skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't know how I could have implied anything about pushing people out of their houses with taxes. Could you be more explicit about what I said that led you to this?

Building more housing on sites when they change hands, though normal, unforced moves, when a person retires and moves to a new location, or when a person gets a new job and moves for it will provide ample land to build more housing. As long as people are allowed to.

Property taxes forcing people out of homes is a common scare tactic, but it's simple to provide homestead protections that would prevent any forced moves, and also allow the homeowner to capture the fantastic gains in wealth that accompany any land market where there is a shortage of housing. Property taxes only shift the non-resident real estate investor to make sure that they are providing what people need, rather than using idle wealth to keep people out of an area where lots of people want to live.
I'm not a fan of this proposal but I think this line of argument is pretty flimsy and pretty specious.

In the Bay Area you're already subject to a form of wealth tax called property tax. And it's substantial. If you live in San Francisco you'll get charged 1.1801% every year [1] on the value of your wealth (property). If I bought a house in SF and live for another 60 years I would be taxed 60 times on that same asset. Does that mean the government will over the course of my life take 33.6% of my house?

It's not as if property tax has kept a damper on Bay Area house price inflation.

[1] https://sftreasurer.org/property/understanding-property-tax
Yeah. The idea of paper notebooks that could use ocr to export the paper notebook to a digital notebook would be really cool because digital is more flexible but paper feels more natural.
Please don't misunderstand me; I didn't say anything was invalid, just that all these things existed before the internet, and could exist without it in a less streamlined way.

It's actual somewhat of an interesting topic when you think of it.

Transport went from walking -> riding animals -> driving + flying.
Communication went from talking -> moving physical messages -> radio -> telephone -> internet

I wish hackernews forums fostered better discussions on topics that are out of date the way reddit might. Unlikely anyone will ever see this reply.

Are there any good books that cover this sort of techno (r)evolution in depth?
This doesn't take into account how much one would earn from investments. And come one, let's be honest, who can't live off of 1/2 billion instead of 1 billion for 60 years?
Considering that we do not have the ability to walk down the alternative path where they did not meet, it is impossible to know whether it was a bonus or impediment to his scientific work.

As opposed to Erdős, where we know what happened when he kicked speed for a month.
I'm part of the way through. Here are some thoughts.

- Is there a way to materialize all of the past up to some point, throwing out history in the process, so as to reduce the overhead of CRDT?

- Some CRDT algorithms (really, representations of operations) are better at modeling a user's intent -- rather than "insert 'H' at 101, insert 'e' at 102, ..." and so on, it's "insert 'Hello' between ...". As I'm not familiar with OT, I wonder whether this begins to approach OT... In any case, some of the better CRDT algorithms for text editing tend to require more overhead, which is why the preceding thought.

- I'm much more interested in CRDTs for distributed relational databases, where it's much easier to reason about intent. "Relational" really means "has a well defined, enforced schema", while "text" means "anything goes" -- it's necessarily easier to reason about the former than the latter! Even so, a set of related updates to a relational database may be the complex result of a simpler abstraction -a simpler operation that the user intended- and eventual consistency semantics may ruin that result. One way to deal with that is to centralize certain kinds of operations, but those had better be less essential to business continuity.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reason_(short_story)
Billionaires are a necessary consequence of having a scale-free market structure in a wealthy society, which is itself necessary for efficient resource allocation in the absence of (hypothetical well-implemented) dictatorial central planning.
Aquafarming or aquaculture is the way we solve that.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aquaculture
I know there is a basic incorrectness in the statement. I can't quite point my finger on it. Any economists here that could help?
Though we could feed many more people with current farming capacity if we ate all the corn we grow ourself instead of feeding it to cows that we eat. Meat production is incredibly inefficient.

If we eventually manage to produce most of our meat demand from lab-grown meat this will likely free up enormous amounts of agriculture capacity.
Would you be creating on premise service - ie analytics data directly from the site? Seems many browsers now block GA and other trackers.
I learned this hack from Mr. Rogers. :)
> What are the chances of an actual spy being able to beat a lie detector?

I'd say not even remotely close to 100%. What is an "actual spy"? Those people are often regular employees with zero relevant training, that are simply recruited by a foreign intelligence agency via pressure, money, or manipulation, and are targeted based on their access to information. I'd say that a huge percentage of them won't be able to beat a lie detector.

Secondly, polygraph tests are used for a lot more than weeding out actual spies.
Google Cloud offers 1 free always-on f1-micro VM.
Red language; foundation is based in Paris, France.
> the 65816 was essentially last-generation 8-bit hardware

I really wanted to say you're wrong ...

but if you look at a 65816 pinout, it does only have 8 data lines and 16 address lines.

Furthermore each instruction is only 8 bits wide,

And if you do look at this SNES schematic https://wiki.superfamicom.org/uploads/snes_schematic_color.p... I'm seeing 8 data lines and 24 address lines.

Never thought of the 65816 as a supercharged 8-bit CPU but looking at it, that's really not far from the mark.

> bitmap addressable blitter supported hardware that was out there on more advanced systems.

In 1991 when the SNES hit the states you had the Genesis, which was also sprite based, and I think the TurboGrafx-16, which was also sprite based. All of your arcade games of the time had those insane CPS-2 like sprite engine. Maybe CDI was out by then, but I don't think that thing had any graphic acceleration.
> While I wish organically growing food and conservation was the answer, its unfortunately not.

I recently had a lengthy discussion with some friends about their support of a solidary organic farm, where you pay a flat fee per month and get a box of whatever they have in that week. It's really hard for most people to understand that things like these are not sustainable and that it's purely a luxury product. Terms like "organic", "no GMO", "local" sound sustainable as you imagine going back to "the good old days", but it's just impossible to feed the world. Even after I quoted some facts about the needed land usage for organic, it was not really possible to convince them, that it's not sustainable.

If anybody has some good articles / studies about sustainable farming for the future, I would love to read them.
Yev from Backblaze here -> Yes, we tend to weigh heavily in favor of price and Seagate thus far as been affordable with performance that meets our requirements, so that's why you'll see those drives in higher numbers. We're also trying to diversify our fleet a bit, so it's not purely one vendor, but we do try to keep an eye on cost since we run a pretty lean ship!
Wow, that’s actually the first one (besides matomo which is rather enormous) that looks like a decent alternative to me with more than just bare-bones features. I’ll keep it in mind. And I really like the clear and to-the-point website.

No, XCSme did not pay me for this comment ;)
> Billionaires are good for society. elon musk and jeff bezos are leading the way into space and that is huge for humanity. If you tax them you will literally stop humanity from becoming multi-planetary.

This argument really doesn't hold water.

For a start it implies that becoming a multi-planet species would be impossible without Musk or Bezos holding vast personal wealth. There is no reason to believe that.[1]

It also implies that Bezos couldn't possibly fund Blue Origin if he was worth (say) a paltry $100 billion, instead of his current $190 billion.

[1] You could, for example, use some of the money from a "billionaire tax" to fund NASA.
This modeling assumes you won't relocate to a place where the government doesn't steal your property.
Came here to say this. If I have the time stamps right it looks like rabois even replied before this HN post even existed, which makes the comment a little dubious. I'm sure it was a mistake, but rabois only took 5hrs to reply. Please give someone an appropriate amount of time to reply and check before posting on other social media calling them out.
It's not that hard to be vegetarian or at least cut back a lot on meat folks.
It’s also “select” devices.
Sounds like the bubble would naturally dry up and the "burn the cash, take the payout and run" culture would start to heal.

Having startups that grow profitable, useful things at a healthy pace and that give back a small slice of their overall growth sounds like a pretty stable business model.
Yeah, I have to agree.
It's frustrating because CT and these kinds of diagrams can actually be kind of interesting... They are just not nearly as grand or as useful as their proponents would have us believe.

(My spicier opinion is that the machinery of CT is often completely unnecessary for many applications, and actually only serves to obfuscate simple concepts.)
Oh wow! I've never even considered that. I wonder if the dogs pick up on subtle behavior cues from their handlers, which the handler may not even be aware of. The dog ends up giving a seemingly legit outlet for some unconscious bias.
Just like restaurants and bars and their workers during the pandemic
I'm not clear on what you're missing. What meme? The protocol is well documented. The basic abstraction is that there is a separation between the 'processing' part of an application and the 'display' part of the application and those two parts communicate using the X11 protocol. That conversation can happen over a local or a remote socket, or shared memory. The practical use cases are that I can have an application running on my local machine, or one on the other side of the world, and the 'display' portion is consistent. Not much different than, say how Citrix uses it's own protocol to draw remote displays.

It allowed a 'mainframe' model where you could have a very fast, expensive application servers that could display to less expensive local resources, and mix the display with local applications. So my heavyweight applications could run on the monster Sun or Cray in the datacenter, but my clock, calc and notepad app ran locally, but all in the same display.

Yes, over the years things like MIT-SHM and NX came along to paper over problematic issues in X11. And yes, there are other, possibly better ways so solve it now. But in the late 80s and through the 90s, it was pretty cool stuff.
Same. And whenever I need a new drive, which isn't that often, I consult the latest report to make a purchase decision.
Could call it Oxygen, or Oxidize, or something along those lines
How can you argue that your salary is not crazy amount of money?
no, you don't divest and lose control, because you can pay taxes and diversify without selling shares (incidentally, this is similar in shape to a credit default swap). even so, you don't need 50% of the shares to control a company. in both of these instances, there are many more ways than one to skin a cat.
Nonsense. The top marginal tax rates in the US used to be much, much higher than they are today.
Very relevant CGP Grey: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=snAhsXyO3Ck
Do you have any affiliate with the OP or the linked website?
A mildly-punitive tax on high levels of personal consumption (including imputed consumption. such as business owners using business assets for private use, etc.) would seem to be a lot less distortionary and more socially-beneficial than a punitive tax on wealth, and just as politically sensible. What it doesn't have, unfortunately, is the raw appeal of soundbites like "soak the rich!" and "you didn't build that!".
And/or an international agreement to reduce fishing, and outlaw the import of fish caught outside the bounds of that agreement.

Similar international agreements have worked relatively well to cut down on things like chemical weapons and anti-personnel mines.
this for some reason triggers recall of jesus on a toast from a while back.
This is not modelling a wealth tax. This is disingenuous whining because it fails to take into account that wealth taxes kick in at the point that where people have become wealthy. Lets say it kicks in at 100 million. So you still get to keep 100 million before you pay any tax on that wealth? Or in other words you still get to be incredibly, obscenely wealthy, you just reduce the chance to become wealthy beyond the dreams of avarice. Not seeing how this is particularly demotivating to people want ting to found startups. Lets say it kicks in at 10 million instead. Again you still have the chance to become extremely wealthy before you have to pay it. And if you don't think being worth £10 million is extremely wealthy that's because youre comparing yourself to billionaires. Even if it kicks in a £1 million you still get the chance to become wealthy! Sure maybe at this point to you're reducing the number if people willing to put in 80 hour weeks in the hope of winning the startup lottery but given the number of people who pour their heart and soul into passion projects without the chance of becoming billionaires I don't see that as a problem. Seriously this idea that if we tax the wealthy to the point where they can only afford a single yacht and a modest private island they'll all go on some terrible Randian strike and well somehow lose the value they create is bollocks.
Yev from Backblaze here -> Some of the responses down below are correct - it really does come down to price. We run a fairly lean ship and so the price per gigabyte is weighed pretty heavily when we make our purchasing decisions. We have a post where we go into the cost of hard drives over time, it's about 3 years old now, but still a good read -> https://www.backblaze.com/blog/hard-drive-cost-per-gigabyte/.
AOC has to actually work for her political power. Billionaires can sic 1000 lawyers and lobbyists at whatever initiative they want, without lifting a finger.

And that's just an example :-)

Activists do it as their day job, for billionaires it's just one of the many side effects of their wealth.
Yev here -> Thanks! We love producing them - they are a lot of fun!
Especially as many people, like myself, are questioning donating to Mozilla at all after these recent changes.

While i like FFs existence, Mozilla is being disassociated with FF - to me at least.
Where else?

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

One hundred years from now, nobody would suspect that the original meaning of the term "Rust Belt" had something to do with industrial decline.
That might be your preferred ideology. There is, however, no evidence that democratic goverments that control more of a societies spending do worse for their countries.

On the contrary there are plenty of areas where we know governments are vastly more efficient than markets.
Ace Attorney, too. I think on iOS you can buy the games remastered to work natively, but on Android you have no option but to emulate
Helminthic Therapy
The strangest part is that they didn’t fully replace the behavior of the old version. If you place the OS in kiosk mode when the new Edge is installed and try to run a browser, it just goes into a loop trying to load the old one and blocking it. It’s not possible to use the new Edge for a kiosk, probably because it doesn’t use the Windows store. There is a separate kiosk browser in the store, but it isn’t integrated with the OS and lacks any simple configuration options. Maybe they just want people to use Linux kiosks instead.
Yeah, I bet it elicits a whole lot of false confessions. But I also suspect that intelligence agencies are perfectly happy to incorrectly reject a significant portion of applicants if they think it increases the number of malicious applicants they manage to reject. Like they only care about having high recall for detecting spies, even if they have terrible precision.

I'm not saying that makes for an actually effective system. I think it probably does more harm than good in that it leads to people thinking "well this guy passed the polygraph, so I can definitely trust him".

And of course, the calculus is totally different in criminal proceedings, where we absolutely should not be willing to make that recall-precision trade. I can at least understand why someone would think they're a helpful tool for counterintelligence screening, but any use in criminal investigations just strikes me as ludicrous.
Any chance you'll be at the (Rust) foundation as its historian? :)
The Fe foundation, or "FeFo" in short.
Grid operator Cal-ISO says generation shortfall might prompt more blackouts
Even the most aggressive wealth tax that is proposed is for a tax on wealth of over $50 million. So the founder of businesses valued up to around $100 million dollars would reasonably be able to maintain control without paying any wealth tax.

So I'm perfectly OK saying you can't single-handedly control a business larger than $100 million without paying the rest of society extra compensation for maintaining that kind of power.

Seems perfectly fair to me. Power is finite in the same way land is. If controlling a company is valuable to you in some other way other than just amassing power, say you are really behind the mission of going to space, you can reorganize into a non profit.
AOC's power stems from democratic support. Jeff Bezos' power stems from monetary wealth. It's the difference between oligopoly and democracy.

No, there will never be absolute equality of power. Certain people will always have a louder voice in the culture than others. But cultural power is fickle and comes and goes easily unlike wealth.
Google Maps just got a colorful upgrade
Running your own DC is quite expensive with GPU hardware. One DGX-2 is $400k and draws something like 24kW.
With kids the status quo now is to wake up, interleaved work and childcare and housecare for 14 hours - doing all poorly, get ready for bed.
Hey - good question.

Not right now, but it shouldn't be hard to implement. Is there something some specific use-case this would address?
Once meat is eradicated in the name of agricultural efficiency, non-grain, non-bean vegetables will probably be next on the chopping block.
Sorry you're the one wildly exaggerating about its importance. 2.5 million people wouldn't agree with your take on this. This stuff should never be public facing. It should be behind several layers of security not sitting on a public facing server without any protection. The people screwing this should be heavily fined and not be able to work on anything internet facing for several years while they have the time to learn a bit of network security if it does turn out to be gross incompetence/negligence.
Facebook and NYU use artificial intelligence to make MRI scans four times faster
So what do you suggest how huge projects should display data on a single page web app? MVC? MVVM? Just hack things in like the olden days, without any structure?
How's it disingenuous to propose that the government could do something with a wealth tax besides spending it on social programs? If we're talking about what leftist politicians would want to do with the money, then we shouldn't be talking about a wealth tax at all, because it's likely never going to ever pass a national scale.
Follow up to: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24188135

This gives an explanation for what's happening and why:

"We told the California Public Utilities Commission of a 4,700-MW need through 2022 and that gap started in 2020. Despite all that, only 3,300 MW was authorized for procurement and none starting until 2021," Berberich said during a special telephone conference the Cal-ISO Board of Governors held Aug. 17, following a weekend during which the grid operator twice conducted rotating blackouts because of high demand and tightening reserves.
This is ignoring the fact that wealth taxes don't effect you until you are extremely rich - even the most aggressive proposals don't start until you are at $32M-$50M in net worth - there are definitely some startups that are struggling while the founders have this much in equity, but the vast majority of struggling startups never hit the $100M+ valuation that would be required.

Not to be a dick, but I don't see why anyone thinks this is valid justification to block a wealth tax - maybe you could argue that the cap should be higher. Income inequality has gotten ridiculous and is only going to get worse as AI technologies mature. There needs to be a way to reallocate wealth from the super-rich to the 40% of Americans who would be unable to pay for a $400 emergency and I haven't heard a better proposal.
I'm assuming that was sending OpenGL 1.0 commands over the network, or doing some kind of equivalent. Using X11 drawing commands for that would have resulted in miserable frame rates over dial-up if you ever tried to rotate or zoom the mesh. In any case that's not really network transparency nor is it really X11, the program likely had to be built in a very specific way using display lists.
I am very excited about Oxide and that will remain my primary interest and obligation for the foreseeable future :)
Well, by using "up to", they at least guarantee that they won't support if for more than three generations...

Contrast for instance with Pine64 that guarantees they will manufacture their devices for at least five years. I sometimes feel like smartphones should be regulated: standardize everything when it comes to interfaces and footprints: battery, cameras, etc. That was done in the european union for chargers, and I'm willing to bet that very few people will argue it was a bad thing.

Or maybe artificially limit the number of devices a smartphone manufacturer can sell during a given time?
As are you contributions... I see you submit nothing but comments and negativity ! Glad I'm not working with your sour ass ! PS. Your co workers probably don't like you...
> I suspect free people (consumers) see creepy stuff like cyber-dystopian Uighur genocide

The information asymmetry is massive that I don't think this tracks reality. Many people just tune out news, others never notice "made in China" stickers, and, what I would suspect to be your average consumer, likely just wants the cheapest toaster.

Furthermore, as the Chinese consumer base is more heavily catered to and grows in wealth, companies are going to ditch the current consumer of last resort and further focus their strategies in China.