skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
How the West was Lost: In America’s first climate war, John Wesley Powell tried to prevent the overdevelopment that led to environmental devastation.

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2018/09/how-the-we...
My two cents:
Introduce a wealth tax that only kicks in after $1B or even $10B so people still have plenty of motivation to work and get rich.

You are allowed to keep control of a company, (e.g. Elon can keep control of Tesla), but then the stock has to be structured in a way that all financial gains are in a separate vehicle that will be taxed 100% as soon as the stock is sold.

Finally (and most crucially), the money raised by this “tax” will not go to a governments pot but directly be distributed as cash to all Americans to make sure that it can’t be wasted by bureaucrats nor used for partisan purposes.

Basically, if $500B is raised in wealth tax in 2022, by mid 2023 every American gets ~$1500 in cash to spend.

What do you think?
Cheat sheet for if I'm gone
You make a few errors here. First, your example is something most people don't find particularly fulfilling in the first place. Second, they could give away a portion of their wealth and then there would be money on the line. Third, the fact that there isn't money on the line doesn't mean there is nothing on the line.
Probably because most of us have first hand experience with how well our elected officials are with spending our money
I had a couple that I wore out. got them in I think it was 1998 at the "Company Store" that Apple had at the Laguna Blvd (Elk Grove, CA) location. The whole store was on sale. As you can probably imagine....I had absolutely no idea what was even happening and why things were all on sale, and most definitely didn't archive things that I should have. :)

I still have a set of the 6 color Apple rainbow logo fridge magnets from that day.
> Now we will begin to see over-leveraged companies begin defaulting on their debt as they head into bankruptcy. This will be the real crash. The full scope of this is unknowable

Leverage and cash flow figures are available for all publicly traded companies. The market already knows and already has it priced in.

Decreasing cash flow might pose problems. We'll have to wait and see.
Bitcoin company TDI eyeing off old lead and zinc mine on Tasmania's west coast
Or Lincoln's ax.
Israel also recycles 90% of it's water. It first goes to urban use, then it's recycled for agriculture. California could do the same.
https://www.waterworld.com/wastewater/article/16202781/israe...
This is an article on the intelligence of jumping spiders and how they plan their approach for an attack and that they e.g. fake being a different animal or even a gust of wind to camouflage when they move through the web of another spider. Maybe you like that:

https://arstechnica.com/science/2021/10/spiders-are-much-sma...
Lampert bought Kmart out of bankruptcy (or so) in 2002-2003 and then bought Sears a couple years later.

The flameout of those companies under his direction has been much more spectacular than a grinding down since the 80s!
> India has also denied recent reports that Russian crude imported by India was being shipped on as refined products to other countries

Which makes zero sense. I'll also note that there is no citation. India is one of the largest exporters of refined petroleum products in the world. If the refineries ramp up purchase of Urals crude, guess what ends up in exports?
Thanks for taking a look sangupta! We're working towards data encryption and bettering our performance. Cheers!
Initially I also read it that way but it's a better designed experiment than first glance suggests: it's a choice predicated on three things leading to two outcomes, of the three things, one is clearly beneficial and one not beneficial, and the third indeterminate. So the two outcomes are beneficial and not beneficial. How does the pig interpret the as-yet unknown case?

An "optimistic" pigs behaviour suggests it is open to the indeterminate choice having an upside. A "pessimistic" pig acts like its more likely to be disappointing.

I could say a richly stimulated pig has more open choices and a poorly stimulated pig does not. It's a reasonable definition of optimism or pessimism in the field of choice.

I do still think it's anthropomorphic thinking but I think it's a well founded experiment even in that critique.
> Docker Compose takes about 5 minutes and you don't have to think about it again

Except when you need to pin and repin versions to comply with a security policy, which may be why you aren't even running containers in the first place
Yes, market prices on water and beef (incorporating what are now climate externalities) would seem to solve these problems. Why isn't that being considered? Remember when conservatives, neo-liberals, and libertarians supported the market as a solution for everything?

Of course, we would need a reasonable amount of water available to consumers at below-market rates.
I am amused at how every game in this list is a slight misspelling of what it's a clone of. Except Lemmings. It's just "Lemmings", not "Lemmyngs".
Too bad the California Coastal Commission just denied the permit for a desalinization plant in Huntington Beach at the site of a decommissioned steam plant and reusing some of its infrastructure. It would have provided water to several Southern California cities.

https://californiaglobe.com/articles/california-coastal-comm...
> The simple solution
> The obvious answer

This community seems like its at its best when it expresses humble curiosity and its worst when it shuts the door on learning by oversimplifying deeply complex matters as though nobody else had the sense to look straight at them.

Water rights carry a legacy of centuries of personal and political history and thousands of competing interests. The levers with which to control price and set incentives the way you suggest don’t exist.

There are real problems looming, but there are no “simple solutions” or “obvious answers” being missed.

Whatever comes will involve great compromise and very few will think it was the right solution. I guess maybe you’re just joining that chorus early.
as much as I enjoy longing for the time when using the internet meant browsing 5-6 boards that weren't all that populated, private companies "ruined the internet" by giving the average person access to it.

you can argue that has been a net negative for the Internet, but it is clearly better for society generally.
Android 13 ( ~ 2022H2 ) has a Virtualisation support

"Thanks to Android 13, phones such as the Pixel 6 are able to run virtual machines for Windows and Linux with better performance and fewer headaches."

https://9to5google.com/2022/02/14/android-13-windows-linux-v...
Not everything can be done with a randomized controlled study. For some fields (quantum mechanics, volcanology, climate change, paleontology...) most studies can't be randomized, much less blind. This is also true of longitudinal studies: you can't fully control anyone's exercise and diet over months, much less decades.

Yet we want to do research in these areas. So we have to make do with what's possible.
cryptocurrency allows you to send money over the internet seamlessly which is pretty amazing.
> A wealth tax implies a tax on unrealized appreciated assets, which is beyond bizarre IMHO.

No, it doesn't. For example, if I'm super rich and take out a loan using unrealized assets as collateral, then I could be taxed on the loan amount received. There are several such strategies that either force the sale of unrealized assets or tax other portions of the transactions when those unrealized assets are used as collateral.

What is bizarre is that somehow people making less than $200,000 a year can be heavily taxed while if you're a multi-millionaire or billionaire, suddenly things become so drastically difficult that you couldn't possibly be taxed on anything you do with your monopoly money.

The example you gave is, quite frankly, pointless in the context of discussing billionaires. Discussing real estate assets far less than $2 million is completely irrelevant to a discussion about people with net worth exceeding hundreds of millions of dollars, if not tens of billions of dollars.

> It is not wealth until you have it.

If that's true, then stop allowing people to turn it into wealth, which they do all the time.
There are entire classes of bugs that cannot happen in (safe) Rust that can still happen in a “bug free” C++ code based. You’re correct that Rust isn’t a panacea, but it does eliminate certain concerns that C++ just can not remove from thought while developing with it.

The great thing about Rust is that it reduces the knowledge and skill a developer needs in order to write a stable and (usually) performant program. This is a good thing.
They did.

Also if this counts as "Cause some crazy busllshit at a very small level, targetting specific people, such that I get the outcome I want!" then so does every vulnerability.
Well, I hope you’re right…
Hm. Your numbers and mine don't match by a few orders of magnitude. I came up with 2.5GW sustained, which is (2.5GW * 24h * 365) 21900 GWh ~= 21TWh/yr. Big, but not the same as your value.

An acre foot is 1233 m^3, and at 3kWh/m^3, that's 3.7 MWh/acre foot. Math checks out so far.

Times 2000000, that's 7400000 MWh / 7400 GWh / 7.4 TWh.

I think you're off by a factor of 1000 somewhere in your math. You're looking at ~the output of a large nuclear plant, not 1000 of them.

Or my math is wrong. That's entirely possible too.
You're right, that's a risk, but one could equally hypothesise that by punishing a bully the first time they cause a suicide, you prevent them from causing more (or deter them from causing one in the first place), leading to a net saving of lives.

Some might say that if someone is prepared to kill themselves to get revenge against their bullies, then such a spiteful person doesn't deserve to veto laws that could protect less spiteful people, but I think that would be a little too unsympathetic.
>So why would one person at the end of the line get to benefit so much from the collective work put by all of humanity to that point?

because the possibility of being the one to finally crack would be what motivates every preceding researcher as well.
I stopped after people started putting up fake "COVIDSafe" check-in QR codes that linked to... suspicious sites.

It wasn't widespread enough to be a major problem, but common enough to make it not worth my while - especially since every venue that required check-ins also had to offer paper check-in as an option. I know two people in my social circle that ended up with various kinds of adware on their phone and in their iCal after scanning a fake check-in code.
at a company which provides finance software where you buy/sell securities starts with B, i told manager i had covid and next thing she said, here is liz from HR and i learned i'm fired right then.. i knew i was under review for missing few deadlines, but didn't think i'd be let go right so abruptly and right after i had covid, mind you i used 3 my OWN PTOs, not even sick days.
This is as foretold in Reisner’s classic book on water in the American West - Cadillac Desert.

It’s a great place to start if you’re interested in learning more.
> would have provided water to several Southern California cities

It blows my mind that it's simpler to build, in one of the most water-blessed parts of our planet, a desalination plant, than it is to get farmers to quit growing literal fodder. Eighty percent of California's water goes to agriculture. Eighty percent.
Tweet by Zhu Su, co-founder of 3ac:

https://twitter.com/zhusu/status/1536876343815983104

"We are in the process of communicating with relevant parties and fully committed to working this out"
Working calculator in Cities: Skylines is powered by human poo (2019)
The bank run or frozen accounts are in regional Henan banks only.

There are lines outside every bank in Shanghai. Why? Because they have been closed for more than two months, and because they are now only open a few hours per day and only let in a limited number of people at a time. There is no widespread bank run going on, I can access and withdraw my money as normal.
God may or may not play dice with the Universe.

But someone's playing darts with space telescopes.
Pretty difficult to get a “wallpaper” fix through the processes at an OEM like Ford. (I work there but I’m not involved in this issue.) Automakers have lots of experience making painful and expensive fixes to resolve recall issues, and NHTSA is watching.
The accuracy and precision achieved in distance measurements is highly impressive.
Ask HN: Why is my lap on fire when connected to a Zoom with a 2019 MBP?
It's audio only. My lap is burning hot. This seems ridiculous.

2.6ghz 6-core i7, 32GB RAM. Only Zoom running. Shameful.
Lots and lots of mountains. On the east sides of the Cascades are massive dry and drought stricken areas (which are also farmland too). This same question can be asked about simply piping water from one side of the cascades to the other, let alone to the central valley
It may or may not be different, because there are many places you could arbitrarily draw a line along the development continuum, but drawing the line after the "infant" stage was rather ridiculous.

Just to be clear, the fetal stage is defined arbitrarily as being between week 9 and week 40. The ability to feel pain, along with minimal consciousness, starts around week 30.

There is very literally a continuum from "two single cells" to "a bag of cells" to "a mass of undifferentiated tissue" to "functional but not fully organized tissue" to "a minimally viable human". There is no stage at which the thing suddenly becomes a human. It would be a lot simpler if there was, but that's not how it is.

In the context of abortion, I stand by my previous comment: abortions are done as early as possible, and this is usually much earlier than week 30. Less than 1% of abortions happen after week 20 in the US, and these are exceptional cases.
Is the cost of the substrate a huge barrier in the field? I recall when gallium arsenide first came to market and when whatever was magic about ibm "copper" and diamond/graphite. Each time, it's wound up highly context specific and frankly not very informative to the market as I saw it.

A cheap plastic substrate for low gate count functions might be a niche which fills supply chains in smart disposables, rfid and other contexts: cans of soup which tell you when their subject to a recall.. (another dream in rfid which never happened btw)
I expect there are outliers, of course. Or people who've become so deeply attached to their tribal identity that their support for various wedge issues is extreme.

My wife and I are very much pro-choice. At the same time, before we started our family, we had a deep discussion on the topic of abortion and how we felt about it. We decided we would only be able to abort the pregnancy if the child had trisomy 18, or was already dead. We had no other exceptions in mind. But we don't think that this is a good policy decision the government should make on behalf of its citizens.

In my wider circle of friends, I don't know a single person who thinks that abortion is anything other than a tragedy. I don't know any real whack jobs, though.
Sorry, I did not finish the thought. A customer crisis came up! Let's just say my kind of fire, and I am good at quenching them without too much trouble.

Yes, bumping into people happens a lot less and differently than it did then.

It does still happen, but I think the big difference is in how more fragmented it all is now. And maybe that is the biggest change those of us missing out today tend to crave.
The attack in question was only tested on SIKE, so it seems logical to start targeted disclosure on the community using and developing it, while using the general disclosures to target the broader cryptographic community.

Both Cloudflare and Microsoft are one of the few companies that have put significant investments into developing SIKE for post-quantum cryptography. Microsoft has a SIKE research team, and Cloudflare has been exploring SIKE for post-quantum TLS for years.

Both companies also maintain the key open-source implementations of SIKE [1][2], and Microsoft is spearheading the effort to standardize SIKE through NIST. Most open source cryptographic libraries don't implement SIKE.

[1]: https://github.com/cloudflare/circl
[2]: https://github.com/Microsoft/PQCrypto-SIKE
The future is for introverted engineers.
Any suggestions for roles after the SWE "tour of duty"?
The desalination plant solutions a "let's do both." https://californiaglobe.com/articles/california-coastal-comm...

Charge market prices for water and build desalination. Create abundance.
Because they created an outsized amount of value and jobs for society. You can say those would have happened anyway but that's a pretend world we never saw working yet.
> Because Indians are able to remove all evil totalitarian molecules from it.

The cleansing waters of the Ganges wash all sins away.
George Bernard Shaw "argued that moderns are no less inclined to accept incomprehensible miracles on faith than were [Joan of Arc's] supporters and enemies. It’s only the flavor of the miracles which has changed.

``Our credulity, though enormous, is not boundless; and our stock of it is quite used up by our mediums, clairvoyants, hand readers, slate writers, Christian Scientists, psycho-analysts, electronic vibration diviners, therapeutists of all schools registered and unregistered, astrologers, astronomers who tell us that the sun is nearly a hundred million miles away and the Betelgeuse is ten times as big as the whole universe, physicists who balance Betelgeuse by describing the incredible smallness of the atom, and a host of other marvel mongers whose credulity would have dissolved the Middle Ages in a roar of sceptical merriment. In the Middle Ages people believed that the earth was flat [Shaw was mistaken in this common belief], for which they had at least the evidence of their senses: we believe it to be round, not because as many as one per cent of us could give the physical reasons for so quaint a belief, but because modern science has convinced us that nothing that is obvious is true, and that everything that is magical, improbable, extraordinary, gigantic, microscopic, heartless, or outrageous is scientific.''

"

https://www.skeptic.com/insight/george-orwell-versus-the-fla...
> but that doesn't make people feel icky in the same manner.

speak for yourself! a property tax makes sense in theory: you're contributing to the entity that ensures your land is safe in the first place, but basing it on valuations instead of something like flat rates based on sqft is preposterous.

I'd go so far as to say that the degree to which the knowledge of such a tax affects your decisions relating to the property is enough to constitute a violation of natural property rights.
It seems like they changed a lot and got a hugely different niche.

> Instead of adapting an existing microcontroller architecture to plastic, Kumar’s team started from scratch to create a design called Flexicore. “Yield goes down very quickly as you increase gate count,” says Kumar. Knowing that, they came up with a design meant to minimize the number of gates needed. Using 4-bit and 8-bit logic instead of 16-bit or 32-bit helped. As did separating the memory that stores instructions from the memory that stores data. But they also cut down on the number and complexity of the instructions the processor is capable of executing.

> The team further simplified, by designing the processor so it executes an instruction in a single clock cycle instead of the mulit-step pipelines of today’s CPUs. Then they designed logic that implements those instructions by reusing parts, further reducing the gate count. “In general, we were able to simplify the design of FlexiCores by tailoring them to the needs of flexible applications, which tend to be computationally simple,” says Nathaniel Bleier, Kumar's student.

> All of this resulted in a 5.6 square millimeter 4-bit FlexiCore made up of just 2,104 semiconductor devices (about the same as the number of transistors in an Intel 4004 from 1971) versus some 56,340 devices for PlasticARM.
> What about people abroad who only visit England every few years and have some paper notes on them still?

One, this is far from a forefront constituency for the Bank of England. Two, the BoE (in fact, most countries) have a long history of replacing notes [1]. This is expected behavior. Three, I think the BoE will keep exchanging notes that are no longer legal tender indefinitely; this is just for their transactional use and exchangeability at a bank.

[1] https://www.bankofengland.co.uk/banknotes/withdrawn-banknote...
Power is always loaned, and always beholden to someone (or a large group of someones) else. That's what makes it power: the ability to get other people to do what you want them to. If they don't do that, you don't actually have power, while if they do, you've got the power regardless of what the formal power structures (which are often misdirections anyway) say.

The rest of your post is largely true, but also applies to billionaires. They derive their power from people being willing to trade money for the goods and services produced by the assets they own. When people cease to make that trade, their money and their power evaporate. Just look what's happened to the shareholders of Kodak, Xerox, Pan-Am, GM, Sun Microsystems, Lehman Bros, etc.

Note also that systems without billionaires have existed, and have often been worse in terms of distributing power to many people. See eg. Soviet Communism, where power rests in the Politburo, and the local party apparatchik holds outsize sway over everything regardless of competence. Or even post-WW2 U.S, when the top marginal tax rate was 90% and executive compensation was far lower because there was no point in paying a lot when the government got 90% of it. Corporations instead compensated their top execs in-kind: usage of private jets, corner offices, ability to influence what every American thought through advertising and mass culture, influence on policy makers. Orwell's 1984 and Chomsky's Manufacturing Consent were about the 1945-1980 period, not the post-Internet era. Power was significantly more centralized during that time period than it is now.
I very much remember Hotline, and from before the days of Carracho or even the Windows version. With the Windows version came the banner advertisements, and along with that, the "click here for the password" scammers. The community feeling was quickly lost to unscrupulous greed.

but yes, for quite a while, Hotline was fantastic and it felt like you could find anything. I spent many a night filling up what little hard (and Zip disk) space I had from there.

actually, Hotline is still around. someone bought hltracker.com and it's back online and happily serving the Mac OS 9 era revival. :)
Back then they didn't have good desalination technology. Now we do, and, while Israel is a leader, they export: https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/israel-proves-the...
They control the heat input, too. Software fixes:

* limit max current (dumbest)
* limit max current based on moving average of current over last N seconds
* limit max current based on experimentally validated thermal model of contactors (cleverest)

This might even be possible without a significant/noticeable performance hit, if the overheating is only experienced in extreme conditions.
Anyone can push a button, not everyone can create a billion dollar company.
I drove into Sacramento last year in late summer. There are flooded rice paddies just outside the city. Rice paddies! In California! In the middle of a historic drought!
We all know what that means.

As Buffett often says - "Only when the tide goes out do you discover who's been swimming naked". You better close your eyes now, cause there will be a lot of naked bodies in crypto land this year !