skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Social security is more of a forced 401k. You will get back the money (in theory), but yes, it's not progressive and impact the poor more than the rich. It's a bit of an iffy one. If the social security system rolled up into federal income tax, it would be much more progressive, but it would likely receive significant pushback in the political space (not knowing its history, I assume it was structured as a separate thing exactly for that reason. I should read up).

Still, the point still stand: federal income taxes are quite progressive, and would surprise most people who wave their angry fist asking for the rich to be taxed more. The problem is mostly at the state and local level.

The top 50% pays 97% of federal income tax.

If you include most types of taxes, including social security, you end up with something a little less polarized: the top 1% have an effective tax rate of a little under 34%, while the poors are around 20%. One could easily argue it's not progressive enough, but it's still not the usual narrative of "I pay more taxes than millionaires".

A a handful of ultra rich abuse loopholes to death to pay very little, and these people are averaged in the statistics (so the average rich person actually pays more than the stats show, if only a little). It's a minority though.
I pay $0.13USD per KWh in NH for electrical energy.
> Remove potatoes, rice, and bread, and you'll win with a super majority.

My problem with simplistic "rule of thumb" advice like this is that people will still eat a bunch of "healthy whole foods" like peanut butter and wonder why they aren't losing weight. Also, potatoes are practically a superfood - full of vitamins and minerals - and people should eat them (in moderation), not completely avoid them.

Knowing and tallying the caloric content of all the foods you're eating, either directly (by weighing your food) or indirectly (through a proxy like Weight Watchers points) seems to yield the best results.

Yes, this requires more effort than just "don't eat white bread."
Make it pass through to the shareholders.
Lucasfilm – Composing Digital Images (1984) [pdf]
Tax is the solution, though, because we should treat owner-occupied homes differently than investment homes. Owning a home to live in it should be more accessible than owning it for capital gains. The market doesn't and can't price in this externality any other way.
I disagree with this. I use Clojure and Clojurescript at my day job and know very little JS and virtually nothing from ES6 and beyond. The only time, that I can think of, that I actually needed to directly reference Javascript was when I was needing to do some downloading of files through an API call. I used some of the Google Closure classes as well as Blob. Other than that everything I need is already in a nice clojurescript wrapper over the javascript libraries.
Using the phrase "contagion fears" during a pandemic seems misguided.
Anecdotally, I live in rapidly growing, tech-friendly metro and track housing data in the area. The county assessor's office exposes homeowner's names and you can easily spot the "private equity" owners. They are very few and far between.

> The amount of private equity in housing

I think this issue is, at least at the moment, overstated. Could be a problem in the future though.
I'm in the Netherlands, if I fix my prices for a year now (I just finished my last year contract, usage: 4200kWh and 1200 m3 gas), they go up about 33% (135 to about 180 eur/month). It's a lot, but hardly eye-watering.. yet. 2 year contracts go up less (about 22%). Not sure what to do now. It's like the stock market but it's forced onto everybody.

Btw, I see gasoline is now 1.99 eur/litre at many stations along the highway, yet I've never seen the 2 eur mark crossed! It's like they are really reluctant to do that.
I recently started tracking my daily calorie intake with Noom, and I was very surprised at how easy it is to get to 2000 calories if the diet doesn't consist of low calorie dense foods. I'm now focusing more on eating foods that are have a higher water content and foods that have a good fiber content. If I am still hungry after eating those foods, then I go for something else. I also don't refrain from sweets of simple carbs, but I do try to make mindful decisions about how often to consume them.
If that's realtime, how is it possible for something so big to dissipate so quickly? I would've thought the flash would take anywhere from minutes to days to dissipate.
This is actually a huge deal because if others are anything like me, I paste into the run dialog to strip text formatting, before copying it elsewhere.

Haven't used Windows in a decade so not sure if there's a better way now.
I also worked on it at UniSoft, did maybe half the device drivers, plus the appletalk stack, autoconfig (loadable drivers), large screen support, console subsystem, kernel event manager for the mac world etc.

The early 68k systems used in the early macs only brought out 24 address bits, Apple did indeed use that memory for metadata - memory was tight - the first Macs had 128k, we were shipping Unix systems at UniSoft that ran in 256k.

I don't think anyone ever used NuBus memory :-)
Got mine a month ago! In rural Iowa.
It absolutely does provide a personal blog, you just have to pay $5/month.
Ask HN: Why haven't the vaccines been updated to combat the variants directly?
The kid, unless he is very stupid, won't falsely claim to have graduated. They don't background check you on things that you don't claim.

That said, I wonder if a university will confirm a partially completed degree. If not, it becomes something that rounds down to zero at anywhere that takes background checking seriously.
> Print 10% more money, that's 10% inflation.

No: If you're approved for a $100K loan, you are credited with $100K balance to draw from your account, and the money supply is recorded as going up by $100K.

But if you don't withdraw any money from the account (e.g., a HELOC that you intended only for emergencies), then how can it be inflationary if it's not circulating in the economy? But it is registered as increased money supply.
I don't get what it's missing other than a GUI. I can view stacktraces, view memory in various formats, create new commands on the fly or in .gdbinit... what are people missing?
Trick question, they're both censorship.
Those aren't really useful homes then.

The housing crisis is more accurately an imbalance of houses-to-jobs in a metro area.
Came across this paper, which is apparently the birthplace of the alpha channel, and it reminded me that many concepts I take for granted were actually invented at some point.
This is similar to lumens vs power. What we care about is a calorie normalized by the ability of the body to get usable energy out of it. Lightbulbs (lumens) are measured in useful (perceived) light created.
I love his descriptions of the different phenomena like symmetriads. One of the few books I've read that describes a truly alien intelligence. The often recommend Blindsight being the other one I can think of.
You might not have a problem with that, but some of us dislike knowing that monetizatization has to become omnipresent, as it changes everything.
In my country, doctors offices and hospitals are private entities. They're reimbursed by the government based on a fixed cost per procedure/service.
Hmm. I never got background checked. But I would also never put anything false. Honestly, you only have one life and university is a significant part of it. It has nothing to do with your job - nothing at all. A few decades down the line this will be clear.
It’s very much worth replacing a battery on year 3 if you’re planning on keeping an iPhone to end of life. Harder to justify on year 5+, but still a real quality of life improvement.
> Why multiply by physical activity level?

I was describing how TDEE is calculated. I wasn't telling you to multiple TDEE by something, TDEE has that multiplication built right in.

If you look at any TDEE calculator (of which there are hundreds) they'll ask you your PAL e.g.: https://tdeecalculator.net

More info on the PAL here:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Physical_activity_level

> Calorie density is the only thing I'd add to your recommendations.

I've seen more people successfully lose weight by NOT changing WHAT they eat than I have completely upending their diets and burning out. Then they return to their original diets and gaining it all back.

As long as you eat below your TDEE, you can eat whatever you want. If you want to only eat microwave mini-pizza, you do you. You can still lose weight that way even if it is objectively not healthy.

Volume eating may be a useful tool, but that's all it is, a tool. You cannot rely on volume to stay on the path.
Anyone who wants to run a high performance browser on minimal hardware. Eg browser on TV set top box, embedded point of sale device, etc.
The landing page looks great. But querying databases and sending emails isn't something I'd normally recommend doing in front-end code. This seems like it could easily be used to leak data and secrets by simply editing the lambda() code.
> If residency programs were profitable, these greedy profit-seeking entities would open them (the hospitals that don't currently run programs) or expand them (the hospitals that do). Except, they choose not to. That provides a contradiction between the logical conclusion of the assumptions and actual reality.

This seems to be the logical fallacy. Hospitals neither get to confer medical degrees nor award board certifications. They cannot just magically create residents out of thin air, they are restricted by supply. No amount of Matrix Architect speak makes them do so.

https://youtu.be/ZKpFFD7aX3c?t=81
Excel as code is a main spreading vector for bad practices like copy & paste, monolithic procedural monsters, bad databases with duplicate entries and so forth.

The reason why management cant perceive code-quality, is because there main tool, does not allow for good code-quality. In fact it does not even allow for abstractions..

If you ever wondered, why management does not blink and recoil one description of coding horrors..
I do wonder about the overall sustainability...
Intercom.io. They were a darling of HN for a while, combining chat and email (not video) into a single support stream. They've upped their prices quite a bit, but also expanded the product offering quite a bit. I've used them for many years at multiple companies and I'm still pretty happy. Dunno if there is something better in the market.
"Driveway"

"Winter backyard"

"forest with cats"

"<childname>'s first birthday"

"<name> and <name> at cottage"

It's ridiculous how powerful and indispensable this intelligent search is. I have tens of thousands of photos, growing every day. Being able to text search their contents is the killer feature that makes it useful. Apple's photo library is not useful without this.
Yes, because nothing would ruin Albania or Georgia more than a few tech workers siphoning profits from US into their local economies.
At the very least, an update like that would take quite some time to produce, validate and distribute.
I wonder, is there a similar metric that tracks the average monthly mortgage payment over time instead? I think for most people's purposes that's a more relevant number and won't have the confounding factor of interest rates (except to the extent that interest rates influence home prices, so maybe this would end up mirroring the case shiller index?)
"The same problem of the house price to income ratio shows there is as much of a housing shortage in rural America as well."

Not necessarily. You can't use the overall picture data to make claims about localized or subcategories of data. Especially if the bulk of the people live in suburban and urban areas.
I know in Berlin they consider themselves to be having a housing crisis but last I checked apartments in desirable districts of Berlin were like a quarter of Bay Area housing prices, for example < €1000/mo for a 2 bedroom / 50 m^2 apartment.
It mind-boggles me that microsoft are not investing in VBA more, its userbase is massive. Sure its old and has its problems but I'm sure continuing to develop it alongside more modern solutions would help them rather than hinder their efforts. Make it more similar to other things out there and eventually people will change over.
Markdown + Grep
How to Clear Woods for Free (Without a Back Hoe)
Also worth noting that "rare earths" aren't rare (nor are they earths), that's just their name.
Averaging 1200 over 3 days doesn't actually say anything about when you are eating and whether you are fasting.
Wikipedia is truly awful
> Housing is an investment asset for stock market folks, it doesn't follow a Econ-101 understanding of "supply" and "demand" in any meaningful way.

You are partially right that Econ-101 doesn't explain it well, but if you take Econ-201 it does explain how housing supply/demand works. Why it doesn't work as easy as 101 is that the location matters for the 'good' unlike say cars which can be shipped in from anywhere. And also zoning artificially constrains land from being used for housing.
When the world, and especially the US, will finally realize that MD pay is the minor problem and that the insane amount of bureaucracy, administrative staff and legal experts that surround MDs are the real issue, we'll finally be able to improve things. Right now, admins and legal dictate how to do my job and order me around. That's the problem right there: corporate culture. Which should not be a thing in healthcare.
A market correction has a specific technical meaning: a fall of 10% from the 52-week high.
I was a big fan when I lived in London, but I recently moved away to a new town that I don't know very well and on Friday it sent me on a 1hr walk that should have taken 25 minutes. When I looked at the route it took me afterwards, it made absolutely no sense at all.
This is something that Elizabeth Warren and her daughter Amelia covered in their book "The Two Income Trap." I'm aware that recommending a book by a political figure is fraught, but I'm not aware of any economists who took umbrage with the claim, either. They make the observation in chapter 1 that "Even as millions of mothers marched into the workforce, savings declined, and not, as we will show, because families were frittering away their paychecks on toys for themselves or their children. Instead, families were swept up in a bidding war, competing furiously with one another for their most important possession: a house in a decent school district."

Housing is a great way to establish a level of security for your family and kids; but there's a finite number of houses with proximity to good schools, jobs, and other necessary resources, and so families needed to dedicate larger and larger portions of their income to compete against other dual-income families that were bringing new money to the housing market.
Offloading/fencing the booty really is much more difficult than stealing/robbing it. Dramatisation of <http://enwp.org/Nationalmuseum_robbery> by the Internet historian: <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iPlFdIpgioI>
Thanks, yeah, I think in ansible and this thing, a role is how we apply some subset of the configs to a given host. I use salt states as roles more or less as well.

So a given host in the metadata will say that it has roles X, Y, Z - and there is a separate runable thing for each of those to configure each host that wants them.

I sorta want the config language to be python while still looking like a very simple playbook - so there shouldn't be like classes, functions, etc. Just a script you run top to bottom like salt states or ansible playbooks.

From your example, this is a bit closer to what I think Fabric is: http://www.fabfile.org/
Because A/UX requires an MMU, that means the only emulator that can run it is Shoebill.
Two, somewhat hypothetical questions, I'd have to answer first.

What would happen to the if everyone suddenly agreed that there was a hard-cap to how much the global economy can grow; Especially if that cap was somewhat near to where we are today?

How do you solve the core problem of "climate change" (which I'll define here as the unsustainable use of natural resources) without essentially implementing a hard cap of the global economy. This question isn't just about electricity versus oil. It's about trash, disposable (or planned obsolescence) consumer goods, fish/wildlife, forests, ect...

You could interpret the change in climate is just a single symptom of this runaway train. And any effort to pull the brakes is likely to cause the whole train to derail and crash. Maybe we'll make it to mars before then. Or maybe there will be a massive decrease in human life (war or another pandemic) and this whole question will solve itself.
His tactics are of the time, his strategy is timeless. Among individuals and their business, like Rockefeller, Edison, Bell Telephone, etc., monarchy monopolies are nothing new. The US regulation systems have been in arms race with these giants since the late 19th century. Theil is just an angry genius who needs therapy. Yes, Gawker outing him was wrong, but everything I've read about the guy, and even listening to him talk, he sounds driven by anger. Like Esther Perel (the relationship expert who proudly states married couples should have clandestine affairs). Whether that's good or bad is up for debate.

And this, his jobs out of college:

"A job at a white-shoe firm failed to translate into a Supreme Court clerkship, as he’d expected, and a stint as a derivatives trader at Credit Suisse in Manhattan didn’t pan out."

Seriously, the dude's brilliant.

This cracked me up:

“Musk thinks Peter is a sociopath, and Peter thinks Musk is a fraud and a braggart.”
Python 3 was an attempt to remove cruft but it was drawn out and somewhat painful.

Apple on the other hand has managed to reinvent itself successfully several times by controlling its vertical tightly, and each time it does it there’s a natural shedding of cruft. I remember every single architectural move — 68k to PPC to Intel and now to ARM, executed impeccably each time. Moving a developer ecosystem with the times is truly one of the harder things but Apple seems to have managed to pull it off each time.
I used an exaggerated ratio to drive the point home. To clarify, I'm not talking as much about absorption, more-so about things like how a macronutrient affects insulin sensitivity.

Carbohydrates decrease insulin sensitivity more than protein and unsaturated fats would. Decreased insulin sensitivity means increased insulin resistance.

"Having insulin resistance means that the walls of the cells within the body that need to take in glucose for energy, have a much-lowered sensitivity to insulin. This makes it harder for the cells to receive the necessary glucose through the cell wall.

That glucose then remains in the bloodstream, resulting in high blood sugar levels, which the liver then has to manage. When this excess sugar reaches the liver, it is converted to fat. The fat cells leave the liver via the bloodstream and cause weight gain. If left unmanaged this can lead to obesity."
> Live among people you disagree with -- we're all still Americans, it'll be OK

I grew up in the American south, and migrated to California as an adult. As a Black person I can say this doesn’t work as well in practice. It’s better than the old days (when my mom was growing up segregation was still legal and the military warned her parents to be back on base before sunset.) But I’d much rather live in a welcoming area.
It's not even a case of being RESTy or not.

A GET request with a `?chapter=1` argument is more correct than POST because then it's cacheable by browsers, proxies or middleware clients, and thus respects the spirit of the HTTP protocol.

Only if the Qur'an is immutable, that is.
Residents work 12+ hour days six to thirteen days in a row. Sometimes the days are longer.

After ten hours you’re not learning. You’re existing and enduring.

Right now medical students are applying to 80+ residencies, and even at top schools some are failing to match.

The system is incredibly broken.
You're confusing "inside of me" as "consumed".

I can stick my fist in my mouth, but no one would say I've consumed 100 (?) calories of fist.

Also, 400 calories of steak is roughly 6oz.
400 calories of tomatoes is about 20 tomatoes. Or about 80oz.

It's better to say that every calorie taken in is a calorie that must be accounted for. So if you're lactose intolerant and drink a cup of milk, we can account for that milk when you blow it out of your ass in a bit.
> What if you were the .1%? I think any amount of unjustified seizure of money from citizens is unacceptable.

I think that's fine. It is not like judgement is 100% correct. We prefer the current system that might convict an innocent to a complete lack of a system. Doesn't mean there's no room for improvement. But also doesn't excuse using two incomparable metrics.
> The 26-49th percentile of people who have some money but no insurance are the people screwed by the current system.

Or they have insurance through their employer who continually changes plans every year in a never ending game of pay the lowest rates possible. The alleged insurance company then provides you with one of two shitty bronze or silver plans. The silver plan is so costly that low paid employees cant afford it so they opt for the bronze thinking it covers just enough to help in an emergency (And the dipshit selling you the plan will tell you it will). Now when your cheapskate employer dumps one plan for another, the new plan might not be accepted by your current doctor so you have to find a new doctor. Then when you have an actual emergency you find your shit plan doesn't cover things like ambulance rides (those are like fucking $1500+), your medication because it's a tier 1 medication and not a generic, or some other stupid edge case. Finally, you spend the following months sifting through one unpaid bill after another as the insurance company does everything it can to not pay. To add insult to injury, your doctors now mark you as having shit insurance. So when you go back for follow up visits you have to sit and wait while your doctor's assistant asks your lords and masters of health and wellness at DontPay Ins Co if they will pay for a test or procedure turning an hour visit into a half day affair.

Fuck the USA health insurance system. I want everyone involved in keeping it this way, DEAD.
That actually doesn't sound half-assed. Just unfortunate. It sounds banal, but by the numbers, given enough time putting yourself out there trying different things you'll accrue more connections with people who aren't complete assholes. There are many like you who just want to meet nice people.
Japanese asset prices would otherwise be deflating, so the "infusion" has absolutely had an effect.

The CAD has tracked the USD pretty closely in terms of value so even if there wasn't explicit QE there was definitely sufficient inflation to devalue the Canadian dollar.
This is the first I've heard of "pick", but it looks like it's missing a lot of the interactive features of fzf. Those features are what make fzf good for building UIs.
> Random examples of attacks through a non-https site with kitten articles

None of those attacks work unless you whitelist the site to run javascript, and if you are dumb enough to do that, those are all attacks you should be worried about the site itself deploying even if it is on https.
Lyn covers this topic fairly well in her article on Japan[0]. In short, private debt in Japan has shrunk by 300 trillion yen over the past 25 years. The growth of the money supply is all coming from public debt.

It matters who gets the new money and what they spend it on.

[0]: https://www.lynalden.com/economic-japanification/
Amazing on both the N64 and the Dreamcast!