skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Because I am unsure where to get data on the 10,000. If you find it, I will absolutely udpdate.

I just sourced an income distribution based on percentiles, you can do the same with wealth.

> The poorest 10 million Americans likely pay a negative tax rate already (as they should). But you're right—it would. But only for one year—so that's not sustainable.

If in one year less than 100 people were mildly inconvenienced to generate a major windfall and make a significant difference for 10 million people, that's already a good outcome. We could do it every year for decades and the top 100 richest people would still have billions.

> Then what do we do once it's been depleted and we've gotten used to it? That would be a big tax gap that would have to come from...you and me. Is that what you want?

I have some news for you: it's already coming from you and me. I pay over 40% of my income in taxes that I cannot escape from. The system has no loopholes for people like me, and that's fine actually, I want to contribute to society. However, it boils my blood when people think that because taxing the rich is too complicated, too harsh or - seriously? - would get us addicted on easy money, that those are reasons not to do it.

> What is "enough"?

I think we should find every way we can to tax wealthy individuals in the same scale that high-income employees are taxed.
To be clear, GP's stated intention was to simplify a complex structure into a "simple structure", about which the stated concern was a loss of performance, to which GP's rebuttal was it actually improved performance. The main motivator for flattening the filesystem hierarchy isn't really performance, it's simplifying the organization, and (arguably) bringing it more in like with "pure UNIX", vs the quagmire of commercial SysV derivatives with a few dozen different bin directories in PATH, with esoteric justification.
> It comes down to who get the power to define truth. That is not a problem if anyone is allowed to leave their opinion. There will be people that abuse that right and that is the cost of it.

I don't understand how you can call my issues with it trivial when I've heard this same propaganda over and over again for decades. I think the issue is that people made this propaganda their religion and are now unable to see that nuance can be used to safely reduce free speech.

You can't yell fire in a crowded fire when there is no fire can you? Why do you act like these safeguards don't already exist for other things?
It's a Problem I see with a lot of blogspam articles - when it comes to battery tech, cures for $disease, discovery of "earth-like" planets, etc - they all make it look like they're about to hit shelves. But more often than not it's only in laboratory conditions, it's extrapolating a "what if" from a scientific paper, commercially unviable, or even straight up grifts trying to sell a patent or trying to get bought out by a big company like Tesla.

I wish I could filter these very hypothetical links from HN somehow. At least the comments will point out the shared links are not the source and will link to better resources.
Filesystem Hierarchy Standard – Specification
Yes I was checking up after posting, it has been referred to as a meditation chamber, but was actually a way for hime to take the life support system off.

What is he going to do in there though? Does he have a PlayStation set up?
80% charge in 15 minutes is not far off from some current commercially available EVs using conventional li-ion technology.

For example, the Hyundai Ioniq 5 will charge to 80% in 18 minutes on a 350 kW charger.
No, absolutely not what caused the crash.

Loose monetary policy caused the crash.
Racism is for everyone.

'divide et impera'

The moment a universal idea is replaced by particularism, she is dead.

In-group/out-group

It's just a question of who gets the roles of ruler, ruled and scapegoat.
Another issue is recycle-ability. For the current generation of battery technology there are tested methods for close to complete recycling of the whole battery and plans for scaling it up.

For solid state there's not even a theoretical solution for how to recycle.
Meta attempting to remove itself from the lawsuit on the basis that they didn't know what Sama were allegedly doing is understandable, but it feels a bit off. Companies should really make sure major suppliers are working within the law, especially for serious things like human trafficking. Here in the UK businesses that have a turnover more than £36m have a legal duty to ensure their whole supply chain is free of slave labour under the Modern Slavery Act 2015. It'd be a shame if the US doesn't have any similar legal structure.
Who can fill in the "revolutionary battery checklist" comment? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28025930
Its two different products. Google pay especially in India is a mobile wallet with coupons and rewards. Ironically, the card payment app is now called Google Wallet.
The main issue is that all of your dollars, even the ones you save, are worth less.

Let's invent our own unit: the "grocery-year" -- one grocery-year represents the amount of money needed to buy one year of groceries.

Now let's say I am making $100k this year, and spending $10k on groceries. My annual salary is ten grocery-years (though I'm saving nine of those).

Let's assume that inflation is 10%, but I get a 5% raise. You're absolutely right that my net income will increase in dollar-terms (i.e. I'll spend $11k on groceries now, but make $105k; a $4k net increase). The issue here is that in actual purchasing power, my salary has gone down: my annual salary is now only 9.54 grocery-years.

Obviously not everything experiences the same rates of inflation, but the idea here is that inflation affects all of your income, not just the income you're spending. Likewise, my actual purchasing power will decrease if my raise doesn't match inflation, regardless of how much actual purchasing I do in a given year.
That seems like it'd be a way for those companies to attempt to capture the technical infrastructure used by packages, and hold their adoption potential hostage (soft pressure for packages to change their practices to become approvable, and latterly a hope that the wider community will tend to believe in and trust those approvals).

You could be correct, maybe this would work in practice, trading on the reputations of those companies. It doesn't feel particularly open or community-oriented, though. Why not present a trust graph built from a broad set of worldwide users instead?

(one of the benefits to a trust graph would be the volume of signers; perhaps you wouldn't want to weight each signing equally -- again referring back to something like the distance metric mentioned previously -- but for even mid-popularity packages, the detailed review possible by careful users of a package could, I expect, be more reliable than automated-and-manual review by one or two large companies)
Could this be a market opportunity for a restaurant chain like Sonic or Fuddruckers?
Disk space was not really the issue. Back in the day extra partitions would actually mean you waste space. It's more efficient to put them on one partition.

The issue is organisation. There is already so much junk in the bin folders. I think it would be much neater to further split the bins into various categories: "shell tools" like ls, [, echo; "applications" like firefox, inkscape, "helpers" like gnome-settings-daemon, ... There is no need to show weird daemons when pressing TAB in bash, and there is no need to show `ls` when picking an application via a GUI.
Time to charge to 80% is less important than time to charge to X kWh though. Given the storage to weight ratio of this battery is supposed to be much higher, even if it took the same time to charge to 80%, it would take less time to charge to a given range.
It's also dangerous and tiring the opposite attitude in the Linux world: don't dare change something that has been there for 30 years. Like this very article, there were plenty saying "the /usr split is there for a reason!". No, it's just an historical quirk.

There's plenty greybeards that for them "Linux" is a full screen terminal running emacs on decade-old hardware. "I don't use antialiased fonts, why the hell should I care about decent HiDPI support?" And then protest every time some working group tries to modernise and improve the Linux desktop. You see them every time on this forum.

I'm a greybeard, I've used Linux full time on the desktop for 20 years. I don't get this conservative, "we don't need it" attitude.
> I’m assuming you’re referring to Vancouver’s single-use plastics reduction legislation. It’s far too convenient to single out plastic straws and then claim it has done nothing when 1, it only went into effect in December 2021 and 2, it covered much more than just straws.

No, I was not referring to that, but I did mis-speak when I said "outlawed". I was referring to the campaign to get rid of plastic straws [0] that took over a lot of the world a few years ago, ending with the almost complete disappearance of plastic straws from restaurants and shops.

> [citation needed]

Here you go [1]:

> But a ban may be a bit of a straw man in the discussions about plastics pollution. Straws make up about 4 percent of the plastic trash by piece, but far less by weight.

> Straws on average weigh so little—about one sixty-seventh of an ounce or .42 grams—that all those billions of straws add up to only about 2,000 tons of the nearly 9 million tons of plastic waste that yearly hits the waters.

It's true that it's not literally nothing, but it has far less impact on the problem than other changes could have; and changes like proper collection of plastic waste could make plastic straws completely irrelevant, while also reducing many other kinds of plastic waste that is far less easily banned. But, of course, that takes much more effort from government and other organizations, so ban straws is all we get.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drinking_straw#Plastic_straw_b...

[1] https://phys.org/news/2018-04-science-amount-straws-plastic-...
Hypothetically speaking, would forking FreeBSD or a *nix to use a simpler folder structure be feasible? I can imagine a lot of package managers and applications make assumptions about the folder structure though, so there would have to be a lot of changes made to make everything work.

I was thinking "just symlink /sbin with /bin", but there would probably be conflicts.
HN is not the place to discuss innovations in crypto space.
Corrected myself on the "outlawed" part and answered these in another post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31337419
A lot of verbal gymnastics to try to create a false equivalence between two completely different issues.
Well, ok, but remember that for the past few years it's only the crippled WebExtensions.
My problem with Maker is that I’m still having trouble understanding what purpose it serves for a borrower other than gambling with leverage.
A long time ago, as a novice sysadmin, I spent some unhappy time fixing a broken Solaris server. The problem was fsck was in /usr/sbin, /usr was a mount point on an external drive array that got its power yanked. Challenge: to boot you need to mount /usr, but first you have to fsck it using the binary in /usr/sbin ...

After that I would make sure to have some working (static) binaries for rescue on every *nix system, tar at least, and on Solaris an extra /usr/sbin/fsck under the /usr mount point). You can fix a lot of things with tar, sed and netcat.
Why is this data so focused on benefits and not salaries? Everything that company would buy for me I would buy myself if they only paid me enough.
> You say complex, I say contrived

And I don't believe you would be wrong! It looks almost purposely designed to blind the casual investigator with complexity and buzzwords, while luring them in with the promise of m4d g41nz.
"as if this was going to hit the shelves next month."
I must say that I did not get this impression.
Although it does not absolve SUSE of any misconduct, it seems that Lunduke has an extensive record of spinning facts and statements: https://twitter.com/LundukeFacts
Why do people enjoy reading these types of stories so much?
Totally worth it to go up to the top of MOMA and gaze a while.
Pro tip: you know you stayed long enough once the security guards start eyeing you suspiciously! ;-)
Interesting. As someone using webviews extensively[1], the main issue is that the "iframe" model of security many operate on makes sense on the web, but not in native apps. When it comes to embedding third party content with iframes, you essentially want two-way security and privacy. The embedder can't change things in the embedded and vice versa.

With webviews however, that model doesn't make much sense: the embedder is controlling the webview and frequently needs to apply or enrich the embedded view. Browsers (which by and large maintain these webview APIs) have no incentive to stray from the web model of security though: they have no use for it themselves and it creates new vectors for security breaches in them. So I wonder how much a community group can affect.

[1] I build a browser for devs which uses webviews, https://polypane.app
I wonder if this will actually happen, since most webviews are closed source and the work of big corporations? Maybe people like the Electron maintainers can get involved.
Nobody really knows what USDT is backed with, but it makes a pretty good show of pretending to have reserves...

> this absolute dump was coordinated by big funds

Really? Because people have been talking about the reserve to pay out the promised interest falling away for some time now.
You can `make dist` on the python repo to build the rpm of whichever branch/commit you want to use. Pre-built ones are also available from nightly build. I still don’t know why you need a separate tool for that.
We’d love to add salary data in the future! Appreciate you taking the time to provide this feedback.
Yes, he's the reason I listed state department. Sean's influence on the EVE alliances' diplomacy is still felt today. Diplomacy is really seriously and is a legitimate career in EVE.
I can understand a bag collection better than I can buying Pokemon or Magic the Gathering cards.
This story fits your comment well [0]. Always have to chuckle when I think about this.

If you want to look it up yourself, just search for "deadmaus ferrari".

[0] https://ideal.media/why-ferrari-sued-deadmau5/
> /sbin, /usr/sbin is for binaries that need root. You put them in separate directories so their permissions all match up, and so they don't show up when completing in bash.

I also got this explanation, but it never made much sense to me. First of all, the binaries there are executable by everyone anyway. Second, it really doesn't matter that they show up during completion. Third, many of them work fine and are quite useful without root! I don't recall the specific examples that bothered me (/sbin and /usr/sbin have been in my PATH forever now), but I think it was something like ifconfig or ping.
Range anxiety could also be solved with marketing.

1. Design a graphic symbol that means, “this parking lot has a charging station”

2. Put that graphic on relevant signs as tall as the ones which advertise Exxon or Shell gas stations.

This would create the impression of ubiquitous charging.
PowerShell is your friend now.
AFAIK the XDG spec isn't a thing on macOS, so you get those CLI utilities written by devs on their fancy Macbook Pro that pollute your home directory, such as Deno, Doom Emacs, Elixir, Rust/Cargo, Kubernetes, npm, vscode, etc.
My main takeaway from reading that is OP is a degenerate gambler. And s/he still is.
> Round surfaces scatter in all directions, flat surface scatter only in 1 direction of your choosing.

But with the low-poly approach you end up with sharp edges which diffract the waves in all direction…

The fact that no more recent stealth plane have the same shape should be a good indication that this was in fact due to the technical limitation of the time (And btw, who are you to contradict the actual designer of the plane on that topic ?!)
is xusd any better?

https://coinmarketcap.com/currencies/xusd/
Cool. The code might look scary but it's intuitive. The mermaid diagram lib is preinstalled in Observable notebooks. The diagrams can be created with the template literal mermaid``.

A range input is set up, which returns the number at which the slider or text input is set. This immediately dispatches on any changes.

The diagram cell takes advantage of this reactive dispatching. It passes the result of a chain of ternary clauses, almost like a switch statement.

The cool thing is that you can approach this in a few other ways. You can access an array item if you use the range output as a computed array index, the returned item will correspond with the number set in the range input. Tom added that example as well, in the cell above the diagram cell.

Finally, he mentioned that the user can move the animation at their own pace. That means, using the included Promises lib (not 'Promise', that's a JS module), you can use the .interval or .tick methods to yield a new value at every x msecs. Now instead of having the animation hooked up to the manual range input, you hook it up to the tick method and you've got yourself the basis of a slideshow.

Try it. Just start editing the code, and a copy is automatically made for you to fork. Yes, you can do pull requests on notebooks!

Observable should hire me right?
Relevant Alan Kay talk: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kgmAwnNxdgw
Partially Specified Mathematical Objects
How production-ready is that? When will a customer be able to buy their solid-state battery or some product that includes it?
There are others that do trainers if you need a rep of limited edition Yeezys or something.
But 10 years is also the rated lifetime for CR2032 cells. Those made in 2022 will definetly still be good to use in 2032. I've had some last as PC CMOS ram backup cells since the late 90's and they are not rechargeable, nor being charged in the system they are in.
Jet fuels for take off (and maybe landing) and electric for sustaining flight once in the air?
I can't speak for the new ones - my model is about 10 years old.

But I literally just plug it in like any other usb drive. It can only play mp3s, but that's fine for me.

https://www.sony.co.nz/electronics/walkman/nwz-b180-series/s...

Looks like the modern version of what I have can play mp3s still, unless I'm missing some fine print.
This seems a tad hyperbolic. And the comparison between encryption and abortion is really weak - the differences are much greater than the parallels.

Especially when the author then goes on a tirade about law enforcement. Encryption helps conceal evidence of crimes, which is why many of those who enforce the laws seek to curb it, but abortion is controversial because those who oppose it believe that it's essentially a type of murder. It's not really comparable to just hiding one's tracks. I don't see how the two are intrinsically linked, like the author seems to be arguing they are.

I agree with the legal right both to encryption (albeit with penalties for refusing to decrypt specific data that could plausibly be considered evidence of a crime) and abortion (where the foetus is sufficiently undeveloped, or where necessary for medical reasons), but this article is just too much over the top.
Would you say that a database is a "black box full of binary garbage, chewing gum and rubber bands that tightly couples everything in Windows.and it's like spaghetti and can't possibly be unwound"?

I don't think you would, that's not the conventional wisdom. Databases are considered to be the epitomy of clean, reliable, and efficient representations of data. It is text files that lack these capabilities and are considered a non-standard mess when it comes to data.

The registry is just a database. It may have not seen the best usage it could have from windows and applications, does that make it a bad architectural decision? Would we think different on the registry if it was just SQLite (or would we in this case think differently of SQLite)? Personally I firmly believe that the registry approach is a great architectural decision, for all the reasons outlined here: https://sqlite.org/appfileformat.html
And I'd never map a network voume on D:, that's reserved for the CD drive!
I just don't think this is a problem in practice. Sure, some people advocate spending all your charitable dollars on X-risk, but I think most people find a happy medium of spreading their giving between the different causes they think are important.
Database Optimization on Autopilot: Our Investment in OtterTune
seems like you didn't read the actual article. it's short enough to include here.

"""
Because one of the original developers of Windows NT hated bees. So the developer who was responsible for the registry snuck in as many bee references as he could. A registry file is called a “hive”, and registry data are stored in “cells”, which is what honeycombs are made of.
"""
Had no idea current EV batteries have progressed so far. How does this fare with Tesla?
Do you have a working prototype or not yet?
Check out the current work of Stuart Russell. There's some legit work being done to figure out alignment problems that aren't attempts to solve all human values.

EA basically splits into extremely hard-nosed short term projects and much riskier, but potentially extremely valuable projects guaranteeing the long term future of humanity. This is a consequence of those extremes being the most neglected.
I personally didn't enjoy it, I post it more as a sign that, maybe, the powers that be (SEC? some other institution) will, somehow, intervene.

People killing themselves because of financial losses that could have been prevented had some prior regulations had been in place does not look good for those institutions I mentioned (SEC and the others). Or maybe the people at those institutions (and the people supporting the people at those institutions) just don't care anymore about this type of events and about how it reflects on the whole "ecosystem".
News doesn't affect price action nearly as much as people think, at least in crypto. That's more regular stock markets folk wisdom.
Thanks!

Feature requests are always welcome, BTW.
But fundamentally they're the same? Except Pokemon cards take less room.
Steal, not launder. Laundering is making dirty money clean. This is the other way around. School money made dirty.
I have colleagues working at AWS, Google and Apple and all making upwards of 250k USD.
It’s Switzerland though, not EU.
I'm not sure, it's just a quick one off suggestion to indicate the direction I'd like to see.

Maybe you'd not be banned from the storefront, but all Valve's game as well as the steam marketplace for those games. Perhaps Valve could create a system that lets other publishers opt in to receiving a notice when a player receives a ban like this so that they can mirror it. Locking the player out of all online games as a consequence of their actions seems fine.

The details don't need to be hashed out here but my overall point is that Valve has powerful levers at their disposal to tackle these problems and they aren't doing enough.
> Sorry, this content is not available in your region.

sad state of the internet.
Spacetime, Entanglement and Black Holes: Almheiri Penington Sachdev Maldacena
Sorry - my comment was referring to algorithmic stable coins - Tether is not an algorithmic stable coin and obviously the biggest of the stable coins.
Is there an automatic scanner that reports problems like Google’s Lighthouse?
It’s how you get here.

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