It's a pain to do, and my primary monitor has issues with hotswapping to I have to fiddle with it almost every time I switch. Gives a clear disconnect and imposes a burden on getting back to work.

Like others mention, I also get ready in the morning as I normally would, and bookend work hours by walking my dog.
> In the philosophy of taxation there's a different approach.

THE philosophy of taxation? There is no central deciding authority here on a singular philosophy.
It's because we can no longer rely on our governments to act responsibly or arrive at a solution. We now have to rely on the world's billionaires and their generosity for help.
I enjoy it greatly! Since using it in the spring semester of university I have not used a paper notebook, and it's definitely led me to read more books and papers. There's also a great hacking element to it[0], since you get root access out of the box.

[0] https://github.com/reHackable/awesome-reMarkable
That might be the case. Admittedly I don't know much about this cloud platform, and the article doesn't fill in a lot of details, but I would naively have assumed the target audience for something like this would be pro and semi-pro users, who would want to store RAW files, since amateurs and those just looking to share photos would get more out of Flickr, or even Google Photos / Facebook / Twitter / etc.
Yes, but consumption isn't going down. Even if we stabilise at 11 billion people by 2100, which is much too late and arguably already at overshoot mode, consumption will continue rising and increase resource usage, although the population remains about the same.

Those 11 billion people won't use the minimum amount of resources needed to sustain themselves (which is a very low quality of life), but use double or even triple than that.
Indonesia is South East Asia.
In these challenging times we all like our clichés.
I don't see Chrome going anywhere for a long time, and I don't see Google blocking its own analytics service within its own browser on its own volition.
I was going for the hard sell — don’t spoil it!

It’s not all hand work though. Power sanders and finishing sanders exist. We poo-pooed random orbital sanders in the 90s but modern ones are much better.

You can fine tune the dimensions of material almost like one would with a belt sander, as well as use them to finish a surface.
"I sure wish a tech billionaire would do something about this. Their inaction on countless fronts, in fact their complacency in undermining progress on environmental causes in global politics, is one of the thousand reasons I got out of tech."

- Which industries (and organizations) are you still in at this point?
Uhh the quote is "will be forced to flee to Southeast Asia"?
China did a lot of things beside testing. Extremely strict lockdowns in affected areas, a near-total shutdown of passenger transport to and from affected regions and very rapid contact tracing.

China isn't a unique outlier in this respect - South Korea and Singapore followed a similar strategy and got similar results. New Zealand faced a different set of circumstances and used a somewhat different strategy, but they're down to about a dozen cases per day.
That's true but as MaxBarraclough points out in this discussion the Mozilla Corporation could simply remove an equal number of it's engineers from Firefox development. Thus your donation provides no net gain. There'd also probably be some overhead from managing those new Foundation engineers as they probably, legally, cannot be directly managed by the Corporation.

So as long as the Mozilla mission is not aligned with the "Firefox mission" there is no winning.
Unless you draw a salary or receive dividends from your stock.
There's a huge difference between wealth and money; having massive wealth and valuing it in dollars may seem nonsensical, and at some level it is, yet it is the way that everybody operates. The "Fair market value" is not inconsequential even if wealth is not liquid.

Regarding going to a VC to get capital: think about how this process works in one very tiny slice of the economy. You build trust with a small set of people that are the arbiters of capital and who gets the resources to start a new venture. If there was only one VC firm in the valley, it would be disastrous because they would hold all the power. It is only through the agglomeration of many potential sources of capital that really makes the system run well.

In the rest of the economy, there are few VCs, and for a lot of profitable, but smaller businesses, capital is super hard to come by. A person who sees a future in, for example, electrification retrofits of homes and has several good ideas about how to make it cheaper and more economically efficient, is going to have a really hard tome getting going. However, if their own community knew about this person's ability to scale a small business, and knew of the intelligence and grit of a person through their own personal relationship, and if that community had small amounts of capital to throw in to get the newcomer off the ground, overall wealth is increased as the new venture starts serving the needs of people.

But this requires more equal distribution of capital, and to change the arbiters of capital from a few hundred people to everybody.

I don't really hear many people talking about friends, family, and fools rounds these days because the game has changed. However if we had more people that could use their knowledge of the local lay of the land to invest more wisely, we'd have far greater wealth generation.

IMHO, the problem with inequality isn't the person with $100B, the problem is all the talented and skilled people whose ideas go to waste because they can't get the attention of the very few people that have been entrusted with the ability to allocate capital.

The more inequality there is, the closer we get to central planning, and erasure of the talents of so many people.
> Mozilla Foundation can't accept Firefox specific donations because the Mozilla Foundation does not develop Firefox. The Mozilla Corporation does and the foundation cannot give money to the corporation (only the other way around).

Does that mean that not only it is impossible to make Firefox specific donations but also that it is guaranteed that none of the money donated to Mozilla can ever end up being used for Firefox development?
My elisp config file dates back to 1986. It's almost entirely unchanged. It still works. I have never had to remove anything because it stopped working. I just occasionally add stuff to it every few years.
How many people with $300k go on to build Amazon? Nobody is saying he didn't have any help, and that's frankly not the bar we want to measure people by.
Great feedback.
It does change the calculation however. You can still end up owning your whole equity, with some debt that's potentially much less than the growth in the wealth (provided by keeping the equity that'd otherwise be sold).
If i had to guess this would break thousands of obscure in-house excel sheets, crafted over decades, on which tens of thousands jobs and careers depend ;-)

Which i guess is why Microsoft never fixes even quite obvious bugs in Excel, for example like here: https://www.extremetech.com/extreme/313567-scientists-rename...
I'm an average employee. I am likely to see shitty stuff throughout my career.
Write position independent code. This is much easier nowadays that you can use RIP relative addressing. To include data, just append it to your code or even put it inline with jmps to avoid executing it. To accomplish tasks use syscalls. If you want a library, load it dynamically with dlsym.

Also take a look at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Return-oriented_programming
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You say that like it's an impressive feat for the GBA, but Rogue was originally developed for a computer that had less than 1/3 of the clock speed of the GBA's CPU. :)
An example of a guy who left nearly a decade ago to avoid paying taxes on wealth he did virtually nothing to earn is not data of an impending mass exodus of the ultra wealthy. Yes, there are handful number of people who have done such things, their existence is proof of nothing but absolute human greed and disloyalty to this great nation.
I always wonder how the farmer would deal with a wealth tax. Farmland, for example, is worth an incredible amount of money (where I live, at least), but cashflow is marginal, and net incomes are often negative.

That would mean that the farmers would often have to sell off their land to cover a wealth tax on the land. Severing farmland is rarely permitted, so it would have to be entire parcels.

It seems like soon you'll find yourself without any land on which to farm. Which means that we'll start to carve out exemptions, like we already do with existing wealth taxes, and then the race to find loopholes begins.
Yes, and when they do turn their wealth into money for whatever needs arise, they pay taxes on it. The tax rate they pay on it (20% federally, up to 37% depending on the state) is roughly equivalent to paying a compounding wealth tax after N number of years.

> The idea that billionaires can find money for multiple million dollar homes, but it's impossible for them to pay taxes is ridiculous.

It's not ridiculous at all, it's literally in the math. It's one thing to occasionally voluntarily liquidate tiny fractions of your holdings for one-off purchases (like a home or a yacht or to make an annual living), and another thing entirely to impose a yearly "cost to maintain ownership of your company" resulting in involuntary liquidation.
Another way is to post codes at the entrances to public spaces, and insist that people beep in when they enter. Example from New Zealand:

https://www.health.govt.nz/our-work/diseases-and-conditions/...

Obviously you need an alternative workflow (paper guestbook?) for those without devices, and either way without a person stationed there it's harder to police if people are actually complying with it.
People find drugs and alcohol pleasurable as well, but we find good reasons to regulate them because they have externalities for society that we need to control.
I use a different laptop for each job that I have. (Only two, don't worry.) I keep a minimum amount of things on my phone so that I can't do "real work" on my mobile device, but I can get alerts and people can reach me to see if I'm available to help with problems.

Anyways, when you're done for the day close the laptop. I know that's difficult, but you can do it.
Same happens in big cos when sometimes hundreds or more engineering years are scrapped purely because of internal political wars or “reorgs”
Another way of saying they can generate more energy from a single photon
Something like an "armed" coil..
My nickname has followed me for about 23 years... I had never considered how it might have impacted my life.
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I wouldn’t be surprised if billionaires are a one of the many reasons people want to immigrate to America.