skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's good it works that way in Finland, but my point was focused on the United States. I don't think making everyones' income public would suddenly make those in the US think like those in Finland. I also think the social services in Finland raise the bar for everyone - everyone has more basic services than in the United States, so it starts off more equal.

This happens with any disparity - education, income, wealth. Differences in these cause some people to act differently. I've met many people who think earning $100,000 a year qualifies you as "rich", and there are a lot of people who think they won't have anything in common with someone who is educated beyond undergrad.

I imagine it would suddenly be a metric on Zillow and Realtor - "average neighborhood income". People would self-select based on that, making neighborhoods less financially diverse. No one would want to be seen as the broke person in the neighborhood, and no one would want to way over-buy the neighborhood. Maybe you would, but people would "know" whether you could afford to live there or whether you were taking a house from someone else when you could afford to live in a nicer place. Either way, it would not be comfortable, not to mention if you lived somewhere for a while and your career took off - you'd then maybe out earn the neighborhood and be forced to move, rather than be able to remain and blend in.

On my earlier comment, I guess 1/4 wasn't the right ratio. My point was more that someone making 200k may not move into a neighborhood where the average income is 50k, when they otherwise would have, because they would be viewed very differently among neighbors and it would be hard to blend in. This would lessen tax revenue for low-income areas as people would be less willing to move in.

In general, talking about salary in the States is taboo, but not among hourly workers. If you hear a conversation about work between hourly workers, it generally comes out pretty quickly what they are making. I read an article stating it happens for price discovery - they mention it regularly so they can charge the right rates and work at the highest paying location.
> it should be illegal to bulldoze structure where somebody lives!

This seems pretty obviously like a bad idea to me. What's to stop someone from erecting a large structure inside a public park, stealing the right to use that land from the public and taking it for themselves?

Having lived in Seattle until very recently, I can attest first hand that the answer to that question is: nothing. So your assertion here seems like it would lead to a state where the first person to create a structure on public land and live in it effectively converts that land into their own private property. To be frank, that is absurd.
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No. The solution is for government to spend LESS. There is no amount of tax that can out earn Congress’ appetite for pork, kickbacks, and voter bribery through wealth transfer.

The only reason we are told to see the illiquid wealth of billionaires as a problem is the lie that Congress can spend that money better.

They cannot.
A heat pump moves heat around, using energy – the opposite of a Sterling engine.
The metric being discussed relates to how much thermal energy you get for a given electrical input.

If you put 1000W into a Bitcoin miner, computer, resistive space heater, etc, you get 1000W thermal out.

If you use that 1000W to turn the compressor in a heat pump, you get far more heat out (3-4x is a reasonable average in a lot of areas), because you're not simply generating heat from the energy - you're using the energy to move heat. A heat pump is an air conditioner in reverse - you cool the outside air and heat the inside air.

A standard CPU dissipates heat as a resistive heater would - you pump 100W into the CPU, you get 100W of heat out. I'm not sure what you're using to claim that a CPU "is literally a heat pump" here - it's not, by any standard definition of a heat pump.
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A "heat pump" in this context is a device that uses a refrigeration cycle to extract heat from outside and move it inside. An A/C running in reverse, essentially.

And heat pumps are vastly more efficient than resistive heating (or using the heat from a microchip).

In many places, for every 1W of power a heat pump consumes, it can move 4W or more of heat into the space.
The crank reminds me of one of a handheld electronic fishing game I used to have as a kid. I didn't see a fishing game listed but that would be pretty fun.
the top 1% own 31% of all the net wealth in the US, which isn't the same as income - but gives a good idea of how disproportionate their share is

38.5% seems too low

https://www.federalreserve.gov/releases/z1/dataviz/dfa/distr...
I'm excited about concurrent mode. We're using it in production to help make a search function 'feel' faster, and it's very effective. Of course our focus is still making things actually faster, but concurrent mode goes a long way way in improving user experience which is essential.

One thing I need to wrap my head around is avoiding unnecessary work with useDeferredValue, for example. I've got something set up which will defer multiple values, but I know the user will only want the most recent value by the time something can render. As a result, once values arrive it'll kind of cycle through each rendered value rapidly before stopping at the last one. I guess I need to implement some sort of throttling and/or debouncing under the hood better - this probably isn't up to concurrent mode to solve for me.

I'm glad to see batching being focused on. I have code which implements batching to some degree, and it's always struck me as so awkward that I can't rely on React to make good decisions for me in this area. The abstraction required in a context provider or component to accomplish this is fairly ugly and really gets in the way of focusing on the component's core responsibility. I think this will be a great improvement.
That makes sense. Infinite scroll and linking to the updates section made me think it was a new article.
> Bitcoin uses less electricity than Christmas lights

You could power Christmas lights for several Christmas if not a lifetime with the electricity used in a BTC transaction. Let that sink in.
ok I can see that.

Its just if I came across this website and didn't know any better. I'd 100% think this is some elaborate April fools prank.

look at the game titles.
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Casual Birder
Executive Golf

It just seems like they're trying to hard not to be "cool" and trying not to take themselves seriously.
Daniel Suarez has a 2012 near-future novel that features this kind of thing [0]. In the book there are drones swarms armed with single-use tube guns, essentially, Saturday Night Specials [1].

I shill for his books regularly on HN. They're a guilty pleasure for me: snappy, easy to blow through in a single sitting, and are each begging for a movie adaptation (think "The Martian"). Start with Daemon.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kill_Decision
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saturday_night_special
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This is the tragedy of Citizens United.

It destroyed any hope of divorcing money from excessive political power.
I'd say in SF, you need 500k to be reasonably middle/upper-middle class if you have kids (let's say 2).
Costly doesn't mean that it has to waste actual resources. The chance of winning a block could be made to be proportional to the amount of bitcoin deposited into some smart contract, instead of proportional to the amount of electricity wasted. The outcome would be exactly the same, and nothing would be wasted.
I hope I'm actually able to get one. New game hardware has been such an absolute nightmare to get the past few years.
compatibility. Many existing systems, including secure email and packaging systems such as apt use PGP keys.

Sure in theory you could encrypt your email with age, but how many clients support that flow? How do you distribute the public keys?

Part of the point of sequoia as I understand it is to make PGP a little less clunky and easier to use safely.
FWIW there's a lot of half baked arguments going around the space, so a few comments for anyone genuinely interested in evaluating facts:

- The usage of electricity in Bitcoin is a feature not a bug. It's designed to use the most democratic and ubiquitous commodity avalible.
Any nation/individual can evaluate their electrical opportunity cost and at any point make the decision to dedicate resources to towards re-balancing the network without permission. This is not possible with proof of stake.

- We produce about 160,000 TWh of power, ~50,000 TWh is wasted due to inefficiencies. Bitcoin using 120 TWh (0.25% of wasted power)

- A lot of Power projects get scraped due to inconsistencies in demand. Random Ex: Texas power outages during summer peak AC usage. It's infeasible to spin up and spin down extra generators to meet spikes in demand. #Bitcoin fixes this by providing excess supply a discounted demand during normal hours that can be routed away during peak needs else where. Ditto for renewables.

- Bonus: SHA-256 did not get broken this week.
My understanding is that aducanumab has shown the greatest efficacy of any beta amyloid blocker (at reducing beta amyloid, with the least side effects. It definitely has side effects (brain swelling in 40%), but other Beta amyloid blockers have proven largely intolerable.
This is a straw man.

Firstly we have no idea how many of the 50 individuals data were public or not. All public data can be discounted since the state actor can just copy it.

Secondly, for the private data, the definition of ‘private’ is unspecified. It really just means not part of a published record. If propublica has access to it, then why couldn’t someone else?

I agree that if there were 150 separate sources with data not disclosed anywhere else, it would be impossible to guess.

But that’s just a made up scenario.

There could be many correct records that are public, and one or two that are private but available to (or even provided through another channel of) the state actor.

As long as the fake records are not part of the public or private data propublica already has, there would be no way to verify them.

This of course assumes that propublica’s list of records itself is kept securely.
How is not charging someone tax on unrealized gains some special, favorable agreement? It's common sense for physical assets.
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There's no such thing as a noose that's unrelated to death. That's what they're for. The puzzle may not be related to death, but the noose is.

And in the US there's no such thing as a noose that's unrelated to race. They are being used, today, as racist threats. When a noose appears, lynching is the assumed meaning, and not just by black people [1].

So it's a good thing that Lone Star is taking a look at the entire project. Using a noose was a mistake. One presumably made in good faith, but a mistake nonetheless. So the right thing to do is pull not just it, but to make sure that they didn't make other mistakes -- a sign of good faith.

I'm all for accepting a good and sincere apology. A lot of people have made bad and insincere apologies, and not only does that not help, it makes things worse by giving people an excuse to pretend that good apologies aren't worth doing. This is a good choice and I'd encourage people to take that.

[1] https://thehill.com/homenews/state-watch/554694-amazon-closi...
They're releasing a free SDK for it, you know what you have to do.
Which of the crypto currencies is a "non-governmental/internet native currency"? From my POV they all seem like proto-NFTs.
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No reason, I just didn't realise this was something the authorities did in practice.
Interesting question :) Our "full autopilot" mode isn't yet launched but once it is, if you have a recurring cadence set up with scheduled kickoff and submit days, and if each release's interim steps/gates are green, you'd theoretically be able to submit 100 out of 100 with no manual intervention. The real-world limiting factor is that in App Store Connect only one submission can be in flight at a time, and they'd usually be in flight for longer than a day.
Whatever THAT is.
A relevant answer from last year by @schoen (upon which I stumbled recently): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22495700
Dumb person here. What is "leaving babies in strollers outside of cafes"?
I was referring to the statements they made intentionally taunting AMC. That's not how you get people to come to the negotiating table.

AMC absolutely did the right thing: they kept their mouth shut, collected the money, waited for MoviePass to fizzle out, then launched their own (presumably profitable) subscription service.
It was a top secret plan spanning multiple countries likely run by corrupt officials, I think it probably cost more than 90 million!
> This is how police should get around the problems presented with encryption.

By adding a backdoor to E2E encryption? That is pretty much what they have been asking for :)

Amazing that criminals still pick some unknown device over an existing solution with a proven track record.

This is not the first time something like this has happened:

- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EncroChat

- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sky_Global
It's not strictly true that they do no harm to society. A lot of deeply addicted people are still objectively a blight on their surroundings, even if you view it as a health issue that calls for help rather than a moral issue that calls for punishment.

Let's not underplay that damage drugs and addicts do. They're not the source of the problem, they shouldn't be the focus of the solution but let's be honest.
Yes, I believe you are completely correct.

The author flatly states, a few sentences later, "On the other hand microdosing is not common."

While the author's wording misses the mark, from context there's absolutely doubt he's referring to microdosing being a more popular discussion topic in some circles, not more popular in terms of the absolute number of people actually doing it.
People who like retro-style indie games, people looking for something new aside from PC/console games, people who want to make games for a handheld, people looking for novelty. People trying to find joy. It's easy to figure out who this is for.
What other currency are people fanatic about HODL'ing? It's not a currency.
On average, approximately 7x more people die in the US each day from use of tobacco use than do from use of opiates.
Are all of these institutional investors:

https://www.forbes.com/sites/michaeldelcastillo/2020/08/06/v...

(of which the top 3 already account for more BTC than Elon) also unwise?
I had never even used reddit before just a few months ago, so no, it was an actual office lol.
A heat pump is a specific technology, not a generic term for something that produces heat: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heat_pump
I'd assume it's incompatible with LGPL code/libraries (unless it's open source), then again I have no idea how widespread said license is in the Elixir world.
Well, if Google ranks user-friendly content higher then sites will either adjust to be more user-friendly or get outranked by new sites that are user-friendly. The user wins.
Those are all different claims than the original post was making though.
I really prefer the Pulumi approach where you define the configuration in your favorite Turing-complete language.

Not sure why Hashicorp felt the need to reinvent the wheel instead of having a library in an existing language generate markup or JSON or something like that.
$500K? Hell, ignore net worths below $50M and pile drive into everything above that. But you will then find out just how many sub millionaires erroneously believe they are temporarily embarrassed billionaires who will fight any attempt to raise taxes on our domestic overlords just in case. Which is the way they want it...
I think they are starting on the right foot. Ouya seemed to sell the idea that it might compare with hardcore consoles where it was nothing close. This seems to sell an idea where the hardware and games are one and sell itself as something silly and whimsical.
Apples are better than oranges
Uhh, we also weren't evolved to read books. We're post-evolution, even if we're not post-biology. There are plenty of people thinking through how we could have a sustainable society on Mars, not really sure why people couldn't do the same thing here. You're assuming negative externalities without seeing what people could think up. Also, as far as the Earth's carrying capacity goes, the footprint per-individual is much larger than it used to be. The traditional statement of carrying capacity seems to need some reassessment, because there's a really good argument to make that global climate change is evidence that we are past our current carrying capacity.

I personally don't find the idea of Seasteading compelling.
Agree. The opiod epidemic is just the latest moral panic used to justify limitng people's rights.if you want to o.d., that's your right and your fault. OTC pain medication useless for serious chronic pain and a bigger ripoff than prescription drug companies. Opiods are safe when taken under doc guidelines. This notion that otc drugs are safe is wrong too: Otc drugs are known to cause liver and kidney problems too.
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> But all those shells that don't hit the target land someplace.

Just don't miss! It's only a few hundred meters out.

Oh CWIS are only ship-mounted? I thought it was a general term. I like PDC better anyway. #TheExpanse

Nice video—are those all tracers though?
> Taxing the rich more is generally popular[0] and this would accomplish that; it would seem like that's support.

This is a circular argument. Taxing the rich is popular, but the argument is that it would hurt everyone else. Hurting everyone else is not popular.
And this is why property prices are insane.

Investments of all kind receive generous tax breaks even when they're simple rent seeking.

So you get the triple whammy of unaffordable prices with unaffordable rents with downward pressure on wages - because the rent-seeking behaviour of share holders is privileged over the value of the work that underpins it.

It's not just a recipe for economic disaster for most of the population, it's also a recipe for political instability. In a democracy everyone should feel like the system is working in their interests.

When essentials become unaffordable and pricing becomes punitive and extortionate, people get angry and start to act in insane ways.
In cold climates you bury the heat exchanger under the frost line.
Why not combining both?

When having stuff to do in downtown, I usually choose routes which are rich green with large old trees and/or houses whith really nice front lawns bursting with colors by the planted flowers and bushes. Even if it is a slight detour, and thus taking longer to get where I need to be. Though I prefer to be absolutely sober then.

OTOH, walking, or bicyling out of town into the surrounding country, having only the slightest 'buzz' from some weak weed/grass intensifies my perception of the colors, smells, sounds, air currents and temperatures. I'd guess 'microdosing' would be similar?

Oh, and don't forget polarized sunglasses with blue/green tint. That is upping the visuals a notch. Even without direct sunhine, when it's overcast.

Example: the leaves of trees, from afar, or high up in the crown. With bare eyes I see them, but diffuse. With polarized sunglasses I can see every single one of them, their movement in the wind, and even their structure. Similar boost for seeing waves on the river.
Errr, I live in San Francisco. We do almost everything in parks. The massive Golden Gate Park is brimming with people every weekend.
Wow, beautiful find. This should be upvoted more! The hypocrisy is rich.
> So what would it be used for? Let's be honest: Tax evasion, human trafficking and gambling.

I can think of a lot of uses besides those. Prostitution between consenting adults, fun drugs, medical drugs which are tied up by the FDA etc, testing of drones and driverless vehicles, playing lawn darts, and avoiding obsolete regulations come to mind.
Is this really the case? Imagine you're at a masquerade ball with 25 people from random countries around the western world, 5 of whom are Americans from various states. Everyone speaks perfect, mechanical, unaccented English, and you are not permitted to discuss dead-giveaway topics like geography, political parties/candidates, specific foods, etc. How confident are you that you could pick out the Americans?
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It’s really nice when they do this but the no JavaScript ship has sailed.

I’d rather devs focus on accessibility for screen readers etc.
There are multiple reward functions that apply to git. One particular example is a lot of developers compete for Proof of Clout (PoC) and all the green they can light up in the GitHub activity graph.
I don't want to diminish the importance of the distinction between income coming from wages vs capital, but I think there is also an important divide between people who are able to get ahead/accumulate wealth, and those who have to work as hard as they can just to scrape by.
> It isn't at all clear to me why the former implies the latter.

nor the latter implying the former :D
Did you perform or direct someone to commit an illegal act?
The lack of vertical space on modern 16:9 screens makes them do that. You can make it 9:16 by rotating it 90°, but it isn't common so the default is no bar. Keyboard-oriented browsers often go further than that, offering just a plain page with little to no visible controls.

Anyway, at least you can easily turn the title bar back on.
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I think the FDA was in a difficult spot. There have been no new Alzheimers drugs in decades and patients are desperate for treatments. There is reason to believe that beta amyloid blockers need to be given in the earliest stages of Alzheimers (when diagnosis is difficult) to have any impact on cognitive decline. The trials did not focus on early stage patients, so there may be positive impacts if it can be given early enough.
> Then again real life has been scaring me for years.

Especially with the extremely high THC content of modern strains people often fail to recognize that weed is still a psychedelic in its own right.

Alcohol, for most people, will simply make you feel good (up to a point), but strong weed can often magnify strong emotions you have. During a particularly challenging time in my life I completely gave up weed because smoking only served to make me feel worse.

Like all psychedelics the negative experience can be useful, for example if you get very anxious when you smoke it's likely you have some other unaddressed problems, but for those that are just looking for an escape (and most people, myself included, are looking for this from weed) it can certainly make smoking during stressful times a bad idea.
Despite the idea is interesting, I'm not sure it's the right solution to the problem.

The problem should be fixed upstream, and tag updates should not happen for patch releases.

The biggest issue that I see with Docker is the fact that tags are easily overwritten, and as the author pointed out in the article, a moving tag breaks builds and makes them unreproducible.

I still wonder if there is a cleaner solution than using image digests, this whole trend is going to make the Dockerfile FROM more confusing.