skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The first PC that I actually owned was a 386SX running at 20 MHz, 2 MB and a 20 MB hard disk that I would later use DR-DOS and MS-DOS disk compression drivers so that I could fit Windows 3.1 and Borland compilers for MS-DOS and Windows, ARJ/ZIP and Office.

Not much was left for documents, so I would "garbage collect" old stuff into floppies.

Still was quite useful for about 5 years, however being an SX meant that eventually I could not keep up with my favourite flight sims as they started asking for 386DX as minimum.
but they do have it. pretty much all image hosts are already doing it as well
Also on phoronix :

https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=AMD-Linu...
Architecturally the 386 was a massive improvement over the 286. It had an MMU. You could run it in protected mode, run an operating system that would continue running after a program crashed.

The 286 technically also protected mode but it really sucked.
Important to note to non Americans that this does not mean that 61% paid no taxes, it’s that they didn’t pay a specific type of tax (income at the federal level).

Individuals likely still paid Social Security taxes, Medicare taxes, and potentially state and local taxes (which vary wildly). Most states also have sales taxes as well, and some local municipalities have surcharges as well.

And, lastly, we do have property taxes, which can be quite significant in large parts of the country. Even if you’re a renter, these costs are often indirectly passed on to you.

So, while federal income tax may have been less of a burden last year, there was likely still lots of taxes that each of these individuals paid.

Disclaimer: This post isn’t meant to be a statement of support or criticism of taxes. Just trying to highlight the many ways we pay taxes beyond federal income tax.
Monoclonal antibody prevents malaria in small NIH trial
- Open the pod bay doors, Siri.

- I'm sorry Dave, I'm afraid I can't do that.
Agreed. Id rathe grok Skyrim in the decompiler for sixteen hours to find the "why foxes" answer than read tweetchains.
Also a fan of David Chapman here. Really looking forward to him finishing at least one of the books.
But isn't this just the financial equivalent of "lose weight by consuming fewer calories than what you use"? It's far easier said than done.

If you lose your job, or spend a chunk of your savings in a family emergency of some kind, then what? Do you have to save 80% of your take home to make up for the lost savings?
This post on social mobility. It really made me think about where I came from and how different it is from my wife and why we are comfortable in different situations.

More specifically, the post explains the difference in Social Class and Working Class and how we often conflate those two things when in discussion. We often talk about “lower”, “middle” and “upper” classes, but the author proposes that those are actually Working Classes and not necessarily related to Social classes. We often migrate one or maybe two social classes higher or lower in our lifetime, but movements more than two rungs is prohibitively difficult.

It is an interesting way to look at society.

https://siderea.livejournal.com/1260265.html?format=light&fb...
I also remember when it was a good idea to carry spare fuses with you. I certainly don't in my current 10 year old vehicle and have absolutely no idea where the fuse box is (well I know the general vicinity where it probably is) without looking in the manual.
They’re treated poorly in all three major countries there, Iran, Iraq and Turkey. The brits should have carved out a country for them, for they are different enough to deserve their own self determination. If we didn’t have Turkey in NATO and hadn’t messed with Iraq we could have helped the formation of Kurdistan, but there’s no guarantee these three wouldn’t have steamrolled them to prevent potential fragmentation from other internal out groups.

Unfortunately in the 1800s as other geographies fought wars to rid differences to achieve unification, things were too tribal to achieve that there. I guess the idea of Mesopotamia was too distant to serve as a glue for all the different interests.
Interesting technology I think it is super cool and the implementation looks good.

Some feedback:
1) I would really like to stress that you should be including and focusing on _why_ more than the what. The whole time reading the landing page I was wonder _why_ this exists and what problem it would solve. It is better to speak to someone than to speak to no one.

2) Use a higher quality video. I think some of the other comments are focused on the fact that you are a guy in shorts in a video. It would tell a more interesting story to give a demo of at least one situation or several situations where this would be useful. I would get a lot more out of this video if you staged a group fitness class or 1-on-1 training. This would give me a reason _why_ this exists but with relevant context. If the video was higher quality and it was a fitness setting I don't think anyone would care that you were in shorts

3) Interface Controls section. This section is confusing because the user cannot see the interface just the gestures. It would be better to give off a list of features and benefits rather than going into _how_ you use a feature with the specific gestures. Too much complexity when people haven't bought into the concept yet. Which reminds me, you should focus on selling the concept more than telling me step-by-step how to use it.

4) More controls from phone. This section is a relief because controlling everything using gestures _sounds_ exhausting. Maybe it isn't. But this should be more emphasized than the specific gestures. Controlling everything from my phone seems more intuitive for most people. And having the gestures for an interruption free experience seems like a nice to have.

5) Have you had a yoga or fitness instructor try this yet? Have you all done a live demo with them to validate the problem? Not saying you haven't, but if you have those are probably the best screenshots or video clips to show. If you have done them why aren't you showing us that. If you haven't done them, what are you waiting for?

I run a martial arts school and we have fitness classes. We also do private and group sessions. I can definitely see the use, but you gotta sell it. What is the dream you are selling for us? How is this better than in-person classes? Is it worse? Is it worse but makes us safe from COVID? Is it the next revolutionary way to bring fitness classes online in our new environment? Can influencers use this to monetize their audience?
Hypothesis: there's a correlation between shortage of chips made with cutting-edge processes and chips that are not, because a lot of them are made by the same companies (and the supply-chain issues are impacting companies not just product lines). For instance, in addition to having the bleeding-edge 5nm node, TSMC has a lot of larger nodes and specialty non-digital-CPU nodes, too[1].

[1] https://techtaiwan.com/20210816/tsmc-speciality-technology/
I’m with you. It’s really an annoyance that we need money to survive.
You have no sense of humor or curiosity about compiler optimization details that led to this, I guess.

For instance not all languages that target LLVM will get this result. That is interesting.
I think of my first computer (Commodore 64) very fondly. The Commodore 128 less so and my first 8088 and 286 I mostly think of IRQ and config.sys hell.

I worked at a computer consulting company 1990-1991 and started my own company after that. Got very good at puzzling out how to jam as many ISA cards as my customers thought they needed into their computers. But I really think of that as the bad old days.

I remember getting computers on a network running SHGEN-1 and SHGEN-1 with Novell Netware 2.15 on 360k floppies on a 286. It took an hour for a single computer! I wouldn’t want to go back to that for anything.
11 Countries? The UN Security Council has five permanent members and they don't always work together (any one of the five can veto resolutions against its own exonomic interest).
Now that is something I would sign on for
People don't realize that when the Income Tax was first proposed it was predicated on the idea that most Americans would not end up paying it. As you can imagine, it was only for 'the rich' to pay.

The first tax bracket was a measly 1% on income over $3,000 at the time, which WolframAlpha says is about $80,500 today.

https://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=%243%2C001+in+1913+USD
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Income_tax_in_the_United_State...

EDIT: I needed to correct myself, according to the IRS "Congress adopted a 1 percent tax on net personal income of more than $3,000 with a surtax of 6 percent on incomes of more than $500,000."

Thank you to alecst for correcting me.
It does not include payroll taxes.
Facial and body language is a HUGE part of in person communication. For better or for worse, that is just how the vast majority of humans are wired. If you willfully ignore these signals you WILL be misunderstood and you WILL misunderstand others. I hate that things are this way because of how much effort it takes for me to decipher these cues when a neurotypical person gets it from intuition, but it absolutely does exist and isn't going away any time soon.
I got downvoted last time I said this, but with fiat money there is no reason for anyone to pay income taxes. Obviously there is no correlation between income tax revenue and government spending. They just create the money they need, the never-to-be-paid-off deficit grows, the value of the dollar shrinks, and we move on.

Taxes serve as a means of coercing the behavior of the citizens, in the sense that certain things are rewarded with tax deductions or credits, and other things are punitively taxed. That is the reason they still exist.

We should just do away with taxes. People's work and business activity, conducted in terms of US dollars, creates value. The government takes some of that value by simply creating more dollars. Why do we need a huge, complicated taxing bureaucracy in the middle of it?
In Portugal that was never a thing back then, because the difference was minimal.
A lot of people want programs to be optimized instead of naively executing everything as it appears in the source code. Do you think that's acceptable?

I think it's easier to define in a standard what's conforming behavior than it is to exactly and precisely define all the possible optimizations a compiler may (or may not) perform. So "undefined behavior" is a decent starting point. Exceptions can be added later, but if you try to spec all allowed optimizations in advance, the spec is going to be massive and also a massive burden.
> I used to think that before I had to edit the ejabberd.yml config file.

Hey, it's still better than having to write the configuration in Erlang like you had to before.
Seems like a ripoff of spatial.io which I really enjoyed on Oculus at the onset of the pandemic. Should do well with FB's reach as Spatial never really gained traction.
I don't think that's fair. If elm ever wants to replace js it only needs to rewrite the kernel modules, they govern. Otherwise the whole ecosystem would break in that case and yes, that would be a harmful feature.
Around that time I was building "high end" PCs for friends and friends-of-friends. I remember the average price stayed around $2500, but the component availability iterated pretty quickly in terms of processor, HDD size/interface, graphics, standard RAM, etc.

A 2 year old PC felt woefully underpowered in that era, and a 4 year old PC was almost useless if you wanted to use any "current" software. You'd be out of drive space, unable to run a lot of programs/games, and limping along.

Now, my 8 year old Macbook Air is still more or less as functional and useful as it was when I got it.
King Tut’s Mysterious Black Dagger Was Truly Out of This World
> And in this current society, there is a huge buyer side trap, the whole idea of consumerism and social media is to trap you inside the buyer side, so you keep buying, you keep consuming.

Aside from bankruptcy, buying and selling are actually completely balanced in a modern market economy. Even “saving” money is actually best considered as selling it. Earning money is obviously selling your time and bodily energy (those are the only finite things you have that are inputs into the system).

Borrowing is selling your future money to someone who wants to take on the risk.
Highly anecdotal, but I spoke to Bilstein about some seemingly unobtainium shocks yesterday. Pre-pandemic these part numbers were common as dirt.

They said their sales were up 50-60% over the last 18 mos, and that raw materials supply is down by a similar margin.

These are shock absorbers, not chips or toilet paper.

It seems like we're seeing the delayed effect on supply chains over the pandemic. There is surely no value in hoarding shock absorbers, and if distributors were the hoarders, they seem to just be sitting on them, not raising prices.
if you like number think about this. There is 25% chance you get covid this year and if you get covid there is 0.5% (IFR) chance you will die and 100% chance you will infect 7 other people.

How does this compare with the odd of adverse reactions to the vaccine?
Yeah, I think the the path length is calculated in terms of distance, but the patching requirement isn't a set distance.
Oh, I have probably half a dozen or so in the glove box! The auxiliary circuit has a tendency to blow the fuse out... Still unable to figure out why...
> After Rust, giving up a bit of performance to not have to maintain the C code underneath seems preferred

Yeah no doubt about it, although in this case the C implementation has been a long running project that's under the official commonmark GitHub repo at https://github.com/commonmark/cmark.

But I think the most important thing here is an Elixir NIF already exists to use it. The blog post as is leaves readers having to implement ~100 lines of Elixir code to use the Rust version because the author of the blog post didn't include that code in the article, or open source it as a library for others to use.

From a reader's POV if your goal is to get a highly stable, fast and safe Markdown parser running in Elixir, the Elixir cmark library I linked in a parent comment solves that problem out of the box.
It's regressive because pretty much every tax other than income tax is regressive. the 61% that didn't pay income taxes spend all the money they make, so they pay a much higher percentage of their income on sales tax, property tax (through rent), social security, gas taxes, tolls and stuff like that.
We already have economic reasons for all these things. Not having natural disasters and rising sea levels is an economic benefit. The problem is we don't have a _system_ that captures those benefits in a way that incentivizes actors to work towards them. The reason people don't care is because we have an economic system that incentivizes them not to care. There's nothing natural or unchangeable about this, we're just choosing not to do anything.
According too this article it seems it could very well create some serious issues.

https://www.space.com/space-junk-collision-chinese-satellite...
The comment was a response to a suggestion that the solution to the chip shortage was government intervention. I don't consider giving a evidence to the contrary of an argument as pontificating.
> A quick interwebs search didn't turn up anything [...]

Searching 'collatz conjecture prize' quite literally puts a prize of a bout 120MM Yen (~ $1MM) as the top result.
This is great guys. Indeed a very big problem.
Nobody is saying that. Income tax is progressive -- some say not progressive enough but still progressive. Sales tax is regressive.

Saying "half of all Americans don't pay taxes" is just wrong. The statement is "half of Americans don't owe any federal income tax". We all pay different taxes like sales tax, property tax (either directly or via rent), payroll tax, capital gains tax, state taxes, local taxes, etc, etc.
How do you track what's supposed to run and what's not, for example? Or the environment variables, or anything else you can set through the cli.
Because you get a refund for taxes paid which you didn’t owe. You pay an estimate over the course of the year based on how much your employer thinks you’ll make, then they (the IRS) refund you the difference if you make too little, or have sufficient deductions to further lower your tax bill.
A linear motor is essentially a stepper motor that has been unrolled. The Stator and rotor are flat. Kern uses them in really high end VMCs and the result is better position control and better rigidity.
The point of income tax isn't revenue - that comes from printing money, or from corporate taxes.

Income tax is basically a surveillance tool - it forces you to declare all your income sources, and a large part of spending (if you want to claim some tax breaks).
Treating all of your customers as suspects by default is an obvious way to endear them to you :p
All the religious people of the world are scared of being outed as evil pervs.
Used car prices was up something like 90% and even renting cars is way more expensive already. This is just going to further constrain supply.

I tried renting a car and despite being sold out in the vast majority of places well ahead of time it was 2x the normal base price.
So one part of the proposal breaks e2e encryption for Photos.app, and the other breaks it for Messages.
This is a shit take. Please refrain from commenting on things you are clueless about. I don't have time to explain macroeconomics to you, although I'd encourage you to study yourself. Suffice to say the government can not, and does not pay for itself by endlessly expanding the money supply. That is one tool it has, but if overused causes severe inflationary problems. One of the US's biggest strengths is the reliability of its currency to inflate at 2-3% a year.
I find this article to be extremely concerning. It paints "mainstream gay and lesbian culture" as mercenary, regressive and right-wing. The thesis seems to be supported by naming a few particular wealthy individuals who are themselves gay/lesbian - I hope I don't need to tell readers here that this does not constitute a defence, so much as an attack. Indeed the entire article seems to be positioned as if every fault that America currently has is down to the people who supported and fought for gay marriage.

I hope that the editorial team at Current Affairs are not under the impression that supporting free speech is akin to printing anything that anyone wants to say - in this case such an outpouring of vitriolic unkindness and bigotry might have been better confined to the dustbin.
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Why is it not affecting new car pricing as dramatically? And why would that continue? Used car prices cannot surpass new car prices surely, so at some point new car prices will be raised because of the low supply and high demand, or new car orders won't be fulfilled for months later
LOL a software company is more, so much more, than CI. I thought I was going to read something novel about using GitHub actions for tracking sales leads or customer success or something.
Do you mean removing income tax or also sales tax, property tax, etc?
I have, and it's really good, but it needs some investment in creating packages (if they don't exist) and has some annoyances (eg you can't talk to the network to preserve determinism). It felt a bit too heavy-handed for a few processes. We also used to use it at work extensively for all our production but migrated off it after various difficulties (not bugs, just things like having its own language).
It's a puzzle to me why companies like nvidia didn't just raise prices and instead left both customers and profit to the dirty world of scalpers.

I guess it's "brand damage" but I feel there would be something more fair and honest if in times of tight supply they ran their own ebay-like store and auctioned them off. It wouldn't feel like a price hike and prices could automatically settle as supply/demand reaches parity.
Im not sure if im missing something here, but from what I understand, what Apple is proposing is an enormous privacy boon that seems to be completely misunderstood.

All cloud providers are required to, and do, make these scans.

The proposal provides a way for them to comply with that requirement, but at the same time, allows them to completely lock themselves out of being able to decrypt your data in the cloud, except in this specific case, secured and controlled by your device.

This means they couldn't comply with a nation states demand to secretly decrypt your data, even if they were legally compelled too, unless they change how the cryptography at play here works.

Which I expect, would not go unnoticed.

Am I missing something?
> The Federal Reserve Bank, for example, responds quickly to changing market conditions

The Fed was established by Congress and the Chair is appointed by the President, however the Fed is still a private institution. That independence makes it a very different organization than what most people mean by government.
I had this realization after my second attempt at implementing Zettelkasten. Most of my job is managing people. I take notes and to-dos, but nothing on the scale that ZK facilitates. Even when I do IC work, I rarely take in depth structured notes.
DARPA funded the basic research. Then the actual Internet was largely built by for-profit private sector companies. That hybrid model seems to usually be the most effective for major new innovations.
How do you fund the framework that secures your rights?
About the pen, can you tell us more about what you'd like to see there? How would you like to use it?
Your hard disk was probably 20 MB, not 20 GB :)
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The first PC I had access to was a "French SMT-Goupil G4" with a 80186 inside:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intel_80186
Right, and that’s not a factor in insider trading charges.

If a firm - that also has an agnostic active trading strategy - gets any inside info they have to cut the active trading strategy for liability reasons. That’s a conclusion some firms have made, not whether the SEC will actually bother them in a quantum reality or whether they can successfully defend it.
All of those other taxes, other than some state taxes, are regressive.
At least two ways:

1. Refunds if you were overtaxed during the year. For instance, someone making $100k/year but was laid off in March or April when COVID closures started hitting may have had a large amount withheld that was refunded if they remained unemployed the rest of the year.

2. Your income is sufficiently low. If your income is below a certain threshold (or you just claim a lot of credits on your W-4) then nothing will be withheld. Common with minimum wage part-time jobs.
Thank you for this great explanation! I understand that the prolem is inherent in in web-ased security systems and not much can be done.

However, let's suppose that I packed the client functionality to an electron app (i.e executable with some signature) so the .js files doing the encryption/decryption would not be downloaded from the server each time but they would reside inside the electron app. Would that be better from a security standpoint against the attacks you mention or I'm missing something?
There was a point in time where the absolute best dollars/performance ratio was the AMD 386DX/40, which ran circles around the Intel 386DX/25 and 386DX/33, but was priced the same or less.

And was considerably less expensive than a very top end ($2500-3500 in 1992-1994 dollars) desktop built with something like a Pentium 60 or 66 MHz.

Inflation calculator tells me that a $2500 desktop PC in 1993 would be the same as about $4700 today. For 4700 you could build a real beast of a machine.