skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> You know what's even dumber? Having a product that can vary in price 1000x or more...and taxing it by volume, instead of by its price.

To be fair, this is just an excise tax on production. In most jurisdictions you'll also pay a percentage based sales tax on that as well. If you buy a bottle costing 2x as much, you'll pay 2x as much sales tax. Everywhere I've lived has had a pretty high sales tax on alcohol, in my current state I pay sales tax plus a volume based supplementary tax, the latter can get pretty high at $11.28 per gallon of distilled liquor.

Sales tax on discretionary and luxury products like this tend to be one of the few taxes that's actually somewhat progressive, given that the rich tend to consume a lot more in terms of dollar amount. Although in the case of alcohol, this would also hit addicts pretty hard.

> Even taxing alcohol at different rates just because it's made with specific fruits is idiotic. It smacks of lobbyists buying off their congressional reps to get a rival sub-industry slapped with a higher tax. Just tax alcohol by its value, across the board at the same rate.

Honestly, I think this is more about class than anything else. There is a long, sordid history of societies deciding that one type of alcohol is acceptable and classy, while another is base and to be suppressed. Usually the actual amount consumed doesn't seem to be a factor; nobody ever seems to get too mad at middle class and rich people for day drinking mimosas for example. My favorite cultural representation of this is "Beer Street and Gin Lane", which is both entertaining to me in its absurd hyperbole, and because I'm rather partial to gin.

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

Personally, I'm mixed on what I think an ideal alcohol tax would be. It seems to me that we now have the ability to track the actual volume of pure ethanol created and sold, something that recently post-prohibition regulators probably were not capable of doing[0]. On the flip side I do think that there is some social utility in driving up the cost of high proof distilled alcohol via tax; the time before prohibition really shows that cheap distilled spirits tends to make a bit of a mess of things. This could probably be accomplished by a progressive taxation system per gram of ethanol based on the ABV above a certain point.

Thankfully most cider is pretty damned good at 2.5 to 3 volumes of CO2.

0 - The inputs into the fermentation process are a pretty good way to estimate what percentage of alcohol you'll get back out on average, which can be used as a rough means to regulate based on ABV if you lack the technical or governmental capability to test, track, and tax such things. Not all alcohol tax rules seem to use it this way though, such as the difference between cider and sparkling wine based on CO2 volumes, even if it's created by artificially carbonating it.
64GB memory, 8TB SSD puts you at $6k, plus $500 in taxes. Add on 3 years of AppleCare coverage for $399 and you're basically there.
How the Microcomputer Changed History: The Legacy of the BBC Micro
Maybe its certain customizations that needed that much lead time, whereas a base model did not
Apple Announces M1 Pro and M1 Max
>Wow looks like Apple has abandoned every bad decision on the MBP for the past 5 years in one swoop. No touchbar, increased key travel, added back hdmi/sd/headphone/power jacks.

It's taken two years to fully undo Jonathan Ive's obsessions.
There is no heavenly mandate for the US to have this population density. The reason Americans live like this is not that it's the most effective use of land or energy. When we talk about car dependency, it doesn't mean go ride a bus in your suburb, that doesn't work. It means let's abolish out of date and discriminatory zoning laws. Let's introduce density to the city and bypass interstate traffic.
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Please tell me whether you know wtf Nodemap is by the end of your vissit. Greatly appreciated :)
Also collection rates for PET bottles is above > 90% in Japan. Some are recycled, other are "thermal recycled" that means just burn as a fuel. (IMO just burn is better because it works as a fuel instead of brand new fuels)

https://ccet.jp/events/growth-pet-bottle-recycling-japan
Ansys Gets into Open Source with GitHub
>it's very confusing why one is prescribed all the time, and the other is considered incredibly dangerous. The U.S.'s perspective on drugs is so very backwards.

The lobbying system. Aka legalized corruption.
Sadly, the way corporations work, even if Google did steal that concept, that lawsuit would still be dismissed. Corporations are untouchable. I imagine that suing a big corporation must feel like trying to "talk to one of their representatives" to resolve a grievance/mistake and being put on hold. Then when you finally reach someone they tell you that there is nothing they can do... And there is nobody in the universe who can do anything about the injustice done against you.

As their litigation backlog grows, and as resentment grows, they are increasingly impervious to the law. Too big to fail, too big to sue.
Taco Bell is hiring. Seriously, complaining about a job that pays way more than most people make because (surprise!) companies exist to make money and most products are dumb comes off as naive or whining. Use your money and free time to do something useful and gratifying.

Don’t “be” a software engineer. Be a person who can make a living writing software. A job isn’t an identity.
The Original Macintosh PowerBook and Laptop Innovation
This is a really useful overview from which I gained some new insights. I appreciate you taking the time.
Who is debugging your page and what typed in the console
I don't think you got my joke. I would be surprised to learn that millions of black people didn't find this scene hilarious. However, if there was a transwoman joke, no transwoman would find it funny. The hair trigger outrage of a lot of transwomen is funny to me, but I have nothing against any transperson for any reason.
How does one use this with something like a Synology NAS? Or is that not really the intended workflow? I’m imagining something like a local backup plus a backup to cloud.
I work at a Crypto startup. I'm facing similar issues getting friends to join the company, even though we have funding. But it's a mix of "don't want to work at a startup" and "crypto is snake oil".

We just do crypto analytics, and we aren't a wallet service, so while our domain is crypto, the work is largely writing CRUD apps and pipelines in airflow. While I'm trivializing the work, the nature is largely this. It's the same everywhere, really. I wonder if everyone things crypto companies = Cryptocurrency = snake oil. It's sad really. There are some amazing problems in this space that need all the brightest developers it can get.
Show HN: An Algorithm to Create a Generalized CSS Selector from 2+ Element
People always repeat this but I have never understood why. Is there any reason to believe that a well configured and maintained instance of Redis is more prone to data loss than a similar setup of any traditional database software?
The notch issue can probably be fixed though just by turning it off and that area will just be black space. I hate the notch too so I'll probably just do that.
> They are going after the German Sedan market where performance has been always their upsell for higher prices (think M-Series or AMG)

The German Sedan market has something Tesla does not nor it will in next 10 years or longer - the build quality. They are just laughingly bad comparing to German trio, in every assembly/build aspect. Once they reach somewhat comparable level of quality (and that's a big if), the trio will have well established EV offering
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Why wouldn’t aliens work in a simulation model? The universe could be a shared sandbox to cross pollinate models or expose them to similar realities. Hah.
thats the issue with windows (and linux). highdpi displays are still rare (i did say: <10%), hence a lot of developers dont support it well in their applications.
on mac however highdpi is the default.all apps i have used that is native macosx works fine.
Ah yeah, I remember that being pretty hard. It has been a long time since I set up TR.

I think the tricky file to find was ~/.config/openmw/openmw.cfg and it needed to che changed to include:

fallback-archive=PT_Data.bsa
fallback-archive=TR_Data.bsa

and

content=Tamriel_Data.esm

Then everything else was managed with the openmw-launcher UI. The game ended up installed in ~/.local/share/openmw/ with some funky setup to deal with mods.
> It's well known that no one really programs in C++.

I interview C++ programmers for my day job, and no, this isn't true at all.

I think you're just repeating internet memes.
No. I don't understand it well enough. So far with the limited knowledge I have, it seems like a decentralised ponzi scheme.
This looks great! I'm a sucker for trying out these front-ends to local collection served up via my Raspberry Pi.

So far my favourite has been zmusic-ng, by the creator of WireGuard: https://git.zx2c4.com/zmusic-ng/about/
Header-Only C++ Graph Library
Maps tools actually work extraordinarily well in denser cities. They find you the best bus and transit times. They allow you to use mixed mode transportation like bicycles in between while your enjoy the city. Arguably this is a richer experience than a route only accessible with car, for which a paper map would have been just fine. The maps business also thrives where businesses are accessible to people, not where cars are whooshing past them. So I don't think they're enthusiastic about cars either.
>Damn, I liked the touchbar :-(

If Apple had released computers with the touch bar above the existing physical function keys, everyone would love it and other companies would provide a similar feature, the same way that they have all converged on the same industrial design as what Apple pioneered 20 years ago.

Instead, Jony Ive insisted on the touch bar replacing the function keys, and here we are. At least the butterfly switches are finally dead. (It only took years of worldwide embarrassment and Ive's departure to make it happen!)
That sounds wrong. YouTube is by an order of magnitude the first video streaming platform on the way. I doubt that, were way to rake all Spotify's audience they would make even a significant portion of their video ad revenue.
I'm not sure I understand how this would help if a user wants to stay mobile or what does this have to do with 'better investments'.

What does saparate machine for work has to do with "compilation speeds" in the first place?
I use restic, so far it has worked very well.

https://restic.net/
Perfect Dark: Is this the best vs-code Dark theme yet?
I just made a vs-code theme which might be the best dark theme yet, with priority on usability and coding experience rather than being cute, contrasting colors...

>> To install: in vs-code extensions search "perfect-dark".
Algebraic datatypes, which naturally begets Option and Either, predate OCaml.
Eh, I use hincrby and hincrbyfloat to increment an integer in a hash..
I like the idea, when I'm about to start writing I often prepare by reading an exemplary author. I focus above all on their form, how they begin, pace and punctuate sentences. But I think the tool, while interesting, isn't quite as helpful - just seeing the punctuation by itself is gobbledegook to me.
What you should be more uncomfortable with is the fact that there's basically no way to exfiltrate that data in any cost-effective, practical manner and there's zero recourse if a backup storage company goes "oops" and loses all your data or one day decides to just close up shop.
I have the same problem. I've read that this is because Google is no longer returning results from indexing the web, it's returning results that people usually click on when searching similar things. Which is why you can search exact titles of webpages or exact text in quotes and it will fail to return the page in question.
They don't even need to keep the hard drive spinning since there are no guarantees of immediate access. They can keep them off and spin them up when you need to download a backup.
Even dumber is the practice of banning things. For example, California is banning gas powered leaf blowers and chain saws. This is going to cause a problem for people who need to clear downed trees during a power outage after a storm.

The usual solution is to carve out a bunch of exceptions. These exceptions tend to be incomplete and don't evolved with the times.

A far better solution is to just tax the ICEs that drive these things. Make it so that for most mundane uses, the electric ones will be cheaper. But the people who really need them can get them without mounting a lobbying campaign at the politicians.
Apple G4 vs. Intel Pentium III – Jobs Introduces the G4 Cube 2000
USB-C are more like adapters that let you plug in anything that isn't USB-C. There still does not exist a device for under 100 USD that will let you plug in the MBP's USB-C power, a USB-C (over thunderbolt 3) monitor, and also a USB-C to Lightning cable. I hope you didn't have a wired keyboard, too.

There does exist a hub that has 2 USB-As and 2 USB-Cs for 50 USD, but it does not pass through video or power.
Definitely, this is what I envisioned they were describing (right side threads): https://www.capmakingmachine.com/Content/upload/2019330588/2...
I highly doubt that it's faster than a dd with proper blocksize. With inefficient I mean that it's an Electron application.
It could be that the relevant thing is the absolute position of the lowest rung of the hierarchy.

In that case, the lowest rung of Japanese hierarchy could still be much higher than that in the US.
Complete 66 Mac vs. PC ads
Lasers are magic for pre-Maxwell physicists
Agreed. Laptop form factor itself is also bad for ergonomics.
I was a developer at a mechanical engineering company a while ago. I could see how excited people were for Python and related technology over Matlab back then. This was 2.5 years ago. People were trying to get aboard with NX having python libraries but when I snooped around, the library was horribly written. They should have exposed a library that could be pip installed. But instead they had a macro interface wherein you run python scripts. A friend of mine showed others how to import the libraries into another python environment, albeit having the same major and minor versions, by adding the folder containing the libs to path. It spoke over a socket. I am not sure how far he came with his implementation, but it was really exciting. It's sad that these companies don't try to embrace OSS. There's a market there.

I'm glad Ansys is trying to do something but I am no longer in a place where I can evaluate how feasible this is. I've passed this link to my friend and I am waiting to hear what he says. That being said, he and I had written our own libraries to speak to Ansys. Oddly enough. That was also named PyAnsys.
You have missed the point of the article. It's not just about him. It's comedy in general; Zucker can just naturally relate his own experiences and perspective most accurately.
I very much doubt this money is ever being returned...
My spelling is horrible, especially when I write on the phone, I know, sorry
Back in 199x plastic bottles with soda would sometimes explode inside the bag when we'd be walking on a hot day - it were earlier years of making soda in large plastic bottles in Russia and it was all "bottom line optimized" like visibly cheap low quality plastic, etc. And about 20 years ago a woman in Russia got her eye injured by the metal cap that flew off a soda bottle she tried to open. She sued the manufacturer ("Bravo" - once opened their metal cap had the lower band still attached and broken with couple sharp edges sticking out) - don't know the full results, yet the manufacturer started since then to use plastic caps instead of metal.
> Just knowing basic calculus and linear algebra will cover the majority of applications.

I'm confused by your comment. It's a book on tensor calculus, not a book on linear algebra or calculus (or a book on machine learning), right? It's like seeing a book on calculus and complaining linear algebra is sufficient. Or seeing a book on linear algebra and complaining matrix multiplication is sufficient. The text isn't teaching how to massage N-dimensional NumPy arrays, it's teaching the algebra surrounding an object.
> It's well known that no one really programs in C++. They program in whatever subset of C++ their organization allows, their brain can handle or both.

The parent comment is merely saying, "It's well known that no one really uses all the features of the C++ programming language productively" in a rhetorically interesting manner.
Give it a try, hope you like it and in case you see a flaw or etc... I would be glad to hear your opinion, comments or suggestions on it.

Enjoy coding !
Wouldn’t a better metric be: value delivered/interaction? So setting up some service one which keeps delivering value seems to more valuable than something which constantly requires interaction.
Zucker actually addresses this:

> Unlike my peers, who can channel their rage into more socially acceptable
> psychological projects, I have no marketable skills aside from crafting jokes.

Of course, the brilliance is that this is itself a joke. Self-depreciation.
How is it greed that someone goes through the process of getting FDA approval (which is more than just running trials), sets up FDA approved manufacturing, does all the monitoring, etc, then charges for it?

You realize the application fee alone for 505(b)(2) is $1.6M?[1] It's not like someone just emails a few papers with an application form to the FDA and gets FDA approval.

[1]https://www.fda.gov/industry/fda-user-fee-programs/prescript...
>pain meds have ruined literally millions of lives through addiction

Unpopular opinion: opioids are massively under-prescribed for those that actually need them.

Addiction is a mental illness. That's whats killing so many, but why is to so few question what is actually causing such terrible emotional pain that must be self-medicated with incredibly potent medicaments?

Why is it that instead of acknowledging the rather uncomfortable root cause of those deaths, we just default to the so much simpler scapegoat, pills (the active ingredient in which has been with us in one form or another since 5000 BC), and pretend everything else is just rainbows and unicorns?
>Keleven

A wonderful use of the word.
An Engineer Recalls How AI Broke the Exascale Barrier
Ask HN: Do you still use JSP?
Do you still use JSP? Is it still okay to use JSP? :)
Does "H. Robinson" have some hidden meaning? I don't see how the name implies a joke.
Builder pattern in Rust [blog article for beginners]
Over the years, the best way to identify someone from the US is if they use an obscure acronyms (or brands) and expect others to understand it. It happens all the time on HN.

“I went to my RN”

“I always try to do things via Colosia” (made up brand)

“Our HSA allows us to go to my bank”
This is the model I’m getting.

Now if only I could get Deus Ex: Human Revolution to work on it.
Can't believe Redis doesn't support TTL for items in a list. It's literally the only thing I've needed from Redis.
Could be nice for a permanently mounted disk for Time Machine backups.
The future of graphics, can render 1 red triangle.
So you never changed volume or luminosity ?
>I only just found out that all elements radioactively decay and will eventually be gone.

Protons might have a half life too. Even hydrogen will be gone.
Still can't believe Redis doesn't support TTL on items inside a list. A queue of expiring items. It's the only use case I've ever had for the thing.
Putting gaps in is also a useful trick to have up your sleeve if you're 3d printing internal threads. If you print threads as continuous bodies, the filament on each layer is effectively a ring which is (because of thread geometry) less supported for part of its length. When it contracts slightly as it cools, it can pull the overhang section of the thread away from the body of the object, and you end up with loose filament strung across the gap.

If you cut gaps along the thread, when it prints you're effectively building a lot of small separated ledges out from a side wall. You don't have that cooling/tensioning effect and there's nothing to pull the filament away from where it's laid down so you end up with a cleaner thread.

That's as long as your retraction settings are well tuned, mind - continuous thread is one long extrusion with no retractions, whereas thread with gaps is potentially lots of islands, depending on how your slicer reacts to the geometry.
AAA games are developed using in house engines, not Unity.
It is not required by the DMCA, sure, but it (or the like) is required by the various content owners who have the power to sue (or not sue) YouTube. Following the DMCA's requirements only helps after spending millions of dollars on legal fees and if you manage to persuade the courts. In lieu of that, YouTube has decided to just give IP owners what they want.
Every time I think humans have gotten to a place where they know something about the universe, an article like this comes across and convinces me that the universe is weirder than I can possibly imagine.
Vector-based pedestrian navigation in cities
You prefetch by having node->next as close as possible to node. You do that by using an allocator that tries very hard to ensure this.

Doesn't work that well for GC but for specific workloads it can work very nicely.
In 1980-1990 old style sales (before internet) process cost was calculated as follow:
Cost of sale: 1x
Client is charged minimum: 3x

Everything under 3x was treated as an unsustainable biz model.

So for example if you spend 30k on sales related cost then your minimum charge is 90k so the diff 90-30=60k can be spent on product dev, company expansion etc.

I dont know what is the current model for b2b saas etc.
Well it runs very well on older platforms, it's just not allowed to.

My PC has a 6th generation Intel. Years ago, I subscribed to the dev channel of Windows 10 because I wanted to try WSL (the first one). I kinda forgot to "exit" the dev channel, and a few months back my computer was upgraded to Windows 11 silently. No issues since then, except that now I need to reinstall Windows 10 apparently. I was only upgraded to 11 to get a taste of it as a thank you, but now that it's been released it's over. Honestly, if they knew from the start I would have to roll back, a prompt would have been nice before updating. Or just let me keep 11 since it works.