skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
LTCG tax rate is based on your AGI (adjusted gross income) not your wage income.

Capital gains "count" towards your AGI, so if you have $10M in capital gains and $150K in wage income and nothing else, your AGI is $10,150,000 and your LTCG are taxed at 23.8% (20% + 3.8% surtax).
Can't +1 this enough. Stated another way, I always think back to this slide [1] from one of Holman's old decks ("Drive-by opinions are less valuable").

For whatever reason, this is a very common phenomena in tech, and there's a positive reason explanation for it and a negative one. The positive one is that people really are engaged and enthusiastic and want to help make the product better. That's great, and far better than the alternative.

The negative one is the same as the classic mid-level manager who arranges an unnecessary meeting with shaky pretext that everyone knows is just so that they can have their ideas heard for 60 minutes. It makes them look engaged and increases their visibility in the corporate hierarchy. Now, while that was a literal meeting back in the 90s, but 2020s version of it is littering smart-sounding comments all over as many key Google Docs as you can, all of which have your picture next to them, and which you know others will see.

Too many ideas aren't necessarily a problem, but it can add a lot of overhead to a project, and the end result is often only incrementally better. I've worked on smaller projects where it took us 2x to 3x longer to ship by addressing tiny feedback from a large number of people, and the final product was like 5% better. That't not to say that no feedback is valuable, as a lot of it clearly was, but there's a happy compromise somewhere between taking too little and taking too much.

In the end, the article author's advice rings very true:

> “So, what are we going to do about it?”

(With the emphasis on "we".)

Give ideas/feedback, but make sure you're willing to engage with the work.

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[1] https://speakerdeck.com/holman/how-github-no-longer-works?sl...
Trends in Wellness and Intimacy Tech
1. Peloton for the Mind: Connected Mental Health
2.Cohort-based Group Therapy across every possible user segment
3. Finding Friends and Romantic Partners becomes Authentic and Serendipitous
4. Audio Lowering the Barriers to Spontaneous Intimacy
5. Mindful Productivity in response to the Attention Economy
6. Rise of Sleep Tech: Physical and Digital
7. D2C Personalized Psychiatric Medicine
8. Alternative “medicine” coming into the Mainstream: Psychedelics, Acupuncture, Adaptogens & Aromatherapy
9. Social Networks: Closed & Trust-driven > Open & Ad-driven
10. Mental health for polar ends of the age spectrum: children & the elderly
+100

Part of the issue too is folks are often “rewarded” for commenting / criticizing far more than providing real empathetic help — often those pot shots are what shoot to the top of Twitter or Hackernews and give that reinforcement of the behavior.
Who and how issues the new money? how do you decentralize that? Otherwise you have a central bank and a database is more efficient.
> The fact that bitcoin mining is profitable inherently means that society has already deemed it useful, no?

Not when that mining doesn't account for externalities
Sure, the PTR record gives the name. But I seem to remember it also returning A records with the corresponding IP address.
classic misunderstanding, less like the eastern european delicacy, more like an italian geographic information system.
What Happened to the Photo Industry: 2010-2020 – The Big Fall [video]
How so? Material wealth gives all kinds of tangible benefits as control, pleasure, influence, access, etc -- even better health and surely better healthcare.

Whereas, what does being moral/good give (to the invididual practicing it, not to the community) except a feel-good feeling (and that only on those who care for it)?

(I'm in favor of being moral, just point their point of view).
More like an example of short-sightedness. Sure mechanical spring is better but having digital interface allows for complex dryer timing logic and optimisations.
Show HN: Timelineify – Create Spotify playlists of an artist's full discography
Honestly the bus problem sounds easier to solve than the fountain of youth thing.
Who prints new money?
Hi HN!

I often listen to an artist's entire discography in order when coding. Spotify displays singles and albums separately, and often jumps
to an artist's radio instead of playing through in order. I got annoyed, and built a tiny tool that fixes this!

Timelineify lets you search for any Spotify artist, and produces a playlist of their work in chronological order. Search for an artist,
filter by albums and/or singles, and sort by chronological or reverse chronological order. Timelineify will add a playlist to your account, for example:

Artist Timeline: Gorillaz // Timelineify

Hope this helps someone!

Demo video if you don't want to login to Spotify: https://youtu.be/G603-ruJ3YQ
Yea. Some mailing lists are a form of social media. Many of them are public.

IRC and twitch would be too.
Bitcoin is still only 1/10 the market cap of gold, with the argument by Bitcoiners being that the asset is a 10-100x improvement over gold.
The initial sentiment in hacker news and reddit threads was overwhelmingly positive for nividia and against miners.

Now that some time has passed and Linus (from LTT) has released his video I'd say the sentiment is still mixed. I'm still seeing many tweets praising nividia for finally taking a step for gamers.

Here's an austrilian tech Youtuber who should know better: https://youtu.be/jnoNryem-G8
That’s the intention at least. They lack output ports, for example.
12,000 _tons_, and orange _peels_, not oranges.

The tweet also doesn’t show this changed what happened to the area, nor does it give links to more information.

Luckily, a commenter linked to https://newatlas.com/orange-peel-forest-costa-rica/51012, which gives credence to this actually giving positive results (and also confirms this actually has been done)

I guess the summary is “dumping compost in a Costa Rican rain forest helps”.
We don't really need to. The damage it does is so incredibly massive that positive impact would have to be gigantic to offset it, and it is blindingly obvious no such massive impact exists.
Not really. Vi has fewer modes than just about every word processor or editor in history. It has 3 core modes (2 major ones). Most word processors have countless more “modes” for even doing things like search and replace, and emacs has the mini buffer.

The vi design principal is that a limited number of modes used frequently is better than numerous specialized ones used leas frequently.

Any HCI dweeb that thinks 2 clearly visible modes is somehow inherently less usable than any alternative can fight me. And they’re full of shit on this in general. It’s not like they have the quality data to prove this, it’s always been something that has been taken for granted, avoid modes, just because there are a few examples (some catastrophic) of it being done poorly.

Edit: I mean really has anyone seen an experienced user use vi? You think from the HCI navel gazers that they would be half the time fumbling over what mode they’re in. Less talk, more observation.
A lot has been said about fossil fuel producers not bearing the full costs of the externalities of the products they produce.

I think the same now has to be said of cryptocurrency mining. Is this activity, and the vast amount of energy and resources it consumes, really something which is a net positive for society?
Don't forget that the ingridients themselves could have changed considerably, as an example look at watermelon painting of 17th century and modern: https://www.biostandups.com/agricultural/evolution-fruits-ve...
I thought about adding that, I should've...

It's widely believed these days that postel's law was a mistake.
I had to stop trimming my bonzai kitty to come ask the same. Thanks.

BTW anyone interested in Kid Swap?
Apple Is Hypocrite
For me, it’s actually pretty obvious who is whom. When there was that disease model that was flawed, everyone on HN remarked on how it was awful. John Carmack just contributed.

Talkers always think they’re contributing, because they usually upvote each other. It’s therefore easy to think you’re a doer when you see the upvotes roll in.

It took me years but “talk is cheap, show me the code” is more true now than ever before. GitHub even has a “suggestion” feature.
It was the Alien and Sedition act and closely tied to a fear of foreigners, and of national collapse in general, before the country had had time to gel. You can squint and hold it up to the light and see it as a principled diagreement over free expression, but that's pretty ahistorical.

The important point here is that limits on speech and free expression in American discourse have traditionally gone hand in hand with a fear of foreign influence. If anything, that gives more of a moral edge to the argument over free speech, not less.
It can be compiled out of the kernel (that's what most distributions do these days), or disabled with a boot option. Try:

$ zgrep CONFIG_MODULE_SIG_SHA224 /proc/config.gz
$ grep logo /proc/cmdline
Well, the soul (as in "ultimately yourself") might not give a fuck about morality and goodness, and judge you on failing or not to get what you want. What then?

As for family and friends, people find that those like you just fine if:

(a) you can fake being good succesfully (while still being bad and doing bad things for your benefit - common with politicians, CEO doing "charity" with corruption and cruelty on the side, etc.)

(b) you win material wealth and so they depend on kissing your ass

(c) they are actually treated well and kindly by you (while you're still fine to fuck over everybody else for profit - king of like in mob - their families don't dislike them because they're mobs)
SnowFS is still at the beginnings, so it will shape over time. For the benchmarks, these are the results on a MacBook-2019 with APFS for a 4GB file:

[git add texture.psd: 20164ms]
[snow add texture.psd: 4596ms]
[git rm texture.psd: 575ms]
[snow rm texture.psd: 111ms]
[git checkout HEAD~1: 9739ms]
[snow checkout HEAD~1: 1ms]

You might get slightly slower speeds on NTFS for 'add' and 'checkout' but still very performant
How? Beyond creating a few lottery winners, it has no utility for the average person.
> The CMP version is a straight-to-landfill product. As soon as it stops being profitable for mining it will have zero resale value, and become e-waste.

You are aware that this already happens to BTC ASICs when the new generation of ASIC comes out, right? Straight to the landfill. BTC is very wasteful, this is not new.
Wire – a new type-safe state management library for React
> Most of it taken up by wind farms (94%)

Wind farms do not exclude the land involved from also being used for other purposes, like agriculture.
I would argue yes. There has been an impressively little amount of churn in the last 10 years.
I'm sure politely asking people not to do something that benefits them will surely work.
Nuclear is actually intentionally crippled through legislation under over-hyped concerns over dirty bombs accidents (for the right and left politically inclined respectively).

Nuclear can be done safe, efficient, cheap and at-scale. All it requires is to allow for the secondary market of spent fuel like was originally started when nuclear first starting to get rolled out. The security concerns can be handled in other ways than crippling nuclear from being self-sustaining I think.
I feel like this is downvoted so harshly with only a single reply at this writing because there was some sentimental value to grandparent's post, but their analogy was fundamentally broken when they started talking about the design of human life from the high-level perspective of Aristotle's definition of a living thing as "being-at-work-being-itself", essentially.

More importantly, the perceived conceptual integrity of the human body is rather philosophical was put to question by Roger Penrose in his JRE episode where he talks about why the distribution of motor functions makes no sense ("the foot and walking are over here", "running is all the way over there", to paraphrase) all and we likely need a new physics model to explain consciousness as it arises in the physical brain.

Biology moved on from such an Aristotelian perspective for good reason, to slightly alter something Spinoza once said, we don't know what a cell can do. Our physical being is a radical aggregate that we don't even fully understand yet.
> Rust doesn't infer function types (on purpose)

> I don't think rustc is currently smart enough to infer the totality loops in general.

Well, yes; we're necessarily talking about changes to the language (or, equivalently, possible different languages).

> while callers of `!`-functions would be easy to check for, [other problems wouldn't]

That was my point, thanks: "when trying to save your crucial data to disk, in real-time code where panicking would maybe kill someone in the real world, etc", checking for the easy-to-check-for problems doesn't actually suffice to prevent disasters.
Why the rise of Singapore’s tech giant Sea is making waves in Southeast Asia
> ok well lets settle it. how much waste would be produced if the whole country ran on nuclear?

That waste goes into Yucca mountain, and it's behind / underneath 100s of meters of neutron heavy metals. If we were exclusively powered by nuclear power for a century without recycling, it'd be something like 100 football fields. Absolutely, completely, utterly inconsequential.

1 inch of neutron-heavy lead is enough to dispel the radioactivity from full blast of a thermonuclear weapon and be safe for a human. Saying that the Yucca mountain waste facility had potential for harm is the most unscientific, embarrassing thing that a certain unnamed political party has ever claimed on nuclear waste.
I'm sick of every single thread on nuclear turning into a flame war of wind/solar vs nuclear. It really detracts from the real issue of high carbon sources -- why is the conversation never about nuclear vs the natural gas plants that are being built at an astoundingly fast rate? Those two things are even more similar since they are both baseline power sources.
It's a video player.
There is a subtlety to when the license applies. We have outside counsel for this and they have it covered, not to worry.
And remember to implement distributed 2 phase commit to guarantee consistency! So much simpler than using old crufty sql
That's "landfill" in the sense of raising the ground level, not in the sense of "dumping trash", which is what we're talking about.
I just started reading, then it suddenly ended. Guess i should provide a rewrite rather than to comment.
> I always found it funny that companies will go to extreme Herculean lengths to hire the best programmers

Because you may know how to hire the best or have the skill to know who the best are, but you don't know how to be the best, so how can you judge their work if by definition you're not as good as they are?
Also, the same destination: Honolulu. And only 1 digit difference in registration number (N773UA in 2018 vs N772UA in 2021).
Indeed, TS/JS is great for its quick turnaround times for prototyping. But the I/O performance is executed by the underlying C/C++ layer. For the rest TS/JS is fast enough. But a full C++ backport is still on the horizon
Even if you disregard the massive ecological harm it does, bitcoin is still a big negative for society, due to the immense amount of crime it enables - ransomware, money laundering, scams and fraud.
I suppose it's not exactly mainstream, but Kronheimer and Mrowka are among those trying to prove the four color theorem using instanton homology and gauge theory. It's certainly not finite graph theory, though (their idea of a 3-regular graph is the singular locus of a certain kind of orbifold!)
Neither does a multi-million dollar yacht or companies / foreigners buying billions in properties for investment displacing communities.

In the real world, "utility" doesn't exist unless it benefits a select few.
I’m not talking about persuading people to install solar, I’m talking about the sheer bureaucratic work (on the part of the utility) to manage contracts with thousands of property owners instead of just one. Similarly, the overhead of servicing thousands of roof-top installations (scheduling appointments, driving to sites, climbing onto the roof, etc) versus a single contiguous site at ground level. I don’t think residential solar is a major feature of any serious green energy plan, and for good reason.
Well, there is Instagram... also owned by Facebook :-)

I do agree that there isn’t a alternative for fb groups. And marketplace is better than Craigslist in my area.
A group of high-performers draws non-maker hangers-on like moths to a flame. I would tell them that "Around here, the squeaky wheel greases itself." You have to be careful about using this on the A-listers though. They'll divert from whatever they were doing and de-squeak the wheel PDQ, which may not have been what you were hoping for.
JSON libraries are security-sensitive, though; they tend to get used on content coming from 3rd parties over the internet.
XSS (Cross-Site Scripting) Attacks and Prevention in 2021
The fact that tulips are selling for 10x their prior year price inherently means that society has decided tulips are more valuable than gold. People wouldn't be investing their life savings in tulip futures if they weren't a stable store of wealth, right?
Vanishingly few things have substantial utility for the average person. But clearly BTC has utility for those participating in transacting and mining it, or they wouldn’t be doing it.
Depends on what NVidia takes out. If they remove the triangle fill units, they're unsuitable for graphics but OK for "mining". That leaves the more general purpose parts that let you do arithmetic in parallel.
Those might also be useful for machine learning.
The average person isn't doing any mining, specific people are. It has utility for the people doing it.
We had this recipe for Christmas one year. With a few substitutions according to what was available - damson juice instead of grape juice, for example. It was very nice.
> What you’re asking for is to get royally screwed by miners now - again - just so you might have the chance to get a cheap and very-used card later. And you’re blaming Nvidia for losing this imagined opportunity a year from now.

Re very used: no. Cards used for mining are a) undervolted and b) underclocked, both increase lifespan and I'd take them over an overclocked card used for gaming, plus they don't run that hot because at those scales cooling is expensive.

> Right, like you point out, in 2018, Nvidia was making a lot of money on leftover 1080s. And they’re proposing to not do that this time.

I never said NVDA was making money off leftover 1080s because there weren't left over 1080s, it was 1050tis which they are selling off again. The same 1050tis that they held onto during 2018.

> Are you suggesting that gamers are going to bypass a $330 card for a year in hopes that mining will crash and they can get a used one for $200 that’s been running hot for an entire year, and then after waiting, give up on that and buy a brand new GPU?

As I mentioned above, mining GPUs are usually in better conditions than in some dusty and improperly cooled rig and, simply put, there aren't $330 cards for anyone to buy. If people wish to buy $330 cards, they can buy them, but for me, at 21x9 1080p@60 there is no reason to upgrade from my used 1080ti, and had I really needed something better, I'd consider a used 3060.

> You say potato, I say demand. You’re hand-wavily suggesting that mining is not affecting supply at all. That’s just not true. Mining demand is making an already bad problem (for gamers) much worse, just like it did last time.

I never said mining isn't affecting demand but, a) the crypto rally started loooong after NVDA had supply issues, b) Amd has supply issues with their CPUs and they are utterly irrelevant to mining, c) this generation of consoles made with the same wafers can't meet the demand.
The demand was there before this cycle of mining frenzy.

> What is the huge profit windfall you’re suggesting happens after this current mining bubble pops? Nvidia isn’t going to have an oversupply of cards to sell, and they aren’t hiking the price of the 3060.

They won't because they are artificially limiting the hashrate, and they are producing more chips for mining. Last time around, people managed to get around the no display issue and could game on "mining gpus" (see Linus Tech Tips, they have 2 videos on the topic), but now NVDA is locking people outside with firmware making reusing mining gpus impossible.

I am complaining exactly because NVDA is taking care of their shareholders and their bottom lines. I am complaining because it goes against my interests.

Gamers are not screwed by miners, gamers are screwed because the pandemic caused a huge influx of people demanding chips, so much so, that even automotive manufactures can't find chips.

I am tired of this conversation and you are either taking my sentences out of context and blow them out of proportion.
Now how awesome is that, a fellow human riding the ”donauradweg” here on Hacker News. Love it.
>I’m truly shocked by the number of people who totally fail to grok the economic logic behind a lot of the projects being built on blockchain tech.

If you are so shocked then please explain why Bitcoin miners refused to increase the transactions per block to a level that is suitable for Bitcoin? It's literally a configuration flag they have to change and the environmentalists and people against power waste would be happy and you could tell them to shut up. The people using Bitcoin as money would also be happy. Everyone would be happy except some puritans that insist on a specific block size.

The reality is that no amount of economic intuition and deep technical ability can explain this and it's not making any neo "Collison brothers" types wealthy. It also isn't a problem of not thinking things through. It's not a matter of groking economic logic because there is literally no economic argument in favor of restricting transactions per block. It's worthless because everyone that wanted to use Bitcoin for its intended purpose has already left and only those who are in it for the bubbling behavior have stayed.

I will even admit that after understanding the long term trend of Bitcoin (not the xth bubble that is currently occuring) I would buy it, but again, only for speculation. It's worthless, as a currency, precisely because its deflationary, expensive and slow to transact, a tax nightmare because of capital gains and the fact that nobody accepts it.

So yes, it definitively is worthless. Just because some tech dudes bet on price increases doesn't mean it isn't worthless.

I'm more shocked by the number of people who fail to grok the economic logic and still engage in correct behavior. They make the mistake of equating the power consumption as necessary to process a certain amount of transactions and they are definitively wrong, however their judgment is still right. Bitcoin wastes too much power for the little value it provides. They don't have any right to be worthy of your criticism but yet they do, if you listened to them your crappy little currency would be better off and that's why your argument is on very thin ice.

I have an absolute disdain for dishonesty. Own and admit your mistakes instead of pretending that the other side is wrong.