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Ask HN: Recommendation for a website template for an open source project
Anyone know of a decent static website generator or theme (jekyll / Hugo etc) for an open source software project. Somewhere for users to find releases, docs and a quick start. Something that can be hosted on gitpages.
In practice it turns out even worse. The people in command deny giving the orders, and the people hitting you with the stick say that they weren't given the proper support or tools. Everybody in the chain of command claims to be weak or hamstrung, yet you're the one on the ground bleeding.
> we can ALL buy assets and be the "grandfather's grandfather's grandfather".

How many families/people are wealthy on the basis of the earnings of a regular person in 1870 and their incredibly compounded wealth? The answer is likely none.
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Yes. The op assumes that malinvestment / inefficient use of capital is not a thing.

You can only invest so much into a grocery store. The entire point of us having free markets is so that capital can move around. Locking it down into once place is the exact opposite of what you want to do.
Just yesterday I think I achieved such parity. Everything is working wonderfully (though, again, it's only been one day, so I can't speak to longevity).

I'm using the native-compiled branch of emacs28 on macOS (see https://github.com/jimeh/build-emacs-for-macos). I'm using spacemacs, so I don't know how helpful my config will be, but for python I'm using lsp-mode with pyright on the backend.

I've been using emacs for ~2yrs, and there were a lot of things I loved about it, but code completion has always been mediocre until now.
I can bind double-tap on the side key to any app, and my lock screen launcher can have any complication it likes. So, yes?
Well said Ben!
https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/69/wr/mm6919e5.htm

"During March 11–May 2, 2020, a total of 32,107 deaths were reported to DOHMH; of these deaths, 24,172 (95% confidence interval = 22,980–25,364) were found to be in excess of the seasonal expected baseline. Included in the 24,172 deaths were 13,831 (57%) laboratory-confirmed COVID-19–associated deaths and 5,048 (21%) probable COVID-19–associated deaths, leaving 5,293 (22%) excess deaths that were not identified as either laboratory-confirmed or probable COVID-19–associated deaths (Figure)."

During those roughly 2 months, there were 32,107 deaths; in a normal year there would be about 32,107 - 24,172 = 7,935 deaths. Normally, that would be ~100 deaths/day; during that time there were ~500 deaths/day. ("New York" deaths peaked at about 800/day, although I'm not sure if that was NYC or the state.)

Edit: Dang it. I'll leave this here anyway.
Then there's the possibility that all the honest officers who don't want to follow those orders quit or strike or otherwise refuse to report to work to do these things.

When the oppressor only has the truly pathological cases to support them, it's a lot easier to know who to fight.

I know, the 'good' officers can be leveraged, hostaged, or any number of other coercive ways to make them do what the oppressor wants.

And I don't generally agree with the 'stay in the system and help fix it from within'. When you're having to take crappy orders from above, your only recourse is mutiny or other disobedience and it's a lot harder to manage in an already corrupt chain.
Nobody expects a Hummer to be cheap to drive.
McBroken – Is the McDonald's ice cream machine broken?
Halide author here. Previously, you would pay-once at the time of download, so this isn't much different than what we had before.

That said, we wish the App Store offered a better solution than what we had to settle with; we'd much rather people know up-front the business model than download the app, be surprised, and possibly leave a negative review.

As far as replacing the first party camera, it's by far our top user request. Some users have come up with interesting hacks via shortcuts or the back-tap gesture, but we'd much rather the user be able to customize it similar to how iOS now lets you set a different default browser. Hopefully someday!
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Co-founder here. Shoot me any questions or feedback. Thanks!
That's a job that could be done by a civilian agency. You also may be missing the point that the military does much of that support role stuff in preparation for using lethal force, which they are not shy about.
> Exercising might reduce the loss of muscle mass to some extent

That does indeed seem to be the case, at least for a 16:8 intermittent fasting regimen (an 8 hour eating window with 16 hours of fasting):
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5064803/

"Our results suggest that an intermittent fasting program in which all calories are consumed in an 8-h window each day, in conjunction with resistance training, could improve some health-related biomarkers, decrease fat mass, and maintain muscle mass in resistance-trained males."
This is vapid both-sides-ism of the worst kind. The election in Belarus is internationally recognized as illegitimate. The "winner" has long been known as "Europe's last dictator".

Don't equivocate between the people protesting for their votes to be counted and the people kidnapping and torturing them in response.
Other than that last one... Yeah.
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Why Prometheus does not have server side security features
Filling your census form allocates Congressional and Electoral College representation to your state, regardless if you're a citizen.
I didn't necessarily mean building a product, or to put it down; I just wasn't aware of influences, and I'm close to a home of dataflow. Thanks for the background.
An iOS app to check the border wait times crossing to the United States from Canada and Mexico, with historical data available.

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/borderr/id1469575317

Was a fun exercise to learn SwiftUI
How so? The only way in which the App Store doesn't support paid upgrades is that you can't offer a discount for existing users, and the new version needs to be a separate app. But Halide 2 isn't any cheaper for existing customers anyway (there's just a launch discount).
What are some examples of recent annoyances you found?
Your post was excellent. Thanks!
LoNo Computing: Fluonics, Bathtub Computing and Gravitationally Powered Superco [pdf]
For reference: Baryshnikov was perhaps the most famous.[0]

[0]https://www.cbc.ca/archives/entry/1974-mikhail-baryshnikov-d...
This perfectly describes how I feel and what I was trying to get across. You're much better at English than I.
Just read her Wikipedia page. Wow, what a person.
You could've read the very next sentence, which makes the point the first sentence set up:

> Assets must be accounted for when calculating wealth, so the tax service will be required to track and value assets including vehicles, homes, and material good etc. for every citizen to see if the wealth tax would apply to them -- if we didn't report material goods, the wealthy could sock money away in expensive cars, artworks, jewelry and other material non-real-estate assets as they already do for investment.
The extreme case of drinking water is drowning, which gives us about as much guidance for health policy as "what if we went full Marx" does for tax policy.
Like another person said, you look at potential enforcement and assume perfect adherence to a philosophy, or that everyone will be audited the same. They will not.

Just like a small business is less regulated than a large one (often), or how smaller incomes are taxed simply while those with more money/more complex assets get audited more - the ultra-wealthy will certainly have more of their assets audited, and yes, they will have side channels to evade taxes. That doesn't mean we don't try to tax them.

When someone out in the open owns 75 cars, a private jet, and a $250,000,000 townhouse in Manhattan and another $5 billion in stock, it's pretty damned simple and not wholly intrusive to look at that and say "alright..."

I'm not defending the entire concept of a wealth tax, but I am saying it isn't as dire for _everybody_ that you say it is.
Be as hyperbolic as you like, at the end of the day you are the one defending cops we have video evidence of beating people with sticks.
? What does this even mean ?
The poor, by necessity, have to use government services more because they don't have resources ; are you suggesting that the poor pay more taxes to "scale things out" ?
The burden is showing that you have under $XM in assets. You'll need to show your net worth somehow, so that the IRS (or equivalent) knows not to tax you. Otherwise I could assure you that I totally only have $1M in assets, with definitely no Swiss bank account or yachts.

I will admit to not knowing much about a wealth tax, so maybe there is an established solution here. But it seems like the default would be a privacy and administrative burden even on those people not paying the tax.
Problem there is that it ignores transfer payments. So the people making 2.8% of the national income are really taking home more than that since they (collectively, not every individual receives all of these) are receiving snap, section 8, tanf, social security/SSI, Medicaid, etc.

From a post transfer perspective, America’s tax system is firmly progressive, but less so than European countries. The other side of that is that in America you have the opportunity to do quite well for yourself if you aren’t in one of the aristocratic elite families. That isn’t really the case in many of these European social democracies. Not only is there a safety net below you, but there is also a net above you as well.
And especially investors have a case that higher corporate taxes reduce the value of their investments, possibly to the point of not making them.

A business that is not making a profit does not pay income taxes. I don't have a single client that has voluntarily turned down making a profit because they'd had to pay some income tax on it.

The only time business income tax rates make a difference is when the business is choosing between multiple profit-generating activities and wants to maximize the net (post-tax) income by minimizing its tax burden.
Ooooh interesting. Any more info about the difference in models and how it causes this effect?
That's what I mean by responsibly. Like alcohol, some people can enjoy it responsibly, and some can't. It's all about knowing your limits, and operating within them to do what's best for you. Of course, you can't know your limits if you don't at least try to find out what they are.
Perhaps you should have continued reading because then you would have understood his point.

It doesn’t matter what the floor is, you still have to report all your assets to the IRS to prove you don’t meet it.
I think perhaps describing the mass surveillance of the american public as a single case is a touch disingenuous.
> I couldn't sleep much (sometimes 4 hours max)
Did you find some way to mitigate this or did you just have to live with it during the fast?
I'm confused. What's the difference between a "tax deduction" and paying with "pre-tax dollars"?

Do they mean if for example a company pays $5000/year in employee insurance, they can subtract $5000 from their tax bill? If so, that's a tax credit right?

As I understand it, a "tax deduction" is a deduction on taxable income (in the case of an individual) or profit (in the case of a company).
I downloaded from Germany, hopefully you get the update soon as well
It is arguable whether wealth should be within right to privacy or not. As for items inheritably with illiquid market value, it is also arguable whether we should assess their ongoing market value at all. Real-estate on the other hand, would hardly be illiquid and the United States do have a reasonable assessment program for real-estate. The same cannot say for antique cars or artwork.

However, to combat the side-effect of wealth tax requires global governance, which in today's day and age, seems like a pipe dream.
I think the other leg of this stool that containers don't have to worry about composing with each other on the filesystem.
I can run three Python processes and two of NodeJS on the same host with no worries about intra-version compatibility, upgrades or child processes getting the wrong PATH.

If, that is, disk space is cheap enough that I don't have to normalize the filesystem (database-style) in order to function. That was a huge IF not so very long ago, which is why we are iterating on this again now.
How does this flame retardant ABS work in the event of a lithium battery fire? Are there flame retardant PETG? Are they any better than just printing with normal filament and spraying flame retardant on it?

I've been hesitant to use lithium batteries in home robotics projects, but I can't find charging and power mux boards for NiMH, so that has been a huge blocker in making robots that charge and operate at the same time.

Also I wonder if it is possible to put mini pressurized CO2 balls inside the battery enclosure such that if a fire happens they explode and release CO2, putting out the fire?
So, genuine question-- why did Apple allow Mk II into the App Store if the first screen is a "you must make a purchase", which is exactly what they rejected Hey for? Is there a trial of some sort to satisfy the requirement that your app has to "work" on download (edit: or are Apple IAP paywalls ok and I am just misunderstanding the App Store rules, which is very easy to do...)?
Would you recommend taking this to production as an Istio replacement? What are the downsides?

I couldn't find a good comparison like the one in OP about ingress controllers.
This is great news since it decreases the lockin / leverage that Substack has over individual writers on the platform. It's a creator-friendly choice and I respect that Substack is putting their money where their mouth is in that respect!
I guess one could argue that is the actual ranking algorithm. Descending order of how much they are willing to pay. If you aren't paying, you are tied for last.
using "percent of taxes" is an arbitrary metric. Why not ask about percent of wealth? I assume because "taxfoundation.org" is in the business of lowering taxes, which is only one of many things to be optimized in the US government.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:US_Wealth_Inequality_-_v2...

Eyeballing this chart suggests that the top 10% have more than 69% of the wealth, so paying 69% of the taxes seems like a good deal for them.
Fair, I can make the 3rd one more readable. I figured the extra vars would actually help make it clearer. Guess not.

- name: Install packages.
package:
name: [git, httpd, vim] | difference(ansible_facts.packages) | list

This isn't something super specific to Ansible, it's the same story all over when libraries have a "bulk" or "batch" api so that you don't have to iterate over operations with lots of setup. The package/yum/apt/dnf modules happen to take lists as arguments since you can run "yum install a b c" faster than "for p in a b c; do yum install $p; done".
> but, as I understand it, an disincentive for investors to invest in businesses

I don't see this holding true. Can you explain how?

Like, yes as a personal investor you now have less to invest, because you are taxed more on your income. But of the money you have left after tax, investment is still investment. There's no other way to make money of your money then to invest it. So as long as you don't spend all the money immediately, the incentive to invest it is there.

Also, the companies you invest in will be incentivized to reinvest in themselves, thus their stock growth potential will be higher, so a good time to invest in them.

Finally, the biggest investors arn't individuals, but investment firms, and because they themselves are a company, they themselves are like all others more incentivized to reinvest into their business, thus they are more likely to want to take their profit and invest it some more, instead of cashing it out as revenue.
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> The real scam is when things like health insurance premiums are deductible for a company but not for an individual.

To be fair, that this "scam" is still alive today is mostly by accident.

It stems from WWII times, when stateside laborers were uniquely low in supply and high in demand, and when labor had ridiculous bargaining power.

Laborers couldn't really ask for higher wages, because that was politically impossible (appearing to be extorting wartime needs for money was/is a faux pas).

So companies began competing on "benefits": health, accidental death and disability insurance among them.

To help ease the burden on employers and employees, the IRS allowed businesses to "temporarily" deduct insurance premiums. (This relief came against the backdrop of unprecedented wartime tax hikes).

Postwar, it was unfeasible to remove this measure, as the majority of Americans who had insurance got it through their employers: it would upset both businesses who have to pay more, and employees who lose insurance.

Later, some government (I forget which...) signed this stopgap measure into the tax code, making it permanent.

Regardless of the interesting history, I agree with you, it should be universally deductible.
Do people really find these sorts of articles compelling? They're nothing more dressed up ad hominem--attack the messenger without engaging with the substance.

Here are the facts that aren't in dispute:

1) Other countries that have tried wealth taxes have started abandoning them, most recently France and Sweden: https://www.cato.org/publications/commentary/why-europe-axed....

2) There is little economic consensus on whether wealth taxes would be efficient or hamper economic growth: https://assets.aspeninstitute.org/content/uploads/2019/09/We....

3) Economists do generally agree, however, that consumption taxes on individuals are the most efficient and least distortionary strategies: https://www.npr.org/sections/money/2012/07/19/157047211/six-...

> Three: Eliminate the corporate income tax. Completely. If companies reinvest the money into their businesses, that's good. Don't tax companies in an effort to tax rich people.

> Four: Eliminate all income and payroll taxes. All of them. For everyone. Taxes discourage whatever you're taxing, but we like income, so why tax it? Payroll taxes discourage creating jobs. Not such a good idea. Instead, impose a consumption tax, designed to be progressive to protect lower-income households.

4) Warren's and Sanders' proposed wealth taxes would be dramatically higher than anything a developed country has attempted (up to 6% and 8%). And even based on the candidates' own projections, they would raise not very much money (under $300 billion per year, or less than 1/6 of what would be required to fund Medicare 4 All).

5) Billionaires just don't have that much money in the aggregate to warrant such an outsized attention in tax policy. All the wealth of all U.S. billionaires adds up to $3.4 trillion. Even if you confiscated it all in one go, that would fund the local, state, and federal governments for a bit over six months, without even accounting for the new spending proposed by Warren and Sanders.
You might be thinking of the Plumber wrench.
Absolutely, and this is not unheard of in custom e-vehicle wiring.

You have a discharge circuit, in series, and a charge circuit, wired separately to each cell. You're only using one at a time, as long as everything is properly grounded they don't get in each other's way.

It's not really about charge time though: any vehicle battery is going to discharge faster than it charges, so it's practical to just dump a bunch of current across the pack if you're charging using the same circuit.

What it does, is takes good care of each individual cell, and if you log some metrics you can detect underperforming cells and replace them.

I will say that for most applications, charging off the series wiring, and adding an overvoltage module that shuts off charge to each cell when it's topped off, is going to be much simpler and good enough.

But it can be done.
Obviously that example can be replicated in a Google search, but that doesn’t invalidate the value of the same concept applied to protected information.
I sincerely wish we could deliver you to a society without police.
That's fair enough. I think a good measure of how an early stage startup is doing is to see how the thinking is evolving.

If your CEO is doing the same hand-waving in year 3 that sold the seed round, I agree something has probably gone wrong, and may indicate time to think about a change.
As a senator, Obama missed around half his votes due to campaigning. During 2008, he missed close to 2/3.

But he made sure to be back in Washington in July to vote for the FISA Amendments Act of 2008 to retroactively give immunity to AT&T for cooperating with a massive illegal wiretapping operation for the secret services. That was the point where I knew where Obama would stand on mass surveillance.
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> This belief that institutional investors mean more to the health of a business than ACTUAL SALES is baffling to me (not saying that's your stance).

Investors making money means more money to invest, which creates more companies and services.
Linking is an interesting case, because side notes from the FSF indicate that they think linking makes things a derivative works, but its far less clear if that is true under the law, especially for dynamic linking (API copyrightability, which is currently before the court, might have a lot to say about this).
The base layer consensus protocol would run at decade speed and would just be used to net out long-term/long-distance differences; most transactions would be on higher-layer systems that settle faster. Charles Stross explains this stuff in Neptune's Brood.
Yes, we can all agree that E2EE means FB isn't reading your messages and using that data (like they do, for example, in FB Messenger / IG messages). But the metadata is still valuable, and not encrypted, and is probably how they're making money with the product.
Nope, it does happen exactly like you described. The repression of Genova G8 by the Italian riot police and the Carabinieri was an example of "lovin' it".

Some of the participants in the brutalities called it a "mexican slaughterhouse" and several trials came to the conclusion that massive human rights violations have occurred.

Unfortunately the commanding officers have been promoted for not maintaining order and not exercising the authority over their men that their role demanded. They too loved it though and throughout.
Yeah, I find synchronization the least of my problems with the Keepass family. The file format uses GUIDs internally for most changes and most conflicts are easily merged/fixed. The fact that it is synchronized as files gives a lot of flexibility in options. You can use whatever cloud file sync provider you trust that month, and you have the flexibility to switch providers as your trust model and/or threat model change.

Mobile OSes are finally making it easier for arbitrary "file" sharing between such apps. (The iOS Files app is finally "decent" for this compared to just a few years ago.)

A similar file sync option to Syncthing I like to point out is Resilio Sync, a P2P device-to-device "torrent-like" sync tool. Among other things it also supports "encrypted shares" that cannot read inside the share but can still participate as a "seed" in the torrent-like share. Resilio Sync is relatively a lot more closed/commercial than Syncthing, but it's torrent-based underpinnings make it sometimes much faster with large shares. (As with everything, trade-offs to be made based on your personal threat model.)