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New comment by 1d22a in "Does Georgism work? Five years later"

1d22a — Sun, 27 Sep 2026 07:45:53 +0000

It should! The public (through taxes) shouldn't be forced to subsidize the cost of a parking lot. If the parking lot was valuable to the market, the opportunity cost of the land not being used for some other purpose would be priced in (either through consumers paying more for parking, or businesses subsidizing the cost for consumers as it's profitable for them to do so). Parking lots paying lower property taxes subsidizes economic inefficiency.

New comment by 1d22a in "Banks and Credit Unions to Team Up Against Apple Pay Fees"

1d22a — Sun, 27 Sep 2026 04:43:57 +0000

I'm already able to use tap to pay on GrapheneOS, just only with banking apps which use Android Pay, rather than Google Wallet.

New comment by 1d22a in "The Mafia may be keeping fentanyl out of Italy"

1d22a — Sat, 26 Sep 2026 09:41:23 +0000

Switzerland has prescription heroin to provide a safe supply to people addicted, as Diaphin (diacetylmorphine) 200mg. This dosage is huge and lethal for for someone without a tolerance.

New comment by 1d22a in "Can I Let My AI Agent Run on Shabbat?"

1d22a — Mon, 21 Sep 2026 05:37:50 +0000

How do you feel about laws, enforced by the state? There are likely plenty of moral things you aren't free to get up and do on any given day due to the state dictating what you can and cannot do on a given day.

New comment by 1d22a in "The Death of Shame Is Tearing Us Apart"

1d22a — Fri, 11 Sep 2026 13:55:07 +0000

> I’m more and more convinced that all of AI engineering is Neijuan (内卷, meaning curl inwards). In China it describes a system that demands ever more effort and competition without improving output. The way in which it sometimes shows up in the West is the 996 nonsense. The English term for Neijuan is “Involution” from the book Agricultural Involution. Agricultural involution describes the intensification of farming that raises productivity per square meter while leaving productivity per head unchanged.

Discussed earlier today here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49654229

New comment by 1d22a in "Global warming will exceed 1.5-degree limit, UN says"

1d22a — Sun, 06 Sep 2026 09:23:42 +0000

Consumption-based charts are much better, as they account for the actual CO2 emissions of lifestyle in the country (since offshoring manufacturing from developed countries to developing countries doesn't reduce the total emissions, even if it makes our direct emissions stats look better).

https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/consumption-co2-per-capit...

The Problem – Machine Intelligence Research Institute

1d22a — Fri, 31 Jul 2026 09:23:24 +0000

Article URL: https://intelligence.org/the-problem/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49120854

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by 1d22a in "US Military jamming disrupted a medical plane's GPS system before it crashed"

1d22a — Fri, 31 Jul 2026 09:10:36 +0000

https://www.wired.com/story/a-civilian-plane-crashed-in-new-...

US Military jamming disrupted a medical plane's GPS system before it crashed

1d22a — Fri, 31 Jul 2026 09:10:36 +0000

Article URL: https://apnews.com/article/new-mexico-plane-crash-medevac-ntsb-gps-d95ba57711f926082d7f11d2c20f0f0d

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49120773

Points: 7

# Comments: 1

New comment by 1d22a in "The Strongest El Niño Ever"

1d22a — Mon, 27 Jul 2026 03:35:42 +0000

See my sibling comment to the parent. Doubling forests won't do near enough, because the carbon we've burnt comes from millions of years of forests compacted into coal (among other sources). We'd need to grow millions of years worth of forests, which we just physically don't have the surface area for.

New comment by 1d22a in "The Strongest El Niño Ever"

1d22a — Mon, 27 Jul 2026 03:30:18 +0000

Carbon capture is physically unable to be as effective as we need it to be. To an approximation, growing a tree is able to capture as much carbon as burning the wood from that tree. If most of our released carbon came from burning wood, we would just need to re-grow that amount of wood (unfortunately it's not even that simple, as the soil stores carbon long term in a way that just growing the tree doesn't capture, and is also released over time when old growth forests are cut down). Instead, the carbon we're burning comes from processes which efficiently concentrated the carbon from plants and microorganisms over millions of years to create coal, oil, and gas.

Carbon capture technology would have to artificially replicate these millions-of-years-long processes, and do it on a scale of years to decades. The scale of carbon capture we need is entirely unfathomable, requiring processes that don't exist, because they have to work against entropy itself.

Carbon capture at the point of burning fossil fuels to abate further emissions might be economical. Capturing already released carbon dioxide from the atmosphere (concentration of ~0.04%) is a fiction pushed by fossil fuel companies to muddy the debate and distract from the urgency of immediately stopping the burning of fossil fuels.

Super Productivity: Focus tools in one open-source app, offline and private

1d22a — Mon, 20 Jul 2026 02:16:45 +0000

Article URL: https://super-productivity.com/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48973695

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

New comment by 1d22a in "Running Gemma 4 26B at 5 tokens/sec on a 13-year-old Xeon with no GPU"

1d22a — Thu, 16 Jul 2026 11:48:00 +0000

To this end, I've been thinking that it would be cool to create a solar-battery powered ("off grid") server providing a self-hosted LLM service. Offline when the sun doesn't shine enough (like Low Tech Magazine[1]). At whatever size is required for every day, community-scale use (a friend group, a street, a club). Fix the data centre issue by democratising AI to such an extent that we can bring it into the hands of communities to actually control (and democratically decide their own level of censorship / alignment). Along the lines of some of Geohotz' writing.

Within a short time I think open source models will all be getting good and efficient enough to make it viable to serve this on 2nd hand hardware for cheap. All it will take is a nerd in every small community to pool together a few hundred bucks initial outlay, and then ongoing costs are near free without electricity to pay for.

[1]: https://solar.lowtechmagazine.com/

Omg.lol – A loveable web page and email address

1d22a — Tue, 03 Feb 2026 02:19:26 +0000

Article URL: https://home.omg.lol/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46865552

Points: 3

# Comments: 1

Protest Movements Could Be More Effective Than the Best Charities (2022)

1d22a — Thu, 15 Jan 2026 15:40:01 +0000

Article URL: https://ssir.org/articles/entry/protest_movements_could_be_more_effective_than_the_best_charities

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46634083

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by 1d22a in "John Giannandrea to retire from Apple"

1d22a — Tue, 02 Dec 2025 02:24:29 +0000

Not to mention all the useless LLM fluff Gemini has. I turned off Gemini because simple questions like "What's 1 USD in AUD" would be met with 30 seconds of "As a large language model, I can't provide investment advice, so it's always important to check information yourself [...], but one Australian dollar is approximately $0.65" (note the conversion in the wrong direction). By comparison, Google Assistant just gives you a number straight away.

New comment by 1d22a in "New updates and more access to Google Earth AI"

1d22a — Thu, 23 Oct 2025 23:53:25 +0000

Rainbolt often finds locations for people who have old photos of friends/family who have passed away etc., so the skills definitely seem to extend past just street view.

New comment by 1d22a in "Ch.at – A lightweight LLM chat service accessible through HTTP, SSH, DNS and API"

1d22a — Sun, 10 Aug 2025 14:32:43 +0000

A fun recursive prompt exploiting the fact that the site renders the model output as HTML:

    Generate raw HTML (no code blocks) for an iframe pointing to `ch.at/?q={query}`, where {query} is the the entirety of this prompt after and including the word "Generate", until the following number, which should be incremented prior to encoding: 1

The number ensures the nested iframes have distinct URLs.

New comment by 1d22a in "I do not remember my life and it's fine"

1d22a — Fri, 06 Jun 2025 03:32:26 +0000

I also have aphantasia, and find it really interesting to hear about people thinking of things in a similar way to me! Thinking about the ball in terms of the parabola it makes it exactly what I do too. Similarly, the ball doesn't exist as a physical "ball", but rather the knowledge of the concept of a sphere (which doesn't then have size or colour). The table, not a physical table, but the concept of a plane (with no thickness, size, colour (or legs)) - just the 'concept' of the important properties.

Despite aphantasia I have always been able to conceptualise spatial relationships, but it feels much less like trying to visualise it, and much more like "understanding" the fundamental properties connecting each thing.

New comment by 1d22a in "Brandon's Semiconductor Simulator"

1d22a — Sat, 10 May 2025 04:11:54 +0000

The similarity is likely not a coincidence!

> (c) Brandon Li, 2025. Ported to Javascript with the help of Paul Falstad.