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I agree, a vastly simplified tax code is needed.

Here's my dream for a simpler tax code: The only tax is a Sales tax/VAT/GST.

Pros:

- Individuals never have to think about tax. It would completely eliminate tax returns. That alone is worth it's weight in gold since tax returns are such a time and money burden.

- It would close all the loopholes megacorps/wealthy individuals use to pay less tax. You cannot avoid spending money in the place where you operate.

- To add to that, if every country implemented this system we would be able to move freely between countries, spending as much time as we desired, without having to worry about tax implications. Obviously that's a much much longer term vision.

Cons:

- Won't this disproportionately tax the poor?

- Firstly, the existing tax code already does. Poor people don't have the time to understand the tax code enough to get everything they can out of their tax return. The also don't have the money to hire an accountant to do it for them. They also don't have the tax avoidance opportunities available to them that come with the scale of being a wealthy individual.

- Secondly, many countries already discount or eliminate the ST/VAT/GST on essential items. You could even have a higher tax on luxury goods. You could even have a negative tax (subsidy) on essential items if you desired. The point is it changes the framing of tax discussions to "where does this good/service fall in the scale of essential item to luxury item" which is much much simpler for people to understand.

- Won't prices have to rise for the same tax revenue to be collected?
- Yes, but now you have all this leftover money that used to just go to income taxes which you can use. Plus prices might not rise as much as you think now that the tax loopholes used by megacorps are closed.

Look, I know it's pretty radical, but I think this is the only sensible taxation in the future.
Information doesn’t exist without physics. So you could argue that math does exist in physical form (neutrons, bits on a hard disk, sound waves, printed paper etc.)
> Neither are nuclear power plants, is that an argument against them?

I'm pro-nuclear, but as a society we need to think hard about what things we subsidize. Subsidizing says, "We acknowledge this is not self-sustaining, so we will make taxpayers pay for it, enriching some subset of society at the expense of others."

So is nuclear, which by your admission is unprofitable, the best way to get clean energy? Or are there things we can do to adequately price externalities caused by other forms of electrical generation? Why not wind or solar?

To circle back to rail - I'm definitely not convinced that we need to invest insane amounts of time, money, and physical space to high-speed rail. The northeast corridor already has rail - does it need to be a bullet train? Would it be better to invest that money in clean(er) airplanes that use less carbon? What about electric cars, electric busses, and something exotic like the hyperloop?

Just parroting that "High speed rail good! All other travel bad!" does not make it so. We have ample evidence that high speed rail is not the panacea that proponents make it out to be. In fact, the governor of California recently cancelled their attempt at a bullet train from LA to San Francisco because it was a giant over-budgeted disaster. https://reason.com/2019/02/14/californias-bullet-train-proje...
Thanks, Kalium, but the fault is all mine! I read your original comment too narrowly. It's my apology that is needed, and I hereby submit it.

Thanks for the very helpful clarification. Your argument for provisional disclosure is compelling.
Reading some speeches by Mao helped me to understand the meaning of "socialism" better. Communism is just the end goal that can only be achieved once humanity is "perfected". Socialism is the means of perfecting humanity in order to eventually achieve communism. We call it Communist China, but it never achieved communism in this sense and was always merely socialist, even under Mao. This article is similar to how Mao described communism: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Communist_society

If it helps anyone, communism is an eschatological state similar to the "New Heaven and New Earth" of Christianity, while socialism is the prelude to it, the "Thousand-Year Reign" of Christ.
Google promises it won’t just keep tracking you after replacing cookies
In fact this is an answer to the OP about they will hide features. Business is business and they have to survive in some form. One-off purchase is well one-off. If there is a business on-going concerns, they can sort of give out the shaver and recover from the blade sale etc. And as software need update any case whilst hardware we have been good enough for quite a while, it is better a software subscription model.

Of course the problem is whether they can cut the line ...
The way to kill turbo tax is by getting rid of the entire industry. If other countries are able to automatically fill out these forms for you and determine your tax liability then that should be done. If you get a refund, then the IRS will send you a check or direct deposit it into your account.
Tail calling is basically looping and why I said generally.
I use the one-time email, on a VPN, but there’s no way around it transmitting your serial number. To keep it private in the future you need a dedicated offline mobile device to run the app, which after installing the app never goes back online.

I don't want to have an offline DJI-only phone.

Most people who fly drones are sending their IP, gps data, and serial number to DJI on every flight.
If I had a basic income and it'd be risk free to create arts, sure. If agree with you in that case.

But games, music, visual art, after a certain degree require so much time and effort that it's not viable or fun to do as a hobby of you need to earn a living elsewhere.

I would've out out my debut album out years ago if I didn't need to worry and stress about rent.
postmodernity really do be like that sometimes.
Common Languages Used in Web Development in 2021
In that case, why single out leftist politicians? The same tactic is used against right-wing politicians.
Oh, I don't know... he also pronounces "bald" as "bob" and considers bob to be the third gender. We're working on that.

Similarly, I've heard of kids "versing" eachother. Root cause: in Pokemon, the announcer says "A versus B" -- naturally, the kids interpret "verse" as a verb, which clearly means "to fight", and conjugate it normally.
I've been using "Magnet" for tiling. It's in the Apple App store.
My use case, 15" laptop display and a 32" 4k display. I find it sufficient enough screen real estate. I sometimes think about getting an additional display but can't quite justify it.
I think at this point we can conclude that humor of any form no matter how tame it is, is not accepted on the internet. At least not under your real name.

It just takes one person to write a rant and then its all over. Thousands of examples but a similar one was VSCode having to remove the santa hat from an icon on Christmas because someone claimed it was extremely offensive. I know I'm starting to sound like an American conspiracy theorist about the war on christmas, but the reality is that you just can't show any kind of personality, humor, or fun on the internet without putting yourself at risk.
If you're looking for next generation of identity solutions? https://magic.link is what everyone would need, provides decentralised identity, fair pricing and no vendor lock-in.

I love their startup pricing.
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Not only password managers, popular OS as well. We may extend it to hardware as well but that's even harder to tell.

I don't trust password managers for sensitive data but they're fine for most web account with limited capabilities.

I made my own secret manager based on gpg/age (literally a 5 lines bash script) and I don't run it from any proprietary OS, like Mac OS X or Android. I trust my Arch Linux installation a bit more as I know which packages are installed or updated and I know what's running on it. Also I think an attack is less likely.
I also have a separate system to share secrets across devices which allow me to setup a public/private keypair (+password) on every device and then share links on unsafe channels (like consumer chat applications or email).
I like to say that an american marriage is a startup: you find an investor, pitch an idea, do some business activity, bring new board members (kids) and sell your share to move on to other opportunities.
Longtime AZ resident... our legislator serves as a warning to those who want publicly funded elections.
I've always hated how that's used as an example of recursive programming in early programming education. Invariably, students try a large n, get a stack overflow and conclude that recursion is inefficient, leads to mysterious errors, and must be avoided.
We use it, I'm not on the team that uses it. Basically a lift and shift of our backup data center which came with all sorts of improvements. It's quite a bit more expensive, the projects that it runs in cost more than the rest of our cloud costs in total. But the man hours we've done to set up those other cloud systems (Terraform) are much more costly.
I think this should literally be brought to market.

If you did lab grown extinct animal meat (as opposed to beef), the interest would be a lot higher. No one would mind that the woolly mammoth meat on offer is not quite a good steak.
Did you even read the page you linked?

> Brian David Sicknick (July 30, 1978 – January 7, 2021) was an American officer of the United States Capitol Police who died of an unknown cause a day after the 2021 storming of the Capitol.

> The day after the storming, anonymous Capitol police officers told The New York Times that Sicknick sustained his injuries by being struck by a fire extinguisher while physically engaging with protesters. However, no corroborating evidence of this has been discovered, and medical examiners found no signs of blunt force trauma. The New York Times published a correction retracting the previous claim, noting that investigators have found little evidence that he was struck by a fire extinguisher.
I tried it with Chrome Canary with the relevant flag but unfortunately it didn't seem to work with this particular site failing with "TypeError: Failed to execute 'createBindGroupLayout' on 'GPUDevice': required member entries is undefined.".

Shame as I wanted to see what happened if I pitted my desktop against it. Of course it's likely the WebGPU implementations between browsers are not equivalent from a performance point of view.
If you break RSA then you get the AES session key. You don't have to break the AES.
Well, I'd be curious what your first ten sentences to a group of, say, 11th graders would be about Newtonian gravitation, and how those would compare to what you'd say about the same subject to 8th graders.

It seems elsewhere in the thread that you don't consider it lying if one gives a general disclaimer that models aren't perfect, but I wonder whether or not that general disclaimer wouldn't inoculate the idea that multiplication is repeated addition? It's an imperfect model that super useful for all the numbers available to students when they learn what multiplication is. And I wonder further whether there's not an implicit disclaimer that what you're learning isn't the final word inherent in the structure of the educational system?
Chill out. These guys are developers, not world leaders.

Everybody's entitled to their opinion especially, if there isn't anything harmful.

At least the guys are creating more than public flame on HN.

As to college students smoking weed, just study history of Silicon Valley to see how many of big name corps were started like that.
I think this can be built on top of the proposed API? For example, a site about American football could publish/sell the cohort frequencies they observe.
This is running on the GPU right? — I wonder how many GFlops it would hit, if you run it on a laptop with an RTX 3080.
But it would put some people in the tax department out of work, so even if hypothetically a more efficient tax scheme would let you grow the government as a whole, the current people in the tax department have an incentive to not let that happen.
When certain things are mentioned, it seems to destroy any chance for civil discussion and usher in the 4 (or more) horsemen of idiotic flame wars: demonization, guilt by association, personal attacks, and insults.

Sadly the media have also been modeling these bad behaviors.

I appreciate HN's guidance to be kind, assume the best, address the strongest form of the opposing argument, attack the argument rather than the person, etc..
It would be amazing to see some legit advances on neural networks / machine learning in Rust. I feel like NDArray could use some love / attention from community experts to morph it into a nice differentiable programming framework. That could enable Rust to work for data science stuff.

Right now it feels like Python is a better option, but I really enjoy the idea of Rust enough to spend a lot of time lately thinking about a project in this language (which I have yet to fully learn)

Likewise, Yew is cool for front-end rust, but it uses mutable state, which concerns me because it creates a host of problems down the road (like when you want to add second-order features like undo/redo or declarative Ux)

Finally it would be cool to see more functional programming (Ramda.rs?) and authentication, authorization tools in Rust. Guess it's a bit like the Wild West and we gotta pick up the computer and start coding!
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Which organizations changed their guidelines?
Blog author here! Thanks to HN for warning me about sscanf at exactly the right time – within a day of me trying to load some ASCII STLs and noticing it was slow...

Linked deep in the Twitter replies [1], there's an open glibc issue about this, dating back to 2014:

https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=17577

C doesn't have any requirements on the complexity of sscanf, so it might not be a bug per se, but it's certainly... a pitfall.

[1] https://twitter.com/impraxical/status/1367194430835425283
“...[The Russians] have an immense advantage. I think it’s a dangerous advantage and a temporary advantage. Twelve men decide what to do. They don’t sit here like I do and have twelve others question me on why I’m doin’ it... In the end they destroy themselves.”
—General George Marshall
https://youtu.be/Y7eVaVUESCo
Does the sudden revelation that we all are people with own quirks really shock you that hard? You maybe believe that there is regular people and there is serious people, who work at the serious business, which is by itself serious af.
This, the article misses the point entirely. Either the author already knew that and used it as an opportunity to show off or has a low level common sense.
> There's a reason that peace treaties are signed in person after all.

That maybe applies here, but I don't think a virus is going to take in-person meeting as a token of goodwill and go easy.
Let's just ignore the copious evidence of rape, false imprisonment, enslavement, organ harvesting, mass sterilization, forcing young girls to live with abusive Han families, etc. because this one single article doesn't directly reference forced labor.
>Also had a “large capacity ammunition feeding device”.

Sometimes also called a "magazine." It would be an odd thing to be absent.
Yes, there is! Check out this search: https://www.levels.fyi/comp.html?track=Software%20Engineer&s...

You’ll notice when you expand each row by clicking on it, there are some additional details such as if the data point is for remote.
> on a forum where humor is never considered appropriate anywhere

Not quite true. There's just a pretty high threshold for what's relevant humour.

(The threshold is not even that high in absolute terms to be honest. Here's a +5 comment spotting a funny typo: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26297542 It's mostly repetitive jokes that don't make it)
I'd bet that some combination of "Oh, of course it's slow, it's json" and "I'm too important to work on microtransactions" accounts for a lot it.
It reminds you of a thing that never happened? That's a neat trick. The SLS uses the RS-25 engines, the Space Shuttle Main Engines which are in no way an engine "designed from scratch".

Additionally the F-1 engines were redesigned using more modern techniques around 2012 with the F-1B [0].

The SLS went with the RS-25s for a number of reasons. While the F-1s provide high thrust they're not as efficient. The RS-25s can burn longer and with the SRBs providing massive amounts of thrust to get the stack off the ground the RS-25s can provide more delta-v to the upper stages. An F-1 reboot would have required a lot of extra work to add in modern computer controls which already exist in the RS-25. They have also flown in the past few decades and are well understood.

[0] https://arstechnica.com/science/2013/04/new-f-1b-rocket-engi...
Trump’s Gab Account Uses Email Belonging to the CEO
Chuck Schumer is the Senate Majority Leader.
That's great for them. There's seriously a huge market for large female audiences. For example, women can command way more money from advertisers on YouTube given equally (very large) viewership and subscriber bases.

I think we'll see a lot of women begin to capitalize on this in larger and larger numbers in the next year in things that are generally not associated with women (military things, video games, strength training, etc.)
What was the replacement powder exactly do you know? Sounds like something you should have involved police in.
I am overall happy with mine. It is very quick, and the battery life is quite exceptional.

> I'm yet to find something I could possibly gripe about.

I can. It does not much like my Philips 328E1 monitor. When it wakes up the display, sometimes it renders all the colors as sorta-inverted. Like, not actually inverted, but maybe just one color channel is inverted. Repeatedly sleeping & waking the display sometimes fixes after a few tries. Rebooting always fixes it.

Also, on a fresh login, after I reach the desktop it will sleep the display maybe 5 seconds later for unknown reasons. Usually it wakes up okay after a few more seconds, and then things are fine from then on.

I tried all sorts of things, then gave up. Now I don't let the display sleep, so I manually turn it off when I walk away from my desk. It makes switching to my other MacBook a little more hassle because I have to do it manually, but I can live with it.

And before you ask if there's something wrong with my display... it works great, 100% of the time, never a single glitch on my work computer, which is a 16 inch MacBook Pro.

Sometimes I regret getting the M1 and not waiting for them to work out the bugs.
The NYT wrongfully (perhaps wilfully) claimed a police officer was struck by a fire extinguisher while physically engaging with protesters. They then quietly retracted this claim, noting that investigators had found little evidence that he was struck by a fire extinguisher. The MSM has been gaslighting the American public by bombarding them with unsubstantiated propaganda.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brian_Sicknick
Bottling the Coldest Plasma to Unlock the Secrets of Fusion Power
Understanding consciousness within the known laws of physics (Carlo Rovelli)
On one of the unofficial cams (Labpadre) it looked like they deployed but didn't lock in place.

But it looks like the engine gave out early. The rocket was way too fast, so the legs probably wouldn't have made much difference.
I would also love to see this open sourced (even partially?). Would be awesome to setup some personal “blogs” based on this.
I'll admit that if the GP holds the opinion that all ad blockers are "scummy" then I wouldn't be bothered. But considering I never see ublock origin get criticism here I have to assume that when most people criticize Brave's business model, they don't actually care about the publishers.
Because the satire is the left, and the tweet complaining is the "left". Recently (and not without design) the "left" has totally eclipsed the left
There are lots of different types of projects. Sometimes you're asking people to invent things for you, and you're the only conceivable customer for that thing, and (like here) it would be weird and perverse not to require all the data/specs/whatever for that thing. Other times you're buying something that's already been invented, with many existing customers, and the data/specs/whatever for that product line are worth much more than the units you actually want to buy, and it wouldn't make any sense to have to buy out that entire product line just to use the product. It might be hard to make simple rules that distinguish between these cases, and all the gray areas in between.
I would argue the reverse - there is higher chance of this accidentally quadratic problems with more abstraction layers, convenience functions, and advanced language syntax. But I agree we shouldn't write parsing in C, but for other reasons :)
Maybe. All i know is i would much rather be a computer programmer than a cleaner, even if being a cleaner paid more.
Yeah, sharp eye! So right now, the provider we use for location, Geobytes, abbreviates state code to 2 letters internationally and so the 3 letter code gets chopped to 2. Gets a bit confusing for some areas, so we’re trying to figure out we can have another mapping with it spelled out.
When DDG does that we move on to the next option. It seems like the only way to not be eventually screwed over is to periodically move on from what you use.

This is why it's important to have replacements around. Particularly smaller and newer businesses that aren't yet interested in squeezing out every drop from you.
Ask HN: Angel Investors
Greetings all.

I have previously seen some posts about different start-ups here so I thought my question could be answered here. I'm looking to start a company (Europe) with a high payback rate (charging over 300% of my base cost including taxation) and the only thing I'm missing for a full launch is funding. I don't have many other options left so I'm down to angel investors.

What are your thoughts on starting a business with angel investors? What should I know? So far I have looked into gust.com and angel.co, perhaps someone can direct me to a more responsive website. What should I look out for and how do I boost my chances? My funding goal is approximately 160'000Euro and I could break-even and return investment in approximately 2 to 6 months.
> Wonder what new measures they want to push, for "safety" against "domestic terrorism"?

Doubling down on stifling free speech of course.

https://reclaimthenet.org/democrats-level-up-their-censorshi...
And don't cause stack overflows in normal operation. I've run into that before and now avoid recursion.
Thunderf00t attacks any kind of progress. He nitpicks things that aren't important and ignores things that are important.
my 2019 MacBook Pro is only best: 47.30 gflops ...
Using Elm compiler under Rosetta for over 2 weeks, it's still at-least 2x faster than latest Intel mac. Also using Atom editor with Rosetta which works okayish, vscode has got a M1 build which works well.
Since Vbe = const the transistor alone cannot amplify voltage. You need a resistor to convert the input voltage into current.
Looks like Starship got to 10 km. It's not that different.
Loving the progression here. Tomorrow, someone’s going to reduce the boot times of macOS by 90% by the same principle. A week from now, someone will prove P=NP because all the problems we thought were NP were just running strlen() on the whole input.