skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
How much of a carbon footprint does the global traditional cash and banking industry produce per usd relative to the equivalent footprint of a cryptocurrency?

It's not just electricity, it's concrete and steel for banks and parking lots, employees driving to and from work, armored cars transporting cash, etc. Traditional cash is many, many orders of magnitude dirtier than even the worst cryptocurrency.

If you could assess the cost in pollution and other harms, you'd also want to assess the value in jobs and infrastructure and other utility. I'd bet cryptocurrency ends up being a far better tool all around, especially if institutional protections can be emulated - some sort of fraud insurance and so on.

Anyway, it's silly to neg on crypto because it uses lots of power. Total red herring.

It's a good ambition to make crypto more efficient, but the fuss is all FUD memeing from the usual suspects.
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> Much of the professional self-improvement literature that is often hastily summarized as being about “productivity” really is not, in the sense that it focusses less on increasing your output above all else and more on nuanced goals, such as reducing stress through better organization, making smarter decisions about your time, being a good leader, or producing higher-quality results.

The author's book "Deep Work" was a great lecture for me and though it used the term "productivity", I think its message lays elsewhere:

Cal deliberately talks for pages about the idea of working less but prioritizing deep work. It's true that this is ultimately a "productivity" hack. Still, practicing this idea myself, I'd say I have more time of my day now "not having to be productive".

I used to work shallowly for 8 hours a day. Since a year or so, I spend mostly 4 hours in the office. My "products" haven't suffered. They've become better, and so have I.
My claim is that race is not a meaningful concept.
It reminds of a spark file: https://lifehacker.com/defrag-your-brain-with-a-spark-file-5...

As usual I wouldn't put something so private in someone else computer. I don't even put my supermarket list on the cloud!
Do you live in a state with an income tax? Why not move to a state with lower tax obligations and lower how much you spend on taxes that way.
I really love the pricing model, refreshing:

> thoughts.page is free for anyone who makes less than $40,000 USD/year, and costs $5/month otherwise.
I think pay transparency requirements should be limited to below some compensation threshold. I can't put a number on it myself (maybe somewhere $100k-500k), but after some point, it becomes impossible to compare the compensation of one employee to another. High compensation is probably a reasonable proxy for this.

As a bonus, this might provide some upward pressure on lower salaries. If a company doesn't want to tell the world they pay you $THRESHOLD - $10k, maybe they'll just bump you up to $THRESHOLD. In fact, if it were up to me, I'd probably choose this threshold in a way that this upward pressure affects the most people possible (so, closer to $100k than $500k).

The problem with this is that different industries will hit this threshold at different points in their cost structures. FAANG might hit it for entry level software engineers while other industries might never hit the threshold for any employees. I don't know how to resolve this, but I definitely think transparency above some limit will cause more problems than it solves.
I think the larping is actually mandatory if you want to pose as Anonymous.
Are bonuses a mystery or do you have actual metrics that you can use to gauge whether or not you might get a bonus? Are they not part of your compensation?

Who would take a sales job that doesn't list what sort of commission they'll be getting? And wouldn't average income from such a job actually be helpful if you are deciding to take it? Sure, it is wonderful if you get commission each time you sell a car, but if folks aren't getting paid very much per year, it probably means cars aren't selling as well as the what the "possible income of xxx.xx" is saying they are.

These are all things that can be disclosed and if they aren't, do you want to work in places that have secret formulas to give you pay?
> my science teacher told me that we would run out of oil and the world economy would collapse by 2010

Well, he was "right", the WEO (not an anti-capitalist/leftist/ecologist organism by any mean, au contraire) now admit that conventional oil peaked in 2008 in the world. The north sea gas extraction peaked in 2004.
> PhD it's at best a weak proxy for how much value a particular employee provides to the business.

Compensation is almost never based on what value employees provide to the business but what the market will pay for them. If PhDs get paid more it’s likely because the market is willing to pay more for people with those skills.

Fwiw: I don’t have a PhD. But I do find the lazy PhD bit pretty tiring too.
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>Well, it’s not hard being faster than 20 years old tech.

Yes, but it was even more hard to make Java applets run with any acceptable speed in 1997, which is what mattered for their deprecation. Understadingly people didn't just say "let's suffer them for 10 years until the hardware catches up to make them tolerable".

>Also, webassembly still doesn’t have proper bindings to the DOM

Yes, but still better than what applets had :-)

>So these comparisons frankly make no sense as every such shortcoming could have been easily fixed in 20 years.

It would make even less sense for people in 1997-1999 to stick with applets because "such shortcomings will be easily fixed in 20 years". People use what works now, or at least offers a serious advantage despite the shortcomings. Java applets then didn't offer much.
Great, so you have empirical evidence. Can you please share some links with me?

I'm open to being convinced of this rather strong claim, but I'd prefer not to take it on faith.
GitHub is using ”draft”, maybe that is the reason.
^This is correct, demonstrably.

Unlike at the micro level, at the macro level your spending is my income.

That alone changes (almost every) received microeconomic intuition.
What prevented the societal breakdown in countries that didn't do nearly as much QE yet had their hospitals hit equally or worse?
We rely on human judgements that can't be described all the time in many of the above situations, so why would it be a "major concern" with machines? Machines can be much more thoroughly tested than humans, so they should be more statistically predictable
2000 is pretty average, you dont need to make the post confusing by pointing out edgecases. yeah we all know if your short or workout you need slighty different needs

so the whole point in the last two paragraphs is based off of how much you eat. its education about food and eating in excess thats needed. not saying a fast food burger it self is bad. the problem is every other poor decision made at a drive through window
I can't speak for Texas but I had a case of appendicitis in the family last year and the main reason for delays wasn't the number of people in the hospital but the new procedures in place.

The hospital was nearly empty except for COVID patients and life threatning emergencies. We cancelled 1 million doctor appointments and 300k surgeries in 2020 (in a 10 million population).
Ask HN: Why is the touchpad on MacBooks still ahead of other manufacturers?
Just curious and a bit frustrated about this. I had to buy a Windows laptop, and there is no one that is even close to be as good as the Macbook considering the touch pad. Why? I mean this has been the case for years.
Once had my Australian production system go down because a js plugin we were using had added .au to its list of media types. Integration had a different TLD.
Response I got from the author was 'LOL!'.
:)
Not in tidyverse, but yeah indexes in pandas are a souped up version of rownames in base R.
> Staff member made a change to disallow usernames ending with `Mime::EXTENSION_LOOKUP.keys`

This is a hell of a thing to commit and pass code review in 2021 on a project like GitLab. I understand that the staff member was fixing a security issue and was probably not thinking deeply about the ramifications, but even so. How many "Falsehoods programmers believe about names" articles do we need?
> I will never get an unnecessary medical procedure to satisfy either contemptible neurotics, pharma shareholders, or the government.

One man's freedom ends where another man's begins. By not getting vaccinated against coronavirus, you are endangering yourself (which, while fine from a personal freedom point of view, still leaves society in form of either the taxpayer or your health insurance on the hook for the treatment cost should you die from it) and you are endangering others who are legitimately unable to get vaccinated (children < 12 years of age, immunosuppressed people, non-responders) with a deadly disease.

And the more people get infected, the more overwhelmed hospitals get with COVID cases (especially given that the delta mutant is both more infections and more likely to cause severe, ICU-requiring distress)... which means the collective freedom of you and other people to not get vaccinated is likely to directly impact the freedom of others who are in need of an ICU bed. And then there is the immense mental and physical load that the unvaccinated severe cases of COVID put on the individual healthcare workers who are obligated by their professional ethics to treat you, no matter what.

So much loss of life, of wealth, of happiness only to satisfy the radical libertarianism of the few. You know, if it were like with seatbelts where the only one you're endangering by not wearing it is yourself then I'd say go for it, see you in wherever we end up after our death - but by not vaccinating, you are part of a direct threat against everyone else.
Why are you commenting on your colleagues’ food? Moreover, something as normal as a vegetable.
Have a look at the response headers (!)
NHS app facial verification data and firm linked to Tory donors
Suppose person A has a 50% chance of making the right decision, and person B has a 70% chance. Person B is then worth paying up to $200M more. Or, if you end up making ten decisions like this per year, then even 52% vs 50% would be worth the same amount. When you're managing enormously valuable properties, even small increases in performance can be worth a lot.
You are blaming pay transparency for a related but different policy of having a public compensation formula. Pay transparency does not require that every employee in a given role needs to be compensated the same. More productive employees can still be compensated more. The less productive employees can leave if they have a problem with that. Pay transparency is simply about empowering employees by giving them the same information that employers have.
This is still very early stage and many features are not there yet. The Frontpage is limited to 20 things and auto-scrolling (endless scrolling) is not used, hoping to allow users to "get their fix" and not get lost in the content rabbit hole.

I am hoping to build a community where diversity is embraced and celebrated and users are kind and respectful of other viewpoints and ideas. It would mean a lot if you could try it out and provide constructive feedback/thoughts/ideas.

Tech stack: ASP.NET MVC+SQL and several other amazing libs/things credited at https://20-things.com/about.

I'd love to hear your thoughts on the overall design/usability/signup flow etc.
Apparently we can't, because part of the social contract of a middle class is that they're happy to pay 50%-ish tax rates.
The average voter likely doesn’t know or doesn’t care about the difference between high income and high wealth.

I think “tax the rich” the way most people think of it would have to be some form of wealth tax.
Do you really believe that mandating people do a difficult, time consuming task for years is reasonably equivalent to mandating them to get two shots, which take about 5 minutes each?

If no, then whatever the merits of your conclusion it certainly doesn't follow from the comparison made.
At a point when they ask me my salary expectations, I would expect to be talking to someone who has the authority to speak about salaries.
Are they optional? As far as I understand, AWS doesn't do the same.
Well, how about this then: It's worth fighting against borders; it's worth fighting for refugees' right to exist and to ensure their safe passage (rather than forcing them to die of thirst in the desert, drowning at sea or getting caught and beaten by border patrols using drones with thermal cameras[0]).

I'm aware that some people believe that you "fight for freedom" or "defend your nation" by building border walls, using Reaper drones to launch Hellfire missiles at strangers, putting kids in cages, and perhaps having 70.000 nuclear warheads around, just in case.

However, when you read certain reports (e.g. Daliel Hale's leaks about USA's assasination programme[1], or Collateral Murder[2]), then it becomes clear that weapons and wars (that we're simulating in Red Alert albeit in a contrafactual nazi-free timeline) are a major source of suffering and death worldwide.

"Defense" is a neat euphemism for attack.

[0]: https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2021/mar/26/e...

[1]: https://theintercept.com/2021/07/30/daniel-hale-drone-whistl...

[2]: https://collateralmurder.wikileaks.org/
> Figuring out diet, exercise, and BMR is the hard part. Expecting a pound of fat to go away per 3000 calories is the easy part.

Well, here you've moved from "estimated deficit per day" to "exact total deficit". Sure, thermodynamics tells you with absolute certainty that if you've lost 1 pound of fat in 1 week, you've overall had 3000 Cal deficit in that month.

But that doesn't mean you can say "if you know your BMR at time t, eat exactly this much and exercise exactly this much, you will definitely have a 3000 Cal deficit over 1 week". This would assume already that BMR doesn't vary with exercise and diet. It also assumes that food digestion doesn't vary with exercise and diet. Both of these are assumptions that we don't really know. And even if they are true for 1 week, they are almost certainly not true for 1 year.
I wasn't accusing you of those things, if that wasn't clear. And I used relatively minor in context (which you deleted). Hopefully that was clear, I'm not denying it may be on the order of 1% death rate among the unvaccinated which is not to be taken lightly.

And I know many people find it inconceivable that I have an anti authoritarian aversion to forced medical treatment, and that worries me for the future far more than covid. I'm not expecting to change any minds, but I'll put forward my position now and again.

I completely understand the other point of view, even if I believe a lot of people have arrived at it due to a campaign of fearmongering and politicization.
> Time in level determines promotions, not skill, not knowledge, time in level. Time in level is used because it’s the only objective system that works, anything else is too subjective and will open employers to lawsuits

This seems like a pretty pessimistic take. Employees won’t be bringing lawsuits without merit; if a person has been coasting it will be quite difficult for them to prove that they should be compensated similarly to someone else that did not before a jury. If the differences in contributions are not that significant then differences in compensation do seem unjustified don’t they?
>I think anyone earning in the top 2% should be able to do this, yes. After all, central London contains 2.3% of the UK population. If they're all at the top ...

If they are all in the top, then you are in the bottom 11% of londoners.
Cats and dogs both can drink cow milk. It’s just that animals don’t have a way to extract milk from other animals, the way humans can.

Similarly, I could argue that animals don’t farm vegetables and eat most vegetables, so why should humans?
Yeah, I think this is fair.

A draft in the visual arts (drawing, painting), is typically abandoned, like a sketch. Perhaps it uses a different medium to the final version, and in any case can't easily be adapted.

A draft in writing is typically incrementally improved, or at least we think of it that way now that we write on computers. We don't need to start again even for substantial changes like adding a new paragraph.
Does it seem ethical never paying any income tax? I understand why some people will be upset, making less money than they expected. But if you were to judge the system blindly without knowing if you were going to be in a position to take advantage of it or not, does it seem fair?

I think it would be hard to argue it's a good policy that some people pay zero taxes, especially on large sums of income. Simply paying capital gains which is below normal income rate seems like a decent compromise. Why should it be treated any different?
What's the "weird passasfile bizarreness"?
I wonder why there is so much thought and work on raising taxes but not on efficient spending by the government. There are several examples around where government spending is inefficients and sometimes corrupt.

Any way to stir to conversation and political thinking on efficient spending?
> To hit 55% tax rate in California after this, you only need to make like $250k total

If you make 250k as an individual you're in the 97th percentile in the state, 91th for a household. If that's impossible to live on how do the 90% below you survive? It's literally four times the median wage in the state.

Also another perspective from across the pond, I hit the maximum marginal income tax rate at 57k. Of my 85k paycheck I pay a little less than half effectively in taxes and social contributions so this discussion is like another world to me

https://dqydj.com/income-percentile-by-state-calculator/
>Seethe and cope, because at the end of the day you are a slave, and I will never be.

Peevish attitude -- as if getting a vaccine is a deep personal choice. It's not really. It's a public health issue and like masks you protect others around you from getting disease.

Ironically you depend on others doing the right thing to enjoy your little freedoms.
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"Lakes are typically stored on low cost Object Storage such as AWS S3 where the data is more open."

What does that mean?
There's no nice way to say this, but the implied definition of a coup from the reference you gave (i.e. generals take over the capitol) is only a very specific form of a coup, and to suggest that political manoeuvring and populist tactics don't form the basis of a coup, is completely wrong.

Mussolini's coup, 'March On Rome' [1] is a good reference, but there are plenty of historical examples.

Needless to say, the conditions on Jan 6. parallel key elements many historical coups.

" The highest-ranking U.S. officer, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Mark Milley, and other top military leaders made informal plans to stop a coup by former President Donald Trump and his allies in the run-up to the 2020 presidential election," [2]

(there are many sources for this).

So first, you're at odds with the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, who likely has an inkling of what was a 'coup' is.

Fabricating a constitutional crisis and fomenting mass populist furor is definitely a path to a coup, which he was obviously pursuing.

The reason that the VP et. al. reconvened immediately after the Jan 6 riots, directly in the 'still dangerous' aftermath - was because they wanted to make sure that the proceedings were as legitimate as possible, with little deviation from historic and traditional norms thereby minimizing the ability of the former President to create false narrative about it, and reducing his ability to sneak procedural and legal barbs into the process, which is defined by some really vague old laws and is established by tradition and precedent as much as anything.

Here are some good historical references, they make for good comparisons [3][4].

I think the chances of him fully taking over were small, but the chances of him mangling up processes and creating a kind of an oddball legal situation which would take many months to resolve while his supporters increased their level of agitation (we saw millions in the streets for BLM, no reason to believe his supporters mightn't have done the same) as a very real possibility.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/March_on_Rome

[2] https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2021/07/15/join...

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_coups_and_coup_attempt...

[4] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_coups_and_coup_attempt...
And is also why full global remote will not happen. Governments will make sure that hiring people in their countries/states will remain annoying.
> 2000 is pretty average, you dont need to make the post confusing by pointing out edgecases.

It's not "slightly different needs", it's 2000 +- 50%, just in the average population. For example, most women eating 2000 Cal/day are overweight (since women tend to have less lean body mass than men at the same height and exercise level).

> so the whole point in the last two paragraphs is based off of how much you eat.

No, the whole point is that appetite and digestion and lifestyle may well be affected by what you eat. So what you eat almost certainly influences how much you eat. The fast food burger could be the cause of you also craving the milkshake.
Big discussion of the original source: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28523688
> at the end of the day you are a slave, and I will never be

I prefer the term "open source project maintainer."
There should be absolutely nothing controversial with that. What I spend my money on that doesn't harm anyone is nobody's business but mine and whoever I'm paying. If it does harm someone, well, that's why we have laws and law enforcement. It's the harm - the crime - that gets punished or penalized. Just like someone who gets drunk and drives. The results can be heinous, so the action is appropriately and severely punished.

Anonymity, or fungibility, doesn't interfere with that. It simply requires that evidence of harm or crime not depend on an abstract exchange of information.
Sadly, by taking this step he leaves the field for dogmatic ideologues, which can have a severe negative effect on education as a whole. I understand the decision of course.

Ironically the main issue with colonization was forcing people to accept a certain way of life. But self-reflection doesn't seem to be a strong suit of academia these days, on the contrary. Nevermind that learning from your errors may also include to acknowledge that you cannot take them back.

People trying to decolonize something are often delusional in my opinion.
Except hot-dogs contain almost no meat :)
A Wikipedia alternative governed by free market? Dunno what's gonna happen
This is meaningless comparison I am originally from Ukraine 30K USD per year there buys you same lifestyle as 200+K in CA. So just comparing amounts is totally meaningless.