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I just filed my taxes on Friday, the last date of the extension. When you change the tax code 3 times in one year, after overhauling it a few years earlier, it can complicate the ability to report.

Also the 2020 tax code changes allowed for 100% deductions against your income for donations to some kinds of non-profits. That plus being able to withdraw from 401ks, plus having large drops in income, means many people would not have anything to pay. You can always spend more than you earn (on certain things) and nullify your taxes that year. You just have to have more than you earn already, whether its savings, credit card debt, or other capital. So it should be obvious thats not an experience most people ever have, if they are barely making ends meet to cover living costs monthly. But its always available.
Do you have recent real examples? 98% of the time for me both DDG and Google pull up the same Wikipedia article or Stack Overflow answer or Github repo or news story. Occasionally I still do "!g" or "!gi" in DDG to see what Google has but less and less.
There isn't any particular reason why Amazon might not decide one day to copy Cloudflare as one of their services.

And then all clients of Cloudflare that are also AWS clients will switch to AWS for the same service, same cost, but one less headache.

On the other hand, Cloudflare is unable to copy AWS business model.

So, revised title: "AWS is playing chess, Cloudflare is playing Go on a board and time borrowed from Amazon"
> I don't know if it's good or not

Then "preying" might not be such a good way to phrase it. In any case, it's really not recent. Info products have been suggested for years as a faster way to have a product you can sell than developing software.

And there is a genuine need: there are many people who want to learn about technology but don't know where to start. "How-To" guides are a good hand-on introduction to many topics.

I've considered writing a few based on the demand I've seen, but my heart really isn't into teaching.
Hacker News is the perfect place to discuss ridiculous points of view :)
HiDPI on Linux is certainly not as good as MacOS (from what I've heard) or Windows but it can be decent. If you are on Wayland than display scaling both integer and fractional works pretty well. Scaling older X11/Xwayland applications can be a bit of a pain so sometimes those windows look blurry.

4K itself without any scaling works perfectly fine so I typically try to get laptops and monitors with a DPI between 100 and 140 so that I don't have to worry about scaling. Higher resolutions on smaller screens i.e laptops also use more power anyway.
90 wasn’t a phone, 180 and 180g were for different carriers if I remember correctly, and the 270 was their new model that replaced the 180.
You might want to prefer !sp to !g if you want Google results without compromising privacy. Startpage is just a privacy proxy for Google results.
> Are you implying that shedding does not correlate with being symptomatic?

No, I'm saying being vaccinated correlates with having fewer or no symptoms, which leads to different behavior.

> Your second link does not invalidate the first, and that seems to support vaccinated recover faster, hence they have less time to spread.

The crucial period is the first few days, especially before symptom onset. If you are symptomatic, you are probably at home after this period.

> I've came across the UK weekly reports, there's still much controversy on the population data used in those reports

Good point, I stand corrected. That said, data from Israel also suggests little to no reduction in infections among vaccinated.

> The question is genuine, what are the assumptions that would support mass vaccination, instead of only people at risk of severe cases, and have been proven wrong?

The wrong assumption is that vaccines "protect others" and that they will substantially reduce infections. If they actually did substantially reduce infections, we should observe that effect everywhere - we don't. Whatever reduction there is, it's likely counter-acted by the modified behavior of the people who still rely on these assumptions to be true. Either way, none of it justifies mandatory vaccination, or the scapegoating of the vaccine hesitant.
ThinkPads overall tend to have great Linux support. Being AMD-only tends to improve that. The wireless networking drivers and sometimes features like brightness adjustment and Fn-based functionality are where there tends to be issues on early release but they are usually addressed quickly as adoption increases and more kernel devs look into reported issues.

I'd love to buy some of these and do full-on reviews but the funding isn't there yet. AMDNow! currently makes me exactly zero dollars.
yeah that largely accounts for the racial wealth gap as well (though not completely). As median age by race varies by over a decade.
It'd be interesting to scale it up significantly. Maybe it would carry more weight? I don't know the legalities involved, but I've heard of some international mail order prescription drugs getting intercepted by the government. Are the laws more permissive when bringing prescriptions prescribed to the traveler, on their person?

Imagine a charter bus that takes a full load of people once per month from the US to Canada from regionally close cities (e.g. Chicago, Cleveland, Seattle, and New York) for insulin and other critical but expensive prescription drugs. The bus takes them to a pharmacy, everyone unloads and picks up their prescriptions, then loads back into the bus. Everything is called in, pre-arranged with the pharmacy for a streamlined operation.

It's a really stupid situation and possible solution that shouldn't be viable. Unfortunately, it probably could be done.
And getting treatment for myeloma.
OK, I actually read the Lenovo paper and it seems fine.

One big difference with what I'm trying to claim is that what I'm saying considers only the power use of the CPU itself: i.e., the thing whose power use varies with frequency. From the CPU manufacturer's point of view, that's all they can really do.

The Lenovo paper is looking at total system power, and the way they calculate efficiency includes the system power in the efficiency calculation. This pushes the efficiency point well above what you'd get from looking at the CPU alone.

Both approaches are right some of the time: on a laptop where the rest of the system is running regardless, you probably want to consider only the CPU power in the efficiency calculation: if your CPU work finishes more quickly it's not going to stop the draw from the screen, wifi chip, etc.

OTOH on a server if you size your fleet based on the total work, you should really use total power since if your work takes less time you need fewer total servers (or fewer cloud CPU hours, etc) so the system power is also saved.
How do you do that? I'm a huge DDG fan and am 99% degoogled, force myself to use DDG every couple of weeks but always end up back at Google, because from my experience it's just miles better. Don't want to hate on DDG though, since there is obviously a massive gap in resources between both projects.
Programming is like making a jigsaw puzzle entirely though, you have to decide what printed photo to use, puzzle dimensions, how many pieces, what cuts, etc. Too much mental energy.

Reverse engineering is just like solving a jigsaw puzzle, except I'm just staring at disassembly &/ decompiler views and renaming things to figure out how they fit together.
Isn't this a truism though. If most Americans could get to the top 10% then it wouldn't be the top 10%.
> poor people remain poor because they make bad choices

Not sure where it was called a bad choice. It's simply a preference for consumption today over asset accumulation. For most people, that's a fine and comfortable way to live.
I like Reuters. I'm not sure how unbiased they are on UK news, but for US and global news they seem fairly straight.
Apple Announces Redesigned Third-Generation AirPods
“ I accidentally loaded vi by mistake. How do I quit?”

“ press ctrl-c”

Perhaps it couldn’t cope with the concept of accidentally loading the best text editor
Why Fewer Plugins Mean More Performance
Thanks for sharing. I run my 4k monitor at home at 1:1 so I don't use (and don't need) scaling, but nice to hear someone else had some experience with it. I always worry about the lag on desktop features with Linux, but I've generally not had problems in recent years with Fedora, for example.
Relatively speaking, Amsterdam doesn't make that much money from tourists. In a city center that is completely overcrowded, there is no net gain of having even more people.

Tourists are good for certain local business. Mostly low quality bars, restaurants, shops. Anything more upscale doesn't benefit from an endless stream of people who seem to have nothing better to do than just walk around.

Without tourists, buildings would quickly fill with residents. Bars, restaurants, and shops have to up their game to sell to local people.

Obviously, there is no reason to get rid of all tourists. But restricting the number of tourists to avoid an overcrowed center is a good idea.
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Really? I doubt that the median income household goes on international vacations every year, whereas that is a luxury both the 10th and 1th percentile can afford to enjoy. Sure the 10th percentile might have to pick 2 of the 5 luxuries enjoyed by the 1%, but thats more than someone at the median could enjoy.

Things get messier if you include assets, but speaking just to income percentiles...
Oh, why?
It seems cloudflare makes about 500M in revenue. So their price/revenue is like 100, ouch. The market seems to believe cloudflare will do very well.
> People buy cars rarely. Ferrari doesn't sell many cars. Ferrari has product market fit.

Not by the formal definition of having strong demand. The demand for Ferraris is weak, but the equally restricted supply allows Ferrari profitability anyway.

The demand for food is exceptionally strong, but the vast supply makes profitability very difficult.

> Product market fit is one thing. Market size is another. Frequency of purchase is another. Competitive advantage is another.

They are separate things, but all come together to make up what we call demand. Product market fit hinges on demand, not those variables alone.
Sure, but the reason for that isn’t that they simply haven’t lived long enough to accure wealth. Younger generational cohorts have less than their parents did at the same age.
I think demonizing so called privilege is cultural suicide, because most of what "privilege" amounts to is parents caring for their children and passing on successful cultural values. You don't want to foster cultural movements that discourage this behavior if you want a functioning society.
Removed the price reference to focus on the article's main point. Honestly it's a bit frustrating when you've spent hours researching something and reached the HN front page to have someone tear you apart over a small speculation at the bottom of the piece. But that's HN, I guess.

Thank you for the correction.
Even as a technical term, income has like 5 different meanings and contexts in the tax code, only sometimes distinguished by adjectives such as "ordinary", "adjusted gross", "modified adjusted gross", etc

So its very easy to use this to your advantage and appeal to emotion, when convenient, or pass tougher tax laws that never affect you, which is even more convenient.
Dear Netflix: please don't cave to the faux outrage machine.
"though" -> thought

>a speech he gave at an internal Australian government seminar in August 2017.

So, a bit dated, but lays out cultural history in amazing detail.
The median 55-64 year old has <70k balance in their 401k, and that is of people who even have a 401k (many don't).

Source: https://www.personalcapital.com/blog/retirement-planning/ave...
I believe git just uses the gpg commandline; in a quick grep of the source I don't see it use any GnuPG includes/functions at all (and gpg-interface.c just runs pipe_command()), but maybe I missed it.
dw.com might be an interesting source for english speakers interested in international news from a German POV. Basically party of our public broadcasting infrastructure targeted at international readers.
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No one is getting rich by diverting that $13.99/mo Netflix subscription -- that's $168 a year -- into asset purchases.

As a nearby comment said better than I could (thanks whakim! for https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28907429 ), the "culture of poverty" idea has been discredited for decades, yet it persists because it's certainly easier to blame individuals than change a system that so severely disfavors them.
There was a free license for individual users, with the non-free license applicable to those who were receiving financial support (i.e. academic / industry researchers, etc.). The individual license was very popular and heavily utilized.
A lot of websites scrape Medium without the authors having any idea, I assume it is another one of those
The P14 has reasonable ram configurations from what I can tell. Its insane to think that 16G max on a 16 thread processor is enough for any serious workloads that scale with core count (aka a lot of them) as is provided with the T14. But I still don't get why lenovo still provides _soldered_ ram at all on the T/P series machines, I've been repeatedly gimped by that with my work provided machines (besides the inability to match timings when the socket has 2x the capacity installed/etc).

But what I really want to know is where the full bios manual is, so that I can see if its possible to enable S3 standby. My use case for a laptop generally involves putting it in my bag overnight/etc and I expect the battery to basically be where I left it over the weekend/etc. I've yet to have a "modern standby" machine that can pull that off without hibernating the machine. Frequently even with hibernation it will wake repeatedly and drain the battery anyway. Toss in the fact that i've not had good luck with AMD machines power savings and that makes it doubly important that S3 works.

The lack of a pre-installed linux option doesn't provide much confidence.

Acer and some of the smaller vendors seem to be the only ones providing a full suite of BIOS options on their machines (they also have two dimm slots). The problem is that their machines are plasticy and have crummy form factors.
Everybody has the right to a achieve a decent life, yes, I'm not advocating giving a Mercedes Benz to any street bum. But the former is becoming harder and harder these days solely because all resources are in the hands of the few who do not contribute anything, risk nothing and take in more and more.

And I advocate robbing anyone? No, I advocate pointing the finger to the robbers instead. I withdraw the benefit of the doubt I have given you earlier, you are very unreasonable and dogmatic in your views. Look around you from time to time, you're going to see a lot more people failing who should have not, hard working people with good work ethic.
Obviously it can make things easier. But i will never develop a „personal brand“. It cringes me out af.

In the end, it‘s just marketing. A good personal brand would give some kind of authority to all your projects. I‘d rather build multiple brands and take longer.

I prefer software from people who don‘t make everything about themselves.

But: yeah, obviously a good engaged twitter followership will give you more reach.
But you don‘t need them. Just need different ways of marketing.
This is the problem. Rental stock isn't being added. Private residences are being built that are then bought up by private landlords rather than people who actually want to live there. Private landlords then rent those properties out at a profit, because the yield is good enough for them to do so. This leaves fewer properties available to buy.

You can argue about whether buying property is a good model or not: in lots of countries in Europe it's not considered the norm, but I'm talking specifically about the UK where it is. Having more rental properties here is fine, but it's also not necessarily what people here want: many people want to buy their homes, and it's better that they do so in a market that isn't skewed by private landlords mopping up large quantities of property. In some parts of the country, though as I've already acknowledged it's unclear to me that this applies to Cambridge, AirBnb (and holiday homes in a more general sense) are a significant contributor to a lack of available property for long-term residents, or people who want to be long-term residents.
> But landing on this conclusion was only possible when West reframed her vision of the galaxy—literally. While most researchers look at maps of the Milky Way with the North Pole at the top and the galactic center in the middle, West told Motherboard that redrawing this map from a different perspective, with a different center point, made viewing the connection between the NPS and the Fan Region easier. Because the structures are too far away to ever possibly visit by spaceship, she relies primarily upon computer models and telescopes for her assessments. West likens the work to drawing a three-dimensional rendering of your own house while stuck on your couch, unable to leave.

This seemed like the salient paragraph in the Vice article. Beyond that, /u/katalasm link to the paper is the next step.

[1] https://arxiv.org/pdf/2109.14720
I just set up Unraid and it's so, so much more than I expected it to be. I had no idea it had this whole docker app ecosystem. I thought it was just some big NFS drive pool share server.

I replaced Proxmox with it but I haven't done any VFIO virtualization with it yet as it's running on older hardware whereas my Proxmox was running on a ryzen w/ dual RTXs. I'll probably keep my Proxmox disk around but I am so impressed with Unraid. I'm doing the Unraid Argo tunnel from Ibracorps guide (https://ibracorp.io/).
As long as there hasn't been any significant changes in population or agriculture in the region in the last 500 years it's no big deal
I made https://studio.polotno.dev/ as a Canva alternative with login-less workflow.
Like the other replies here, I disagree. I am in coastal Southern California and we enjoy a fair degree of water independence, but even so up until recently drought conditions affected us greatly. I am thankful that my municipality got a desal plant up and running as that has relieved us of a lot of the 'please conserve water' messaging we used to get, which is now gone.

This is also a gentle reminder that the majority of water use here is agricultural, and that a large share of that usage goes to almond production -- which is one of the thirstiest (and most profitable) plants around. If our agribusiness switched to more economical crops the severity of the drought might be greatly lessened.
I feel like you aren't well informed on why removing the GIL results in a single-threaded performance hit. And while I think it's always nice to keep in mind the developer effort required, it's not the only cost as GIL removal has been done before (several times, even as far back as Python 1.5 [1]).

The crux of the issue (as I understand it) is that the GIL absolves the Python interpreter of downstream memory access control. You can replace the GIL with memory access controls of various strategies, but the overhead of that access control is just that: overhead. In a multi-threaded program the concurrency gains should outweigh that overhead, but in a single-threaded one it's just extra work that wasn't being done before.

Which brings us back to no free lunch. It turns out that the claim "10%" faster without the GIL is actually a result of Gross (GIL removal author) doing a multitude of unrelated performance improvements. These performance improvements increase performance enough that the performance of single-threaded no GIL code (with overhead) is ~10% higher than today. But as Guido pointed out, the core developers could upstream the performance improvements without the GIL removal:

> To be clear, Sam’s basic approach is a bit slower for single-threaded code, and he admits that. But to sweeten the pot he has also applied a bunch of unrelated speedups that make it faster in general, so that overall it’s always a win. But presumably we could upstream the latter easily, separately from the GIL-freeing part. [2]

[1] https://docs.python.org/3/faq/library.html#can-t-we-get-rid-...

[2] https://lwn.net/ml/python-dev/CAP7+vJJ1hzXiyDwVs6-eXed+DtodH...
> Here's an academic article on how ancient Rome influenced the writing of the US Constitution

Influenced. Not modeled on. Every republic since Cæsar has been influenced by Rome, including but not limited to its discussion on the relative benefits of monarchy, oligarchy and democracy.
If you’re going to be that pedantic about it, you also never stated that joe ate anything at all, maybe joe paid for apps and just sat there while everyone else ate.

At this point I’m not sure what your point is if its truly your assertion that none of my assumptions were valid. (My assumptions being that we are talking about who assumes responsibility for paying for the benefits of society/governance)
Halt and Catch Fire – Soundtrack (Season 1)
I bought a 4k ThinkPad X1 Carbon in 2019 and I love it, but in retrospect I totally should've bought the 1440p model. On a 14" screen you just don't appreciate the resolution.
7-Foot Harambe Statue Stares Down Wall Street's Charging Bull
The problem isn't 'function' color, it's thread vs coroutines.

Go doesn't have a problem with function color because they are all coroutines and can suspend on any library call.

Java doesn't have a problem calling or waiting on any function, but it does suffer from thread usage if done too much. This is due to a lack of coroutines.

JavaScript/Node somehow decided that the main thread isn't like all the other coroutines. This is the problem. Make them all coroutines as is done in Go, with the same caveat that if the main one exits the 'program' ends, so it should await anything it needs to.
Something seems to get lost in translation from the premise of "increase efficiency and decrease your team size by letting the AI have a first pass at the data" and the execution of "well we have this fancy AI we can just fire everyone who used to touch this data"
Market cap. has little meaning nowadays especially in tech. It's just a pumped-up number. You could talk about revenue but that's a different discussion.
I'm curious, after having done a significant amount of Haskell, I have flipped that opinion. The biggest difference is how the types help make things explicit and clear.

(although, IMO, I think purity makes a very large impact here too)
When Mozilla's own site killed my their own browser with a javascript infinite loop, I knew enough is enough and installed noscript and disabled scripts by default, and web unironically became a better place.
Apple announces redesigned AirPods with spatial audio
Sounds like somebody who doesn't know what NIMBY means. Seriously, go and look it up before you throw your cheap and uninformed shots around. They aren't welcome here (and, yes, I note that you're hiding behind a throwaway account to do it, so you're gutless as well as ignorant).
If you like Postgres, you may want to try TimescaleDB, which is a time-series database built on Postgres (packaged as a Postgres extension). Postgres database + time-series database all in one.

This btw is one of the reasons I love Postgres - its extensibility.

(Disclaimer: TimescaleDB cofounder)
Thank you. I was going to explore usage if R2 or B2 for elasticsearch "cold-index" storage. R2 seems more ideal for better egress.
Issue #25: The US Repo Market
I suspect that you might mean esbuild (not eslint).
Taiwan is 100 miles of the coast of mainland China. China doesn’t need massive ships to invade Taiwan.

It can invade it with inflatable rafts if push comes to shove and since the mainland is 100 miles away it’s well within the range of rocket artillery and air assets.